For the first time in Washougal High School (WHS) history, the Panthers’ unified soccer team kicked its way to the Unified Soccer State Championship tournament, held last month in Sumner.
While the Camp Fire raged in northern California last week, killing 79 people, injuring five firefighters, destroying almost 10,000 homes and decimating the entire town of Paradise, residents in Camas and Washougal set out to help families affected by this and other wildfires burning throughout the Golden State.
Although it seems like school just let out for the summer, local educators are already shifting their focus to the first day in September.
The Gause Elementary library was transformed into a fine dining establishment on Jan. 27 for Cindi Freeman’s second- and third-grade class to practice the etiquette skills they were recently taught by Mark Jasper, Washougal School District Nutrition Services Director.
The Camas High School track and field squads beat 20 teams from Southwest Washington, Olympia and the Big Island of Hawaii at the Tiger Invitational Saturday, in Battle Ground.
"I think about the years I spent just passing through I'd like to have the time I lost and give it back to you But you just smile and take my hand You've been there you understand It's all part of a grander plan that is coming true. Every long lost dream led me to where you are Others who broke my heart they were like Northern stars Pointing me on my way into your loving arms This much I know is true That God blessed the broken road That led me straight to you."
Very few of us know in elementary school what our future career choice will be.As a young student at Francis Willard Elementary in Rock Island, Ill., Sean McMillan made that decision. "Mrs. Turnbull, my second-grade teacher, and Mrs. Findley, my third-grade teacher, kept me on the straight and narrow," he said. "I always knew they really believed in me and held me accountable." McMillan is hoping to do the same for the students at Grass Valley Elementary School, as its new principal. He replaced Patricia Erdmann, who retired in June.
Blacksmith Don Kemper humorously invites one of the spectators at the Clark County Fair's Fort Vancouver Antique Equipment Association display to smell a "rose" created by hand from metal.