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Steve Stuart tells supporters
he is candidate for election
Steve
Stuart, appointed to the three-member board of Clark County commissioners
last December, yesterday announced he will be a candidate for election to the
post this fall. Provided Democrat Stuart is elected in November, he will still
have to run again the following year to earn a full four-term on the board.
Stuart was introduced to scores of
supporters, in the Pearson Air Museum, by Vancouver businessperson
Kris Vockler, marketing director for ICD
Coatings.
Stuart is a graduate of Prairie High
School, Linfield College and the University of Oregon Law School. He was
director of 1000 Friends of Clark County when nominated by county Democratic
precinct officers for appointment to the position of the board of commissioners
vacated by Craig Pridemore, who
successfully ran for the state Senate from the 49th District.
Regarding county growth, Stuart said,
“There’s no gate to lock to keep people from moving to Clark County. It’s a
great place in which to live. But we also can’t bury our heads in the sand and
hope that our services—and jobs—keep up with the number of people moving in.
“We need more sheriff’s deputies, more
real schools instead of overcrowded portables, for our kids, and we as
commissioners need to be sincerely accountable to the public for how we’re
shaping the future of the county.”
Daylong celebration of bird watching
set for Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge
Vancouver Audubon volunteers and the
staff of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge will conduct tours of the River
S Unit of the wildlife refuge from 9 to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 14, International
Migratory Bird Day.
In addition to free guided bird walks,
sponsors are offering educational games for youngsters.
For further information and directions
to the refuge, go to
www.ridgefieldrefuges.fws.gov, or call
Toni Scholder, 887-4106.
People
Vancouver’s
Jeff Horenstein, who for two years taught
choral music at Fort Vancouver High School and currently is pursuing a masters
degree in choral conducting at Central Washington University, is the bass singer
with the vocal group Groove for Thought,
which won the national championship for vocal groups at the Harmony Sweepstakes
competition in San Francisco last weekend. The group had earlier won the 2005
Pacific Northwest Regional Harmony Sweepstakes, also winning best original
arrangement and audience favorite awards. The group’s composition, “Walk the
Straighter Road,” was named the best original song in national competition.
News briefs
An open house to discuss proposed
changes to the Clark County Code is being sponsored by the county Community
Development Department at 5 p.m. today in the Dragonfly Café in the Public
Service Center, 1300 Franklin Street.
g Clark County
commission chair Betty Sue Morris is a
guest at the Fairgrounds Neighborhood Association meeting at 7 p.m. this evening
in the Church Community room, 400 NE 179th Street.
Bravo! Vancouver contest
e-mail address corrected
Entrants in the Bravo! Vancouver contest
to name the one-word spiritual composed by
Jester Hairston for the 1960s movie
Lilies of the Field, must submit answers to
Michael Kissinger at mkissing@pacifier.com.
The Daily Insider reported wrong email
address yesterday.
Headlines at home and from around the world:
(Click on the headlines below for the rest of the story)
Vancouver Fire
officials call 7-year-old Cody Kotzen a hero for 9-1-1 call--Columbian,
Howard Buck
WSU Vancouver to
award 700 degrees Saturday; Jeanne Firstenburg to be commencement
speaker--Columbian
Negotiators
meeting nearly daily G-P contract that will affect 920 hourly
workers--Columbian, Julia Anderson
State's county auditors get citations to testify in court challenge of the
election of Gov. Christine Gregoire, but it's mostly an antique
formality--Seattle Times, AP
Underwater
cameras finds giant trout living in Spirit Lake--KATU
Party-line vote sends John Bolton's nomination as UN ambassador to full
Senate--USA TODAY
Geneticists say modern human beings came from single band in Africa--New York
Times, Nicholas
Wade
Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam
[updates every five minutes]--USDA Forest Service, Mount St. Helens National
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