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                    FRIDAY, SEPT. 2, 2005

  Four days of music, food, arts, fun, sunshine

Friday, Sept. 2

3 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 3

11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

North by Northwest
3:30 - 5:00
The Touchables
5:00 - 7:00

Johnny Limbo and the Lugnuts
8:00 - 10:00

Obo Addy & Kukrudu
1:00 - 2:30

Tom Grant
& Valerie Day

3:00 - 5:00
Dirty Martini
5:30 - 7:30

Quarterflash
8:30 - 10:00

Four great days of music, food, arts, kids fun await visitors to the Taste of Vancouver in Esther Short Park this Labor Day weekend. Presented by KC Fuller’s Elite Marketing and benefiting the Hough Foundation, admission is $5 Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 2 through 4, and $10, Monday, Sept. 5. Children under 6 years of age are admitted free.

Food vendors are Casablanca, Gustav’s, Shanahan’s, Johnsonville Brats, Rose’s Deli and Bakery, Golden Tusk Thai Food, Cascade Bar and Grill and Gray’s at the Park. Drinks are by Corwin’s Pepsi, Beringer, Budweiser, Widmer, Red Hook, and Aquafina.

Children’s activities are nearly continuous. Additional activities include cooking shows, art exhibits and sales, and major weekend ball games presented by Comcast.

Click here for Insider Print Edition
for Taste of Vancouver Schedule

Military alert

The Oregon National Guard has received an alert order for 2,000 soldiers from the 41st Brigade Combat Team to assist with Hurricane Katrina Support Operations. All members of the 41st Brigade Combat Team need to check in with their armories as soon as possible for mobilization for support operations in Louisiana.

Commissioners to continue study of
allocation of growth to cities Tuesday

During a 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6, work session, Clark County commissioners will continue deliberations leading to determination of the amount of urban growth areas to be allocated individual municipalities in the county as part of a revised Comprehensive Growth Management Plan.

The new growth areas are expected to be larger than those allocated in the growth plan adopted last year, but never implemented. Only the City of Vancouver has not requested any substantial changes to its growth area.

The work session will be in the Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin Street.

David DiCesare named Community
Foundation development officer

David DiCesare has joined the staff of the Community Foundation as development officer.

A resident of Vancouver for the past 22 years, DiCesare served as an assistant to the city manager under then manager John Fischbach, where he initiated the Esther Short Redevelopment Plan, developed the joint city-county curbside recycling program, completed the Cooperative Management plan for the Historic Reserve, and initiated the county neighborhood association program.

Most recently DiCesare was in charge of the Fort Vancouver Regional Library capital facilities campaign.

The Community Foundation, serving Clark, Skamania and Cowlitz Counties, has assets of $48 million and awards about $4.5 million in grants and scholarships annually.

Xtremez opening largest paintball
field in the northwest Saturday

The grand opening of the Extremez 14,000-square-foot paintball field, largest in the northwest, is at noon Saturday, Sept. 3, in the company’s new headquarters, 1212 Fourth Plain Boulevard.

Free paintball clinics will be offered until 9 p.m.

The Astroturf covered field will accommodate 40 players simultaneously.

Extremez, founded in 1995,designs, distributes and sells retail equipment, accessories and apparel for the sport of paintball. For further information, go to www.extremez.com/field.

People

Julie Kummer, who for the past 10 years has been with Beaches Restaurant, the last three as evening manager, has been appointed general manager of The Club at the Historic Reserve on Officers Row.

News brief

Illegal flash-powder explosive devices seized in a recent raid, are being detonated in a gravel pit at Livingston Mountain in east Clark County today. Clark County Sheriff’s deputy Steve Fox, says that the detonations are apt to be extremely loud.

Calendar

The Insider will not be published on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5. n Clark Public Utilities’ commissioners meet in regular session at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6. n Clark County Commissioners meet in regular session at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6.


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

A startlingly prophetic New Orleans article from the National Geographic Magazine, October 2004

Fifth Day of New Orleans disaster begins with a fire--Washington Post, Peter Slevin, Fred Barbash and Daniela Deane

Help finally arrives in New Orleans; Bush admits effort so far is "unacceptable"--KGW-TV, AP

The future of bus service in the county, a school construction bond and two mayoral positions are among issues on primary election ballots arriving in mailboxes throughout Clark County--Oregonian, Holley Gilbert

Pro-gas-tax campaign slow to take shape--Seattle P-I, Chris McGann

The exterior of the new Center for Community Health is a sleek medley of glass and brushed aluminum, stainless steel and red brick--Columbian, Kathie Durbin

Tom Young's Regents bank offering a full selection of retail banking services--Columbian, Julie Anderson

Boeing's largest labor union forcefully rejected a three-year contract proposal from the company yesterday and began picketing plants in three states shortly after midnight--Seattle Times

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

 


Friday on the Air
  

...Clark County Commissioner Candidates Debate—3:30 p.m. CVTV
   Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Under the Stars—5 p.m. CVTV
  
NFL Exhibition: Minnesota at Seattle Seahawks (live)—6 p.m. KPTV, KXL
  
Seattle Mariners at Los Angeles Angels (live)—7 p.m. FSN, KFXX
   Tucson at Portland Beavers (live)—7 p.m. KKAD
   Animal Control Hearings (8/24)—7 p.m. CVTV
   General George C. Marshall Lecture (8/27)—10 p.m. CVTV

 

 

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Town Tabloids and the Weather
 

Dan Euliss says First Thursday will be Friday. n Craig Pridemore getting down to business. n Loran Hickton  presiding over Salmon Creek Creative Group. n Marty Clark celebrating with five lady siblings n Adam Stites’s big day is Saturday. n Friday, sunny after morning clouds, 76. Saturday, cloudy, but precipitation unlikely, 72. Sunday, just right outdoor concert weather, 72.
 

Accounting

Caley & Associates, James Caley CPA, 695-0065
Peterson & Associates, P.S., Certified Public Accountants, 574-0644
Tax Advisors, PLLC, CPAs Property Tax/Cost
Segregation 750-6884

Attorneys
Miller Nash LLP. Steve Horenstein, 699-4771
Banks
First Independent Bank, 699-4200
Charitable Gift Planning
Barbara Chen CFP, Clark College Foundation, (360) 992-2659

Jim Forkner, FAHP, SWMC Foundation, (360) 514-3182
Cosmetic and Family Dentistry
Earl C. (Duke) Simpson, DDS, PS, 993-0300

Construction Management and Development
Andersen Construction Co., Inc. Bob Durgan, (503) 720-5234
RSV Construction, Ron Frederiksen, 693-8830
Credit Unions

Columbia Credit Union, 891-4000

iQ Credit Union, 992-4242
Development/Investments

Killian Pacific LLC, 567-0625

Human Resources Consultation

O'Neill & Associates, Paula Johnson, 606-2961
Public Relations

Hunt Communications Tom Hunt, 693-8180
KMac & Associates LLC, Kathy McDonald
Rocky/Hill & Knowlton, Krista Hildebrand, (503) 248-9468
Security Signs, Designed to inform and sell! Carol Keljo, 817-9959
Window Washing

Quality Window Washing, Dave Beecher, 256-7370
 
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