Battle Ground Councilmember starts up home video project to showcase Battle Ground’s past Community is invited to submit videos
Cade Barker / cade@thereflector.com Last week, Battle Ground Councilmember Cherish DesRochers uploaded a 42-minute video from the 1998 Battle Ground Harvest Days Parade. In a matter of a day, the video gained over 1,000 views. The response it received from the community inspired DesRochers to continue searching for other old VHS videos. She invites the community to share their videos from public spaces of Battle Ground. The goal, DesRochers said, is to highlight Battle Ground’s history, see old friends and past relatives and try and find yourself in a video. When DesRochers watched the 1998 video she uploaded to YouTube, she found a would-be future member of her household just feet away from her. “So at the beginning of the video, I see something that was where my husband used to work when he was in high school, and I’m like, ‘hey, I think that’s you,’” she said. “And then we slowed it down and he’s like, ‘no, no, I don’t remember that.’ Come to find out, I was a few feet away from my husband in 1998. We didn’t know each other, but it was him. He was in the parade.” After posting her YouTube upload to Facebook, DesRochers