Photos for March 6, 2013
Gabi Dixson, Concordia University track and field
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Kayla Banos-Arceo, 10, a student at Washington Elementary School, moves in a modern dance class led by Vancouver School of Arts and Academics teacher Fern Tresvan, background left. The Vancouver Public Schools Arts Program received a grant from the Dizzy Feet Foundation to offer an after-school dance program to students between the ages of 8 and 13.
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"Beautiful. Good job," encourages Ixel Olivas during an after-school contemporary dance class for fourth- and fifth-graders paid by a grant. Olivas teaches movement and P.E. at Washington Elementary.
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"Feel that beat? Move your hips with it," Truman Elementary School teacher Sheyla Mattos says as she leads an after-school Brazilian dance class at VSAA.
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Washington Elementary School teacher Ixel Olivas, left, gives kids a contemporary dance lesson as part of a grant provided to Vancouver School of Arts and Academics by the Dizzy Feet Foundation to offer an after-school dance program at VSAA on Wednesday March 6, 2013. (Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian)
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Sheyla Mahtos (not pictured) gives kids a Brazilian dance lesson as part of a grant provided to Vancouver School of Arts and Academics by the Dizzy Feet Foundation to offer an after-school dance program at VSAA on Wednesday March 6, 2013. (Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian)
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Washington Elementary School student Kayla Banos-Arceo, 10, gets a lesson in modern dance by Vancouver School of Arts and Academics dance faculty member Fern Tresvan, background left, as part of a grant provided to VSAA by the Dizzy Feet Foundation to offer an after-school dance program on Wednesday March 6, 2013. (Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian)
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Kids get a dance lesson as part of a grant provided to Vancouver School of Arts and Academics by the Dizzy Feet Foundation to offer an after-school dance program at VSAA on Wednesday March 6, 2013. (Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian)
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Sheyla Mahtos gives kids a Brazilian dance lesson as part of a grant provided to Vancouver School of Arts and Academics by the Dizzy Feet Foundation to offer an after-school dance program at VSAA on Wednesday March 6, 2013. (Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian)
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Washington Elementary School teacher Ixel Olivas gives kids a contemporary dance lesson as part of a grant provided to Vancouver School of Arts and Academics by the Dizzy Feet Foundation to offer an after-school dance program at VSAA on Wednesday March 6, 2013. (Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian)
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Kids get a dance lesson as part of a grant provided to Vancouver School of Arts and Academics by the Dizzy Feet Foundation to offer an after-school dance program at VSAA on Wednesday March 6, 2013. (Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian)
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Kids get a dance lesson as part of a grant provided to Vancouver School of Arts and Academics by the Dizzy Feet Foundation to offer an after-school dance program at VSAA on Wednesday March 6, 2013. (Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian)
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Vancouver School of Arts and Academics dance faculty member Fern Tresvan gives kids a modern dance lesson as part of a grant provided to VSAA by the Dizzy Feet Foundation to offer an after-school dance program on Wednesday March 6, 2013. (Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian)
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Junia Limage, Concordia University track and field
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Gabi Dixson, Concordia University track and field
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Kasey Calwell is The Columbian's swimmer of the year, shown, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (Steven Lane/The Columbian)
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Memphis Grizzlies' Tayshaun Prince, right, is pressured by Portland Trail Blazers' LaMarcus Aldridge during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Memphis, Tenn., Wednesday, March 6, 2013. The Grizzlies won 91-85. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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Republican Sen. Steve Litzow, center, talks with Majority Coalition Caucus leader Rodney Tom, left, and Democratic Sen. Andy Billig, right, on the state Senate floor on Wednesday in Olympia.
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Dee Memering
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Nicollette Roth
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Linda Reid
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Jeff Harvey
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Carol Davis
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Two guns lie at the scene where five people were shot and two suspects were taken into custody along the Mardi Gras parade route in New Orleans in 2009. A study published Wednesday found Louisiana was among the states with the fewest gun laws and most gun deaths.
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An investigation into a February 2012 plane crash near Mount Si that killed three people found that the pilot of the Cessna had a 0.15 percent blood alcohol content. Seth Dawson, a former Vancouver man, was a passenger in the plane and was killed in the crash.
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Rep. Jim Moeller greets former Gov. Chris Gregoire during a visit to Vancouver in 2012.
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Customers shop at a Costco in Portland on Dec. 7.
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Columbian files Casual-dining restaurants such as Applebee's and Red Lobster, inset, have seen fewer diners in recent years.
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Visits to "fast-casual" restaurants, which include brands such as Chipotle, rose by 8 percent last year compared with 2011, according to NPD Group.
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Red Lobster
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Diners eat at a Tijuana Flats restaurant in Orlando, Florida. More Americans are trading in mid-priced sit-down restaurants, known as casual dining in the industry, for cheaper, faster fare.
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Belly Dance in America will be held at the Liberty Theater in Ridgefield.
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Grace Constantine will perform at Belly Dance in America, presenting the history of the dance form through performances and workshops, on March 8-9 at the Old Liberty Theater in Ridgefield.
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Belly Dance in America presents the history of the dance form through performances and workshops March 8-9 at the Old Liberty Theater in Ridgefield.
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This belly dance ensemble from 1975, designed by Samira Costume Maker, will be part of Friday’s fashion show.
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Belly Dancers will show off a variety of moods and fashions at this weekend’s Belly Dance in America show. Dancer Jenza wears a striped belly dance costume in 1978. This costume will be shown in the Fashion Show on Friday.
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"Belly Dance in America" presents the history of the dance form through performances and workshops March 8-9, 2013 at the Old Liberty Theater in Ridgefield. No name for the dancer.
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Grace Constantine is one of the performers at Belly Dance in America on March 8-9 at the Old Liberty Theater in Ridgefield.
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Americanistan, based in Eugene, is the band for Belly Dance in America.
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Donna models a Persian lace costume that will be shown at the fashion show. The fabric is not made anymore and very hard to find.
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Dunyah wears an Ouled Nail costume and will perform this style. Ouled Nail is another one of the foundations of American Cabaret Belly Dance. Dunyah is also the director of Americanistan.
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Photo submitted by Suzanne McNeil /2013 for the Belly Dance in America Show Belly Dancers will show off a variety of moods and fashions at this weekend's Belly Dance in America show. An Afghani style dress from 1975, will be modeled in the fashion show, designed by Samira Costume Maker (a designer label from the 70's), model: in the picture, Elayssa Thompson.
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Rebecca Conant is wearing a Banat Mazin Style Ghawazee costume and she will perform this style in the March 9 Belly Dance in America Show. Ghawazee style folk dance is from Egypt and is one of the root foundations of American cabaret belly dance.
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Dick Borneman of Vancouver with a string of kokanee caught at Merwin Reservoir.
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Chandra Brown
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J.B.Robinson of North Bend, left, and Gregory Walter of Ridgefield worked on Quartz Creek trail No. 5 during summer of 2011.
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The Fresno Bee files John Alvin color illustration of person holding umbrella of storms overhead on an otherwise sunny day; for the concept of pessimism or negative thinking.
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Roger Ullenberg's reserved parking sign creation.
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"Jazzy" John Moak
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Roger Ullenberg, "The Balloon Wizard," holds versions of disabled parking signs he created.
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Russian dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko after a dress rehearsal of Ivan the Terrible
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Russian dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko, as Ivan the Terrible, right, and ballerina Anna Nikulina as Anastasia, wife of Ivan the Terrible, perform at a dress rehearsal of Ivan the Terrible in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia.
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Russian dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko as Ivan the Terrible
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Artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet Sergei Filin
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This citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian rebels standing in the rubble of damaged buildings due to government airstrikes in Homs, Syria, on Wednesday. The chief of staff of the rebel army pleaded with the international community Wednesday to supply arms and ammunition so the opposition can resist attacks by the regime of Syria's President Bashar Assad.
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Checking La Pierre
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., confer on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks in Austin, Texas.
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CodePink activist Media Benjamin holds a sign in protest of drone strikes as Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
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A portion of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is seen from the air Wednesday near Richland.
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, left, is briefed by Department of Ecology Director Maia Bellon, right, on Wednesday as they fly to Richland.
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee looks out the window of his plane as it flies over the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, left, looks at a map with Department of Ecology Director Maia Bellon, right, on Wednesday as they fly to Richland to tour the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and meet with Energy officials in order to learn more about tanks on the site that are leaking radioactive waste.
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Cardinal Roger Mahoney, left, and cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley arrive in St. Peter's Basilica to attend a vespers celebration at the Vatican on Wednesday.
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Cardinal Marc Ouellet, center, checks his watch as he talks with an unidentified prelate in St. Peter's Basilica during a vespers celebration at the Vatican on Wednesday.
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Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle sits as he waits for the start of a vespers celebration in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Wednesday.
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Cardinal Angelo Comastri holds up the Ostensory during a vespers celebration in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Wednesday.
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A man screams as the coffin of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez passes in the street.
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A member of the presidential guard, top, places a flower on the coffin containing the body of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez as it is taken from the hospital where he died to a military academy where it will remain until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday.
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Supporters of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez crowd the street to watch his coffin pass by as it is paraded from the hospital where he died Tuesday to a military academy where it will remain until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela.
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A man walks near the main gate of Glenwood Gardens in Bakersfield, Calif., where an elderly woman died after a nurse refused to perform CPR on her last week.
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CIA director nominee John Brennan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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A man walks across the campus as University employees remove snow from the parking lots at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio on Wednesday.
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Bicycles are parked outside Hamilton Hall dorms are covered in snow after a storm passed the area Wednesday at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.
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Heavy wet snow settles on a skylight obscuring the outline of the Capitol Dome in Washington on Wednesday.
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Margaret Joseph, 7, of Annandale, Va., sleds on a hill at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va., on Wednesday. Schools in the region closed ahead of the storm.
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Strong west winds from the approaching winter storm push Pamlico Sound water up on Hatteras Island at Rodanthe, N.C. on Wednesday.
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An investigation into a February 2012 plane crash near Mount Si that killed three people found that the pilot of the Cessna had a .15 percent blood alcohol content. Seth Dawson, a former Vancouver man, was a passenger in the plane and died in the crash.
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Yuriy V. Tasmaly, 18, of Vancouver appears March 6, 2013 in Clark County Superior Court on accusations of vehicular homicide, hit and run death and vehicle theft.
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Last night (some how it went un noticed) someone burned a Honey Bucket that was chained next to the pole by the camas washougal skate park. My brother thought he smelled burning plastic coming from the bowling alley lot and so we stopped by yesterday morning to find this.Honey bucket burned to the ground. Tonight the Fire setters lit up a honey bucket next to shmittys restaurant on 3rd. Some one is ruining honey buckets! one a night for two nights! there's a interested story here!
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