September 4, 2012, 5:00pm Community
There is a vast open trench, off of Northeast 122nd Avenue between 42nd Street and 40th Circle, full of something. It looks like it might be water, but it seems to change color from time to time. Looks like it might be coming from SEH America. While it is fenced,… Read story
September 4, 2012, 5:00pm Truckies
Ridgefield -- View Ridge Middle School is trying to emphasize the positive. School administrators and counselors introduced the Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports program last year; this summer, the student body leadership team held a retreat to get ready to introduce PBIS to incoming seventh-graders. The idea is to encourage… Read story
September 4, 2012, 5:00pm Truckies
Brush Prairie -- Don Martel, manager of the Fred Meyer Jewelers store in Battle Ground, spends most of his Monday afternoons at the Rocksolid Community Teen Center. Rocksolid provides a safe environment for teens after school. Martel is president of the board of directors. Each year his employer, Kroger Company,… Read story
September 4, 2012, 5:00pm Truckies
Hazel Dell -- Is the fabled Fountain of Youth in the First Congregational United Church of Christ's 180-foot stained glass skylight? With his tongue in his cheek, pastor Brooks Berndt said thinks so. The church honored 12 members who are age 90 or older in a July 15 ceremony. Berndt… Read story
September 4, 2012, 5:00pm Truckies
Hudson's Bay -- During Pearson Air Museum's four summer camp sessions, 58 campers learned the basics of flight, experienced take-offs and landings in the museum's flight-simulator lab and took aviation-themed field trips. Each weeklong camp culminated with campers co-piloting a small plane from Pearson Field and getting a turn at… Read story
September 4, 2012, 5:00pm Truckies
Fircrest -- The Friends of Cascade Park Community Library hosted a public celebration at the library Aug. 25 to mark the completion of courtyard landscaping. The group raised money through book and engraved-brick sales to provide courtyard seating and lighting at the library, which opened in December 2009. The bricks… Read story
September 4, 2012, 5:00pm Truckies
La Center -- Riding on a float commemorating the historic Apollo 11 moon landing, the Modern Woodmen of America's Youth Service Club in Vancouver won best use of theme-illumination in La Center's Our Days Twilight Parade on Aug. 24. The children were decked out in astronaut suits, while the driver,… Read story
September 4, 2012, 5:00pm Truckies
Camas-Washougal -- Ben Porter, a Camas-Washougal firefighter/EMT, saved a life while vacationing with his family at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., on Aug. 18. Porter saw a convulsing man who was being lowered to the ground by a police officer. He checked the man's vitals and found he was not breathing… Read story
September 4, 2012, 5:00pm Truckies
Venersborg -- The Historic Venersborg Schoolhouse celebrated its 100th birthday recently with bluegrass, birthday cake, hand-cranked vanilla and peach ice cream and old-fashioned games. Read story
September 4, 2012, 5:00pm Truckies
Salmon Creek -- New school clothes and backpacks were distributed to 220 Clark County students in foster care at the third-annual back-to-school clothing event presented by the Assistance League of Southwest Washington on Aug. 23. Working with the Department of Social and Health Services, the Assistance League let students choose… Read story
