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Fairway-164th Avenue: To enhance her Pilates class at Touchmark Health & Fitness Club, director Jennifer Short brought in puppies, partly for their warmth and partly because they are the perfect weight for Pilates class.

Puppies crash senior Pilates class

Fairway-164th Avenue: To enhance her Pilates class at Touchmark Health & Fitness Club, director Jennifer Short brought in puppies, partly for their warmth and partly because they are the perfect weight for Pilates class.

April 4, 2018, 5:45am Community

Jennifer Short, health and fitness director for Touchmark Health & Fitness Club, was looking to change her Pilates class, and she knew just how to do it: puppies. Read story

Free Clinic receives grant for diabetes program

April 4, 2018, 5:43am Community

The Free Clinic of Southwest Washington received a $6,000 grant from Wells Fargo, which will be used to fund insulin and other medications for low-income patients enrolled in the clinic’s diabetes program. Read story

You Can Help

April 4, 2018, 5:42am Community

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

Brush Prairie: Clark County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Granneman awards Hockinson High School senior Alyssa Chapin a kindness citation, making her the first recipient at the school since the sheriff’s office started presenting the citations in November.

Hockinson student receives kindness citation

Brush Prairie: Clark County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Granneman awards Hockinson High School senior Alyssa Chapin a kindness citation, making her the first recipient at the school since the sheriff’s office started presenting the citations in November.

April 4, 2018, 5:40am Community

Clark County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Granneman presented Hockinson High School senior Alyssa Chapin with a kindness citation. Read story

Future chefs in Battle Ground create Asian-inspired dishes

April 4, 2018, 5:40am Community

Battle Ground Public Schools third- and fourth-graders showed off their culinary skills on March 7 at the district’s annual Future Chefs Challenge, organized by Sodexo, the district’s food services partner. Read story

Volunteer Opportunities

March 28, 2018, 6:02am Community

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

Everybody Has a Story: With sex ed, ignorance not bliss

March 28, 2018, 6:02am Clark County Life

Sex education was different in the 1950s. Actually, it was virtually nonexistent. Read story

Felida: Vancouver native Cambria Prentice-Wattson, 24, handed out 1,095 roses to women in Seattle on March 8, which was International Women’s Day and also three years to the day since she survived a sexual assault.

Sexual assault survivor hands out roses on International Women’s Day

Felida: Vancouver native Cambria Prentice-Wattson, 24, handed out 1,095 roses to women in Seattle on March 8, which was International Women’s Day and also three years to the day since she survived a sexual assault.

March 28, 2018, 6:00am Community

Vancouver native Cambria Prentice-Wattson, 24, celebrated International Women’s Day by handing out roses to women in Seattle. Read story

The Hazel Dell School and Community Garden used to be a mess before several different groups signed on to maintain it. In the summer, the school supplies a drip irrigation system that makes watering easier.

Hazel Dell garden aims to put food in kids’ backpacks

The Hazel Dell School and Community Garden used to be a mess before several different groups signed on to maintain it. In the summer, the school supplies a drip irrigation system that makes watering easier.

March 28, 2018, 6:00am Clark County Life

On a recent sunny Tuesday, volunteers were planting onions, potatoes, snap peas, beets and carrots in the triangle-shaped garden tucked behind the playground at Hazel Dell Elementary School. Against the retainer wall, kiwi vines were starting to sprout fuzzy buds. Read story

Esther Short: Fort Vancouver Rose Society co-president Louis Rossetto gives pruning lessons to, from left, Paulie and Licia Villard, an Esther Short Park visitor and Sue Lanz on March 10, when the society was pruning and cleaning the Esther Short Park Rose Garden.

Fort Vancouver Rose Society cleans up Esther Short Park garden

Esther Short: Fort Vancouver Rose Society co-president Louis Rossetto gives pruning lessons to, from left, Paulie and Licia Villard, an Esther Short Park visitor and Sue Lanz on March 10, when the society was pruning and cleaning the Esther Short Park Rose Garden.

March 28, 2018, 5:57am Community

The Fort Vancouver Rose Society spent time March 10 pruning and cleaning the Esther Short Park Rose Garden. Society co-president Louis Rossetto, consulting rosarian, gave impromptu pruning lessons to passersby and members of the society. Read story