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4-H club honored for community service

March 4, 2014, 4:00pm Community

Ridgefield -- For its efforts to help improve the lives of Clark County residents, local 4-H rabbit club Country Critters won the Chevron's Washington State Best Community Pride Club Award in February. Club members and their parents attended a recent Know Your Government dinner in Olympia, where they received a… Read story

Mountain View: Mountain View High School's Lady Thunder basketball team presents a check for $1,620 to a representative from Breast Friends on Feb.

Mountain View team helps raise money for cancer fight

Mountain View: Mountain View High School's Lady Thunder basketball team presents a check for $1,620 to a representative from Breast Friends on Feb.

March 4, 2014, 4:00pm Schools

Mountain View -- Mountain View's Lady Thunder basketball team and the Booster Club raised $1,620 in the fight against breast cancer at the annual Shoot for the Cure game. The team presented the money Feb. 7 to Breast Friends, an Oregon-based organization that helps women survive the trauma of cancer. Read story

West Hazel Dell: This flock of happy penguins -- plus one polar bear -- won the voting public's hearts during last year's Winter Wonderland art contest at Portland International Raceway in Portland.

Lake Shore Elementary students win $1,000 prize for mural

West Hazel Dell: This flock of happy penguins -- plus one polar bear -- won the voting public's hearts during last year's Winter Wonderland art contest at Portland International Raceway in Portland.

March 4, 2014, 4:00pm Truckies

West Hazel Dell -- The budding artists at Lake Shore Elementary School won a first prize of $1,000 at the 21st annual Winter Wonderland Children's Art Contest. All participating schools submitted an original 4-by-8-foot mural to the contest. Murals were displayed in the annual drive-though Winter Wonderland holiday light show… Read story

Hazel Dell: Kai Carterby-Keys, right, led Max Neideigh, from left, Nathan Cheh, Alex Hood, Jamie Evans and Justin Ly in removing a large Nootka rose shrub by the roots at a recent Boys &amp; Girls Club of Southwest Washington work party at the Hazel Dell Garden.

Crew digs in to prepare school and community garden

Hazel Dell: Kai Carterby-Keys, right, led Max Neideigh, from left, Nathan Cheh, Alex Hood, Jamie Evans and Justin Ly in removing a large Nootka rose shrub by the roots at a recent Boys &amp; Girls Club of Southwest Washington work party at the Hazel Dell Garden.

March 4, 2014, 4:00pm Schools

Hazel Dell -- Members of The Boys & Girls Club of Southwest Washington joined other helpers from the Washington State University Master Gardener Program to prepare the Hazel Dell School and Community Garden for the tantalizingly near growing season. Dozens of students spread soil, donated by Yard 'n Garden Land,… Read story

Altrusa grant helps get books to families

March 4, 2014, 4:00pm Truckies

Hazel Dell -- Altrusa of Clark County, a chapter of an international service club, gave $1,000 to Hazel Dell Elementary School to help support its annual literacy promotion, the Hazel Dell Exchange Extravaganza. Club members, including President Tina Smith, gave books to families at the school event. The grant came… Read story

Bagley Downs: Susan Nieman has joined the board of directors of the Free Clinic of Southwest Washington.

Military nurse, Clark College instructor joins Free Clinic board

Bagley Downs: Susan Nieman has joined the board of directors of the Free Clinic of Southwest Washington.

March 4, 2014, 4:00pm Truckies

Bagley Downs -- Susan Nieman has joined the board of directors of the Free Clinic of Southwest Washington. Nieman, a registered nurse who holds bachelor's and master's degrees in nursing, is an instructor in the medical-surgical and psychiatric training programs at Clark College. She is also a registered nurse and… Read story

Moose Lodge gives to injured vets

March 4, 2014, 4:00pm Truckies

Landover-Sharmel -- Vancouver's Moose Lodge gave $1,200 in on Feb. 5 to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project, which supports injured veterans. Lodge 1774 presented the check to a representative from the Washington State Northern Idaho Moose Association, who will give it to the veterans project. Read story

Excel NW 16 Rox team: Brooke Van Sickle (3), Courtney Paxton (1), Sarena Bartley (10), Rachel Berger (11), Ashley Watkins (5), Jasmine Gross (4), Nicole Peterson (16), Hana Wyles (6), Brooke Mosier (13), Samantha Nguyen, coach Lisa Van Sickle.

Vancouver volleyball club wins San Jose tournament

Excel NW 16 Rox team: Brooke Van Sickle (3), Courtney Paxton (1), Sarena Bartley (10), Rachel Berger (11), Ashley Watkins (5), Jasmine Gross (4), Nicole Peterson (16), Hana Wyles (6), Brooke Mosier (13), Samantha Nguyen, coach Lisa Van Sickle.

March 3, 2014, 4:00pm Clark County News

A team from Vancouver's Excel NW Volleyball Club won a significant tournament in San Jose, Calif. Read story

Sifton: Neighbors, law enforcement and others came together to clean up this transient camp on private property off Fourth Plain.

Sifton community cleans up transient camp on private property

Sifton: Neighbors, law enforcement and others came together to clean up this transient camp on private property off Fourth Plain.

March 3, 2014, 4:00pm Truckies

Sifton -- Neighbors came together on a Saturday in late February to clean up the remains of a transient camp that had developed at the property that used to be Wade's Auto Body on Fourth Plain Boulevard near 124th Avenue. Read story

Sifton: Bonnie McCourtney's beloved Shirley Temple doll collection has been distributed to her great-granddaughters, but here's a reunion photo, each representing a movie: &quot;Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,&quot; from left, &quot;Captain January,&quot; &quot;Stand Up and Cheer,&quot; &quot;Wee Willie Winkie,&quot; &quot;The Little Colonel,&quot; &quot;Heidi,&quot; &quot;Poor Little Rich Girl&quot; and &quot;The Littlest Rebel.&quot;

Sifton woman built a temple to Temple

Sifton: Bonnie McCourtney's beloved Shirley Temple doll collection has been distributed to her great-granddaughters, but here's a reunion photo, each representing a movie: &quot;Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,&quot; from left, &quot;Captain January,&quot; &quot;Stand Up and Cheer,&quot; &quot;Wee Willie Winkie,&quot; &quot;The Little Colonel,&quot; &quot;Heidi,&quot; &quot;Poor Little Rich Girl&quot; and &quot;The Littlest Rebel.&quot;

March 3, 2014, 4:00pm Truckies

Sifton -- Growing up in a big, poor family on a Kansas farm made going to the movies a rare treat for Bonnie McCourtney. She adored child star Shirley Temple -- who was two years her junior, and who died about a month ago at age 85 -- but always… Read story