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Telecommunications Commission accepting call-in comments
tonight on Comcast review
The City/County
Telecommunications Commission, meeting in regular session at 7
p.m. tonight, will review Comcast’s past year as Clark County’s
cable television supplier.
Citizens may make
official comments by mail, in person at the meeting or by
calling in between 7:20 and 8 p.m. during the commission
meeting.
The telephone number to
call is 696-8233. The
public meeting will be telecast live on CVTV beginning at 7 p.m.
Comcast is in the seventh
year of a 15-year non-exclusive franchise to provide cable
television for Clark County.
Fourteen from Clark
County returning
from mid-east with the 162nd Infantry
Of the four hundred
national guard soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 162nd Infantry,
returning this week from a tour of duty in the middle east and
Iraq, 14 are from Clark County.
The Oregon National Guard
unit is expected to arrive at the Oregon State Fairgrounds
Columbia Hall in Salem at about 5 p.m. Thursday, April 8.
Those from Vancouver are
Thomas Carella,
George Blalack,
Jeramy Bracken,
Buck Wesley,
Joshua Chester, Michael Hoffman,
Bradley Huppunen,
George Johnson,
Matthew Kuhnel,
James Nass,
Scott Shobert and
Derek Soanka. Also with
the group are James Smith,
Camas, and Henry McDonald,
La Center.
The 162nd Infantry
provided convoy escort in Baghdad and provided base security in
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
A formal demobilization
ceremony of the unit will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 10, in
Columbia Hall.
By age three, 70
percent of the human brain is formed, experts say at Tuesday
seminar
Research indicates that
70 percent of the human brain is developed by age three and by
age 6 the brain is 90 percent formed, according to the Support
for Early Learning and Families, presenting a four-hour seminar
Tuesday, April 13, in the Red Lion Hotel at the Quay.
Children, including the
youngest children, are capable of learning more, and more
complex language concepts and skills, than has been previously
thought, according to SELF.
SELF, a local
organization formed in 2001, works to ensure that all Clark
County’s youngest children are safe, healthy, eager to learn and
ready to succeed by the time they enter school.
Keynote speakers are
Vancouver Clinic pediatrician
John Stirling, and David
W. William, behavioral pediatrician in private practice
at Legacy Emanuel’s Children’s Hospital.
Among sponsors of the
seminar are Southwest Washington Medical Center Foundation,
Legacy Health System, ESD 112, The Vancouver Housing Authority,
Clark College and Washington State University Vancouver.
Registration is at 6:45
a.m. Breakfast is served at 7 a.m., and the seminar concludes at
11 a.m. Advance registration can be arranged by calling
Teresa Mendenhall,
750-7500, extension
229. The cost is $25.
River Road generator
sets record but may be shut down to take advantage of cheap
power
Clark Public Utilities’
River Road Generating Plant has been running continuously for
the past 160 days, which by a week surpasses the former record,
set last Marc, of 153 days of continuous power generation.
The plant is scheduled
for an annual maintenance shutdown in May, but, if cheaper power
materializes the plant could be turned off sooner, reports
utility spokesperson Mick Shutt.
Shutt says that cheaper
surplus hydro power often becomes available in the spring, when
reservoirs are full and the snow pack is melting.
The flexibility built
into Clark’s power resource mix allowed it to save $2 million in
2002 by not operating the plant for 102 days.
The natural gas-fired
steam generator provides the utility with about half its power
requirements.
People
Kirstin Murphy has become
the first high school student to be appointed to the Clark
County Mental Health Advisory Board. Murphy is a junior at
Prairie High School. She succeeds
Milt McDermitt. Also
appointed to the advisory board was State Rep.
Deb Wallace (D-17th, who
Bus to Lloyd Center to run awhile longer--Columbian, Margaret
Ellis
Costco project expected to resume--Columbian, Kathie Durbin
State may ease math standard--Columbian, Gregg Sherrard
Blesch
Home deconstruction process has recycling payoff--Columbian,
Erin Middlewood
Gentle Ben, Vancouver therapy dog getting national
recognition--Columbian, AP
TSMC gets Microsoft contract but unsure of whether Camas plant
will make chips--Columbian, Julia Anderson
Lesiglators raise concerns about I-5, Highway 502
interchange--Oregonian, Bill Stewart
Rockets reportedly kill over 2 dozen Iraqis in Falluja--New York
Times, Kirk Semple
Condoleezza Rice Testimony to be carried live on networks at 6
a.m. Thursday--New York Times, David E. Sanger and
Philip Shenon
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