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C-TRAN buses free Tomorrow and Saturday
Clean Air Action Days, declared by the Southwest
Washington Clean Air Agency and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality,
have prompted C-TRAN to offer free transportation on all routes tomorrow and
Saturday.
High levels of smog are expected to develop over the next two
days when no wind is predicted and temperatures will be in the 90s and higher.
The free service, which includes interstate routes, is paid for through a
federal grant.
Voting instructions are online
Instructions providing step-by-step directions on
how to vote using the new partisan primary ballots Sept. 14 have been posted
online by Clark County auditor Greg Kimsey. Voters may go to the county
elections website,
www.clark.wa.gov/elections/newprimary.html, for specific directions.
Additional voter information will be provided to all county
households in the form of the Voters Guide, according to Kimsey.
"At first glance, the voting process may look complicated,"
Kimsey says, adding, "the process really isn't difficult."
For the past 70 years the state has used a nonpartisan
primary ballot, allowing voters to cross party lines in casting ballots during
the primary election. The new system, which replaces the one that was tossed out
by the state Supreme Court earlier this year, will offer voters at least three
separate ballots, only one of which, representing the party of their choice,
they will use.
Dee Sandquist named American Dietetic
Association spokesperson
Dee Sandquist, manager of the Nutrition and
Diabetes Center at Southwest Washington Medical Center, has been named a
regional spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. She is among nine
registered dietitians who serve as media spokespersons for the ADA's nationwide
volunteer spokesperson network, which conducts more than 2,000 news media
interviews yearly.
Sandquist is the secretary of the ADA Dietitians in General
Clinical Practice Group, a board member of the Washington Dietetic Association
and a site reviewer for the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics
Elucidation. Her areas of expertise include celiac disease and foot
allergies, eating disorders, cardiovascular and cancer nutrition, and diabetes.
Sandquist has 20 years' experience working with the news media.
Padden Parkway gets state award for best
county project
Clark County's Padden Parkway, completed this
year, has been named the best county project and given the Award of Excellence
by the Federal Highways Administration and the state Department of
Transportation.
Although the route connecting NE 53rd Avenue-NE 78th Street
with Ward Road was conceived in 1954, planning did not begin until 1996. By 1999
the first of five construction projects began on the 7.5-mile east-west arterial
which, when completed, had cost $26.9 million in local funds and $14.8 in
federal funds. Some of the federal funding paid for a more than $2 million
pedestrian overpass at Interstate 205.
It was not the pedestrian overpass over I-205 that got the
honors, however; rather, it was an unusual pedestrian overpass that reconnected
a neighborhood bisected by the parkway at NE 142nd Avenue. Two concrete columns
rise 50 feet in the center of the bridge, providing support for the deck and the
longest prestressed concrete girders ever transported over land. The bridge won
the Excellence in Concrete Construction Award in 2003 from the Washington
Aggregates & Concrete Association.
The 50 MPH parkway has relieved traffic congestion on other
east-west arterials in the county, according to county officials.
News briefs
The Swingline Cubs headline the Riverview
Six-to-Sunset concert in Esther Short Park at 6 p.m. this evening. The concert
is free. nnn The
Animal Protection & Control Advisory Board meets at 6:30 p.m. this evening in
the Hazel Dell Sewer District offices, 8000 NE 52nd Court.nnn
The final performance by Jimmie Rodgers on behalf of the Southwest
Washington Center for the Arts is at 7 p.m. tonight in the Foster Auditorium at
Clark College. Admission is $50. For further information, call 992-2301. nnn
The Mid-Year Commercial Real Estate Update by Eric Fuller is at 7:30 a.m.
Friday, July 23, is in the Red Lion Hotel at the Quay. Guest speaker is Bart
Phillips, president of the Columbia River Economic Development Council.
Presented with the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce, admission to the
update is $25. Call 694-2588 for further information.
News links (click on the headline to
read the complete story
Camp Bonneville
cleanup an explosive situation--Columbian, Erin Middlewood
Local charities
facing food shortages--Columbian, Margaret Ellis
Sims pushes
plan to reform taxes--Columbian, Don Jenkins
Groundbreaking
gives Clark a presence at WSU Vancouver--Columbian, Tom Vogt
Columbia Little League advancing to title game in the state championship senior
tournament--Columbian
Three day Woodland Garlic Festival starts tomorrow--Oregonian
Planning for Vancouver's eastside Pacific Community Park getting
underway--Oregonian, Bill Stewart
Walls go up on fairgrounds $18.5 exposition hall--Oregonian, Bill Stewart
String of
hot days ahead--KATU
Presidential race tied before convention--USA TODAY, Susan Page and
William Risser
Couple
seeking same-sex divorce--USA TODAY, AP
Urging
swift action, 9/11 panel warns deadlier attacks are likely--New York Times,
David Stout
NPR 5-minute hourly news updates (Audio)
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