Photos for December 8, 2012
Camas' John Norcross, shown, Friday, December 7, 2012, is The Columbian's football player of the year. (Steven Lane/The Columbian)
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Camas' John Norcross, shown, Friday, December 7, 2012, is The Columbian's football player of the year. (Steven Lane/The Columbian)
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Sacramento Kings guard Aaron Brooks, left, drives the baseline against Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard during the first quarter Saturday.
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Files/Metropolitan Transit Authority Floodwaters rise above the top stair of an escalator in New York City's South Ferry station on Oct. 30 in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
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Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
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People gather to watch the lightning of the first candle, celebrating the beginning of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, Saturday on Grzybowski square in Warsaw, Poland.
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Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, right, and Rabbi Segal Shmoel install a giant Hanukkah Menorah on Friday at the Pariser Platz in front of the Brandeburg Gate in Berlin.
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Mohammed Morsi Egyptian president
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Kelly Rankin of Vancouver is the only American to be named head starter for track and field for two different Olympic Games. Rankin served as starter in the 1984 Los Angeles Games and 1996 Atlanta Games. He was recently inducted into the USA Track and Field Officials Hall of Fame.
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Photos by Steven Lane/The Columbian Madrigal Singers, dressed in period costume, bring Christmas in the mid-1800s to life Saturday inside the dining room at the fort's Chief Factor's House.
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Volunteer Fred Bridges, playing the part of the fort's Dr. Forbes Barclay, on Saturday explains some of the rudimentary medical techniques of the mid-1800s, at the Christmas at the Fort celebration.
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Asher Brewster, 6, throws a hatchet for the first time Saturday with help from volunteer Andrew Douglas at the Christmas at the Fort celebration. He missed, but his brother, Ezra, 10, pierced one of the stump targets.
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Children check out a canon and visitors explore the Chief Factor's House Saturday at the Christmas at the Fort celebration.
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Doug Wilson, Vancouver National Historic Reserve archaeologist, right, greets visitors Saturday at the Christmas at the Fort celebration. Employees and volunteers go to great lengths to show life as it was in the mid-1840s for the multinational staff at the Hudson's Bay Company. Archaeologists, like Wilson, help to uncover more details about what it was like.
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A volunteer in hand-stitched period costume demonstrates how to play the antiquated game of hoops at the Christmas at the Fort celebration Saturday.
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Children play hoops and rings Saturday beneath a veil of drizzle at the Christmas at the Fort celebration.
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Jacintha Saldanha Accepted prank call at hospital
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Former Army Major Margaret Witt, right, and Lori Johnson, left, stand in their home Monday in Spokane. They are planning to marry in a few weeks after receiving one of the first marriage licenses for same sex couples last week.
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Mexican tar heroin seized in drug raid operations is seen in California. The increase of heroin use in Clark County mirrors an increase in crime.
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Hair of the Dog offers beer tasting flights.
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Molecatcher Jerome Dormion displays a mole caught in a trap, in the park of the Chateau de Versailles, west of Paris.
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Photos by Dana Juhasz/Chicago Tribune Park your bike outside the tasting room at Hair of the Dog Brewing Co. in Portland.
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Molecatcher Jerome Dormion uses a shovel in the park of the Chateau de Versailles, west of Paris. The Versailles palace still employs a molecatcher.
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Associated Press files People roll joints at a marijuana party May 23, 1966 near the University of California at Berkeley campus in Berkeley.
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Associated Press files People roll joints at a marijuana party May 23, 1966 near the University of California at Berkeley campus in Berkeley.
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These pieces of holiday decor on display at the Goodwill store on Fourth Plain Boulevard are part of 167,000 pounds of holiday items Clark County Goodwill stores will distribute during the holiday season.
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Bobbie VanBuner of the Tri-Cities, left, and Alvera Kelly of Vancouver, right, shop for holiday decor at a Goodwill store on Northeast Fourth Plain Boulevard.
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These pieces of holiday decor on display at the Goodwill store on Northeast Fourth Plain Boulevard are part of 167,000 pounds of holiday items Clark County Goodwill stores will distribute during the holiday season.
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Linda Hutchison of Vancouver shops at the Goodwill on Northeast Fourth Plain Boulevard for holiday decor for a display she was arranging at her workplace, Hertz Rent-a-Car at the Portland International Airport. Hutchison likes buying second-hand items because doing so saves money and the environment and in some instances, supports charities.
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Fred Soto of Vancouver, foreground, eyes a nutcracker at the Goodwill store on Northeast Fourth Plain Boulevard to add to his collection of about 100 nutcrackers.
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David Madore
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Marc Boldt
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