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Diane Schuur caps Clark College
jazz week with Sunday performance
Diane Schuur
Over 70 of the best jazz bands and ensembles from Pacific
Northwest high schools have been strutting their stuff during the 43rd Clark
College Jazz Festival this week, building up to grand finale Sunday, Jan. 30,
when Diane Schuur performs in the Skyview
High School Auditorium, 1300 NE 139th Street.
Meanwhile, there is plenty of jazz available this evening
and tomorrow in Gaiser Hall on the Clark College campus. Competition that began
this morning among Class A and AA schools continues through the headline
appearance of the Clark College Jazz Band, co-directed by
Chuck Ramsey and
Jeff Uusitalo, performing at 9 p.m.
Competition among Class AAA and AAAA schools begins at
7:20 a.m. Saturday and continues until a 5:20 p.m. break, then continues with
finals beginning at 7 p.m. Headliners Saturday are the Whatcom Community College
Jazz Ensemble, directed by Edd George, at
noon, and the 2004 Clark College Jazz Festival sweepstakes winner, the Garfield
High School Jazz Band, Seattle, directed by
Clarence Acox, appearing at 9 p.m.
All-day tickets to performances at Gaiser Hall are $5.
Children under 12, accompanied by an adult, are admitted free.
Tickets to the Sunday Schuur concert are $25 and $35, and
can be bought through Safeway TicketsWest centers.
Schuur, a Tacoma native, was a student at the State
School for the Blind in Vancouver until she was 11. Her last performance was
with the Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival three years ago.
Sunday, she will be accompanied by musical director and
bass player Scott Steed, saxophonist
Patrick Lamb, drummer
Jim Zimmerman, and the Clark College Jazz
Ensemble.
Schuur, who has one of the best jazz vocalist pedigrees
in the country, will add to it when she receives a proclamation from Vancouver
Mayor Royce Pollard, who notes that she
“continues to enthrall audiences through her ability to bring moving emotions to
her powerful voice.” Schuur performed with Doc
Severinson on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show a dozen times, and has
performed with Ray Charles, B. B. King,
Stan Getz and Dizzie Gillespie. Her latest CD, “Schuur Fire,” will be released
in April.
Battle Ground School District asking
voters
to approve bonds to relieve overcrowding
The Battle Ground School District is asking voters to
approve a $62,950,000 bond issue to help relieve classroom overcrowding. The
20-year bond issue, if approved by a 60 percent majority of voters, would allow
the district to construct and equip two new primary schools, two new middle
schools, replace another school, make additions and modifications to other
schools and purchase property.
Voters are also being asked to approve a $19,490,000 bond
issue that would allow the district to build and equip a new high school in
north Clark County. However, this second proposition would not become effective
unless the first measure is also approved.
The special election will be conducted in the traditional
way, with voters not using absentee ballots using polling places.
Deadline to register by mail to vote in this election is
Saturday, Feb. 5. Registration in person continues through Friday, Feb. 18.
Ken Botero appointed to
ESD 112 board of directors
Ken Botero, former
Longview School District board chair and retired maintenance supervisor for
Longview Fibre Company, has been appointed to the board of directors of
Educational Service District 112. Botero succeeds
Don Donaldson, who retires in February
following 12 years’ service.
Botero is a member of the Longview School District’s
Strategic Planning Review Committee, is serving a second term on the board of
the Cowlitz Workforce Development Council, and is chair for strategic planning
for the Pacific Northwest District of the Kiwanis.
Casino task force meeting
getting live CVTV coverage
Tomorrow’s public meeting to discuss the proposed Cowlitz
Casino Resort, called by the Intergovernmental Task Force of Elected Officials,
will be cablecast live by CVTV Channel 23, beginning at 9 a.m.
Representatives of the Cowlitz Tribe are expected to
attend the meeting, which will be in the sixth floor hearing room in the Public
Service Center, 1300 Franklin Street.
The meeting, which is open to the public, was called by
Richard Curtis, La Center city
councilmember and Republican state representative from the 18th Legislative
District.
News briefs
Reservations for the annual Port of Vancouver Port Report
breakfast are due at 5 p.m. today. The $20 breakfast is at the Red Lion Hotel at
the Quay. Call 992-1105 for further
information. g An informal no-host
luncheon for C-TRAN’s retiring financial director,
Fred Bateman,
is at 11:45 a.m. Monday, Jan. 31, in Beaches Restaurant, 1919 SE Columbia
River Drive. For further information and reservations, call
Donna Mason,
696-8233.
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