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Here are some of the stories that grabbed readers’ attention this week.
Being in the “middle of nowhere” hasn’t stopped avocado toast from greening the menu at Mighty Bowl, or the people-powered party called Couve Cycle from pedaling our sloppy downtown streets from pub to brewery to tap room.
And it didn’t stop Vancouver from topping a new list of the “most hipster” cities in America.
MoveHub, a relocation-information service, analyzed the density of vital hipster services, hangouts and other relevant data for the 150 most populous American cities, and awarded the cup — make that the artisan beer mug — to our striving-yet-relaxed, awesome-yet-humble little town.
The plan to build the largest rail-to-marine oil terminal in the United States suffered a major blow Tuesday at the hands of the state body tasked with its evaluation.
Barely five minutes into a special meeting at the state Capitol, the Washington State Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council unanimously recommended disapproval of the Vancouver Energy application for site certification to build a crude-by-rail oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver.
Many people in the audience, which filled the meeting chambers and overflowed into two other viewing rooms, reacted with audible gasps when EFSEC councilman and Clark County Public Works employee Greg Shafer made the motion for the council to recommend rejection of the project.
Checking Facebook during downtime. Texting while taking a break at the nurses station. Responding to emails and checking work schedules between patients.
Nurses at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center have a message for their colleagues who are tied to their personal cellphones: Check your cell-f.
Nurses in the hospital’s surgical specialities unit and family birth center began to notice their colleagues spending more and more time on personal devices in highly visible areas. Troubled by the appearance of distracted nurses — and patient satisfaction scores hitting an all-time low — the nurses launched a movement to remove the personal devices from patient care areas.
In the last 45 days, 360 cars with out-of-state plates have been reported to the city of Vancouver by community members. That’s an average of eight reports a day. At the same time, the Neighbors On Watch volunteer group has observed more than 1,000 vehicles with out-of-state plates. These statistics were presented to the Vancouver City Council during a workshop Monday evening about the city’s new effort to enforce out-of-state license plate violations.
The city recently conducted a study and learned it’s losing out on more than $300,000 in annual revenue from a $20 tab license fee as a result of numerous residents failing to register their vehicles in state. That loss could double in mid-2018 if a fee increase is approved.
When the recession hit in December 2007, much of the nation lurched to a halt. That was nearly 10 years ago, but the effects are still being felt.
Vancouver’s annexation plan, for example, remains in limbo.
“We don’t know what’s next,” said Chad Eiken, the city’s community and economic development director. “When the recession hit we basically eliminated our proactive annexation program.”
