|
Cristina Kelley to manage First Indy’s
Portland private banking office
Cristina Kelley
has been named manager of First Independent Bank’s new private banking office in
the KOIN Center in Portland and promoted to senior vice president of the
Vancouver-headquartered bank.
Kelley will maintain offices in Portland and Vancouver,
where she has been with First Independent’s Premier Banking Group for the past
two years. Kelley has 25 years of banking experience. Prior to joining First
Independent she was a senior vice president and team leader with the Bank of
America.
Kelley is a member of the board of Boys and Girls Clubs
in Southwest Washington, the Children’s Auxiliary Trust for Vancouver and is a
past co-president of the Vancouver Symphony.
Utility commissioners endorse
bill to legalize appliance repair
Although they have consistently and publicly supported
Clark Public Utilities’ appliance repair program, the utility board of
commissioners today officially endorsed the program by resolution. This
afternoon in Olympia, the Senate Water Energy & Environment Committee is holding
its first hearing on Senate Bill 5348, introduced by first-term state Sen.
Craig Pridemore (D-49th), which would
give Clark statutory permission to continue the program it has carried with it
since it was formed in 1940. The proposed bill is straightforwardly aimed solely
for Clark Public Utilities by stating: “A public utility district located within
a county that has a contiguous border with the state of Oregon and a population
of three hundred forty thousand or more that provides electrical, water, and
sewer service to its customers may operate an electrical appliance repair
service.”
Twice since, however, the utility has been sued and twice
courts have declared the popular program illegal. The utility has persisted,
though, and currently the state Supreme Court is considering whether to uphold
or reverse lower court action.
Opposition to the program has come primarily from local
heating and ventilating contractors who view the practice by the utility an
incursion into private business territory.
One of those, Miller’s Heating, yesterday in a
quarter-page advertisement in the Columbian,
said in part, “...Small business families of all kinds must rise up to defeat
this misguided bill [SB 5348], or it will lead to government takeover of auto
repair, plumbing, electrical, groceries, etc. We will all end up standing in
lines to buy toilet paper with our tiny government issued paychecks while the
savior public servants sit on the beach sipping exotic drinks.”
Rosalyn Hart, running start student,
to get Marshall Youth Leadership award
Rosalyn Hart,
Washougal High School and Clark College Running Start program student, has been
named 2005 winner of the Gen. George C. Marshall Youth Leadership Award,
Vancouver mayor Royce Pollard announced
yesterday.
Hart is one of two Clark College students named to the
All-Washington Two Year College Academic Team for campus involvement and
academics. She is a member of Phi Theta Kappa, the two-year college honor
society, and was selected as the 2004 Running Start Student-of-the-Year.
The Running Start program gives high school students an
option of attending Clark during their final two years of high school and thus
earning a two-year college associate in arts degree at the same they graduate
from high school.
Hart will be presented the award at a reception at 4 p.m.
Wednesday, March 9, in the Marshall House on Officers Row. With it she earns a
$1,000 scholarship and a paid summer internship with the Vancouver National
Historic Reserve Trust, a sponsor of the award.
PDX noise committee to hold Vancouver
meeting to review recommendations
Although a three-year noise compatibility study conducted
by the Port of Portland on behalf of its Portland International Airport found
there was little that could be done to mitigate airport noise in Vancouver and
Clark County, the committee which conducted the study will hold a meeting at
6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 16, in Hudson’s Bay High School, 1206 E Reserve
Street, to give citizens an opportunity to review committee recommendations.
The committee is also holding a meeting at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 17, in the Hayden Island Double Tree Hotel, and another in east
Multnomah County at 6:30 p.m. in The Lake House, 21160 NE Blue Lake Road,
Fairview
Fairy Godmother puts out call
for gowns and fancy accessories
Gently used but still in-style gowns are among high
school prom wear items being sought by The Vancouver School District
Foundation’s Operation Fairy Godmother, which, for the second year, will make
gowns and accessories available at modest prices to all Clark County high school
girls headed for school proms.
In addition to gowns, semi-formal dresses and such
accessories as evening bags, shawls and gloves are also being sought.
Gowns and accessories will be on display and ready for
sale on Saturday, March 19, in the Roosevelt Elementary School.
Prom items may be taken to the following locations:
Nordstrom, Vancouver Mall, The Clothes Closet, 6405 Mill Plain Boulevard, Jim
Parsley Community Center, Hostess House/Bridal Arts, 10017 NE 6th Avenue, and
two Spanky’s locations, 812 Main Street and 13503 SE Mill Plain Boulevard.
Monetary contributions may be mailed to the Vancouver School District
Foundation, Operation Fairy Godmother, P.O. Box 6039, Vancouver, WA 98668.
Donations of clothing or money are tax deductible. For further information, call
313-4722.
News brief
Clark County Commissioners meet in an informal session at
2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 2.
Mistakes
The Vancouver Planning Commission’s First Thursday informal
session on neighborhood traffic planning is, of course, on Thursday, Feb. 3, not
Tuesday, and the correct spelling of the name of one of the presenters is
Tim Schauer. That takes care of most of
the mistakes in the Monday, Jan. 31, edition of the
Daily Insider.
|
MIRIAM GREEN 
"Working to help you!"
