The Sons and Daughters of Italy will host an evening playing bocce ball at Vancouver Elks Lodge No. 823, 11605 S.E. McGillivray Blvd., starting at 5:30 p.m. every Tuesday, weather permitting. Courts are located behind the main building. For additional information call 360-521-5584.
The Sons and Daughters of Italy will host an evening playing bocce ball at Vancouver Elks Lodge No. 823, 11605 S.E. McGillivray Blvd., starting at 5:30 p.m. every Tuesday, weather permitting. Courts are located behind the main building. For additional information call 360-521-5584.
The WSU Clark County Extension - Small Acreage Program will host a stream health monitoring workshop from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Nov 22. Attendees will partake in a short hike and learn about water quality monitoring techniques and discuss how to assess stream health. Natural resource and water quality Specialist, Ben Joner, of Clark County […]
Join the City of Vancouver's Volunteer Programs department, the Water Resources Education Center, and the Lower Columbia Fish Enhancement Group will host a mulching work party and nature walk from 9 a.m. to noon on Dec. 3. Volunteer attendees will work mulching and removing invasive plants before finishing the day with an educational nature walk. […]
The Watershed Alliance of Southwest Washington will host a tree planting along Burnt Bride Creek from 9 a.m. to noon, Dec. 10. Attendees and volunteers are asked to park on N.E. 41st Circle and follow signs to the worksite, next to 1806 NE 41st Circle, Vancouver
Join city staff from the Naturespaces program and volunteers from the Adopt-A-Park program from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Dec. 10 to pull invasive English ivy in Behrens Woods Urban Nature Area, 3005 S.E. Bella Vista Place, Vancouver. The focus will be removing ivy from on and around trees to minimize impacts to forest health. The […]
Join other volunteers to beautify the Jane Weber Evergreen Arboretum, 9215 S.E. Evergreen Highway, Vancouver, at the Second Saturday Work Party from 10 a.m. to noon Dec. 10. There will be plenty of fall cleanup to do, such as deadheading and cutting back plants and grasses. Refreshments will be served.
This is a virtual course hosted by TreeSong Nature Awareness & Retreat Center will host a virtual course on winter bird feeding basics from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Dec. 11. Longtime birder and teacher Laura Whittemore will lead the class. Whittemore holds a BA in Biology from Lewis and Clark College and has traveled in […]
Volunteers are invited to join a garden cleanup from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Dec. 17 at Vancouver's Water Resources Education Center, 4600 S.E. Columbia Way. Tools will be provided but bring garden gloves in you have them. Registration is required. Participants will receive a confirmation letter with details after registration. Register at cityofvancouver.us/publicworks/page/water-center-garden-cleanup-and-planting. For more […]
The Water Resources Education Center, 4600 S.E. Columbia Way, Vancouver, will host a Winter Solstice walk from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Dec. 21. The winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere is the shortest day of the year. After winter solstice, each day will gain more light until the summer solstice in June. Take an afternoon […]
The 63rd annual Portland Boat Show is Jan. 11-15 at the Portland Expo Center, 2060 N. Marine Drive, Portland. With nearly 200,000 square feet of display space, attendees will find fishing boats, ski, wakeboard and wake surfing boats, yachts, cruisers, sportfishers, kayaks, personal watercraft, boating electronics, accessories, marine canvas, propellers, boat towers and boat trailers. […]
The 63rd annual Portland Boat Show is Jan. 11-15 at the Portland Expo Center, 2060 N. Marine Drive, Portland. With nearly 200,000 square feet of display space, attendees will find fishing boats, ski, wakeboard and wake surfing boats, yachts, cruisers, sportfishers, kayaks, personal watercraft, boating electronics, accessories, marine canvas, propellers, boat towers and boat trailers. […]
The 63rd annual Portland Boat Show is Jan. 11-15 at the Portland Expo Center, 2060 N. Marine Drive, Portland. With nearly 200,000 square feet of display space, attendees will find fishing boats, ski, wakeboard and wake surfing boats, yachts, cruisers, sportfishers, kayaks, personal watercraft, boating electronics, accessories, marine canvas, propellers, boat towers and boat trailers. […]
Friends of Trees is hosting a tree-planting in central Vancouver from 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 14 in Bagley Downs, Burton Ridge, Ellsworth Springs, Forest Ridge, Marrion, Meadow Homes, Oakbrook, Ogden and Vancouver Heights. Residents in those neighborhoods may purchase a tree to plant in their yards and volunteers will plant them. To purchase […]
The 63rd annual Portland Boat Show is Jan. 11-15 at the Portland Expo Center, 2060 N. Marine Drive, Portland. With nearly 200,000 square feet of display space, attendees will find fishing boats, ski, wakeboard and wake surfing boats, yachts, cruisers, sportfishers, kayaks, personal watercraft, boating electronics, accessories, marine canvas, propellers, boat towers and boat trailers. […]
The 63rd annual Portland Boat Show is Jan. 11-15 at the Portland Expo Center, 2060 N. Marine Drive, Portland. With nearly 200,000 square feet of display space, attendees will find fishing boats, ski, wakeboard and wake surfing boats, yachts, cruisers, sportfishers, kayaks, personal watercraft, boating electronics, accessories, marine canvas, propellers, boat towers and boat trailers. […]
Volunteer with staff from the city of Vancouver from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Jan. 16, Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, to remove English ivy at Marine Park, 4501 S.E. Columbia Way, Vancouver. This ivy pull will be followed by a short nature walk through the riparian bottomland forests of the park, where participants […]
TreeSong Nature Awareness & Retreat Center will host a virtual course on corvids, the family of birds that includes crows, ravens, and jays, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22. Attendees will learn more about who the corvids are and why they deserve respect, including how to tell such birds apart from one another. Longtime […]
The ninth annual Race for Warmth to support Operation Warm Heart will be held Jan. 29, beginning with the kids race at 8:30 a.m. The event raises awareness for Operation Warm Heart and all proceeds go to support our neighbors in need. The timed 10k run and 5k walk/run start and finish at the Clark […]
The Vancouver Metro Senior Softball Association will be holding sign-ups from from Feb. 1 through March 11 for the May to August session. Signups are open to players aged 60+, registration costs $70 per player. For more information visit www.playvmssa.com