The Columbian

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Crimson Pride - Local Ladies Celebrate Aging with Joie de Vivre

As organizer Barbara Reeves dashes across the Green Meadows Athletic Club directing the overflow crowd, society members with questions struggle to track her down. "Where's Barbara?" one woman asks above the din.

Far From Dying Out, Local Granges Going Strong

Most of Clark County's farms have long since been filled in with subdivisions. But there are 15 Granges in the county, a fraternal organization designed to unite farmers and represent their interests to politicians.

Faa Works to Improve Safety Among Pilots

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Freedom to Joe Darminio is landing on a 200- foot sandbar as easily as a paved runway, deep in Alaska's wilderness where the twisted hemlocks and the occasional brown bear are the only company to be found. The 15-year bush pilot flies fishermen, hunters and hikers to the places in the last frontier that can't be reached in a car, to patches of tundra where you can holler for days and not come within earshot of another soul.

Convent Welcomes New Nuns

BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) Sister Juana Gutierrez and Sister Julie Doan recently offered their final vows to join the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon. Such a ceremony was common occurrence in the 1950s, when the Beaverton convent regularly welcomed new nuns. Sister Juana and Sister Julie, however, were the first to make their final vows in 14 years.