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Ridgefield: Uruwa Abe

Ridgefield school board names employee, students of month for December

Ridgefield: Uruwa Abe

January 3, 2018, 5:57am Community

The Ridgefield School District board named the December employee and students of the month at the board’s Dec. 12 meeting. Read story

Meadow Homes: Students from St. Joseph Catholic School helped pre-pack turkey dinner boxes, which were handed out and delivered by St. Vincent de Paul to local families during Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Vancouver nonprofit provides Thanksgiving, Christmas dinners

Meadow Homes: Students from St. Joseph Catholic School helped pre-pack turkey dinner boxes, which were handed out and delivered by St. Vincent de Paul to local families during Thanksgiving and Christmas.

January 3, 2018, 5:57am Community

Each year, the Vancouver chapter of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul provides complete turkey dinners to approximately 770 families during the Thanksgiving and Christmas season. Read story

Hazel Dell: Some of the new graduates in the Washington State University Vancouver Master Food Preservers program, along with some already certified. Front row, from left: Jessika Brenin and Helen Redmond. Back row, from left: Karen Harris, Carol Moses, Zena Edwards, a WSU food and nutrition staffer, Laurie Burgess, Scotty Parrish, Kristen Clark, Debra Basquez and Jennifer Kootstra.

New class of master food preservers graduates from WSU Vancouver

Hazel Dell: Some of the new graduates in the Washington State University Vancouver Master Food Preservers program, along with some already certified. Front row, from left: Jessika Brenin and Helen Redmond. Back row, from left: Karen Harris, Carol Moses, Zena Edwards, a WSU food and nutrition staffer, Laurie Burgess, Scotty Parrish, Kristen Clark, Debra Basquez and Jennifer Kootstra.

January 3, 2018, 5:57am Community

The Washington State University Vancouver Master Food Preservers welcomed a new graduating class into the program. Read story

Washougal: Cape Horn-Skye Elementary School first-grader Olivia Yano greets a cat at the Humane Society for Southwest Washington, where Olivia and her classmates delivered toys and blankets they made in class for the animals.

Washougal elementary students make toys, blankets for animals at Humane Society

Washougal: Cape Horn-Skye Elementary School first-grader Olivia Yano greets a cat at the Humane Society for Southwest Washington, where Olivia and her classmates delivered toys and blankets they made in class for the animals.

January 3, 2018, 5:57am Community

First-graders at Cape Horn-Skye Elementary School created toys and blankets for dogs and cats at the Humane Society for Southwest Washington, and then delivered the presents to the animals on Dec. 19. Read story

Battle Ground car cruise money benefits food bank, teen center

January 3, 2018, 5:57am Community

The Battle Ground Harvest Nights Car Cruise committee used funds from the July event to donate to two local organizations. Read story

Volunteer opportunities

January 3, 2018, 5:17am 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: Firemen’s generosity created ‘best’ Christmas

December 27, 2017, 6:05am Clark County Life

It was 1963, the year President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. My mom, my little brother and I lived next to the fire station at 37th and Main, here in Vancouver. There was no Safeway at that time, just two houses, the fire station and an empty lot behind us. Read story

Wattle Tree Place is pictured behind a for-sale sign on East 16th Street. Recently, the entire street block containing six homes was sold.

Upheaval in Uptown as developers acquire real estate

Wattle Tree Place is pictured behind a for-sale sign on East 16th Street. Recently, the entire street block containing six homes was sold.

December 27, 2017, 6:01am Clark County Business

The sale of an eight-lot block in the Arnada neighborhood has some residents and business owners both curious and concerned about the future of the area. Read story

Five Corners: Orchards Elementary School kindergarten students use Bee-Bots to learn about problem solving.

Orchards Elementary students learn to solve problems using robots

Five Corners: Orchards Elementary School kindergarten students use Bee-Bots to learn about problem solving.

December 27, 2017, 5:58am Community

To help with counting, sequencing, estimation and problem solving, Katherine Jackson’s kindergarten students at Orchards Elementary School play with Bee-Bots. Read story

Skyview High students win app contest

December 27, 2017, 5:48am Community

Three Skyview High School students were honored by U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, for an app they built as part of the 2017 Congressional App Challenge. Read story