The Columbian

My mission today is to get you to eat your veggies and my inspiration is my friend’s delicious pea pesto. She blended peas and fresh mint with olive oil, lemon and Parmesan, and it was incredibly delicious and so pretty, bright green like a — well, like peas and mint. I tried to make it at home but, alas and alack, it was not nearly as good.

“We want to make sure that no youth falls through the cracks and have access to our program. You have your education specialist, but you also have an entire organization behind you. I think it really is like, ‘What do you need?’ Like, ‘We gotcha.’ ”

For the third time in as many summers, Washington State University Vancouver’s infamous corpse flower is expected to bloom again sometime around Monday, July 29.

The Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency dispatch center had to switch to manual operations starting at 10:30 p.m. Thursday. As of 1 a.m. Friday, all services were restored, CRESA Director Dave Fuller said.

The National Park Service and Living History Group Northwest will host the eighth annual World War II Encampment from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.

Drivers gathered for a similar unsanctioned cruise down Main Street in downtown Vancouver last month. One video circulating on social media showed a woman get out of her classic car, walk to a car behind hers that was doing a burnout, and repeatedly hit the driver.

After overcoming homelessness and addiction, Jonathan and Treva Wittner moved into their own apartment last year with the help of Hope Village, one of the city of Vancouver’s Safe Stay communities. Now, as outreach workers for Safe Stay programs, the Wittners help others find hope. “When I was homeless, I felt like I wasn’t worth anything, but now I want people to know that they are worth it,” said Treva Wittner, 49.

Washingtonians can consider themselves lucky — the Evergreen State falls in the bottom ten for reported or documented road rage incidents.

Boeing Co.’s largest union voted to authorize a potential strike as contract talks enter a crucial phase ahead of a potential walkout in September.

“I was thrust into the lifestyle by an accident, and it kind of turned my world around overnight,” Battle Ground resident Eric Thorstenson said. “All of a sudden, you’re here as a disabled person in this brand-new world, and it’s difficult to navigate.”