Salmon Creek News

A 54-hour closure on both directions of Interstate 5 in Salmon Creek is scheduled to begin tonight at 11 p.m., according to the Washington State Department of Transportation.

Where: Starts at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 300 N. Winning St., heads through downtown Portland across the Burnside Bridge, along Southwest Fourth Avenue to Southwest Taylor Street.

A Washington Department of Transportation prepares a pier that will support giant girders that will be moved into place for the 139th Avenue overpass during this weekend's Interstate 5 closure in Clark County.

Debbie Mansell, a Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center employee, fits a bicycle helmet during last year's annual Healthy Kids Fair.

As it begins developing steelhead management plans for four tributaries of the Columbia River, the state will hold a public meeting Tuesday.

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Salmon Creek, 7:15 a.m., Salmon Creek American Legion Post, 14011 N.E. 20th Ave., open to the public; free breakfast at 6 a.m. La Center, 11 a.m., La Center Cemetery, Highland Road, with ceremony led by Ridgefield and La Center American Legion posts.

Have a recreational vehicle parked in your driveway or next to your home? You might want to check that the battery is still there.

A 22-year-old Vancouver man who, along with two accomplices, used a taxi as a getaway car was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for the April 11 robbery of the Salmon Creek branch of iQ Credit Union.

Clark County mothers prepare, trade meals to save money, cut time spent preparing food while ensuring participants enjoy healthful, homemade dinners Julia Schetky shows off some of the meals she received at a moms group food swap last month, while her son, Ethan, checks out the other food in the freezer at the family home in Salmon Creek.