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David Sanborn headlines Michael Kissinger’s 7th annual Vancouver Wine & Jazz
Festival
Six-time Grammy-winning saxophonist
David Sanborn headlines the 7th annual
Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival, reports festival manager
Maria Manzo.
Sanborn performs Sunday, Aug. 29, the final day of the
three-day event in Esther Short Park. Also performing Sunday are jazz singer
Ernestine Anderson, and the all-female
Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra.
The festival, which drew over 15,000 people last year,
opens at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27. Billed as a New Orleans jazz evening, featured
performers Friday are the Preservation Hall Jazz
Band and the two-time Grammy Award-winning Cajun Band,
BeauSoleil.
The Seattle Jazz Singers,
the Afro-fusion music of Maya Soleil, and
David Clayton Thomas and Blood, Sweat & Tears
are featured performers Saturday, Aug. 28.
The festival, which opens at 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday,
features 125 wines from 35 wineries. In addition, the festival will showcase the
work of more than 50 fine artists.
Tickets are $15 for each day or $35 for all three days,
and can be purchased through all Safeway TicketsWest outlets. For further
information, call 906-0441, or go to
www.vancouverwinejazz.com.
Nominations For George C. Marshall
Leadership Award being accepted
The Vancouver National Historic Reserve Trust is
accepting nominations for the 2004 Gen. George C. Marshall Leadership Award
through Friday, Aug. 27, according to spokesperson
Kim Hash.
The annual award honoring public service, academic
achievement and the potential for ongoing community leadership is open to Clark
County residents, 35 or under, who have completed a baccalaureate degree.
The award winner will tour the Marshall Foundation in
Lexington, Va., and will visit Washington D.C., and Colonial Williamsburg in
Virginia.
Past winners are Cindy
Gibbon, John McIlvain, Steve Dearborn,
Doug Sessions,
Paula Martin,
Darrin Atteberry,
Shawna Burkholder,
Thomas Hagley, Jr.,
Charlene Ryan,
Theresa Weil,
Michael Stromme,
Juliet Laycoe,
Scott Patterson,
Tanisha Harris and
Dena Horton.
Marshall, 1953 Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of the
post-World War II Marshall Plan, was commander of Vancouver Barracks in the
mid-1930s. The award was created in his honor in cooperation with the General
George C. Marshall Foundation.
For further information, call
992-1804.
Family Medicine offers
discount sports clinic
Family Medicine, Southwest Washington Medical Center’s
family practice residence program, is offering discounted sports physicals from
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 13, in the Family Medicine Clinic, 8716 Mill Plain
Boulevard.
The physicals for students will be $20 cash each,
according to medical center spokesperson Ken
Cole. Students must bring their physical clearance forms and immunization
records, Cole says. For further information, call
514-7550.
CREDC books Wayne Branch and Juli
Wilkerson for August session
R. Wayne Branch,
president of Clark College, and Juli Wilkerson,
state Community Trade and Economic Development director, will address the 11:30
a.m. Friday, Aug. 27, membership meeting of the Columbia River Economic
Development Council.
For further information on the meeting being held at
Royal Oaks Country Club, call Dana Harroun,
567-1063. To register online, go to
www.credc.org/event_registration.cfm.
Registration deadline for
Sept. 14 primary election
The deadline to register by mail for the Tuesday, Sept.
14, primary election is Saturday, Aug. 14, reports Clark County auditor
Greg Kimsey. Registration will continue
in person through Monday, Aug. 30. In either case, registration to vote is
conducted at the county Elections Department, 1408 Franklin Street. For further
information, call elections supervisor Tim
Likness, 397-2345.
News briefs
The Vancouver City Council meets 4 p.m. today to consider
a short consent agenda and to continue a workshop session expected to last until
8 p.m. [[[ The Fort
Vancouver Regional Library District board of directors meets in regular session
at 6 p.m. this evening in the La Center Community Center.
[[[Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Christine Gregoire begins a
western Washington campaign bus tour from Vancouver Tuesday, Aug. 10, with a
7:30 a.m. kickoff in Sunrise Bagels, 808 Harney Street. The next stop in the bus
tour will be at 9:30 .a.m. Tuesday at the American Paper Converting plant, 1660
Heritage Street, Woodland. [[[
Port of Vancouver commissioners meet in regular session at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday,
Aug. 10. [[[ Clark County
commissioners meeting in regular session at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 10, are
expected to continue meeting into the afternoon, at which time they could adopt
changes in the 20-year Comprehensive Growth Management Plan.
[[[ The Free Family Film
Festival, sponsored by Regal Cinema 99 in Hazel Dell and First Independent Bank,
continues at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 10, featuring “Rugrats in Paris—The Movie,”
and at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11, featuring “Elf.”
(For the rest of the story, click on a
headline below)
At three score and ten, Jimmie Rodgers still soars--Senior
Messenger, Jane Elder Wulff
R. Wayne Branch draws praise, criticism in first year at Clark
College--Columbian, Tom Vogt
Mt. St. Helens is active laboratory for scientific
researchers--Seattle P-I
Clark County Education Center helping teens make up class
credits--Oregonian, Jason Begay
John Kerry
holding free Waterfront Park rally in Portland at noon next
Friday. President Bush to be in town for a private
small-business summit meeting--KATU
Two bitten when a group of dogs roves through Battle Ground
Sunday--KGW-TV, Abe Estimada
Churches preparing new homeless shelter plan for coming
winter--Columbian, Kelly Adams
Clark County Fair court has royal responsibilities--Columbian,
Margaret Ellis
Local 9-1-1 system getting upgrade for cell phones--Columbian,
John Branton
Mariners' Edgar Martinez expected to announce his retirement
today--KGW-TV, AP
Bush vows to keep pressure on Iran--Washington Post, William
Branigin
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