December 20, 2017, 5:59am Community
The Camas-Washougal Rotary Club continued its yearly tradition of ensuring all third-graders in both cities have a personal dictionary. Rotary members were at Columbia River Gorge Elementary School and Cape Horn-Skye Elementary School recently to hand out dictionaries, each of which has a book plate inside the cover with a… Read story
December 20, 2017, 5:58am Community
Elizabeth Koceja volunteered at a soup kitchen with her mother in San Diego a few years ago when they lived in California. They served meals to the homeless on Thanksgiving, and it was something that stuck with Koceja. After moving to Vancouver, Koceja got caught up in her own life,… Read story
December 20, 2017, 5:58am Community
Jemtegaard Middle School student Carson Kanzler and his family were named winners of the National Family Partnership’s 2017 National Red Ribbon Photo Contest, which takes place as part of National Red Ribbon Week, a drug prevention campaign. Throughout October, Carson and his family worked to promote his commitment to living… Read story
December 20, 2017, 5:58am Community
The Washington State University Master Gardeners were at Hazel Dell Elementary School on Nov. 29 to teach first-graders about garden worms and second-graders about pollination. One class at a time visited the school’s experience lab for hands-on lessons where they explored soil and pretended to be pollinators, such as bees,… Read story
December 20, 2017, 5:57am Community
Woodland Public Schools staffers have started meeting once a week for Spanish classes to help connect with the district’s growing Hispanic population. The classes are taught by Milagros Wells, Woodland’s English-language-learner outreach coordinator and a native Spanish speaker who decided to offer the classes for free to her colleagues. Wells… Read story
December 20, 2017, 5:57am Community
Great Life Mentoring capped off its 17th year with a party at Big Al’s, made possible by donations from the Columbia River Mental Health Foundation, Big Al’s and local Starbucks stores, which worked with the organization. They combined to donate enough money to cover 12 bowling lanes, food and drinks,… Read story
December 20, 2017, 5:57am Community
Union High School was named to the Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s 2017 list of America’s Healthiest Schools, making the Evergreen Public Schools campus one of 323 schools around the country to receive the honor. To make the list, Union had to satisfy a set of criteria, which included serving… Read story
December 20, 2017, 5:56am Community
A geological engineering team from Columbia West Engineering, Inc., was at Ridgefield High School recently to acquire soil samples for lab analysis to determine the soil composition at the site of a proposed high school expansion. Engineers will use the data to design the foundation for the new structure. Some… Read story
December 13, 2017, 6:04am Clark County Life
Things are changing in Clark County. The Camas paper mill is in jeopardy. So is the proposed rail-to-river oil terminal. Vancouver has elected its first woman mayor. And the old Vancouver waterfront is transforming into something shiny and new. Read story
December 13, 2017, 6:00am Clark County News
Rick and Renee Amies’ Hazel Dell home glows each Christmas season with light-up reindeer and strands upon strands of lights. Read story
