April 4, 2020, 6:04am Community
Following the closure of its schools, Washougal School District decided to start delivering meals to local families. “To serve meals for our families in need during this school closure time, we have had to retool how we operated and fast,” Kris Grindy, WSD business manager, said in a news release.… Read story
April 4, 2020, 6:03am Community
U.S. Navy Hospitalman Cory Creagan, a lifetime Vancouver native and graduate of Mountain View High School, was chosen to serve aboard the USNS Comfort on its assignment to New York City. There it will serve as a hospital for patients not infected with COVID-19, allowing other area medical centers to… Read story
April 4, 2020, 6:03am Community
Volunteers of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site’s costume department banded together recently to make Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-compliant face masks to donate to local health professionals. Read story
April 4, 2020, 6:02am Community
Holley Walhood helps run the hot meals program at Share House in Vancouver. Like many around the world, she has been feeling helpless during the COVID-19 pandemic, so on March 20, she made a sign. “The world is suffering at the moment, and I was feeling a bit helpless over… Read story
April 4, 2020, 6:01am Clark County Health
Is your organization offering volunteer or donation opportunities during the COVID-19 crisis? Submit your information to amelia.fisher@columbian.com to be included in this listing. Read story
April 4, 2020, 5:48am Community
More than 300 people attended the Clark County Spring Luncheon for Meals on Wheels People held on March 10 at the Hilton Vancouver Washington. Read story
April 4, 2020, 5:35am Community
Private studio-based florist Stacey Young recently donated flowers to doctors and nurses in the Camas and Vancouver area. Read story
April 4, 2020, 5:32am Community
An anonymous donor relieved Battle Ground Public Schools students of their lunch debt by giving a $40,000 donation through the Morgan Stanley Gift Fund. Read story
April 4, 2020, 5:24am Community
Evergreen Public Schools donated more than 11,000 masks, thousands of splash shields and hundreds of safety glasses to Clark Regional Emergency Service Agency. Read story
April 1, 2020, 5:02am Community
Legacy Health was on the receiving end of hundreds of protective face masks, gowns, eye protection, and 9,000 pairs of gloves, thanks to Battle Ground Public Schools. Multiple schools in the district collected the medical equipment and delivered it to a Legacy Health distribution warehouse, so that it could help… Read story
