Photos for May 25, 2012
Skyview's Jameson Shirley won the Class 4A pole vault state championship Friday at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. He cleared 15 feet, 6 inches for the victory.
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Kathran Dean of Mountain View set a personal record of 18 feet 7 inches to place third in the 3A girls long jump.
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Travelers gather Friday at a security checkpoint at Portland International Airport. The number of holiday travelers is estimated at 34.8 million, but AAA predicts a 5.5 percent decline in air travel this weekend.
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Holiday travelers gather at the ticket counter at Portland International Airport Friday, May 25, 2012, in Portland, Ore. About 30.7 million people will drive more than 50 miles for Memorial Day trips, according to auto club AAA. That's 400,000 more than last year, a jump AAA attributes to improvement in the economy and consumer attitudes. The number of holiday†travelers grows to 34.8 million when you include planes, trains and other means of transportation. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Skyview's Austin Horner, left, sweeps past Cobi Guerrinha of Central Valley as he looks for an opportunity to take a shot on goal Friday at Sparks Stadium in Puyallup. Horner had two goals in the game as Skyview beat Central Valley 4-1 in the 4A state semifinal.
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Phosphate levels are checked in water from the Muddy River near Mount St. Helens.
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A crowd gathers to see damage caused by a lightning strike to two trees across Mill Plain Boulevard from Hudson's Bay High School on Friday evening.
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Students from all over Clark County spent Thursday working with representatives from the USFS, Mount St. Helens Institute, and Smith Root on hands on projects related to the fish and streams on Mount St. Helens.
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From left, Jesus Cortes of Hudson's Bay High School; Fallon Biancaniello, Fort Vancouver High School; Lisa Harlan, biologist with Smith-Root; and Oscar Morales, CASEE, electroshock fish in the Muddy River near Mount St. Helens on Thursday. Clark County students were part of a STEM expedition organized by the Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council.
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Brian Connolly, from Washougal High School, tests the pH of water in the Muddy River near Mount St. Helens. The field trip inspired Connolly to suggest making STEM activities part of the outdoor-sports club at his school.
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Carina Herbst, from Heritage High School, measures the dissolved oxygen level in water from the Muddy River near Mount St. Helens. Students tested several aspects of water quality in the waterway that was filled with ash and silt after the 1980 eruption.
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A stunned coho salmon is collected after electroshock fishing in the Muddy River near Mount St. Helens.
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Students from all over Clark County spent Thursday working with representatives from the USFS, Mount St. Helens Institute, and Smith Root on hands on projects related to the fish and streams on Mount St. Helens.
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A crowd gathers to see damage caused by a lightning strike to two trees across Mill Plain Boulevard from Hudson's Bay High School on Friday.
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Lightning shattered a tree Friday evening near Hudson's Bay High School in Vancouver.
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Anna Adamko, Washington State University track and field.
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Mountain View's Peter Prescott heads away a corner kick from Jesse Moore of Bainbridge during Friday's 3A state soccer semifinal match at Sparks Stadium in Puyallup. Bainbridge won the game 6-2.
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John Eckhart, here Thursday in Clark County Superior Court, testified in his defense Friday that he put his autistic sons in a locked room for their own safety. Eckhart and Alayna Higdon are on trial for unlawful imprisonment.
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Alayna Higdon, here Thursday in Clark County Superior Court, resumed testifying Friday morning. Of her ex-boyfriend's autistic sons, she said, "I loved them. I still love them."
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Prof. Brancaccioís Politics 101 class in session.
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Prof. Brancaccioís Politics 101 class in session.
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A few ideas for a carefree Class of '12 celebration menu include Apple-Glazed Meatballs.
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A few ideas for a carefree Class of '12 celebration menu include a macaroni salad ring.
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Diploma Sandwiches.
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A few ideas for a carefree Class of '12 celebration menu include mini phyllo tacos.
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Peanut Butter Cup Caps.
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Pulled Pork Sliders.
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A few ideas for a carefree Class of '12 celebration menu include Cheese cake bars.
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A few ideas for a carefree Class of '12 celebration menu include apple-glazed meatballs.
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Mark Curtis shows off the magnets on a Gorilla Post.
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Employee Zach Thompson assembles a Gorilla Post.
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Mark Curtis
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Demonstrators line Columbia Street on Friday as U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, kicks off her campaign for re-election at a private event at the Red Lion Hotel Vancouver at the Quay. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, planned to attend the event.
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Laina Harris shares a moment with her 10-year-old son, Cameron, in the kitchen of the family's Camas home. Harris wants to lose enough weight to have a healthy body mass index score and be able to play soccer with her son.
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Laina Harris holds a photograph of her family on a vacation to Disneyland. Harris has few photos of herself as she often tries to avoid the camera due to her weight.
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Laina Harris shares a moment with her 10-year-old son, Cameron, in the kitchen of the family's Camas home. Harris wants to lose enough weight to have a healthy body mass index score and be able to play soccer with her son.
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Laina Harris holds a photograph of her family on a vacation to Disneyland. Harris has few photos of herself as she often tries to avoid the camera due to her weight.
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Commercial beer brewing has a long history in downtown Vancouver, with the last large operation -- the Lucky Lager Brewery, shown here in 1953 -- shutting down in 1985. Its looming structure was demolished in 1995 and the site redeveloped as the three-tower Vancouvercenter.
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Clark County Historical Museum Military men from the Vancouver Barracks belly up to the bar at the downtown Log Cabin Saloon, a popular drinking hole for soldiers stationed here in the early 1900s.
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WinCo Foods will begin selling liquor on June 1 and has started clearing enough shelf space to carry about 150 stock units at each of its four Clark County stores.
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Portland police are trying to solve the mystery of two young children and an infant who were found abandoned in a shed.
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Male toddler found abandoned in a shed.
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Female toddler found abandoned in a shed.
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Female infant found abandoned in a shed.
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