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Death Notices for July 26, 2024
Author: The Columbian

Awad Adeeb Beatty, 49, Vancouver, died July 15, 2024. Hamilton-Mylan Funeral Home, 360-694-2537.

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Vital Statistics for July 16, 2024
Author: The Columbian

Alexandria Marie Pierce, 31, Vancouver, and Alex John Ferderer, 33, Vancouver.

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Mount St. Helens Institute welcomes its first poet in residence
Author: Hayley Day, The Daily News

LONGVIEW — Poet Ian Ramsey is staying at the Coldwater Lake visitor center for nearly a week as part of the Mount St. Helens Institute’s first poet in residence.

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Sales tax increase to fund Longview police heads to ballot
Author: Brennen Kauffman, The Daily News

LONGVIEW — Longview voters will decide in November whether to approve a sales tax to hire additional patrol officers for the Longview Police Department.

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Community Resource Fair planned for Aug. 7 in Ridgefield
Author: Monika Spykerman

RIDGEFIELD — WorkSource and FVRLibraries will co-host a Community Resource Fair from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Aug. 7 to showcase local resources for employment, education and health care.

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This week in Clark County history, July 26
Author: Katie Bush, public historian at the Clark County Historical Museum

A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum.

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Clark County health inspections, July 15-20
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 418. An establishment with 100 or more points will be closed.

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Horses journey to Olympics
Author: JEROME PUGMIRE, Associated Press

PARIS — Welcome aboard, hope you are standing comfortably. For the horses on the U.S. eventing team, the journey to France for the Paris Olympics was — quite literally — a four-legged journey.

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DemocracyNow!

Paris Olympics Slammed for "Social Cleansing," Mass Displacement, Militarization & Greenwashing
Author: webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)

Just hours before Friday’s opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics, a series of apparently coordinated arson attacks were reported on France’s high-speed rail network. No one has claimed responsibility yet. Before the games, protests highlighted the displacement of thousands of migrants, unhoused people and other vulnerable communities as “social cleansing.” We go to Paris for an update with Jules Boykoff, former professional soccer player, author and scholar focusing on the Olympic Games, and Paul Alauzy, Paris-based activist with the collective Revers de la Médaille (Other Side of the Medal). “We are not anti-Olympics,” says Alauzy. “You can support the games, but you need to know that they have a big social impact and they come with a cost. And they come with a cost of the lives of hundreds, thousands of people being mistreated.” We also discuss how Palestinian athletes are taking part in this year’s Olympics amid the Israeli war on Gaza, the health risks of competing during rising heat and COVID, the environmental impact of major sporting events and more.

Meet the Journalist Who Lost Her Leg in Israeli Strike & Carried Olympic Torch for Slain Colleagues
Author: webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)

As Paris hosts today’s opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympics, we speak with Lebanese photojournalist Christina Assi of Agence France-Presse, who carried the Olympic torch Sunday in Paris to honor journalists wounded or killed on the job. Assi lost her leg in the same Israeli attack that killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanon on October 13, and says carrying the Olympic torch was a great opportunity to highlight the “atrocities” happening in the region. “There was all the indications that we are press and we were just doing our jobs,” Assi recalls of the attack. “We weren’t holding guns. We were holding cameras.”

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