January 8, 2013, 4:00pm Truckies
Meadow Homes -- The Portland Timbers lived up to their name Saturday when players and staff of the Major League soccer team, joined by other volunteers, planted trees along the 2200 block of Wahclellah Avenue. Vancouver was the first stop in the Portland Timbers' "Dribble Oregon" tour. Later this month,… Read story
January 1, 2013, 4:00pm Community
The new year has arrived, and with it a chance for a new spate of resolutions to get in shape, expand horizons or stop bad habits. Read story
January 1, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News
Our readers are quite the shutterbugs. Read story
January 1, 2013, 4:00pm Truckies
Salmon Creek -- Twenty teams unleashed homemade, self-propelled robots at Salmon Creek Elementary School during the 2012 FIRST Lego League qualifying tournament Dec. 1. Three Clark County teams made the cut and will proceed to the state competition. They are the Soggy Cloverteers, the Dynamos and the Brain Bots. All… Read story
January 1, 2013, 4:00pm Truckies
Camas -- In-need families were given a bit of relief in December thanks to the Camas-Washougal Fire Department's Christmas Activities Relief Organization Limited, or CAROL, program. Department firefighters, with help from East County Fire and Rescue, delivered food and gifts to 156 families on Dec. 22. The CAROL program has… Read story
January 1, 2013, 4:00pm Truckies
Ridgefield -- Forgoing a traditional holiday party, first-graders at Union Ridge Elementary School celebrated the season with a giving spirit. Teacher Sara Mills asked students and volunteering parents to assemble bags of supplies for people in need on the last day of school before winter break. Helpers formed an assembly… Read story
January 1, 2013, 4:00pm Truckies
Brush Prairie -- Silver Buckle Ranch threw a party Dec. 20 for the children who participated in its fall Acts of Random Kindness Program, which provides low-cost instructional therapy classes to children referred by local social service agencies. The nonprofit Silver Buckle Ranch at 11611 N.E. 152nd Ave. in Brush… Read story
January 1, 2013, 4:00pm Truckies
Esther Short -- For the sixth year, the Children's Justice Centers' multidisciplinary team joined the International Longshoremen's Union Local No. 4 and the Vancouver Fire Department to donate bikes and helmets to needy children for the holidays. This year, 129 kids from households without the ability to purchase a bicycle… Read story
January 1, 2013, 4:00pm Truckies
Grass Valley -- Grass Valley Elementary School came in third among the more than 65 schools in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Southwest Washington that participated in Olive Garden restaurants' Pasta for Pennies, a fundraiser for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Boxes and jars left around Grass Valley collected $3,759.71 over… Read story
