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Battle Ground: River HomeLink student Riley Donahue, 17, poses with a self-portrait.

Artistic teen gets national honor

Battle Ground: River HomeLink student Riley Donahue, 17, poses with a self-portrait.

January 6, 2014, 4:00pm Schools

Battle Ground -- The artistic talents of River HomeLink student Riley Donahue were given a thumbs up recently when he won "Honorable Mention in Design Arts" from the National YoungArts Foundation. The 17-year-old Vancouver artist was one of more than 11,000 applicants vying for awards across 10 disciplines, though only… Read story

Bennington: Riverview Community Bank Executive Vice President Kim Capeloto and a few employees' children, Landen Whaley, from left, Zane Whaley and Austyn Konopasek, hold gifts in December that were gathered during the bank's annual donation drive for foster children.

Community bank gathers gifts for ‘Kids in Care’

Bennington: Riverview Community Bank Executive Vice President Kim Capeloto and a few employees' children, Landen Whaley, from left, Zane Whaley and Austyn Konopasek, hold gifts in December that were gathered during the bank's annual donation drive for foster children.

January 6, 2014, 4:00pm Truckies

Bennington -- Riverview Community Bank employees helped gather gifts for hundreds of area foster children last month during its annual Shirley DuPaul Gifts for Kids in Care donation drive. The program was named to honor the memory of the effort's driving force for its first 20 years. This year had… Read story

It's not tagging by a resurgent Soviet Union -- it's a surveyor's &quot;Clark County Control Point&quot; on Northeast 56th Avenue.

What’s Up with That?: CCCP: Think surveying, not Soviet missiles

It's not tagging by a resurgent Soviet Union -- it's a surveyor's &quot;Clark County Control Point&quot; on Northeast 56th Avenue.

December 31, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

What are these street markers that say "CCCP" for? Construction at the intersection? They have been here for months. Speculation about "CCCP" has people wondering about underground Soviet missile silos!CCCP are the Cyrillic letters we used to see on the sides of Soviet military hardware and spaceships. They stood for… Read story

Neighbors calendar

December 31, 2013, 4:00pm Community

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You can help

December 31, 2013, 4:00pm Community

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

Applause

December 31, 2013, 4:00pm Community

Items for Applause should be mailed to P.O. Box 180, Vancouver, WA 98666, emailed to pauline.sipponen@columbian.com or phoned to 360-735-4524. Read story

Sharon Lorenson
Emmaline Joy Bishop, 4 months old, is held by her great-great-grandmother Louise Van Brocklin, 96, in this five-generation photo taken on Thanksgiving. Standing from left to right are Emmaline's father Chris Bishop, 23, grandfather Joe Bishop, 48, and great-grandmother Sharon Lorenson, 71. Chris and Emmaline live in Washougal and the other family members live in Vancouver.

Five Generations

Sharon Lorenson
Emmaline Joy Bishop, 4 months old, is held by her great-great-grandmother Louise Van Brocklin, 96, in this five-generation photo taken on Thanksgiving. Standing from left to right are Emmaline's father Chris Bishop, 23, grandfather Joe Bishop, 48, and great-grandmother Sharon Lorenson, 71. Chris and Emmaline live in Washougal and the other family members live in Vancouver.

December 31, 2013, 4:00pm Community

Emmaline Joy Bishop, now 4 months old, is held by her great-great-grandmother Louise Van Brocklin, 96, in this five-generation photo taken on Thanksgiving. Standing from left to right are Emmaline's father Chris Bishop, 23, grandfather Joe Bishop, 48, and great-grandmother Sharon Lorenson, 71. Chris and Emmaline live in Washougal and… Read story

Fircrest: Vancouver-area high school students got gussied up in historical Red Cross uniforms during the Southwest Washington Red Cross Youth Council's annual tea and fashion show in May, including Christiana Lee, front to back, Giselle Kiraly, Waverly He and Allyse Ripley.

2013 brought out the shutterbugs

Fircrest: Vancouver-area high school students got gussied up in historical Red Cross uniforms during the Southwest Washington Red Cross Youth Council's annual tea and fashion show in May, including Christiana Lee, front to back, Giselle Kiraly, Waverly He and Allyse Ripley.

December 31, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

It's been another photo-finish year in Clark County. Read story

Cary Pederson directs The Beacock Music Swing Band at the fifth annual Swinging in the New Year's Eve Dance on Tuesday.

Steps in time – swingtime – into the future

Cary Pederson directs The Beacock Music Swing Band at the fifth annual Swinging in the New Year's Eve Dance on Tuesday.

December 31, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

Revelers at the Firstenburg Community Center brought in the new year with a different kind of boom. Not with kazoos, booze or fireworks (you know those are illegal on New Year's Eve, right?). Rather, with the booming sounds of big band music from the '40s and '50s. Read story

A plume rises from Mount St. Helens in early April 1980.

They drew the clicks: Top 10 columbian.com stories of 2013

A plume rises from Mount St. Helens in early April 1980.

December 31, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

Journalists love top-10 lists as much as people like to read them, and there's no better time to publish such lists than the end of the year when we all like to reflect on the events that made us laugh, cry, scowl and pontificate. Read story