July 4, 2011, 12:00am Community
Fairway/164th -- More than 2,000 people took part in the Waterford at Fairway Village Car Show and Barbecue on June 25. Nearly 170 cars and motorcycles were part of the retirement community's biggest car show yet as musical group The SlimJims entertained the crowd, said Kellie Wagnild, Waterford life enrichment… Read story
July 4, 2011, 12:00am Community
North Image -- If it's a holiday and you drive by Dan Smoron's house, you'll know it. Smoron religiously decorates his house on 121st Avenue in the Creekside Estates, a mobile and manufactured senior housing community, every major holiday and has for the past five years. This Fourth of July… Read story
July 2, 2011, 12:00am Clark County News
The large dirt hills that covered about 14 of the 90 empty acres of property near 14300 block of Fourth Plain Road, should be gone by today. Read story
June 27, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Ellsworth Springs -- In 2009, Austin Vellek was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, cancer of the eye. Since then, his parents, Rolf and Sharla Vellek of Vancouver, have gone on a joyride. Not to shirk their parental duties, but to raise money for the Children's Cancer Association. This year, the association raised… Read story
June 27, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Old Evergreen Highway -- More than 300 people turned out for Columbia Springs Environmental Education Center's Family Field Trip on June 4. Activities included nature hikes, wetlands exploration, fish prints, trout dissection, soil studies and the ever-popular stream table where students become "stream engineers" building natural dams, channels and estuaries.… Read story
June 14, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Landover-Sharmel -- Nearly 250 students joined parents, grandparents, siblings, school personnel and public-health staff for Walk & Roll Day on May 18 at Endeavour Elementary School. The event was designed to help children learn more about the importance of physical activity, healthy communities and a healthy environment. "We are going… Read story
June 7, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Image -- Clark County Skills Center students visited Cascade Middle School May 12 to share information about the center as part of the Expansion of Access initiative, which is aimed at helping students with early planning for increased graduation requirements. Skills Center students studying automotive technology, cosmetology, criminal justice, applied… Read story
June 7, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Mountain View -- Abby Binshaieg, a graduate of Mountain View High School and a student at American University in Washington, D.C., took the ride of his life in May. He was part of a group of 28 cyclists who rode 800 miles across the length of Florida, from Miami to… Read story
May 31, 2011, 5:00pm Community
Fisher-Mill Plain -- A team of students from Union High School took third place in the Washington State Envirothon. The Envirothon is North America's largest high school environmental education competition. The students compete on their knowledge of five areas: soils, forestry, aquatic ecology, wildlife and a current environmental issue which… Read story
May 29, 2011, 5:00pm Clark County News
It could have been the aroma of a barbecue, but this much is known: a hungry black bear wandered into Todd Hemphill's Fisher's Landing neighborhood Sunday evening. "The first thing we noticed was the cat freaked out," said Hemphill, who lives at 4100 S.E. 178th Court in a gated community… Read story
