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Old Evergreen Highway: Rotarians from three local clubs — Vancouver, Three Creeks and Metro Sunset — planted 182 trees and shrubs at Columbia Springs across two weekends in March.

Rotarians spent two weeks planting in Vancouver

Old Evergreen Highway: Rotarians from three local clubs — Vancouver, Three Creeks and Metro Sunset — planted 182 trees and shrubs at Columbia Springs across two weekends in March.

April 18, 2018, 5:02am Community

Volunteers from the Rotary Club of Vancouver, Three Creeks Rotary Club and Vancouver Metro Sunset Rotary Club teamed up to plant 182 trees and shrubs at Columbia Springs on March 10 and March 17. Read story

Felida: Skyview High School students, from left, Kristen Stilin, Amelia Madarang and Nathan Chen show Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, their app titled “Duck & Cover,” for which they won a Congressional STEM App Competition award.

Herrera Beutler hands out awards to student app developers

Felida: Skyview High School students, from left, Kristen Stilin, Amelia Madarang and Nathan Chen show Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, their app titled “Duck & Cover,” for which they won a Congressional STEM App Competition award.

April 18, 2018, 5:00am Community

Felida -- Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, visited Skyview High School on March 28 to meet with students Amelia Madarang, Nathaniel Chen and Kristen Stilin, who were winners in the Congressional STEM App Competition. Read story

Hazel Dell: Kay Hudziak, who volunteers with the Washington State University Master Gardeners, helps students at Hazel Dell School’s Enrichment Fair explore different varieties of lettuce and spinach.

Master Gardeners teach students at Enrichment Fair

Hazel Dell: Kay Hudziak, who volunteers with the Washington State University Master Gardeners, helps students at Hazel Dell School’s Enrichment Fair explore different varieties of lettuce and spinach.

April 18, 2018, 5:00am Community

Hazel Dell Elementary School students had nearly 40 classes to choose from at the school’s annual Enrichment Fair, from yoga to taking apart appliances to messy science. Each student choose three classes to take. Read story

Washougal: Students in the Washougal School District created the “It’s Time To Be Kind” project, where they celebrate acts of kindness of all sizes and put up inspirational posters at Jemtegaard Middle School and Canyon Creek Middle School.

Washougal students decide to be kind

Washougal: Students in the Washougal School District created the “It’s Time To Be Kind” project, where they celebrate acts of kindness of all sizes and put up inspirational posters at Jemtegaard Middle School and Canyon Creek Middle School.

April 18, 2018, 5:00am Community

Students at Jemtegaard Middle School and Canyon Creek Middle School created the “It’s Time to Be Kind” project, letting students celebrate acts of kindness of all sizes. Read story

Everybody Has a Story: $10 gold coin from ‘stranger’ just a piece of grandfather’s history

April 11, 2018, 6:02am Clark County Life

My grandfather Earl experienced tragedy early in his life. Born in 1899 in rural Mendocino County, Calif., he was a grandson of pioneers who had traveled across the country from the Midwest via covered wagon in the 1850s. Read story

Peter Bracchi of Vancouver stands in a cleared area of Arnold Park where a homeless camp existed. He worries about damage to the park and the health of the homeless people who live there.

Is Vancouver’s Arnold Park at risk?

Peter Bracchi of Vancouver stands in a cleared area of Arnold Park where a homeless camp existed. He worries about damage to the park and the health of the homeless people who live there.

April 11, 2018, 6:02am Clark County Life

While the average person might experience Arnold Park as something of a backdrop during a walk or ride along the Burnt Bridge Creek Trail, West Minnehaha resident Peter Bracchi knows his neighborhood park well. But he’s both frustrated by and worried about the homeless camps that have cropped up in… Read story

In the Service

April 11, 2018, 6:00am Community

BASIC TRAINING Read story

Volunteer Opportunities

April 11, 2018, 5:57am Community

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

Eagle Scouts

April 11, 2018, 5:57am Community

The Fort Vancouver District of Boy Scouts of America has announced names of members who passed their boards of review in December and advanced to the rank of Eagle Scout. Read story

Battle Ground: Tukes Valley Primary School students visited the Center for Agriculture, Science and Environmental Education campus on March 19 to work on their project, “The Forests of Washington State.”

Battle Ground students visit forest for subject-spanning project

Battle Ground: Tukes Valley Primary School students visited the Center for Agriculture, Science and Environmental Education campus on March 19 to work on their project, “The Forests of Washington State.”

April 11, 2018, 5:55am Community

Tukes Valley Primary School students spent some time outdoors on March 19, when they visited the Center for Agriculture, Science and Environmental Education campus in Battle Ground. Read story