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Marcia Fromhold retiring; Bill Bentley to become assistant
school superintendent
Marcia Fromhold
Bill Bentley
Bill Bentley,
for more than a decade superintendent of the Stevenson-Carson
School District in Skamania County, has been appointed assistant
superintendent of the Evergreen School District.
Marcia Fromhold, who has
held the position for the past 6 years is retiring, effective
June 30.
Fromhold, began her
career in education as a school teacher in Olympia in 1972.
Evergreen, with 24,000
students is the fifth largest district in the state and one of
the fastest growing. It is a recent recipient of a $9.3 million
grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Construction on eastside Firstenburg
Community Center to begin this month
Groundbreaking ceremonies
at 3:30 p.m., Friday, June 25, will signal the beginning of
construction of the 80,000-square-foot Firstenburg Community
Center, on NE 136th Avenue.
A Native American
blessing will precede the official groundbreaking.
The center, which will
house a swimming pool, gymnasium, jogging track, community room,
meeting rooms, game room and fitness and aerobics and dance
space, was named in recognition of a $3 million donation from
the First Independent banker Ed
and his wife Mary
Firstenburg.
The Vancouver Parks
Foundation will be selling inscribed one- by two-foot paving
blocks that will form the terrace outside the community room.
The facility is scheduled
to open next summer.
Seminar to show how to tap into $1.6 billion
in federal research and development funding
A seminar sponsored by
the Columbia River Economic Development Council and the
Washington Technology Center, is designed to provide local
companies with information on how to prepare for federal
research and development grants that are pumping in as much as
$1.6 billion annually into the economy.
The Wednesday, June 16,
seminar begins with registration at 8 a.m. and runs through noon
in the Sharp Laboratories, 5750 NW Pacific Rim Boulevard, Camas.
The cost is $45, which
includes breakfast and program materials. To register, call
(206) 543-3059. Further
information is available by clicking on
www.watechcenter.org.
Bravo! Vancouver night
of sacred jazz includes Ellington and Kissinger
Bravo! Vancouver’s final
concert of the season, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 19th, in St.
Joseph Church, 400 S Andresen Road, is billed as a night of
sacred jazz and includes the world premier of
Michael Kissinger’s jazz
oriented Sacred Cantata.
Kissinger is the Bravo!
artistic director. His composition, which is based on biblical
texts, will be performed by a choir and jazz piano trio.
The centerpiece of the
concert is Duke Ellington’s A
Sacred Concert. Ellington’s work, which premiered in
Grace Cathedral in San Francisco in 1965, was, according to
Ellington, “About people talking to people about God; not a jazz
mass.”
Reserved seats are $15;
general admission $12. Tickets may be obtained at the door or
through all Safeway Tickets West outlets. For further
information, call, Linda Marsh,
695-6207.
News briefs
The Vancouver Community
Library program, Open-Mic Poetry Night, is at 7 p.m. tonight.
Participants are urged to show up by 6:45 p.m. to sign up.
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Today’s Cruz-In at Pearson Field has been canceled due to
weather conditions.
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be closed Friday, June 11, in mourning for the death of former
President Ronald Reagan, the Vancouver VA Medical Center
outpatient clinics will remain open.
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The annual summer open house at Columbia Springs Environmental
Education Center, 12208 SE Evergreen Highway, is 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. Saturday, June 12.
"Discover success, feel the music" theme of Emil Fries School of
Piano Tuning Rose Festival Float--Oregonian, Holley Gilbert
OHSU tram projected costs shock waterfront
landowners--Oregonian, Dylan Rivera
C-TRAN directors turn down request to delay November sales tax
measure--Columbian, Erin Middlewood
Southwest Washington Medical Center to help pick up slack from
loss of Legacy Emanuel Hospital trauma center in contract
dispute--Columbian, Tom Vogt
Northwest Airlines opens Tokyo route from Portland
tomorrow--Columbian, Gretchen Fehrenbacher
Leadership Clark County graduates 35 next week--Columbian,
Julia Anderson
Buoyed by U.N. Victory, Bush tries to shore up NATO support--New
York Times, Brian Knowlton
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