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Comcast gets good marks from
Telecommunications Commission
Customer complaints have
decreased and service has increased during the first year of
franchise cable operation in Clark County by Comcast, according
to the annual review of 2003 by the City-County
Telecommunications Commission.
The number of complaints
about cable television service declined by 33 percent during
2003, to 223 for the year, compared to 335 the previous year.
The average number of
cable television outages declined by nearly half during 2003, to
26.6 per month. The average duration of each outage was 1.167
hours.
The cable company also
met customer service standards by answering 90 percent of all
customer telephone calls within 30 seconds.
Comcast added a
near-record 3,518 new cable television customers to the system
during 2003. Cable television in Clark County is now delivered
to 78,976 customers.
In late 2003 Comcast
began offering high-definition television services, followed by
video on demand services early this year. The company says it
will be offering digital video recording services later this
year.
Comcast, which also
offers high-speed internet service, earlier this year doubled
the downstream speed for all residential Internet customers to
3.0 megabytes per second.
Comcast had 30,822
high-speed Internet customers at the end of 2003.
The company also offers
telephone service.
Clark College adding
25 nursing students
As a result of a $250,000
appropriation by the state legislature, Clark College will add
25 nursing students to its registered nurse degree program in
the fall of 2005, when the Clark Center at Washington State
University Vancouver is completed.
Clark currently serves
180 nursing degree students each year. Last fall more than 160
qualified applicants were turned away due to limited space.
Construction of the $20
million Clark Center on WSU Vancouver’s Salmon Creek Campus is
scheduled to begin this summer. The center will include 14
classrooms, six technology computer labs, and four science labs.
The nursing classrooms
and labs will be on the third floor of the new building.
The building also serves
the WSU Vancouver Engineering and Science Institute, a
partnership between WSU Vancouver, Clark College and Lower
Columbia Community College.
Lower division courses
will also be taught at the institute along with general
educations courses that support the university’s 2 + 2 transfer
degree program with Clark and Lower Columbia.
SWMC offers free health
Internet class
Southwest Washington
Medical Center offers an Internet class for health information
the first Thursday of each month. The next class meets at 1 p.m.
Thursday, June 3, in the Health Connection Library in the
Memorial Health Center, at Main and 33rd Streets. For further
information, call 696-5151.
Al Bernstein to
educate, entertain at Columbia Mental Health Talk of the Town
Al Bernstein, author,
psychologist, and former clinical director for Columbia River
Mental Health Services, is the speaker at the health services
Talk of the Town forum and social event at 5:15 p.m. Thursday,
June 3, in the Pearson Air Museum, 1115 E 5th Street.
The $20 admission
includes hors d’oeuvres and wine tasting. For reservations call
Nanette White,
993-3048.
News briefs
The City-County
Telecommunications Commission meets in regular session at 7 p.m.
tonight. nnn
Friends of Clark County will discuss the cost of growth at its
free forum at 7 p.m. tonight in the sixth floor conference room
in the Public Service Building, 1300 Franklin Street.
People
Elizabeth Gotelli has
been appointed Human Relations director for the City of
Vancouver. Betsy Williams,
assistant city manager and director of Support Services,
announced. Gotelli had served as interim director since last
November. Previously she had been director of Procurement
Services. nnn
For the tenth consecutive year state Sen.
Don Benton (R-17th) has
been awarded the National Federation of Independent Business
Guardian of Small Business Award.
Local employers see more jobs--Columbian, Julia Anderson
Storedahl. supporters and opponents make their cases on Lewis
River gravel mine--Columbian, Kathie Durbin
Smarty Jones is good, but is he great?--ESPN, Bill Finley
Fire District 6 completing 50 years of service with open house
noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 5--Columbian, Kelly Adams
Clark honors outstanding alumni Thursday--Columbian
Arts, key to revival of Historic Reserve--Columbian, Tom
Koenninger
Safeway declared off-limits to petitions--Oregonian, Holly
Gilbert
Enron trader conversations show market manipulation was sport,
joked about stealing from grandmothers--Seattle P-I, AP,
Kirsten Hays
President Bush: Freedom will prevail--USA
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