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Ray Hickey Hospice House to open May 20
Southern Washington’s
first inpatient hospice center, the Ray Hickey Hospice House,
2112 E Mill Plain Boulevard, opens Thursday, May 20.
Under construction for
the past seven months, the $3 million hospice center was
financed through the Southwest Washington Medical Center
Foundation’s most popular fund raising programs.
Ray Hickey, former owner
of Tidewater Barge Company, whose family made a $1.5 million
contribution, and a former medical center library volunteer,
Marj Sumption, who gave
$850,000 to the project, were the chief donors for the
end-of-life care facility.
Other major contributors
were Friends of Hospice, Southwest Washington Medical Center
Auxiliary, and medical center employees.
The 16,000-square foot
facility, designed by LSW Architects, has 20 private rooms. It
is expected to provide 7,000 patient days of service during the
first year. Last year, 961 persons in the region received
home-based hospice care.
National studies show
that 80 percent of Americans would prefer to die at home, but
less than 25 percent have that opportunity.
“We want this building to
be as warm and inviting as possible,” says
Karla Rowe, director of
the Cancer Center at the medical center. “We want families to
take ownership of the space. We want them to feel they can kick
back and have a family dinner together.”
The medical center’s
foundation is continuing its fund raising campaign for the
center to help provide support for patients without financial
resources to pay for care. For further information, call
514-3106.
WSU Vancouver program,
recalling Vanport flood of 1948, includes film and survivors
A commemoration of the
1948 Vanport flood that wiped out the largest public housing
project in U.S. History is being offered by Washington State
University Vancouver at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 11, in the Student
Services Building auditorium.
A panel discussion by
flood survivors follows a screening of the short film
Vanport, A Survivor’s Tale.
The commemoration is
sponsored by the university’s Center for Social and
Environmental Justice, the Vancouver National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People, and the Sabin Community
Development Corporation, and is endorsed by Vancouver for Peace.
There is no admission
charge.
Vancouver’s Urban
Forestry
Commission has vacancy
Applicants are being
sought by the City of Vancouver for a vacancy on the city’s
Urban Forestry Commission. The commission advises the city on
urban forestry police and regulation and on the administration
of the Heritage Tree Program.
The term is through May
2008. It is not necessary to be a resident of the city to be a
member of the commission. For further information, call
Carol Hansen,
696-8001.
State Rep. Deb Wallace
to review 2004 legislative session at open house
State Rep.
Deb Wallace (D-17th)
will review the 2004 state legislative session and listen to
citizen concerns at an open house at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 13,
at Hockinson High School, 16819 NE 159th Street. For further
information, call 256-0689.
People
Clark College student
athletes of the month are Kate
Burton, freshman, who holds the school record in women’s
hammer throwing, 177 feet, eight inches, and
Ryan Thomas, sophomore,
who is the college’s track and field team captain. Ryan has
already qualified in the triple jump, high jump, long jump,
100-meter run, and 4x100-meter relay for the May 27 regional
championships.
News briefs
The Vancouver City
Council begins a four-hour retreat session, to discuss fire
services budgeting, at 4 p.m. today in City Hall.
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The Fort Vancouver Regional Library District board meets in
regular session at 6 p.m. this evening in the Ridgefield
Community Center, 210 N Main Avenue.
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The Neighborhood Associations Council of Clark County meets at 7
p.m. tonight in the Public Works conference room, 4700 NE 78th
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Clark Public Utilities’ commissioners meet in regular session at
9 a.m. Tuesday, May 11.
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Port of Vancouver Commissioners meet at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, May
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Clark County commissioners meet in regular session at 10 a.m.
Tuesday, May 11.
President Bush's rating hits lowest point--USA TODAY, Jill
Lawrence
Dow tumbles to under 10,000 for the first time since
December--USA TODAY, AP
Some Prune Hill neighbors huffy over proposed 51-unit low-income
apartment project--Columbian, Dean Baker
Evergreen School District is brainstorming magnet high
school in partnership with medical institution to prepare
students for medical sciences careers--Columbian, Gregg
Sherrard Blesch
Evergreen identifies 3.5-acre space near Southwest Washington
Medical Center for possible magnet high school--Columbian,
Scott Hewitt
State Sen. Don Benton huge lead in campaign funding--Columbian,
Don Jenkins
Pearson Air Museum flies high on history, offers classic
aircraft, hands-on workshops and show-and-tell
events--Oregonian, Bill Stewart
Before Lewis and Clark took even a step toward
the Rockies, the lower Columbia already was the cultural
equivalent of a shopping-mall food
court, with Russian, European, American and perhaps even
Japanese influences arriving via ships sailing along the Pacific
Coast--Seattle Times, Ron C. Judd
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