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Free day-long seminar offers time
savers for permitting process under new building code
A free seminar designed
to provide builders, developers, architects, designers and
engineers with information to speed them through the Clark
County permitting process under the new International
residential Building Code, which becomes effective July 1, is
being offered by the Clark County Community Development Building
Division from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 19, in the 6th
floor hearing room of the Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin
Street.
Topics include general
submittal requirements, foundations, footings, drainage,
framing, beams, decks, life-safety provisions and the energy
code.
Participants will receive
a booklet containing new plot plan requirements, building permit
application information and details of major code changes.
Refreshments will be
served, but participants are responsible for their own lunches.
Pre-registration is mandatory and must be completed by Tuesday,
June 15. For further information, call
Carolyn Carlson,
397-2375, extension
4586.
Helen Baller second
graders at
Oaks Park to learn about physics
Second graders from the
Helen Baller Elementary School in Camas today are at Oaks Park
in Portland, learning about physics in the real world, with Mad
Science of Portland &Vancouver.
The school’s second grade
teachers, Ellen Doyle,
Shelly Haase,
George Bailey and
Tiffany Thomas, who
organized the unusual field trip, say that learning is more
beneficial when students have the opportunity to participate in
real-world applications.
The students will learn
about, among other things, balance, motion, stability,
rotational motion, rolling systems, central axis and pushing and
pulling, while sampling the park’s rides.
Mad Science, a national
organization, offers science educational programs to schools and
individuals.
ViaTech Publishing
completes
Move from Longview to Kalama
ViaTech Publishing
Solutions has completed a move from its former offices in
Longview to the Port of Kalama Kalama River Industrial Park.
The company, a digital
printing service, produces just-in-time printed products for
such clients at Papa Murphy’s and Les Schwab.
There are 26 employees in
the Kalama operations. The company, headquartered in Bay Shore,
N. Y., has ten other locations throughout the country.
4th of July
celebration gets
$65,000 boost from Comcast
Clark Count cable
television supplier Comcast has presented the Vancouver National
Historic Reserve Trust with a $65,000 check to help support the
2004 4th of July at the Historic Reserve celebration.
In its 42nd year, the
annual celebration is climaxed by one of the largest fireworks
displays in the United States. The display and parts of the
celebration on the parade grounds of Vancouver Barracks will be
shown live on KGW-TV.
No mail delivery
Friday
Closure of federal
offices Friday, June 11, honoring past president Ronald Regan,
extends to the U.S. Mail service. There will be no mail delivery
service Friday. Major American stock exchanges will be closed in
Mr. Reagan’s memory. The Insider will not be published.
People
Jake Bredstrand,
Evergreen High School junior and president of the school’s
Future Farmers Association chapter, has been awarded a $5,000
scholarship by the Fort Motor Co. Bredstrand is also one of two
state delegates to the national FFA convention being held in
Louisville, Ky., in October.
News briefs
The Portland
International Airport Citizen Noise Advisory Committee meets at
6 p.m. this evening in the Port of Portland Building, 121 NW
Everett Street, Portland.
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Clark College’s record breaking 2004 class of 1,364 students
receives diplomas and certificates in ceremonies that begin at 7
p.m. this evening in the Amphitheater in Clark County at the
county fairgrounds.
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Association meets at 7 p.m. this evening in the Church Community
Room, 400 NE 179th Street.
State Department concedes errors in terror data--Washington
Post, R. Jeffrey Smith
Three teen brothers earn high school and Clark College
diplomas--Columbian, Tom Vogt
BIA official listens to La Center concerns over
casino--Columbian, Margaret Ellis
Residents air casino concerns--Oregonian, Foster Church
At least one of the state's 25,000 wild black bears rummaging
around in Fern Prairie--Columbian, Don Jenkins
Northwest's post World War II pig run to Tokyo was abandoned
after two tries--Oregonian, Bill Stewart
Horses are really big business in Clark County--Oregonian,
Foster Church
Police say restraints saves lives in head-on crash this morning
on 119th Street in Clark County this morning--KGW-TV, Antonia
Giedwoyn
Franciscan nuns leave Shaw Island and general store for Bridal
Veil, Ore--Seattle P-I, M. L. Lyke
Ray Charles dead at 73--USA TODAY, AP
BCS to add fifth championship game in 2006--New York Times, AP
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