August 15, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Fourth Plain Village -- A summer playground program at Evergreen Park that was at risk of closing earlier this year due to a lack of funding got a visit from Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt on Aug. 10. The mayor championed the project as an important part of the revitalization of… Read story
August 15, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Esther Short -- Sixteen teams rode tandem in support of the Washington State School for the Blind during the 6th annual Vancouver Courthouse Criterium on July 31. Volunteers and students opened the race by riding the first three laps. The Criterium helps support the school's tandem cycling program, an opportunity… Read story
August 11, 2011, 5:00pm Community
It's Terrance Olson's day off, but you'd never know it by looking at him. Olson, a facilities crew member at Washington State University Vancouver, is decked out from head to toe in denim work clothes. He's wearing gloves, boots and a faded baseball cap. One hand holds a set of… Read story
August 9, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Frodo is 1 1/2 -year-old Chihuahua mix that came to the shelter when his owners could no longer care for him. He is sweet but can be nervous in new situations so he would do best in a home with children older than age 14 -- and he should meet… Read story
August 9, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Whatever happened to the red-light traffic enforcement cameras the city of Vancouver said it was going to install at Mill Plain Boulevard and Chkalov Drive? -- One council watcher Read story
August 9, 2011, 5:00pm Community
It was the fall of 1953. America was involved in the war in Korea, and my husband, Dean Weibel, had enlisted in the U.S. Navy nearly three years before. His ship, the USS Lenawee (APA-195), had returned from the war zone and was now stationed in San Diego, making weekly… Read story
August 9, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Odgen -- Consuelo "Connie" Maria Herod, one of six children, was born on Aug. 6, 1911, in Los Angeles. According to her daughter, Ramona Arnold of Vancouver, her mother has, from a young age, had a mind of her own. She also was the one everyone called when catastrophe struck. Read story
August 9, 2011, 5:00pm Community
The Northwest Neighborhood Association has rescheduled its neighborhood picnic for noon to 3 p.m. Aug. 20 at Franklin Park, Northwest 58th and Cherry streets. Read story
August 9, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Felida -- "We were at the kitchen table when my grandson, Easton Texeira, came in soaking wet," wrote visiting grandmother Sharon Texeira. "Easton said he saved Mason, who is 3, from drowning in the deep end of the neighbors' pool across the street. Easton saw that his little friend was… Read story
August 9, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Walnut Grove -- Heather Ward, 40, has been sworn in to the United States Foreign Service. Ward, who grew up in Clark County, attended Hudson's Bay High School and Clark College, and worked at the Fort Vancouver Regional Library. She went on to get a degree in library science. During… Read story
