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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

East Mill Plain: Lily Malone was one of about 480 Mill Plain Elementary School students who tried potatoes through Washington State University Extension’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education’s Harvest of the Month program.

Mill Plain Elementary School students say spuds from WSU Extension program scrumptious

East Mill Plain: Lily Malone was one of about 480 Mill Plain Elementary School students who tried potatoes through Washington State University Extension’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education’s Harvest of the Month program.

March 28, 2018, 5:57am Community

Washington State University Extension’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education’s Harvest of the Month program came to Mill Plain Elementary School. Read story

Orchards: Heritage High School students traveled to Spokane to compete in the ProStart invitational, a cooking competition in which they had to prepare a three-course meal in 60 minutes using butane burners.

Heritage High School students ditch electricity, running water for cooking competition

Orchards: Heritage High School students traveled to Spokane to compete in the ProStart invitational, a cooking competition in which they had to prepare a three-course meal in 60 minutes using butane burners.

March 28, 2018, 5:57am Community

Students from Heritage High School traveled to Spokane on March 10 for a cooking competition with a twist: they couldn’t use running water or electricity. Read story

Landover-Sharmel: Evergreen Public Schools board member Julie Bocanegra accepting her 2018 Iris award from former Evergreen Superintendent John Deeder.

Evergreen Public Schools board member honored for leadership

Landover-Sharmel: Evergreen Public Schools board member Julie Bocanegra accepting her 2018 Iris award from former Evergreen Superintendent John Deeder.

March 28, 2018, 5:55am Community

Evergreen Public Schools board member Julie Bocanegra earned a 2018 Iris Award from Clark College. Read story

Woodland woman earns award upon graduation from online law school

March 28, 2018, 5:46am Community

Linda Smithies earned the Sue Lane Award from the Concord Law School during Kaplan University’s 27th annual graduation ceremony. Read story

Four local Boy Scouts earn organization’s top award for volunteering

March 28, 2018, 5:13am Community

The Cascade Pacific Council of the Boy Scouts of America presented the Silver Beaver volunteerism award to four local volunteers at a ceremony Feb. 22. Read story