Photos for December 9, 2012
Rabbi Elizabeth Dunsker
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Sisters Bailey VanRoy-Amundson, left, and Anna VanRoy-Amundson, light menorahs at the Congregation Kol Ami Hanukkah party. About 130 families worship at the synagogue.
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Will Higgins, 11, from left, Asher Herrmann, 11, and Connor Finks, 12, play a dreidel game at a Congregation Kol Ami's Hanukkah celebration on Sunday. The party was in the congregation's five-month-old synagogue.
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Lorna Levi
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Samuel James
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Countryside Woods: Carroll Hayden's Funzville features working carnival rides, amusement park music and other minute details.
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Rose Village: Fort Vancouver Lions Club Membership Director Roy Pulliam and 2011 President Helen Sutfin helped guide the organization's membership growth between 2011 and 2012, which won the club an international honor.
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Washougal: Third-grade teacher Landa Blackburn and students at Gause Elementary receive donated dictionaries Nov. 30 as part of the Camas-Washougal Rotary Club's Gift of Words Project.
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Airport Green: A memorial plaque honoring the K-9 dogs that have died in Clark County is now permanently on display at the Vancouver Police Department East Precinct, 520 S.E. 155th Ave.
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Orchards: Thirty dancers auditioned for 18 slots on the Vancouver Volcanoes dance team on Dec. 2.
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Battle Ground: Grist Mill intern Charles Fallihee won a $1,500 scholarship for his devotion to the place. With him are Friends of the Cedar Creek Grist Mill president Chuck Sixberry and Marliss Thorp.
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Monica Bottelberghe of Columbia River High School is our All-Region girls swimmer of the year photographed December 4, 2012 in Vancouver, Washington. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Ken VanderVoorden, a logger from Curry County, checks out one of the cloned Coastal Redwoods during a small ceremony as Jerry Becker watches Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, in Port Orford, Ore. Two ancient redwoods cloned from some of the largest and oldest redwoods and giant sequoias in California were planted Tuesday on a near vertical hillside in remote southern Oregon. Archangel Ancient Tree Archive will plant 248 additional clones on the four-acre site south of Port Orford as soon as weather permits. The planting is Archangel's first attempt to re-create an old-growth forest from its storehouse of rooted cuttings from "champion" trees, the tallest, oldest and largest samples of each species it can find. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Jamie Francis) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT; THE MERCURY OUT; WILLAMETTE WEEK OUT; PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP OUT
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Terry Mock and Stephen Williams plant a coast redwood, cloned from one of the largest and oldest trees in California, on Dec. 4 south of Port Orford, Ore. Archangel Ancient Tree Archive is attempting to plant a forest on the four-acre site of scions of "champion trees."
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A young redwood stands where it was planted Tuesday, Dec. 4, in Port Orford, Ore. Two ancient redwoods cloned from some of the largest and oldest redwoods and giant sequoias in California were planted on a near-vertical hillside in remote southern Oregon.
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In this photograph made by sports photographer Rich Clarkson, Kelly Rankin starts a race at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Rankin was inducted into a Hall of Fame recently for Track and Field officials. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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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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Israel Keyes
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Jake Jaramillo points out the view to his wife, Cathy, during a walk around West Seattle on Oct. 4. They co-wrote a new pocket book on walks around Seattle, where there are some 650 outdoor stairways, 507 of them public.
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Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch (24) runs for a 33-yard touchdown in the third quarter Sunday. Lynch had 128 yards rushing and three TDs.
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Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman (25) intercepts a pass in front of Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald (11). Sherman returned it for a 19-yard touchdown.
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Seattle Seahawks tight end Zach Miller (86) celebrates in front of Arizona Cardinals strong safety Rashad Johnson (49) after scoring on a 24-yard touchdown reception during the second quarter Sunday.
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Therapy dog Stella, who belongs to Krista Anderson, of Ridgefield, patiently listens to first-graders in Michelle Lewellen’s classroom read out loud at Woodland Primary School.
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Harry Eddington shows therapy dog Raika a picture while reading out loud with classmate Britni Stapleton, background, in Andrea Edwards' first-grade classroom at Woodland Primary School.
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Bob Moser, pictured in 2005 at the Port of Vancouver, where he served as a port commissioner for 18 years.
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Columbian files Bob Moser is shown on Dec. 12, 2005, at the Port of Vancouver, where he served as a port commissioner for 18 years.
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Jessica Lee, 19, left, and Ashley Cavner, 21, from Vancouver, complete their wedding vows shortly after midnight to be the first same sex couple to be married in Clark County on Sunday. Minister Rob Figley presided over the wedding at the First Congregational Church in Vancouver.
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Jessica Lee, 19, left, and Ashley Cavner, 21, from Vancouver, complete their wedding vows shortly after midnight to be the first same sex couple to be married in Clark County on Sunday, at the First Congregational Church in Vancouver.
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Ashley Cavner, 21, left, and Jessica Lee, 19, from Vancouver, are escorted down the aisle by Drew Griffin at the First Congregational Church on Sunday. The two were married shortly after midnight becoming the first same sex couple to wed in Clark County.
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Ashley Cavner, 21, left, and Jessica Lee, 19, celebrate their wedding vows shortly after midnight Sunday.
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Ashley Cavner, 21, left, from Vancouver, celebrates her marriage to Jessica Lee, 19, at the First Congregational Church on Sunday.
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Ashley Cavner, 21, left, and Jessica Lee, 19, from Vancouver, prepare to exchange wedding vows.
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Ashley Cavner, 21, left, and Jessica Lee, 19, prepare to exchange wedding vows at the First Congregational Church on Sunday.
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Ashley Cavner, 21, left, and Jessica Lee, 19, prepare to exchange wedding vows at the First Congregational Church on Sunday.
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Jessica Lee, 19, left, and Ashley Cavner, 21, from Vancouver, WA, complete their wedding vows shortly after midnight to be the first same sex couple to be married in Clark County, Sunday, December 9, 2012. Minister Rob Figley presided over the wedding at the First Congregational Church in Vancouver, WA.
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Jessica Lee, 19, left, and Ashley Cavner, 21, complete their wedding vows shortly after midnight to be the first same sex couple to be married in Clark County on Sunday. Minister Rob Figley, right, presided over the wedding at the First Congregational Church.
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Jessica Lee, 19, left, and Ashley Cavner, 21, from Vancouver, WA, complete their wedding vows shortly after midnight to be the first same sex couple to be married in Clark County on Sunday.
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Ashley Cavner, 21, from Vancouver, WA, celebrates her marriage to Jessica Lee, 19, at the First Congregational Church in Vancouver on Sunday.
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Jessica Lee, 19, lifts her wife Ashley Cavner, 21, after getting married as they become the first same sex couple to be married in Clark County. Minister Rob Figley, left, presided over the wedding at the First Congregational Church in Vancouver.
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Jessica Lee, 19, left, and Ashley Cavner, 21, from Vancouver, complete their wedding vows shortly after midnight to be the first same sex couple to be married in Clark County on Sunday. Minister Rob Figley presided over the wedding at the First Congregational Church in Vancouver, WA.
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Jessica Lee, 19, left, and Ashley Cavner, 21, from Vancouver, complete their wedding vows shortly after midnight to be the first same sex couple to be married in Clark County on Sunday.
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Jessica Lee, 19, center, and Ashley Cavner, 21, sign their Certificate of Marriage shortly after midnight to be the first same sex couple to be married in Clark County, Sunday, December 9, 2012. Minister Rob Figley, left, presided over the wedding at the First Congregational Church in Vancouver, WA.
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Ashley Cavner, 21, and Jessica Lee, 19, were the first gay couple to marry just after midnight at a mass wedding at Vancouver's First Congregational United Church of Christ.
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