Clark County Life

Clark County health inspections, May 17-24

May 27, 2022, 6:02am 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

David Saffert and Jillian Snow Harris as "Liberace & Liza: A Tribute."

Arts nonprofit says Clark County needs new concert venue

May 26, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life

Fans of shameless razzle-dazzle can catch a live tribute to a couple of great stage entertainers Wednesday at downtown Vancouver’s Kiggins Theatre. Read story

Try This: Hockinson Artisan Market; spring concert; murder mystery evening

May 26, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life

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Ridgefield’s outdoor challenge open to all

May 26, 2022, 5:27am Clark County Life Free

Ridgefield’s 100 Miles in 100 Days challenge inspires people to get moving, get outside and enjoy our region’s natural beauty. Participants are encouraged to complete 100 miles of outdoor walking, running, hiking, paddling or biking in the 100 days between June 4 and Sept. 12. Anyone can participate, taking advantage… Read story

With chickpeas, tuna, feta, carrots, pickled beans and artichokes hearts, this salad has something for everyone.

Transform can of chickpeas into lunch

May 25, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life

What’s for lunch? It’s an oft-asked question in our house. Sometimes it’s my husband or my daughter inquiring about the noonday meal. Sometimes it’s just me asking myself. About half the time, lunch is leftovers from dinner the night before. The other half of the time, it’s what our family… Read story

Music educator strikes a chord in Battle Ground

"I love my kids," said prizewinning music educator Greg McKelvey, here directing the Advanced Jazz Band at Battle Ground High School.

Greg McKelvey was skeptical when he interviewed for a job teaching music in this rural Clark County town in the mid-1990s. You didn’t have to hunt to find Confederate emblems on cars in the high school parking lot, he said. Read story

Clark County History: Grist Mills

For many years, the entrance to Esther Short Park was bracketed by two heavy gristmill stones telling a story of Clark County's and the nation's agrarian past. Legend says these stones ground flour for the Hudson Bay Company. In 1870, the U.S. boasted 22,573 gristmills; 160 were in Washington Territory. Since the early 1800s, millstones were usually imported from France. Today, Clark County has one gristmill, the Cedar Creek Grist Mill, which is a working museum and national landmark.

As settlements arose in the Pacific Northwest, a sawmill was often a community’s first commercial industry and its second, a gristmill. Together, they made shelter and food possible. Today people using the cliche “a millstone around my neck” to bemoan a burden aren’t aware one weighs a ton or more.… Read story

Check It Out: Celebrate your wanderlust with reads on traveling

Today’s column is brought to you from Fallon, Nev. By the time you read this, my husband and I will be back in Southwest Washington, but the actual writing is taking place on the road. We’re on our way back from a road trip to Nevada to wrap up details… Read story