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Summer concerts in Esther
Short Park getting started in July
The Vancouver Wine and
Jazz Festival and the Taste of Vancouver are the biggies, but
other concerts and musical events are beginning to fill the
growing list of Esther Short Park events for this summer.
The VancouverCenter Noon
Concert series opens at noon Wednesday, July 7, and continues
each Wednesday through August. 11. The Riverview Six to Sunset
Concerts open at with a 6 p.m. Thursday, July 8, concert. That
series continues on Thursday evenings through Aug. 12. Both
series are free.
Also free will be the
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s annual free community concert at
6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11. The orchestra will be directed by the
symphony’s artistic director
Salvador Brotons.
The jazz festival and the
Taste are both paid events, as is a new event by
KC Fuller,
Hot July Nights, Friday and Saturday, July 16 and 17.
Hot July Nights headlines
Loverboy at 8 p.m.
Friday, and the Supremes
at 8 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $10 Friday and $15 Saturday.
Michael Kissinger’s
seventh annual Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival is Friday
through Sunday, Aug. 27 through 29.
The artistic lineup has
not yet been announced, but in the past, headliners have
included national and international Grammy winners. More than
150 different wines will also be available for tasting, and a
large selection of fine art will be on display and for sale.
The Taste of Vancouver
produced by KC Fuller, will be presented during the Labor Day
weekend Friday, Sept. 3, through Monday, Sept. 6. Headliners
include Curtis Salgado,
Pink Martini,
Michael Allan Harrison,
Paul Delay,
Linda Hornbuckle, and the
Rockeroos. Admission is
$5 each day.
Clark County School
Employees Credit
Union becomes iQ Credit Union
Clark County’s
30,000-member credit union, formerly known as the Clark County
School Employees Credit Union has become iQ Credit Union, credit
union president Roger Michaelis
reports.
The credit union, which
was formed in 1940, served only local school employees, but has
since expanded to serve anyone in the state of Washington.
iQ stands for “financial
intelligence,” according to Michaelis. Michaelis adds: “The only
thing that has changed is the name. We are not merging with
another credit union or changing into a bank.”
University of Phoenix
downtown Vancouver campus open in West Coast Bank Building
Ribbon cutting ceremonies
beginning at 4 p.m. this afternoon will make the March opening
of the University of Phoenix official. The newest campus is in
the West Coast Bank Building, 500 Main Street.
The University of
Phoenix, which provides graduate, undergraduate and technology
certification programs, offers evening and weekend classes as
well as online courses of study on the Internet.
With over 200,000
students, the University of Phoenix is the largest private
accredited university in North America, according to
Pat Hardie, vice
president/director of the university’s Oregon campus. Hardie
said that almost one-third of the students attending the
Clackamas campus either work or live in Clark County.
Ridgefield Art
Association annual exhibit
and sale opens with artists’ reception
An artists’ reception at
5:30 p.m. Friday, May 7, will open the 12th annual Ridgefield
Art Association exhibit and sale in the Ridgefield Community
Center, 210 N Main Street.
More than 40 artists are
participating in the event that continues 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday, May 8.
There are no admission or
gallery fees. For further information, call
Elizabeth Madrigal,
887-4530.
People
Neil Alongi,
Brian Carlson,
Alicia Lowe,
David Parker John Payne
and Scot Walstra have
been appointed to the Clark County Economic Development Fund
Review Committee.
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