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al Qaeda group says it has beheaded American hostage Paul
Johnson Jr.--USA TODAY, AP
Chkalov celebration
Saturday includes rededication, dinner and dancing
Valeri Chkalov’s
children, Igor,
Valeria and
Olga, and a dozen Russian
government and aviation representatives, are participating in
the rededication of the Chkalov Monument at Pearson Field
Saturday, June 19.
Chkalov, along with a
crew of two, were the first to fly over the North Pole from
Moscow to the United States, landing at Pearson Field in June
1937. Chkalov, a hero in Russia, was killed in an aircraft
accident not long after the transpolar flight. He would have
been 100 years old this year.
The rededication is at
3:30 p.m. At 4:30 p.m. antique aircraft will land and hot air
balloons will ascend. A silent auction follows at 5:30 pm., and
dinner is at 6:30 p.m. The program that begins at 7:30 p.m.
includes a live auction and is followed by line dancing to the
Tom Mann country and
western band.
Tickets for the dinner
and auctions are $50. For further information, call
694-7026.
Kissinger premiers jazz
piece Saturday
Billed as a night of
sacred jazz, Bravo! Vancouver presents the world premier of
artistic director Michael
Kissenger’s Sacred
Cantata, as well as Duke Ellington’s
A Sacred Concert at 7:30
p.m. Saturday, June 19, in St. Joseph Church, 400 S Andresen
Road.
Tickets at the door are
$12 and $15, or can be bought through all Safeway Tickets West
outlets. For further information, call
Linda Marsh,
695-6207.
Cell phones jamming 9-1-1
center by accident
Nearly one in four of the
average of 370 cell phone calls to 9-1-1, at Clark Regional
Emergency Services are accidental, according to spokesperson
Delma McNulty, who asks
that cell phone owners lock the keypads or delete 9-1-1 from
auto-dial.
Another source of
unintentional 9-1-1 cell phone calls are old wireless phones
used by children as toys. Even without wireless service, cell
phones can dial 9-1-1.
Reconfiguration of
Internet computer space at Vancouver Library will limit public
use
Internet computers in the
Vancouver Community Library are being moved from the center of
the library to provide greater access to filtered computers for
patrons under 17.
There will be no public
access to library computers from 6 p.m. Monday, June 21 through
Thursday, June 24, during the reconfiguration.
News briefs
U.S. Rep.
Brian Baird (D-3rd) is
guest speaker at the annual Clark County Democrats’
Jefferson-Jackson dinner at 5:30 p.m. this evening in the Red
Lion Hotel at the Quay. For further information, call
Gail Pollock,
695-4769.
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A reenactment of the annual return of fur trappers to the
Hudson’s Bay Company fort will be presented Saturday and Sunday,
June 19 and 20, in the Fort Vancouver Historic Site.
Lewis and Clark
commemorative silver dollars can be ordered from U.S. Treasury
The U.S. Treasury has
minted 500,000 one-dollar silver coins commemorating the Lewis
and Clark Bicentennial. These coins are for sale to the public,
ranging in price from $35, gift-boxed, to $39 for a proof dollar
in a case.
Part of the sales price
of the dollars will be used to support National Park Service
activities related to the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial, and to
the National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Council.
Coins may be ordered
direct from the Treasury on the Web at
www.usmint.gov or by
calling (800) 872-6468.
State's job slumber finally ends--Columbian, Don Jenkins
Skills Center students completing barracks garage--Columbian,
Jeffrey Mize
Plank house construction to resume with boost from Cowlitz
Indians--Columbian, Dean Baker
Perfect Main Street is a pipe dream--Columbian, Gregg
Herrington
Gasoline tax helping pay for rail bypass project at 39th
Street--Oregonian, Bill Stewart
Sizemore
won't go to jail but will have to turn over assets of his former
political action committee--KATU, William McCall
Bush visits Fort Lewis soldiers--Seattle P-I, AP, Melanthia
Mitchell
Putin says Russia gave details about possible Iraq plots against
U.S.--USA TODAY, AP
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