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Shirley Morgan named library
foundation marketing director
Shirley Morgan has been named to the newly created position of marketing
director for the Fort Vancouver Regional Library Foundation, it has been
announced by foundation executive director
Rick Smithrud.
Morgan is the owner of Morgan
Graphic Communications. She had been a member of the library district’s board of
trustees for the past three years, a position she resigned in order to accept
the library foundation position.
Morgan will be responsible for
increasing the awareness of the foundation among the communities in the
three-county library district, increasing funding for library programs, and
supporting Friends of the Library groups and library volunteers.
The foundation was formed in 1990,
to help enhance library services.
Justin Denny
named
Clark County health officer
Justin Denny with wife, Paula and daughter Pim
Justin Denny today was appointed Clark
County health officer, succeeding Karen
Steingart, who resigned June 30 in order to care for her mother, who is
in ill health.
Before joining the Clark County Health
Department, Denny served as health officer for both the Wasco/Sherman Health
Department in the Dalles and the Columbia Health District-Public Health
Authority, St. Helens. At the same time, Denny was a family physician at
Portland State University.
After completing his residence in
family practice at Oregon Health Science University, Denny became chief resident
in Preventive Medicine at OHSU from July 2001 to July 2002. During this time he
worked with the deputy medical director of the Portland/Vancouver Veterans
Administration and completed a masters degree in public health.
Denny teaches a course on global
health at PSU and will maintain his faculty appointment at OHSU. He earned his
doctorate in medicine in 1988 from Eastern Virginia Medical School. He has
worked abroad with the U.S. embassy in the Philippine Islands and as a teacher
in Caracas, Venezuela.
Denny’s appointment was made by
the board of Clark County commissioners, which also serves as the board of the
Clark County Health Department.
Fewer than one in ten
will vote in polling places
Fewer than one in ten voters are
expected to go to polling places in today’s primary election. A light voter
turnout is predicted statewide and locally, partly because of the change from
the former open primary to a primary in which voters must decided to vote for
candidates of one party only.
Nevertheless, 45,879 of Clark County’s
188,606 registered voters had returned absentee ballots by this morning’s count
from Clark County auditor Greg Kimsey.
Registered voters not using absentee
ballots may go to their polling places until 8 p.m. tonight. Voters using
absentee ballots must have them postmarked by 8 p.m. today or, in the
alternative, take the absentee ballots to a polling place. For information on
polling places call 397-2345, or go to
www.clark.wa.gov/elections/
voting/polling.asp.
Elections officials will begin
counting absentee ballots at 3 p.m. but no results will be announced until after
8:15 p.m. Tabulations will be presented to the public in the 6th floor Clark
County commissioners’ hearing room in the Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin
Street. Returns will also be cablecast live on CVTV, Channel 23.
Clark Public Utilities’ CEO/general
manager gets salary boost
Clark Public Utilities’ commissioners
today increased the salary of CEO/general manager
Wayne Nelson to $165,000 from $159,360.
Even so, he is the most poorly paid of
major electric utility managers in Washington, where the salary range is from
$215,000 for the manager of the state’s largest public utility, Snohomish PUD,
to $189,000 for the manager of the 40,000-customer Grant County PUD. Clark
Public Utilities is the 18th largest customer-owned electric utility in the
United States in terms of customers served. The local utility serves over
166,000 electric customers and provides water for 27,000 homes and businesses in
Hazel Dell, Salmon Creek, Lake Shore, Hockinson, Brush Prairie, La Center,
Meadow Glade, Amboy and Yacolt.
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rest of the story)
Man drives car 18 miles south in northbound lanes of I-5, I-205
Freeway--Columbian, John Branton
Tornado ruffles a few feathers in Ridgefield National Wildlife
Refuge--Columbian, Erik Robinson
VEA files unfair labor practice complaint against Vancouver
School District--Columbian, Amy McFall Prince
Clark County District Court asking for sixth judge--Columbian,
Stephanie Rice
In quid pro quo, Vancouver agrees to help support Clark County
Fairgrounds Expo Center--Columbian, Jeffrey Mize
Exit off I-5 through Duluth to Battle Ground back on drawing
board--Oregonian, Bill Stewart
University of Phoenix hit with $9.8 million fine--KATU
Guide to Clark County polling places--KGW-TV
Bush wants to take $3.46 from Iraqi reconstruction fund and use
it for security, economic aid and oil industry improvements--USA
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