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voters deciding today whether their, and Clark County
commuters' income taxes will increase--KATU
City
welcomes Miller's barracks business plan--Columbian,
Jeffrey Mize
Historic
site makeover begins--Oregonian, Allan
Brettman
Vancouver
getting set for busy season of road work--Columbian,
Jeffrey Mize
American
Legion Smith-Reynolds Post 14 honor guard helps ease the
pain--Columbian, Dean Baker
County
commissioner won't run again--Colmbian, Erin
Middlewood
C-TRAN
weighs 5 options for its future--Columbian, Erin
Middlewood
Ridgefield
voting today on on special levy--Columbian
Dean
and Kerry campaigning in Washington state--KGW-TB,
AP
Most
of U.S. Senate shuts down after ricin found in Majority Leader
Bill Frist's office--USA TODAY, AP
Powell
says new data may have affected war decision--Washington Post,
Glenn Kessler
Voters
in seven states picking a Democratic contender today--New York
Times, Kirk Semple and Terrance
Neilan
Judie Stanton won’t seek
a third term
Judie Stanton, who completes
her second term as Clark County commissioner this year, said
yesterday during a taping of CVTV’s Clark County Focus
(channel 23) that she will not be a candidate for reelection.
Asked what her future
political plans were, Stanton said she has none. “It’s time to
move on to other things,” she said.
Counting this year, Stanton
will have served as a Democratic county commissioner for the
past eight years. She is also a former Vancouver School
District board member and former member of the Fire District 5
elected board.
Stanton was with Clark
Public Utilities for 22 years and was community relations
manager when, in 1996, she ran for county commissioner. She
says her current interests lie in teaching and in website
design.
Betty Sue Morris, the senior
commissioner and, this year, chair of the three-member body,
whose term is also up this year, is definitely running for
reelection. Morris is also a Democrat, as is Craig Pridemore, whose
current term is not open for election until 2006.
Although all three are
Democrats, they do not always agree on issues. Stanton
generally has been a centrist, often helping bring
unanimity to decisions.
“I want to give plenty of
time for someone else to campaign for the job,” Stanton said
Monday, “but I don’t want to be considered a ‘lame duck’ for
the rest of the year.”
Each commissioner serves a
district. Morris’s, which includes northern Clark County, is
considered the most conservative. Pridemore’s district
includes the city of Vancouver and usually is Democratic.
Stanton’s district includes Camas and east Clark County, where
Democrats and Republicans have the most equal chance of
winning.
Arts Center project gets
boost from city
The Vancouver City Council
last night, without a dissenting vote, approved a $60,000
contribution to the developing community arts center project
to be used for a feasibility study.
The Center for the Arts
Steering Committee, which was put forward by Leadership Clark
County last year, is co-chaired by retired State Rep. Val Ogden and Clark College
vice president of student development Blaine Nisson.
Clark College is also
studying the impact of a performing arts center on the college
campus.
The committee envisions a
center dedicated to the arts that would house a
1,200-to-1,500-seat proscenium theater and two smaller
theaters, as well as provide space for other kinds of art
displays.
49th District Day in
Olympia tomorrow
Residents of the 49th
Legislative District will have an opportunity to tour the
state Capitol campus and meet their legislators for lunch
tomorrow in Olympia, but they have to bring their own
lunch.
This special event is
sponsored by Republican State. Sen. Don Carlson and Democrat
State Reps. Bill
Fromhold and Jim
Moeller.
Visitors are to begin the
tour at 10 a.m. at the Capitol Visitor Services trailer
between the Capitol Building and the Temple of
Justice.
The lunch, for which
coffee, tea and cookies are provided, follows at noon in
Hearing Room 2 of the John A. Cherborg Building.
For further information,
call Carlson at (360)
786-7696.
People
The general manager of The
Club at the Reserve being put forward by Arch Miller on the second
floor of the Grant House is Bill Woodard, not Bob Woodard, as ignorantly
reported by the Insider
Monday. The error was pointed out by Woodard’s fellow
Woodlander, Tim Welch.
Woodard is also a member of the Woodland School Board. Membership fees and a dues
structure for the club, to be limited to 300 members, have not
been set, but Woodard can be reached at 695-2500. --- Einar Einarsson, chef at the
Grant House from 1988 to 1996, has been named head chef at
Club Green Meadows.
News
briefs
In an informal session the
Vancouver Planning Commission presents a forum on Vancouver
finances at 4 p.m. today in City Hall. --- The Kaiser
Permanente free forum on childhood obesity is at 7 p.m.
tonight in the Kaiser Permanente Salmon Creek Medical Office,
14406 NE 20th Avenue. Call toll-free (877) 274-0824 for further
information. --- Clark
County commissioners meet in an informal session at 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 4. Paul
Lewis, manager of the city’s Financial Management
Services is the presenter.
Tuesday
on the air
Clark
County Focus—5 p.m. CVTV
State of the City Address—5:30
p.m. CVTV
Clark County Land Use Hearings (live)—7 p.m.
CVTV
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