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Betty Sue Morris aims to answer
“big picture” questions
Betty Sue Morris,
chair of the Clark County board of commissioners, is seeking “big picture”
questions from constituents, the answers to which will be delivered during her
State of the County Address, at 11:45 a.m. Friday, Feb. 4, in the Red Lion Hotel
at the Quay.
Morris says she will share her perspectives of the past
year and discuss challenges that lie ahead for county government in 2005 and, in
addition, will answer questions of general interest to the public that are sent
to her office by Wednesday, Jan. 26.
“We want to make sure that issues of primary interest to
county citizens are included in our outlook for the coming year,” Morris says.
Questions may be mailed, called in, mailed to the county Public Information and
Outreach Office, or e-mailed to
pio@clark.wa.gov.
Business owners can get dose
of net worth improvement for $15
A half-day seminar being presented at 8 a.m. Friday, Feb.
4, by Washington State University’s Small Business Development Center zeroes in
on getting business owners to leave daily distractions behind and focus their
efforts on building the net worth of their business, reports center spokesperson
Jan Harte.
Presenters are John
Mitchell, US Bancorp, Craig Byrd,
Byrd Financial Group, Portland, Steve LaCesa,
Oak Tree Insurance, Lake Oswego, and Harte. The seminar, titled “Grow and Thrive
in 2005,” is sponsored by Byrd Financial Group and the
Vancouver Business Journal.
The $15 registration fee includes a catered lunch. The
seminar is in the newly restored E. B. Hamilton Hall of the historic Red Cross
Building at 605 Barnes Road in Vancouver Barracks. For further information and
registration by February 1, call Clark College,
992-2939, and ask for course number G065.
Lecture Friday opens historical
museum northwest treaty exhibit
A lecture by Robert
Miller, associate professor, Lewis & Clark Law School, and chief justice,
Court of Appeals, Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, opens a
two-and-a-half-month-long exhibit of art and artifacts of Indian treaties of
1854-56 at 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 14, in the Clark County Historical Museum, 1151
Main Street.
During a 13-month period beginning in 1954, Oregon
territorial governor Isaac Stevens held 11 treaty councils with northwest
Indians. Thousands of native people ceded their traditional homelands. Miller
will discuss how these negotiated treaties impact the region today.
The lecture is $5 for museum members; $10 for nonmembers.
The exhibit opens at 6 p.m. and continues Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m., through Thursday, March 31.
For further information, call
993-5679.
Port of Ridgefield Taxes go down
The public property tax levy within the Port of
Ridgefield will be reduced slightly this year from the rate levied in 2004,
reports Brent Grening, executive director
of the port district of 11,000 residents, covering 57 square miles from
Ridgefield on Lake River to east of I-5.
The property tax levy will drop a little over 7 percent,
from 28 cents per $1,000 assessed valuation to 26 cents per $1,000 assessed
valuation.
About 5 percent of the port’s $6 million annual budget is
generated by property taxes. About $5 million is derived from grants and loans
from the state Department of Ecology.
The port established fees for its new boat launch and
kayak facility on Lake River, according to Grening. Day use is $6. An annual
boat launch pass has been raised from $35 to $40. Annual passes for kayak
launchers are available for $20.
New Evergreen Public Schools high
school
boundaries subject of public discussion
The first of four public meetings being conducted by
Evergreen Public Schools, to realign school boundaries necessitated by a new
high school to be completed in 2007, is at 7 p.m. this evening in Evergreen High
School, 14300 NE 18th Street.
Additional meetings will be held later this month. A map
detailing a boundary change option can be seen by going to
www.egreen.wednet.edu.
People
Bruce Wiseman has
been elected chair of the three-member board of commissioners of the Port of
Ridgefield . Joe Melroy was elected
treasurer, and Roy Randel,
secretary. Randall is also a member of the board of the Washington Public
Ports Association.
News brief
Evergreen High School’s sixth annual Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. assembly, which is open to the public, is at 9 a.m. Friday, Jan. 14, in the
school auditorium, 7825 NE 130th Avenue.
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