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Clark County News

Everybody Has a Story: Truckers lead way after ’80 blast

May 24, 2020, 6:02am Clark County Life

It was May 18, 1980, and I received a phone call from my husband, Cecil, a merchant mariner captain who had been at sea for about four months and was returning to his home port in Seattle. He liked me to meet his ship at the dock whenever he returned,… Read story

Call to Readers: Are you Wonder Woman, or ready for a nap?

May 24, 2020, 6:01am Clark County News

The stay-at-home order is difficult for everyone, but it may be difficult for women in different ways. Many women are working full time at home while also home schooling, kid-wrangling, doing housework and cooking. Families are seeking comfort from home-cooked meals and an orderly, sanitized home, while social media might… Read story

Tyler Taplin, left, and Chad Calhoun make their beds inside the Winter Hospitality Overflow Shelter at St. Paul Lutheran Church in December. Nearly 11,000 safe sleeps occurred at St. Paul or St. Andrew Lutheran Church last winter.

In Clark County, coronavirus pandemic shows that ‘housing is health care’

Tyler Taplin, left, and Chad Calhoun make their beds inside the Winter Hospitality Overflow Shelter at St. Paul Lutheran Church in December. Nearly 11,000 safe sleeps occurred at St. Paul or St. Andrew Lutheran Church last winter.

May 24, 2020, 6:00am Clark County Health

In a way, it’s still winter — at least when it comes to the seasonal shelter system. Some wintertime shelter facilities in Clark County remain open due to COVID-19. The Winter Hospitality Overflow shelter serving families at St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Orchards is open but at reduced capacity to… Read story

Public meetings for week of May 24

May 24, 2020, 6:00am Clark County News

Public meetings this week. Read story

Memorial Day closures

May 24, 2020, 6:00am Clark County News

What’s open and what’s closed for Memorial Day: Read story

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Weather Eye: May maintaining its chill, but not for much longer

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

May 24, 2020, 6:00am Clark County News

How are you enduring this cool weather? High temperatures the past few days have been disappointing for mid-May. I mean, when it can’t even get out of the 50s, that’s noteworthy. We managed to creep into the low 60s Saturday, but it was a struggle. Read story

Janeth Sotelo of Orchards plants cilantro seeds in her garden plot Saturday at the Bethel Community Garden behind Bethel Lutheran Church in Brush Prairie. Sotelo joined the community garden about seven years ago and learned how to garden from a friend.

Community gardening lives up to its name on Brush Prairie plots

Janeth Sotelo of Orchards plants cilantro seeds in her garden plot Saturday at the Bethel Community Garden behind Bethel Lutheran Church in Brush Prairie. Sotelo joined the community garden about seven years ago and learned how to garden from a friend.

May 23, 2020, 7:06pm Clark County News

Janeth Sotelo doesn’t buy garlic at the grocery store. She doesn’t buy onions or tomatillos. And she definitely, absolutely doesn’t buy tomatoes. Why would she, when she can grow her own that taste even better? Read story

Crews extinguish house fire in Salmon Creek

May 23, 2020, 6:55pm Clark County News

Firefighters quickly extinguished a house fire Saturday evening in Salmon Creek. Read story

Vancouver man, 19, arrested in Hawaii, charged with violating quarantine mandate

May 23, 2020, 6:42pm Clark County News

A 19-year-old Vancouver man and a 20-year-old Oregon man were arrested Friday in the Waikiki section of Honolulu and charged with violating Hawaii’s 14-day quarantine mandate for travelers, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Saturday. Read story

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S.

Clark County’s Phase 2 application shelved in light of Firestone outbreak

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S.

May 23, 2020, 6:30pm Clark County Health

Clark County was not among the group of Washington counties given the green light Saturday to move into Phase 2 of reopening, a delay linked to an outbreak of COVID-19 at a Vancouver food processing plant. Read story