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Violinist Nitai Zori returns to open
Vancouver Symphony’s concert season
Israeli violinist
Nitai Zori returns to open the Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra’s 2004-2005 season with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s
Violin Concerto at 3 p.m. Saturday and 7
p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9 and 10, in the Skyview High School Concert Hall, 1300 NE
139th Street.
The symphony orchestra will offer five
additional weekend concerts during the season that ends May 21 and 22.
Season tickets are available from $40
to $180. Single tickets are $15 and $35. An additional discount on ticket prices
is available to those who buy tickets by Thursday, Sept. 30, reports symphony
spokesperson Kelly O’Neill.
For further information, call O’Neill
at 735-7278, or go to the symphony
orchestra’s website at
www.vancouversymphony.org.
Bob McCall, former Vancouver
mayor, died Friday at 91
Robert
S. McCall died Friday at the age of 91. Mr. McCall was one of the first
Vancouver city council members elected after the city charter, which was changed
in 1952, created the present city manager form of government. Mr. McCall was
elected mayor in 1955.
A businessman and, later, real estate
broker, Mr. McCall was also a civic leader and member of Royal Oaks Country
Club.
Mr. McCall is survived by his wife of
66 years, Mildred; a daughter,
Jill Walton, Vancouver, and a son,
Scott, Scottsdale, Ariz.; four
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
A private service was held.
Forum at the Library presents all-star
cast of school superintendents
Issues facing Clark County school
districts will be discussed by school district superintendents
John Erickson, Vancouver School District,
Rick Melching, Evergreen School District,
Bob Donaldson, Washougal School District,
and Mary Vagner, Ridgefield School
District, at the Forum at the Library presentation at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.
22, in the Vancouver Community Library Hall, 1007 E. Mill Plain Boulevard.
Robert
Moser is the moderator. For further information, call
695-1566.
J.A. Jance is featured at Authors and
Illustrators dinner
J. A.
Jance, author of the J. P. Beaumont and Joanna Brady Mystery Series, is
the featured speaker at the Fort Vancouver Regional Library Foundation Dinner,
Thursday, Sept. 30, in the Hoop, 7250 NE 41st Street.
The $40-per-person event opens at 6
p.m. with a silent auction. Dinner is at 7 p.m. Admission is $40. For further
information, call Casandra Franzen,
699-8846.
Pearson Air Museum free
on Alexander Pearson Day
Admission to the Pearson Air Museum is
free Saturday, Sept. 25, which is Alexander Pearson Day, commemorating the U.S.
Army test pilot for whom Pearson Field was named in 1925.
Special exhibits for the event, which
is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., are five Stearman bi-planes, which were restored by
the Fern Prairie Air Force, Grove Field, Camas, and a T-6 racing airplane, which
just participated in the 2004 Reno Air Races.
Pearson was a native of Portland and a
graduate of the University of Oregon. Pearson Field is the oldest continually
operating airfield in the United States.
Program on adolescent suicide
offered Tuesday in Portland
A program entitled “Understanding
Adolescent Depression & Suicidality” is being presented by Providence Health
System’s Employee Assistance Program at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, in the
Kaiser Permanente Building, 500 NE Multnomah Street, Portland.
Speakers are Providence counselors
Mary Calderon and
Kathleen Salem. Pre-registration is
required. Call (503) 215-4717 for further
information.
People
Nancy
Retsinas and Daniel Keteri have
been appointed by Clark County commissioners to the county Emergency Medical
Services Administrative Board.
News briefs
A rally by proponents of Proposition 1,
which would restore most of the funding for C-TRAN lost by the passage of
Initiative 695, is at 5 p.m. today in the public plaza at Esther Short Park.
g The
Vancouver City Council does not meet today.
g Clark Public
Utilities’ commissioners meet in regular session at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21.
g Clark
County commissioners meet in regular session at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21.
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