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Clark's Robin Terjeson named WSU Vancouver Engineering and Sciences Institute
coordinator
Robin Terjeson, center, selected as coordinator
of the new WSU Vancouver Engineering and Sciences Institute, is joined by Hal
Dengerink, Vancouver chancellor, left, and R. Wayne Branch Clark College
president, right, during announcement
Robin Terjeson,
co-chair of the Clark College Physical Science and Engineering Division, and
head of the college Chemistry Department, has been named the first coordinator
of the Washington State University Vancouver Engineering and Science Institute.
The institute, a partnership with WSU Vancouver, Clark
College and Lower Columbia College, combines WSU Vancouver's research
capabilities with science and computer labs with faculty expertise from all
three institutions.
As a result of the partnership, students can earn a WSU
bachelors degree in biology, computer science, and mechanical engineering while
ensuring a smooth transition from lower- to upper-division undergraduate course
work.
The institute will greet its first freshman class this fall.
Terjeson, an Eastern Oregon University graduate, earned her
doctorate in environmental sciences and resources and chemistry from Portland
State University. She has been with Clark College since 1973.
John Magnano leaving CRMHS
John C. Magnano, executive director of Columbia River
Mental Health Services, yesterday announced he will resign effective Oct. 1.
Magnano says, “My work program has been accomplished, and the state of the
agency is positive and healthy.” Following extensive travel, Magnano and his
wife, Alice,
plan to relocate at a family home they own on the Oregon coast.
A former Clark County; commissioner Magnano, following a
nationwide search, was named executive director of the southern Washington
organization, which has 320 employees. Before serving two terms as a county
commissioner, Magnano worked for CRMHS in a number of capacities for 15 years,
including associate director and interim director. Prior to returning to CRMHS,
Magnano had been legislative liaison to the Washington and Oregon Departments of
Transportation, coordinating studies and planning related to freight mobility,
hi-speed rail, and other transportation issues.
“It has been a professional joy to be engaged fully in the
delivery of social services within the context of community mental health. This
is where the ‘rubber meets the road,’ as clients achieve recovery,
rehabilitation, health and reintegration,” Magnano declared.
Local 125 members, utility
commissioners approve 30-month labor contract
Members of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 125, yesterday, by a wide margin, and
Clark Public Utilities commissioners today unanimously ratified a 30-month labor
contract covering about 100 of the electric utility’s 330 employees.
The union represents linemen, meter technicians, equipment
operators, dispatchers, appliance repair technicians, and water system
employees, whose previous contract expired in February 2003.
The new wage package provides union members with a 7 percent
wage increase Sept. 1, 2004, 3.5 percent March 1, 2005, and 5.25 percent May 1,
2006. In addition, the utility will make a $235,000 contribution to union
members’ 401(k) retirement accounts. The journeyman rate for linemen will go
from the current $30.26 an hour today to $32.96 in May 2006.
Also included in the agreement is a provision allowing the
utility to implement a partial swing-shift during daylight saving hours. The
modified swing shift will be from 1 to 9 p.m.
Clark County Fair in full swing
The 136th annual Clark County Fair,
which opened to rain-dampened crowds this morning, continues this evening with
REO Speedwagon entertaining at the
Columbian Concert Stage. Reserved seats are $20. Grandstand seating is free with
admission to the Fair.
Country entertainers continue through the weekend.
John Michael Montgomery performs at 7:30
p.m. Saturday, Aug. 7. Dierks Bentley
performs at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 8. The final country entertainer is
Tracey Lawrence at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug.
9.
Adult admission is $8. Parking is $5. C-TRAN bus
transportation to and from the fair is free.
Republicans rally for small
business Sunday in the park
Republican candidates,
Dino Rossi, governor,
Sam Reed, secretary of state,
Dawn Courtney and
Tom Crowson, U.S. House of
Representatives, Joe Zarelli,
Don Benton and
Don Carlson, state senate, and
Ed Orcutt, state house of representatives,
will be honored guests at a picnic and rally, noon to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 8,
in Esther Short Park.
The rally is sponsored by the Washington Association of
Restaurants, the Building Industry Association of Clark County, the state Dairy
Federation and the Washington Farmers’ Bureau.
Reservations are not needed for the $20 per adult, or $40 for
a family, affair, featuring hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream and apple pie. For
further information, call Mike Gaston,
574-0984.
People
Keith
Upkes has been appointed controller for Vancouver’s Applied Motion
Systems, founder and president H. Kenneth Brown
Jr. announced this week. Upkes, a Leadership Clark County graduate and
community service director and treasurer of the Festival of Trees for the
Vancouver Rotary Club, had been a consulting financial controller before joining
Applied Motion Systems. Prior to that he was corporate controller for the Beall
Corporation, Portland, and Pac Paper Inc. Vancouver. Applied Motion Systems was
founded in Yacolt in 1995 and has become a leading motion control and automated
systems integration organization serving manufacturers and packagers worldwide.
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