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Vancouver – Office Moms & Dads, the Vancouver-based nonprofit serving children entering foster care, was awarded a $25,000 grant to create an app to help organize and support volunteers.
The grant from the Community Foundation for Southwest Washington is being leveraged with in-kind work from Vancouver-based software developer Hint.

Thanks to The Columbian for its recent articles and letters regarding the I-5 Bridge replacement. However, all the writers except Ronald Brown (Our Readers’ Views, Dec. 28) have overlooked a major fact: the current bridges can be kept and used for local traffic (to/from downtown Vancouver, Port of Vancouver, Fort Vancouver, Highway 14, and Hayden Island), plus light rail and bus rapid transit across the Columbia. Tunnels under the Columbia do not seem to have been fully evaluated during earlier project planning, but they could handle long-distance travelers.

Vancouver – Both spans of the Interstate Bridge will see midmorning lifts in the weeks ahead as Oregon Department of Transportation crews launch a series of maintenance projects in advance of the two-week closure of the northbound bridge in 2020.
Each roughly 15-minute lift will take place around 10 a.m. from Tuesday through Thursday and Jan. 28 through 31.

Donald Trump is now claiming that he never said Mexico would pay for the wall directly, but it would be paid for by all the extra money generated by a new trade agreement.

Now that the funding for the Vancouver Public Schools employees is being revisited, I can no longer resist writing this letter, especially after reading the Jan. 10 editorial.
My husband and I were first-year teachers in the VPS in 1957-58. When a levy was being proposed during that year, there appeared a headline in the Columbian: “One Million Dollars FOUND!” (in the school budget).

On Jan. 2, The Columbian Editorial Board asserted that the McCleary lawsuit stemmed from inequities in local levies. Not exactly. The McCleary lawsuit was entirely about whether the state Legislature was providing enough for basic education. The court did not demand that local levies be reduced — that was a political choice made in Olympia.

If I may, I’d like to add a new Trump word to the ones cited by Michael Fox-Lambert on Jan. 10 (Our Readers’ Views). A “trumper-tantrum” is an action by a president who can’t get his way through the normal legislative process, so he pounds on the table and storms out of the room. It could also be applicable to someone who’s in the “terrible two’s” stage of the presidency.

It was William P. Barr’s confirmation hearing. But it was Robert S. Mueller III’s affirmation hearing.
President Trump had nominated Barr to be his new attorney general to shield him from Mueller’s hoax of a rigged witch hunt. But Barr spent much of his seven-hour confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday lavishing praise on his future boss’ tormentor. And Republicans, for the most part, didn’t defend Trump — and occasionally joined in the Mueller veneration.

Barbara, Brinda J., 69, Vancouver, died Jan. 16, 2019. All County Cremation and Burial Services, 360-718-7948.
Brault, Gary E., 79, Longview, died Jan. 16, 2019. All County Cremation and Burial Services, 360-718-7948.
Brown, Robert “Larry,” 79, Ridgefield, died Jan. 14, 2019. All County Cremation and Burial Services, 360-718-7948.
Cardon, Staci S., 47, Battle Ground, died Jan. 17, 2019. All County Cremation and Burial Services, 360-718-7948.