Orchards, Sifton and Brush Prairie
Brush Prairie: Proceeds from pink shirt sales — $7 and $10 in advance — gate receipts, and $367 in donations and concessions at Prairie High School’s varsity volleyball match against Hudson’s Bay on Oct. 14 were donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation to fight breast cancer. A final tally is still being calculated, Battle Ground Public Schools spokesman Gregg Herrington said.
Ridgefield and Fairgrounds
Ridgefield: Union Ridge Elementary School student Natalie Dean was honored at a statewide gifted-children awards ceremony held by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. Dean was individually recognized for her above-grade-level Student and College Abilities Test score at the ceremony.
Ridgefield: Amateur photographer Glenn Batson, Ridgefield, saw opportunity when an overpass in Ridgefield was recently removed. “(I) thought the rubble would have made a cooler picture but couldn’t get the composition I liked without running through off-limits areas,” he wrote in an e-mail.
East Clark County: Camas and Washougal
Washougal: Mount Pleasant Elementary School, 152 Marble Road in Washougal, will host a fall carnival Oct. 22. Proceeds from games, prizes, food and a cake walk will go to the school’s parent-teacher committee.
Battle Ground, Meadow Glade and Hockinson
Battle Ground: Meals in Battle Ground Public Schools are featuring more items made from scratch and fewer processed foods this year, Russ Kallwick, director of the district’s food provider, said. “We made some significant changes to our primary-level menu this year,” Kallwick said in a release. “We reduced the number of entrees we offer each day from five to four. They include a specialty salad, a sandwich, a convenience entree and a featured entree.”
Hockinson: The Hockinson High School Marching Band participated in the annual Husky Band Day on Oct. 9 at the University of Washington. It joined the University of Washington Marching Band and other bands from around the state to perform at pregame and halftime shows. Hockinson also participated in the event last year.
Hazel Dell, Felida and Salmon Creek
Salmon Creek: Wells Fargo donated $7,500 to the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to support the in-school concerts program. The grant provides support for two concerts in May at Skyview High School. All school districts in Clark County are traditionally invited to send students.
Salmon Creek: The Salmon Creek Farmers’ Market ended its first season on Sept. 30. The final day “was outstanding and a fitting end to a successful first season. All of us, the organizers, vendors and volunteers, are already looking forward to next season,” market spokeswoman Ann Foster said in an e-mail. Organizers are collecting feedback from visitors through a survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9BR86Z5 or via e-mail to info@salmoncreekfarmersmarket.com.
Salmon Creek: The Skyview High School Marching Band won several caption awards including best music, best marching, best general effect, best percussion, best color guard and best drum major Oct. 9 at the Tumwater Marching Band Festival. The band competed with several other bands from around the state. “It was great to see because we had a pretty rough week,” said band director Steve Robertson. The band will compete closer to home this Saturday in the McKenzie Classic at McKenzie Stadium, 2205 N.E. 138th Ave. Performances begin at 11 a.m.
West Vancouver and Downtown
Esther Short: About 150 people had a “doll-lightful” time at a doll show Oct. 9 at the Red Lion Hotel at the Quay. Forty dealers from around the Northwest set up shop at the Doll-Lightful Show and Sale. On display were antique dolls, teddy bears, Barbie dolls, ’50s dolls and realistic handmade newborns, show representative Caren Carlson said in an e-mail. Another show is planned for April at the hotel.
North Clark County and Woodland
La Center: On Sept. 25, more than 55 volunteers came to La Center Bottoms to help remove plastic tree protectors from the wetlands. Volunteers were mostly students from La Center schools. Around 600 tree protectors were removed during the project. More than 2,000 were removed by volunteers in the past few months.
Woodland: Yale Elementary School received the Apple Award for the improvement in student scores between the 2009 WASL and 2010 MSP. Mark Houk, principal of Yale Elementary and Woodland Primary School, said he was proud of the students and staff at Yale for their outstanding performance. The Legislature provides the award to five schools statewide where students have shown significant improvement in their state assessment results. Schools selected receive a $25,000 grant to use for capital construction purposes.
East Vancouver, Cascade Park, Fisher’s Landing and Evergreen
Mountain View: A few online votes stand between Mountain View High School’s band and replacing instruments that have been in use since 1983. The school is competing in Clorox’s national Power a Bright Future grant. The school has been in the Top 5 since the competition started Oct. 7. As of Oct. 12, the school was in fourth with 9,239 votes. To vote visit: http://www.powerabrightfuture.com.
Landover-Sharmel: A new location of the Vancouver Farmers’ Market sprouted in September at the Evergreen School District Campus, 13501 N.E. 28th St. The Vancouver’s Farmers’ Market East is open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 30. Half of the net profits from the market will be donated to the Evergreen Community Education Trust to be used for scholarships for department services.
Central Vancouver, Minnehaha and The Heights
West Minnehaha: The Minnehaha Garden Club held the Garden Melodies horticulture and floral design show Sept. 15 at the Minnehaha Grange. The club aims to bring garden knowledge to people in the community.
Hudson’s Bay: The School of Piano Technology will be recognized as a school of distinction by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges at a professional development conference Oct. 25 in Philadelphia. An on-site evaluation team noted the high levels of student-teacher interactions as exemplary. The school attempts to have 4-to-1 ratio of students to teachers.
Oakbrook: The Oakbrook Neighborhood Association held its seventh annual neighborhood cleanup day Sept. 18.
Participants took away more than 11 tons of bulky items, 5 tons of yard debris and sold $289.14 worth of items. They were able to collect a similar amount of items compared to previous years, but the amount of money raised was significantly less, said neighborhood representative Joanne Dixon. “People didn’t bring stuff to sell … because it was ugly, miserable, cold and rainy,” she said. The neighborhood also got a $100 check from the City Resource Conservation Challenge. Dixon said she wanted to thank the 10 or so folks who helped direct traffic and unload cars. “I couldn’t do it without them,” she said.
South Cliff: Ten volunteers braved the rain Oct. 9 to participate in No Ivy Day at the Blandford Canyon Greenway. Volunteers included neighborhood residents, AmeriCorps members and two Union High students who are removing Ivy at Lacamas Lake Park for their senior project. They freed 75 trees from the invasive English Ivy.
Central Park: The Clark College Dental Hygiene program hosted a 40th anniversary reunion event at the college’s main campus on Oct. 2. About 75 alumni attended. Proceeds from the event went to the Clark College Foundation and will be used to support the dental hygiene program.
