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Skills Center students bring hors
d’oeuvres, hobnob with the governor
The Culinary Department at the Clark County Skills Center
prepared 3,500 hors d’eouvres for Gov. Christine
Gregoire’s inaugural reception held in the state Capitol in January and
four of the students got a chance to talk to the newly-elected governor after
helping distribute the tasty snacks.
Shown the Gov. Gregorie, from left to right are Skills
Center students, Heritage High School seniors
Justin Smyth, Kristopher Willard
and Richard Ahloo, and
Jonathan Watts, Camas School senior.
The Skills Center, owned by nine southern Washington
school districts, the school provides technical and professional training
programs to prepare high school and college students for the workforce.
Two out of three voters give
Hockinson levy thumbs up
Hockinson School District voters yesterday gave their
school’s special levy a smashing endorsement, approving the replacement measure
by a 66.82 majority. For every one voter who voted no, two voters voted yes.
The unofficial vote total reported by the Clark County
Elections Department last night was 1,603 to 796. Additional absentee ballots
are to be tallied, but they won’t affect the outcome.
The three-year special levy of $6,625,000 will provide
for general fund maintenance and operations expenses and does not increase
school district residents taxes, since it replaces an existing levy.
Creation of a metropolitan park
district
outside Vancouver is hanging fire
By 468 votes, voters were rejecting a measure that would
create a metropolitan park district in the Vancouver Urban Growth Area, after
the Clark County Elections Department counted ballots from the all mail-in vote
last night.
Perhaps as many as 1,500 votes are still in the mail and
yet to be counted, but it would take a three-to-one surge to put the measure
over the top.
The tally completed last night showed 50.78 percent of
the voters opposed the district; 49.22 percent favored its creation.
There are 35 parks and 8 miles of trail in the area,
bought and paid for by real estate excise taxes, but no money for maintenance
and operation.
If the district were formed it would provide a tax base
to cover maintenance and operation costs. The cost would have been about $40 a
year on a $150,000 residence.
YMCA board organized for the year
Jim West, owner of
the All American Deli in Vancouver, has been installed as 2005 president of the
Clark County YMCA. Jennifer Rhoads has
been installed as vice-chair.
New board members for the YMCA for 2005 are
Nelson Holmberg,
Michael Fisher,
Debra Arnold and
Dick Mattson, who join an existing board
consisting of Rod Cook,
John White,
Kurt Lenhoff,
Bruce Paris,
Gary O’Connell,
Joe Gaudio,
Russell Brent,
Doug Calvert,
Greg Kimsey,
Evan Dudik,
Kimbal Logan, Alice Leach, and
Gary Ostenson..
People
Judy Davis has been
promoted to property manager at EastRidge Business Park. Davis, who has 20
years’ experience in real estate and operational management, has been with
EastRidge for the past five years. She is a Greater Vancouver Chamber of
Commerce ambassador. Melissa Young, who
has been with EastRidge Business Park for the past three years, has been
promoted to assistant property manager. Young has ten years’ experience in
accounting, operations and database management experience.
Karen Moline has been promoted to
property administrator at EastRidge Business Park. Moline has ten years of
office management, customer service and administrative support experience.
EastRidge Business park is a 90-acre mixed-use business park at 11805 NE 99th
Street, Vancouver. g State Rep.
Jim Dunn (R-17th) has been appointed to
the House Education Committee. Dunn also sits on the Children & Family Services
Committee, the Economic Development, Agriculture & Trade Committee and the
Housing Committee. Dunn represented th 17th District from 1996 through 2002,
when he was defeated in an attempt to be reelected for a fourth term by Democrat
Deb Wallace. Dunn defeated Democrat Pat
Campbell last November.
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MIRIAM GREEN 
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