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Bill Fromhold says WSU Vancouver
message got through to legislators
Recognition by state legislators that
southern Washington is in a higher education vacuum helped Washington State
University Vancouver get funding to admit 200 freshmen and sophomores in 2006,
according to State Rep. Bill Fromhold
(D-49th).
“We made the case and we hit a home
run,” Fromhold said. Now serving his third term in the state House, Fromhold is
the senior member of the 49th District delegation, which includes Democrats Sen.
Craig Pridemore and Rep.
Jim Moeller. Fromhold is vice chair of
both the House Appropriations Committee and the Higher Education Committee.
WSU Vancouver was the only branch
campus to get funding to begin accepting freshmen in 2006. The school will be
able to accept 200 freshmen and sophomores and 250 additional upper class
students next year, according to Fromhold.
According to Fromhold, the legislative
session just concluded also gave a significant statewide boost to higher
education. Increases in state support for students were granted to all colleges
and universities, and the legislature approved funding for 40 percent of the
22,500 new students expected to attend public colleges and universities over the
next five years. The legislature also increased student tuition costs but at the
same time made improvements in individual student support programs.
“Is Clark County in Denial?” is topic
of neighborhood associations forum
A community forum on substance abuse,
addition and treatment, titled “Is Clark County in Denial?” is being presented
by the Neighborhood Associations Council of Clark County at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May
3, in the Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin Street.
Other questions to be answered are:
What is denial? What is withdrawal? What is a relapse? What treatment options
are there?
Moderator of the forum is
Doug Ballou, chair of the neighborhood
council. Panelists are Cleve Thompson,
Clark County Alcohol/Drug program manager,
Jonathan Berman, addiction counselor,
Mike Johnson Jr. Clark County Sheriff’s deputy,
Sally Lambert, Northstar Clinic program
manager, Ken Stark, state Division of
Alcohol & Substance Abuse, State Rep. Jim Moeller. Clark County District Court’
judge Rich Melnick, and
Toni Eby, Clark County Sheriff’s Office
Meth Action Team.
National Day of Prayer
has 230-year history
The first Continental Congress called
for a National Day of Prayer in 1775, according to the National Day of Prayer
Task Force.
In Vancouver, the National Day of
Prayer has been proclaimed as Thursday, May 5, by Mayor
Royce Pollard.
The public is invited to participate
in a noon ceremony led by the mayor and local clergy on the steps of City Hall
Other events include a multi-church gathering at First Church of God, 3300 NE
78th Street, at 7 p.m.
For further information, call
Marilyn Melhorn,
687-1537.
Women honored for starting
afresh in Vancouver
Four Vancouver women who are new to
the community or who have new jobs in the community were honored today by a
bunch of old-timers, who charged $30 for the lunch and gave the proceeds to the
State School for the Blind Foundation.
Honored were
Lisa Gebert, new president of the Clark
College Foundation, Jennifer Teisinger,
recently appointed executive director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra,
Jean Rahn, new executive director of the
Southwest Washington Medical Center Foundation, and
Tessa Gutierrez, who came to Vancouver
with her husband, the new academic administrator at Clark College.
The ladies who put together the annual function are
Sally Schaefer,
Dollie Lynch,
Val Ogden, Sondra Powell and
Twyla Barnes.
News briefs
U.S. Rep.
Brian Baird (D-3rd) is holding a town
hall meeting at 7 p.m. this evening in the Student Services Building, Washington
State University Vancouver, to discuss the results of his poll on Social
Security issues. Baird will hold a second town hall meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday,
April 30, in the Cowlitz County Regional Conference Center, 430 Washington
Street, Longview. g
The Intergovernmental Roundtable on the Cowlitz Casino meets
at 9 a.m. Saturday, April 30, in the Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin
Street. g
The Camas-Washougal Chamber of Commerce auction is at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 30,
in the Heathman Lodge. g
The Daybreak Spring Jazz Concert, featuring
Tom Grant and the
Louis Pain Band,
is at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 1, in the Durst Theatre in the Vancouver School
of Arts and Academics. Tickets at the door are $15.
g Pearson Air
Museum is hosting a pot-luck membership family lunch at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 1.
Headlines at home and from around the world:
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St. Helens
leaves mark on the eastside of Clark County--Columbian, Erik Robinson
City council
expected to approve zone change for Killian Pacific commercial project at Grand
Avenue near Highway 14--Columbian, Julia Anderson and Jeffrey
Mize
Group of pilots
object to Killian Pacific plan--Oregonian, Allan Brettman
Columbia Springs
Environmental Education Center to get 16,000-square-foot education
center--Columbian, Erik Robinson
New library to
be the heart of $200 million Battle Ground Center--Columbian, Gretchen
Fehrenbacher
Attacks
kill 50 across Iraq--USA TODAY, AP
Columbian's best
entertainment bets
Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam
[updates every five minutes]--USDA Forest Service, Mount St. Helens National
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