A local robotics team, Team 2471 Mean Machine, took first place in the March FIRST Robotics state competition and over the weekend were semi-finalists in the FIRST Robotics world competition held in St. Louis, Mo. Out of the top 100 teams in the world Team Mean Machine placed 12th. The ...
World renowned transportation architect Kevin Peterson says the manual for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is well written and well respected around the nation, but he has difficulty understanding why it was not followed to create the design for the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail Tolling project. Kevin ...
Situation: How do you stop being simply reactive to bad behavior? Parent Talk Tip: Diane Moore says that if you’re just trying to stop bad behavior all the time by making it go away, you’re missing a great opportunity. Every problem is an opportunity to think a little deeper ...
Two years ago the GOP Convention met at Prairie High School. In 2012 it was a packed ballroom at the Vancouver Hilton with overflow into adjacent rooms and spillways. The influx of first timers with seasoned conventioneers bogged down check-in, added to confusion, and the convention started almost an hour later than promoted, but once rolling it was difficult to stop.
The Vancouver Neighborhood Alliance meets at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, Apr 11 at the East Police Precinct located at 520 SE 155th Ave off Mill Plain Blvd. Attorneys Jessica W. Dimitrov and Chris Babich will speak along with Dianna Kretzschmar, Elder Justice Center Program Coordinator from the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, ...
COUV.COM has earned another distinction in the 33rd annual Telly Awards. The second winning video earned a Silver Telly, their highest honor. The production was donated by COUV.COM to the Vancouver Rotary Foundation to aid their fund raising efforts to enhance Marshall Community Park. After the video debuted at the ...
Situation: Parents communicate grace to their children when they stay in control during misbehavior. Parent Talk Tip: Diane Moore says that when kids get the wrong messages form parents it’s usually during a period of bad behavior, while the times that unconditional love and grace are shown may not be ...
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 ...
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 – ...
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 ...
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 ...
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