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Library board to reexamine scope
and boundaries of failed bond issue
While no plan was
developed to resubmit the Fort Vancouver Regional Library
District’s failed $48 million March 9 bond issue to voters, the
library’s board of trustees discussed reexamining the scope of
the expansion proposal and size of special library area during
their regular public meeting last night in White Salmon.
Also, the board consensus
was not to return to the voters in 2004. The failed proposal
would have doubled the downtown Vancouver library and expanded
the east Vancouver Cascade Park Library.
Eastern Washington
University choirs entertain in St. Joseph Church tonight
The symphonic and chamber
choirs of Eastern Washington University, under the direction of
Randel Wagner, present
music of Brahms, Mozart and Debussy in a concert at 7 p.m.
tonight in St. Joseph Catholic Church, 400 S Andresen Road.
The free public concert
features pianists Emily
Callender and Lyrica
Mueller, and soloists Max
Mendez, Jadd Davis,
Katie Castro, Nathan
Geyer and Brandon Wright.
Peoples Community
Credit Union
giving fairgoers a free ride this fall
In a three-way deal among
Peoples Community Credit Union, the Clark County Fair
Association and C-TRAN, the credit union has pledged to
underwrite $10,000 in fare costs in order that fairgoers may
again get free bus transportation to and from the county fair.
Last year, the transit
agency recorded 22,500 round-trip paid fares for fair patrons.
Budget constraints in 2003 prevented C-TRAN from providing free
rides.
Shuttle service will run
from most transit centers, including downtown Vancouver,
Vancouver Mall and Fishers Landing.
Parking at the fair is $5
per vehicle. The 2004 fair runs from Friday, Aug. 6, through
Sunday, Aug. 15.
Bill Fromhold to run
for third legislative term
State Rep.
Bill Fromhold (D-49th)
will announce that he is a candidate for reelection at 9 a.m.
Thursday, April 22, in the courtyard of the Vancouver
Marketplace, 208 W. Evergreen Boulevard.
Fromhold is completing
his second term in the state House of Representatives.
Free hazardous waste
collection is Saturday
Household hazardous waste
may be taken to a Clark College lot at 1950 Fort Vancouver Way
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 17.
There is no charge for
depositing such hazardous waste as pesticides, paints,
batteries, thinners, oil, antifreeze and computers.
The free service is
sponsored by the Clark County Public Works Department and the
state Department of Ecology.
A second collection is
being offered from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, April 22, at the
Frito-Lay plant, 4800 Fruit Valley Road.
For further information,
call Jim Mansfield,
397-6118, extension 4016.
People
Holly Raymond has been
reappointed chair, and Richard
Durland vice chair of the C-TRAN Citizens Advisory
Committee. Carol Levanen
and Thomascito Carr were
reappointed to two-year terms on the committee.
News briefs
Day-long Clark County
Republican convention begins with registration at 8 a.m.
Saturday, April 17, in the Prairie High School auditorium, 11500
NE 117th Avenue. Registration fee is $10.
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The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents its annual young
artists program at two concerts this weekend, 3 p.m. Saturday,
April 17, and 7 p.m. Sunday, April 18, in the Skyview High
School concert hall, 1300 NW 139th Street. A pre-concert music
conversation begins at 2 p.m. Saturday, led by
Lawson Hull.
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Sharon Robinson, daughter
and biographer of baseball great
Jackie Robinson, presents “Promises to Keep: How Jackie
Robinson Changed America” at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 17, in the
Vancouver Community Library. There is no charge for the forum,
sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People and the Fort Vancouver Regional Library.
Frenchman's Bar closed on account of really bad sewage from
somewhere--Columbian, Don Jenkins
Manhunt on for sex offender--Columbian, John Branton
Freed
child molester could be in Vancouver--KATU
After Saturday concert, Carl Landerholm leaving Seafarers
Center--Columbian, Kelly Adams
Beacock's Music more than doubling staff at new 163rd Avenue
location--Columbian, Gretchen Fehrenbacher
Columbian's where to go, what to do this weekend list
Woodward book says Bush secretly ordered Iraq war plan--USA
TODAY, AP
Bush, Blair support UN Iraq plan--Washington Post, William
Branigin
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