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Beach Boy David Lee Marks headlines
Jaycees concert in the Park Saturday
Grammy-award winning
David Lee Marks, one of the founders of the Beach Boys in 1962,
headlines a six-band musical presentation from 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday, August 21,
in Esther Short Park. The summer concert is sponsored by the Vancouver Jaycees
for the benefit of a number of charitable causes in Clark County, including the
YWCA of Clark County’s Safe Choice program for battered women and children.
Other performers are The
Eastridge Band, Timothy James Meaney,
Rescue, 3
Man Duo, and The Touchables!
Admission is $10. Tickets are available through
Ticketmaster and at the gate. For further information, call
882-4657.
Clark County’s unemployment rate goes
up, but so does the number of workers
The Clark County unadjusted unemployment rate jumped to
7.3 percent in July, compared to 6.7 percent in June, according to the state
Department of Employment Security. At the same time the number of persons
employed rose from 172,400 in June to 174,200 in July. But the total number of
persons in the workforce also rose to 187.900, from 184,800 the previous month.
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Statewide, the economy remained flat, according to
Silvia P. Mundy, Employment Security
commissioner. The state’s unadjusted unemployment rate stood at 5.9 percent in
July, compared to 6.1 percent in June.
Clark County’s 7.3 percent unemployment rate compared to
Skamania County’s 6.9 percent, Cowlitz County’s 7.9 percent and Kind County’s
5.6 percent. Unemployment was lowest in eastern Washington’s Garfield County,
1.3 percent, and San Juan County, 2 percent. It was highest in Ferry County,
10.6 percent.
The national rate of unemployment was 5.5 percent.
Heat kept fair goers away,
attendance down 22 percent
An extraordinary string of hot days, which followed a
downpour on opening day, Friday, Aug. 6, combined to hold attendance at the
ten-day fair 22 percent below that of a year ago.
This year’s attendance was 220,341, about 48,000 fewer
fair patrons than a year ago.
Fair executive director
Tom Musser pointed out that, on the first Saturday of this year’s fair,
when the temperature was a perfect 77 degrees, fair attendance was up 20 percent
over the previous year. But, when Monday came and the temperature at the
fairgrounds reached 102 degrees, attendance was down 37 percent.
According to Musser, advance admission sales and advance
carnival ride sales were all up over the previous year.
JD White Company putting
together Poor Farm plans
The JD White Company is putting together alternative
plans for use of the former county Poor Farm property, currently the site of the
79-acre Washington State University Research and Extension Unit on NE 78th
Street in Hazel Dell.
Both WSU, which owns the property, and Clark County are
partners in seeking development plans for the mostly agricultural land.
An open house will be from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Aug.
25, in the cafeteria of Gaiser Middle School, 3000 NE 99th Street. Further
information is available from Lynn Valenter,
WSU project manager, at 546-9590.
Principals discretionary dole to help indigent students
Eighty principals in southern Washington will share a
$25,000 grant from the Community Foundation, up to $350 each, to be used at
their discretion to aid students in need.
According to David Kenny,
retired First Independent Bank officer, the principals use the fund to buy basic
needs for students, such as eye glasses, medical prescriptions, school supplies
and clothing. Now in its 14th year, the Children’s Trust Fund of the foundation
has given over $240,000 for needy students.
People
Lilly Kimbell,
already ranked 17th nationally for girls 12 and under in tennis, last week won
her biggest victory so far, taking third place in the Supernational Tennis
Tournament at the University of Kentucky. Kimbell is a member of and student at
the Vancouver Tennis Club. gg
Selected as models for golf fashions from Royal Oaks Country Club during the
Friends of Hospice’s annual fundraiser Monday, Sept. 13, in the Heathman Lodge,
are Paul Linnman, radio and television
personality, John White, chair of the
board of Southwest Washington Medical Center,
Brett Bryant, past president of the Southwest Washington Medical
Foundation board of trustees, and Michael Kelley,
senior manager of Plasma Services for the American Red Cross. A raffle and
silent auction accompany the runway show which begins at 11:30 a.m. Lunch is
$35. Call Friends of Hospice, 696-5056
for additional information.
News brief
School supplies for the YWCA of Clark County’s children who
are housed in shelters are being accepted during the 4-to-9 p.m. Cruz-In at
Pearson Field. Cameros are being spotlighted during the car show. Adult
admission is $5. Fifteen-minute airplane rides are offered for $15.
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below.)
Columbian buys Post-Record--Columbian, Julia Anderson
Cartographer, Martin Plamondon's final project maps new
ideas on Lewis and Clark--Oregonian, Foster Church
Natural
gas customers may see higher bills--KATU
Vancouver may restrict popular scooters--Columbian, Jeffrey
Mize
Vancouver bans mini motorcycles on city streets--Oregonian,
Allan Brettman
City giving serious thought to off-leash areas for
dogs--Columbian, Jeffrey Mize
Council considers plan for off-leash areas--Oregonian, Bill
Stewart
Columbia Cascade contributing to the national World War II
Memorial--Columbian, Gretchen Fehrenbacher
Portland
ranks high on most overpriced cities list--KATU
Beaverton teen takes gold in fencing--KGW-TV, AP
Michael Phelps
catches gold, twice more--MSNBC
Olympic scores--Official website of the
Athens 2004 games,
www.athens2004.com
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