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Volunteer Opportunities

November 8, 2017, 6:00am Community

Volunteer Connections provides opportunities through the Human Services Council. For information on the following and other opportunities, call 360-735-3683. Read story

Ridgefield: Union Ridge Elementary School fourth-graders signing a steel beam, which will be placed in the new 5th through 8th grade campus, which is expected to open in time for the start of the 2018 school year. District officials came up with the idea earlier this year to get students involved with construction of the new campus.

Students make mark on new school by signing steel beam

Ridgefield: Union Ridge Elementary School fourth-graders signing a steel beam, which will be placed in the new 5th through 8th grade campus, which is expected to open in time for the start of the 2018 school year. District officials came up with the idea earlier this year to get students involved with construction of the new campus.

November 8, 2017, 5:55am Community

When the new 5th through 8th grade campus opens in the Ridgefield School District for the start of the 2018 school year, some students will be able to look up and see their names in the building. Read story

Hazel Dell Animal Hospital recognized for work with homeless

November 8, 2017, 5:55am Community

Hazel Dell Animal Hospital received special recognition from Pets of the Homeless for donating more than $2,000 worth of pet food, including 1,200 pounds of dry dog food and supplies to those in need. Read story

Esther Short: This year’s Girlfriends Run for a Cure raised more than $60,000, bringing the event’s 11-year total up to $500,000-plus for breast cancer research.

Girlfriends run raises $60,000 for breast cancer

Esther Short: This year’s Girlfriends Run for a Cure raised more than $60,000, bringing the event’s 11-year total up to $500,000-plus for breast cancer research.

November 8, 2017, 5:55am Community

The 11th Girlfriends Run for a Cure raised $60,686, according to the event’s preliminary fundraising totals, bringing the event’s 11-year total up to more than $500,000. Read story

Central Park: Skyview High School senior Carson Mowrer, standing left, and Vancouver iTech Preparatory senior Sasha Thomas, standing right, volunteered at the Washington State School for the Blind to teach students how to solve a Rubik’s Cube they created that replaces colors with tactile surfaces such as Velcro.

High schoolers volunteer at School for the Blind

Central Park: Skyview High School senior Carson Mowrer, standing left, and Vancouver iTech Preparatory senior Sasha Thomas, standing right, volunteered at the Washington State School for the Blind to teach students how to solve a Rubik’s Cube they created that replaces colors with tactile surfaces such as Velcro.

November 8, 2017, 5:55am Community

Carson Mowrer, a senior at Skyview High School, and Sasha Thomas, a senior at Vancouver iTech Preparatory, volunteered at the Washington State School for the Blind on Oct. 24 to teach four students how to solve a Rubik’s Cube, a traditionally visual puzzle. Read story

County Public Works coordinator honored for conservation work

November 8, 2017, 5:55am Community

The Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership named Patrick Lee, coordinator with Clark County Public Works, as the organization’s Steward of the Year. Read story

Minnehaha: Trudi Inslee, the state’s first lady, visited the Clark County Food Bank on Oct. 24, helping volunteers pack boxes and prepare ingredients.

Trudi Inslee visits Clark County Food Bank

Minnehaha: Trudi Inslee, the state’s first lady, visited the Clark County Food Bank on Oct. 24, helping volunteers pack boxes and prepare ingredients.

November 8, 2017, 5:55am Community

Trudi Inslee, the state’s first lady, visited the Clark County Food Bank on Oct. 24. She packed food boxes with the Fresh Alliance volunteer team and prepared ingredients with the Nutrition Education team. Read story

Woodland: A partnership between Woodland Public Schools and Love Overwhelming received a $55,000 grant to provide services to homeless students and their families. From left: Leslie Mohlman, community, family, student resource coordinator for the district; Jake Hall, executive director of learning support and alternatives for the district; Chuck Hendrickson, founder and executive director of Love Overwhelming; and Jill Boaglio, a housing navigator from Love Overwhelming.

Woodland partnership for homeless families gets grant

Woodland: A partnership between Woodland Public Schools and Love Overwhelming received a $55,000 grant to provide services to homeless students and their families. From left: Leslie Mohlman, community, family, student resource coordinator for the district; Jake Hall, executive director of learning support and alternatives for the district; Chuck Hendrickson, founder and executive director of Love Overwhelming; and Jill Boaglio, a housing navigator from Love Overwhelming.

November 8, 2017, 5:55am Community

Woodland Public Schools worked with Love Overwhelming, a Cowlitz County-based nonprofit, to provide resources and assistance to homeless students and their families. Read story

Battle Ground: Members of the Lewis River Rotary present a check for $20,000 to Ashley Homer, center, director of the Red Sweater Project, a nonprofit which looks to help kids in Tanzania continue education after elementary school.

Rotarians match challenge to donate $20,000 for school in Africa

Battle Ground: Members of the Lewis River Rotary present a check for $20,000 to Ashley Homer, center, director of the Red Sweater Project, a nonprofit which looks to help kids in Tanzania continue education after elementary school.

November 8, 2017, 5:55am Community

At the Lewis River Rotary Club’s Oct. 24 meeting, the club presented a check to the Red Sweater Project to match a challenge from Rotarian Steve Mays. The challenge issued by Mays was for group members to match his $20,000 donation for the project, which will be used to build… Read story

In the Service

November 8, 2017, 5:25am Community

BASIC TRAINING Air Force Reserve Airman 1st Class Tristan R. Lawson has completed basic training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. He is the son of Patricia A. Lawson of Vancouver and a 2016 graduate of Union High School. Air Force Airman Ethan S. Thompson has completed basic training at… Read story