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Diana Avalos and Earl Ford
win Val Joshua Awards
 
Diana
Avalos
Earl Ford
Diana Avalos,
Vancouver School District migrant program coordinator, and
Earl W. Ford, president of the Vancouver
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, have been named
winners of the 2004 Val Joshua Awards by the YWCA of Clark County.
The award honors demonstrated leadership to eliminate
racism and significant involvement in the struggle for peace, justice, freedom
and dignity for all people.
Avalos is an advocate for the Clark County Latino
community and lead member of the newly-formed Diverse Educational Leadership
Committee. She is a member of the state Commission on Hispanic Affairs.
Ford, who worked with the NAACP to develop a Rites of
Passage Program for African American young people, is also a board member of the
Larch Mountain Correctional Center and president of the Men of Zion at Community
A.M.E. Zion Church.
The awards will be presented by
Val Joshua at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan.
26, in the YWCA community room, 3609 Main Street.
Baird’s work merits national
Park Achievement Award
Craig Obey, Vice (left) president for
Governmental
Affairs, NPCA, presents Park Achievement Award"
to Congressman Brian Baird
For his, “superior leadership to fund and protect the
national parks and to establish Lewis And Clark National Historical Park,” the
National Parks Conservation Association awarded U. S. Rep.
Brian Baird (D-3rd) its Park Achievement
Award.
Baird was cited for having co-founded the National Parks
Caucus in the House of Representatives and for his work with U.S. Sen.
Maria Cantwell in sponsoring the law
passed last October that designated 560 acres in Washington and Oregon
redesignating three sites in Washington and one in Oregon as a single national
park honoring Lewis and Clark.
High school, community college degrees
coincide for many Running Start students
The Clark College Running Start program allows eligible
high school juniors and seniors to take classes to earn college credit while
they fulfill their high school graduation requirements, according to program
manager Linda Calvert.
“Some students are so motivated that they earn their
associate degree from Clark at the same time they earn their high school
diploma,” says Calvert.
Calvert recites an example: “Rose
Hart, a Washougal home schooler, currently is taking her senior year high
school classes at Clark College. She will earn an associate in arts degree at
the same time she graduates from high school in June.”
Hart also founded and serves as president of the Clark
College chapter of Amnesty International. She is one of two Clark students named
to the All-Washington Two-Year College Academic Team for campus involvement and
academics.
Running Start students attend regular Clark classes
during the day or in the evening, along with fellow college students. They can
choose from a full range of academic and professional or technical courses.
Tuition for eligible students is covered by individual
school districts. Students pay for books, transportation, and any miscellaneous
class fees.
Calvert says Running Start students are self-motivated,
emotionally mature and are looking for additional academic challenges. They have
college-level skills and maturity.
Students and parents can learn more about the Clark
College program during an informational meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9,
in the Clark College gymnasium in the O’Connell sports Center.
For further information, call
992-2842, or go to
www.clark.edu/runningstart.
Dave Kirkpatrick band headlines
Skills Center gourmet dinner
The Dave Kilpatrick Band
performs during the 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, gourmet dinner being
presented by the Clark County Skills Center Culinary Arts Department in the
Skills Center Restaurant, 12200 NE 28th Street.
For reservations or further information about the $20
dinner ($10 tax deductible), call Patty Foco,
604-1050, extension
2150.
Fred Swanstrom elected president
of the Port of Kalama board
Fred Swanstrom,
serving his second term on the Port of Kalama board of commissioners, has been
elected president of the board. Swanstrom.
Swanstrom, a former Vancouver city councilmember, also
served as deputy superintendent of schools in Vancouver and was superintendent
of the Camas School District. He is a member of the board of the Cowlitz
Economic Development Commission and is a delegate to the Washington Public Ports
Association and the Cowlitz Wahkiakum Council of Governments.
Port commissioner Milford
Westin was elected vice president of the board and
Jim Lucas was elected secretary of the
board.
People
Dan French, owner
and president of Rose Ranch Retirement Inn., and
Elaine Hyce, membership and marketing manager of Costco Wholesale,
Vancouver, have been appointed to the board of directors of the Clark County
Chamber of Commerce.
News briefs
Clark Public Utilities’ commissioners and the La Center
City Council meet to discuss waste water issues 6 p.m. this evening in the La
Center Community Center, 1000 E 4th Street.
g Clark Public Utilities’ commissioners meet in regular session at 9 a.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 25. g Port of Vancouver
Commissioners meet in regular session at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 25.
g Clark County Commissioners meet in
regular session at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan 25.
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