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Vancouver pilot sets stage
for World War II celebration
Small
beginnings: Juan Brito, Vancouver, helps get audience enthused about World War
II celebration in August by bringing his Piper L-4”grasshopper” to Pearson Field
today. Mayor Royce Pollard, welcomes arrival of first of many vintage Air Force
plans to community
Juan
Brito, Vancouver, a 27-year-old pilot for Horizon Airlines, landed his
L-4 single-engine World War II vintage airplane at Pearson Field this afternoon,
taxied up to waiting local officials and was welcomed as having brought in the
first exhibit for the community’s 60th anniversary observance of the end of
World War II, which will be in August.
Vancouver’s three-day celebration,
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 26 through 28, is the largest of several
planned in the United States and Europe and is expected to attract hundreds of
thousands of people, according to Elson Strahan,
president of the Vancouver National Historic Reserve Trust, which is
coordinating the sanctioned event.
Brito, owner of the Piper L-4, which
during World War was called a grasshopper because of its ability to land and
take off under difficult conditions over rough terrain, flew it to Vancouver
last week from El Paso, Tex., where he keeps it in the winter. At speeds of 45
to 60 miles an hour, it took Brito five days to make the flight. He navigated by
compass and sight, just as Army Air Corps pilots had to do during World War II.
The L-4, used as a liaison plane
during the war, will be displayed at Pearson Field along with scores of other
vintage military aircraft during the celebration.
Other events in August include
dinners, dances and encampments.
For further information on the
Vancouver celebration, go to
www.americassalute.org.
Sutherland and Carlson
moderating legislative review
Former Clark County state senators
Democrat Dean Sutherland and Republican
Don Carlson will moderate a review of the
2005 legislative session at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 14, in the Water Resources
Education Center, 4600 Columbia Way. The focus of the review will be business
issues.
Current legislators, senators
Craig Pridemore (D-49th) and
Joe Zarelli (R-18th) and representatives
Bill Fromhold (D-49th),
Jim Moeller (D-49th),
Jim Dunn (R-17th),
Richard Curtis (R-18th) and
Bruce Chandler (R-15th), are expected to
attend.
There is no charge for the 2005
Legislative Review, sponsored by the Clark County Chamber of Commerce, Business
& Professional Women and the East Vancouver Business Association. For further
information, call 258-1181.
Applications being accepted
for historic preservation commission
Clark County commissioners are
accepting applications for a three-year term in the county Historic Preservation
Commission.
The commission reviews nominations for
the National Register of Historic Places and reviews nominations and designates
properties for the county Heritage Register. The commission also reviews
decisions on applications for tax incentives for historic properties.
Applications will be accepted through
Monday, June 6. For further information, call
397-2375, extension 4909.
People
Carol
Fenstermacher, director of community relations for Evergreen Public
Schools, has won a Front-Runners Award from the National School Public Relations
Association for, “outstanding contributions to school public relations on the
local, state and national level. g
Ryan Junker and
Andrey Liksakov this week were sworn in
as Vancouver’s newest police officers. Junker was with the Federal Way Police
Department before being hired in Vancouver. Liksakov had been an officer with
the Washington State Patrol.
News briefs
Port of Ridgefield commissioners meet in
regular session at 6 p.m. this evening in port offices at 111 W Division Street.
g Tall
ships Lady Washington and Lynx move from Vancouver to the Port of
Camas-Washougal, Thursday, May 26, for a four-day visit that ends Sunday, May
29. Visits aboard are permitted and some on-board sailing can be arranged. Call
(800) 200-5239 for schedule information
on the Lady Washington, (866) 446-5969
for schedule information on the Lynx.
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The Coalition of East Vancouver Communities meets at 11:30 p.m. Thursday,
May 26, in the Evergreen Room of Evergreen Public Schools’ Administrative
Service Center, 13501 NE 28th Street. Call
604-4005 to register and to order a modestly priced lunch.
Headlines at home and from around the world:
(Click on the headlines below for the rest of the story)
Baird supports
expanded stem cell research; Bush has promised a veto--Columbian
Port OK's tax increase but puts off implementation for a
year--Columbian, Julia Anderson
Port OKs levy to build industrial area--Oregonian, Bill Stewart
Many in the
region are "none" when it comes to God--Columbian, Kelly Adams
Mount St. Helens
lessons--Columbian, Tom Koenninger
Harney
Neighborhood patron viewed in different ways--Columbian, Scott Hewitt
Rebound plays hardball; pact with the state is effective June 1--Oregonian,
Allan Brettman
Terwilliger curves on northbound I-5 jammed up by wrong-way driver this
afternoon--KGW-TV, Jim Parker
U.S. troops in Iraq go on offensive in Haditha--USA TODAY, AP
Senate confirms Priscilla Owen--New York Times, David Stout
Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam
[updates every five minutes]--USDA Forest Service, Mount St. Helens National
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