Apland Jewelers in downtown Hood River has an open suitcase for the community to fill with books to support the initiation of a library at a Maasai Children’s School in northern Tanzania, where more than 800 children attend.

System Overload, a VEX robotics team coordinated by The Dalles High School and Wasco County 4-H, recently returned from one of the largest robotics competitions across the globe — the VEX Robotics World Championship, held in Dallas, Texas, the first weekend in May.

The Hood River Lions Club recently challenged the community to participate in generating funds to support Ukrainian refugees with immediate relief items including food, clothing, sleeping bags and medicine. In addition, bottles and cans collected and recycled during a two-week period in Apri…

Hood River Rotary joined with other clubs in their district to raise and donate more than $140,000 towards Ukrainian relief efforts.

When Colleen Ballinger of The Dalles sees the gut-wrenching news from the war in Ukraine, she thinks of her 7-year-old grandson in nearby Poland.

Columbia Gorge Women’s Action Network organized a rally in support of Ukraine on March 5 in downtown Hood River.

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Group also celebrating own 44th anniversary

World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated the first week of August every year and represents a global celebration of breastfeeding efforts. It is a global campaign to raise awareness and promote action related to supporting breastfeeding.

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ASSE International has announced that Elizabeth Nelson, a high school student from Trout Lake, is one of 250 American high school students from across the United States to be awarded the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) scholarship for the 2021-22 academic year.

Hood River County hosted a group of middle school students and chaperones from Tsuruta, Japan, beginning with a welcome dinner March 14 at the Hood River Saddle Club.