Fenton and Morgan join
American Red Cross Chapter

   

Vancouver executives David Fenton and Shirley Morgan have joined the American Red Cross Southwest Washington Chapter, according to Sheryl Beauchaine, executive director.

Fenton has been named senior development director for the Vancouver office. He is a former director of the Clark County Historical Museum. A past member of the local Red Cross board, Fenton is a Leadership Clark County graduate and a member of the Downtown Vancouver Rotary.

Morgan, former owner of Morgan Graphic Communications, has been appointed the Red Cross chapter’s communications director. Morgan is also a Leadership Clark County graduate and a graduate of Queens College, Charlotte, N.C. Morgan is a member of the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce and Women in Action. She is a former elected Freeholder.

County gets Camp Bonneville, will
supervise $27 million clean-up project

After ten years of trying, Clark County has taken ownership of 3,000 acres of the Camp Bonneville military reservation, five miles northeast of Vancouver.

With the acquisition from the Army, approved earlier by Gov. Chris Gregoire, and ratified by the board of Clark County commissioners Tuesday, the county gets the job of supervising a $27 million clean-up project of the former training base. The clean-up is concerned mostly with possible unexploded ordnance. The Army is footing the bill.

“It’s been a long hard haul just to get to the starting gate on this transfer,” says chairman of the board of commissioners Marc Boldt. Boldt complimented the volunteers who had worked on the transfer over the past ten years and added, “Now we can get to work on the complex challenge of turning Camp Bonneville into a showpiece for the entire region.”

Plans for the future uses of the site are not complete but are expected to include extensive park uses and a possible military cemetery. More than half of the former reservation is forested.

The former reservation served as a training site and firing range for the Army from 1910 to 1995.

NLight named fastest growing technology
company for the second consecutive year

For the second year in a row, nLight has been named the fastest growing technology company in the Pacific Northwest in Deloitte and Touche’s Rising Star category of the 2006 Fast 50 program in the Pacific Northwest.

With revenue growth of over 1,400%, nLight was the fastest growing company in The Rising Star category based on revenue growth over three years, 2003-2005. The Rising Star award ranks the 50 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunication and life sciences companies headquartered in Washington, Oregon or Idaho.

National hydroplane (radio-controlled)
championship races to be in Woodland

The Columbia Division of Electric Radio Controlled Unlimiteds is holding the national championship races for radio-controlled model hydroplanes at Horseshoe Lake Park, Woodland, Saturday, Oct. 14, reports Nelson Holmberg, racing director for the event.

According to Holmberg, the fastest scale-model hydroplanes from throughout the nation will be competing in the day-long event, which also features the first-ever Cascade Cup Race of vintage model boats. The participating boats are 1/10th-scale of actual 30-foot long, 15-foot-wide unlimited hydroplanes.

For further information, call Holmberg at 521-1590.

Clark County Historical Museum opens
new Lewis and Clark exhibit Thursday

The Clark County Historical Museum opens a Lewis and Clark exhibit, depicting the event from the perspective of Native Americans, opening at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, in the museum at 1511 Main Street. There is no charge for the event, which is part of Vancouver’s First Thursday art series.

The exhibit, Full Circle:Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, is a contemporary art exhibition featuring works by Warm Springs and Yakima sculptor Lillian Pitt and Grand Ronde contemporary photographer Chuck Williams. The exhibit will be on view through December 30.

An artists reception from 5:30 to 8 p.m. will follow a Native American blessing ceremony, which begins at 5 p.m.

News briefs

Nationally known author Mark Lundy (The Grump, The Farmer, The Flower Man, and his latest, Jujo the Jungle Boy) is the speaker at the Fort Vancouver Regional Library Foundation annual fundraising Authors and Illustrators Dinner, Thursday, Oct. 5, in the Hilton Vancouver Washington. A silent auction begins at 5 p.m. Dinner is at 7 p.m. For further information, call 699-8846. n U.S. Rep. Brian Baird (D-3rd) will visit Washougal High School, 1201 39th Street, at 9:10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 5. n The final motion picture in the free series in Pearson Air Museum, 1115 E 5th Street, is at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6. The film is Stephen Spielberg’s Always, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and John Goodman. The series is sponsored by the Hilton Vancouver Washington and US Bank. Food and beverages are available for sale. Moviegoers should bring their own chairs. For further information, call 694-7026.

Calendar

The Ports of Camas-Washougal, Ridgefield and Vancouver will meet in an informal session at 7 p.m. this evening in the Port of Vancouver hearing room, 3303 Lower River Road, reports Port of Vancouver spokesperson Marie Day.
   

Wednesday headlines

Camp Bonneville wrangling ends--Columbian, Thomas Ryll

OHSU, Kaiser team up on $55 million streamlines medical research program--Columbian, Tom Vogt

Marilee McCall named to Woodland city council--Columbian, Tom Vogt

Carol Hansen retiring after 29 years with the City of Vancouver--Columbian, Scott Hewitt

Put a roof over I-5 canyon in Vancouver--Columbian, Tom Koenninger

Congress has already paid for victory parade--Seattle P-I, New York Times

Dow closes at another record, 11,850.61--USA TODAY, AP