Photos for February 25, 2013
Prairie High School students greet a group from Battle Ground High School during a rally and walk May 4, 2006, supporting a May 16 school levy vote. That levy failed to receive the required 60% supermajority both in May and three months earlier. The Battle Ground School District is again asking for a revote on a failed levy.
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LSU defensive lineman Barkevious Mingo at Monday's NFL combine.
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Dr. Edmund Kwan, from Tukwila, packs and contours a amalgam filling as he performed a root canal on Boris the polar bear Feb. 23 at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium's animal health care hospital in Tacoma. A team of veterinarians, technicians and staff performed a full physical exam, a root canal and some minor eye surgery on the 922 pound, 27-year-old polar bear who was rescued from a Mexican circus in Puerto Rico.
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As Boris the Polar bear slept it off, head veterinarian Karen Wolf, left, works on trimming claws and taking care of paws Saturday, Feb. 23 at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma.
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Dr. Edmund Kwan at left, performs a root canal as Dr. Tom Sullivan removed a growth from the eye lid of Boris, a Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium polar bear Feb. 23 at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium's animal health care hospital in Tacoma.
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Sedated, Boris the bear is cared for during a physical examine Feb. 23 at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium's animal health care hospital in Tacoma.
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Gloved hands are dwarfed by one of Boris' paws at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium's animal health care hospital Saturday in Tacoma.
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Boris the polar bear, 27, has a full physical exam Saturday at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium's animal hospital in Tacoma. The team of veterinarians and staff also gave the sleeping giant a root canal and some minor eye surgery.
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Numbers identify segments of the exterior wall of Crestline Elementary after fire ripped through the school in the early morning of Feb. 3. Fire investigators are combing through the rubble and piecing together what might have happened.
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A classroom door, bubbled and charred by fire, leads to remnants of the elementary school.
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A framed photo sits on the metal edge of a dry erase board inside a burned-out classroom.
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Graham Trucking, right, and Oh Boy! Oberto exit turn two and race to the finish line in Qatar.
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Nelson Holmberg and crew get the Graham Trucking hydroplane ready for competition in Qatar.
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Chris Denslow/H1Unlimited.com Graham Trucking, right, and Oh Boy! Oberto exit turn two and race to the finish line in Qatar.
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Chris Denslow/H1Unlimited.com Nelson Holmberg and crew get the Graham Trucking hydroplane ready for competition in Qatar.
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Vancouver resident Nelson Holmberg works on the Graham Trucking hydroplane during the Oryx Cup UIM World Championship in Doha Bay, Qatar.
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American jam band moe. will perform March 1 at McMenamins Crystal Ballroom in Portland.
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The Greek omelet at the St. John's Cafe.
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The Greek omelet, center, and Wonder Hash Browns at the St. John's Cafe.
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Gonzaga's Gary Bell Jr. (5) follows through for a 3-point shot against Loyola Marymount, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. Gonzaga reached an all-time ranking, coming in at No. 2 on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013.
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Native American Women attend a healing circle recently in the longhouse at the Hibulb Cultural Center on the Tulalip Reservation, where women gathered to discuss violence against women and to promote passage in Congress of the Violence Against Women Act.
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he five moons in their orbits around Pluto. An online vote to name Pluto's two newest, itty-bitty moon concluded Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, and the winner is Vulcan, a name suggested by actor William Shatner, who played Capt. Kirk in the original "Star Trek" TV series.
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NASA Hubble Space Telescope Pluto and three of its five moons
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Day W Hilborn's stone mill built in Whipple Creek Regional Park photo taken by Anita Will in 2010 before the removing what was left of the Wooden Water wheel please help restore Whipple Creek Regional Park Trails, the Stone Mill, & Wooden Water wheel
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Emergency responders work to stabilize a listing barge laden with scrap car hulks anchored near the northern shore of Commencement Bay in Tacoma.
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Whipple Creek Regoinal Park, North ridge way Trail in the west end of the park
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Central Park: Girls in local Camp Fire USA clubs The Soaring Butterflies and The USA Polar Bears -- including Adeline Johnston, from left, Delaney Rice, Maegan Davidson, Meena Mortazavi, Leslie Wright and Clara Johnston -- show love to veterans during their February Salute to Hospitalized Veterans. The girls made and delivered Valentine's Day cards on Feb. 9 to veterans at the Vancouver campus of the Portland VA Medical Center.
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Central Park: During Bob Moser Night at a Clark College men's basketball game Feb. 16, his widow, Mary Lou, center, was surprised when the crowd held up masks of the former college spokesman. The masks were distributed to the audience by the Clark College Foundation. Moser died in December.
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FILE - A sea bird is mired in oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast in this June 3, 2010 file photo. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon has affected wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico. A high-stakes trial to assign blame and help figure out exactly how much more BP and other companies should pay for the spill began Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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A shrimp boat is used to collect oil with booms in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, La., in May 2010. A civil trial related to the Gulf oil spill began Monday.
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FILE - In this June 15, 2010 file photo, a member of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's staff wearing a glove reaches into thick oil on the surface of the northern regions of Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish, La. The Gulf oil spill settlement trial has started in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is scheduled to hear several hours of opening statements Monday by lawyers for the companies, federal and state governments and others who sued over the disaster. Barbier is hearing the case without a jury. The trial is designed to identify the causes of BP's well blowout and assign percentages of fault to the companies. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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Esther Short: Robbie Moore, president of the local Aglow International group, extends her hand while she prays on Feb. 16 near the Clark County Courthouse flag pole. She and fellow residents prayed that day as part of the 40 Days of Prayer for Clark County campaign.
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Ridgefield: During a Feb. 18 presentation at South Ridge Elementary School, visiting "Reptile Man" Scott Petersen shows how Lucy the alligator can sit up and fall asleep on command.
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Andresen/St. Johns: John Winter, from left, Virgil Ines and Bernie Ines, students in Clark County Food Bank's first Cooking Matters course, learn to create a nutritious meal.
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Numbers identify segments of the exterior wall of Crestline Elementary School after fire ripped through the school in the early morning of Feb. 3. Fire investigators are combing through the rubble and piecing together what might have happened.
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A classroom door, bubbled and charred by fire, leads to remnants of the elementary school.
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The burned out shell of Crestline Elementary School sits empty on Monday in Vancouver.
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The heat from the fire at Crestline melted paint off doors and destroyed the elementary school building.
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Messages hang on a fence in front of the burned-out shell of Crestline Elementary School.
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A fence keeps the public off the property surrounding Crestline Elementary Elementary School.
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The gym at Crestline Elementary School, shot through an open door, is one of the few parts of the building still standing.
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The rubble of Crestline Elementary School is still under investigation.
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An exterior door of the burned out shell of Crestline Elementary School on Monday February 25, 2013. (Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian)
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A desk chair sits in the rubble of the burned-out Crestline Elementary School site.
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A picture sits on the metal edge of a dry erase board inside a burned-out classroom.
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Books and school supplies lay among the ashy remains of Crestline Elementary, 13003 S.E. Seventh St. in Cascade Park.
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The burned out shell of Crestline Elementary School sits empty on Monday February 25, 2013. (Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian)
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Books and school supplies lay among the remains of Crestline Elementary School.
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Maintaining the High Ground
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Former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop, who raised the profile of the surgeon general by riveting America's attention on the then-emerging disease known as AIDS and by railing against smoking, died Monday at age 96.
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A collection of hat pins on display inside the La Center Historical Museum.
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President of the nonprofit La Center Museum Association, Barbara Barnhart talks about a dining room table at which all the "food" is actually rocks and minerals. Top: A collection of hat pins on display inside the La Center Historical Museum.
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A sewing machine that belonged to Elvira Gregory is among the displays in the La Center Historical Museum. The sewing machine and other precious family possessions were buried during the Yacolt Burn, but the family's property was spared when the wind changed.
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Advertising for Ikea meatballs in the parking area at an Ikea store in Malmo, Sweden, on Monday. Furniture retailer Ikea says it has halted all sales of meatballs in Sweden after Czech authorities detected horse meat in frozen meatballs that were labeled as beef and pork.
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Free Syrian Army fighters perform a traditional dance as they sing songs against Syrian president Bashar Assad during a revolutionary party at one of their caves in Jabal al-Zaweya, in Idlib Province, Syria, on Monday. Syria is ready to hold talks with the armed opposition trying to topple President Bashar Assad, the country's foreign minister said Monday, in the government's most advanced offer yet to try to resolve the 2-year-old civil war through negotiations.
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Anne Campbell, left, deals with a busted umbrella while walking in high winds on her way back to work from getting coffee with coworker Jani Snell in Bellingham on Monday.
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Babysitter Faith Whitney pulls two-year-old Teddy through the snow on a sled in Denver on Monday. A winter storm passed through Colorado on Sunday, dumping over a foot of snow in the Denver area.
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Cattle stand in blizzard conditions in Lubbock, Texas, on Monday. State troopers are unable to respond to calls for assistance and National Guard units are mobilizing as a winter storm blankets the central Plains with a foot of snow in some places. Roads are closed Monday throughout West Texas and the Panhandle.
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The Oregon House has approved $450 million in bonds to help pay for a new Interstate 5 Bridge connecting Portland and Vancouver over the Columbia River.
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ECHO Tech Deborah Reyes performs an echocardiogram on Noah Morasch, 17, a junior at Mountain View High School, on Saturday. The Young Champions heart screening program is operated by PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center and the Quinn Driscoll Foundation.
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Ryan L. Matison, 20, of Battle Ground appears Feb. 25, 2013 on an allegation of a Nov. 23 vehicular homicide of a Woodland girl, 17, on Highway 502. Courtesy of KATU.
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