Clark County Life

Try this: Spring Makers Market, Vancouver Chocolate, Coffee and Tea Fair, ‘Common Ground’

April 18, 2024, 6:07am Clark County Life

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‘Everybody has a voice’: Clark County’s poet laureate Susan Dingle promotes poetry

April 18, 2024, 6:02am Clark County Life

When she was a kid in school, Susan Dingle detested poetry. Read story

These thin, crispy crackers are eaten during the Passover season — but homemade matzos are quite different from what you’d get in a box.

Marvelous matzos: Step outside the box with this homemade recipe

April 17, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life Updated 1 day ago

“Matzos are so delicious,” is something you’ve never heard anyone say. Yet people have been eating matzos (also called matzah) or similar unleavened flatbreads for thousands of years. Matzos famously taste of cardboard, a reputation perhaps well-deserved because this cracker-like bread made only of flour, water and sometimes salt. Read story

It’s a spring thing: In Clark County it’s Earth Day all week

April 16, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life

Mother Earth is putting on a beautiful spring show with eye-popping blooms, blue skies (at least sometimes) and soft breezes. If that makes you feel like celebrating, head to one or two of these Earth Day events. Read story

Gardening with Allen: Prune anytime with exceptions

April 13, 2024, 6:07am Clark County Life

Some of my shrubs are overgrown. Is this a good time to prune? Read story

A monument to the first transpolar flight stands at Pearson Field Airport in Vancouver, where a Soviet crew landed successfully in 1937.

Clark County History: How a Vancouver monument helped thaw the Cold War

April 13, 2024, 6:07am Clark County Life

When the Cold War ended in 1991, few considered the thaw had started in Vancouver 16 years earlier. In 1975, Russian delegates came to Pearson Field to dedicate the monument to the 1937 Chkalov Transpolar landing. Read story

Everybody Has a Story: Being with Dad during WWII

The author’s late father, Clive Wienker, is at far right in this photo of the crew of the “True Love,” a B-24 Liberator, on Guam during World War II.

While growing up in the Seattle area, I always enjoyed hearing about my late father Clive Wienker’s experiences in the Army Air Force during World War II. Serving as the radio operator on a B-24 weather plane, he was based on Guam for nine months and also spent time on… Read story

Main Street icon gets an otherworldly makeover as 3 Howls moves into former Mint Tea house

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I recently noticed a peculiar sight on Main Street. The sprawling house that formerly housed Casa Grande, Mint Tea and Pho Haven was painted black. This gothic vision brought some thoughts to mind. Is it Halloween? Has Mary Shelley opened a coffee shop? Read story

True crime podcast revisits murder of Brush Prairie woman, trials of daughter-in-law Sophia Johnson

Sophia Johnson reacts in November 2005 to a jury acquitting her of first-degree murder in the death of her mother-in-law. Sitting next to her is Therese Lavallee, her lawyer, who won the retrial of her murder conviction.

April 12, 2024, 6:06am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

A Boston-based radio series is revisiting the 20-year-old unsolved case of a Brush Prairie woman found brutally bludgeoned to death in her home — and features the woman who was once convicted of her murder. Read story