|
Vancouver City Council expected to approve contract to build
eastside Firstenburg Center
Additional financing from
real estate excise taxes will be used to cover the increased
cost of the eastside Firstenburg Center, if the Vancouver City
Council follows a Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation staff
report tonight.
The center, for which
ground-breaking ceremonies are set for 3 p.m. Friday, June 25,
was expected to cost $19.6 million. The lowest bid received by
the city last week was from Berschauer Phillips Construction,
Olympia, for $16,724, 922.55, about $1.5 million higher than
expected, raising the total cost to $21.5 million. Real estate
excise taxes were already pledged for most of the cost of the
project.
The primary private
contributor to the project was the
Ed and
Mary Firstenburg family,
in the amount of $3 million.
Southwest Washington
Medical Center Foundation awards $100,000 in scholarships
The Southwest Washington
Medical Center Foundation has awarded a total of $100,000 to a
record 67 academic scholarship recipients, high school students
and healthcare workers in southwest Washington.
The awards are made to
help meet community need and to help strengthen the medical
center’s position as an employer of choice.
Profits from sales in the
two medical center campus gift shops support the scholarship
program.
Clark County recipients,
whose awards ranged from $1,000 to $3,000, are
Sara Brugger,
Michelle L. Johnson,
Megan Patterson and
Heidi L. Puttkammer, all
of Evergreen High School; Rachel
D. Daily, Fort Vancouver High School;
Kathryn A. Fuller,
Stephanie Shinn and
Melinda F. Tampani, all
of Battle Ground High School;
Alan J. Hsieh, Tristan N.
Orford and Luke B. Rosen,
all of Columbia River High School;
Melissa Ju and
Weijie (Jeff)
Yuan, both of Mountain View High School;
Mei Lou, Skyview High
School; Stephanie D. Roberts,
Washougal High School; and
Chandni K. Virdi,
Heritage High School.
Pinocchio
in Spanish is Clark College Children’s Touring Theatre offering
The Clark College Touring
Children’s Theatre, just returned from a week-long tour in
Mexico, will present Pinocchio
in Spanish at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 24, in the
O’Connell Sports Center on the college campus.
The play is targeted to
kindergarten-through-6th grade audiences, but is free to
playgoers of all ages.
The touring theatre was
formed in 1981 and has toured mainly in the local northwest
area, putting on as many as 64 performances each year.
Prizes available for
alternative commuting
Employees of local
companies who sign up for the C-TRAN commute trip reduction
program this week will receive sports water bottles and will be
entered in a drawing for other prizes.
To be eligible, they will
be required to use alternative means of getting to work at least
once this week. Alternative means include walking, bicycling,
riding on a bus or carpooling.
Employers must register
with C-TRAN in order to make their employees eligible. For
further information, call Jan
Bowers, 696-4494.
People
Gregg Brown athletic
coordinator at Evergreen High School, and
Anne Sosky, assistant
principal at Heritage High School,
have been named assistant principals at Evergreen High
School, succeeding Dick Scobba
and Peggy Graves, who are
retiring. Lisa Emerich, a
language arts teacher at Heritage High School, will become
assistant principal at the school.
nnn
State Sen. Don Benton
(R-17th), who earlier was endorsed by the state Public School
Employees Union, also has been endorsed by the state Services
Employees International Union. Benton, who currently has no
primary competition, will face
John T. Davis or Paul
Waadevig, both Democrats, in the November general
election.
News briefs
The Vancouver City
Council meets in workshop session at 5 p.m. today. The council
reconvenes at 7 p.m. tonight and is expected to accept a bid for
construction of the eastside Firstenburg Center, even though it
exceeds the estimate by $1.5 million.
nnn
Neither the board of Clark County Commissioners nor the county
Health Department board meets on Tuesday, June 22.
Michael Melvill is first civilian to pilot a craft into
space--New York Times, John Schwartz
Three
seriously hurt in multiple-vehicle crash on Highway 14 near NE
192nd Avenue interchange that is backing up eastbound traffic
this afternoon; crews estimate problems at least until 5 p.m.
Charter Review Committee suggests making Vancouver mayor's term
four years instead of two--Columbian, Jeffrey Mize
Russian aviator hero's son Igor Chkalov praises the value of
visiting Vancouver--Oregonian, Allan Brettman
Russians learning native tongue--Columbian, Gregg Sherrard
Blesch
NPR 5-minute hourly news updates (Audio)
|
