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September ‘18

FEATURE ARTICLES

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Building a Village for Mom and Baby Set mom and baby up for success by creating a network of friends and family

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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Local support and resources abound for custodial grandparents

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Banned Books Week and the Right to Read How freedom of speech and the right to read provide a potent pathway to human connection

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Editor’s Notes

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The New Domesticity Protect family togetherness with rhythms, rituals and sacred places

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Bit of HiStory One year after the Gorge fire: Remembering the Yacolt Burn of 1902

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Calendar of Events & Activities

ON THE WEB • Is your family prepared for an emergency?

• Vote for your favorite local hotspots in our annual Best of Vancouver Awards • Get involved in protecting the right to read

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EDITOR'S NOTES

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Running a Business with a Baby on My Hip Twelve years ago this month, I was still learning how to manage raising two children, ages 3 and 8 months, when I found myself with a business

partner and a magazine to run. The baby was a challenge. The baby and the job?

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Some mornings, after multiple nighttime baby feedings, I would wake up at 4 a.m. to work while the kids were sleeping. When naptime came around a

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few hours later I stole away again to the computer to spend another couple

Pat Jollota, Julianna Lawson, Noelle Lefitz, Brooke Strickland

the baby at the computer while proofing the magazine before print. I even

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of hours completing tasks that would eventually take me minutes. I nursed wore her in a sling to a few work meetings. And, I’m not ashamed to admit, the TV was a very helpful babysitter for my preschooler at times. Other times, I traded childcare with other moms, or eagerly agreed to let my

parents watch the kids for a few hours while I worked or got a date night

with my husband. When I began this gig, I knew nothing about running a magazine other than what the previous owner and my more experienced business partner patiently taught me, and what I was rapidly learning

through trial and error. But even with a baby on my hip and a preschooler at my feet, I was able to learn and develop this gig into my dream job

because I had a community around me in the form of a supportive spouse, a fantastic business partner, a present extended family and lots of friends.

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Building this kind of community takes extra time and effort for modern families whose work responsibilities and family dynamics often hinder developing needed relationships, but the time investment most often

pays dividends, especially when you find yourself figuratively or literally running a business with a baby on your hip.

Learn more about building this kind of village around your family on pages 12 and 16.

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THE NEW DOMESTICITY

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By Julianna Lawson

“We need to go back to Number 17.”

My husband looked at me quizzically. “That very spot?” I assured him that only Number 17 would do. It was magical. It was sacred.

It was our place. I batted my eyes and with sudden inspiration added, “We could do that for my birthday!” He laughed. It was beginning to look like it just might happen.

My mind trailed back to that camping trip, over 7 years ago. Our family had hit a season of busyness, and the summer was rapidly waning. We felt a sense of urgency; if we didn’t plan a vacation soon, it wouldn’t happen. I hopped online and looked at the more local options. We soon decided that a camping trip along Wind River, east of Stevenson, would be just the thing.

When we arrived at the campground a couple of weeks later, the hosts were waiting for us, eager to direct us to a site. “Would you like to stay at Number 17? It’s the most beautiful site, and it’s just along the river!” We weren’t about to argue with that. We unloaded our gear, making our temporary home in the woods grow like an overnight mushroom. While the boys wrestled with the tent, I draped a colorful, striped tablecloth over the picnic table and commissioned the girls to gather wildflowers for our centerpiece.

Home was happening.

Home continued to happen over the next few days, for we were together. We had no distractions: no media, no obligations, we didn’t even have neighboring campers. We had only each other.

We had each other skipping rocks and splashing along the shore, we had each other roasting hot dogs and singing campfire songs, we had each other playing card games and exploring the woods, and yes, we had each other when it was time to divvy up groaninducing chores like washing the dishes and tidying up the tent.

I knew we needed this togetherness. Years prior, I had read a book as a student at WSU Vancouver. I didn’t keep many of my textbooks, but “The Shelter of Each Other” has remained firmly on my bookshelf. In it, Dr. Mary Pipher describes the family rhythms that, as a college student, I had hoped to create someday. As a family therapist, Pipher’s cautions are many. “Today family members are often living in the same house, but often they are not interacting. Interruptions and pressures keep people from spending time together and even from knowing each other. The outside world pours into the living room.” Written over 20 years ago (it has since been updated), we now have only that much more of the outside world pouring into our homes.

Pipher’s encouragements, however, are just as numerous. She suggests that “time shelters families.” The more time we spend together, the stronger families become. “Family rituals protect time,” she adds. Actions, no matter how simple, can develop into rituals that embed themselves into the fabric of family life. One family ritual Pipher recommends is that of claiming family places.

“These sacred places can be anywhere,” she says, adding that her “bias is that the best spots are in natural settings. One of the greatest gifts parents can give their children is to teach them to love the natural world.” What better way to shelter today’s busy family than to carve time, ritual, and place into the calendar?

But how can we do this? It doesn’t have to happen on a camping trip. Sheltering the family could take place on a Sunday drive, a weekend hike, a walk along the creek, a visit to a public garden, or a drive through the wildlife refuge. And how are time, ritual, and place protected on such outings? Take, for example, a Sunday drive. Time is protected by the distance traveled; the family is continued on next page

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stuck in the car together! Ritual is developed as the family aims to take a drive somewhat regularly, such as weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Place becomes sacred when the family enjoys revisiting locations, such as Mt. St. Helens or the Columbia River Gorge; even the family vehicle becomes the “place” where fun music, traveling games, and snacks happen during scenic drives.

I know I’m rather idealistic in my desire to return to Number 17. But I remember the way my little girl snuggled up under my chin as we lounged on our beach towel 7 years ago. We watched the older kids skipping rocks across the river, and we watched them wildly follow their daddy for a brisk swim. Pipher captures that age-old desire: “I wanted to stop time and keep us this way forever. I felt the ghosts of a million mothers,” mothers who have staunchly staked a claim in their own version of Number 17, all for the sake of sheltering the family.

Julianna Lawson and her husband Jamie make their home in Vancouver with their four children, ages 13 to 20. They also make their home wherever they find togetherness, whether it’s a tent pitched in the evergreens, a tiny bungalow along a rocky shore, or a favorite loop in Sunriver.

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Bit of HiStory

By Pat Jollota

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YACOLT BURN

The winter of 1901-02 was a long, wet one for Southwest Washington. But eventually the warm sun of spring was welcomed, crops and wildflowers burst from the ground, and the season became warm and unseasonably dry. As the days lengthened, the hot dry weather continued. By Tuesday, September 12, 1902, it hadn’t rained in 77 days.

In Skamania County that hot September, something happened; no one is quite sure what it was. It might have been sparks from a logging operation, it might have been flames from a hunter’s cooking fire, maybe a farmer clearing land. There were several other fires in the Northwest, so some speculate that sparks from an Oregon fire jumped the Columbia.

Whatever the start was, the strong wind from the east down the gorge caught it up and flung it west. The wind carried the fire up and over the mountains, into Clark County. The sky darkened as the fire spread north and west. The sky was so dark that some thought Mt. St Helens was erupting. Ash fell from the sky. Lanterns were lit in homes, and steamboats on the river used spotlights to find their way. The flames even eventually spread as far south as what is now 192nd Ave. and Fourth Plain.

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There was no organized evacuation plan for wildfires—all people could do was run. Soldiers from Vancouver Barracks were ordered out to help as many victims evacuate as possible, but many families and individuals were on their own.

The mailman for the north county, W.E. Newhouse, saw flames approaching his house. He hitched his team to a buggy to make a run for it. Unfortunately, he didn’t make it. Horse, buggy and Mr. Newhouse were found dead, days later.

In the hamlet of Buncombe Hollow, one family narrowly escaped as the fire approached their home. They carried Grandma, in her rocker, to a nearby creek that had been dammed by some local boys who had been ordered to clear the dam but who hadn’t done so. The family dropped Grandma into the water, still in her chair, neck deep. All survived.

On the Washougal River, loggers sought refuge in a tunnel, running for their lives. They made it deep into the tunnel, and all survived.

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Approximately 390,000 acres, hundreds of square miles, would eventually burn in that holocaust. At least 100 families were left homeless. An estimated 60 people would lose their lives.

The Columbian printed a report from Etna, a community near the Cedar Creek Grist Mill: “A courier has just arrived from the Star Lumber Mill which he says has been wiped out. Men there made a brave fight but had to run for their lives. The fire can be heard here in the village and it is like the sound of the sea as it crosses the bar. Ashes are falling like the skirmish before a snow storm.

Wagonloads of refugees and their household effects are arriving in town.”

At last, the rains came. The fires that raged across the Pacific Northwest were extinguished. The fire had missed the town of Yacolt. So why is it called the Yacolt Burn? After the blaze, the Weyerhaeuser Company set up shop in Yacolt to salvage the timber, and the little town boomed economically for a time.

Washington established a board of fire commissioners that appointed a state fire warden and deputies. Thus began the state’s efforts to prevent future conflagrations. Last September’s fire in the Gorge showed that we are still far from capable of eliminating these giant holocausts, but we can be vigilant in protecting against them, and grateful that modern communication, specialized personnel, and everyday heroes can save lives in the event of another “Yacolt Burn.”

Pat Jollota retired from the Los Angeles Police Department and came to Vancouver to find a new career in historic preservation. She was curator of education at the Clark County Historical Museum for 22 years, while almost concurrently serving for 20 years on the Vancouver City Council.

Photos: Top left: View of Mt. St. Helens from Yacolt in 1905. Left: Train depot in Yacolt c. 1910. Top right: “Scenes from Yacolt” postcard. Middle right: The Yacolt burn, 1902-1904. Bottom right: The Yacolt hospital c. 1910.

Photos courtesy of Pat Jollota.

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Feature: Building a Village for Mom and Baby

Building a Village for Mom and Baby

By Noelle Lefitz, CNM

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aring for a newborn baby can be a surprisingly isolating and exhausting experience, particularly for first-time moms. Women are showered with attention during pregnancy. When the baby is born, there’s often a steady flow of visitors. Then the excitement fades and moms are left alone with the task of taking care of this amazing new being and dealing with fluctuating hormones and sleep deprivation. Whether they’re on maternity leave from work or staying home permanently, it’s likely a much different life than they had before.

A new baby uproots things for experienced moms, too. It can be challenging to meet the needs of other children amid all the rocking, nursing, and diaper changing.

However, moms who can draw on a community of support are better equipped to handle—and even enjoy—this intense period and the years beyond it.

A Community of Moms

During the postpartum period, a mother’s community can step in and lighten the load in a number of ways, from setting up a Meal Train to ensure she is eating nourishing food, to arranging playdates for older siblings to get them out of the house so she can nap. Help with cleaning can ease

the burden of keeping a household going.

Moms who have the space to focus on their baby and themselves are better able to bond with their newborn, build their milk supply, and heal from delivery—all of which set them up for long-term success.

Beyond those first couple weeks, a community can offer a safe place to talk about and share experiences. While not everyone is interested in discussing sleepless nights, leaky boobs, and poopy diapers, other moms of young children understand the struggle and are just as immersed in the minutia of child rearing.

They can also make talking about and getting help for postpartum depression and other concerns easier. Additionally, a community offers moms the chance to find other moms interested in stroller walks and other forms of exercise, which can be great for improving mood and reducing feelings of isolation.

As kids grow, moms can tap into their community for tips on potty training, tantrums, picky eating, preschool selection, cheap snow gear, new parks, fun holiday traditions—basically everything! They can access hand-me-down clothes and toys, which can make living on a budget easier.

Childcare is cheaper when families can take turns instead of hiring a sitter.

A community also provides built-in social interaction for kids, and gives them practice with making friends and getting along with people who aren’t in their immediate household. It opens doors to new experiences, whether it’s tasting another family’s food or trying a new activity together. It also allows kids to build relationships with other trusted adults— people they can go to for questions or help when they don’t want to ask their parents.

Making Connections Takes Time

Having a village is a valuable thing. Moms who have strong support from those around them feel less stressed and more confident about their parenting abilities, and interact with their kids more positively, enhancing their children’s development, research shows. Yet building a village can be harder to build than ever. Families are spread out and often don’t live in the same areas. Most people live in either dual-income households or single-parent households, which means parents are working and don’t have as much time to get to know their neighbors and create communities on their own streets. While moms may have plenty of social media connections, real-life connections can be harder to come by. It can be tough for moms to meet other moms. While support happened organically before, parents continued on page 14

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Some moms start making connections during their pregnancies. At Vancouver Clinic, we partner with both local hospitals to offer CenteringPregnancy. With this program, women in similar stages of pregnancy meet as a group to learn about care topics together and build a support network. A midwife like myself guides conversations about labor, delivery, and newborn care, and also completes all physical health assessments. Women in CenteringPregnancy report an increase in social support and feel less stressed.

What’s more, I often see friendships formed in these groups extend well past pregnancy. Some women and their families have continued to meet for several years.

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Building a community is one thing, and using it can be another. It can be really hard for moms to ask for help.

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offers to take their groceries to the car, even if they are still physically capable of doing it. Rehearsing how to ask for and accept help makes it easier to ask someone to make that emergency trip to the grocery store or do a load of dishes later. Another tip that is particularly helpful during the postpartum period is to post a list of small chores that people can help with when they visit the baby. They can then choose something they feel comfortable doing, and moms don’t have to make a specific request. Most people are happy to help.

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Feature: Grandparents Raising Grandkids

s t n e r a p d n a r G Grandkid s R aising

By Brooke Stric

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Becoming a parent is a life changer for anyone.

In some cases, though, parents face challenges that totally hinder their ability care for their children, whether due to mental illness, death, incarceration, substance abuse, or poverty. This is where grandparents often step in to fill the gap and become the sole caregiver for a child or children in their family. The United States Census Bureau reports that in 2012, 7 million or 10 percent of grandparents in the country lived with at least one grandchild. Of those grandparents, 2.7 million or about 4 percent were not only living with, but raising, their grandchildren. Locally and recently, the proportion is even higher. A 2017 State of Our Children and Families Report created and distributed by Support for Early Learning and Families (SELF), SW WA Early Learning Regional Coalition, and Thrive Washington, showed that 39 percent of grandparents in Clark County live with their grandchildren and are responsible for them.

Grandparents who are raising their grandchildren have a big job, and it’s one that they may not have necessarily anticipated. It’s daunting to face raising a child again when that chapter of life had seemingly ended. There’s no doubt about it, though—even though raising grandkids can be challenging, there are many resources to help grandparents navigate this path. And the reward? Being involved in a grandchild’s life, seeing him grow, and giving him the opportunities to experience love and acceptance for years to come.

Sarah Revord, kinship navigator at the Agency on Aging & Disabilities of Southwest Washington (SWAAD) shares that she most often works with grandparents and relatives who are raising children that are not currently involved in the Child Welfare System (CPS), but who have been placed with extended families. Families involved with CPS have their own set of support through Children’s Administration, and CPS assists them in getting legal custody as needed, in addition to providing training and other support. If the case is closed and the child remains with the relative, they can turn to the Kinship Navigator Program for additional support and assistance, which is where Revord steps in.

She shares that utilizing any available resources is incredibly important for grandparents, especially when there are unique hurdles to overcome. “I find the biggest challenge that grandparents and other relatives face is children are dropped off with them without any type of informal or formal parental consent agreement.

Without [this], grandparents have extreme difficulty getting a child’s basic needs met. For example, attaining urgent or routine medical, dental, and vision care. An additional barrier is registering a child for school. There are several resources available to bypass both of these issues; however, many grandparents are unaware of them.

Another challenge is if a grandparent decides to go through the court system and get formal custody, so a parent cannot just come at any time and take the child back, then the burden of proof is continued on page 18

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on grandparents to prove the parent is unfit and it is in the child’s best interest to remain with the grandparents. Up until June 7, 2018 (when the law changed), in Washington State, grandparents did not have any rights to pursue visitation with grandchildren being withheld from them due to issues between the parents and grandparents. Fortunately, this changed as the new law allows for grandparents to legally pursue visitation.”

Revord shares that there are lots of learning opportunities and resources that are available as early as birth for people in this situation. For example, because many children who are not being raised by a parent have experienced some type of trauma, or Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Revord often links families to ACEs Action Alliance, a local coalition described on their website as working toward a “traumainformed, resilient Clark County” by “assessing needs, raising awareness about the causes and impact of trauma and toxic stress, measuring progress, and promoting approaches that build individual, family and community resilience.” The group meets monthly and welcomes new members. “Many agencies and schools are starting to implement trauma informed practices to help children affected by ACEs,” says Revord. continued on page 20

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Michele Swanson is a local grandmother to 12 children and she is currently helping her 15-year-old granddaughter raise her very young baby. Not only is she giving her granddaughter the tools to be a successful adult and parent, but she is helping with her great grandson, too, which can be especially overwhelming. Swanson shares this advice for others who may be facing a similar situation: “This just might be the most difficult situation you might ever be in.

Be absolutely sure that you have all your ducks in a row financially, especially if you hire a lawyer. And expect that emotionally, it will be hard. Counseling can help, depending upon the situation. Once you make a decision, stick to it. If you are able to communicate with the child’s parents, do so, because in order to redevelop that relationship between them, you have to be the bigger person. And usually it isn’t easy.” Swanson goes on to share that her experience with the SWAAD’s Kinship Program has been invaluable.

the grandchild moves in, it’s important to stay consistent and firm in rules and discipline. And above all, remember the reason why you’re doing this. She says, “If you can maintain a relationship with the parent and eliminate restraining orders, court dates, attorneys and everything that goes along with that, remember that normally, the ultimate goal is reunification.”

A lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest, Brooke Strickland is a fulltime freelance writer and social media specialist. She is also the coauthor of “Hooked on Games,” a book about technology and gaming addiction. When taking a break from writing, she can be found reading a historical fiction novel on her front porch swing, trying a new recipe in the kitchen, or spending time with her husband and two kids. Visit her website at brookestrickland.org.

Revord encourages grandparents who are raising their grandkids to take time for themselves, too. “In the midst of all the chaos and stress which kinship caregivers find themselves, it is critical they remember to take time for themselves,” she says. She recommends training courses from a Portland-based organization called Powerful Tools for Caregivers. “This class is all about teaching practical techniques for self-care for those caregivers who are specifically raising children with special needs, which would also apply to emotionally challenged and trauma affected children.”

Swanson recommends communicating in detail with your spouse about taking on the role of caregiver for a grandchild, to prepare for and protect against a layer of strain to the marriage. She also says that once

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Feature: Banned Books Week and the Freedom to Read

Banned Books Week and the

Freedom to Read

In my free time this summer,

in between camping excursions, day trips, dropping my kids off at camps and tending my garden, I immersed myself in some controversial fiction. I wanted to experience the imaginary characters and settings and plots that throughout history have been considered dangerous enough to be legally or effectively banned or challenged, in certain countries at certain times.

Even the U.S.A. has a sketchy history with book banning, starting with the novel “Moll Flanders,” written by Daniel Defoe in England in 1722 and banned from mailing via U.S. Postal Service over a hundred years later due to “obscene,” “filthy,” or “inappropriate” content. Today, America’s freedom of speech and the “right to read” is often taken for granted but is in fact at the very heart of who we are and what we value as a society, even, and especially, in a political climate when individual values seem to constantly clash.

In the crossfire of this clash is the American Library Association, which celebrates our right to read by sponsoring Banned Books Week each September. Launched in the 1980s, and taking place this year on September 23-29, the initiative unites libraries, publishers, booksellers, authors, and readers to celebrate and protect the right to express and pursue ideas of all kinds.

The burden of protecting this right often falls on local libraries, which provide free access to information unprecedented in history, with the exception of the Internet.

Jan Johnston is collection manager for Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries (FVRL), where she has worked for 24 years. In her current role, she encounters book challenges, or complaints filed by patrons objecting to specific library materials. continued on page 24

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“We don’t receive very many formal challenges in a year,” she says. “In 2017 we had four. Most of the challenges I’ve seen over the years have been on children’s material, usually with the request to change the level to an older audience. Graphic novels are probably the next most challenged material—not too surprising due to their format. But we have received challenges on everything from magazines to DVDs.” When challenges are issued, Johnston says, a conversation with the patron is the first step.

If that doesn’t satisfy the patron’s concern, a formal collection review process begins with the patron filling out a collection review request form. “The district’s collection review committee then receives a copy of the form and copies of the item in question so each member can become familiar with the material,” she explains. “Once all members have reviewed the material, the committee meets and has a discussion about the challenged item. The committee then makes a recommendation, drafts a letter to the patron, and sends the draft and recommendation to the library’s director. If the director agrees with the committee’s decision, she will sign the letter.”

Johnston and her colleagues must make difficult decisions, but in the end, she takes her job of defending speech seriously. “I became a librarian because I feel so strongly about the right to read and freedom of speech. We do

our best to have a diverse and balanced collection, so that all readers can find material that best meet their needs.”

Another FVRL employee, Ann Powers, feels similarly about protecting speech, and she has added motivation. She works part time as a public services assistant at Cascade Park Community Library.

She loves what she does, and even reflects on an expanded education and career she could have had in library sciences after she received her college undergraduate degree, but her “real career,” she says, “is being a wife to my husband and mother to my six beautiful children (plus one daughter-in-law, one son-in-law and two grandsons) and homemaker.”

This dual identity of library worker and homemaker puts Powers in a position to achieve a graceful balance between facilitating freedom of ideas for all and cultivating wisdom and discernment in her own family. “I have always been grateful for the freedoms we enjoy as citizens of this great nation. Even though I don’t always agree with what is said or what is written, I would defend those rights and privileges to the death and am thankful for those that have done so and continue to defend our intellectual and physical liberty!

In my job, providing a safe, non-biased platform for people to express themselves is a priority.”

Along with that priority of expression comes a great responsibility of parents to guide their children in making wise media choices. In Powers’s experience, a strong foundation of values, coupled with allowing kids to explore, actually empowers kids and teens to continued on page 26

Even though I don’t always agree with what is said or what is written, I would defend those rights and privileges to the death and am thankful for those that have done so and continue to defend our intellectual and physical liberty! In my job, providing a safe, non-biased platform for people to express themselves is a priority.”

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Feature: Banned Books Week and the Freedom to Read (cont’d)

Visit www.vancouverfamilymagazine.com for more about Banned Books Week events and how to get involved in protecting the right to read.

continued from page 24

put a book down, change the channel, walk out of a movie, or turn off the radio when they feel the media has crossed a line that is not worth crossing. In this way, individuals can whole-heartedly support everyone’s freedom of expression while also exercising their own right to consume media that challenges their way of thinking without necessarily degrading it.

In my experience, reading historically and recently controversial literature (selected with my own personal line of decency firmly drawn) has challenged my own way of thinking in all the right ways. I have been enlightened, surprised and moved by stories of characters whose life experience differ greatly from mine, such as the escaped slave George, in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s historychanging novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (published in 1852 and banned in Confederate states during the Civil War). George and his wife Eliza reunite along with their child after daring escapes from their separate plantations. At the dinner table of the kind white Quaker family who shelters his family, he reflects on an emerging hope that slavery had previously dimmed. “This, indeed, was a home, - home, - a word that George had never yet known a meaning for; and a belief in God and trust in his providence, began to encircle his heart, as, with a golden cloud of protection and confidence, dark, misanthropic, pining, atheistic doubts, and fierce despair, melted away before the light of a living Gospel,

breathed in living faces, preached by a thousand unconscious acts of love and good will, which, like the cup of cold water given in the name of a disciple, shall never lose their reward.” I am not a slave. I am not African American. I have never had to escape my living conditions and I’m not a man. But I have experienced the sublime notion of home, just like George did, and for me, Stowe’s description of George’s euphoria inspired hope for overcoming my own challenges. The right to read provides a potent pathway to human connection.

“Having access to information is a powerful thing,” says Jan Johnston.

Nikki Klock has been the editor and co-owner of Vancouver Family Magazine since 2006. She insists that a book is always better than a movie, with rare exception. She lives in Vancouver with her husband and two teenage daughters.

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All special interest cars, trucks, and bikes welcome. Fun for the whole family! Tap room, espresso bar, café and snack shack. All entrants $5 per car load. General admission is $5. 4-9 pm Downtown Camas First Friday Plein Air and Art Event in historic Downtown Camas. Come enjoy artists in Downtown Camas painting our town! During the day on September 7 from 9 am-4 pm, local artists will be doing Plein Air (Open Air) painting around town. The finished plein air art pieces will be on display at the Camas Gallery, 408 NE 4th, from 5-8 pm that evening, and the community will vote for its favorites and “People Choice Awards” will be given.

These works of art will then be auctioned off at the Dinner in White on the Columbia, a benefit for the Washougal Library Building Fund, on Saturday, September 8 at Marina Park at the Port of Camas Washougal.

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Kids Coding Club at Three Creeks Community Library, 800-C NE Tenney Rd., Vancouver. A fun and explorative environment to learn code literacy.

With guided sessions, led by industry professionals, combined with free exploration time, members of the group are able to develop skills in different engineering and computer science fields. Starting with an easy to learn visual coding language and advancing to more commonly used languages, not only do we encourage the use of code but the understanding of how it works. The club is open to everybody from ages 6 to 18! 6:30-8 pm

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“...an imaginative place where dentistry happens by pure magic!”

Programs offered for ages 18 months to adult!

Brighter, Healthier Smiles Anxiety-Free Procedures

Emergency Appointments

PRESCHOOL EDUCATION for ages 3-5yrs

Warm, Supportive Staff

360-216-1130 5313 NE 94th Ave. 2 blocks from Vancouver Mall by JC Penny (360) 2 blocks from Westfield Shopping Center by JCPenny

944-4444

Dr. Ronald Hsu DDS, M.S. (Board Certified Pediatric Dentist)

2115 SE 192nd Avenue, Suite 106 Camas, WA 98607 contact@storybookdental.com

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Kids’ Fun: Superhero Training Academy at Woodland Community Center, 782 Park St., Woodland. Discover your inner superhero!

Create your personalized uniform, conquer an obstacle course, and participate in superstrength training. For ages 6-12. 3:45-5 pm Columbia Springs Guided Walks at 12208 SE Evergreen Hwy, Vancouver. Easy walking tour of Columbia Springs’s 100acre natural area, Vancouver Hatchery, and our native plants and animals. Families, friends, and people of all ages are welcome.

Walks will include trails that have uneven surfaces and steps. We suggest wearing good walking shoes and clothes for the weather. Registration: Please let us know you are coming by emailing volunteering@ columbiasprings.org. 5:30-6:30 pm

Reading in the Wild-Storytime with Nature every Thursday at the Water Resources Education Center. (See Sep. 6) 10-11 am

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Baby Storytime at The Mall Library Connection. (See Sep. 7) 9:15-9:45 am Vancouver Game Night at City Bible Church, 14311 SE Mill Plain Blvd., Vancouver.

For people who are excited about all things board games, tabletop games, and card games. 7 pm

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Reading in the Wild-Storytime with Nature every Thursday at the Water Resources Education Center. (See Sep. 6) 10-11 am Baby Storytime at The Mall Library Connection. (See Sep. 7) 9:15-9:45 am

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SW Washington Walk to Defeat ALS at Esther Short Park, Vancouver. Join the SW Washington Walk to Defeat ALS and directly impact people in our community living with ALS and their families. Through education, support groups, access to care and advocacy, we are working to defeat ALS and provide hope. 11 am-2 pm Fourth Plain Multicultural Festival at Evergreen Park, 3500 E Fourth Plain Blvd., Vancouver. Celebrate Vancouver’s Fourth Plain International District at the community’s annual festival featuring food, music, art, dance, and sport from around the globe! The Fourth Plain Multicultural Festival is free and family-friendly, and will have live multicultural music and dance performances throughout the event,

Celebrate and promote the unique identity of the Fourth Plain International District at the Fourth Plain Multicultural Festival.

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Reading in the Wild-Storytime with Nature every Thursday at the Water Resources Education Center. (See Sep. 6) 10-11 am

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Baby Storytime at The Mall Library Connection. (See Sep. 7) 9:15-9:45 am

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Waterfront Park Grand Opening at Columbia Way and Esther Street, Vancouver.

Bring the whole family and join the City of Vancouver for the grand opening of Vancouver’s new Waterfront Park! Speeches and ribbon cutting ceremony at 11:30 am, followed by live music by The Pearls and The Juleps, kite-flying, fun children’s activities and seven acres of brand new park to explore.

11 am-3 pm Spy Camp: This Program Will SelfDestruct at Vancouver Community Library, 901 C St., Vancouver. There may or may not be a gathering for clever, young recruits preparing to take on a secret mission. We’re not sure what they’re doing, but they might be honing their spy skills to hit the streets to run training missions. Develop a disguise for cover, make and break codes, discover escape and evasion techniques, create and use spy gadgets, and other super-secret stuff await the young recruits. 2-4 pm

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Camp Hope Discovery Day Camp at 12800 NE Roper Rd., Battle Ground. Discovery Day Camp exposes youth to team-building relationships in the outdoors, while learning basic life skills and discovering areas of interest. They will experience the Lewis River, explore a cave, hike on trails, try out archery, learn basic survival skills, work on art exploration and/or woodworking, and play games! Snack and lunch provided. 9:30 am3:30 pm Sturgeon Festival at the Water Resources Education Center, 4600 SE Columbia Way, Vancouver. Live reptile show, fish dissections, birds of

“The Three Meowsketeers” Dinner and Auction at Firstenburg Community Center, 700 NE 136th Ave., Vancouver. Benefit event for Furry Friends, a no-kill cat shelter in Vancouver. Silent auction, catered dinner, costume contest, photo booth, no-host bar and more. Tickets $50 in advance, $55 at the door. Purchase at http://furryfriendswa.org.

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Super Saturday: Ants Ants Ants at Three Creeks Community Library, 800-C NE Tenney Rd., Vancouver. Join us for a musical journey into that golden childhood with family friendly lyrics and optimistic instrumentation.

After the performance, make a fun craft to take home. 2-3 pm

local food vendors, games and activities, a celebration of the four new Fourth Plain wall murals, and booths for local organizations.

The festival’s location at Evergreen Park is adjacent to a Vine (Bus Rapid Transit) stop -- walking, biking or taking transit is encouraged! All are welcome!

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and research. This inspiring event calls on participants of all ages and abilities to join the fight against the disease! Please join us for the inaugural three-mile walk beginning at Esther Short Park. 10 am-1 pm

advertiser index Camps, Parties & Entertainment Mountain View Ice Arena................................25 Naydenov Gymnastics...................................29 Oregon Children’s Theatre.............................21 Vancouver Parks and Recreation.........2, 29, 31

Events Oregon Children’s Theatre.............................21 Vancouver Parks and Recreation.........2, 29, 31

Financial iQ Credit Union.................................................3

Fitness Mountain View Ice Arena................................25 Naydenov Gymnastics...................................29 Vancouver Parks and Recreation.....................5 World Class Martial Arts...................................9

Health Adventure Dental............................................19 Barnick Chiropractic.........................................2 Child and Adolescent Clinic..............................3 Evergreen Pediatrics......................................27 Harmony Family Dentistry................................7 Northwest Breast Thermography......................5 Priority Life Chiropractic and Massage...........11 Smiles Dental.................................................23 Storybook Dental............................................29 Vancouver Clinic.............................................17 Vancouver Vision Clinic..................................25

Legal Schauermann, Thayer, Jacobs, Staples & Edwards PS...................................32

Resources ANC Movers.....................................................2 Birthright.........................................................25 Cowlitz Indian Tribe Child Care......................19 EOCF................................................................2 ESD 112.........................................................17 YWCA...............................................................7

Retail Kazoodles.........................................................7 Superkids Resale...........................................11 Vancouver Mall...............................................15

Schools & Education EOCF................................................................2 ESD 112.........................................................17 The Gan Jewish Preschool............................25 King’s Way Christian Schools.........................27 Woodland Co-op Preschool..............................7

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