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IGI moves headquarters to
Vancouver from Wilsonville
IGI, a gasket and seal manufacturer
with manufacturing plants in Portland, Seattle, Denver and Salt Lake City, is
moving its executive offices from Wilsonville to 1111 Main Street, reports
Bart Phillips, Columbia River Economic
Development Council executive director.
IGI, founded in 1962, manufactures
specialty engineered products used in aerospace, medical, national security, and
personal electronics.
Mike
Smith, IGI president, says: “We chose Vancouver for its easy access to
the airport, major freeways, attractive lease rates and what we consider to be
forward thinking civic leaders. The beautiful downtown area, along with the
affordability of doing business here, makes Vancouver a logical option.”
Vancouver mayor
Royce Pollard responded: “We welcome IGI
to our community with open arms and know that it will add to the continuing
diversity of business in our downtown. A strong private-public partnership has
been working to make downtown Vancouver a place where people will gather to
live, work, shop and relax.”
According to the mayor, since 1998,
the private-public partnership has developed $200 million of mixed-use,
residential, retail and office additions.
Clark
College reserves expected to
go to one-time-only expenditures
About $17.4 million of a $22 million
reserve held by Clark College will be used for one-time-only expenditures to
meet increased enrollment demands as well as facilities and infrastructure
priorities, college president Wayne Branch
told campus staff and faculty this week. The balance of the $22 million
is already dedicated to help cover costs of current construction projects.
Branch says that the college will take
the time necessary to ensure the money is allocated wisely, using Clark’s newly
approved strategic plan as a guide.
According to Branch, some of those
projects may include the following:
· $5
million to renovate buildings on the triangle property, acquired by the Clark
College Foundation from Clark County, west of the campus on Fort Vancouver Way.
· $1.5
million to construct a pedestrian overpass or tunnel across Fort Vancouver Way.
· $2
million to serve as seed money for construction of parking garage as proposed as
part of the college’s master facilities plan.
· $1.2
million for implementing the college’s technology plan, including updating
technology in classrooms.
· $300,000
for new campus signs.
· $100,000
for a low-wattage radio station to be used as a parking advisory system.
· $1
million to develop Clark’s new Workforce Development and Continuing Education
Division —a program that is expected to become self-sufficient and ultimately
generate revenue for the college.
Branch said the reserve balances he reported to the college
trustees this week were part of the 150-page, 2005 fiscal budget. They were
accumulated by the college over a period of years and were consistent with the
prevailing interpretation of college policy governing reserves, which was
focused on assuring that the college possessed resources to develop facilities
for future growth.
Bruce
Cross named fleet
manager for City of Portland
Bruce
Cross, who retired as deputy director of Clark County Public Works in May
2003, has been appointed fleet manager for the City of Portland.
Cross, one of the founders of the
interagency cooperative Grounds Equipment Maintenance, a regional network of
public agency employees who meet regularly to promote efficiency in government,
reports that Portland has joined GEM.
GEM is currently preparing a multiple
agency auction of equipment and vehicles, which will include surplus vehicles
from Clark Public Utilities. For further information on GEM, go to
www.gematwork.org.
10,249 saw free movies
in Vancouver this year
A project to promote family summer
activities sponsored by First Independent Bank and Regal Cinemas issued 10,249
free passes to moviegoers at Regal Cinema 99 in Hazel Dell this year, according
to spokesperson Kim Dalton. Dalton said
the sponsors last year issued 7,564 movie passes.
People
Mark
Ross, Mountain View High School principal, has received the Washington
State Secondary Administrator of the Year Award from the state Library Media
Association. The award recognized Ross’s “exceptional promotion of the school
library program.”
News briefs
Betty
Sue Morris supporters are holding a fundraising function for her campaign
for reelection as Democratic Clark County commissioner at 5 p.m. today in
Bethany Vineyards, 4115 NE 259th Street, Ridgefield. For further information,
call 903-2890.
g A reception in a
warehouse at 4th and Columbia Streets between 4 and 7 p.m. today will honor the
top construction projects of 2004 as selected by the
Vancouver Business Journal and Columbia
River Economic Development Council. g
The Clark County Long Range Planning Department is holding an informational
meeting about the county’s new home business regulations at 5 p.m. today in the
Camas Police Station, 2100 NE 3rd Avenue.
g The Clark County
Animal Protection and Control Advisory Board meets in regular session at 6:30
p.m. this evening in the Hazel Dell Sewer District offices, 8000 NE 52nd Court.
g The
quarterly luncheon meeting of the Columbia River Economic Development Council is
at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 27, in Royal Oaks Country Club.
g The Fort
Vancouver Regional Library District board of trustees meets in a budget session
at 3:15 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27, in the district operations center, 1007 E Mill
Plain Boulevard.
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rest of the story)
U.S.
beats Brazil 2-1 in OT to claim Olympic Gold--MSNBC
Neighbors complain they were left out of the loop in planning
for future of 79-acre Washington State University research
station in Hazel Dell--Columbian, Erin Middlewood
Three plans surface for WSU's research station--Oregonian,
Bill Stewart
It's still summer; sunshine to return--Columbian, Erik
Robinson
Seven hurt in head-on crash in Brush Prairie near Cedars Golf
Club--Columbian
Washougal gears up for Parade of Homes--Columbian, Gretchen
Fehrenbacher
Absentee ballots on the way--Oregonian, Foster Church
Tickets and income taxes on player's salaries would finance
Portland Major League Baseball stadium backers say--KGW-TV,
Abe Estimada
Seattle voters angry over party-line primary--Seattle P-I,
Neil Modie
Locke endorses Gregoire--Seattle P-I, AP, David Ammons
More Americans living in poverty, Census Bureau says--New York
Times, Brian Knowlton
Olympic scores--Official website of the
Athens 2004 games,
www.athens2004.com
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