Southwest Washington Medical Center's $146 million expansion information

Is the proposed project at our Daybreak property in the public interest? You decide.

All water rights will be donated to the state in trust for in-stream flow enhancement (an estimated total of 5% of the groundwater rights in the EFLR basin).

Call 397-2232 and let the commissioners know that
solid science and not politics must guide their decision regarding the project.

Vancouver School District provides
definitive Lewis and Clark website

Fascinating Lewis and Clark information for every age level is available to the public at the Vancouver School District’s Lewis and Clark iSpace website, www.vansd.org/lewisandclark.

Working with the Vancouver-Clark County Lewis and Clark Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Committee and other community partners, the district began in 2004 to assemble a website that provides teacher and teaching information, historical data, links to other Lewis and Clark resources, and children’s activities and games. In addition, the website lists scheduled Lewis and Clark commemorative events.

Lewis and Clark iSpace was developed by teachers, Mina Milligan, Lynn Schedler, Enid Huston, Ellen Weiss, and Dave Barber; media specialists Scott Lawrence, Ron Wagner, Lynn Harvey, Susan Bristow, Kate Burton, and Mark Ray; and district office specialists Lisa Greseth, Starla Manchester, Becky Hansel, Susan Neal, Kristin Bayless, Van Dang and Terry Nelson.

Property improvements may
require critical areas permits

Thousands of property owners in the City of Vancouver have been sent notices that any improvements on their property may be subject to new critical areas permits under the newly adopted Critical Areas Protection Ordinance, which became effective this month.

Critical areas are defined as wetlands, fish and wildlife habitat, frequently flooded areas, and geologic hazards. Property owners within a floodplain whose property contains a stream, is within a wetland, has a steep slope, or other regulated natural features were already regulated; but there are revisions to those requirements in the new ordinance.

Property owners may go to http://gis.clark.wa.gov/ccgis/mol/resource.htm to see maps describing their property in relationship to critical areas. Further information is also available by calling 619-1209.

Bi-State Coordination Committee
discussing I-5 crossing Thursday

The Bi-State Coordination Committee will discuss the I-5 Columbia River crossing and the proposed I-5/Delta Park widening at its regular meeting at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, June 30, in the 6th floor training room in the Public Service Center,1300 Franklin Street.

The committee, which accepts public comment at the end of each meeting, will also discuss heavy rail problems within the Vancouver-Portland metropolitan area and will hear a 2030 jobs and housing forecast. 

The committee is chaired by Metro councilor Rex Burkholder. Vancouver Mayor Royce Pollard is vice chair. Also on the committee from Clark County are Steve Stuart, Clark County commissioner, Eric Holmes, Battle Ground city manager, Lynne Griffith, C-TRAN executive director, Larry Paulson, executive director, Port of Vancouver, and Don Wagner, southwest administrator of the Washington State Department of Transportation.

JD White Company hires
Cooper, promotes Ciocia

The JD White Company, natural resources planning and public involvement-facilitation firm, has hired Kathleen C. (KC) Cooper to manage its public involvement programs. Cooper has 23 years of public involvement experience , including five years with TriMet’s westside light rail expansion project.

Cooper, active with the American Public Transportation Association, also serves on the board of Women In Transportation Seminars.

Cooper succeeds Karen Ciocia, who has been promoted to marketing/client services manager. Ciocia will also act as a senior public involvement project manager.

Calendar

Port of Ridgefield commissioners meet in regular session at 6 p.m. this evening in port offices at 111 W Division Street. n A public open house to discuss the Clark County Trail & Bikeway System Plan 2006 is at 6 p.m. this evening in the La Center High School, 725 Highland Road.

  Headlines at home and from around the world:
(Click on the headlines below for the rest of the story)

Ridgefield number one in growth--Columbian, Jeffrey Mize

Newcomers filling up small town--Oregonian, Foster Church

Commissioners won't rush growth management plan revisions--Columbian, Erin Middlewood

Gus Norwood pens autobiography Columbian, Dean Baker

Eyman gets state and local government performance audits initiative on ballot--Seattle P-I, AP, David Ammons

Freedom Tower at World Trade Center site to be 82 stories on top of 200-food tall pedestal--New York Times, David Dunlap and Glenn Collins

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

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