Alexandria students, educators agree school year has taught resiliency
Although area teachers agree that less academic content has been covered, they also point out the other ways students have grown amid shifting learning environments. 11:00 am, May 13, 2021 ×
Students exit a school bus at Voyager Elementary School in Alexandria on the first day of school year. Elementary students in Alexandria District 206 started the year taking classes in person, while 6th through 12th graders began using a hybrid system. (Echo Press file photo)
Jada McAdoo, a fourth-grader at Voyager Elementary School, started her second quarantine of the school year on Monday after her brother tested positive for COVID-19.
Passersby help save Vancouver family from house fire By Will Campbell, Columbian Assistant Metro Editor
Published: May 11, 2021, 2:25pm
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A group of passersby helped a family of nine including four children escape a house fire Tuesday morning in west Vancouver.
There were no reported injuries.
At about 7:45 a.m., Sara Douglas was driving to Marion Elementary, where she works as a teacher and a language specialist. She saw a house, at 714 E. 39th St., with smoke “pouring out of the vents and windows from what looked like the attic,” she said.
Douglas pulled over and joined another passerby. They entered the house and went to the basement through a haze of light smoke. Douglas saw four children on a bed who appeared to have just woken up, unaware of the fire.
Details for AAHS and ATCC graduations. Written By: Jared Rubado | ×
Alexandria Technical and Community College graduation will take place at the Runestone Community Center on May 12, 2021. (File photo)
Alexandria Technical and Community College will host its commencement ceremony on May 12 at the Runestone Community Center. The ATCC graduation is in-person for students only and streamed online for friends, family and other spectators.
The schedule for ATCC’s graduation is as follows:
Manufacturing, Transportation and Design Division programs at 9 a.m. This includes Carpentry, Comm Art, Diesel, Interior Design, Machine Tool, Mechanical Drafting, Mechatronics and Powersports and Welding.
Health (except Nursing) Business and Liberal Arts programs at 11 a.m. This includes Accounting, Biology, Business/Fashion/Marketing/Retail, Cybersecurity/CIAS, Early Childhood Education, Exercise Science, History, Human Services, Ind Studies, Liberal Arts, Medical Administ
By Ralph Lopez
Psychiatrists have come forward to assert that certain psychiatric medications, such as those known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), are almost certainly the chemical cause of a high number of instances of random violence and suicide in which SSRIs have been present.
The research challenges the pharmaceutical industry’s defense that the high correlation between random violence and the presence of these medications is due to the mental illness itself, not the drugs being prescribed for the illness. Other critics of the industry claim that drugs tend to be too aggressively marketed and over-prescribed.
The media has reported that the suspected shooter in the Sandy Hook multiple killings, Adam Lanza, was possibly on some form of psychiatric medication, perhaps related to a reported diagnosis of a form of autism, a developmental disorder that affects social and communication skills. Authorities have yet to make a statement on what, if any, p