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Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School seniors Dante Diaz, from left, Paola Terrazas and Anastasiya Kashyrna demonstrate how they learn how to count medication in their pharmacology classroom. The classrooms use pretend medicine, like cornstarch pills, or even beans and beads to mimic medication. Henrietta Lacks High offers programs in biotechnology, biomedical engineering, public health, pharmacy, nursing and patient services.

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Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School seniors Dante Diaz, from left, Paola Terrazas and Anastasiya Kashyrna demonstrate how they learn how to count medication in their pharmacology classroom. The classrooms use pretend medicine, like cornstarch pills, or even beans and beads to mimic medication. Henrietta Lacks High offers programs in biotechnology, biomedical engineering, public health, pharmacy, nursing and patient services.

October 19, 2019, 6:02am Clark County Life

At a time when some schools across the U.S. are rethinking their names or mascots, one high school in Vancouver is driven by its name. Read story

Everybody Has a Story: Sixth sense sends signals

October 19, 2019, 6:00am Clark County Life

Perhaps a half-dozen times I’ve picked up the phone to call someone, and instead of a dial tone I get that person’s voice. They had just dialed my number, and I picked up the phone before it could ring. How can two minds have the same thought at the same… Read story

Julian Dobos uses a hypsometer to measure tree heights while classmate Parker Neyens looks on. Students at Battle Ground&#039;s Center for Agriculture, Science and Environmental Education had the opportunity to explore Mount St.

Students see volcano up close

Julian Dobos uses a hypsometer to measure tree heights while classmate Parker Neyens looks on. Students at Battle Ground&#039;s Center for Agriculture, Science and Environmental Education had the opportunity to explore Mount St.

October 19, 2019, 5:58am Community

Students at Battle Ground’s Center for Agriculture, Science and Environmental Education had the opportunity to explore Mount St. Helens during an overnight field trip to collect data. Read story

Students at Union Ridge Elementary School helped create their own books last year.

Students see their work at library

Students at Union Ridge Elementary School helped create their own books last year.

October 19, 2019, 5:58am Community

Students at Union Ridge Elementary School now have the opportunity to read books they created in the library’s “Kids Are Authors” section. Read story

Briley Johnson and Jacob Sanders work together to construct a moving hand.

First graders construct hand with robotics class

Briley Johnson and Jacob Sanders work together to construct a moving hand.

October 19, 2019, 5:04am Community

Columbia River Gorge Elementary first graders and Jemtegaard Middle School students had the opportunity to dive into engineering when they worked together to construct a moving hand. Read story

Mount St. Helens Institute receives Nike grant

October 19, 2019, 5:01am Community

A program by the Mount St. Helens Institute recently received a grant from Nike. Read story

Everybody has a Story: Snowy crash cascades into snowball fight

October 12, 2019, 6:02am Clark County Life

In the early 1980s, I was working as a librarian in the science library at Washington State University Pullman. One of my regular duties there was to work an evening shift every Thursday night. Read story

Jim Mains’ Halloween setup is so well-known that he got about 1,200 trick-or-treaters last year.

Let us know about your Halloween decorations

Jim Mains’ Halloween setup is so well-known that he got about 1,200 trick-or-treaters last year.

October 12, 2019, 6:00am Clark County News

The temperature is dropping, the leaves are changing and the ghouls are stirring, and we want to know where. The Columbian is preparing our annual list of houses with spooky Halloween decorations to check out. If you have a home you want included in the list, please let us know… Read story

In the Service

October 12, 2019, 6:00am Community

Air Force Airman Dylan M. Peters, a 2019 graduate of Hockinson High School, has completed basic training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio. Read story

You Can Help

October 12, 2019, 6:00am Community

American Red Cross of Southwest Washington is looking for couriers to pick up and deliver lifesaving blood products. Mileage reimbursement is offered. Donor ambassadors are needed to welcome and register donors, help monitor donors after giving blood, offer refreshments, and assist medical staff as needed. Day, evening and weekend shifts… Read story