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Firefighting agency receives FEMA grant

February 7, 2012, 4:00pm Community

Ridgefield -- Clark County Fire & Rescue was awarded an Assistance to Firefighters Grant of $164,832 on Jan. 30 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Read story

Camas: &quot;When we heard about The Nature Conservancy's Plant a Billion Trees campaign, we had to participate,&quot; Lacamas Community Credit Union's Chief Operations Officer Doug Grout said.

1,000 trees to be planted for credit union’s online statement campaign

Camas: &quot;When we heard about The Nature Conservancy's Plant a Billion Trees campaign, we had to participate,&quot; Lacamas Community Credit Union's Chief Operations Officer Doug Grout said.

February 7, 2012, 4:00pm Community

Camas -- Lacamas Community Credit Union challenged its members to cut paper usage and benefit the environment in an electronic statement campaign in 2011. The result? The credit union will plant 1,000 trees in cooperation with The Nature Conservancy as part of the organization's Plant a Billion Trees campaign. Read story

Rotary chapter names scholar of the month

February 7, 2012, 4:00pm Community

Washougal -- Felicia Harrison was selected Camas-Washougal Rotary Scholar of the Month for January. Read story

Washougal museum reopens with publishing exhibit

February 7, 2012, 4:00pm Community

Washougal -- Two Rivers Heritage Museum in Washougal reopened Feb. 7 after a recent renovation. Read story

Venersborg: Kristen McHenry, left front, and Susan Tripp, front right, swap seeds with other gardeners Jan.

Seed Swap grows into third year

Venersborg: Kristen McHenry, left front, and Susan Tripp, front right, swap seeds with other gardeners Jan.

February 7, 2012, 4:00pm Community

Venersborg -- Seeds covered three long tables at the third-annual Seed Swap on Jan. 29 at the historic Venersborg Schoolhouse, east of Battle Ground. Read story

La Center: Chef Joycelyn Kelly of Gumbo Goddess Catering won the People's Choice Award on Jan.

Local catering chef wins award for jambalaya

La Center: Chef Joycelyn Kelly of Gumbo Goddess Catering won the People's Choice Award on Jan.

February 7, 2012, 4:00pm Community

La Center -- Chef Joycelyn Kelly of Gumbo Goddess Catering has won again. Out of more than 1,400 jambalaya samples at the fourth-annual Lincoln City (Ore.) Jambalaya Cook-Off on Jan. 28, Kelly's received the People's Choice Award. Read story

Lincoln: Volunteers -- including, from left, Arvonn Tully, David Tang, Quentin Welch, Sean Evans, Richard Rystrom and Bob Adams -- are building a community bulletin board at Latte Da Coffeehouse and Wine Bar in Vancouver.

Bulletin board gets its start

Lincoln: Volunteers -- including, from left, Arvonn Tully, David Tang, Quentin Welch, Sean Evans, Richard Rystrom and Bob Adams -- are building a community bulletin board at Latte Da Coffeehouse and Wine Bar in Vancouver.

February 7, 2012, 4:00pm Community

Lincoln -- A community bulletin board got a good start during the last week in January thanks to 10 volunteers, who donated more than 70 hours of combined labor, a grant, donated materials and some discounts. Read story

David and Summer Dunn, both 30, walk their dogs, back to front, Belle, Moose and Itchy, past a locked ball field at Abrams Park in Ridgefield.

Are Ridgefield ball fields going to the dogs?

David and Summer Dunn, both 30, walk their dogs, back to front, Belle, Moose and Itchy, past a locked ball field at Abrams Park in Ridgefield.

February 7, 2012, 4:00pm Community

RIDGEFIELD -- Whose park is it, anyway? Abrams Park, Ridgefield’s largest public greenspace and recreational area, is the site of a miniature turf battle: Little Leaguers versus canine cavorters. Read story

Everybody has a story: Grandma keeps ailing boy on the move

January 31, 2012, 4:00pm Community

Being a grandparent is pleasant exhaustion. It is Velcro shoe searches, coat wars, spaghetti sauce shirt stains and 100 kisses before noon. A few years ago, I left teaching to care for my only grandson, Caleb. No regrets. That first year, car rides transporting him to preschool were 25-minute concerts… Read story

What’s Up With That? County has no funds to clean, repaint fence

January 31, 2012, 4:00pm Community

Who has responsibility for the maintenance and upkeep of fencing that surrounds a "water quality filter" zone? In question is the unsightly stretch of fencing on the south side of Northwest Bliss Road, just west of Northwest 21st Ave. This portion of the fence, which happens to be the most… Read story