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Museum offers free writing workshops

January 24, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

Writers of all experience levels can advance their writing skills and learn about various writing genres at National Unpublished Writers' Day from noon to 5 p.m. Jan. 27 at the Clark County Historical Museum, 1511 Main St. For information contact the museum, 360-993-5679. Read story

Neighbors Calendar

January 22, 2013, 4:00pm Community

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Pets of the week

January 22, 2013, 4:00pm Community

These pets are among those available for adoption from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Humane Society for Southwest Washington, 1100 N.E. 192nd Ave., Vancouver. Fees -- which can include registered microchip, health exam, a spay or neuter certificate… Read story

What’s Up With That? ARCO out of gas? Corporate troubles blamed

January 22, 2013, 4:00pm Community

There is an ARCO gas station at Northeast Seventh Avenue and 99th Street. The last three times I went there for gas, all the pumps had signs saying they were out of gas and only had diesel. They keep the price signs and all the pump-area lighting on, so it's… Read story

Clark College Environmental Club members John Bryant, left, and Alex Bruyevicz, both 19, plant trees with other volunteers in the Meadow Homes neighborhood Jan. 12. The city's largest neighborhood tree-planting of the season will be Feb.

Tree-planting season takes root in Vancouver

Clark College Environmental Club members John Bryant, left, and Alex Bruyevicz, both 19, plant trees with other volunteers in the Meadow Homes neighborhood Jan. 12. The city's largest neighborhood tree-planting of the season will be Feb.

January 22, 2013, 4:00pm Community

Ideal tree-planting weather begins in November and runs through March, when the rains come and the ground starts to soften, said Charles Ray, Vancouver's urban forester. Read story

Gerald Gaule in his Felida home studio.

Micro radio station remembers when

Gerald Gaule in his Felida home studio.

January 22, 2013, 4:00pm Truckies

West Hazel Dell -- Gerald Gaule has gone back in time -- and taken his micro radio station, AM 1700, with him. Recently we featured Gaule's hyperlocal venue, which broadcasts no farther than the neighborhood around his Teal Pointe apartment complex, north of Bortolami's Pizza restaurant on Northeast 99th Street.… Read story

Central Park: Shaun Benson, from left, chief of voluntary service at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, accepts a Fisher House donation of $1,100 from Ellen Rueckert and Karen Baste' of the Columbia River Marine Corps League Auxiliary No. 398 and Rex Hopper of the Columbia River Marine Corps League Detachment No.

Marine Corps groups help with Fisher House fundraising

Central Park: Shaun Benson, from left, chief of voluntary service at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, accepts a Fisher House donation of $1,100 from Ellen Rueckert and Karen Baste' of the Columbia River Marine Corps League Auxiliary No. 398 and Rex Hopper of the Columbia River Marine Corps League Detachment No.

January 22, 2013, 4:00pm Truckies

Central Park -- The Fisher House is a little closer to reality thanks to the efforts of the Columbia River Marine Corps League Auxiliary No. 398 and the Columbia River Marine Corps League Detachment No. 826, which raised $1,100. The house will provide temporary accommodations to veterans and active-duty service… Read story

Vancouver Heights elects neighborhood officers

January 22, 2013, 4:00pm Truckies

Vancouver Heights -- The Vancouver Heights Neighborhood Association elected officers at it last meeting. They are: Tom Kent, chairman; Park Llafet, vice chairman; Barbara Rhoden, treasurer. The position of secretary was left open until the next meeting, which is Jan. 24. Read story

Box of historical keepsakes will go back to former editor

January 22, 2013, 4:00pm Truckies

Esther Short -- Volunteer Robert Thompson of Open House Ministries was digging through the donations when the contents of one big cardboard box caught his eye. It was full of notebooks, letters, plaques, newspaper clippings -- decades' worth of keepsakes belonging to Stanton Patty. Patty was an editor at The… Read story

Sherwood Hills Neighborhood Association elects board

January 22, 2013, 4:00pm Truckies

Sherwood Hills -- The Sherwood Hills Neighborhood Association voted in its 2013 executive board this month. Serving on the board this year are Chairwoman Vicki Fitzsimmons, Bob Spinuzza, Honey Bermel, Darrell Bermel, Kate Griffith and Betty Hennessey. Read story