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Six in Clark County
selected to
take part in Neighborhoods USA
Representatives of six
neighborhood associations have been selected to participate in
Neighborhoods USA, May 26 through 29 in Hollywood, Fla.
Attending the national
conference will be Fran Blair,
North Garrison Heights, Richard
Durland, Sherwood Hills,
Susan Nellor, Southcliff,
Jennifer Reed, Vancouver Heights,
Bridget Schwarz,
Fairgrounds, and Bud Van Cleve,
NE Hazel Dell.
Accompanying the
neighborhood leaders will be
Doug Ballou, chair of the Neighborhood Advisory Council
of Clark County, Adrienne DeDona,
Vancouver Office of Neighborhoods, and
Holly Gaya, Clark County
Neighborhood Outreach Program.
Work begins at
Firstenburg Center
Trees were being cleared
this week at NE 136th Avenue and Mill Plain Boulevard, the site
of the future 75,000-square-foot Firstenburg Community Center.
Usable fir trees will be
milled into lumber and finish paneling for use in construction.
Other trees will be used in Burnt Bridge Creek stream
restoration.
The community center and
recreation facility is to be completed in mid-2005.
Downtown library
Sunday
hours shifted by one
Vancouver Community
Library patrons, responding to a survey by the Fort Vancouver
Regional Library district, elected to open the library an hour
earlier on Sunday and to have the library close an hour earlier.
The new hours, effective
Sunday, April 11, will be noon to 8 p.m.
Patrons have suggested
closing the library earlier because of lack of public
transportation late on Sunday.
An average of 1,200
people visit the downtown library on Sunday, about 150 visits an
hour, according to librarian
Doreen Turpin. The library averages 200 patrons an hour
during other days of the week.
5,000 brown trout to
attend Lacamas Lake water festival and Round Lake fishing derby
Children 14 and under are
encouraged to fish for one of 5,000 brown trout stocked at Round
Lake north of Camas Saturday during the city’s Lacamas Lake
Water Festival and Kids Fishing Derby from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Saturday, April 10.
Fishers, who must bring
their own fishing pole and bait, may keep only one fish each,
but the fish will be measured by the Camas Fire Department and
entered into the festival fishing derby.
In addition to kids
fishing there will be fly tying demonstrations, boat safety
demonstrations, hiking tours, environmental displays and
entertainment for kids. The gathering place for the festival, is
Lacamas Lake Park on SE Everett Road. For further information,
call Laura Lean,
397-6060, extension
7703.
Free AARP tax
assistance available
Through April 15, free
federal income tax preparation assistance is being offered
through the AARP Tax-Aide program at 12 locations in Clark
County and Woodland.
Assistance is available
at the following places: Amboy Fire Station, 21705 NE 399th
Street; First Independent Banks in Battle Ground, Fishers
Landing, Hazel Dell and Vancouver Mall; Bank of America, Camas;
Glenwood Place Senior Living, 5500 NE 82nd Avenue; Three Creeks
Community Library, 800-C NE Tenney Road; Vancouver Community
Library, 1007 E Mill Plain Boulevard; Vancouver Mall Community
Library; Vancouver Marshall Center, 1009 E McLoughlin Boulevard;
and Columbia Bank, 782 Goerig Street, Woodland.
For additional
information, call 892-2203.
2good2toss.com local
cyberspace flea market, garage sale, beats landfill option
Vancouver and Clark
County have joined with other Washington communities and the
state Department of Ecology in sponsoring a website,
2good2toss.com, to provide a place to sell or give away unwanted
but usable stuff that otherwise might be headed to the dump.
The promotional blurb for
the free service states: “Save that still serviceable
refrigerator from the landfill and find it a home. Locate the
wallboard you need to finish your basement. And do it for free!
Think of it as an online garage sale, where the valuable items
are free or low cost.”
For further information,
click on www.2good2toss.com,
or call Sally Fisher or
Bob Patterson, Clark County waste reduction specialists,
397-6118, extension
4939.
Testing here to stay, state schools chief tells
Rotary--Columbian, Gregg Sherrard Blesch
Terry Bergeson challenger promises to jettison WASL--Columbian,
Amy McFall Prince
Extension of comment on Cowlitz proposal requested--Columbian,
Margaret Ellis
Casino plan ready for look--Oregonian, Foster Church
Downtown dog day care sought--Columbian, Gregg Sherrard
Blesch
Oregonian arts calendar leads off with Woodland Tulip Festival--Oregonian
Lewis and Clark stamps debut in 11 cities on May 14--Seattle
P-I, AP
Battles in Iraq bring troubles for Bush and Kerry as well--New
York Times, Adam Nagourney and Carl Hulse
Masters Leaderboard--USA TODAY
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