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  • Community
  • Jan 26, 2012
sensory safari

Blind ‘see’ animals up close through Sensory Safari

  • The Washington State School for the Blind in Vancouver recently celebrated 125 years of providing instruction for the state’s visually impaired. “People have this concept of magnet schools – that’s really all we are,” says Dr. Dean O. Stenehjem, the superintendent. “We’re a magnet school specializing in training on blindness ...
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  • Book Talk
  • Jan 13, 2012
Kathy Condon

Award winning author Kathy Condon on face-to-face networking

  • Author Kathy Condon makes no apologies about being self-published. In fact, she’s proud of it. Her first book, It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask, was chosen by USA Book News as Best Book Award Finalist in its business category. This past summer, Condon released her second book, Face-To-Face Networking, It’s All ...
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  • Business
  • Jan 11, 2012
Members of the Evergreen High School FIRST Robotics team Green Wrenches open a kit of parts they will use to construct a robot in six weeks.

FIRST Robotics program invests in Clark County’s future tech workforce

  • More than 800 high school students and adult volunteers representing 38 teams from Clark County and Portland packed the house at Evergreen High School Jan. 7 to celebrate the kickoff of the 2012 FIRST Robotics Competition. FIRST, an acronym meaning “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology,” is an ...
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  • CRC Light Rail Project
  • Jan 28, 2012
SmarterBridgeTour_featured

Smarter Bridge Tour takes bus, train and light rail to understand options

  • A coalition of opponents to the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project (CRC) hosted a five-hour meeting and tour Saturday to promote a number of alternatives to the current $3.1 – $3.6 billion mega project. Members of the new Smarter Bridge Committee believe CRC planners dismissed more affordable and cost ...
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  • Issues
  • Jan 27, 2012
Marriage_featured

Same-sex marriage opponents question protection for churches

  • One of the many concerns opponents of same-sex marriage have expressed is whether churches who choose not to perform such weddings would lose some of the protections they have now, according to an article in The Olympia Report. Dr. Joe Fuiten, senior minister of Cedar Park Church in Bothell, said ...
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  • CRC Light Rail Project
  • Jan 27, 2012
Tiffany Couch extended audio

Tiffany Couch: Extended CRC audio and slide presentation

  • We had such overwhelming response to our coverage of Tiffany Couch in Olympia that we decided to post the full audio and PowerPoint versions...
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  • Parent Talk
  • Jan 25, 2012
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When more responsibility can help opinionated, willful child

  • Situation: How do you know when to give your child more responsibility? Parent Talk Tip: Diane Moore says that while parents have to guard their “pack leader” status in the home, at some point it’s time to relax and go back to the drawing board. A child who has a ...
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  • CRC Light Rail Project
  • Jan 25, 2012
Olympia_featured

Exclusive audio of Tiffany Couch’s CRC appearance in Olympia

  • Vancouver-based forensic accountant Tiffany Couch urged members of the Washington State House Committee on Transportation in Olympia to investigate irregular financial practices associated with the $3.1 billion to $3.6 billion Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project. Couch gave a 20-minute presentation to six members of the 29-person committee last week, ...
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  • Community
  • Jan 24, 2012
Citizens packed the chambers of the Vancouver City Council Monday afternoon to learn of upcoming cuts to the Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation Department.

Facing $1.2M shortfall, Vancouver parks to slash programs, jobs

  • Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation plans to cut 17 full-time positions and 500 recreational programs in an effort to address a projected $1.2 million budget shortfall this year. Pete Mayer, director of Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation (VCPR), delivered the somber news Monday to a full house of spectators during a late ...
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  • CRC Light Rail Project
  • Jan 23, 2012
light rail

CRC officials trim down first phase of construction plans

  • Responding to unease among Oregon lawmakers over the $3.1 billion to $3.6 billion price tag of the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project, planners have proposed spending an initial $2.45 billion to build a replacement bridge and light rail, and postpone other highway improvements until more funding is secured. The ...
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  • CRC Light Rail Project
  • Jan 20, 2012
Tiffany_Couch_whitepaper_featured

Forensic accountant slams high costs, low competition of CRC

  • In a white paper presented to transportation officials this week, forensic accountant Tiffany Couch slammed what she calls a “severe lack of accountability, transparency, and oversight” in managing the $3.6 billion Columbia River Crossing Light Rail (CRC) project. Couch, owner of Vancouver-based Acuity Group, met Thursday with the area’s political ...
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  • Issues
  • Jan 20, 2012
The Bonneville Power Administration is considering four alternative routes for a proposed 500 kilovolt power line, having rejected a fifth route proposed by citizens.

BPA rejects citizen group’s alternative for high-voltage power line corridor

  • The Bonneville Power Administration formally rejected a citizen-proposed route intended to place a 70-mile voltage power line as far away from populated areas of Clark County as possible. This is the latest chapter in the debate over where BPA should build a new 500-kilovolt transmission line between Castle Rock in ...
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  • Issues
  • Jan 19, 2012
Bill Turlay

Conservative Bill Turlay ready to bring balance to City Council

  • Even though Bill Turlay has been a Navy fighter pilot and business executive, he still had a touch of the jitters reciting the oath of office Jan. 9 to become the newest member of the Vancouver City Council. “While I was taking the oath, one of the things that really ...
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  • Issues
  • Jan 18, 2012
Federal legislation has raised whether tackling piracy will lead to Internet censorship.

Federal bills aimed at Internet piracy spark censorship fears

  • Should Congress thwart Internet piracy even if it results in censorship? Lawmakers in Washington D.C. are facing this question as they consider two bills intended to clamp down on the piracy of copyrighted material...
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  • Issues
  • Jan 18, 2012
Brooke Terry, Tim Leavitt, Jesse Magana, Vancouver Townhall

From handicapped access to fireworks, citizens voice concerns at town hall

  • It’s fitting that the Vancouver City Council held an informal town hall meeting at Clark College at Columbia Tech Center Tuesday because the event looked more like class registration day than an official City Council meeting. But that was the goal, as the council – unable to meet at its ...
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  • CRC Light Rail Project
  • Jan 17, 2012
Oregon Republican Party Chairman Allen Alley and mechanical engineer Allen Alley doesn't think the Columbia River Crossing will deliver what it promises.

Oregon Republican Party Chairman Allen Alley rejects CRC

  • Oregon Republican Party Chairman and potential 2014 Oregon gubernatorial candidate Allen Alley used to support the $3.6 billion Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project (CRC) – that is until he started looking at the details. Now he describes the CRC as the ultimate “talking frog” – kind of cool, but ...
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  • Community
  • Jan 16, 2012
Dean_Stenehjem

Stenehjem demystifies blindness for student success

  • For 125 years, the Washington State School for the Blind (WSSB) has pursued the primary purpose of educating and training the visually impaired. Today, learning to read Braille still goes hand-in-hand with regular school work, but training also includes developing daily living skills, computer skills, and job skills. In 1886, ...
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  • CRC Light Rail Project
  • Jan 12, 2012
Opponents of the CRC project rallied today at Vancouver Landing Park

Opponents say scrap CRC design, build smarter bridge

  • On a frigid morning at the Vancouver Landing amphitheater today, there was plenty of crisp criticisms of the current Columbia River Crossing (CRC) Light Project from representatives of the new Smarter Bridge Committee, a group of concerned citizens and elected officials who reject the current CRC project as designed.
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  • COUV Ads
  • Jan 12, 2012
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Introducing, new COUV ads program: videos for your business!

  • Motion control technology manufactured in Vancouver, Wash. is a vital element that underwrites the success for SkyFuel Inc. They are a technology developer that has created an innovative answer to concentrated solar power, including ReflecTech® a reflective material that is an alternative to heavy mirrors that are normally used in ...
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  • CRC Light Rail Project
  • Jan 11, 2012
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Event highlights better transportation options

  • The Smarter Bridge Committee is holding an informational event at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Vancouver Landing – an amphitheater on the Columbia River just west of the Red Lion at the Quay. The event will focus on a bridge that is right size, right price, right place. The 24-member ...
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  • Issues
  • Jan 11, 2012
C-Tran Board members Tim Leavitt (left), Bart Hansen, and Tom Mielke discuss the option of an advisory vote on light rail.

C-Tran Board commits $300k to prepare for 2012 high capacity transit vote

  • After some hemming and hawing, the C-Tran Board approved a $330,000 contract Tuesday night to hire engineering firm BergerABAM to assist in the preparation of a vote on high capacity transit financing for Fall 2012. BergerABAM will serve as the local administrator of a state-mandated expert review panel (ERP) that will provide oversight of the proposal.
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