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Blaine Nisson named president of national council on student
development
Blaine Nisson, vice president of student development at
Clark College, has been named president of the National Council
on Student Development for 2004-2005.
Nisson has been affiliated with NCSD since 1993 as state
coordinator and has served on the NCSD executive board since
1999. The NCSD represents more than 600 two-year colleges in the
United States and Canada.
Nisson has been with Clark College since December 2001.
Previously he was dean of student development at Portland
Community College-Rock Creek. A graduate of Idaho State
University, Nelson earned his doctorate in education from Oregon
State University.
Watch out for the blue Subaru, police warn
A blue Subaru Legacy sedan has
been equipped with lights, siren, radio and radar and will be
driven by a Vancouver patrolman intent on detecting aggressive
driving behaviors, including speeding, racing, cutting off
drivers, and road range, according to the Vancouver Police
spokesperson Timothy Kim.
Over the past 12 months, using Subarus, traffic enforcement
officers wrote nearly $100,000 worth of citations for racing and
reckless driving.
ESD 112 board member sought
A board member is being sought for
Education Service District 112, to succeed Dean Sutherland,
who resigned following his move from Hockinson to Vancouver.
The new board member will represent the Battle Ground and
Hockinson School Districts and a portion of the Evergreen School
District, and must reside within that area.
ESD 112 board members are unpaid. ESD 112 represents 30
public school districts, 23 private schools and two state
schools, serving 100,000 students and 15,000 school employees.
Services provided range from providing interactive
telecommunications to managing the Southwest Washington Child
Care Network.
For further information, call ESD 112 superintendent Twyla
Barnes at 750-7500, extension 210.
People
State Sen. Don Benton
(R-17th) and Joe Zarelli (R-18th) have returned from
Taipei, Taiwan, where they met with Laura Ho, vice
president of finance for WaferTech's parent company TSMC, to
discuss possible expansion of the Camas WaferTech plant. The
trip was arranged at no taxpayer expense, according to Benton,
who said the bill was picked up by China Airlines, commemorating
its new non-stop service between Seattle and Taipei. Benton said
the pair also promoted Washington wines and asparagus and Boeing
airplanes.
News briefs
The Vancouver City Council meets
in workshop session at 4 p.m. today. At 7 p.m., in regular
session, the council will consider authorizing participation by
the city in creating a city-county tourist promotion area,
which, through a $2-per room lodging tax would raise $800,000 a
year for promoting local tourism. The tax was requested by the
Clark County Lodging Association. The council will also consider
recommendations by the City Charter Review Committee that would
increase the term of office of mayor from two years to four
years, increase the percentage of voter signatures required for
initiative and referendum petitions, and clarify rules for
petitions for initiatives and referendums. If approved by the
council, the charter changes would be presented to voters at the
general election on November 2. The council is also expected to
make changes in its lease agreement with the Vancouver Area
Development Authority regarding Officers Row. The VADA has been
falling behind in lease payments to the city.
nnn The Clark County Public Facilities District meets at 5 p.m. this
evening in the Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin Street.
nnn Clark Public Utilities commissioners meet in regular session at 9
a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2.
nnn Clark County commissioners, meeting in regular session at 10 a.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 3, will consider approving their participation in
Vancouver-Clark County tourist promotion area. Commissioners
also will hold a hearing on an appeal of the county land use
hearing's examiner on the conditional use permit under which
Quincunx operates the Amphitheater at Clark County.
nnn Free family movies at the Regal Cinema 99 in Hazel Dell continue at
10 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 3, and 4. The Tuesday movie
is "The Adventures of Milo and Otis; Wednesday, Looney
Tunes: Back in Action."
nnn The Southwest Washington Regional Transportation Council
meets in regular session at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 3, in the
Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin Street.
Letter to the Editor:
(Note: this letter also appeared in the Columbian)
Portland International Airport continues to ruin us with noise and
pollution from 800 to 1,000 flights per day, encroaching farther and farther
north over Clark County. City and state officials fought many months to have the
Port of Portland consider Alternative 9A, the one option to give relief, but the
Port rejected it, saying it would move noise over an area in Portland not
impacted before.
I do not understand why these Portland neighborhoods, built after 1998,
take precedent over long-established neighborhoods, schools and historic city
property, dating back to the 1800s, in Vancouver. Why benefit a few hundred in
Portland at the expense of many thousands in Vancouver who have endured this
unfair shift of noise and pollution since 1996, when flight tracks were moved
over Vancouver?
It is delusional to believe that the downtown revitalization will be
viable and successful with bellies of aircraft barely clearing new condos and
Esther Short Park. How can we encourage the arts to invest and survive in our
community with this noise and pollution raining down?
Alternative 9A must be advanced to the FAA for consideration, even if it
requires an Environmental Impact Study. For more information, contact
www.ccair.net.
Margaret Kretschmar
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(For the rest of the story, click on the headlines below)
Bush supports national intelligence director, says, "We are a nation in
danger"--USA TODAY, AP
Kerry leads Bush in post-convention poll--Washington Post, Richard Morin
and Dan Balz
Kerry fails to get convention 'bounce'--USA TODAY, Susan Page
Homecoming for
a local hero--Columbian, Erin Middlewood
Vancouver band
members march through China--Columbian, Gregg Sherrard Blesch
Tuesday
Morning, Dallas, Tex., discount retailer comes to town--Columbian, Jonathan
Nelson
Man
whose car rammed his car into patrol car killing Clark County deputy is charged
with murder--KATU
I-5 driver shot
in road-rage fight near Tacoma--Seattle P-I
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