What's happening this week? Free event listing for the Columbia River Gorge.

What’s Happening is a listing of nonprofit and community events with nominal fees. As a free service of Columbia Gorge, News, items may be edi…

Free commentary: The Columbia River Gorge is one of the most beautiful places in the country, but it is also uniquely vulnerable. 

Free news: Hundreds of students from throughout the Columbia Gorge converged on the Port of Hood River May 21 to explore family-wage construction jobs in a “Career and Industry Day” organized by the Hood River–White Salmon Bridge Authority.

This week's free news briefs: Klickitat Wildfire Resource Hub; Klickitat County burn ban; Hazardous Waste & Recycling steering committee; Hood River County School District gets grant; Klickitat Valley Health; Interim Skamania Co. Treasurer; Tooley Water District Board Meeting, May 20; Skamania County Board of Commissioners Meeting, May 19; and White Salmon Community Development Committee Meeting, May 18