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Rich Melnick wins in the primary
Rich
Melnick, Clark County’s newest District Court judge, took more than 50
percent of the total vote in Tuesday’s primary election to beat two other
contenders and to get himself elected to the job he was appointed to last March.
He does not have to run in the Nov. 2 general election, but he will be up for
office in 2006, at the time when all county District Court judges run for
four-year terms.
Early returns showed Melnick with 57.9
percent of the vote, compared to his opponents,
Janna R. Lovejoy, 23.9 percent, and Craig
Edward Kennedy, 18.3 percent of the votes.
Of contested races in Clark County, only
two other candidates got more votes than Melnick’s 18,087. They were Democrats
U.S. Senator Patty Murray, 21,687, and
U.S. Rep. Brian Baird, 20,948.
Races tight going into general
election
Washington is a presidential
battleground state and, so too, is Clark County a legislative battleground
county going into the Nov. 2 general election.
Returns are not complete, with several
thousand absentee ballots not yet received and counted, but with totals
available this morning voters in the legislative districts which include Clark
County cast ballots as follows:
49th District Senator
Craig
Pridemore (D) 8,086
Don Carlson Incumbent
(R) 4,930
49th District Representative Position 1
Bill
Fromhold Incumbent (D) 8056
Justin Riley (R)
4,452
49th District Representative Position 2
Jim
Moeller Incumbent (D) 7,871
Mike W. Smith (R)
4,460
17th District Senator
Don Benton
Incumbent (R)
6,373
Paul Waadevig (D) 3,474
John T. Davis (D) 3,392
17th District Representative Position 1
Jim Dunn
(R) 3,591
Pat Campbell (D) 3,502
Ilene Ferrell (D) 3,327
Paul Harris (R)
3,231
17th District Representative Position 2
Deb Wallace
Incumbent (D)
6,413
Roy Rhine, (R)
6,031
18th District Senator
Dave
Seabrook (D)
7,886
Joe Zarelli Incumbent (R)
7,556
18th District Representative Position 1
Pam Brokaw
(D) 7463.
Richard Curtis (R)
7,180
18th District Representative Position 2
Ed Orcutt Incumbent (R) 7,449
Brian D. Beecher (D) 7,248
15th District Representative Position 1
Bruce Chandler incumbent (R)
4,708
(unopposed)
15th District Representative Position 2
Dan Newhouse Incumbent (R) 4,779
Michael Kepcha (D) 3,397
Harris defeats Hagensen, will face
Boldt in November race for county commissioner
Incomplete but substantive returns
from Tuesday’s primary election give Jeanne
Harris, Vancouver City Council
member, the Democratic nomination for Clark County commissioner race in District
2. Her opponent is Marc Boldt, who is
completing a term as 17th District state representative.
Harris is leading Democrat
John Hagensen 3,730 votes to 3,450 in a
tight race to represent the east part of Clark County on the three-member board
of county commissioners.
Boldt, who was unopposed, received
5,616 votes.
County commissioner
Betty Sue Morris, who was unopposed in
her District 1 primary reelection bid, received 7,221 votes. Her Republican
opponent in November is 17th District state representative
Tom Mielke, also unopposed in the
primary, who got 7,816 votes.
WSU enrollment up in Vancouver,
Pullman
Washington State University enrollment
has gone up both in Vancouver and at the home campus in Pullman, university
officials say. WSU Vancouver reports a headcount enrollment of 1,941 students,
up 4.3 percent from the fall of 2003. Sixty-three percent of the WSU Vancouver
students are women.
The first-time freshman class on the
WSU Pullman campus is 3,108 students, up from 3,032 students who began classes
last fall. The grade-point average of incoming freshmen has gone up, too,
according to spokesperson Charlene Jaeger,
from 3.44 grade-point average last year to a 3.46 GPA this year.
News briefs
The Women In Action Emerging Leaders
Forum, during which the annual Athena Award will be announced, is at 4 p.m.
today in the Red Lion Hotel at the Quay.
g A lecture,
“Rachael Corrie in Gaza: Her Parents’ Perspective,” is being presented in room 6
of the Multimedia Classroom Building at the Washington State University
Vancouver campus at 2:40 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16. The lecture is sponsored by
the WSU Vancouver Center for Social and Environmental Justice. Corrie’s parents
will also speak at the First Congregational Church in Vancouver at 7 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 17. For further information, call
Ben Duncan, 546-9490.
g Open houses for
teachers, including home school teachers, are at 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 16, in the Columbia Springs Environmental Education Center,
12208 SE Evergreen Highway.
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Koenninger
Opinion - Local View: Cowlitz casino will benefit Clark
County--Columbian, John Barnett
Ridgefield, Camas school measures click--Columbian, Stephanie
Rice
County continues to add jobs--Columbian, Jonathan Nelson
Health Department adding to new-born screening
program--Columbian, Tom Vogt
Confusion wins in state primary--Columbian, Don Jenkins
American Indian wants to put run on Lewis and Clark
re-enactors--KATU, AP
Roads clogged as hundreds of thousands on Gulf Coast flee
Ivan--USA TODAY, AP
Martha Stewart asks to begin jail time now--USA TODAY, Greg
Farrell
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