Clark County Life

Louisa Van Vleet Wright at age 22, about a year before she completed medical school in Ann Arbor, Mich. She was among the few women in the last half of the 19th century who earned degrees from a medical school. She practiced in three states: Montana, Oregon and Washington. She was the first doctor of either sex administering care in the Camas-Washougal area.

Clark County History: Louisa Van Vleet Wright

July 31, 2022, 6:04am Clark County Life

Clark County lore credits Louisa Van Vleet Wright as the first woman to practice medicine in Clark County. Almost, but not quite. In 1885, Ella Whipple M.D. graduated from Willamette University Medical School in Salem and established her practice a year or more before Wright returned to the area. Read story

Everybody Has a Story: Trying something new on ski adventure

July 31, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life

A few years back, two members of the Bergfreunde Ski Club had to be helped off Mount Rainier. I was one of them. I had been skiing for about 30 years and was getting a little more adventuresome on steeper slopes and skiing amongst trees. Read story

Sue Dockstader holds "The Adventures of Henry the Field Mouse," written by her English mother, Jo Coker, along with Coker's hand-knitted mice. The stories are compiled from letters that Coker wrote to Dockstader's children 20 years ago.

Mouse with a mission: ‘Henry the Field Mouse’ brings family together

July 31, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life

Camas resident Sue Dockstader has mice on her mind, as well as hedgehogs, foxes, squirrels, moles, rabbits, stoats and water voles. If these creatures bring to mind classic tales from the English countryside like Kenneth Grahame’s “The Wind in the Willows” or Beatrix Potter’s enchanting books, you would be, as… Read story

Tell us your breast cancer tips, advice

July 31, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Health Free

Who better to offer advice to women receiving breast cancer diagnoses than those who have already walked the path? Read story

This rhododendron leaf shows discoloration, along with lace bugs and their excrement.

Gardening with Allen: Identify, manage garden pests

July 30, 2022, 6:05am Clark County Life

I have noticed chewed and discolored leaves on my shrubs but I don’t find any bugs. What could be causing this damage? Read story

Energy Adviser: Dispatch is utility’s nerve center

Being a Clark Public Utilities dispatcher is a lot like being forest fire lookout atop a mountain. They see the utility’s entire electrical networks from their desks — more than 6,600 miles of electric wire and 60 substations — and they monitor it for trouble 24 hours a day, seven… Read story

Clark County warming up to cold foam drinks

Di Tazza's caramel cheesecake drink features foam.

July 29, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

An airy wave of cold foam drinks drifted into Vancouver this summer. Some spots offer a couple of carefully calibrated options, while others serve a free-for-all of customized whipped dairy and non-dairy milks to cover whatever suits your fancy. Read story