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Vancouver’s
International Air Academy celebrates 25th Anniversary, turns into air and
hospitality academy
The International Air Academy, founded by Arch
Miller in 1979, marks its 25th year this month by making a change in its
name and symbol to reflect its expansion into the hospitality education arena.
The International Air and Hospitality Academy will
maintain its headquarters and airline industry students campus at Mill Plain
Boulevard and Grand Avenue.
Culinary arts and hospitality management students will be
trained in facilities being completed in Vancouver Barracks.
The academy was bought by Miller’s daughters
Lynn Rullman and
Suzy Taylor, who are co-presidents of
the institution.
Creedence Clearwater Revisited headlines tonight at the fairgrounds
The rock-and-roll group
Creedence Clearwater Revisited headlines entertainment at the Clark
County Fair tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Columbian Concert Stage. Reserved
tickets are $18 each. Grandstand seating is free with fair admission.
The 136th annual Clark County Fair continues through
Sunday, Aug. 15.
Magician Mark Yusuik
performs at 6 p.m. this evening at the Comcast Plaza Stage. Singer
Walter Manahan performs a 7 p.m. at the
KKAD Community Stage. Entertainment is free throughout at the fair at these two
stages.
Adult admission is $8. Parking is $5. C-TRAN and Peoples
Community Credit Union are providing free transportation to and from the fair
from most park-and-ride and transit center locations.
Governor appoints Gayle Rothrock
to state hearings board
Gayle Rothrock,
former member of the Columbia River Gorge Commission, and the state Energy
Facilities Site Evaluation Council, has been appointed to the Western Washington
Growth Management Hearings Board by Gov. Gary
Locke.
Rothrock, who is a member of the Washington Water Trust
board of trustees, will receive a salary of $88,145. Her term ends June 30,
2006.
CREDC
offers workshop on
how to get government work
A workshop to help businesses sell products and services
to governmental agencies is being offered by the Columbia River Economic
Development Council Saturday, Sept. 18, in CREDC facilities at 1101 Broadway.
CREDC operates the Procurement Technical Assistance
Center for Clark, Cowlitz, Kilckitat and Skamania Counties. Last year, CREDC
helped businesses obtain over $89 million in government contracts.
For further information on the $10 workshop, call
Deb Wallace, director of business
expansion, at 694-5006, for further
information.
Adoptable pet animals highlight of 3rd
annual Community Companion Pet Fair
Attendees at the 3rd annual Community Companion Pet Fair
in Esther Short Park Sunday will have an opportunity to adopt a wide variety of
pet animals, ranging from dogs and cats to rabbits and rats. The free fair is
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Billed as a event for the entire family, the pet fair
features agility and intelligence tests for pets. In addition, a pet psychic
will be on hand. Fair organizers, the West Columbia Gorge Humane Society,
headquartered in Washougal, are also collecting signatures on a petition to
require the state Department of Licensing to issue automobile license plates,
funds from which would benefit humane society shelters.
People
Michael Whittey,
who has a perfect safety record over the past 12 years as a school bus driver in
the Evergreen School District, was named 2004 driver of the year by the state
Association for Pupil Transportation. gg
Stephanie Fowler and
Kirsten Wright, Wy’east Middle School
students, placed fourth among 104 groups of students during National History Day
competition in Washington, D.C., recently. Their project was the history of
Braille.
News briefs
The Vancouver Planning Commission will discuss the city’s
Critical Areas Ordinance during a 4 p.m. workshop, today and again after a
dinner break, when the meeting resumes at 7 p.m.
gg The C-TRAN board of directors
meets in regular session at 5:15 p.m. today in the Rose Besserman room at the
Fisher’s Landing Transit Center, 3510 SE 164th Avenue.
gg The free family movie at 10 a.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 11, in the Regal Cinema 99, sponsored by First Independent Bank,
is “Elf.” No fooling, admission is absolutely free to all ages.
gg Clark County commissioners meet in
informal session at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11.
gg Pearson Air Museum’s Cruz-In, 4 t0
9 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11, features the Evergreen Old Car Club and muscle cars.
Admission is $5.Fifteen-minute airplane rides are $15 each. The air museum is at
1115 E 5th Street.
(For the rest of the story, click on a
headline below)
Mooching off the fair: Tom Ryll's guide to muttony and gluttony,
Columbian, Thomas Ryll
County growth plan could be scaled down--Columbian, Erin
Middlewood
City looking at balanced budget for 2005-06--Oregonian, Allan
Brettman
Auto license date show influx of residents--Columbian, Julia
Anderson
Meteors fly, meterorites on view at Hillsboro museum--Columbian,
Tricia Jones
Fed boosts short term interest rate another quarter point, USA
TODAY, Barbara Hagenbaugh
U.S. troops again battle insurgents in Najaf--USA TODAY, AP
NASA to ask $1 billon for robotic repair to fix
Hubble--Washington Post, AP
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