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Len Leger named executive director
for Emil Fries School of Piano Tuning
Len
Leger, a former foundation director for the Washington State School for
the Blind, has been appointed executive director of the Emil. Fries School of
Piano Tuning and Technology.
Leger, who has extensive experience in
education, marketing, fund raising and budgeting, has been associated with the
Rochester Institute of Technology and the Eastman Kodak Company. He holds
multiple degrees from the State University of New York and the University of
Rochester.
The Emil Fries School, 2510 E
Evergreen Boulevard, was founded in 1949 and is a state-accredited private,
nonprofit vocational school which provides specialized training in the art of
piano service and business skills to visually impaired, blind, and sighted
persons.
The school is supported by donations
and by customers of the Piano Hospital, whose piano tuning services and
reconditioned piano sales help sustain the school.
Clark College promotion earns
international Telly Award of Excellence
A promotional video developed by Clark
College last year to introduce and promote the new Engineering and Science
Institute, a collaborative effort by Clark, Lower Columbia College and
Washington State University Vancouver, has received an International Telly Award
of Excellence in video production.
Cinemagic Studios, Portland, produced
the video under the direction of the community college’s College Relations
Department. Premiered last February, the video has been used by staff from the
three partner institutions to promote the Institute, which is opening fall on
the WSU Vancouver campus.
Telly Awards are the premier award
honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable commercials and programs, as
well as video film productions.
New
Insider contest: win a pair of tickets to
Labor Day weekend Taste of Vancouver
K. C. Fuller has provided the
Daily Insider with five pairs of tickets
for any day of the four-day Taste of Vancouver, which opens a four-day Labor Day
weekend run on Friday, Sept. 3.
The first
five readers who e-mail the Insider with
the name of the rabbit for which pianist Michael
Allen Harrison wrote the score of a ballet premiered by Vancouver Dance
Theater in 1999 will each win a pair of tickets.
Since his debut in 1986, concert
pianist, producer, composer, arranger and owner of his own record label,
Harrison has sold over three-quarters of a million copies of 24 albums. He
performs at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 4.
WSU Vancouver Engineering and Science
Institute still accepting lower-division students
The Washington State University
Vancouver Engineering and Science Institute is still accepting students for the
Fall 2004 term, according to Robin Terjeson,
institute coordinator.
Space is still available for students
in each of the Institute majors, biology, computer science and mechanical
engineering.
Interested students should call the
Clark College Admissions Office, 992-2107,
as soon as possible to allow time for completing admissions paperwork,
Terjeson says.
Freshmen and sophomore level lower division classes begin Monday, Sept. 20.
Juli Wilkerson will address CREDC’s
third quarter investor luncheon Friday
Juli
Wilkerson state director of Community, Trade and Economic Development,
will discuss state strategy for economic development and what it means for
business recruitment and expansion efforts in Clark County at the Columbia River
Economic Development Council investor luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 27, in
Royal Oaks Country Club. The third quarter investor luncheon is sponsored by
Clark College.
Seating is limited and reservations
are required. Members may register online at
http://www.credc.org/event_registration.cfm
or call 694-5006.
Reception for construction
award winners Thursday
A reception from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday,
Aug. 26, will honor the owners and contractors of Clark County’s largest
construction projects of 2004
Sponsored by the
Vancouver Business Journal and the
Columbia River Economic Development Council, the reception will be held in a
warehouse at 4th and Columbia Streets, where a model guest room of the Hilton
Hotel has been set up. For further information on the $25-event, call
Tena Wolski,
695-2442.
News briefs
Admission is free until 5 p.m. today at
Fort Vancouver, 1115 E 5th Street, as the U.S. National Park Service celebrates
the 87th anniversary of its founding. The fort was founded by the Hudson’s Bay
Company in 1825. gg
Pearson Air Museum’s Wednesday Cruz-In has been canceled today because of
inclement weather. gg
The Port of Ridgefield’s scheduled Wednesday, Aug. 25,
meeting has been canceled.
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rest of the story)
County growth management plan, smaller than some cities and
developers like is on its way to being adopted by a split vote
of county commissioners next week--Columbian, Erin Middlewood
County vote nears on 20-year Growth Management Plan--Oregonian,
Bill Stewart
Kaiser Permanente saves the day for the Russell
family--Columbian, Margaret Ellis
Confusion arrives in voters' mailboxes--Columbian, Don
Jenkins
Superior court to get ninth judge--Columbian, Stephanie Rice
Carlson, Pridemore differ, also find common ground--Columbian,
Don Jenkins
Now is the time to get going on a new span--Columbian, Tom
Koenninger
Three-day Wine and Jazz Festival gets underway Friday at Esther
Short Park--Oregonian, Allan Brettman
Olympic scores--Official website of the
Athens 2004 games,
www.athens2004.com
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