July 23, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life
Getting ready for a summer vacation requires more than packing a bag—homes need to be prepared for an extended vacancy, otherwise you could be wasting energy. Heating and cooling a house accounts for about 43 percent of the average household’s utility bill. There’s no need to cool a home when… Read story
July 22, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
After writing about food for six years, I’ve developed a method for figuring out what to order at a restaurant. Like any system devised by a human being, it isn’t foolproof but is often effective. Read story
July 22, 2022, 5:21am Clark County Life
For more information, call Clark County Public Health at 564-397-8428 or visit www.clark.wa.gov/public-health/restaurant-inspection. In the health department’s scoring system, the fewer the points, the better. A perfect score is 0. The worst possible score is 418. An establishment with 100 or more points will be closed. Read story
July 21, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life
There’s a friendly, colorful, musical time to be had at the Four Days of Aloha Festival in Esther Short Park this weekend. Read story
July 21, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life
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July 20, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life
I grew up eating plenty of meat, but after I graduated from college and moved out on my own, I realized that meat is expensive. I became a pseudo-vegetarian, eating ramen with vegetables in my tiny apartment and savoring meat when dining with my parents, i.e., when they were footing… Read story
July 17, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life
My high school friend Charlie was a child prodigy. After college, he wrote code for NASA to track space capsule trajectories. Read story
July 17, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
Picture Vancouver’s primary crosstown boulevard — busy with traffic, tightly lined by businesses and homes — as a primitive wagon road linking the original Fort Vancouver to a sprawling farming community miles to the northeast. Read story
July 17, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life
In looking back at past “Check It Out” columns written in July, I discovered a theme: food. Maybe it’s because summertime gifts us with a bounty of delicious fresh veggies and fruits just begging to be cooked and eaten. In other words, summer is yummy. Read story
July 17, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life
“The New York of the Pacific” is how Narcissa Whitman recorded her first impression of Fort Vancouver upon seeing Hudson’s Bay Company ships floating on the Columbia River in September 1836. Despite her hyperbole, Whitman’s journal offers a firsthand view of how difficult it was for Easterners and Westerners to… Read story
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