Salmon Creek-Felida
Students request pet food for birthday gifts
Felida -- Some lucky cats and dogs will have full bellies thanks to the fundraising efforts of a brother and sister who asked for pet food donations instead of birthday presents this year. Felida Elementary School fourth-grader Jared Wallingford and Thomas Jefferson Middle School sixth-grader Alicia Wallingford collected more than 1,700 pounds of pet food for Pet Aid of Washington and the Humane Society for Southwest Washington. Its the fourth year the Wallingford family has gathered donations for the Julie Reamer Memorial Pet Food Drive, named after their friend and neighbor who died in 2009. In its first year, the family donated 200 pounds of food; the total has increased each year since. Jared's birthday was Feb. 1 and Alicia's was March 5. The kids got help from peers who competed classroom by classroom to see which could collect the most pet food.
Memory care center taking shape in Salmon Creek
Facility for seniors set to open this fall
Construction is well under way on a new memory care center set to open in the Salmon Creek area this fall near where Interstates 5 and 205 meet.
WSUV prof gets fellowship to complete book
Salmon Creek — Thanks to a $65,000 research fellowship, Washington State University history professor Sue Peabody is able to take a year-long sabbatical to finish her book "Slavery and Emancipation in the Indian Ocean World: A Family Biography."
UPDATE: Three robbery suspects arrested after fleeing in taxi
Three suspects who allegedly robbed the Salmon Creek iQ Credit Union this afternoon and fled in a Radiocab taxi van, were caught on Interstate 5 and later arrested.
Live burn training set for today in Salmon Creek
Clark County Fire District 6 is scheduled to conduct a live burn today at 8 a.m. at a Salmon Creek house scheduled to be demolished.
Puppy's paintings raise money for Salmon Creek rescue
Salmon Creek -- Picasso, Van Gogh, Rembrandt … Fluffy Shark. The artistic puppy required cardiopulmonary resuscitation to make it through the first few minutes of life, was raised by Panda Paws Rescue in Salmon Creek, and was adopted last December by the Kelly family of Portland. Out of appreciation for Panda Paws founder Amanda Giese, the Kellys are raising funds for Panda Paws by having Fluffy Shark "do his own original one-of-a-kind art pieces," which are being auctioned off. All the money goes straight to Panda Paws, which cares for special-needs animals. The creative canine's first attempt to put paw to canvas drew a whopping $700. Visit pandapawsrescue.com.
Local service clubs forced to scale back efforts
Economy, dip in membership take their toll
RIDGEFIELD — In a storage room at the Clark County Fairgrounds, George Espinosa surveys the haphazardly jumbled collection of household sundries, then grumbles: "Meager, meager, meager."
Firefighters feel the heat in training exercise
Live burn in Salmon Creek gives crews chance to practice fighting actual blaze
As a volunteer firefighter with Fire District 6 for the past three years, Lanny Kipp has responded to one small fire. So he said Wednesday's training, his second live-burn training exercise, was very beneficial.
Two 149th Street houses will burn for training
Two 149th St. houses will burn for training
WSUV librarian wins contributions-to-research award
Salmon Creek — Kathi Fountain, head of collection development for the library at Washington State University Vancouver, has been recognized for distinguished contributions to bibliography and information services in law or political science. She won the 2013 Association of College and Research Libraries Law and Political Science Section Marta Lang/CQ Press Award, which was announced in February. Fountain will collect a $1,000 prize at the annual American Library Association conference, held June 27 through July 2 in Chicago. Award chairwoman Rosalind Tedford said Fountain's "ongoing scholarship on a wide variety of subjects provide an invaluable service to librarians and researchers in the field."
Cash mob plans to boost Billygan's business tonight
Effort follows outbreak of stomach illnesses that caused the restaurant to close for a few days last month
Supporters of Billygan’s Roadhouse plan to bombard it with business tonight in an effort to boost sales in the wake of an outbreak of stomach illnesses that caused the Salmon Creek restaurant to close for a few days last month.
Apartments planned near Legacy medical center
134th Street Lofts would also be close to WSUV in Salmon Creek
Two Camas-based developers plan to build a $22 million apartment complex in the Salmon Creek area, just off Interstate 205 at the Northeast 134th Street exit.
No serious crime -- but SWAT trains to prepare for it
Police conduct drills in two vacant houses in North Salmon Creek neighborhood, surprising some residents
Wednesday afternoon, a young couple walked down Northeast 149th Street, pushing a baby carriage past police tape, patrol cars, two armored vehicles and a pair of cops dressed in green tactical gear. It was sunny and quiet, save for the random pop-pops of practice explosive rounds coming from the white house on the hill.
Diamond dog-rescue collar goes to Felida family
Felida -- Asha the dog sure has excellent support. Readers of the Neighbors section may recall an "Everybody Has A Story" that ran in May 2012 featuring the Australian shepherd, who was born deaf and blind and adopted at five months from the Oregon Humane Society by Felida residents Tracy and Trevor Bryant. The Bryants provided a trainer, an acupuncturist and a food therapist to help Asha get settled and feel comfortable; Tracy reported last year that Asha was feeling "strong and happy, confident and inquisitive."
Heavy lifting in full swing on Salmon Creek Interchange Project (with video)
Girders are being hoisted to form skeleton of new bridge
With much of its foundation now in place, the Salmon Creek Interchange Project is looking up — on Tuesday, about 40 feet up.
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