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Meals on Wheels People is asking for community support as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lays off 10,000 employees, a move that may hamper the nonprofit’s ability to address hunger and isolation among older adults.
Meals on Wheels People serves nutritious meals to nearly 9,000 older adults annually across the Portland-Vancouver area. The nonprofit’s CEO, Suzanne Washington, said the cuts greatly impact the Administration for Community Living, the federal agency that oversees programs supporting older adults.
A man was seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash early this morning in Vancouver’s Uptown Village.
According to Vancouver police, officers responded about 2:40 a.m. to a crash in the 1700 block of Main Street, south of McLoughlin Boulevard, and found the driver lying in the road about 15 feet from his pickup truck.
A Vancouver woman’s lawsuit against Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center alleges medical negligence at the hospital led to her husband’s death.
The lawsuit filed April 10 in Clark County Superior Court claims Legacy Health failed to provide reasonable care and treatment to Christopher Lee McGee, which directly led to his death on April 1, 2023. Christopher McGee, 30, died from sepsis due to an E. coli infection following surgical complications, according to his obituary.
Downtown Vancouver’s Heathen Brewing Feral Public House is set to move but not quite yet, the restaurant’s owner said.
Heathen’s 5,000-square-foot building at 1109 Washington St. went up for sale recently for just under $2.4 million.
Prompted by an on-the-job injury in which a teenager lost both legs at a construction site while earning class credit, the state’s workplace safety agency has adopted new internal guidelines for companies seeking special permits in school work programs.
Washington’s Department of Labor & Industries allows companies that hire students from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction’s work-based learning program to apply for what is known as a “student learner variance,” which allows employers to assign minors some dangerous tasks otherwise prohibited. Such variances are separate from a company’s minor work permit.
