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Free Clinic receives grant for oral health program

July 25, 2018, 5:13am Community

The Free Clinic of Southwest Washington received a $5,000 grant from DentaQuest, a national oral health company. Read story

Clark College Aerospace Club goes international in competitions

July 25, 2018, 5:03am Community

Students in Clark College’s Aerospace Club participated in two international competitions recently. Read story

You Can Help

July 18, 2018, 6:05am Community

Volunteer Connections provides opportunities through the Human Services Council. For information on the following, call 360-735-3690. Read story

Lake Shore: Andrew Douglas, center, and other students who received a language scholarship from the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to study Hindi for a year in Indore, India.

Columbia River High School student receives scholarship to spend year in India

Lake Shore: Andrew Douglas, center, and other students who received a language scholarship from the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to study Hindi for a year in Indore, India.

July 18, 2018, 6:05am Community

Columbia River High School student Andrew Douglas, 15, received a language scholarship from the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to study Hindi for a year in Indore, India. Read story

East Vancouver: Humane Society of Southwest Washington employees with their new “Rides to the Rescue” vehicle, which was made possible thanks to a $45,000 grant from PetSmart Charities.

Humane Society receives grant to help transport, relocate animals

East Vancouver: Humane Society of Southwest Washington employees with their new “Rides to the Rescue” vehicle, which was made possible thanks to a $45,000 grant from PetSmart Charities.

July 18, 2018, 6:04am Community

The Humane Society for Southwest Washington received a $45,000 grant from PetSmart Charities to help transport and relocate dogs and cats to give them a better chance of finding new homes. Read story

Ridgefield: Union Ridge Elementary School second-graders Lizzy Bloom, left, and Clara Bruguier, right, play cards with Ken Carson at the Ridgefield Community Center during a monthly visit to meet with local seniors.

Ridgefield second-graders meet monthly with local seniors

Ridgefield: Union Ridge Elementary School second-graders Lizzy Bloom, left, and Clara Bruguier, right, play cards with Ken Carson at the Ridgefield Community Center during a monthly visit to meet with local seniors.

July 18, 2018, 6:04am Community

Sara Eastham and her second-graders at Union Ridge Elementary School have started taking short walks down the street to the Ridgefield Community Center each month. Read story

A grassy field makes up the northeast tip of the Fisher’s Landing Transit Center along Southeast 164th Avenue and Southeast Cascade Park Drive. C-Tran is considering overhauling the site with a transit-oriented development that would have a mix of uses. Some neighbors want to see mitigations to the extra traffic that would follow.

Neighbors of C-Tran’s Fisher’s Landing center wary of potential development

A grassy field makes up the northeast tip of the Fisher’s Landing Transit Center along Southeast 164th Avenue and Southeast Cascade Park Drive. C-Tran is considering overhauling the site with a transit-oriented development that would have a mix of uses. Some neighbors want to see mitigations to the extra traffic that would follow.

July 18, 2018, 6:03am Clark County Life

Walking trails, a brewpub, open space, retail shops, offices, housing and, of course, transit — it’s all just a concept, but if C-Tran follows through on developing its Fisher’s Landing property, it would mean a significant change for east Vancouver. Read story

Orchards: Susan Mangin’s Imagine It, Design It, Make It class at Heritage High School, and some of the wood cars and trucks they made, about half of which were donated to YWCA Clark County’s Safechoice program for children affected by domestic violence.

Heritage High School students build wood cars, donate them to shelter

Orchards: Susan Mangin’s Imagine It, Design It, Make It class at Heritage High School, and some of the wood cars and trucks they made, about half of which were donated to YWCA Clark County’s Safechoice program for children affected by domestic violence.

July 18, 2018, 6:03am Community

Susan Mangin’s Imagine It, Design It, Make It class spent about nine weeks imagining, designing and making 40 trucks and cars out of wood. Read story

Everybody Has a Story: Mom’s gift of music kept on giving

July 18, 2018, 6:03am Clark County Life

I became enamored of music at a young age. Mom was a music teacher. We had a piano and a record player and many LPs and 78s. Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Bach and Beethoven. Around the time I turned 10, I had a transistor radio that I listened to, full… Read story

Washougal: Hathaway Elementary School fourth-grader Abigail Picho with parents Graciela and Facundo Picho, and a new bicycle she won through the school’s Strive for Five attendance program.

Hathaway Elementary students in Washougal awarded bikes for attendance

Washougal: Hathaway Elementary School fourth-grader Abigail Picho with parents Graciela and Facundo Picho, and a new bicycle she won through the school’s Strive for Five attendance program.

July 18, 2018, 6:03am Community

Seven Hathaway Elementary School students won new bicycles as part of the school’s yearlong Strive for Five attendance program, which tries to limit absences to no more than five per year. Read story