Southwest Washington Medical Center's $146 million expansion information

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Brian Baird announces $6 million in defense
contracts for Vancouver companies

Three Vancouver companies will share $6 million approved today by the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee, U.S. Rep. Brian Baird (D-3rd) announced this afternoon.

Armor Systems International will receive $1 million for the development of its advanced vehicle protection system. Oregon Ironworks will receive $3 million to partially construct unmanned aerial vehicles. nLight Photonics will get $2 million to conduct research and development of high power semiconductor lasers for the U.S. Air Force.

Rapidly growing Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
gets $140,000 Meyer grant, hires marketing manager

The rapidly growing and regionally acclaimed Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has been awarded a three-year. $140,000 Meyer Memorial Trust grant aimed at increasing the size of concert audiences, according to Jennifer Teisinger, executive director of the professional orchestra.

Kelly O’Neill, executive assistant for the orchestra, has been promoted to marketing manager. The orchestra also intends to hire a full-time development director.

According to Teisinger, the 70-member orchestra has added additional musicians and given raises to others.

Symphony audiences have doubled in size in the past five years, according to O’Neill. The orchestra performs in the concert hall of Skyview High School, to audiences of up to 1,500 people.

In addition to six paid concerts a year, the symphony orchestra performs outdoor and school concerts at no charge.

C-TRAN to talk sales tax support

Clark County’s transit agency, C-TRAN, will review a new service plan that supports its newly reduced service and taxing boundary at meetings Tuesday, June 14.

The agency will also discuss a potential sales tax ballot measure necessary to finance the new service plan.

Both meetings are in the Conference and Institute Center of Education Service District 112, 2500 NE 65th Avenue, across the street from C-TRAN offices. The first is a work session at 4:30 p.m. The second meeting, a regular board meeting, begins at 5:15 p.m.

Styx to open Clark County Fair

The rock band Styx will be the opening Columbian Concert Stage act for the ten-day Clark County Fair, opening  Friday, Aug. 5. Styx, which became one of the first rock acts to have four consecutive triple platinum albums, is now entertaining second-generation fans.

Grandstand seating for all events at the fair is free with fair admission. Reserved seats for Styx are $20.

Discount fair tickets are available by going to www.clarkcofair.com. Reserved tickets for fair concerts go on sale Saturday, June 18, and may be purchased at all Ticketmaster outlets.

Other fair entertainers so far announced are as follows: Mark Chestnut & Miranda Lambert, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, Joe Nichols, Sunday, Aug. 7, Trace Adkins, Monday, Aug. 8; and Ted Nugent, rock guitarist, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9.

Community Pride Design
nominations being accepted

Nominations for the 10th annual Community Pride Design Awards are being accepted by the Clark County Community Development Department through Friday, Aug. 5.

Established in 1996, the annual program recognizes outstanding and innovative efforts to create buildings, developments, public facilities and environmentally sensitive design projects.

The awards will be made in October. For further information, call Kathi Curtis, 397-2375, extension 4382.

People

Tessa Langford, new curator at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, has been accepted as one of 30 people from across the country to begin a one-year certification course in the George Washington University Museum Studies Program. The pilot distance-learning program is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Fort Vancouver has been designated the premier historical archaeological site in the Pacific Northwest. Over 50 years of excavations have resulted in a collection of 1.2 million artifacts spanning the Native American, Hudson’s Bay Company and U.S. Army occupations of the site.

Calendar

Port of Ridgefield commissioners meet in regular session at 6 p.m. this evening in port offices at 111 W Division Street. g Gregg Hammann, chair, president and CEO of Nautilus, is the headliner at the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce second annual Excellence in Enterprise Luncheon at 11:30 p.m. Thursday, June 9, in the Red Lion Hotel at the Quay. Call 694-2588 for reservations for $40 function.

Headlines at home and from around the world:
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Amphitheater season opens Saturday with Reba McEntire, brad Paisley and Terri Clark--Columbian, Brett Oppegaard

State Secretary of State comes out in favor of allowing freed felons vote to make ballot counting easier--Columbian, Don Jenkins

1,500 Clark College students to graduate Thursday--Columbian, Tom Vogt

Alaska offers lessons on tourism for Clark County--Columbian, Tom Koenninger

Plans for C-TRAN park-and-ride in Hazel Dell back on track--Oregonian. Bill Stewart

Governor election now all over except the sniping--Seattle Times, David Postman and Ralph Thomas

Boeing back in stride with boom in jet orders--Seattle P-I, Elizabeth M. Gillsepie

Tobacco escapes huge penalty; government backs off from $130 billion to $10 billion in lengthy suit--Washington Post, Carol Dl Leonnig

Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam [updates every five minutes]--USDA Forest Service, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
 

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