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Clark County News

Oregon firm urges pear growers to use Vancouver company

June 6, 2012, 5:00pm Business

Truitt Brothers of Salem, Ore., is bowing out of pear canning after failing recently to acquire the bankrupt Snokist Growers of Yakima, and the company is urging its 50 growers to do business with Northwest Packing of Vancouver. Read story

Vancouver planning firm merges with another company

June 6, 2012, 5:00pm Clark County News

The engineering and architecture consulting firm Mead & Hunt has merged with Barnard Dunkelberg & Company. Mead & Hunt has offices in both Issaquah and Vancouver. Read story

Vancouver Farmers Market offers $5,000 in scholarships

June 6, 2012, 5:00pm Clark County News

The Vancouver Farmers Market is offering $5,000 in scholarship money to post-secondary students for the 2012-2013 academic year. The money is intended to support the education of students specializing in agriculture, agricultural marketing and related topics, and to encourage small-scale farming in the Pacific Northwest and the sale of farm… Read story

Philadelphia Union forward Danny Mwanga, left, was traded to the Portland Timbers in exchange for forward Jorge Perlaza. Mwanga, the No.

Timbers acquire Mwanga in trade with Philadelphia

Philadelphia Union forward Danny Mwanga, left, was traded to the Portland Timbers in exchange for forward Jorge Perlaza. Mwanga, the No.

June 6, 2012, 5:00pm Clark County News

For the Portland Timbers, Wednesday's trade that brings forward Danny Mwanga to his hometown is about more than a quick fix. Read story

Desiree Barrera-Poulsen, right, and about a dozen other pregnant and parenting teens are recognized for completing the GRADS program during a ceremony at the Bates Center in Vancouver Wednesday.

Pregnant and parenting teens recognized for finishing high school

Desiree Barrera-Poulsen, right, and about a dozen other pregnant and parenting teens are recognized for completing the GRADS program during a ceremony at the Bates Center in Vancouver Wednesday.

June 6, 2012, 5:00pm Clark County News

Adilene Miranda planned to drop out of high school when she got pregnant at 16. The whispers and stares in the hallway made school unbearable. But she wanted to do what her parents never did: graduate from high school. Read story

Covington band is No. 1 at parade

June 6, 2012, 5:00pm Clark County News

Five Clark County-area middle school bands won awards in the Fred Meyer Junior Parade on Wednesday in Portland. Read story

UPDATE: Clark County Jail had record number of suicide attempts in 2011

June 6, 2012, 5:00pm Clark County News

A record number of suicide attempts at the Clark County Jail was among key points highlighted in a study of county services. Read story

Fort Vancouver to host national parks’ ‘Get Outdoors Day’ on Saturday

June 6, 2012, 5:00pm Clark County News

Vancouver's national park is working with like-minded agencies from down the street and across the Northwest in an effort Saturday to get people outdoors. Read story

Bill Minton was one of eight members of a U.S. Navy Armed Guard detail assigned to a Liberty ship, the  S.S. William Dawes.

Camas man honors shipmates killed in WWII submarine attack

Bill Minton was one of eight members of a U.S. Navy Armed Guard detail assigned to a Liberty ship, the  S.S. William Dawes.

June 6, 2012, 5:00pm Clark County News

CAMAS -- This was the second time Bill Minton had floated on that piece of the Pacific Ocean, about 12 miles off the Australian coast. Read story

Supporters stack boxes of petitions for Referendum 74 along a wall in the Secretary of State's office to stop Washington's gay marriage law Wednesday in Olympia. The law was blocked from taking effect as opponents filed more than 200,000 signatures seeking a public vote on the issue in November. Preserve Marriage Washington submitted the signatures just a day before the state was to begin allowing same-sex marriages.

Opponents block gay marriage law from taking effect

Supporters stack boxes of petitions for Referendum 74 along a wall in the Secretary of State's office to stop Washington's gay marriage law Wednesday in Olympia. The law was blocked from taking effect as opponents filed more than 200,000 signatures seeking a public vote on the issue in November. Preserve Marriage Washington submitted the signatures just a day before the state was to begin allowing same-sex marriages.

June 6, 2012, 5:00pm Clark County News

OLYMPIA -- Opponents of same-sex marriage in Washington turned in petitions bearing more than 200,000 signatures Wednesday, stalling implementation of the law and likely triggering a decisive public vote in November. Read story