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Battle Ground: Cadets with the Battle Ground High School Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, from left, Ethan Tawwater, Seamus O’Neil, Braden Morrison and Wyatt Moody, reached the semifinals of the StellarXplorers, a national space system design competition.

Battle Ground cadets reach semifinals in space design contest

Battle Ground: Cadets with the Battle Ground High School Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, from left, Ethan Tawwater, Seamus O’Neil, Braden Morrison and Wyatt Moody, reached the semifinals of the StellarXplorers, a national space system design competition.

March 23, 2019, 5:15am Community

A team of Battle Ground High School Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets reached the semifinal round of StellarXplorers, a national space system design competition. Read story

Washougal: Gause Elementary School first-graders Myah White, left, and Hailey Faught with their posters and dioramas for the school’s book party.

Gause Elementary first-graders celebrate reading with book party

Washougal: Gause Elementary School first-graders Myah White, left, and Hailey Faught with their posters and dioramas for the school’s book party.

March 23, 2019, 5:14am Community

Gause Elementary School first-graders hosted a book party on Feb. 22, with students in Marvina Bugajski, Lyndsey Russell and Heather Hopkins’ classes creating colorful posters and dioramas. Read story

Innovative Services NW receives grant to furnish its new Calming Room

March 23, 2019, 5:14am Community

Innovative Services NW received a $1,000 grant from OnPoint Community Credit Union to Innovative’s Early Learning and Childcare program for furnishing a new Calming Room. Read story

Shumway: Fort Vancouver Rose Society members Louis Rossetto, left, and Jim Swenson prune roses before they can be taken home by the winning bidders at the society’s annual auction.

Fort Vancouver Rose Society hosts auction to raise money for annual show

Shumway: Fort Vancouver Rose Society members Louis Rossetto, left, and Jim Swenson prune roses before they can be taken home by the winning bidders at the society’s annual auction.

March 23, 2019, 5:13am Community

The Fort Vancouver Rose Society held its annual auction March 7 at Parish Hall at St. Luke’s-San Lucas Episcopal Church, its new meeting location. Read story

Everybody Has a Story: A left-handed approach to the tree of love

March 16, 2019, 6:05am Clark County Life

I was 27 years old and a Navy veteran. I had a college degree in my pocket and planned to be a forest ranger. But I was working as a maritime cargo officer in the Merchant Marine because it paid twice as much. During time off from the Merchant Marine,… Read story

Colleen Conrad, owner of Dog Gone Clean, left, and Connie Skinner, owner of Mind Your Manners Dog Center, revisit the Holly Park Shopping Center. A Jan. 19 fire temporarily closed their businesses, forcing each of them to incur costs and develop recovery plans.

Businesses affected by Hazel Dell strip mall fire beginning to rebuild

Colleen Conrad, owner of Dog Gone Clean, left, and Connie Skinner, owner of Mind Your Manners Dog Center, revisit the Holly Park Shopping Center. A Jan. 19 fire temporarily closed their businesses, forcing each of them to incur costs and develop recovery plans.

March 16, 2019, 6:05am Clark County Business

Colleen Conrad could only sit and wait as, in the distance, smoke billowed from her business. An employee had called her to say that the building had caught fire, but she was stuck at a stoplight down the street. Read story

Volunteer Opportunities

March 16, 2019, 5:58am Community

Clark Neighbors Food Project and Ridgefield Neighbors Food Project seeks volunteers to participate in Project Green Bag. Neighborhood coordinators sign up to hand out food donation bags to their neighbors and pick up the filled bags every two months. Some data-entry skills and the ability to send out email reminders… Read story

Lincoln: Discovery Middle School students with “wiggle chairs,” which were purchased thanks to a grant from the Lincoln Neighborhood Association.

Vancouver’s Lincoln Neighborhood Association donates money for ‘wiggle seats’ at Discovery Middle School

Lincoln: Discovery Middle School students with “wiggle chairs,” which were purchased thanks to a grant from the Lincoln Neighborhood Association.

March 16, 2019, 5:57am Community

The Lincoln Neighborhood Association gave a grant to Discovery Middle School in February to help the school purchase “wiggle seats” for students. The grant was for $500. Union High School recently brought in a variety of seating options for students, as research shows can help students stay on task. The… Read story

Spotlight on Youth

March 16, 2019, 5:57am Community

These Southwest Washington students have been recognized by Central Washington University for their exceptional artwork. These students and their work will participate in the 2019 Southwest Washington Regional High School Art Show and be recognized in an Awards Ceremony on March 19. Several also received scholarship awards from Central Washington… Read story

Ridgefield: Union Ridge Elementary School teacher Sara Eastham, left, with Karen Stolberg, her teacher when she attended elementary school in Ridgefield. Stolberg was visiting her granddaughter’s class on Take Your Parent to School Day.

Take Your Parent to School Day reunites teacher, former student

Ridgefield: Union Ridge Elementary School teacher Sara Eastham, left, with Karen Stolberg, her teacher when she attended elementary school in Ridgefield. Stolberg was visiting her granddaughter’s class on Take Your Parent to School Day.

March 16, 2019, 5:56am Community

Karen Stolberg was excited for Take Your Parent to School Day at Union Ridge Elementary School. Read story