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Polls will be open
Tuesday for
school and fire district elections
Voters in the Battle
Ground, Camas, Washougal and Woodland School Districts, and Fire
District 13, are being asked to approve special levies and bond
issues in tomorrow’s elections.
Polling places will be
open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on election day.
Battle Ground voters are
being presented a $54,980,000 bond issue that would enable the
district to build two new kindergarten-through-eighth grade
school buildings, replace three existing schools, and make
additions and modifications to other schools.
Camas School District
voters are being asked to approve a three-year levy that would
raise $750,000 each year to be used for improvements in
technology and instructional computers.
The Washougal School
District issue is a six-year levy that would raise almost $1.5
for acquisition of technology equipment and classroom computers.
Woodland School District
voters, most of whom live in Cowlitz County, are being asked to
approve a nearly $34 million bond issue to pay for a new high
school and to convert the district’s middle-high schools to a
middle school and district administration facility. Bonds would
also pay for upgrading the school athletic stadium and increase
parking.
Fire District 13
commissioners are asking for voters to establish a set property
tax levy not to exceed $1.25 per $1,000 of assessed valuation.
The levy would not be in addition to current levy rates.
Vancouver Chamber
hosting networking seminar
Kathy Condon, a
nationally recognized expert speaker and trainer on career
transitions, business networking and business communication will
present a networking seminar Friday, May 21, at the Greater
Vancouver Chamber of Commerce office, 8 to 10 a.m., 1101
Broadway, Suite 120, Vancouver. The fee is $40 per person. Call
360-694-2588 to register.
News briefs
Liquid sunshine didn’t
dampen the spirit of the Evergreen Community Festival held a
couple of weeks ago. Julie A.
Dawson, festival president, reports that more than 6,000
people attended and/ore participated in the event. 275
volunteers worked more than 800 hours to bring the festival to
life. Next year’s shin-dig will take place on May 14.
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Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce
Business After Hours
tomorrow, Doubletree Hotel Jantzen Beach (east side of the
bridge) 5 to 7 p.m., Hayden Island Steakhouse inside the hotel,
909 N. Hayden Island Drive, Portland, $10. Call the Chamber’s
registration line to sign up or go to
www.vancouverusa.com.
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The Ray Hickey Hospice House open house will take place May 20,
5:30 to 7:30 p.m., 2112 E. Mill Plain Blvd. The facility is
Vancouver’s first in-patient hospice center.
Ridgefield to close
launch for sprucing up
The Ridgefield Boat
Launch will close for about a week beginning May 24 during a
project to upgrade the launch.
“When we began operating
the boat launch in 2001 we committed to making some improvements
and repairs and reinvesting the park fee revenues back into the
launch area, and now we’re simply following through,” said
Brent Grening, Port of
Ridgefield executive director.
The $300,000 improvement
project is being paid for by the Port and through a grant from
the Washington State Interagency Committee for Outdoor
Recreation. Upon completion, the launch area will sport new
launch floats, a new day-use dock, a paved parking lot, improved
picnic area, new landscaping, and new lighting and signage.
Free training set to
help Gorge communities roll out Lewis & Clark welcome
The Columbia Gorge
Visitors Association is sponsoring a series of 12 trainings for
guest service workers, retail workers and anyone else interested
in helping visitors during the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial
Commemoration, which runs through 2006.
Instructors are Hood
River residents Stu and
Kathy Watson, authors of
The Lewis & Clark Expedition: A
Traveler’s Companion for Oregon and Washington.
In Clark County, two
free 90-minute training sessions will be held on Tuesday, May
18, 7 to 8:30 p.m. and Thursday, May 27, 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the
JDZ School Cafeteria, 841 NE 22nd Ave., Camas. Advance
registration is required. Call
541-386-8870 or
541-386-8860, or send email to
kwatson@gorge.net
or
swatson@gorge.net.
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