Broughton Lumber Co trying to resurrect Columbia River wind surfing
resort--Columbian, Kathie Durbin
Mario De Leon planning Hispanic resource fair--Columbian, Kelly
Adams
Vancouver City Council to hear airport noise report
tonight--Oregonian, Bill Stewart
Multnomah
County commissioners uphold gay marriages--KATU, William McCall
Firefighters battle four-alarm blaze in SE Portland this
afternoon--KGW-TV, Teresa Bell and Abe
Estimada
Seattle wants city workers to buy cheaper Canadian drugs--Seattle
Times, Bob Young
Outdated,
outmoded community
library kinda like dirty underwear
BY TAUF CHARNESKI
Staff Writer, The Insider
An outdated,
outmoded, inadequately accessible community library is a little like
dirty underwear. You might get away with it if there is no other
choice, but it’s still a bad idea.
As my wife,
Nancy, cautions me, “If you ever are injured in an automobile
accident wearing dirty underwear, you’d better hope that the
injuries are fatal.”
The trustees
of the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District Board don’t have to
put up with any more “dirty underwear” if they follow the lead of
voters who last Tuesday created
the Greater Vancouver Library Capital Facility Area
Those same
voters, and more, can in the November 2004 general election approve
a $48 million bond issue designed to bring the library to the level
of other quality-of-life amenities Vancouver offers—If the library
board of trustees resubmits exactly the same ballot issue that got a
nearly 54 percent majority last week.
A 60 percent
majority vote is there for the asking.
By slightly
over the magic 60 percent majority, voters have already
approved the library area
boundaries.
Maybe these
voters voted heart’s desire on one hand and purse strings on the
other, but they seem ripe for responding to a dynamite message from
library backers.
Why then
didn’t those same voters vote for the bond issue? Because the
library election was a “ho hum” issue. It wasn’t a matter much
discussed. Promoters barely began talking about the issue a month
earlier. Phone calls and promotion pieces primarily were made and
sent to “known” library supporters.
Now that the
bond issue failed, it has created some talk and some second
guessing.
Also, more
voters will turn out in the November general election. With more
time, more controversy and more pizzazz, the library backers can
generate a change of underwear.
March 9 was
not a fatal accident.
Taxpayers
in Evergreen School District
to save an average of $7 a year
The Evergreen
School District has made strategic bond sales both this year and
last, that translate into an average homeowner’s getting an annual
tax break of $7 over the next 20 years, according to district
spokeswoman Carol Fenstermacher.
Bond sales
from last year, combined with an early sale of $30 million in bonds
for school building construction this year that came in under
interest estimates, has resulted in a total savings of $9.265
million over the life of the bonds.
Marc
Grignon joins First Independent Bank
Marc Grignon has joined First
Independent Bank as senior vice president and manager of trust and
investment services in the First Indy’s Private Banking Division.
Grignon is a
native Portlander, whose 30 years of banking experience includes
service with Union Bank of California and Wells Fargo. He is a
graduate of Portland State University and the Pacific Coast Banking
School.
Grignon is a
former chair of the Portland State University Foundation, a member
of the board of regents of the Pacific Northwest College of Art, a
member of the Oregon Symphony Planned Giving Steering Committee, and
a member of the Portland Society of Financial Analysts.
News
briefs
The
Vancouver City council meets in workshop session at 4 p.m. today and
will hear a report on actions being taken by the Port of Portland to
mitigate air noise over the city. The city council also meets in a
formal session at 7 p.m. and, among other things, will consider a
ten-year street lease for the Vancouver Farmers Market.
nnn Clark
Public Utilities’ commissioners meet in regular session at 9 a.m.
Tuesday. nnn
Clark County commissioners meet in regular session at 10 a.m.
Tuesday, March 16. nnn
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray
(D-Wash.) is the speaker at the Greater Vancouver Chamber of
Commerce Advocacy Series luncheon at noon Tuesday, March 16. Murray
will host a veterans community roundtable discussion, at 1:30 p.m.,
the same day in Pearson Air Museum, 1115 E. 5th Street. Call
696-7797 for reservations.
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