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Health Inspections for Sept. 2-7, 2024
Author: The Columbian

For more information, call Clark County Public Health at 564-397-8428 or visit www.clark.wa.gov/public-health/restaurant-inspection. In the health department’s scoring system, the fewer the points, the better. A perfect score is 0. The worst possible score is 448. An establishment with 100 or more points will be closed.

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Letter: Trump is detached from reality
Author: Eric Bjorkman, Vancouver

I support Kamala Harris for president of the United States without apology. Her performance in Tuesday’s debate cements it for me.

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Vital Statistics for Sept. 13, 2024
Author: The Columbian

Justin Todd Zimmerman, 29, Vancouver, and Stephanie Brook Tull, 31, Vancouver.

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This Week in Clark County History for Sept. 13, 2024
Author: Katie Bush

Famed orator and politician William Jennings Bryan stopped in Vancouver on Sept. 12, 1924. Spotted buying tomatoes by Weigel’s Cash Grocery owner George H. Weigel, Bryan was “in the best of spirits and health.” Handshaking and “a few minutes of conversation” occurred before Bryan left for a speaking engagement in Seattle.

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Saying thanks: Poland military dogs get ranks
Author: VANESSA GERA, Associated Press

NOWY DWOR MAZOWIECKI, Poland — The new privates received their ranks amid military pomp in a town near Warsaw where a Napoleonic fortress attests to a long military history. The group was made up of a German shepherd, a Dutch shepherd and two Belgian Malinois.

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Death Notices for Sept. 13, 2024
Author: The Columbian

Donald John Tolmasoff, 79, Vancouver, died Sept. 7, 2024. Evergreen Memorial Gardens, 360-892-6060.

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Brazilian border collie energizes footvolley
Author: DAVID BILLER, Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO — Rio de Janeiro’s main beaches bustle with commotion on sunny weekends. But activity ground to a near standstill on one stretch of sand. People held up their phones to record athletic feats they’d never before witnessed, or even imagined.

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Fallon to air 4 nights per week
Author: Stephen Battaglio and Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times

The late-night TV audience is shrinking, and so is the number of weekly episodes for the format’s signature program.

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DemocracyNow!

"How We Do Freedom": V (Eve Ensler) on Fighting Fascism Through Community
Author: webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)

We speak with V, the playwright formerly known as Eve Ensler, about “How We Do Freedom: Rising Against Fascism,” a daylong educational event to be held at New York City’s Judson Memorial Church on Saturday. V is the founder of the global activist movements V-Day and One Billion Rising that is organizing the event. “The rise of fascism, from India to Italy, from Afghanistan to U.S., [is] the most pressing concern everywhere,” says V, who ties the crisis to growing loneliness and isolation. “One of the antidotes to fascism we know is community, is solidarity, is coming together, is talking, is being part of something that is bigger than yourself.”

Uhuru 3 Found Guilty of Conspiracy, Acquitted of Foreign Agents Charge in Landmark Trial
Author: webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)

A federal jury in Florida has found members of the pan-Africanist group African People’s Socialist Party guilty of conspiring with the Russian government to “sow discord” and “interfere” in U.S. elections. They face up to five years in federal prison. In a major victory for the activists, however, the jury acquitted them of the more serious charge of acting as foreign agents. “The trial of the Uhuru Three is proving to be one of the most important First Amendment cases thus far in the 21st century,” says attorney Jenipher Jones, who is on the legal support committee for defendants. “It remains clear that when covert government repression tactics fail against activists, the government will use the overt means of charges and cages against folks that they simply disagree with.”

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