Vancouver still pulling
in newcomers--Columbian, Ken Bilderback
15-minute mid-morning I-5 bridge lifts began today--Columbian,
Julia Anderson
Democrat John Davis taking on Sen. Don Benton (R-17th)--Columbian,
Don Jenkins
Clean Water Act will cost Vancouver residents more--Columbian,
Jeffrey Mize
Ridgefield council seeks to fire manager--Columbian, Margaret
Ellis
Advocate pushes plan to quiet PDX noise--Columbian, Scott Hewitt
PDX noise relief may elude city--Oregonian, Bill Stewart
Sea
Mar medical clinic looking for new location--Columbian, Julia
Anderson
Blond bank robber identified but uncaught--KGB-TV, Abe Estimada
More civilians killed ikn Iraq as ambushes continue--New York Times,
Jeffrey Gettleman
Clark County
gains 1,300 jobs in February
Clark County’s
unadjusted unemployment rate dropped from 8.6 percent in January to
8.3 percent in February as 1,300 jobs were added during the month.
State Department of Employment Security figures released today
showed the county had 172,600 people with jobs in February.
Statewide
unadjusted unemployment dropped to 6.8 percent in February, from
7.2 percent in January.
The unadjusted
national unemployment rate was 5.6 percent in February, unchanged
from January.
Open house on
Highway 502, I-5 interchange
next week, state may begin buying land early
Although the
next new major interstate freeway interchange in Clark County won’t
go out for bid for another two years, the state Department of
Transportation may begin property acquisition for the Highway
502-I-5 interchange this summer.
State Highway
502, which is also NE 219th Street, currently ends at NE 10th
Avenue. The extension of 502 would make a direct link between the
freeway and Battle Ground’s major east-west arterial street.
An open house
that will provide a review of conceptual alternatives and designs
for the $34.7 million interchange, which is designed to improve
freeway access to Battle Ground, is 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 25,
in the Battle Ground High School Cafeteria, 300 W Main Street.
The interchange
is one of the nickel projects funded by the 2003 state Legislature.
Highway
officials say WDOT will begin property acquisition by talking with
potential sellers of property that will be used for storm water
storage, balancing the loss of wetlands and other uses independent
of a final design.
Further
information on the project can be found at
www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/SR502/Interchange/.
Jennifer
Rhoads tapped by First Indy
Jennifer Rhoads has been
named vice president and senior financial advisor for the First
Independent Bank’s Private Banking Division.
A Vancouver
native, Rhoads, who is a Washington State University graduate, is
president of the Hazel Dell Community Association, YWCA of Clark
County committee chair, board member of the Washington State
University Cougar Club, Junior Achievement classroom teacher,
Vancouver Symphony committee member, volunteer art instructor at
Felida Elementary School and classroom aide for religious education
in St. Joseph Catholic Parish.
ISCO picks
Columbia Business Center; Eastridge Business Park signs 13 tenants
One of the
nation’s largest distributors and manufacturers of polyethylene
pipe, ISCO Industries, has opened a regional distribution facility
in Vancouver’s Columbia Business Center, the region’s largest
industrial business center.
Bart Phillips, president of
the Columbia River Economic Development Council, says ISCO’s
decision to locate in Vancouver confirms that Clark County is
the site location for
distribution and logistics in the Vancouver-Portland market.
Meanwhile, since
the first of the year, EastRidge Business Park has completed lease
transactions with 13 new and existing tenants for 28,756 square feet
of space.
Oops
For the sake of
Tauf Charneski’s domestic
tranquility, the Insider
offers the following correction: Insider staff writer Charneski
admits misquoting his wife in his piece about bringing the library
bond issue back to life in November. His wife did not use the term
“dirty underwear.” The term she used was “raggedy, worn out, ugly
underwear.”
News briefs
The NE Hazel
Dell Neighborhood Association meets at 7 p.m. tonight in the Clark
County Public Works community center, 4700 NE 78th Street.
nnn Clark
County commissioners meet in informal session at 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 17.
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Tuesday on the air
Celebrating Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards—3:30 p.m. CVTV
Portland Blazers at Milwaukee (live)—5 p.m. FSN, KXL, KRMZ
Integrity of Leaders in the Public Sector—5:30 p.m. CVTV
Vancouver Land Use Hearings (live)—7 p.m. CVTV
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