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Everybody Has a Story: Boy, 11, a lifesaver

June 22, 2019, 6:05am Clark County Life

All of us have had a once-in-a-lifetime learning experience that changed our lives. My amazing lesson happened in 1947. I was age 11, in sixth grade, and I saved a life. This life-saving event involved my precious pet, Buttons, a small black terrier who was very pregnant for the first… Read story

Sharon York looks past a mural of her ancestors, the Wishon family, while talking with her sisters at Orchards Plaza.

Clark Asks: Mural tells tale of Orchards

Sharon York looks past a mural of her ancestors, the Wishon family, while talking with her sisters at Orchards Plaza.

June 22, 2019, 6:05am Clark County Life

Lauren Smith frequently drives by a mural in Orchards depicting local life in the early 1900s. The 70-foot-long mural has a prune-picking family standing in front of an orchard, Mount St. Helens (with its top), the Orchards Feed Mill and the Orchards-Sifton streetcar. Read story

Eagle Scouts

June 22, 2019, 6:02am Community

The following 17 Boy Scouts from the Columbia River District passed their Eagle Scout Board of Review in April and May, and advanced to the rank of Eagle Scout. Find out more at https://www.cpcbsa.org/columbiariver Read story

In the service

June 22, 2019, 6:02am Community

Air Force Airman Mizuki S. Veley, a 2017 graduate of Hockinson High School, has completed basic training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio, Texas. Veley is the daughter of Kanako and Michael Veley of Brush Prairie. Read story

Volunteer Opportunities

June 22, 2019, 6:00am Community

Volunteer Connections/RSVP promotes volunteer opportunities. To see all the available opportunities, visit hsc-wa.org/volunteer-connections or call 360-735-3690. Read story

Battle Ground elementary students draw ‘community helpers’

June 22, 2019, 5:57am Community

Five second-graders at Tukes Valley Primary School were the featured artists earlier in June and in Mayat Battle Ground City Hall. They were asked to draw “community helpers.” Zelia Anderson drew a firefighter; Bentley Mezyk, a pilot; Keely Bister, a veterinarian; Owen Moss, a state trooper; and Lilia Bates drew… Read story

Ridgefield High students win art awards

June 22, 2019, 5:57am Community

Two Ridgefield High School students were honored for their artwork entered in the 46th annual Superintendent’s High School Art Show at the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Kylie Brown, a junior, won the Professional Educator Standards Board Award for her ceramic/mixed media piece called “Lamia’s Pierre.” Grace Arnold,… Read story

Woodland Middle School students learn horticulture

June 22, 2019, 5:57am Community

Horticulture students at Woodland Middle School are learning a great deal about growing plants. Joe Bosch, a science and math teacher who also has a green thumb, is helping them learn how to research plant growing requirements, develop natural herbicides and pesticides, practice seed germination, cultivate soil to ensure health… Read story

Clark County twins awarded scholarships

June 22, 2019, 5:57am Community

Four area students were awarded a scholarship by the Columbia Mothers of Twins Club. Recipients of the annual Jane Price Scholarship include fraternal twin girls Isabella and Adrianna Trumbo, daughters of Milisa Trumbo; and boy and girl twins Nikolas and Alexandra Attebery, son and daughter of Tami Attebery. The Trumbo… Read story

Battle Ground: Firm Foundation Christian School students participated in the school’s first ever “Serve Day,” allowing students in every grade to give back to the local community. Students visited residents in assisted living homes, worked with Habitat for Humanity and cleaned up local parks.

Firm Foundation Christian School holds ‘Serve Day’

Battle Ground: Firm Foundation Christian School students participated in the school’s first ever “Serve Day,” allowing students in every grade to give back to the local community. Students visited residents in assisted living homes, worked with Habitat for Humanity and cleaned up local parks.

June 22, 2019, 5:28am Community

Firm Foundation Christian School students frequently have service opportunities, and this year the school added another chance to give back by holding “Serve Day” in May. Read story