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In case you missed it, here are some of the top stories of the week:
It’s been nine months since the Clark County council voted on arguably its most controversial project of 2015: posting the words “In God We Trust” in its hearings room.
Now the book is officially closed on that project, as the national motto was finally posted above the council dais Thursday afternoon.
Learn more about the new sign.
The Rev. John Bishop is stepping down as senior pastor at Vancouver’s Living Hope Church for moral indiscretions as he enters a restoration plan put in place by church leaders. Bishop said he plans to seek alcohol abuse treatment and might also receive marriage counseling.
The church along Andresen Road — nicknamed the “Kmart church” because it occupies a former Kmart building — hosts more than 3,000 people every week.
Read more about Bishop’s decision to step down.
BATTLE GROUND — I’ll have the mac ‘n’ cheese, please. And along with my meal, I’d like to have a heaping helping of dignity.
No customers ordered in quite that way Wednesday afternoon at Russell Brent’s Mill Creek Pub. They didn’t have to, because dignity was the dish served with every interaction between the waitstaff and the diners with dementia.
Learn more about the Mill Creek Pub’s program.
A portion of the former Red Lion hotel building on Vancouver’s Columbia River waterfront will be transformed into offices and wet labs for a Portland biotechnology company, under an agreement approved Monday by the Port of Vancouver’s Board of Commissioners, owner of the building at Terminal 1.
Port officials hope that AbSci’s lease of 6,200 square feet of former hotel space at 100 Columbia St. will provide a spark that could ignite a bioscience research hub at the port’s 10-acre Terminal 1 site, which extends west from the hotel property and adjoints the larger waterfront redevelopment project. Their ambition, backed by state, city, and local officials at a news conference Monday morning, is that an interim biotechnology center at the former hotel will leverage into construction of a new home for AbSci and other companies.
Read more about AbSci’s plans for the former hotel site.
Sara Nguyen turned onto Northeast 50th Avenue one dark winter night last year and saw yet another unfamiliar car parked in front of King’s Pond with two people she didn’t recognize sitting inside.
She drove down to the end of her street, passed her home and called her husband, Tuan Nguyen, who said he’d stay on the phone with her while she turned around in the cul-de-sac and shined her brights at them. In the past, with countless other unwanted guests visiting their street, the Nguyens and their neighbors found shining brights was often enough to send people scurrying.
Read more about King’s Pond and its neighbors’ woes.
Where can you get a free Thanksgiving Day meal in Clark County? Two tried-and-true options for the hungry and homeless aren’t on the table this year.
Chronis’ Restaurant and Lounge began serving Thanksgiving dinner in 1982, but the downtown Vancouver restaurant closed in April after 48 years in business. The Fraternal Order of the Eagles’ Vancouver chapter usually serves Thanksgiving breakfast, but without a working kitchen, the nonprofit had to bow out this year.
Their absence from the lineup of places offering a free Turkey Day feast comes at a time when food banks — and related social services — are experiencing a growing need.
Learn more about where to get a free Thanksgiving meal.
