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College chiefs presenting case
for 4-year institution here, now
Whether Washington State University Vancouver will accept
freshmen and sophomore students has been thoroughly documented in the
university’s recently concluded, legislatively mandated study, and has been
approved by the university’s board of regents and the state Higher Education
Coordinating Board.
Whether the transition will begin with the first class of
freshmen being admitted in 2006 is mostly dependent on the funding provided for
the local campus by this session of the state legislature.
In their first joint public presentation since the study
was completed last fall, WSU Vancouver chancellor
Hal Dengerink and Clark College president
R. Wayne Branch will lay out the case for
an urban university to server southern Washington. This will be done from the
WSU Vancouver Salmon Creek Campus at 11:45 a.m. Friday, Jan. 7, in the Heathman
Lodge.
The $30 luncheon program is co-sponsored by Identity
Clark County, the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce, Columbia River Economic
Development Council, WSU Vancouver and Clark.
To register for the session, call
694-2588.
Eight county employers share
wellness program grants
Community Choices 2010 has awarded eight Clark County
employers with $42,000 in grants aimed at promoting physical activity and good
nutrition among their workers.
Grant winners are the City of Vancouver, Clark County,
Columbia Machine, Columbia River Mental Health Services, Educational
Opportunities for Children and Families, Education Service District 112, the
Vancouver School District and WaferTech.
The Community Choices program is directed toward
mitigating obesity, diabetes and asthma.
Partners in the worksite intervention program are the
American Cancer Society, Southwest Washington Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente
and the YMCA of Clark County.
Kimsey presenting lowdown
on 2004 elections in town hall
Clark County auditor Greg
Kimsey will discuss the 2004 primary and general election during a
special town hall meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 17, in the county Elections
Office, 1408 Franklin Street.
In addition to his discussion of one of the closest
gubernatorial elections in history, Kimsey will present information on changes
in the way Clark County citizens will vote as the result of current and pending
state legislation.
Not only will the mechanics of the voting system be
changing from punch cards to optical scanners, but also the way state primary
elections will be conducted will be changing , according to Kimsey.
Robert Miller to open traveling
historical
exhibit in Clark County Historical Museum
Robert Miller,
associate professor at the Lewis & Clark Law School, will help open a traveling
exhibit in the Clark County Historical Museum at 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 14.
Miller is also chief justice of the Court of Appeals of
the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community, a member of the Circle of
Tribal Advisors to the National council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial, and
a citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.
The exhibit, The
Northwest Treaty Trail: 1854-1856, will be on display at the Main Street
museum through this spring.
Admission to the lecture is $5 for museum members, $10
for nonmembers. For further information, call museum director
Susan Tissot,
993-5679.
An
Insider
contest offers tickets to the
Bravo! Vancouver’s Sunday concert
Readers providing correct answers to
Insider concert question will have their
names entered in a pool from which pairs of free tickets to the Sunday, Jan. 9,
Bravo! Vancouver concert will be drawn.
The question is: "The French composer
Olivier Messiaen was captured and
imprisoned at Stalag 8-A, near Gorlitz, from 1940-1941, where he composed
Quartet for the End of Time. In what
country was this Nazi prison camp located?"
The 3 p.m. concert featuring this work, along with a
multimedia presentation by Boren Biswas,
is being offered by the Bravo! Chamber Musicians in St. Joseph Catholic Church,
400 S Andresen Road. For further information, call
696-4407.
People
Anissa Russell,
has accepted a position with Convent, a web conferencing company in West Linn.
She leaves the architectural firm Barrentine Bates Lee AIA after nearly four
years. Russell is Vancouver’s Women In Action program director.
Correction
Rob Bernardi, a
panelist for the Columbian’s annual
Economic Forecast Friday, Jan. 21, was incorrectly listed as with Sharp
Microelectronics of the Americas. He was, but now is president and chief
operating officer of Kokusai Semiconductor Equipment Corp.
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MIRIAM GREEN 
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