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Lewis and Clark’s travels through Clark County to be
recalled during dinner at Clark College
Lewis
and Clark Corps of Discovery expedition members ate pretty well, at least some
of the time, if the commemorative Lewis & Clark Dinner menu is a reliable
sample.
Here’s what attendees at the 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, $30
dinner and “casual fun-filled” evening in Gaiser Hall at Clark College get:
smoked turkey with sausage and dried cranberry stuffing, roasted new potatoes
with caramelized onions, three varieties of golden squash, corn, rustic breads,
mixed fall greens with buttermilk and chive dressing, bow-tie pasta with smoked
salmon garnished with watercress and filberts, cranberry apple salad with golden
raisins and raspberry almond tart.
The dinner, to which the public is “cordially invited,”
is sponsored by the Vancouver Clark County Lewis and Clark Committee. It will be
prepared by the Clark College Culinary Arts Department.
The evening program includes a one-woman show by
Myrna DeBolt, as Meriwether Lewis’s
mother, Lucy Meriwether Marks. In addition, plans for new pedestrian and bicycle
paths that follow some Lewis and Clark events that are being developed for
Vancouver and Clark County will be presented.
Lewis and Clark spent 12 days in what is now Clark County
during their trip downriver on the Columbia River in 1805. According to journals
by the explorers, this area was “the only desired situation for a settlement on
the west side of the Rocky Mountains.”
For reservations, call
906-7119.
Rocketshop to take lease 6th
floor office in Vancouvercenter
Rocketshop, Vancouver advertising and public relations
agency, will lease nearly 6,000 square feet of office space on the sixth floor
of the newly completed Vancouvercenter north tower, reports
Dana Larson, one of the company’s
founders and vice president and chief marketing officer. The company was formed
in Vancouver in 2000 and is expected to expand its 14-member staff when the move
to Vancouvercenter is completed in the first quarter of 2005.
Rocketshop is the fourth commercial tenant in the $100
million downtown mixed use project across Columbia Street from Esther Short
Park. Other tenants are Otak, an engineering firm working with Vandevco Limited,
developers of the Vancouvercenter, Hilton Hotels and Management Recruiters.
Vancouvercenter covers two blocks with 194 apartments, 68
condominiums and 165,000 square feet of class A office and retail space.
Homework Helpline begins 15th year
The locally produced cable television program, Homework
Helpline, has begun its 15th year of assisting students in Clark County schools
with homework-related questions.
A joint venture of Evergreen Public Schools, TV ETC and
Comcast Cable, the hour-long show is cable cast between 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday
through Thursday.
A live call-in program, Homework Helpline is hosted by
students from schools who have access to Internet and other electronic resources
to help callers answer questions.
Students with questions may call in live or may post
their questions earlier in the day and watch for answers.
The show is cablecast on Comcast Channel 28. The call-in
telephone number is 896-4357.
The treat is in the trick; don’t
change clocks until Sunday night
Horological expert Tauf
Charneski advises that it is a waste of time, by at least an hour, to
reset clocks one hour back Saturday, Oct. 30, in commemoration of the return to
standard time Sunday, Oct. 31.
Rather, Charneski says: “Churchgoers should remember to
go to church an hour early, Sunday, according to un-reset clocks. Others need
not bother with that step. Then, in preparation for retirement, Sunday evening
all should set clocks back one hour and then savor the extra hour on Monday
morning before going to work.”
Fire District 11 gets $224,632
from Homeland Security
A Department of Homeland Security grant of $224,632 for
Clark County Fire District 11 was announced today by U.S. Rep.
Brian Baird (D-3rd).
The grant, one of several in southern Washington, is part
of the DHS $750 million in assistance designated for firefighters. The grant
money will be used to purchase new equipment, according to Baird.
News briefs
The Southwest Washington Transportation Council board meets
at 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1, in the Public Service Center, 1400 Franklin Street.
g The Clark County Public Facilities
District board meets at 4:30 p.m. Monday, at the site of the Clark County
Exhibition Hall at the county fairgrounds. A tour of the nearly completed
exhibition hall is scheduled. For further information, call
Kelly Sills,
397-2232.
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