Photos for February 4, 2013
Nelson Holmberg
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Nelson Holmberg of Vancouver will be part of the pit crew for the Graham Trucking boat this week at the Oryx Cup UIM World Championship in Doha, Qatar.
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From left, Elizabeth McCoy, 75, Pat Dial, 77, Kathy Ruble, 65, and Maggie Burnham, 81, enjoy the comraderie at their weekly game of Shanghai at the Fairway Village Clubhouse. The Shanghai group has been playing together for at least two decades.
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The Black and Blue burger served with tiger petals (fries), dinner salad and chocolate cake at Tiger Lily in downtown Vancouver.
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The Black and Blue burger served with tiger petals (fries), dinner salad and chocolate cake at Tiger Lily in downtown Vancouver.
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The National Park Service has terminated an agreement with the city of Vancouver, putting Pearson Air Museum under management of the park service's Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.
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A crowd attends an aerospace supply chain workshop at Pearson Air Museum on April 4.
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Marco Krenn Florida punk band Hot Water Music will perform Feb. 8, 2013 at the Hawthorne Theater in Portland.
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Portland Trail Blazers' Wesley Matthews (2) moves the ball alongside Minnesota Timberwolves' Ricky Rubio (9), of Spain, during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, in Minneapolis. The Trail Blazers won 100-98. (AP Photo/Hannah Foslien)
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Portland Trail Blazers' Wesley Matthews (2) moves the ball alongside Minnesota Timberwolves' Ricky Rubio (9), of Spain, during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, in Minneapolis. The Trail Blazers won 100-98. (AP Photo/Hannah Foslien)
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Alicia Cowart laughs during a round of Shanghai with a group at the Fairway Village Clubhouse.
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Suzanne Brandt, 91, has been playing in the weekly Shanghai Rummy card game at Fairway Village for about 10 years.
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Pat Dial has played the card game Shanghai Rummy with a group of women at the Fairway Village Clubhouse for the past 20 years.
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Maggie Burnham checks her cards during the weekly Shanghai Rummy game at Fairway Village.
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Alicia Cowart laughs during a round of Shanghai with a group at the Fairway Village Clubhouse.
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Suzanne Brandt, 91, has been playing in the weekly Shanghai Rummy card game at Fairway Village for about 10 years.
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Pat Dial looks at her cards during the weekly Shanghai Rummy game at the Fairway Village Clubhouse.
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Pat Dial has played the card game Shanghai with a group of women at the Fairway Village Clubhouse for the past 20 years.
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Maggie Burnham checks her cards during the weekly Shanghai Rummy game at Fairway Village.
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Photos by STEVEN LANE/The Columbian Pat Dial looks at her cards during the weekly Shanghai Rummy game at the Fairway Village Clubhouse.
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Columbian files Cyclists cross a bridge on the Heritage Trail along Lacamas Creek.
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Travis Vaughan and his wife Marci Hansen, from Vancouver, enjoy a mountain bike ride near Round Lake in Camas.
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Kids ride on the Heritage Trail near Lacamas Lake.
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Travis Vaughan and his wife Marci Hansen, from Vancouver, enjoy a mountain bike ride near Round Lake in Camas.
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Captain and Assistant Public Information Officer with the Vancouver Fire Department, Scott Willis, gathers information by cell phone outside the burned out Crestline Elementary School on Monday.
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A homemade sign hangs near Crestline Elementary School, which burned early Sunday.
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Ari Evans, 9, a fourth grade student at Crestline Elementary School, stops to look at the burned out school during a bike ride with her mother, Heather Evans, as people slow down in their cars to take pictures of the remains of the school Monday. "I can't believe we lost our Salmon eggs," said Ari, "They were just about to hatch."
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Lead investigator with the Vancouver Fire Department, John Gentry, center, talks to Dan Modrall, left, with the Evergreen School District, and Virginia Chapman, a fire investigator with the Vancouver Fire Department amid the burned out rubble at Crestline Elementary School on Monday.
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Lead investigator with the Vancouver Fire Department, John Gentry, center, looks amid the burned out rubble at Crestline Elementary School on Monday. The investigation into the cause of the fire continues into its fourth day.
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Kimimila Ripoyla, 8, a third grade student at Crestline Elementary School, points to one of her classrooms while visiting the aftermath of the school fire Monday. "I'll be sad if we can't keep our class together," Ripoyla said.
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A fire investigator walks past the burned out rubble of Crestline Elementary School on Monday.
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Brandy
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Madame Meow
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Tyler Burton, who suffered a brain injury in an assault in California last year, rests during a physical therapy session at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center on Monday.
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Tyler Burton, 21, suffered a traumatic brain injury after he was punched in the head Oct. 28 in Chico, Calif. Doctors didn't expect him to survive his injuries.
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Tyler Burton, who suffered a traumatic brain injury after being assaulted last year, works with his physical therapist, Tim Hughes, at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center on Monday. Burton will be discharged from the hospital's inpatient rehabilitation center in the coming days. He arrived at the center in late December.
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Kevin Gray
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Bennington: Abigail Jiang, right, confers with teammate Misum Chang. The Shahala Middle School students competed in the BPA Regional Science Bowl held Jan. 26 at University of Portland.
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Andresen/St. Johns: Clark County Food Bank Executive Director Alan Hamilton, from left, Walk and Knock President Roxie Olsen and food bank Operations Manager James Fitzgerald.
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Arnada: Howard Turner, owner of Vancouver-based Hamilton Wholesale, was picked last month to join Portland Rescue Mission's board of directors.
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Battle Ground: Clark County 4-H Robotics Club members Nadia Khan, left, and Grace Fulfer. Their team, "The Soggy Cloverteers," took a first place at the annual Intel Oregon FIRST LEGO League Championship Tournament on Jan. 19-20 in Hillsboro, Ore.
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Hockinson: Clark County Fire District 3 Chief Steve Wrightson presents Mike and Kari Smith of Hockinson with the Sylvia Kiive Good Neighbor Award on Dec. 14. The pair's donation helped purchase an airbag rescue system.
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Carrie Schulstad, the Battle Ground Chamber of Commerce's new executive director, says she will lean on her experience as a volunteer business leader in Camas to help businesses connect with each other and the community.
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Stars Have Aligned
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Woodland City Councilor John J. Burke surveys the Oak Tree Casino Restaurant, which closed at the end of December. A new ownership group from Portland has reached an agreement to purchase the business.
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Director of Clark County Environmental Services Kevin Gray resigned his position last week.
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Armed law enforcement personnel station themselves near the property of Jimmy Lee Dykes on Monday in Midland City, Ala. Officials say they stormed a bunker in Alabama to rescue a 5-year-old child being held hostage there after Dykes, his abductor, was seen with a gun. Dykes was killed.
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Bus driver Charles Albert Poland Jr.
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Jimmy Lee Dykes is a 65-year-old retired truck driver officials identify as the suspect in a fatal shooting and hostage standoff in Midland City, Ala.
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Members of the FBI team wait on Saturday in Midland City, Ala.
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Vancouver Heights: Vancouver Bridge Club President Steve Tubbs presents a $210 check on Jan. 25 to Julie Rinard, charitable planning manager for Community Home Health and Hospice.
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Washougal: Hathaway Elementary Booster Nancy Kutchera helps students pick out new reads at the school's Trade-a-Book program.
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Judge Diane Woolard, photographed here in her office late last year, will retire from the bench.
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Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., returned to the Violence Against Women Act, seeking to accomplish what Congress last year failed to do -- extend the federal government's chief means of protecting women from domestic abuse while broadening those protections to better include Native Americans, gays and lesbians.
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People stand near the memorial stone to King Richard III, inside Leicester Cathedral, England, on Monday. Leicester University declared Monday that the remains found underneath a car park in September at the Grey Friars excavation in Leicester were "beyond reasonable doubt" the long lost remains of England's King Richard III, missing for 500 years. Richard was immortalized in a play by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked usurper who left a trail of bodies -- including those of his two young nephews, murdered in the Tower of London -- on his way to the throne.
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The remains found underneath a car park in September at the Grey Friars excavation in Leicester, which were declared Monday "beyond reasonable doubt" to be the long lost remains of England's King Richard III, missing for 500 years.
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Jo Appleby, a lecturer in Human Bioarchaeology at University of Leicester, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, who led the exhumation of the remains found during a dig at a Leicester car park, speaks at the university Monday. Tests have established that a skeleton found in the dig are "beyond reasonable doubt" the long lost remains of England's King Richard III, missing for 500 years.
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Kimimila Ripoyla, 8, a third-grade student at Crestline Elementary School, points to one of her classrooms while visiting the aftermath of the school fire this morning. "I'll be sad if we can't keep our class together," Ripoyla said. The current plan is to keep the classes and grades together.
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Fire investigators will try to examine the ruins of Crestline Elementary as soon as it is safe to do so. The ruins were still smoldering this morning, above.
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Pacific FC 01 Blue girls U-11 Washington state Founders Cup Champions. 1-0 win on Feb. 3, 2013 against NSC Velocity.
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A tow crew assists a truck driver who ran off the road early today on Northeast 134th Street near Interstates 5 and 205.
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Fire officials are investigating what caused an early morning fire that destroyed a mobile home near Battle Ground Lake.
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