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YWCA awards scholarships to two graduating seniors

July 4, 2018, 5:55am Community

The YWCA Clark County awarded two $1,500 scholarships to local graduating high school seniors who demonstrated strong leadership qualities in alignment with the organization’s values throughout their high school careers. Read story

Lions help prepare camp for upcoming summer

July 4, 2018, 5:55am Community

Ten members of the Fort Vancouver Lions Club spent time on June 2 cleaning up Gales Creek Camp for Kids. Read story

Cars drive along Northeast Washougal River Road, where some residents would like to see the speed lowered or some traffic-calming measures installed, as they say drivers go too fast on the curvy street.

Residents all too familiar with speeding, crashes on Washougal River Road

Cars drive along Northeast Washougal River Road, where some residents would like to see the speed lowered or some traffic-calming measures installed, as they say drivers go too fast on the curvy street.

June 27, 2018, 6:02am Clark County Life

When Joshua Schmid died in a head-on collision on March 11, first responders weren’t the first people at the scene of the accident. Read story

Everybody Has a Story: She learned that nothing could match those huckleberries

June 27, 2018, 6:00am Clark County Life

New Meadows, Idaho, sits in a high mountain valley, flat farmland surrounded by mountains that include many acres of Payette National Forest. These mountains provide marvelous places to ride and pick berries. Read story

Washougal: Columbia River Gorge Elementary School third-grader Derek Rodriguez-Hernandez collected sticks from his yard at home and used those to build a plank house as part of a grade-wide project where students built plank houses based on local history and engineering concepts.

Students use local history, engineering to build plank houses

Washougal: Columbia River Gorge Elementary School third-grader Derek Rodriguez-Hernandez collected sticks from his yard at home and used those to build a plank house as part of a grade-wide project where students built plank houses based on local history and engineering concepts.

June 27, 2018, 5:55am Community

Third-grade students at Columbia River Gorge Elementary brought some of their lessons to life by building Native American plank houses, complete with totem poles, rivers and streams, smoke houses and animals. Read story

You Can Help

June 27, 2018, 5:55am Community

Volunteer opportunities Read story

Orchards: Marty Fields, a nutrition educator with Washington State University Extension’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education, handed out fruit kabobs to guests at Silver Star Elementary School’s Family Art Show.

WSU nutrition program brings kabobs, education to art show

Orchards: Marty Fields, a nutrition educator with Washington State University Extension’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education, handed out fruit kabobs to guests at Silver Star Elementary School’s Family Art Show.

June 27, 2018, 5:55am Community

Guests at the Silver Star Elementary School Family Art Show were treated to some snacks courtesy of Washington State University Extension’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education. Read story

Brush Prairie: Prairie High School Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Group Commander Cadet Lt. Col. Heather Lee receiving her new ranks from her grandfather, Master Sgt. Charles A. Bowers, who is retired from the United States Air Force.

Prairie, Battle Ground ROTC programs hold pass-in-review ceremony

Brush Prairie: Prairie High School Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Group Commander Cadet Lt. Col. Heather Lee receiving her new ranks from her grandfather, Master Sgt. Charles A. Bowers, who is retired from the United States Air Force.

June 27, 2018, 5:55am Community

Prairie High School and Battle Ground High School Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets joined together on June 2 in a combined pass-in-review ceremony, a long-standing military tradition that started as a way for a newly assigned commander to inspect his or her troops. Read story

Edgewood Park: Washington State Genealogical Society President Virginia Majewski, left, presents the 2018 Outstanding Project Award to Clark County Genealogical Society President Brian Runyan, center, and Lois Bosland, right, for the “Vancouver Tax Ledger Project.”

Local genealogical society wins state award

Edgewood Park: Washington State Genealogical Society President Virginia Majewski, left, presents the 2018 Outstanding Project Award to Clark County Genealogical Society President Brian Runyan, center, and Lois Bosland, right, for the “Vancouver Tax Ledger Project.”

June 27, 2018, 5:55am Community

The Clark County Genealogical Society was awarded the 2018 Outstanding Project Award at the Washington State Genealogical Society’s annual meeting. Read story

Washougal: Hathaway Elementary School fifth-graders, from left, Evan Elliott, Dylan Gray, Nathaniel Tauialo and Justin Ziegler work on a puzzle during an escape room-like lesson in class.

Washougal teacher brings escape-room type of lesson to class

Washougal: Hathaway Elementary School fifth-graders, from left, Evan Elliott, Dylan Gray, Nathaniel Tauialo and Justin Ziegler work on a puzzle during an escape room-like lesson in class.

June 27, 2018, 5:55am Community

While plenty of kids dream about escaping the classroom, Andrew Schlauch changed it up and brought the Breakout to his fifth-graders at Hathaway Elementary School. Read story