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Teresa Wentworth, her two teenagers and a friend, decorated the graves in the Baby Heaven section of Evergreen Memorial Gardens Cemetery with fresh-cut daffodils.

Donated daffodils brighten Baby Heaven

Teresa Wentworth, her two teenagers and a friend, decorated the graves in the Baby Heaven section of Evergreen Memorial Gardens Cemetery with fresh-cut daffodils.

April 17, 2011, 12:00am Community

Fircrest -- Not every teen visiting a cemetery has vandalism as a goal. Teresa Wentworth of Woodland, her two teenagers, Austin, 19, and Mackenzie, 15, and a teenage friend Leonna Arnette, 17, spent April 9 decorating the graves in the Baby Heaven section of Evergreen Memorial Gardens Cemetery with fresh-cut… Read story

Forest Ridge neighborhood chooses leaders

April 17, 2011, 12:00am Community

Forest Ridge -- The neighborhood association has chosen new officers. They are: Larry Dickenson, president; Rich Powell, vice president; Bennie Prince, treasurer; Chris Mason, secretary; and Crystal Clark, communications coordinator. Read story

Camp Fire member Eleanor Romanaggi joined with others Feb.

Camp Fire troop sends candy to troops

Camp Fire member Eleanor Romanaggi joined with others Feb.

April 17, 2011, 12:00am Community

Central Park -- Five years ago, Camp Fire leader Cherie Mortazavi started the Give to our Troops program, which sends Camp Fire candy to military overseas. On Feb. 26 she and members of her Soaring Butterflies club were among 60 Camp Fire members and families packing candy to be shipped.… Read story

Doug Wilson, down in the dirt and playing to the camera, has won a National Park Service award for archaeology.

Vancouver archaeologist wins National Park Service award

Doug Wilson, down in the dirt and playing to the camera, has won a National Park Service award for archaeology.

April 17, 2011, 12:00am Community

Fort Vancouver -- Douglas Wilson has won the 2011 John L. Cotter Award for Excellence in National Park Service Archaeology. Wilson, an archaeologist with the Pacific Northwest Regional Office of the National Park Service, based at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, was nominated for his work on the Station… Read story

Scout earns rare top Venturing award

April 17, 2011, 12:00am Community

Kavanna Park -- Erin Crocker, 21, received the highest award that can be presented to a youth in the Venturing Program of the Boy Scouts of America -- the Venturing Silver Award. Crocker is the first member of Venturing Crew 609 to win this award and only the 22nd Venture… Read story

Chinook Neighborhood Park will be north of northwest 142nd Street and east of Northwest 8th Avenue.

County to start planning Chinook Neighborhood Park

Chinook Neighborhood Park will be north of northwest 142nd Street and east of Northwest 8th Avenue.

April 15, 2011, 12:00am Community

Clark County Public Works will start designing Chinook Community Park, now that the Parks and Recreation Advisory Council accepted its draft concept plan Friday at the Public Service Center. Read story

Neighbors calendar

April 13, 2011, 12:00am Community

Neighborhood association meetings and events Read story

Boys & Girls clubs offer monthly tours

April 13, 2011, 12:00am Community

Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Washington will host free tours of its two Vancouver clubhouses on the second Thursday of the month through September. Read story

What’s up with that? Soil testing for new bridge already under way

April 13, 2011, 12:00am Community

What's with the equipment on I-5 -- near the bridge, and ramps farther away -- that look like drilling rigs. I assume they are part of the new bridge project, but for what? Read story

Car dealer throws in a tree with every sale

April 13, 2011, 12:00am Community

Ogden -- Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings. For every drop of rain that falls, a flower grows. OK, maybe neither of these is true, but for every car Dick Hannah Dealerships sells, a tree does get planted. Through a partnership that began in 2007 with… Read story