Evergreen Public Schools freshmen attend orientation as hybrid learning to begin
Published: March 2, 2021, 7:58pm
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5 Photos Evergreen High School teachers Anna Capacci, left, and Sophia Lee welcome a member of the freshmen class during an orientation day for incoming ninth-graders on Tuesday. (Photos by amanda cowan/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
Once Joel Martinez scanned the Evergreen High School cafeteria Tuesday morning, he came to a quick conclusion.
“I know half the people here, so I’m good,” the 15-year-old freshman said.
In a school year where black squares and faceless avatars dominated computer screens in remote learning, Martinez recognized plenty of classmates’ faces at freshmen orientation Tuesday and his first day of in-person instruction in almost one year.
Crews quickly extinguish kitchen fire at apartment in east Vancouver
All residents were safely evacuated; no injuries were reported By Jessica Prokop, Columbian Assistant Metro Editor
Published: December 30, 2020, 10:10pm
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Firefighters quickly extinguished a kitchen fire Wednesday night at an apartment in Vancouver’s Landover-Sharmel neighborhood. No one was injured.
Crews with the Vancouver Fire Department were dispatched at 8:05 p.m. to the Cascade Woods apartments, 2508 N.E. 138th Ave., near Evergreen High School.
A resident asked a neighbor to call 911 after a fire started on their stove top, according to a fire department news release.
Martha “Marty” McLaren, a past West Seattle/South Park representative on the
Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors, has died. Ms. McLaren, a Puget Ridge resident, was 76 years old. She was a longtime educator and community advocate, but her highest-profile role was that of board member. She won election in 2011 by unseating incumbent
Steve Sundquist and then four years later was unseated herself by current board member
Leslie Harris. We talked with Ms. McLaren after her election in 2011; she spoke of her teaching career following her involvement with advocacy as a PTA leader while her children were in school. More details on her life are in her obituary, which we’ve just received: