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Here are some of the stories that grabbed our readers’ attention this week.
They’re scenes that are hard to read about in the paper, but even harder to witness in person: Gathering a child from the pavement after they’ve been struck by a vehicle; trying to revive someone who has attempted to take their own life; sifting through the rubble of a fire in search of a body.
Most firefighters can recall with ease at least three horrific emergency calls that replay in their mind.
Learn what local agencies are doing to help.
Jean Birch slid behind a stainless steel counter at a Papa Murphy’s on East Mill Plain Boulevard with her hands in disposable gloves, ready to make some of the company’s famous take-and-bake pizzas.
Despite being the company’s top executive, she joked she probably wouldn’t pass for a good food prep. But she wasn’t exactly there to learn to make pies efficiently, though — she and 66 other top personnel from the pizza chain’s Vancouver headquarters were peppered around franchises for the day to work with the employees who are often impacted by boardroom decisions.
Read what the local company is doing to help turn this around.
Kimberly Granning considers herself a fun, loving mom, but also someone’s who’s on the strict side, a rule follower.
“We’ve got to be inside the box,” she said.
That was clear Tuesday afternoon as Granning tried to wrangle her two youngest boys, Drake, 2, and Tray, 4, inside orange plastic cones outlining where they could ride bicycles on the street in front of their Vancouver home.
“Can you maybe go around the cone?” she said as Tray gleefully smashed through one with his tricycle.
Read more about the Granning family and more data on how motherhood is changing.
A new Vancouver Public Schools homework policy aims to help families of young children spend more time at the kitchen table, but less of it on homework.
Vancouver Public Schools will eliminate homework for its K-3 classrooms beginning next year after revisions to its homework policies last month. Previously, the district recommended one to three assignments of 15 minutes each every week.
The district also changed its homework policies for fourth and fifth graders, saying their homework should be tailored to match each student’s level.
Learn more about Vancouver Public Schools’ new policy for next year.
Offering only vague explanations, the Clark County council voted on Friday in a hastily arranged and emotion-laden meeting to terminate County Manager Mark McCauley.
In a unanimous vote, the council voted to not renew McCauley’s contract, which runs until December. In a subsequent vote, the council voted 4-1 to immediately terminate him and appoint Deputy County Manager Bob Stevens as acting county manager. Councilor Jeanne Stewart, citing hesitations about succession and an “abrupt end” to McCauley’s tenure, voted against the motion.
Council Chair Marc Boldt allowed no public comment. The hearing room was overflowing with spectators. Members of the council expressed their gratitude to McCauley, 61, and gave no specific reasons for his termination, only describing an unspecified desire for a change in “direction.”
Learn more about the council council’s decision.
