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Weather Eye: May ends just as we expect: Highs in the 70s

May 28, 2023, 6:03am Clark County News

Are you enjoying our roller coaster ride on the giant weather wheel? A string of cool days, a string of hot days, a string of warm days, and now we spend the rest of the month in what I would call the comfortable zone. Read story

Morgane Starke, 23, helps to make a quilt for her father, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, at a recent Quilts of Valor session. This is Starke's first experience with a quilting circle.

Stars, Stripes and Stitches: Vancouver group sews quilts for service members, veterans

Morgane Starke, 23, helps to make a quilt for her father, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, at a recent Quilts of Valor session. This is Starke's first experience with a quilting circle.

May 28, 2023, 6:03am Clark County Life

Every Friday at noon, a small but dedicated group meets at Miki Landis’ Vancouver sewing shop, Enchanted Rose Emporium, armed with needles and thread. For five hours, they cut fabric, run the longarm sewing machine and complete thousands of stitches. They share bits of their lives as they share scissors… Read story

Check It Out: Read about musical talents that keep you in tune

May 28, 2023, 6:01am Clark County Life

Another music icon passed away this week — Tina Turner. She died on Wednesday at the age of 83. Sadly, the music industry has lost other legendary musicians this year including David Crosby and Gordon Lightfoot. All three of these performers influenced my musical tastes, so I was saddened by… Read story

Mike Rabang is at risk for eviction from his Deming, Washington home. He's seen on May 12, 2023.

United Nations watchdogs raise concerns about Nooksack evictions, again

Mike Rabang is at risk for eviction from his Deming, Washington home. He's seen on May 12, 2023.

May 28, 2023, 6:00am Latest News

More than 5,000 miles separate Deming in Whatcom County, Washington, where the Nooksack River rushes out of the North Cascades, and the Palais des Nations in Geneva, where the United Nations Human Rights Council is headquartered. Read story

John Reynolds, a 1942 Camas High graduate, holds his infant daughter, Christina, while visiting his brother Arthur Reynolds' gravesite at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial in Coton, England. Arthur Reynolds, also a Camas High graduate, was killed Nov. 10, 1943, during World War II.

Camas resident who died in World War II remembered

John Reynolds, a 1942 Camas High graduate, holds his infant daughter, Christina, while visiting his brother Arthur Reynolds' gravesite at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial in Coton, England. Arthur Reynolds, also a Camas High graduate, was killed Nov. 10, 1943, during World War II.

May 28, 2023, 6:00am Clark County News

Her father and uncle both flew bombers during World War II, but war stories were not common during Christina Maree Reynolds Price’s childhood. Then, in the early 1990s, Reynolds Price took her father to see the movie “Memphis Belle,” about the last combat mission of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber… Read story

Danny Grecco poses in front of his three-seater Avro biplane in 1928. He was an ace mechanic for Tex Rankin, as well as other pilots and corporations. He helped Silas Christofferson tear down and then rebuild a Curtiss Pusher atop the Multnomah Hotel before the plane's flight to the Vancouver Barracks. He also performed in air circuses as a daredevil wing walker. When he retired, he spent time restoring airplanes at Pearson Field.

Clark County History: Danny Grecco, ace mechanic

Danny Grecco poses in front of his three-seater Avro biplane in 1928. He was an ace mechanic for Tex Rankin, as well as other pilots and corporations. He helped Silas Christofferson tear down and then rebuild a Curtiss Pusher atop the Multnomah Hotel before the plane's flight to the Vancouver Barracks. He also performed in air circuses as a daredevil wing walker. When he retired, he spent time restoring airplanes at Pearson Field.

May 28, 2023, 6:00am Clark County Life

Dionysus Daniel “Danny” Grecco led a life in aviation that frequently put him in the right place at the right time. His luck exposed him to more varied experiences in aviation than any other individual. Read story

FILE - Workers walk past a Boeing Co. sign as they leave the factory where the company's 737 Max airplanes are built, Dec. 17, 2019, in Renton, Wash. U.S. accident investigators gave more details Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, about what they think caused a Boeing plane to crash in Ethiopia in 2019. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said that a sensor which gave false readings about the plane was damaged by striking a foreign object, most likely a bird, which conflicts with a finding by Ethiopian officials. (AP Photo/Ted S.

Boeing works to absorb lessons from the MAX crashes and improve safety

FILE - Workers walk past a Boeing Co. sign as they leave the factory where the company's 737 Max airplanes are built, Dec. 17, 2019, in Renton, Wash. U.S. accident investigators gave more details Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, about what they think caused a Boeing plane to crash in Ethiopia in 2019. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said that a sensor which gave false readings about the plane was damaged by striking a foreign object, most likely a bird, which conflicts with a finding by Ethiopian officials. (AP Photo/Ted S.

May 28, 2023, 6:00am Business

As Boeing tries to emerge from the four-year shadow of two deadly 737 MAX crashes, executives on Tuesday described diverse efforts to improve its safety culture and avert future airplane accidents. Read story

White goat lies in a meadow against the backdrop of the city in the summer on a sunny day. The background is blurry.

Versatile goats’ voracious appetites good for more than weed management, fire prevention

White goat lies in a meadow against the backdrop of the city in the summer on a sunny day. The background is blurry.

May 28, 2023, 6:00am Latest News

Goats have a reputation for eating everything. That can be a good thing. Read story

Everybody Has a Story: It was all too quiet late at triage desk

May 28, 2023, 5:03am Clark County Life

It was during the height of the Gulf War. I am a registered nurse who was assigned to the triage desk, where I sorted out which patients needed to be seen urgently. It was about 2:30 a.m. in a normally busy inner-city hospital emergency department here in Washington. I was… Read story

The Cedar Creek Grist Mill outside of Woodland sits above Cedar Creek. The mill, built in 1876 and restored in the 1980s, is operated by a group of about 10 volunteers. It is open to visitors every Saturday afternoon.

Cedar Creek Grist Mill keeps on turnin’

The Cedar Creek Grist Mill outside of Woodland sits above Cedar Creek. The mill, built in 1876 and restored in the 1980s, is operated by a group of about 10 volunteers. It is open to visitors every Saturday afternoon.

May 27, 2023, 7:16pm Business

John Clapp first volunteered at the Cedar Creek Grist Mill outside of Woodland in 1978. Forty-five years later, he has learned a thing or two about grinding wheat and other grains at the creek-powered mill, but perhaps none more important than one fact: Read story