Want to exercise your pre-game creativity? Tell us what you think the caption should be on this cartoon. The winning entry gets two free tickets to a movie at the Kiggins Theatre...
For 125 years, the Washington State School for the Blind (WSSB) has pursued its primary purpose of educating and training the visually impaired. Today, learning to read Braille still goes hand-in-hand with regular school work, but training also includes developing daily living skills, computer skills, and job skills. In 1886, ...
More than 800 high school students and adult volunteers representing 38 teams from Clark County and Portland packed the house at Evergreen High School Jan. 7 to celebrate the kickoff of the 2012 FIRST Robotics Competition. FIRST, an acronym meaning “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology,” is an ...
Approximately 700 hundred Portland and Vancouver high school students will brave the predawn darkness Saturday morning and descend upon Vancouver’s Evergreen High School with one thing in mind: building robots.
Vancouver Clark Parks & Rec Catalog podcast with Annie Rusunen of the Parks Department The Vancouver-Clark Parks & Recreation winter catalog is a great guide of things to do in Clark County. The parks department organizes the activities and distributes the catalog by mail and in central locations, such as ...
The future of homeless people can be as uncertain as the question: Whose responsibility are they? Government services are limited, social resources are stretched thin, and citizens are faced with panhandlers who seek quick solutions. Into this complex issue plunged former pastor and woodworker Rev. Duane L. Sich. Sich’s ministry ...
When you ask Clark County kids what they like best about playing outside you hear a variety of responses from ladybugs, snails and worms, to a quick dash down a playground slide for pure pleasure. Occasionally, imagination takes over and they speak of adventures with dinosaurs and turkeys and pretending ...
A friendly competition between City of Vancouver and Clark County employees has raised more than $54,000 for the United Way of the Columbia-Willamette (UWCW). City employees contributed $40,779, while county employees brought in $14,038. The UWCW is a Portland-based nonprofit organization that works to address education, income, and health issues ...
Vancouver police officer Rey Reynolds sang “Amazing Grace” at the 2011 Annual Clark County Mayors’ and Civic Leaders’ Prayer Breakfast. Here’s Reynolds rendition of this beautiful hymn. Amazing Grace, oh how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me I once was lost, oh but now, now I’m ...
If political blogger Lew Waters ever ran for office, he’d be up for some good old-fashioned mudslinging. Until then, Waters is content to use his blog, the “Clark County Conservative,” to take aim at the liberal bias he believes runs rampant among local government officials, unions, newspaper publishers, transit agencies ...
The first Veterans Day celebration occurred on Nov. 11, 1919 to honor the end of fighting in World War I. Known as Armistice Day, warring countries agreed to a cease-fire “on the eleventh day of the eleventh month at the eleventh hour.” Europe and the British Commonwealth still encourage its ...
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