Stories by Monika Spykerman

Call for artists: Enspire Arts is accepting applications for its 2023 student scholarships

Enspire Arts is accepting applications for its 2023 Arts Ambassador Scholarship Program until April 30. Scholarships are available in the amount of $650 for students currently in fifth to 11th grades residing in Clark County and studying art in any form, including music, visual arts, dance, drama and literary arts.… Read story

For the birds: Millet is good for folk and fowl

Millet can be enjoyed in sweet or savory recipes, but I like it best as a breakfast cereal, served warm with butter, honey and milk.

Millet is the most marvelous cereal you’ve never heard of, although you’ve definitely seen it a thousand times because unhulled millet is the main ingredient in bird seed. Birds love it and people should, too. I can’t figure out why it hasn’t become trendy like quinoa, because it shares many… Read story

Barmbrack is an Irish sweet bread speckled with raisins and other dried fruit.

Lucky loaf of the Irish

March 15, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life

When the boss gently hints that you should do something, it’s prudent to pay attention. Fortunately, the gentle hint I recently received was regarding sharing a recipe for Irish food, so I’m all in. I reviewed the usual suspects: soda bread, colcannon, Irish stew, Guinness brownies. They all sounded good,… Read story

Kentucky bluegrass group Kenny Stinson and Perfect Tym’n will join the Pacific Northwest folk-pop duo Phoenix for 7:30 p.m. concert Saturday at the Old Liberty Theater.

Try This: Kenny Stinson and Perfect Tym’n, Repair Clark County

March 9, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life

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Super-fast stuffed mushrooms make any occasion a party, even if it's just weeknight appetizers.

Mushroom Magic: Poppers are as delicious as they are ridiculously easy to make

March 8, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life

My good friend Angela Heaston’s son Levi is a senior at Camas High School this year, which means that in addition to all the other things he’s got to do in order to graduate, he’s also busily at work on his senior project. He’s writing a cookbook aimed at college… Read story

Though skirts are her biggest sellers, Stacey Silber of Do Over Designs also creates more sophisticated custom clothing to sell at juried art festivals, like this jacket pieced together with scraps of black denim and lined with a black-and-gold silk. All of Silber's materials come from Goodwill.

Rags to Riches: Clark County women turn castoff clothes into wearable art

March 5, 2023, 6:03am Clark County Life

If you’ve ever donated clothing to a resale store, you may have wondered, “What happens to the clothes that don’t get sold?” Read story

It's not Campbell's soup. It has a stronger tomato flavor with subtle spices. Flavor it with whatever herbs you like best.

Homemade tomato soup, cheesy cheddar toast feels like home

March 1, 2023, 6:03am Clark County Life

Whenever I was sick as a girl, my mother made me Campbell’s tomato soup. She’d set up a TV table in the family room next to the couch, where, home from school for the day, I’d be snuggled up on the couch watching reruns of “Gilligan’s Island.” She’d bring me… Read story

Stories by Monika Spykerman

Columbian staff writer