Photos for May 8, 2012
Michael Capps gives a thumbs-up as he rests in his hospital bed following his car crash last fall that left him with a broken neck.
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An image of the Capps' car after the accident that injured Michael Capps
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Belex Cheng Union High School
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Chloe Bartek Columbia River High School
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Brayden Maney, left, of Skyview High School is tagged out by Jaden Sawyer of Todd Beamer High School .
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Steven Lane/The Columbian Michael Capps suffered a broken neck in a car accident last October. But he returned to the field for Hockinson.
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Capps has been called the Hawks’ most dependable pitcher this season, who never seems to get rattled.
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Sara Rolling of Vancouver, photographed April 25.
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Linda Daley of Battle Ground, photographed April 27.
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Leslie Peterson of Vancouver, photographed April 25.
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Merle Koplan of Vancouver, photographed April 25.
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Sarah Bozarth of Woodland, photographed April 26.
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After remaining stubbornly high, the average price of gasoline in Vancouver dropped by 17 cents in the past week to $4.10, AAA Oregon/Idaho reported.
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A flipped minivan blocked Tuesday morning traffic at Mill Plain Boulevard and C Street in downtown Vancouver.
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Employees of a GE locomotive plant in Erie, Pa., visit the Columbia River Gorge to film advertising.
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Scott and Jody Campbell are honored as the 2012 Friends of the Foundation at the Community Foundation’s Annual Luncheon held at the Hilton Vancouver Washington on Tuesday.
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Jo Marie and Steve Hansen, right, are honored Tuesday as 2012 Philanthropists of the Year by last year’s winners, Connie and Lee Kearney, left, at the Community Foundation for Southwest Washington’s annual luncheon at the Hilton Vancouver Washington.
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A 6,300-foot-long BNSF Railway train pulled by a GE-made Evolution diesel electric locomotive emerges from the Cape Horn tunnel on its way to Iowa in a TV commercial.
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The Columbia River Gorge: “We didn’t know areas like this existed in America,” visitors from the East told BNSF Railway spokesman Gus Melonas. Employees of an Erie, Pa., locomotive plant came to Washington to witness their work in action for a national TV commercial.
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A helicopter is used to film a segment of a GE television commercial in the Columbia River Gorge.
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Price of Education
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Kurtis Sakai works in his office at his family’s home in Ojai, Calif., on March 2. The home is a 1970s ranch house recently remodeled in a modern style.
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Arley, 9, plays keyboard in his bedroom at the family home of Wanda Weller-Sakai and Kurtis Sakai in Ojai, Calif., on March 2.
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Arley Sakai, 9, talks to his mother, Wanda Weller-Sakai in her office at the family's home in Ojai, California, on March 2, 2012. The home is a 1970's ranch house recently remodeled in a modern style. (Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
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A photograph of Maria Delos-Carrasco Angulo is part of a memorial near the Fourth Plain Boulevard crosswalk where she was killed by a hit-and-run driver last week.
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Once planted, the dramatic flowers of the perennial clematis asao will return to the garden year after year.
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Energy Forward marks the best of Energy Star TVs
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Energy Forward marks the best of Energy Star TVs
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A pedestrian walks through Marine Park, near the Columbia River waterfront.
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This umbrella holder outside a downtown Vancouver hotel hasn't been getting much use over the past couple of days, but reports by weather spotters show just how wet the month of April has been in Clark County. There's a chance of rainfall tonight and Wednesday, but dry and warmer weather is expected to return through the weekend.
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A flipped minivan blocked traffic at Mill Plain and C Street in downtown Vancouver Tuesday morning.
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In this Sept. 25, 1985 file photo, author Maurice Sendak poses with one of the characters from his book "Where the Wild Things Are," designed for the operatic adaptation of his book in St. Paul, Minn. Sendak died, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Conn. He was 83.
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