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Johnny Limbo and the Lugnuts open Esther Short Park concert
series this evening
The first Riverview Six-to-Sunset Concert of
the season in Esther Short Park is headlined by
Johnny Limbo and the Lugnuts.
The free concert begins at 6 p.m. Food
vendors will be in selling their wares in the park. Blankets or
low-back lawn chairs are recommended. Alcohol consumption is not
permitted.
Highway 14 traffic to
be slowed Sunday as surveyors prepare for Maya Lin land bridge
Survey work Sunday at the site of the future
Confluence Project land bridge over Highway 14 between the Fort
Vancouver National Historic Site and Old Apple Tree Park will
slow traffic in both directions from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The survey work is the first step toward
construction of a pedestrian connection over the highway that
will link 5th Street with Columbia Way and Vancouver’s Columbia
River waterfront.
Maya Lin
designed the project. Lin, who is known for her design, while a
college student, of the Vietnam War Memorial on the mall in
Washington, D. C., has been commissioned to produce at least
four Confluence Project memorials through 2006 commemorating the
exploration of the west by the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
The major piece is the land bridge. It is
expected to be completed next year as Vancouver and Clark County
gear up for Lewis and Clark commemorations.
Propstras make
significant gift
to Clark County Skills Center
Vancouver philanthropists
George and
Carolyn
Propstra have made a
$50,000 grant to the Clark County Skills Center Foundation.
The grant from the Propstra fund held within
the Community Foundation for Southwest Washington will be shared
by the school’s Restaurant Management/Culinary Arts program and
the foundation for operations and endowments.
The Skills Center is operated by nine
southwest Washington school districts for students preparing for
direct entry into the workforce or intending to continue
post-high school educational opportunities.
Lynne Griffith says
C-TRAN 4th of July shuttle eliminated a 5-mile traffic jam
C-TRAN shuttle service to and from the Fort
Vancouver National Historic Reserve during the Fourth of July
celebration Sunday hit an all-time record, according to
Lynne Griffith, the
transit agency’s executive director.
C-TRAN provided 11,260 passenger trips
Sunday between the Vancouver Mall Transit Center and the
reserve.
Had the estimated 1,680 vehicles parked in
the area of the transit center been on the road after the
fireworks show Sunday night, they would have formed a solid line
of cars 5.72 miles long.
In all of 2003, C-TRAN provided the
community with 6.91 million passenger trips.
Contributions at the
gate toward 4th of July celebration down, but vendor receipts
triple
It takes about $350,000 to stage Vancouver’s
4th of July celebration. That cost is financed from a number of
sources, two of which are vendor sales and donations collected
at the gate.
Donations at the gate were $45,000 this
year, compared to $56,000 a year ago when it looked as if the
community could not afford the day-long celebration.
Vendor sales were up, however, from $10,000
last year to $30,000 this year.
Elson
Strahan, executive director of the Fort Vancouver
National Historic Reserve Trust, which for the first time has
been responsible for the 42-year-old celebration, said today he
was very optimistic about the future of the celebration.
The big dollar income sources are still
being counted. They are revenues from official fireworks stands
and results of donation envelopes send to virtually all
residents in Clark County and Hayden Island.
The business plan is sustainable, Strahan
says.
News brief
Southbound traffic on Interstate 205 will
be closed between 10 p.m. tonight and 5 a.m. tomorrow in the
vicinity of the NE 20th Avenue bridge. Traffic will detour at
the 134th Street exit.
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