October 27, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life
BATTLE GROUND LAKE STATE PARK — It was a little world unto itself, complete with grocery store, restaurant, dance hall, roller rink, baseball field, residential cabins and community kitchen. And it was a place for all the rituals of youth — first swims, first jobs, first loves. Read story
October 27, 2023, 5:03am 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
October 26, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
Robert Louis Stevenson was in a fever dream when he tore through the first draft of “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” in just three days, according to eyewitnesses. When the author’s wife and severest critic, Fanny, chided him over what seemed to her a juvenile ghost story,… Read story
October 26, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life
Five things to do this week Read story
October 25, 2023, 6:08am Clark County Life
Now that I’m an empty nester, I don’t feel like cooking. When my husband and I sit down at the table, that empty chair is like a burr under my emotional saddle. I’ve tried sitting in my daughter’s former place so that I’m not forced to stare at the space… Read story
October 21, 2023, 6:13am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
An estimated 1,000 people in the United States are “professional mermaids” — that is, they don fishtails and fins and get paid to swim in tanks, pools and open water. These mermaids swim even in landlocked states like Arkansas, Arizona and Kansas. Read story
October 21, 2023, 6:10am Clark County Life
If life feels too structured at times — go to work, go to school, do the chores, pay the bills — reading about random things can provide a brief respite from the measured pace of everyday life. One way to add randomness to your reading list is to look at… Read story
October 21, 2023, 6:05am Clark County Life
Evelyn Waldren always seemed on the move, mostly in lightweight airplanes. She began her aviation career as the first woman to fly in Nebraska and ended it as a grandmotherly flight instructor at Vancouver’s Evergreen Airport in the mid-1980s. In her 58 years in the air, she logged 23,700 flight… Read story
October 21, 2023, 6:04am Clark County Life
In the mid-1980s, my cousin and I packed into Yosemite National Park on horses for two weeks. We went over the Hetch Hetchy Dam and headed up the hill for Wilmer Lake. I rode drag (last) and ate a lot of dust. Read story
October 21, 2023, 6:04am Clark County Life
We have moved into a home where shrubs have been pruned into boxes and balls. We prefer a more natural appearance. Can they be pruned to make them look more natural? Read story
