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Here’s a quick look at stories that grabbed the attention of readers of columbian.com this week.
A teenage driver was killed in a single-vehicle crash Monday morning on an icy rural road west of Yacolt.
Firefighters with Clark County Fire District 10 and Clark County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched about 9 a.m. to the intersection of Northeast Gabriel and Kelly roads for a report of a rollover crash.
The driver lost control of their Dodge pickup on Northeast Kelly Road, about a quarter-mile from Gabriel Road. The pickup crossed the center line, struck a tree and rolled, fire Chief Sam Arola said.
Vancouver police said Wednesday that thieves stole 16 bicycles promised to kids in need around Clark County on Tuesday morning — not hundreds of bikes as previously reported by Waste Connections.
The charity organizer assembles and distributes bicycles, as well as helmets, through its annual Scott Campbell Christmas Promise event.
Cyndi Holloway of Waste Connections told The Columbian on Tuesday that thieves broke into a trailer parked behind the Walmart at 192nd Avenue and Mill Plain Boulevard and took about 200 of the 700 donated bikes as well as about half of the helmets being stored. The bicycles are disassembled for storage.
However, the Vancouver Police Department said in a Wednesday news release that property crime detectives have determined 16 bicycles were stolen. Together, the bikes are valued at about $838, the news release states.
When Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota steps onto the field Thursday, he’ll be wearing shoes with a decidedly local flare.
Mariota selected cleats designed by King’s Way Christian students Olive Mohammadi and Sarah Turcic to wear in the Titans’ game on Thursday as a part of the NFL’s “My Cause, My Cleats” week, which allows players to wear custom cleats that bring awareness to a charity and cause instead of the standard team-issued cleats.
The cleats — Nike Vapor Untouchable Pro 3s — will be auctioned off after the game and proceeds will go to toward the ALS Development Institute, a nonprofit seeking to discover a cure.
Early last month, Mark Moors woke up to discover that someone stole something he was trying to throw away.
Moors recalled setting out a bin full of glass bottles on the curb outside his Cascade Park home to be picked up for recycling. The next morning the bin was gone. He logged onto Nextdoor, a private online network that allows neighbors to share information, and discovered that others in his neighborhood also reported having their recycling bins rummaged through in pursuit of bottles and cans.
After Thanksgiving, he said, he witnessed a woman digging through his recycling in the early morning hours. Moors said he thinks he knows where the bottles and cans are going.
“We might as well just put a big recycling can at the end of the street and say, ‘Take it to Oregon,’ ” said Moors.
The Oregon Transportation Commission voted Thursday to approve the state’s application to the federal government to consider tolling on portions of Interstate 5 and Interstate 205 in Portland.
The five-member commission voted unanimously to submit the application at its regular meeting in Salem.
The proposed stretches of tolled roads would include Interstate 5 between Southwest Multnomah Boulevard and Northeast Going Street, a roughly 7-mile stretch through the heart of Portland, and Interstate 205 in and around the Abernethy Bridge around West Linn and Oregon City.
