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Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger,
Hudson Bay High School earth science and astronomy teacher is
NASA's newest astronaut
The girl who won a
second place NASA T-shirt in a national essay contest while in
high school in Ft. Collins, Colo., today was
officially named one of eleven new National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
astronaut trainees.
Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger,
29, is an earth sciences and astronomy teacher at Hudson’s Bay
High School.
Metcalf-Lindenburger
will complete the school year before she and her husband,
Jason Metcalf-Lindenburger,
relocate to Johnson Space Center in Houston where she
will become one of three educator astronauts who will train
alongside pilots, engineers, and researchers to become a fully
qualified permanent member of the astronaut corps.
Her abiding interest in
space continuing after high school, Metcalf-Lindenburger began
teaching astronomy at Hudson’s Bay after joining the high school
faculty in 1999. In January 2003, responding to a student’s
question, “How do astronauts go to the bathroom in space?” Mrs.
L, as she is known to her students, went to the NASA Website to
find out. While on the Website she discovered the educator
astronaut position open and became one of 2,000 applicants.
Metcalf-Lindenburger, who
is also a cross country coach at Hudson’s Bay, completed another
dream last month when she successfully completed her first
Boston Marathon. She and her husband both enjoy hiking, biking,
roller blading and traveling. She earned a geology degree from
Whitman College, Walla Walla.
Arts Walk artists contributing 25 percent
of today’s sales to buy an all terrain wheelchair
Vancouver's First
Thursday Alive After Five Art Walk, connecting arts, business
and the downtown community is from 5 to 8 p.m. this evening. It
is highlighted by a special sale of artwork in the Marketplace
Courtyard, Evergreen Boulevard and Main Street, where 25 percent
of the sales of artwork will be donated to purchase an
all-terrain wheelchair.
The wheelchair, suitable
for crossing sandy beaches, will be available on loan from
disAbility Resources.
NE 10th Avenue closing for improvements
A nearly mile-long
stretch of NE 10th Avenue, between NE Carty Road and NE 259th
Street, will be closed to through-traffic, for widening and
other improvements, beginning Monday, May 10, through the end of
October .
Businesses operating
along the corridor will remain open, and access will be allowed
for customers, although detours may be required.
Boosting manufacturing
competitiveness
subject of college’s free conference
A free conference
designed for chief executive and chief financial officers,
production managers and human recourse managers is being
presented from 7:30 a.m. to noon, Friday, May 21, in the Student
Services Building at the Washington State University Vancouver
campus.
Presenters are
Karl Webber,
manufacturing and management consultant with Emergent
Technologies, Daniel Sloan,
ETI Group, and Victoria Hawley,
Process Flow Specialists Inc.
The conference is
sponsored jointly by Clark and Lower Columbia Community
Colleges, the Columbia River and Cowlitz Economic Development
Councils, the Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council
and, the Washington Manufacturing Services and WorkSource. For
registration information, call
992-2521.
News briefs
An artists reception for
James Torson is 5 to 8
p.m. this evening in the North Bank Artists Gallery, 1005 Main
Street. Torson is noted for “figurescapes,” collage assemblages
with graphite, pencil, watercolor and acrylic. nnn
The Clark County Public Information and Outreach Office has
received two first-place national communication awards for its
creative work in the dedication of the Public Service Center
last October.
100-year-old La Center building becomes newest library in Fort
Vancouver system--Columbian, Margaret Ellis
Officers on training mission peak into minds of mentally
ill--Columbian, Stephanie Rice
Ridgefield Dollar Tree distribution center humming--Columbian,
Jonathan Nelson
Multnomah County Board Chair Diane Linn apologizes for the way
she has handled some county matters but does not regret decision
on same-sex marriages--Oregonian, David Austin
Dwindling snowpack threatens water supplies, forests--Seattle
P-I, Debra Carlton
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