October 11, 2011, 5:00pm Community
The Loaves and Fishes Center at the Battle Ground Community Center will host a Bunco party Thursday. Admission is $10. Read story
October 11, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Ridgefield-- More than 200 people toured nine local farms despite the dreary, wet weather Sept. 17. During the 13th Annual Clark County Harvest Celebration Farm Tour, visitors got a taste of local produce, learned how to grow garlic and saw Rojo, the first certified therapy llama. Participating farms included Northwest… Read story
October 11, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Carter Park -- Lorenzo's Coffee and Wine House, the latest incarnation of the cute neighborhood store at 3100 Columbia Street, has bitten the dust after not quite four months. Owner Larry Patella, who opened the place in mid-June, announced on Sept. 30 that things just weren't penciling out because he… Read story
October 10, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Portland State University history professor Bill Lang will visit the Camas-Washougal Historical Society on Oct. 15 to present slides and talk about the history of salmon and the Columbia River at the society's fall quarterly meeting at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Camas Police Station, 2100 N.E. Third Ave. A… Read story
October 10, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Larry James Taylor won the $1,200 first-place prize in the 2011 Southwest Washington's Got Talent Contest put on by the Vancouver Sunrise Rotary. Read story
October 9, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Washougal -- Clark County Special Olympic's athletes, coaches and families celebrated Eunice Kennedy Shriver Day at Camp Wa-Ri-Ki in Washougal on Sept. 25. Shriver founded the Special Olympics in 1968. She died in 2009. The camp invited the group of about 100 individuals to spend the day. CCSO Sports Coordinator… Read story
October 8, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Ridgefield -- Amateur photographer Glenn Batson stopped to watch a field of oats being harvested in Ridgefield in late September and snapped some beautiful pictures. Despite the urban sprawl in Clark County you can still find farmland, he says. And it was surprisingly dusty considering the amount of rain we… Read story
October 6, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Fresh (so to speak) off its sophomore season, the Salmon Creek Farmers Market is looking ahead to Year No. 3 in a familiar location. "At this point, we're planning on being at the same place" in 2012, said Ann Foster, one of the organizers. Read story
October 4, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Camas -- Native son Jimmie Rodgers performed two 90-minute concerts at Journey Community Church on Sept. 25, to benefit Loaves and Fishes and its Meals on Wheels program. Rodgers, born in Camas in 1933, learned music from his mother and became a chart-topper in the late 1950s and early 1960s… Read story
October 4, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Lincoln -- The Lincoln Neighborhood Association worked with the Lincoln Parent-Staff Group to clean up the north side of Lincoln Elementary School on Sept. 25. Scouts, parents, students and neighbors worked together to clean up the north garden beds at the school. Two dumpsters of yard debris were disposed of… Read story
