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Local Republicans boosting Washington's U.S. Rep
George Nethrcutt (R-5th) in his bid to unseat U.S.
Sen. Patty Murray--Oregonian, Allan Brettman
Clark County would lose $15 million a year, Clark
County $8.3 million a year if Eyman's Initiative 860
passes--Oregonian, Allan Brettman
Vancouver's Free Clinic is safety net for 10,000
uninsured patients a year; volunteers contribute
10,000 hours a year--Columbian, Tom Vogt
Not without foes, state's high-tech tax exemptions
seem to be generating more support--Columbian,
Don Jenkins
Moeller bill would allow existing veterans state tax
funding to be used on programs--Columbian, Erin
Middlewood
Jackson pleads innocent--MSN Video
Two pianos
featured in Vancouver Symphony weekend concert,
“The French Connection”
Pianists
Cinda Redman
and Lena Vozheiko
Wheaton will present
Francis
Poulenc’s
Concerto for Two
Pianos during the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra’s “The French Connection” concerts this
Saturday and Sunday.
Artistic
director Salvador
Brotons will conduct the 3 p.m. Saturday,
Jan. 17, and the 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18, concerts in
Skyview High School’s auditorium, 1300 NW 139th
Street.
Also on the
program are Camille
Saint-Saens’
Carnival of the Animals,
Arthur Honegger’s
Pacific 231,
and Albert Roussel’s
Symphony #3.
An hour-long
musical conversation precedes Saturday’s concert.
Tickets are $35 for reserved seating, $22 for
general admission, $17 for seniors and $15 for
students.
Builders
contribute to $48 million to help promote March 9
library bond issue
The Building
Industry Association of Clark County has contributed
$1,250 toward promoting a $48 million bond issue
that would double the size of the community library
in downtown Vancouver and build a new 25,000-square
foot library in east Vancouver at the Firstenburg
Center. The bond issue would also finance a separate
Fort Vancouver Regional Library District
headquarters near the current site at Fort Vancouver
Way and Mill Plain Boulevard.
“The building
industry’s goal is to build and preserve
neighborhoods and contribute to a well-rounded
community,” says Jon
Girod, BIA president. “Libraries are open for
all, free of charge, and empower individuals through
learning.”
The library
bond election is Tuesday, March 9. In addition to
voting on the bond issue, voters will be asked to
approve special district boundaries for the project.
Police Department gets
$220,000
grant to fight methamphetamines
The Vancouver
Police Department has received a $220,000 U.S.
Department of Justice grant to help combat the
community’s growing methamphetamine problem with a
new Methamphetamine Awareness Program
The program,
centering on public outreach, education, media
support, technological enhancements and an improved
enforcement program, will be unveiled at a news
conference in City Hall at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan.
22.
Blandford Drive reopened
Blandford
Drive, a log pile of at least 60 downed trees as a
result of the early January storm, reopened this
week. Some of the trees bucked up by city crews were
more than 10 inches in diameter. Blandford was the
last of local streets to be opened following the
storm.
Meanwhile,
Friends of Trees has scheduled a tree planting
project at a former horticultural garden on Burnt
Bridge Creek for Saturday, Jan. 31. Volunteers will
be clearing Himalayan blackberry bushes and English
ivy from the site and planting 350 native trees.
Volunteers
are to meet at Leverich Court and NE 45th Street
prior to the 9 a.m-to-1 p.m. planting project.
For further
information, call
(503) 284 8773, or go to the website at
www.friendsoftrees.org.
Martin Luther King Jr. to be
remembered
at WSU Vancouver presentation Tuesday
Washington
State University Vancouver will celebrate the life
and work of Martin
Luther King Jr. with a free on-campus
presentation by
Benjamin Hardy of
Flooney’s Theater,
at noon Tuesday, Jan. 20, in the Student Services
Auditorium.
Hardy will
perform, in the persona of King, the “I Have a
Dream” and “I’ve Been to the Mountain” speeches.
Cake and refreshments will be served.
The
university also will present its 2003 Student
Services Humanitarian Award.
News briefs
In honor of
Martin King Jr. Day the
Daily Insider
will not be published Monday, Jan. 19. You won’t get
any mail either. Banks and state operated liquor
stores also will be closed.
--- Clark
Public Utilities’ commissioners meet in regular
session at 9 a.m. Tuesday. On the agenda is
consideration of an interlocal agreement with the
City of Vancouver to provide for underground
electric utility service in the vicinity of Esther
Short Park and the Hilton Hotel and conference
center. An interlocal agreement among the utility,
Vancouver and the City of Camas will be considered
to provide for underground utility lines along the
extension of SE 192nd Avenue.
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