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Rosalyn Hart gets Youth Leadership Award
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Clark College Running Start and Washougal High School student
Rosalyn Hart yesterday was presented the 2005 General George C. Marshall Youth
Leadership Award by Vancouver Mayor Royce Pollard. Linda Calvert who nominated
Hart, is in the center.
Evergreen Public Schools search
for superintendent recommences
Evergreen Public Schools is asking search consultants to
continue recruiting efforts to find a replacement for superintendent
Rick Melching, who is retiring June 30.
An elaborate search for an Evergreen Public Schools
superintendent unraveled this week when a finalist from a short list of five
candidates discovered the district could not match his existing compensation
package. All five candidates had been presented to the public during
interviews last week.
School board president Joan Skelton said today: “The
superintendency in a school district our size is a very challenging job and
there are fewer and fewer people who are qualified and willing to do it.
Furthermore, the competition is stiff among school districts pursuing the best
applicants. We have to be willing to offer a competitive salary and benefits
package.”
Skelton added, “We will review the applications of any
new candidates who may apply as well as those who are recruited.” She said the
district expects to make a selection in early May.
Local law enforcement not
soliciting funds by telephone
Neither the Vancouver Police Department nor the Clark
County Sheriff’s Office is soliciting donations by telephone, reports
Kim Kapp, Vancouver Police public
information coordinator.
According to Kapp, at least one person has received a
telephone call soliciting funds for the K9 Unit. The person did not donate to
the caller, but instead called the county sheriff’s office.
The Vancouver Police Department does not conduct
fundraising by telephone for any programs. Those wishing to make donations may
do so through the Vancouver Police Public Safety Fund, managed by the Community
Foundation, and those who desire to contribute to the Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit
may call Chick Atkins at
397-2112.
Ridgefield Heritage Celebration
has Lewis and Clark theme
Ridgefield’s annual Heritage Celebration begins with a
free concert of fiddle tunes from the Lewis and Clark era at 6 p.m. Friday,
March 18, in the Old Liberty Theater and continues Saturday, March 19, with dawn
to dusk previews of the Cathlapotle plankhouse site.
Downtown entertainment is nearly nonstop Saturday from 10
a.m. to 3 p.m. Clark County Spinners will demonstrate spinning and weaving, fire
engines, new and old, will be displayed, and at 1:30 p.m. in the Ridgefield
Community Center, 210 Main Avenue, old timers will share experiences of early
Ridgefield.
Other activities are in the Pickled Heron Gallery, 418
Pioneer Street, the Off Broadway Dance Academy, 118 B. 3rd Avenue, Lily Wiggans
Mercantile & Antiques, 108 N. Main Avenue, Sportsman’s Pub, 121 Main Avenue,
Seasons Coffee Shop, 113 N. Main Avenue, Zebrun’s Deli & Eatery, and Ridgefield
Florist, both at 320 Pioneer Street, Four Winds Trading Company, 327 Pioneer
Street, and Ridgefield Hardware, the oldest continuously operating hardware
store in the northwest, 104 Main Avenue.
The Cathlapotle plankhouse, nearly complete, is one of
Clark County’s premier Lewis and Clark Bicentennial projects. It is a recreated
plankhouse of the kind seen by Lewis and Clark in 1805-06 and in which native
Americans lived continuously for centuries. It is north of town in the
Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge.
News briefs
SPLASH! celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Water
Resources Education Center is 5 to 8 p.m. today. Viands, potables and music are
promised. Shuttles between Columbia Way parking lots and the center are free.
g Clark College Women’s Choral and
Vocal Jazz Ensemble’s present a free concert at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Decker
Theatre on the College campus. Donations for the school’s music scholarship fund
will be accepted at the door.
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