May 30, 2011, 5:00pm Clark County News
Classes and events Seasonal Feast: 6 p.m. June 10, Urban Abundance and Slow Food Southwest Washington host a three-course meal highlighting ingredients from the farms of Clark County. Pioneer Grange Hall, 3803 N.E. 199th St., Ridgefield. * Tickets: http://www.myurbanabundance.org/seasonal-feast. Read story
November 17, 2009, 12:00am Imported
Ducks are smarter than you think Byron Lathim's Nov. 6 letter, "Refuge riveted by hunters' bullets," expressed concern over the hunting of "tame" ducks at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge. Rest assured that the waterfowl at the refuge are not tame. They are wild birds that are either year-round residents… Read story
November 17, 2009, 12:00am Imported
Ducks are smarter than you think Byron Lathim's Nov. 6 letter, "Refuge riveted by hunters' bullets," expressed concern over the hunting of "tame" ducks at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge. Rest assured that the waterfowl at the refuge are not tame. They are wild birds that are either year-round residents… Read story
November 16, 2009, 12:00am Imported
Thank veterans for our freedoms I am an eighth-grader, and when I heard that we would get a day off, my first thoughts were, "Hooray, no school!" That is the reaction of millions of students across the nation. To us, Nov. 11 is just a day that we get to… Read story
November 16, 2009, 12:00am Imported
Thank veterans for our freedoms I am an eighth-grader, and when I heard that we would get a day off, my first thoughts were, "Hooray, no school!" That is the reaction of millions of students across the nation. To us, Nov. 11 is just a day that we get to… Read story
November 14, 2009, 12:00am Imported
We can't afford delusional vision Unemployment close to 12 percent, business is down, no true signs of recovery in sight, and the City of Vancouver and The Columbian present a new bridge, a freeway cap and a new high-rise development as Vancouver's future image of who they may be one… Read story
November 14, 2009, 12:00am Imported
Show of appreciation meant a lot My wife and I attended the Celebrate Freedom Veterans Parade on Nov. 7. In the 40 years since I was discharged in 1969, we had never attended any Veterans Day-related parade. (It's hard to erase the feelings of being spit on while walking across… Read story
November 13, 2009, 12:00am Imported
Area's identity lost to outside world A major league pitcher, Tim Lincecum, gets busted for speeding and dope, nothing new. (Nov. 6 story, "Pot found in star pitcher's car during I-5 stop.") But some of the national media had this arrest taking place in Canada, near Canada, north of Seattle,… Read story
November 12, 2009, 12:00am Imported
Veterans Parade inspirational I attended our 23rd annual Celebrate Freedom Veterans Parade on Nov. 7. I overheard the organizers state it was the worst weather they had ever experienced. Well, you wouldn't have known it to look at the parade participants. From the veterans and active military, firefighters and police,… Read story
November 11, 2009, 12:00am Imported
'Fort' belongs in city's name In October 1843, John C. Fremont left Kit Carson in charge of the exploration group at The Dalles. He and a few others traveled down the Columbia River toward the location of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, where they purchased needed supplies directly… Read story