Photos for August 19, 2012
Maplewood Neighborhood Association chair Cynthiai Powers received the Vancouver Sparkles Award at the Aug. 7 National Night Out event in MyPark.
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Melky Cabrera Suspended 50 games
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Esther Short: Newcomers Club members Gladys Green, left, and Karen Roark, far right, present a check to Dawn Barton and Michael Bacon of Open House Ministries.
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Cows stand in a pasture last week as a wildfire burns down a hillside near Cle Elum.
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Matt Galanti, 17, of Bothell smokes marijuana from a glass bong at the opening day of the pro-marijuana rally Seattle Hempfest on Saturday as friends Zach Casselman, 18, and Clay Graeber, 20, look on. Organizers expected more than 150,000 people to attend the three-day event.
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Zane Kesey of Eugene, Ore., emerges from the famous Merry Prankster bus that belonged to his late father, Ken Kesey, Saturday at Seattle's annual Hempfest.
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Donald Pitsch and his twin brother Richard, in red, look at the classic cars at Sunday's concert to benefit the Clark County Veterans Court. The brothers served in the Korean War.
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Isaiah Allen, 4, shakes hands with "Uncle Sam" at Sunday's veterans court benefit. The court offers a new chance to military veterans who have fallen afoul of the law.
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Carl Wunder preserves the decorations he earned while serving in the Army's 25th Infantry Division — "Tropic Lightning" — in the Pacific during World War II. They include a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. Wunder was shot by a sniper in May 1945, but the wound is expected to heal soon.
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Marguerite Wunder worked at a bank when she was 16 because so many men had gone to war. At 21, she became a nurse’s aide.
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Carl Wunder recalls shooting up a lot of suspicious-looking foliage as the Tropic Lightning Division fought though mountainous terrain.
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Aaren Morring Heritage linebacker
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Heritage junior Aaren Morring said he looked up to last season's starting linebackers and worked is way up to a starting role by the middle of the 2011 season.
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Carl Wunder displays two bullet fragments that were removed Tuesday from his right arm, where they had been since May 3, 1945.
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Carl and Marguerite Wunder saw World War II military hospitals from different perspectives: He was wounded in the Philippines and she was a nurse's aide in London.
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The Clark County Jail has had three inmates commit suicide this year, including a 55-year-old man found early Wednesday.
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Two Vancouver men were injured in this accident east of Florence, Ore. Saturday. The driver of an SUV was killed.
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Greg Biffle crosses the finish line to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup Pure Michigan 400 on Sunday at Michigan International Speedway.
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Greg Biffle celebates his victory at Michigan.
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Greg Biffle (16), Kevin Harvick (29) and Regan Smith (78) battle for position during Sunday's Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway. Biffle won the race.
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Vancouver breast cancer patient Arlene Delmage, 50, took first place in the 100 meter and 200 meter butterfly and the 200 meter freestyle relay at the U.S. Masters Swimming Summer National Championships in Omaha, Neb., last month.
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Arlene Delmage practices with her swim team, the Oregon Reign Masters, at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Ore. The championship meet, from which the Vancouver woman brought home a cluster of medals, took place 10 weeks after she had a mastectomy.
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