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Planning commission offering informal discussion of Vancouver
annexation plans
The Vancouver Planning
Commission’s First Tuesday presentation in City Hall at 4 p.m.
Tuesday, June 1, includes a discussion of Vancouver’s ten year
annexation blueprint.
If it were to annex the
area within its urban growth boundaries, Vancouver would become
the state’s second largest city with over 200,000 residents.
Since Vancouver’s
incorporation in 1857 there have been 127 annexations. During
the past decade the city expanded by 29 miles, increasing its
population by nearly 100,000 people, to become the fourth
largest city in the state.
For further information
on the city’s annexation plan, click on
www.ci.vancouver.wa.us.
vancmo/annexation/index.htm.
Ridgefield Marina
reopened
Crews lower dock ramp into place at Port of Ridgefield Marina
on Lake River. First phase of $300,000 in renovations is
complete.
The Port of Ridgefield
Marina reopened ahead of schedule yesterday, following
installation of new boat launch floats. Additional renovations
in a $300,000 project will continue through mid-July but will
not close marina operations.
County offering free
seminar on
changes in new building code
To help prepare builders,
developers and contractors to cope with a wholly new residential
building code that becomes effective July 1, Clark County staff
is presenting a day-long seminar on new code requirements and on
how to avoid delays in processing permits.
The seminar is from 7:30
a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 19, in the sixth floor hearing
room in the Public Service Building, 1300 Franklin Street.
Call
Carolyn Carlson,
397-2375, extension
4586, by Tuesday, June
15, for mandatory registration
County equalization
board has two vacancies
Applicants for two
alternate member positions on the Clark County Board of
Equalization are being sought.
Board members called to
sit on property tax disagreements are paid at the rate of $75 a
day.
Applicants should have
some knowledge of county property appraisal techniques. Deadline
to apply is Friday, June 11. For further information, call
397-2337.
News briefs
Clark Public Utilities
commissioners meet in regular session at 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 1.nnn
Clark County commissioners meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 1 and
will conduct a public hearing on the county supplemental budget
appropriation. nnn
The Southwest Washington Regional Transportation Council board
of directors meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday, June 1, in the Public
Service Center, 1300 Franklin Street.
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A pair of F-15 Eagle jet fighters from the Oregon Air National
Guard 142nd Fighter Wing will fly over two Clark County Memorial
Day observances Monday, May 31. The jets are scheduled to fly
down to 1,000 feet as they pass over the Washougal Cemetery at
10:50 a.m. and Amboy at 10:55 a.m.
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A 21-gun salute and a military band will accompany Mayor
Royce Pollard and Maj.
Gen. Terrill K. Moffet
during a Memorial Day commemoration in the Post Ceremony at 11
a.m. Monday, May 31, north of Mill Plain Boulevard at I-5.
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In observance of Memorial Day, Monday, May 31, the
Daily Insider will not
be published.
Bush pledges "full sovereignty" for Iraq on June 30--USA TODAY,
AP
Columbia Pacific Building Trades Council calls for three-year
boycott of Vancouver Convention Center, citing non-union
subcontractors--Northwest Labor Press
Construction underway at Firstenburg Center in east
Vancouver--Oregonian, Allan Brettman
John Fischbach leaving Ft. Collins for Jefferson County,
Wash.--Coloradoan, Matthew Benson
Rick Bowler and Marilee Thompson plan $100 million mixed use
project near Camas Meadows Golf Course--Vancouver Business
Journal, Cami Joner
One-way Main Street (out of town) too costly to remedy right
now--Vancouver Business Journal, Cami Joner
Study shows WorkFirst activities help families make transition
from welfare to work--WorkFirst News Release
Martin Plamondon II, cartographer whose three-volume series of
Lewis and Clark Trail maps is being published, died this week at
his Vancouver home--Columbian, Dean Baker
Unusual and weak tornado rips up barn roof in La
Center--Columbian, John Branton
Merger with TODAY'S BANK helps Riverview grow--Columbian,
Jonathan Nelson
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