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September 30, 2014, 5:00pm Community

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Mountain View: Monica Loomis serves lemonade to Jensena Jones on Sept.

Family raises money to fight childhood cancer

Mountain View: Monica Loomis serves lemonade to Jensena Jones on Sept.

September 30, 2014, 5:00pm Truckies

Mountain View -- A Vancouver family, including a 2-year-old diagnosed last year with a cancerous brain tumor, raised nearly $400 last month selling lemonade. The Loomis family -- parents Monica and Mike, 6-year-old Rennick and 2-year-old Halsten, hosted the Alex's Lemonade Stand fundraiser on Sept. 19 at the Mill Plain… Read story

Image: Endeavour Elementary School fifth-graders Kyle Wilke, left, and Junior Martinez stand with Principal Lauren Hopson and Associate Principal Stuart Anderson next to the school's new &quot;Grizzly Bench,&quot; which is meant to be a safe place for students to sit during recess when they are in need of a friend to play with.

Endeavour’s ‘grizzly bench’ aimed at forging friendships

Image: Endeavour Elementary School fifth-graders Kyle Wilke, left, and Junior Martinez stand with Principal Lauren Hopson and Associate Principal Stuart Anderson next to the school's new &quot;Grizzly Bench,&quot; which is meant to be a safe place for students to sit during recess when they are in need of a friend to play with.

September 30, 2014, 5:00pm Truckies

Image -- Kids at Endeavour Elementary School now have a special place to sit during recess when they are in need of a friend to play with. The school unveiled its "Grizzly Bench" last month during the Back to School Ice Cream Social. The stone seat is meant to be… Read story

Ridgefield: Sophomore Kara Klaus, from left, seniors Autumn Wilson and Courtney Zumstein and sophomore Taryn Ries were the student leaders for Ridgefield High School's youth soccer camp in August.

Ridgefield High School girls take charge of summer soccer camp

Ridgefield: Sophomore Kara Klaus, from left, seniors Autumn Wilson and Courtney Zumstein and sophomore Taryn Ries were the student leaders for Ridgefield High School's youth soccer camp in August.

September 30, 2014, 5:00pm Truckies

Ridgefield -- There are lots of youth soccer summer camps out there, but Ridgefield High School's four-day camp in late August is a little different. A few years ago, it became clear that the same campers who "didn't want to pay attention to the coaches at all," were "enamored with… Read story

Battle Ground bus driver wins safety award

September 30, 2014, 5:00pm Schools

Battle Ground -- Student Transportation Inc. will honor school bus driver Veronica Mirehouse with an awards dinner and a place on its Safety Wall of Fame in Asbury Park, N.J., later this fall. Read story

Grant to Teen Late Night helps keep programs open

September 30, 2014, 5:00pm Truckies

Marshall and Firstenburg Centers -- The Friday Teen Late Night programs at the Marshall and Firstenburg Community Centers got a boost from Umpqua Community Bank, which presented a $5,000 Community Giving grant to the Parks Foundation of Clark County at the Sept. 22 meeting of the Vancouver City Council. Read story

Ridgefield thanks’legendary teachers’ online

September 30, 2014, 5:00pm Schools

Ridgefield -- The school district board proclaimed Sept. 25 Legendary Teacher Day, honoring the teachers who have impacted students' -- and everybody's -- lives. Read story

Pacific Park user reports parking lot burglaries

September 30, 2014, 5:00pm Truckies

Pacific Park -- Auto prowlers struck the same victim's car twice within a couple of weeks at Pacific Community Park on Northeast 164th Avenue. Read story

Port plans riverfront park in Washougal

September 30, 2014, 5:00pm Truckies

Washougal -- The Port of Camas/Washougal has proposed building a 5.73 acre waterfront park along the Columbia River. Read story

Neighborhood associations elect board members

September 30, 2014, 5:00pm Truckies

Vancouver -- A handful of neighborhood associations in Vancouver held recent board elections. Chosen to represent their neighborhoods were: Read story