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Humane Society names new board members

September 17, 2013, 5:00pm Pets & Wildlife

Bennington -- The Humane Society for Southwest Washington has appointed two new members to its board. Read story

Volunteerism reduces the sting in Cascade Highlands

September 17, 2013, 5:00pm Truckies

Cascade Highlands -- Volunteerism has led to a bunch of aesthetic improvements around the neighborhood, according to a recent Cascade Highlands newsletter. For one thing, the periphery fence around Homestead Place, a housing development at the southeast border of Homestead Neighborhood Park, has been significantly spruced up --- with new… Read story

Lucia Falls: Mary Alice Carter holds an empty hornets' nest found on the East Fork of the Lewis River off Rock Creek Road.

Women proud of spent hornets’ nest

Lucia Falls: Mary Alice Carter holds an empty hornets' nest found on the East Fork of the Lewis River off Rock Creek Road.

September 17, 2013, 5:00pm Truckies

Lucia Falls -- On Aug. 31, Steve Perry discovered an empty hornets' nest next on his 33/4-acre spread on the East Fork of the Lewis River off Rock Creek Road. That property was home for 25 years to the late LeRoy Carter and Mary Alice Carter, Perry's mother-in-law. Mary Alice… Read story

Salmon Creek: Bill Allman, a founding member of the Washington State Veterans Employee Resource Group, laughs it up while receiving a certificate of appreciation from Alfie Alvarado-Ramos, director of the Washington Department of Veterans Affairs.

Salmon Creek man honored for helping veterans with government employment

Salmon Creek: Bill Allman, a founding member of the Washington State Veterans Employee Resource Group, laughs it up while receiving a certificate of appreciation from Alfie Alvarado-Ramos, director of the Washington Department of Veterans Affairs.

September 17, 2013, 5:00pm Truckies

Salmon Creek -- Bill Allman and the other founding members of the Washington State Veterans Employee Resource Group were honored on Aug. 28 during a ceremony in Olympia. Allman, who served in the Navy during the Vietnam War and now lives in Salmon Creek, works as the veterans program manager… Read story

Tug-o-War pulls in cash

September 17, 2013, 5:00pm Truckies

La Center -- The Cole Masonry team pulled its way to victory in the annual "Extreme Tug-o-War Fundraiser" during the La Center Our Days Festival in late August. Six teams competed by pulling a 100-foot professional tug-of-war rope. The event raised $1,300 for the La Center Grange. Read story

Remembering the fallen on Sept. 11

September 17, 2013, 5:00pm Truckies

Fern Prairie -- To mark the 12th anniversary, East County Fire and Rescue honored those who died in terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. A granite memorial was dedicated last week at the Fern Prairie Fire Station 91, 600 N.E. 267th Ave., Camas. Following the ceremony, candles were lit in… Read story

Soccer match honors late firefighter

September 17, 2013, 5:00pm Truckies

Central Park -- Friends honored the memory of Vancouver Fire Capt. Carl Murray last month with a friendly soccer match between two of his former teams. The Carl Murray Testimonial Match was an informal game at Clark College between Fat Tuesday's Vancouver and Kell's FC, from Portland. Murray died July… Read story

Everybody Has a Story: Frog songs lead to lifetime of collecting

September 10, 2013, 5:00pm Community

I still have my first two frogs. They probably date from my high school years in the early 1940s. One is a froggy bank (unfortunately still just filled with pennies) and the other is a pink ceramic frog with holes in its back for burning incense sticks. Read story

Jim Girard, chairman of the Arnada Neighborhood Association, stands Saturday with some of the equipment from the neighborhood tool-lending library.

Arnada ‘library’ gets to work

Jim Girard, chairman of the Arnada Neighborhood Association, stands Saturday with some of the equipment from the neighborhood tool-lending library.

September 10, 2013, 5:00pm Clark County News

Arnada residents in need of not-oft-used yard equipment don't have to look any farther than a neighbor's garage. Read story

Neighbors Calendar

September 10, 2013, 5:00pm Community

A list of local neighborhood association meetings Read story