After some hemming and hawing, the C-Tran board approved a $330,000 contract Tuesday night to hire engineering firm BergerABAM to assist in the preparation of a vote on high capacity transit financing for Fall 2012...
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 ...
Maintaining current levels of emergency medical services in Clark County will require a much more efficient, system-wide way of doing business. That was the message Vancouver Fire Chief Joe Molina presented to the Vancouver City Council during a workshop Monday concerning a pending agreement between Emergency Medical Service (EMS) District ...
Post updated Jan. 9, 2012 An angry email exchange last week between Vancouver City Council member Jeanne Stewart and Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt has revealed simmering tensions on the council heading into key discussions about committee assignments. This is the time of year that the City Council decides which of ...
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.
While Washington State is facing its worst financial crisis in decades, transportation funding has remained relatively robust. Over the next eight years, though, existing transportation budgets will face a $1 billion shortfall, and new infrastructure could require between $10 billion and $30 billion in additional revenue. This was the mixed ...
In our ongoing coverage of the Bonneville Power Administration’s plan to place a new, 70-mile power line through Clark County, COUV.COM will feature a number of different perspectives of people throughout the county who stand to be impacted. Ray Richards, a tree farmer and board member of the group A ...
The C-Tran board wants to make it perfectly clear that a sales tax measure it hopes to bring to voters this November to support high capacity transit in Clark County will not be a referendum on light rail. However, unless the board comes up with a back-up funding plan, a ...
As a forensic accountant who specializes in fraud investigations, Tiffany Couch’s job is to offer a neutral eye and follow the paper trail – often to surprising results. That was certainly true this fall when Couch’s firm, Acuity Group PLLC, became the target of a lawsuit filed by Portland firm ...
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 ...
Audio interview with Janet A. Harte Small businesses in Southwest Washington face the same economic challenges as the rest of the country, but they have the opportunity to tap into the powerful resources of Vancouver’s Small Business Development Center. INC. Magazine rated Vancouver’s center as one of “America’s 10 Most ...
Parent Talk: protecting kids from poor choices Situation: A single mother is struggling with her 14-year-old daughter who wants to do her own thing. In the past, the daughter has made bad decisions – run away from home, made poor choices in friends, and the mother feels she is too ...
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 ...
In our ongoing coverage of the Bonneville Power Administration’s plans to place a power line that stretches 70 miles through Clark County, COUV.COM will feature perspectives from various county residents who could be affected. Today we talk with Ray Richards, a Vancouver resident whose family has owned a working tree ...
In the last of 10 features on Christmas around the world we visit Venezuela with Romelia Alvarado. Romelia Alvarado: In Venezuela, Christmas is celebrated as a religious occasion. As in Colombia, the presents are brought by El Niño Jesus (Baby Jesus) instead of Papá Noél (Santa Claus). The unofficial start ...
Christmas Around the World is a ten-part series. This audio podcast on Norway is narrated by Ed Stortro, who created this series. His father grew up in Norway and immigrated to Canada and the U.S. Ed Stortro was born in Vancouver, Canada, and has lived in the States since he ...
We had such overwhelming response to the Betty Kime piece, we decided to post the extended version of our interview. The original post with the full story appears here: Betty Kime loves books, Bolero, and budgets maybe not so much. Book Talk is new audio program from COUV.COM. It’s ...
Christmas in France is celebrated mainly in a religious manner, though secular ways of celebrating the occasion also exist, such as Christmas fairs, decorations and carols.
Nate Foreman shares about Christmas in France.
Children do not hang Christmas stockings but put their shoes by the fireplace so Père Noël, Father Christmas or Santa Claus, as you might say, can give them gifts
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