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Mary Devlin named director of Fort
Vancouver community libraries
Mary Devlin
has been named director of community libraries for the Fort
Vancouver Regional Library District.
The new position was created following the
retirement of Candace Morgan,
long-time district associate director.
Devlin, an adjunct assistant professor of
medical informatics at Oregon Health Sciences University,
previously was interim central library director for the
Multhomah County Library.
Devlin received undergraduate and graduate
degrees from Lewis & Clark College and a master of library
science degree from the University of Oregon.
Her duties include overseeing community
library services for the library district’s 13 branches in
Clark, Skamania, Klickitat Counties and parts of Cowlitz County,
covering 4,200 square miles, serving nearly 400,000 residents.
Funeral mass for Alice Neth is Thursday
A funeral mass for
Alice Neth, who died at
the age of 88 Sunday, will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 1, in
St. Joseph Church, 6600 Highland Drive.
Mrs. Neth was the wife of the late Fred Neth,
founder of Columbia Machine, and was very active in the
business. They had been married 54 years when Mr. Neth died in
1993.
Mrs. Neth is survived by two sons,
Fred and
Tom, both of Vancouver;
two daughters, Dorothy Osadchuk
and Carol Goode, both of
Vancouver; a sister, Pat Spady,
Burbank, Calif.; a brother, John
Hutton, Vancouver; 10 grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren.
Recitation of the rosary will be at 7 p.m.
tonight in St. Joseph Church. Memorials may be made to the St.
Joseph Church building fund. Vancouver Funeral Chapel is in
charge of arrangements.
Vancouver Business Journal looking for
construction projects for annual magazine
The
Vancouver Business Journal is accepting nominations for
top construction projects in Clark County through Thursday, July
15. Projects nominated can include highway, commercial, and
residential. They must have been begun by June 30, 2004.
The top 25 projects will be recognized in
the Friday, Aug. 27, issue of the magazine, published with that
date’s business journal. For further information, call
Tena Wolski,
695-3056.
129th Street bridge
across I-5 opens tonight
The NE 129th Street overpass across
Interstate 5 will open only to vehicular traffic at midnight
tonight, right on schedule, according to Washington State
Department of Transportation spokesperson,
Amy Echols.
Part of the widening of I-5 through the
Salmon Creek area, the bridge replacement began last January.
The bridge will be open to pedestrian
traffic after screening is installed.
News briefs
An open house to review Clark County
capital facilities planning is 4 to 7 p.m. today in the Public
Service Center lobby, 1300 Franklin Street.
nnn Vancouver-Clark
Parks and Recreation and Clark County Public Works are holding
an open house to review design plans for the NE 172nd Avenue
improvement project from 6 to 8 p.m. this evening in the
Fisher’s Landing C-TRAN Center.
nnn InterACT First
Thursday program, presented from noon until 12 p.m. Thursday,
July 1, at My Friends & I Catering, 1010 Broadway, will delve
into job growth in southern Washington. The forum is free. A
light lunch is available for a modest price.
nnn A free Internet
class on health information is presented by Southwest Washington
Medical Center at 1 p.m. Thursday, July 1, in the medical
center’s Health Connection Library in the Memorial Health
Center, Main and 33rd Streets.
Fed raises interest rates one-quarter of a
point--Washington Post, AP, Jeannine Aversa
(6/30/04)
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