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Green Meadows: At the Kids Club for Fun and Fitness Swim Meet, Green Meadows Swim Team members Jasmine Andrieu, back from left, and Berkeley McLean, Noah Schmidt, front from left, and Cody Mowery all earned medals.

Local swimmers medal at meet

October 26, 2016, 5:40am Community

Cody Mowery was the fastest overall swimmer in each event he participated in at the Kids Club for Fun and Fitness Swim Meet on Oct. 14. Read story

Columbian Presbyterian Church pastor receives grant for new nonprofit

October 26, 2016, 5:35am Community

Columbia Presbyterian Church Pastor Matt Overton received a grant through Leadership Education at Duke Divinity School in Durham, N.C. Read story

Hazel Dell: Ellsworth Elementary School's Olivia Hayes was one of about 80 fifth-graders to visit the 78th Street Heritage Farm for a Farm to Fork event, where she and her classmates learned where their food comes from.

Fifth-graders bring food from Farm to Fork

October 26, 2016, 5:30am Community

About 80 Ellsworth Elementary School fifth-graders visited the 78th Street Heritage Farm for a Farm to Fork event, which was organized by Washington State University’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education and 4-H Youth Development programs. Read story

Ridgefield honors students, employee of the month

October 26, 2016, 5:05am Community

The Ridgefield School District named its students and employee of the month for October. Read story

Chris Lapp of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the project leader at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, spreads out a big map in his office that shows the Port of Ridgefield (at bottom) and the Carty Unit of the Refuge (above). The Port has built trails across its property; the Refuge will build new ones to meet them. The result will be a miles-long seasonal walking loop.

Ridgefield refuge aims to expand its embrace

October 19, 2016, 6:03am Clark County Life

It’s not exactly Malheur, which was easily seized by a handful of guys with guns mostly because it’s so many miles from anywhere. Read story

Everybody has a Story: He persisted and was able to see the CEO

While working for a division of Rockwell International, I was asked to volunteer for an organization called Joint Action in Community Service that reaches out to people who have left Job Corps to help them find work or further their education. I put together a small group to do it.… Read story

Local sailor teaching others

Central Vancouver: Petty Officer 2nd Class Evan Fitch, center, of Vancouver teaches blood-drawing techniques to Petty Officer 3rd Class Martin Salinas, left, while aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard, which is operating in the South China Sea.

October 19, 2016, 5:56am Community

Petty Officer 2nd Class Evan Fitch of Vancouver is aboard amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard, which is a flagship of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group. It is operating in the South China Sea in support of security and stability in the Indo-Asia Pacific region. Fitch is spending time… Read story