US Digital is a Vancouver-based manufacturer of precision motion control components. Building blocks include absolute and incremental optical encoders, inclinometers, interfaces, drives and more. US Digital’s products can be found in applications such as motors, solar and renewable energy, medical, robotics, and other automation applications requiring position feedback. Contrary to ...
A coalition of opponents to the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project (CRC) hosted a five-hour meeting and tour Saturday to promote a number of alternatives to the current $10 billion* mega project. Members of the new Smarter Bridge Committee believe CRC planners dismissed more affordable options before fully vetting ...
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 ...
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 ...
In March, local fast-food chain Burgerville announced the closing of its downtown Vancouver location. Response on Burgerville’s Facebook fan page was immediate and emotional. Posts such as, “Noooo,” and “Dislike,” and “This is AWFUL!!!” tore through the online community. Six-months later, the walk-up restaurant officially closed and the wrecking ball ...
There’s the road you travel, there’s the “road not taken,” as so eloquently written about by poet Robert Frost, and in Clark County there is also the road that takes you straight into the dirt. It’s the new Roots to Road program. The pilot program, developed by Partners in Careers, in collaboration with ...
For three veterans, a garden gave them a reason to wake up in the morning. The pilot program Roots to Road, created by Partners in Careers and Clark County, taught three local veterans as much about themselves as about gardening. Their six-month experience fed their spirits and nourished their bodies. ...
Mail in your ballot by Nov. 8, 2011 to be part of the leadership of Clark County, Washington and influence government in our community. There’s the choice to do nothing, and the choice to do something. Voting exercises your right to choose. This video features ways in which Clark County ...
Shumway neighborhood resident Liz Shaub is living in limbo. Her home on East 35th and I Street in Vancouver stands in the path of a proposed expansion of Interstate 5 as part of the $10 billion* Columbia River Crossing (CRC) light rail and bridge project. Shumway neighborhood residents feel in ...
In the final segment of our four-part “BPA, Another Way,” series, Clark County Today host David Madore wraps up his conversation with Washington State Rep. for District 18, Ed Orcutt (R – Kalama), and Terry Constance, of Another Way BPA, about of the Bonneville Power Administration’s plans for constructing a ...
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