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Fairway-164th: Roughly 100 people participated in the color walk during Touchmark at Fairway Village’s Active Aging Week celebration. The event, where guests walked through colored cornstarch, raised more than $700 for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Washington.

Active Aging walk raises money for Boys & Girls Club

Fairway-164th: Roughly 100 people participated in the color walk during Touchmark at Fairway Village’s Active Aging Week celebration. The event, where guests walked through colored cornstarch, raised more than $700 for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Washington.

October 31, 2018, 5:58am Community

Roughly 100 people walked through colored cornstarch while taking part in Touchmark at Fairway Village’s Active Aging Week celebration. The mile-long walk raised more than $700 for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Washington. Michelle Avdienko, Touchmark’s life enrichment/wellness director, coordinated the event, which was one of several activities… Read story

Ridgefield: Ridgefield fifth-graders have been attending outdoor school at Cispus Outdoor School for 49 years. The center started with John Hudson, the principal at Union Ridge Elementary School.

Ridgefield students, staff visit outdoor school

Ridgefield: Ridgefield fifth-graders have been attending outdoor school at Cispus Outdoor School for 49 years. The center started with John Hudson, the principal at Union Ridge Elementary School.

October 31, 2018, 5:58am Community

Each year, Ridgefield fifth-graders travel to Cispus Outdoor Learning Center in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest for a week of outdoor school. The students hiked, learned survival skills and gathered around campfires. This was the 49th year that Ridgefield students have visited the center. Cispus started 49 years ago with… Read story

Woodland: Kathy Morrison was named Woodland’s Employee of the Year.

Woodland honors volunteer, employee of the year

Woodland: Kathy Morrison was named Woodland’s Employee of the Year.

October 31, 2018, 5:58am Community

The city of Woodland named Kathy Morrison its Employee of the Year and John “JJ” Burke its Volunteer of the Year. Morrison was hired as a clerk by the Public Works department in April 2017. She was honored for treating everyone with dignity and respect, demonstrating integrity and celebrating the… Read story

Eagle Scouts

October 24, 2018, 6:02am Community

Eagle Scouts Read story

Everybody Has a Story: ‘Trick or treat’ nets lots of sweets, bit of ‘hellfire and damnation’

October 24, 2018, 6:02am Clark County Life

One Halloween, when I was 10 years old, Mom made me make a queen costume out of an old, white bedsheet. We glued cotton balls to the edges of the sheet to make it look like a royal robe. I tied it around my neck and cut a glittering crown… Read story

Dawn and Frank Lott are pictured outside their home in Camas. The couple were married over the summer and created “his” and “hers” sides of the lawn for Halloween. Dawn Lott’s side features scary clowns, and Frank Lott’s side features a homemade coffin and tombstones.

Halloween decorations are for spooking, building community

Dawn and Frank Lott are pictured outside their home in Camas. The couple were married over the summer and created “his” and “hers” sides of the lawn for Halloween. Dawn Lott’s side features scary clowns, and Frank Lott’s side features a homemade coffin and tombstones.

October 24, 2018, 6:00am Clark County Life

What’s scarier? Marriage or Halloween? Read story

Volunteer Opportunities

October 24, 2018, 6:00am Community

Volunteer Connections provides opportunities through the Human Services Council. For information on the following, call 360-735-3690. Read story

Woodland: Students in Shari Conditt’s AP Government class at Woodland High School on the way to the 3rd Congressional District forum featuring Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, and Democrat Carolyn Long.

Woodland students learn politics from guest speaker, forum trip

Woodland: Students in Shari Conditt’s AP Government class at Woodland High School on the way to the 3rd Congressional District forum featuring Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, and Democrat Carolyn Long.

October 24, 2018, 5:58am Community

Shari Conditt, a social studies teacher at Woodland High School, recently offered a few opportunities for her AP Government students to learn how the American political system works. Read story

Washougal: Jemtegaard Middle School’s Jaden Cooms, from left, helps Columbia River Gorge Elementary School first-graders Ella Paulson and Tucker Morgan on a project to learn how the human hand works.

Washougal middle schoolers teach younger students about hands

Washougal: Jemtegaard Middle School’s Jaden Cooms, from left, helps Columbia River Gorge Elementary School first-graders Ella Paulson and Tucker Morgan on a project to learn how the human hand works.

October 24, 2018, 5:58am Community

Jemtegaard Middle School’s medical detectives class helped out at Columbia River Gorge Elementary School, showing students how human hands work. Read story

Ridgefield: Sunset Ridge Elementary School sixth-graders, from left, Sarah Proctor, Shaun Tullis and Jack Radosevich in the school’s Harry Potter-themed reading room.

Ridgefield librarian transforms reading room into Hogwarts

Ridgefield: Sunset Ridge Elementary School sixth-graders, from left, Sarah Proctor, Shaun Tullis and Jack Radosevich in the school’s Harry Potter-themed reading room.

October 24, 2018, 5:58am Community

There is no Platform 9¾ at Sunset Ridge Elementary School, but students who step into a small, private room above the media center are transported to Hogwarts. Read story