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Three high school juniors to participate in aerospace program

March 4, 2015, 12:00am Truckies

Clark County -- Three high school juniors were selected to take part in Phase One of the Washington Aerospace Scholars program, an online, distance learning curriculum designed by NASA and the University of Washington that focuses on the past, present and future of human space travel. The local students are… Read story

Battle Ground: Members of the Pacific Crest Jazz Orchestra, which recently won first place at both the Charles Mingus Jazz Festival in New York, and the Jazz Forward Big Band competition at Portland State University.

Local student orchestra wins multiple competitions

Battle Ground: Members of the Pacific Crest Jazz Orchestra, which recently won first place at both the Charles Mingus Jazz Festival in New York, and the Jazz Forward Big Band competition at Portland State University.

March 4, 2015, 12:00am Truckies

Battle Ground -- The American Music Program's Pacific Crest Jazz Orchestra took home first-place prizes from two competitions recently, one nearby and one from the other side of the country. First, the group of middle and high school students from Battle Ground and Portland won the Charles Mingus Jazz Festival… Read story

Central Vancouver: Innovative's Adult Day Health Center got a special visit from Rojo, part of Mountain Peaks Therapy Llamas.

Innovative NW members enjoy visit with llama

Central Vancouver: Innovative's Adult Day Health Center got a special visit from Rojo, part of Mountain Peaks Therapy Llamas.

March 4, 2015, 12:00am Truckies

Central Vancouver -- Members of Innovative Services NW's Adult Day Health Center had a special visitor on Feb. 18 when they met Rojo, one of the Mountain Peaks Therapy Llamas. Rojo visits Innovative multiple times a year, and on his most recent visit, guests enjoyed petting, feeding and even sharing… Read story

North Image: First-grade classes at North Image Elementary School received a donation of four iPad Minis from civil engineering firm MacKay Sposito, which the school will use as part of its reading program.

Engineering firm donates iPads to elementary school

North Image: First-grade classes at North Image Elementary School received a donation of four iPad Minis from civil engineering firm MacKay Sposito, which the school will use as part of its reading program.

March 4, 2015, 12:00am Truckies

North Image -- Image Elementary School received a donation of four iPad Minis last month from civil engineering firm MacKay Sposito. The iPads will be used by first-grade classes as part of the Lexia reading program. Lexia is an interactive program that reinforces fundamental literacy skills. Read story

Washougal: Bryce Poulin of the Washington Youth Golf Academy at Camas Meadows shows Gause Elementary School student Jaedyn Gilson how to properly swing a golf club.

Elementary school students learn proper golf technique

Washougal: Bryce Poulin of the Washington Youth Golf Academy at Camas Meadows shows Gause Elementary School student Jaedyn Gilson how to properly swing a golf club.

March 4, 2015, 12:00am Truckies

Washougal -- Gause Elementary School students in third, fourth and fifth grades didn't quite hit the links on Feb. 26 and 27, but they were treated to a special lesson on golf during their physical education periods thanks to the Washington Youth Golf Academy at Camas Meadows. The classes went… Read story

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Community notebook: Jenkins wins women’s Fort Vancouver Run

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March 3, 2015, 12:00am Clark County News

Jenna Jenkins of Camas was the first woman to finish the 12-kilometer course during Sunday's Fort Vancouver Run. Jenkins, 42, completed the race in 49 minutes and 12 seconds, 40 seconds in front of Jan Hunt from Sublimity, Ore. Jenkins was 11th among the 397 finishers, 266 of them female. Read story

Washougal: Hathaway Elementary fifth-graders Danielle Melton, from left, Braelinn Reyes-Martinez and Paris Bendele enjoy a lunch field trip to learn about table manners as part of the Young Women in Action program.

Elementary school girls practice table manners

Washougal: Hathaway Elementary fifth-graders Danielle Melton, from left, Braelinn Reyes-Martinez and Paris Bendele enjoy a lunch field trip to learn about table manners as part of the Young Women in Action program.

February 28, 2015, 12:00am Schools

Washougal -- A group of Hathaway Elementary School fifth-grade girls took a special lunch field trip last week to Hearth, where they learned about table manners as part of the Young Women in Action program. Read story

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Eagle Scouts

Adam Bauman

February 25, 2015, 12:00am Community

Four Boy Scouts from the Fort Vancouver District passed their Eagle Scout Board of Review during the month of January. Read story

Vancouver City Councilmember Anne McEnerny-Ogle, former president of the Shumway Neighborhood Association, worked with other neighbors and city officials to shutter a massage parlor in their neighborhood.

Shumway residents glad to be rid of massage business

Vancouver City Councilmember Anne McEnerny-Ogle, former president of the Shumway Neighborhood Association, worked with other neighbors and city officials to shutter a massage parlor in their neighborhood.

February 25, 2015, 12:00am Clark County News

The Shumway Neighborhood Association is believed to be one of the oldest in the region. Read story

Everybody Has a Story: There used to be a garbage dump here, and it was glorious

February 25, 2015, 12:00am Community

Malden sits on the meandering boundary between the flat, arid Columbia Basin and the forested breaks of the Rocky Mountain foothills. It's circled by steep grassy hillsides with intermittent stands of scrub pine and rocky outcrops, and the vegetation, though often sparse, provides grazing for hardy white-faced cattle. Farmers also… Read story