April 24, 2011, 12:00am Community
Bagley Downs -- Young Women in Action, a nine-week mentoring program for fifth graders at Marshall, Washington and Roosevelt elementary schools, focuses on development of life skills such as friendship, health and personal care and career opportunities. Mentors from the American Association of University Women, Vancouver Branch, are working with… Read story
April 17, 2011, 12:00am Community
Central Park -- Can she make a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? If she couldn't before, she can now. Fifty students from the Washington State School for the Blind made 80 pies from scratch during the school's annual pie-making event April 12. The students created the pies under the… Read story
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
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
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
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
April 13, 2011, 12:00am Community
Hudson's Bay -- The School of Piano Technology for the Blind, also known as the Piano Hospital, received a new sign from Vancouver Fastsigns to promote its pianos for sale. The A-frame sign features Quick Response codes, which can be scanned by a smartphone with a downloaded QR-code-reader application. Scanning… Read story
The Hudson’s Bay Neighborhood Association is inviting Central Park Neighborhood residents to use their community garden, 800 T St. Read story
April 3, 2011, 12:00am Community
Hudson's Bay -- Students from the Washington State School for the Blind filled Easter baskets with beeping eggs during a special egg hunt April 1. Around 22 volunteers set up tables with Easter baskets and "hid" the eggs on the lawn. Toys and filled plastic eggs were set out near… Read story
April 3, 2011, 12:00am Community
Hudson's Bay -- The School of Piano Technology for the Blind, also known as the Piano Hospital, received a new sign from Vancouver Fastsigns to promote its pianos for sale. The A-frame sign features Quick Response codes, which can be scanned by a smartphone with a downloaded QR-code-reader application. Scanning… Read story
