Spring driving tips
It is important to understand that each season brings different driving conditions. Along with warmer weather, spring brings rain and the potholes of last winter. Here are some tips to keep you and your family safe on the roads this [...]
Woodland High School Jazz Choir takes home first place
Woodland High School’s Jazz Choir won first place in Vocal Division 3 of the Commencement Bay Jazz Festival for the second year in a row – and this is only the festival’s second year. “The quality of our program is [...]
Drug Take-Back Event collects over 4,300 pounds of medicine
If you’ve ever been sat on by an adult male northern elephant seal, you can imagine the weight of the medications that were collected in Saturday’s three-county Drug Take-Back Event. Sponsored by nearly three dozen community groups, the Drug Take [...]
Union High School student wins student video contest
Earlier this month, the Ready Washington coalition announced the winners of the 2019 #PlanYourPathWA Student Video Contest sponsored by Partnership for Learning. Ashley Lin, a sophomore at Union High School (Evergreen Public Schools - Vancouver), was one of five students [...]
Make sure your AED is ready to shock
An Automated External Defibrillator (AED) might sit idle for years without being used; however, it must always be ready to function. Like any piece of safety equipment, such as a fire extinguisher or smoke detector, an AED must be inspected [...]
Youth survey results help Clark County help kids
Getting into a teenager’s head is hard. That’s why the Healthy Youth Survey is a goldmine for educators, families, law enforcement professionals, prevention groups and other community members. Administered in Washington schools every other year, the survey goes straight to [...]
Volunteer Spotlight: Hough Early Learning Center welcomes the Music Man!
For over 3 years now, the infamous Music Man Steve has been visiting Hough Early Learning Center weekly to play music and lead interactive songs and dances from a variety of cultures! Pictured, we see Music Man Steve drumming with [...]
New website, tools and resources available for educators to address vaping
2018 Healthy Youth Survey: Vaping among teens dramatically rising School administrators, counselors, and health care professionals are encouraged to visit a new website that contains valuable information and tools to help open conversations with teens about the effects of vaping. [...]
Ridgefield fifth graders pay kindness forward
Mention “act of kindness” to any of the students in Laura Gosnell’s fifth grade class at Sunset Ridge Intermediate School in Ridgefield, and they will tell you about the recent project they just completed together as a class—a baby blanket [...]
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