July 11, 2011, 12:00am Community
Esther Short -- The Rotary Club of Vancouver has installed new officers for the 2011-12 year. Timothy Buckley, Principal of Greenstone Architecture, was chosen as the club president at the annual banquet on June 29. Eric Olmsted is president-elect and Gordon Rodewald is treasurer. Greg Jellison, Principal at HDJ Design… Read story
July 11, 2011, 12:00am Community
West Minnehaha -- Three years ago, disc golf came to Leverich Park, bringing families, Frisbees, fun and ultimately increased foot traffic. On July 1, volunteers from Vancouver-Clark Disc Golf joined the Vancouver-Clark Parks & Recreation's AmeriCorps Team in an effort to minimize erosion on the course. The volunteers relocated two… Read story
July 11, 2011, 12:00am Community
Bennington -- Brothers restaurant will have a grand opening tomorrow. In honor, the restaurant hosted a celebrity Chow Down for Charity eating contest on June 20. Celebrities included Actor Daniel Baldwin, KPTV reporter Joe Vithayathil, PDX TV host Chloe Houser, and KOIN Studio 6 host and KUPL disc-jockey Earthquake Jake.… Read story
July 8, 2011, 12:00am Community
MARRION -- Jim Faull and Ed McMillan's street in the Marrion neighborhood is the kind where neighbors keep their yards mowed, folks hang signs proclaiming "Welcome!" and flag poles dot the landscape. Then there's the house that they jokingly call "The Castle." It's been almost two years since they've seen… Read story
July 6, 2011, 12:00am Community
Evergreen Highlands -- What can $20 get you? Fifth-grade students at St. Joseph Catholic School found out during a fundraiser. Tiffany Kesting, a parent of one of the students, found $20 this winter and instead of keeping it, gave it to the class and challenged the students to make it… Read story
July 6, 2011, 12:00am Community
Columbia Way -- Nearly 200 people attended the Parks Foundation Annual Luncheon on June 14 to celebrate the presentation of the Florence B. Wager Awards and distribution of the 2011 Community Grant Awards. More than $8,000 was raised in donations and pledges, and Waste Connections matched that amount for a… Read story
July 6, 2011, 12:00am Community
Help beautify Vancouver’s historic town square — and add your name, or the name of a loved one, to the landscape, too. Read story
July 6, 2011, 12:00am Community
Henrietta is an 8-year-old flat-coat retriever mix who came to the shelter as a stray. She loves tennis balls and will retrieve them over and over again. Henrietta is an older gal but she doesn't know it. She would make a great companion for walks, hiking and camping. Smokey Joe… Read story
July 6, 2011, 12:00am Community
I've been kayaking Salmon Creek since it's been flooded -- it's beautiful! I recently got a kayaking book and it says all of the waterways from Vancouver Lake to Lake River to Salmon Creek are public. Only the lands adjoining the waterways are private. However, when you kayak west on… Read story
July 6, 2011, 12:00am Community
When we were young girls, writing the class prophecy, we would "dip our pen into the ink and gaze into the future as far as the eye could see." But as we grow older and the years pass us swiftly by, we find ourselves dipping the proverbial pen into the… Read story
