June 6, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Battle Ground -- Cherry Grove Friends Church in Battle Ground recently held its 31st annual Mother-Daughter Tea for the Prairie High School senior girls. Eighty senior girls and their mothers, grandmothers and aunts gathered in the sanctuary-turned-tea room. The luncheon speakers were Trey Doty of George Fox Evangelical Seminary, and… Read story
June 6, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Orchards -- Marine Cpl. Cody Morrison deployed to Afghanistan from Twentynine Palms Marine Base, Calif., last Nov. 5. His wife, Tiffany, moved back to Vancouver to be with friends and family while he was away; during a Thanksgiving phone call, she told him she was pregnant. "Their joy was overwhelming,… Read story
June 6, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Northeast Hazel Dell -- The bimonthly newsletter published and distributed by the Northeast Hazel Dell Neighborhood Association has won a silver award for excellence. The award was announced at the annual Neighborhoods USA conference, held in Anchorage, Alaska, in late May. "Newsletters entries were evaluated individually and awarded points based… Read story
June 6, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Fruit Valley -- The Sons of Norway Columbia Lodge donated $1,100 to Fruit Valley Elementary's Backpack Program in May. Members of the lodge have contributed many dozen knit caps, scarves and student school supplies as part of the lodge's adopt-a-school program. Read story
June 6, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Esther Short -- Mountain View High School Livin' Out Loud Club members presented gift bags to the Children's Home Society to give to teen girls new to the foster care program. The students earned money doing odd jobs and collecting donations from family and friends. They also received a donation… Read story
June 6, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Old Evergreen Highway -- Who says seniors have to stay inside all day and quit living life? More than 150 Southwest Washington seniors defied that stereotype during a free fishing festival sponsored by Columbia Springs. The festival, located at the site of the historic Vancouver Trout Hatchery on Southeast Evergreen… Read story
June 4, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Clark County Fire District 6 opened Fire Station 1's doors up to the public Saturday, during its annual jamboree of public health and safety. Read story
June 2, 2011, 12:00am Community
The Felida Neighborhood Association and the county are trying to relieve traffic and safety issues on McCann Road resulting from decades of development that have made what was once a quiet country road a main artery for northwest neighborhoods trying to reach 36th Avenue. Read story
May 31, 2011, 5:00pm Community
When I was in elementary and high school in the 1950s, my widowed mother and I lived in Julian, Calif., near San Diego. Julian, at 4,235 feet in elevation, could get quite cold at times, and on some cold mornings in our uninsulated two-bedroom house on a hill overlooking the… Read story
May 31, 2011, 5:00pm Community
We live just east of Fort Vancouver. Last summer, as we looked southeast toward the old Kaiser shipyards, we saw a tall brown tower being built. It is gone, and now there are two very large blue rectangles on the horizon. Both were lying on their long sides, at a… Read story
