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TUESDAY, NOV. 22, 2005 Friends of the Arts to open
art Friends of the Arts, a ten-year-old nonprofit arts advocacy organization, will open a 10,000 square-foot fine art gallery, Art on the Boulevard, in the Vancouver Marketplace at the corner of Evergreen Boulevard an Columbia Street in March 2006. The gallery will be directed by Gene Wigglesworth, assisted by his wife, Grace Teigen. Wigglesworth and Teigen are former partners and operators of the Lawrence Gallery in Sheridan. The mission of Friends of the Arts is to “establish a community environment in which the arts are pervasive and can flourish.” Art on the Boulevard will function as a public location where Friends of the Arts can continue to communicate its vision of an artist’s community in the Historic Reserve, according to Wigglesworth. Art on the Boulevard will participate in Second Saturday Art Walk and will cooperate with other local galleries to promote the arts to local residents and visitors, Wigglesworth says. For further information, call Wigglesworth at 772-4393. Hilton Vancouver Washington Vancouver’s newest hotel, the Hilton Vancouver Washington, has been selected by Travel + Leisure travel magazine to receive its first Green/Eco-hotel Initiative Award, for the hotel’s environmentally responsible practices. Owned by the City of Vancouver and operated by the Beverly Hills-based Hilton Hotels Corporation, the Vancouver Hilton was designed by Portland architecture firm, Fletcher Farr Ayotte. The hotel opened in July. The hotel operates on 30 percent less energy than required by code, with an estimated energy cost savings of $86,000 a year. According to Hilton Vancouver Washington general manager Gerry Link, the hotel is expected to receive a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating in early 2006. Bob Winsor retiring as Bob Winsor, Clark County District Court administrator, is retiring in January, after thirty years service with the court. Winsor went to work as a security officer for the court in 1975. He was promoted to deputy administrator in 1986 and became administrator in 2001. Winsor will be succeeded by Ela Selga, who currently is deputy administrator of the District Court. Westfield Vancouver Mall to
get special Vancouver police officers, working with Westfield Vancouver Mall, will provide traffic control at intersections near the mall on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 25 and 26, and again on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 23 and 24. Shoppers are urged to use the east exits and entrances connecting to I-205 during heavy shopping days. People Lynne Griffith, executive director/CEO of C-TRAN, has been elected vice president of the Washington State Transit Association. The association represents 25 transit agencies in the state. n Shari Conditt has become the first teacher in the Woodland School District to have passed all sections of the national board certification process to earn national certification from the National Board. News brief Residential growth in Clark County, as measured by the Clark Public Utilities residential hook-ups is a little slower than it was a year ago. For the first ten months of the year, ending October 31, the electric utility signed up 3,475 new residential customers for an annual rate of growth of 2.62 percent. During the first ten months of 2004, the utility showed a 2.9 annual rate of growth with 3,743 new residential hook-ups. Calendar The monthly meeting of Black
Entrepreneurs of Clark County is at 5:30 p.m. this evening in the
community room at Clark Public Utilities, 1200 Fort Vancouver Way. There
is no charge, but dinner and dessert are potluck. For further
information, call Shareefah Abdullah,
605-8583.
Tuesday headlines
at home and from around the world:
Confluence Project honors Ted Nierenberg--Columbian, Dean Baker Martin Plomondon's cartography helps rebuild Fort Clatsop--Columbian, Dean Baker Clark College banishes tobacco--Columbian, Howard Buck Firstenburg Center opening delayed, contractor could be penalized--Oregonian, Allan Brettman PDX expecting a record number of holiday travelers--KATU Iraqi leaders call for timetable for U.S. withdrawal--USA TODAY, AP 6.644 are still missing after Katrina; toll may rise--USA TODAY, Kevin Johnson
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