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Volunteer Opportunities

August 17, 2016, 5:59am Community

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

Lois Elaine Smith-Zoll is pictured Wednesday morning, Jan. 20, 2016 at The Columbian photo studio.

Smith-Zoll to mark 50 years with Miss America

Lois Elaine Smith-Zoll is pictured Wednesday morning, Jan. 20, 2016 at The Columbian photo studio.

August 17, 2016, 5:55am Community

Lois Elaine Smith-Zoll will celebrate her 50th year of involvement with the Miss America organization by singing the national anthem at one of this year’s preliminary competition events in Atlantic City, N.J. Read story

Spotlight on Youth

August 17, 2016, 5:08am Community

NATIONAL SOCIETY OF HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARS Shaelyn Rundell, daughter of Seth and April Rundell of Vancouver, has been accepted to the National Society of High School Scholars. She will be a senior at Hudson’s Bay High School this fall. SPACE ACADEMY PROGRAM Colin Martin of Vancouver recently trained for one… Read story

Applause

August 10, 2016, 6:09am Community

On campus Read story

Fisher-Mill Plain: Some of the 270-plus youths in the Vancouver East Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who participated in a &quot;Pioneer Trek&quot; near Trout Lake.

Youths go on trek to learn about pioneers

Fisher-Mill Plain: Some of the 270-plus youths in the Vancouver East Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who participated in a &quot;Pioneer Trek&quot; near Trout Lake.

August 10, 2016, 6:05am Truckies

More than 270 youths in the Vancouver East Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints learned a bit about the hardship experienced by the Mormon pioneers who migrated to the Salt Lake Valley 170 years ago on a “Pioneer Trek” of their own last month near Trout… Read story

Rebekah Latham crosses Southeast Park Crest Avenue with her baby, Scarlett, 1, after using a curb cut, which was built on the street thanks to a grant to make the street safer and more pedestrian friendly. The Cascade Highland Neighborhood Association also received grants to plant trees, add street lights and stripe crosswalks.

Curb cuts latest step in makeover for Southeast Park Crest Avenue

Rebekah Latham crosses Southeast Park Crest Avenue with her baby, Scarlett, 1, after using a curb cut, which was built on the street thanks to a grant to make the street safer and more pedestrian friendly. The Cascade Highland Neighborhood Association also received grants to plant trees, add street lights and stripe crosswalks.

August 10, 2016, 6:05am Clark County Life

Construction started this week on installing curb cuts on three intersections of Southeast Park Crest Avenue. Read story

Everybody has a story: Frigid North Dakota warmed to new choir teacher

August 10, 2016, 6:03am Community

The year was 1957. My husband, Lee, was discharged from the Army and accepted a school music teaching position in the small town of Garrison, N.D., population 1,800. Read story

Lincoln: Flowers planted by Richard Hanley along Northwest 41st Street, which he&#039;s been doing for 20 years to make his neighborhood prettier.

Resident beautifies neighborhood by planting flowers

Lincoln: Flowers planted by Richard Hanley along Northwest 41st Street, which he&#039;s been doing for 20 years to make his neighborhood prettier.

August 10, 2016, 5:59am Community

Richard Hanley wants his neighborhood to look a bit prettier, and for the last 20 years, he spends time each summer planting flowers down the parking strip on Northwest 41st Street and around the corner onto Columbia Street. Hanley works at Woodland High School and buys his flowers each year… Read story

Bagley Downs: Just For Fun Quilting donated $1,000 to the Children&#039;s Justice Center after raising the money during the Western Washington Quilt Shop Hop in June.

Quilt shop donates money to Children’s Justice Center

Bagley Downs: Just For Fun Quilting donated $1,000 to the Children&#039;s Justice Center after raising the money during the Western Washington Quilt Shop Hop in June.

August 10, 2016, 5:55am Community

The 2016 Western Washington Quilt Shop Hop took place June 22-26, and Vancouver-based Just For Fun Quilting participated in the statewide event. Read story

La Center: La Center High School student Kira Hall-Sass with her All-American award, which earned her a trip to London to perform in the New Year&#039;s Day Parade.

La Center teen to perform in London parade

La Center: La Center High School student Kira Hall-Sass with her All-American award, which earned her a trip to London to perform in the New Year&#039;s Day Parade.

August 10, 2016, 5:55am Community

La Center High School student Kira Hall-Sass will ring in the new year a few hours earlier than her friends from home, as she was one of more than 650 high school cheerleaders and dancers to perform in the London New Year’s Day Parade. Read story