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Jim Muir hired as Clark County’s
chief building official
Jim Muir,
Washington County building official, has been hired as chief building official
by the Clark County Department of Community Development.
In Washington County, Muir worked his way up from
building inspector to plans examiner to building supervisor. As Washington
County’s building official, he supervised a staff of 66 employees. Muir also had
been a private contractor for ten years. He is a graduate of the University of
Phoenix.
Clark County remains one of the fastest growing counties
in the northwest. Last year, the county staff reviewed plans for over half a
billion dollars in new construction and conducted over 75,000 building
inspections.
Tonight’s concert has international
flavor
Florin Totan,
conductor of the Romanian Valcea Philharmonic Orchestra, is guest conductor of
the Clark College Orchestra in its free concert at 7:30 p.m. tonight in The
Royal Durst Theatre in the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics.
The piano soloist is
Antonio DiCristofano, Grosetto, Italy.
The concert includes Schumann, Bartok, Borodin and Enescu.
As part of an international exchange, Clark College
Orchestra music director Don Appert will
conduct the Valcea Philharmonic Orchestra later this month in Romania, and in
October he will conduct the Orchestra Sinfonica Citta di Grosetto in Italy.
While the concert is free, donations will be accepted at
the door for the Clark College music scholarship fund.
North county properties getting
reappraised
Appraisers from the Clark County Assessor’s Office has
begun physical inspections of residential property in rural areas of Clark
County north of Vancouver and in rural areas around Ridgefield, La Center,
Woodland and Battle Ground.
The physical inspections are exterior observations of
properties that will be used to identify changes to land or building
characteristics that might affect value. Property photographs will also be
updated. Land records and assessed values will be changed, as appropriate,
following the inspections.
The Assessor’s Office physically inspects one-sixth of
the county’s residential properties each year.
Farmers Market opening
in Columbian
parking lot
When the Vancouver Farmers Market opens its 15th season
at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 26, it will be opening in a temporary location in
The Columbian’s parking lot, just two
blocks of its regular location on Esther Street next to Esther Short Park.
The market will pay the Columbian $5 a month for the
privilege. When some current market vendors move to permanent year-round
facilities in Esther Short Commons facing their former location, they will be
paying $800 a month each.
Reconstruction of Esther Short along the west side of the
park precludes the market from being there until mid-summer.
Auditor Greg Kimsey celebrating
St. Patrick’s Day with supporters
Clark County auditor Greg
Kimsey will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, in
Club Green Meadows, 7703 NE 72nd Avenue.
Everyone is welcome, including children, says Kimsey of
his annual fundraising function. He says great food and libations are on tap and
musical entertainment will include Irish step dancers. For further information,
call 521-6685.
Women Who Weld art piece to be
reviewed
by Vancouver Cultural Commission today
The Vancouver Cultural Commission this evening will
review a recommendation for a public piece of art honoring women welders and the
World War II Vancouver Kaiser Shipyards in a public meeting at 6 p.m. in City
Hall.
The piece of art, which would be part of Vancouver’s
August 2005 commemoration of World War II, would
be placed along the Columbia River waterfront. Vancouver
was one of six communities in the United States designated as official sites for
the national commemoration.
News brief
Port of Ridgefield commissioners meet in regular session at
6 p.m. this evening in port offices at 111 W. Division Street.
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