By DEAN BAKER Girl Scout Jessica Brainard, 10, places a flag on a grave Friday at the Vancouver Barracks Post Cemetery in preparation for Memorial Day.

By Dean Baker, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Mar. 20--The historian from Fort Vancouver National Historic Site will speak in Astoria on Saturday on two rusty, ancient cannons recently recovered from the sand near Cannon Beach, Ore.

By Mike Bailey, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Oct. 19--Members of the Vancouver Heritage Ambassadors spent the past two summers giving visitors to the Vancouver National Historic Reserve a quick history lesson with their walking tours of Officers Row.

By Dean Baker, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Jul. 19--An afternoon of painting in the park in Oregon City, Ore., will be offered free to the public July 28 at Fort Vancouver's McLoughlin House unit.

By ISOLDE RAFTERY Nancy Faaren never intended to leave Fort Vancouver - the superintendent of Olympia School District asked her to apply for the Capital High School principal spot and express-mailed the applications. A month later, she was offered the spot.