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Volunteer Opportunities

January 31, 2018, 5:11am Community

Clark County seeks to fill three positions on its Commission on Aging, for 3-year terms. The commission manages and implements the county’s Aging Readiness Plan, addressing the needs of people older than 50, and meets from 3 to 6 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month. Read story

Turkey Trot brings in donations for Ridgefield resource center

January 31, 2018, 5:10am Community

The Ridgefield Public Schools Foundation raised more than $12,000 in its first ever Turkey Trot on Nov. 23. Read story

Fairway-164th Avenue: Foster kids and families at the Cascade Park festival celebration, a twice-yearly event.

Kiwanis Club holds celebration for foster kids, families

Fairway-164th Avenue: Foster kids and families at the Cascade Park festival celebration, a twice-yearly event.

January 31, 2018, 5:10am Community

Cascade Park Kiwanis provided food for nearly 500 foster children recently as part of a twice yearly event. Read story

North Garrison Heights: Jim Obester’s picture of a fluorescent anemone taken at Sound Rock, for which he earned first place in the underwater category in National Geographic’s 2017 Nature Photographer of the Year contest.

Vancouver anesthesiologist wins National Geographic photo award

North Garrison Heights: Jim Obester’s picture of a fluorescent anemone taken at Sound Rock, for which he earned first place in the underwater category in National Geographic’s 2017 Nature Photographer of the Year contest.

January 31, 2018, 5:09am Community

Jim Obester, an anesthesiologist with the Columbia Anesthesia Group, earned a first-place finish in National Geographic’s 2017 Nature Photographer of the Year contest on its website. Read story

Cascadia Technical Academy Foundation re-elects chairwoman

January 31, 2018, 5:08am Community

The Cascadia Technical Academy Foundation board elected Nancy Nunn as their 2018 chairwoman and Jim West as chair-elect. Read story

Free Clinic receives grant for oral health services

January 31, 2018, 5:08am Community

The Free Clinic of Southwest Washington received a $10,000 grant from the Dwight and Anna Schwab Charitable Foundation to help fund the children’s oral health program, which serves low-income, uninsured children. Read story

Northeast Hazel Dell: Ten local Korean War veterans were given a trip to Washington D.C. courtesy of Puget Sound Honor Flight. Sitting, from left: Merle Osborne, Ken Smith, Don Cabe and Ray Anderson. Standing, from left: Ed Barnes, Earl Edwards, John Landahl, Al Bauer, Carl Hissman and Cliff Richards.

Vets travel to D.C. courtesy of nonprofit

Northeast Hazel Dell: Ten local Korean War veterans were given a trip to Washington D.C. courtesy of Puget Sound Honor Flight. Sitting, from left: Merle Osborne, Ken Smith, Don Cabe and Ray Anderson. Standing, from left: Ed Barnes, Earl Edwards, John Landahl, Al Bauer, Carl Hissman and Cliff Richards.

January 31, 2018, 5:00am Community

Ten Clark County veterans of the Korean War took part in a three-day trip to Washington, D.C., in October. Read story

Everybody Has a Story: High school counselor helped him take right fork in the road

January 24, 2018, 6:03am Clark County Life

The poet Robert Frost wrote of “The Road Not Taken.” Yogi Berra’s sage advice was that if we come to a fork in the road, we should take it. Read story

Wanda Wilson of Vancouver sits on a raised, wheelchair-accessible garden bed at the Minnie Stromgren Memorial Garden at Vancouver Heights United Methodist Church. Wilson spearheaded the launch of the community garden project in 2009, and the space now has 34 plots. If gardeners produce more food then they can use, they donate extra produce to Share or to the families at the church’s child care program.

Land on Vancouver church’s lot becomes garden for many to use

Wanda Wilson of Vancouver sits on a raised, wheelchair-accessible garden bed at the Minnie Stromgren Memorial Garden at Vancouver Heights United Methodist Church. Wilson spearheaded the launch of the community garden project in 2009, and the space now has 34 plots. If gardeners produce more food then they can use, they donate extra produce to Share or to the families at the church’s child care program.

January 24, 2018, 6:00am Churches & Religion

At the Vancouver Heights United Methodist Church’s block-wide space, a large parcel of valuable land was vacant. It was previously used to grow corn for a corn feed event, but the ground was now bare. Wanda Wilson wondered whether it could be a community garden. The answer was yes. Read story

Volunteer Opportunities

January 24, 2018, 5:50am Community

Volunteer Connections provides opportunities through the Human Services Council. Read story