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In case you missed it, here are some of the top stories of the week:
Volunteers descended upon a west Vancouver homeless camp before daylight Wednesday morning, helping campers pick up trash and pack up their belongings.
Word on the street was that police would order everyone to clear out at 6:31 a.m., when the city’s new camping ordinance went into effect.
But the police crackdown never came. And if all goes well, it won’t. …
A visually impaired Vancouver man was reunited with his missing guide dog Monday after the dog wandered off early Sunday morning.
Blake Hardin, 28, was sitting on the porch of his house, 2500 E. Evergreen Blvd., about 1:30 a.m. Sunday when he went inside to put something away without his guide dog, Beethoven, a 10-year-old Labrador retriever with a white coat.
About a half an hour later, he realized Beethoven wasn’t by his side and so went outside to get him, only to find him missing. …
At the 11th hour, Clark County Councilor David Madore has unveiled new changes to the Comprehensive Growth Management plan that county staff say could reset the entire land-use planning process.
The county council was originally slated to pick its preferred alternative to the growth plan Tuesday, setting land-use policy for the next 20 years in unincorporated Clark County. However, following a five-hour meeting, the board voted 2-1 to delay its decision on the preferred alternative to Nov. 24. Councilors Madore and Tom Mielke voted to delay the meeting.
Councilor Jeanne Stewart, whose relationship with her fellow councilors has grown increasingly tense in recent weeks, cast the dissenting vote following a public outburst at Madore. …
A key state official’s internal review last December of the proposed oil transfer terminal at the Port of Vancouver reveals deep concern from regulators about the project’s potential negative impacts on public safety, the local environment and global climate change. Washington state Assistant Attorney General Ann Essko also said in her confidential review that the joint venture’s preliminary draft environmental impact statement, submitted to support its application for state approval, “fails to demonstrate full compliance” with the state Environmental Policy Act. …
Some folks point out that women always have to work harder to get the same recognition.
Nan Henriksen, the first woman elected as mayor of Camas and the recognized trailblazer of that mill town’s startling redevelopment as a high-tech manufacturing hub, was long-since retired when Clark County politics seemed to explode in chaos and acrimony a few years ago. …
