Clark County Life

Salvador Brotons and members of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Photos courtesy Paul Quackenbush Photography)

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra rides wave of enthusiasm into 45th year, opens season with Prokofiev

September 21, 2023, 6:03am Clark County Life

Eager to build on the success of August’s Vancouver Arts & Music Festival that drew crowds to Esther Short Park, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is loading up a panoply of terrific concerts for its 45th season. Read story

Get on the “waggin’ train” during the Hike on the Dike fundraiser for the West Columbia Gorge Humane Society.

Try this: Hike on the Dike, ‘Mad about Bats’, Parade of Homes

September 21, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life

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This root vegetable tart might look pretty, but it is absolutely awful.

(Don’t) Eat Your Veggies: How not to make a root vegetable tart

September 20, 2023, 6:07am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

If there is a backwards, inefficient and just plain muddleheaded way to do something, then that’s how I’ll do it. I’m not saying that I am unintelligent. I can be quite the smarty-pants in all manner of endeavors. But my downfall is that, in my eagerness to experiment, my flawed… Read story

Kalea Maluenda-Telles, 10, right, climbs at Lucia Aberin's birthday party at The Source Climbing Center on Sept. 10.

Parents in Clark County have cause for celebration with venues where kids can bounce, jump, climb or bowl

September 16, 2023, 6:05am Business Subscriber Exclusive

As a mother of three children, ages 1 to 10, I have planned and attended many, many birthday parties. To hand out invitations at my older kids’ school, you have to invite the entire class. The prospect of bringing 20 to 30 children — and their parents — into your… Read story

Everybody Has a Story: Beautiful view of mountains and UFO

September 16, 2023, 6:04am Clark County Life

We were sitting around the table after a nice Sunday dinner. The grandchildren were talking about various things and I had nothing to add. All of a sudden they started talking about UFOs. Read story

Clark County History: First in-flight magazine

The first humorous aviation publication, Tale Spins, spun out of the creative minds of two pilots, Walt and Ann Bohrer. This envelope suggests what the content might appear like inside Tale Spins, the first inflight airline magazine. Airplane enthusiasts enjoyed the humorous and gossipy publication.

September 16, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life

United Airlines and Continental Airlines, although one company today, sprouted roots at Pearson Field in Vancouver. Likewise, so did the first airline magazine, Tails Spins. The magazine was written and illustrated by hand, reproduced using a mimeograph, put in an envelope and mailed. Today, we might call it a comic… Read story

Check It Out: Ready the black sails, it’s time for pirate tales

September 16, 2023, 6:01am Clark County Life

Ahoy, me hearties! Sept. 19 is Talk Like a Pirate Day — Aaaarrrrgggghhhh! Here is your chance to be a real buccaneer, or, at least pretend to be one. Even a landlubber like me can talk like an old salt as long as I have a wee bit of pirate… Read story

Get to know Indian Heaven with hike on Lemei Lake trail

Rush Creek begins on the slopes of Lemei Rock, then flows into Lemei Lake, shown here, before leaving the lake at the other end and flowing in the North Fork of the Lewis River.

September 16, 2023, 5:58am Clark County Life

The huckleberry bushes so profuse in Indian Heaven Wilderness are just starting their autumn transformation in a hundred hues of purple, yellow, orange and maroon. Which makes it a great time to hike in the 20,784-acre gentle plateau straddling the crest of the Cascade Mountains in the southern Gifford Pinchot… Read story