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Hudson's Bay: Greg Shine, chief ranger and historian at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, was recently named the National Park Service's Pacific Northwest 2013 Freeman Tilden Award winner.

Shine shines with book about Vancouver Barracks

Hudson's Bay: Greg Shine, chief ranger and historian at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, was recently named the National Park Service's Pacific Northwest 2013 Freeman Tilden Award winner.

October 29, 2013, 5:00pm Truckies

Hudson's Bay -- Greg Shine, the chief ranger and historian at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, has been honored as the National Park Service's Pacific Northwest 2013 Freeman Tilden Award winner. Read story

Wy’east teachers nominated for award

October 29, 2013, 5:00pm Schools

Wy'east Middle School -- Teachers Amy Matsumoto and Sarazan Torelli have been nominated for the LifeChanger of the Year award, which is given to K-12 teachers by the National Life Group. Read story

Mountain View wind ensemble raising money to attend conference

October 29, 2013, 5:00pm Schools

Mountain View High School -- The school band's wind ensemble is one of 16 nationwide, and the only one from the Pacific Northwest, that's been invited to take part in the Bands of America Conference this spring in Indianapolis. Read story

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Community notebook: CCYF, Pop Warner football teams play for season titles

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October 28, 2013, 5:00pm Clark County News

Clark County Youth Football and local Pop Warner youth football leagues will hold playoff games this week. Read story

Photos by Steven Lane/The Columbian
Isabella Christner, 14, volunteering with the Fort Vancouver LEO Club, rakes leaves at the Old City Cemetery as part of the Make a Difference Day event Saturday.

Making a difference: Volunteers step up around the county

Photos by Steven Lane/The Columbian
Isabella Christner, 14, volunteering with the Fort Vancouver LEO Club, rakes leaves at the Old City Cemetery as part of the Make a Difference Day event Saturday.

October 26, 2013, 5:00pm Clark County News

Some made a nice haul of cigarette butts. Some made gravestone inscriptions at the Old City Cemetery more readable. And some made local parks more welcoming. They all made a difference. Read story

Neighbors calendar

October 22, 2013, 5:00pm Community

Association Meetings Read story

Carla Schreiber and her husband Bob Whitt installed a &quot;Little Free Library&quot; outside their east Vancouver home earlier this year.

Passers-by check out woman’s ‘Little Free Library’

Carla Schreiber and her husband Bob Whitt installed a &quot;Little Free Library&quot; outside their east Vancouver home earlier this year.

October 22, 2013, 5:00pm Clark County News

The sign says "Take a Book, Return a Book." Read story

Help landscape 78th Street exits Nov. 2

October 22, 2013, 5:00pm Clark County News

You can help beautify a freeway overpass that never got its due. Hazel Dell neighborhood activist and businessperson Vicki Fitzsimmons is pressing ahead with her 78th Street Overpass Landscaping Project, bringing some beauty to a spot that was supposed to get landscaping but didn't. It's set for 9 a.m. to… Read story

Psoriasis Foundation’s first chairman dies in Vancouver

October 22, 2013, 5:00pm Truckies

Lincoln -- Vancouver resident and the National Psoriasis Foundation Board of Trustees' first chairman Richard Coffman died on Oct. 4. Besides helping form the Portland-based foundation in 1967, Coffman was district operations and maintenance engineer for the Washington State Department of Transportation. He was 80. Read story

Evergreen: A teaching volunteer learns about artistic techniques with clay during a Sept.

Artsy adults pass appreciation on to kids

Evergreen: A teaching volunteer learns about artistic techniques with clay during a Sept.

October 22, 2013, 5:00pm Truckies

Evergreen -- Dozens of volunteers recently joined a few hundred others who have already helped teach art to elementary school kids for Evergreen Public Schools' Art Discovery program. Late last month, 60 people learned to work with clay from Covington Middle School teacher Maggie Hunter. Most of them agreed to… Read story