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Morning Press: Fireworks, Sticky’s pot shop, Clark grad Sam Elliott

By The Columbian
Published: June 24, 2017, 6:05am

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Here are some of the stories that grabbed our readers’ attention this week.

Vancouver to have ‘zero tolerance’ for fireworks

America’s birthday celebration is going to be a lot quieter in Vancouver this summer.

This Fourth of July marks the first since the city’s ordinance banning the sale and use of personal fireworks within the city limits takes effect.

Vancouver Fire Marshal Heidi Scarpelli told city councilors on Monday fire officials will be issuing citations for those who violate the new ordinance.

“We’re looking at zero tolerance,” Scarpelli said.

Sticky’s Pot Shop gets a reprieve in court ruling

The owner of Sticky’s Pot Shop, a cannabis retailer that was shuttered last year after defying Clark County’s ban on recreational weed businesses, said he will reopen the store after a recent victory in the ongoing legal conflict.

On Friday, Clark County Superior Court Judge Daniel Stahnke issued an order allowing Sticky’s, located at 9411 N.E. Highway 99 in Hazel Dell, to reopen for business while its owner, John Larson, appeals the county’s ban on recreational marijuana businesses in unincorporated areas.

Cannabis market in Clark County is booming

It’s been three years since Clark County’s first cannabis businesses appeared, and this corner of Southwest Washington has grown into the fifth largest cannabis market in the state, according to sales and excise taxes collected. What started out as a chaotic industry with major supply-side issues has dramatically changed and matured into a both a revenue generator and a job creator for the region.

“Locally, Clark County stacks up quite well (in the Washington cannabis market),” said Gareth Kautz, co-owner of the High End Market Place dispensary in Uptown Village. “We have some of the best weed in the state, some of the best low-cost product in the state and one of the best medical processors (Fairwinds Manufacturing) — if not the only one — in the state.”

Clark College grad Sam Elliott, The Hero

Sam Elliott has a voice like a bear — big and strong, serious and smooth.

You may have heard him intone, “Only you can prevent forest fires,” while the mouth of Smokey Bear moves on TV. Or, you may have caught Elliott saying, “Support the campaign for Clark College, ensuring a bright future,” over appealing images of our local community college. Those Clark College Foundation spots ran in 2013.

Vancouver 7-Eleven fire started by 4-year-old with lighter

 A 4-year-old boy who found a lighter then wandered off when his mom wasn’t watching started the fire that gutted a 7-Eleven in the uptown Vancouver area June 14, according to investigators.

Vancouver Fire Marshal Heidi Scarpelli said the boy’s mother was talking to the store clerk when the boy found a long-neck lighter in the store, walked off and then lit some items in the store aisles on fire.

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