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Locke touts education, but not funding--Columbian,
Don Jenkins
Bush proposes moon return by 2015--Washington Post,
Mike Allen and Eric Pianin
Bush plans $1.5 billion drive for promotion of
marriage--New York Times, Robert Pear and
David D. Kirkpatrick
Storm costs piling up--Columbian, Erik Robinson
Rosemere Reeling--Columbian Editorial
Storm turns us into good neighbors--Columbian,
Tom Koenninger
Cheney Portland stopover builds coffers--Oregonian,
Jeff Mapes
Washington is a top priority, Cheney tells GOP
gathering in Seattle--Seattle P-I, Chris McGann
With aid from afar, African family buys
chickens--Oregonian, Dee Anne Finken
Rosemere Neighborhood Association
to
continue regardless of city recognition
Although
disenfranchised by the City of Vancouver Monday, the
Rosemere Neighborhood Association remains a legal
entity and will continue to meet, according to an
association spokesperson,
Karen Axell,
who is a member of the association’s board.
The
association’s website,
www.rosemerena.org,
today declares:
Regardless of the City Council’s
resolution to revoke the RNA’s status at the City
level, the RNA will continue to operate as a private
non-profit corporation. We will continue to hold
meetings and we will continue to operate as defined
by our exempt purpose, to improve the livability of
the neighborhood and the community as a whole. At
present, we will continue to focus on water quality
issues (contamination of our ground and surface
water) and proceed with our plans to establish a
watershed council to remedy these environmental
issues, among others.
The next
Rosemere Neighborhood Association meeting is 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 20, in Chronis Restaurant, 819 Main
Street. .
The Rosemere
association was one of 60 neighborhood associations
recognized by the city. As such it represented the
Rosemere neighborhood, generally bounded by I-5,
Fourth Plain Boulevard and Grand Avenue and Highway
500, and received and was in line for city and other
governmental grants.
By a 5-to-2
vote Monday night the city council revoked the
association’s status as a recognized neighborhood
association. The organization’s status as a 501(c)3
non-for-profit organization remains intact according
to Axell.
Community Choices 2010 gets $5.9
million federal grant to fight fat in Clark County
Nearly two
out of three Clark County adults is fat or obese,
according to the Clark County Health Department,
which has teamed up with Community Choices 2010 to
fight fat with a $5.9 million federal grant.
Clark
County’s 62 percent fat ratio is greater than the
nation’s or the state’s both of which are 59
percent.
The
fat-fighting consortium, Fit Clark County, will
concentrate on education and awareness building
among the county’s youth during the first year of
the five-year project. The consortium includes local
school districts, governments, health systems and
private businesses.
Kaiser
Permanente is holding a free forum on childhood
obesity at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, in its Salmon
Creek Medical office, 14406 NE 20th Avenue. To
register, call toll free
(877) 274-0824.
State of
City Address set for January 28
Mayor
Royce Pollard
will deliver the 2004 State of the City Address,
“Vancouver Is Open for Business,” at 10 a.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 28, in the Columbia Tech Center.
The address
was postponed from January 8 because of the winter
storm.
There is no
admission charge, but registration is required.
Registration will be open through Monday, Jan. 26.
To register call City Hall at
696-8200.
Columbia Tech
Plaza is east of SW 164th Avenue at Tech Center
Drive.
State of
the County Address scheduled for January 30 at a
no-host luncheon
Clark County
Commissioner Betty
Sue Morris will deliver the 2004 State of the
County Address at a noon luncheon Friday, Jan. 30,
in the ballroom of the Red Lion Hotel at the Quay.
Morris, newly
elected as chair of the three-member board of
commissioners, will share her perspectives of last
year and discuss the challenges that lie ahead in
2004.
The luncheon
is co-sponsored by the commissioners and the Greater
Vancouver Chamber of Commerce. Tickets are $30. For
reservations, call
694-2588.
No charge
to take broken tree limbs to dump
Free disposal
of trees, tree limbs and shrubbery damaged by the
recent storm is available through Vancouver and
Clark County through Saturday, Jan. 31. Locations
accepting storm-related wood waste are West Van
Material Recovery, 6601 Lower River Road, H & H Wood
Recyclers, 8401 NE 117th Ave., McFarlane’s Bark,
8806 NE 117th Avenue, and Central Transfer and
Recycling, 11034 NE 117th Avenue. Call
735-8827 for
further information.
News brief
Battle
Ground School District Committee, promoting a $54.9
million bond issue for the district, is holding an
informational meeting at 7 p.m. tonight in the
Center for Agricultural, Scientific and
Environmental Education, 11104 NE 149th Street.
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