An observant citizen sent snapshots of the testing happening now on Hayden Island near the Jantzen Beach shopping mall in Portland, Ore. The pile test work is being conducted by Spokane firm Max J. Kuney Construction. The question arose whether there are historical, archeological and/or environmental groups on hand. ...
Situation: Parents may find that the dreams for their children are much different than in early years. Parent Talk Tip: Diane Moore says that when she first began her family she “wanted to protect them from every microbe of pain.” Because the family was affluent, her children were protected and ...
Harsh criticism of the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail Tolling project (CRC) came from residents of Portland’s northern neighborhoods during the March meeting of Oregon’s Joint Committee on Legislative Oversight on the CRC. Speakers representing the north and northeast Portland communities were unanimous in their belief that current plans of ...
Tonight at 6:30 p.m. citizens will have the third opportunity of 2012 to address city council both on the consent items and on a topic of the citizen’s choosing. According to the agenda posted on the city’s website, there will be no follow up from the C-Tran meeting that pursued ...
The next step in the process to push Portland’s light rail into Vancouver is to secure taxes to fund expenses for operation and maintenance (O&M). Unlike the cost to construct light rail – which is funneled through state and federal taxes – monies for operation and maintenance are derived from ...
MarriageTeam is a Vancouver-based nonprofit that offers couples coaching before or after the ceremony. Their goal is to “strengthen and save marriages with well trained marriage coach couples,” says founder Al Ray. Ray and his wife, Autumn, travel to Oregon, Western Washington, California and parts of Nebraska teaching workshops to ...
After serving three terms, Secretary of State Sam Reed decided to retire. To educate the public about the duties and importance of the Secretary of State position, COUV.COM and the Freedom Foundation are sponsoring a live debate in Vancouver. Candidates will debate for one hour Thursday, Mar. 29 at Fort ...
COUV.COM is celebrating its first anniversary with the introduction of new features to the website. There is now a community calendar located via a link on the top right hand corner of each page, a new mobile site, and earlier this week a series of How-To videos was introduced. The ...
Vancouver Singers, an all-volunteer community choir, will present its spring concerts in March. The performances of “From Bluegrass to Bernstein: An American Songbook,” will take place March 24 and 25. The all-American concert will be directed by Jana Hart and assistant director Kirsten Hart, and will feature bluegrass ballads and ...
Situation: How do you deal with a family dynamic where one child is the victim and the other is the aggressor? Parent Talk Tip: Diane Moore says that when you punish the aggressor and comfort the victim, you reinforce both types of behavior. Instead, she suggests ignoring the aggressor – ...
The Vancouver City Council and the Clark County Board of Commissioners agreed to designate Mar. 21 as the inaugural breast reconstruction rights awareness day or BRAVE Day. The joint proclamations highlight an effort to elevate patients’ rights when faced with cancer-related mastectomy. Dr. Allen Gabriel, founder of the the Pink ...
The Safe Communities Task Force is a grass roots coalition started in 2008 to eradicate gangs in Clark County. It draws support of local law enforcement, the juvenile courts, schools and other youth programs to focus on gang prevention. According to the task force, middle school is a crucial time ...
Responding to the myriad of criticisms that have been leveled against the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail Tolling project (CRC), urban design architect George Crandall and mass transit advocate Jim Howell have developed a plan that they have labeled the Common Sense Alternative (CSA). The pair first joined forces in ...
Listen to the audio interview with author Kathy Condon. Kathy Condon is an award winning author. She wrote It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask, which was chosen by USA Book News as Best Book Award finalist in its business category. Her latest book, Face-To-Face Networking, It’s All About Communication, is an ...
To celebrate the first anniversary of COUV.COM a few amenities have been added to our portfolio of products. The first is the calendar that you’ll find in the upper right hand corner of each page. The next is the beginning of our new How-To video series. This first video demonstrates ...
Gillian Wallis is losing her building, her tenants, and her patience. Last year, representatives of the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail Tolling project alerted Wallis that the historic building she and her husband Bob had invested three-quarters of a million dollars remodeling was slated to be razed in a push ...
Citizens standing in opposition to the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail Tolling project (CRC) project had a recent opportunity to voice their opinions before Oregon officials. Addressing the Joint Committee on Legislative Oversight on the Columbia River Crossing during their Mar. 16 informational meeting, a series of community leaders and ...
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