February 10, 2016, 5:59am Community
Orchards -- Heritage High School's DECA team had a strong showing at the Area 9 competition on Jan. 9 in Longview, with 22 students qualifying for the state competition March 3-5 in Bellevue. Four students qualified for international competition, taking place April 22-27 in Nashville, Tenn., where they will go… Read story
February 10, 2016, 5:57am Community
To celebrate another year of volunteering throughout the community, Washington State University's Master Food Preservers held their awards banquet and ceremony on Jan. 23. Last year, the group volunteered a combined 2,491 hours and served 4,674 people. The volunteers gave how-to lectures at the program offices and out in the… Read story
February 10, 2016, 5:57am Community
The Mountain View High School girls basketball team and Lady Thunder Booster Club hosted their fourth annual fundraiser for the Pink Lemonade Project on Jan. 19. This year, they raised $3,820 through local donations and raffle sales, which is the highest total in the fundraiser's history, up from $2,400 raised… Read story
February 10, 2016, 5:45am Truckies
Battle Ground -- Video games are coming to the classroom for students in the Battle Ground Community Education program. Starting on Feb. 19, second- through sixth-graders can take Code to the Future: Video Game Design class, which is intended to transition students from players to creators by teaching them computational… Read story
February 10, 2016, 5:40am Community
In the fall of 1950, we moved to the rural Kansas town of Altoona. I was 7 years old and in the second grade, and moving to a new school in a new town was, for me, a scary experience. Actually, the school at Altoona had fewer than 140 kids,… Read story
February 10, 2016, 5:40am Truckies
Ridgefield -- Union Ridge fifth-graders spent five weeks developing, building and testing their own arcade games as part of a cross-curriculum assignment that started in their art class. Alan Adams, the school's art teacher, was inspired by a YouTube video of a California kid who made arcade games out of… Read story
February 10, 2016, 5:35am Truckies
Camas -- During a three-week drive late last year, members of the Camas High School National Honor Society collected 617 pairs of socks. The socks were donated to Transitional Youth and Braking Cycles, two organizations in Portland which work with at-risk youth. The students collected socks by leaving a box… Read story
February 10, 2016, 5:30am Truckies
Woodland -- Woodland Middle School's Lego Robotics class took a field trip to tour University of Washington's three-dimensional printer research laboratories last month. The class worked last year to see if combining recycling techniques with 3-D printing could result in tiny houses made through Additive Manufacturing, which would result in… Read story
February 3, 2016, 5:53am Truckies
Vancouver Mall -- Each year, employees of Columbia Ultimate go out into the community and give back as part of the company's Days of Giving celebration. In December, employees volunteered a combined 145-plus hours with Share, Vancouver Parks and Recreation and Northwest Children's Outreach. The Vancouver-based company makes software for… Read story
February 3, 2016, 5:52am Truckies
Ellsworth Springs -- A few Seattle Mariners and the Mariner Moose stopped at Ellsworth Elementary School on Jan. 21 as part of the team's 2016 caravan. Tony Zych and Nathan Karns, along with lead broadcaster Rick Rizzs, spoke to a gym-full of students at a DREAM Team assembly. The Mariner… Read story
