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Work progresses on Union Station, another retail center to suit east Vancouver’s rising business class.
The mixed-use development, at Southeast 192nd Avenue just north of Costco, will offer nearly 30,000 square feet of commercial space. A third building is proposed for later, according to engineers on the project.
That much space could welcome more than a dozen businesses. Coffee shop Black Rock is already open. The Gyro Shack and Vancouver pub Pacific House are slated to open locations there, as well as a yoga studio, nail salon and more.
VIEW — Even looking through the dirty windshield a snowplow noisily scraping along, the little community of View in unincorporated Clark County lived up to its name at sunrise on Thursday.
Rows of evergreen trees, whose branches drooped under the weight of fresh snow, lined the edges of expansive white hilltop prairies. At one farmhouse, a couple black dogs zoomed along the fence, trying to keep pace with the big truck Nick Eiesland was driving. Snowy white mountains loomed high in the distance.
The scenery is one of the perks of the job while cleaning up after a big storm for the Clark County Public Works snowplow drivers.
Three people, two of whom were identified as teenagers, tried to steal a vehicle warming up in the driveway of a Vancouver residence early Thursday morning, but the owner pulled one of them from the driver seat and fought with him, police said.
Shortly after 3 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 3300 block of East 13th Street for what was reported as a disturbance with a gun, according to Vancouver Police Department spokeswoman Kim Kapp.
Home sales remained strong in Clark County last month, and might have been even greater had there been more homes on the market.
The latest Clark County Market Report from Mike Lamb, broker at Windermere Stellar real estate in Vancouver, tallied 661 new pending residential sales last month. That was up 33.5 percent from December, and 12.8 percent from January 2017, when winter weather may have deterred some buyers.
The report also noted that 468 residential sales closed last month, making it the best January for closed sales since 2005.
Judy Tiffany has diabetes. Her mom, Dorris Cotton, has celiac disease.
The Vancouver women are on limited incomes and, combined, they receive less than $200 per month from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. They spend nearly every dollar on fresh fruits and vegetables, yogurt, eggs, cheese and milk.
If SNAP changes proposed in President Donald Trump’s 2019 budget come to pass, Tiffany and Cotton stand to have a portion of their cash-on-a-card benefits replaced with a pre-assembled box of canned and shelf-stable foods.
“That kind of box would never work,” Tiffany, 67, said. “(My mom) would never be able to eat 90 percent of the food.”
