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Dave Seabrook will run against State Sen. Joe
Zarelli this year--Columbian, Don Jenkins
Double J Tack closing its door after 34
years--Columbian, Gretchen Fehrenbacher
Bush aide says salmon recovery successful, sending
$10 million more--Columbian, Erik Robinson
Nominees for General George C. Marshall Youth
Leadership Award announced--Oregonian
Battle Ground doing deals so effectively it may be
able to pay total cost of new police
station--Oregonian, Foster Church
County politics heating up with caucuses only a week
away--Oregonian, Foster Church
Bush defends war despite no WMD findings in
Iraq--USA TODAY, AP
Jack Paar dead at 85, pioneered late-night talk
shows--Washington Post, Frazier Moore
"Rings" final chapter leads Oscar race--Washington
Post, AP, David Germain
Iraq posed no WMD threat--Seattle P-I editorial
board
SWMC
Foundation awards Free Clinic $75,000
The Southwest
Washington Medical Center Foundation today announced
a $75,000 grant to the Free Clinic, which last year
provided urgent medical and preventative care, and
prescriptions, to over 100,000 people who had no
other access to health care services.
“By
supporting the Free Clinic we make a smart
investment in our community’s future and leverage
limited health care resources to help address the
needs of thousands of uninsured individuals and
families,” says Lynn
Bohart, the foundation’s executive director.
The Free
Clinic was founded in 1990 by retired Dr.
Sam Beall.
The clinic in
the Parsley Center, 4100 Plomondon Street, provides
basic health care services for children and adults
with no or low income who do not have health
insurance or state medic al assistance.
According to
Bohart, the number of people seeking services at the
Free Clinic is up 30% over the same period last year
because of cutbacks in health care benefits provided
by businesses.
Free storm
debris disposal ends Saturday
Saturday,
Jan. 31, is the final day that residents of Clark
County can dispose of storm-related woody debris at
no charge, reports
Anita Largent, spokesperson for Clark County
Solid Waste.
Woody debris,
trees, limbs and branches may be taken to any of the
following locations for free disposal: West Van
Material Recovery Facility, 6601 NW Lower River
Road; H & H Wood Recyclers, 8401 NE 117th Avenue;
McFarlane’s Bark, 8806 NE 117th Avenue; Central
Transfer and Recycling Center, 11034 NE 117th
Avenue; and Triangle Resources, 612 SE Union Street,
Camas.
For further
information on the storm debris removal program
sponsored by Clark County and Vancouver, call the
Office of Neighborhoods,
619-1152.
Molly
Gloss opens WSU Vancouver’s 2004 Professional
Writing Series Thursday
Award-winning
author and fourth generation Oregonian, Portland’s
Molly Gloss
opens the Washington State University Vancouver
Professional Writing Series with a free lecture open
to the public at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, in the
Multimedia Building lecture hall at the Salmon Creek
Campus.
Gloss is the
author of novels
Outside the Gates,
The Jump-off Creek,
and The Dazzle of
the Day.
County
land use permit fees to
go down, permit fees to go up
Changes in
the amount that Clark County Community Development
Department charges for land use permits and for land
development permits will be discussed at a public
hearing of the county commissioners at 10 a.m.
Tuesday, Feb, 10.
Plans call
for a decrease in all building permit fees by 5.28
percent, and for an increase in land development
fees by 6 percent.
In addition,
there are a dozen land development permit fees that
will be set on a cost-of-service basis.
For
additional information, call county finance manager
Toby LaFrance,
397-2375, extension
4875.
City
approves Farmers Market lease
A
multiple-year lease between the Vancouver Farmers
Market for inside space in Esther Short Commons,
west of the outdoor market’s Esther Short Park
location, was approved by the Vancouver City Council
last night. A “significant” financial contribution
by the Angelo Construction Company, covered cost of
equipment and opened the way for final approval.
People
Phyllis Wilson,
unit secretary on 4-South at Southwest Washington
Medical Center, has been recognized by the medical
center’s Circle of Excellence for idea of having a
super swap meet among hospital units to reapportion
supplies needed by some departments that might be
surplus to other departments. The Bright Idea Award
Wilson won was based on her innovative,
money-saving, positive program for recycling
resources. A second super swap meet is planned for
this year.
News
briefs
Vancouver
Mayor Royce Pollard
delivers the 2004 State of the City Address,
“Vancouver Is Open for Business,” in the Columbia
Tech Center on SE Columbia Tech Drive, just east of
SE 164th Avenue, at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan 28. There
is no charge, but reservations are required and may
be obtained by calling
696-8200.
--- Clark County commissioners meet in informal
session at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28.
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