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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

Free Clinic receives $5,000 grant for immunization program

July 18, 2018, 6:02am Clark County Health

The Free Clinic of Southwest Washington received a $5,000 grant from Divine Consign to support the clinic’s immunization program for children and adults. Read story

New Dutch Bros. donates day’s worth of proceeds to Vancouver Public Schools

July 18, 2018, 6:02am Community

A new Dutch Bros. location, 8100 N.E. Vancouver Mall Drive, Vancouver, donated $7,379 to Vancouver Public Schools. Read story

Five Corners: Volunteers serving food at the Cascade Park Kiwanis Club’s annual foster kids barbecue, where they served food to more than 420 children, families and volunteers.

Cascade Park Kiwanis Club hosts barbecue for foster kids

Five Corners: Volunteers serving food at the Cascade Park Kiwanis Club’s annual foster kids barbecue, where they served food to more than 420 children, families and volunteers.

July 18, 2018, 6:01am Community

Cascade Park Kiwanis Club members hosted the club’s annual barbecue for foster children, serving food to more then 420 kids, families and volunteers at Crossroads Community Church on June 21. Read story

Applause

July 18, 2018, 6:01am Community

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At left is Lyric Henifin, three months, held by his mother, Tourei Henifin, 24, both of Phoenix, Ariz., at Daybreak Park, Battle Ground, in July. Also pictured, from right, are his great-great-grandmother, Sylvia Henifin, 88, of Vancouver; great-grandmother, Victoria Henifin, 61, of Vancouver; and grandmother, Chanell Henifin, 39, of Phoenix.

Five generations: Henifin

At left is Lyric Henifin, three months, held by his mother, Tourei Henifin, 24, both of Phoenix, Ariz., at Daybreak Park, Battle Ground, in July. Also pictured, from right, are his great-great-grandmother, Sylvia Henifin, 88, of Vancouver; great-grandmother, Victoria Henifin, 61, of Vancouver; and grandmother, Chanell Henifin, 39, of Phoenix.

July 18, 2018, 5:46am Community

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