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FRIDAY, Dec. 2, 2005 Brian Baird schedules busy U.S. Rep. Brian Baird (D-3rd) will hold three town hall meetings in Clark County on Saturday, Dec. 3, beginning with a 10 to 11:30 a.m. “sidewalk” town hall session at the Vancouver Farmers Market on Esther Street, just west of Esther Short Park. The second town hall meeting is from 1:30-to-3 p.m. in Battle Ground City Hall. The third is 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Ridgefield High School commons, 2724 S Hillhurst Road. Baird will also tour the Highway 14 improvement site in Washougal at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5, and will announce a $1.5 federal allocation to improve the intersection of Highway 14 at Union Street. OSP says comply with traction Oregon State Police troopers and Clackamas County sheriff's deputies will be targeting drivers who fail to comply with chain and traction tire requirements this weekend on Mt. Hood area highways. "The extra enforcement hopefully will lessen some of the problems we had during Thanksgiving weekend, when numerous vehicles lost control or were involved in crashes resulting in long delays for other drivers and a temporary closure of Highway 35," according to Oregon State Police sergeant Mike Turner. Mountain weather road reports are available 24 hours a day by calling (503) 588-2941, or by going to wwwtripcheck.com. The website includes a Government Camp camera providing real time images of conditions. Washington and Oregon ski conditions also can be found on the Daily Insider website. Bail for failure to comply with Oregon traction device requirements is $141. Port of Vancouver asks
committee A Public Partners Team charged with providing input for the development of the Port of Vancouver’s nearly 1,100-acre Columbia Gateway site has been formed and will hold its initial meeting at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, in the port’s administrative offices, 3103 Lower River Road. Members of the team are as follows: Jeff Arntson, Richard Bartoskewitz, Les Bechtoldt, Steve Burdick, Bob Byrd, Pete Capell, Julie Garver, Nancy Ellifrit, Jay Hamacheck, Todd Horenstein, Laura Hudson, Addison Jacobs, David Judd, Oat Kuzmer, Brad Lothspeich, Bob Prucella, Carol Record, Lee McCallister, Thayer Rorabaugh, Celinda Rupert, George Simpson, Dick Spring, Ila Stanek, Diane Stites, Bud Van Cleve and Deb Wallace. Calendar More than 500 nativity scenes
from around the world are being presented today through Saturday, Dec.
3, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 10509 SE 5th
Street in Cascade Park. Admission is free. Viewing hours are noon to 9
p.m. today through Saturday. Dec. 3.
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Vancouver’s Uptown Village hosts a Holiday Stroll & Wine Tasting
Saturday Dec.3, on Main Street between Fourth Plain and Mill Plain
Boulevards. Children's activities are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Participation is $5 per child. Wine tasting in over 20 Uptown Village
businesses is from 4 to 8 p.m. Wine tasting charge is $20.
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The Evergreen Business Association is hosting a tree-lighting
celebration from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, in the Orchards
Plaza, Fourth Plain Boulevard and Covington Road. Cookies and beverages
and free photographs with Santa Claus,
are part of the celebration.
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Pianist Jim Fischer, 12-year-old
vocalist Kyra Smith and
The Touch of Class Chorus
headline the Friends of the Carpenter Christmas presentation at 3 and 7
p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, in the Durst Theatre, in the Vancouver School of
Arts and Academics, 3101 Main Street. Admission for adults is $12; for
students and seniors, $10.
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Charles Dickens A Christmas
Carol is being presented in the Slocum House Theatre, 605 Esther Street,
at 8 p.m. tonight and Saturday, Dec. 3, and at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4.
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Spokane actor David Casteal
brings his one-man production York to Gaiser Hall in Clark College at 7
p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3. The free show is being presented by the National
Park Service's touring Lewis and Clark Bicentennial exhibit.
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Tents behind the O. O. Howard House in Vancouver Barracks come alive
with Lewis and Clark stories, and other bits of thousands of years of
northwest history daily, at part of a free Lewis and Clark Bicentennial
exhibit, “Tents of Many Voices,” with hourly programs from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. daily through Sunday, Dec. 11. The tents are heated. Admission is
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Open house at the Vancouver Historical Museum from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 3, besides history, offers visitors a chance to pick up
some great art and craft items for Christmas giving. Admission is free.
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A Christmas season tradition, George Handel’s
Messiah, will be presented at 3
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, in St. Joseph Catholic Church, 300 S Andresen Road,
by the Bravo! Vancouver. The concert is sold out, according to artistic
director Michael Kissinger, but
some tickets may become available to early arrivals.
Headlines
at home and from around the world:
Ridgefield city manager placed on paid leave pending investigation--Columbian, Jeffrey Mize Law enforcement sweep gathers 41 fugitives in one night--Oregonian, Bill Stewart Ten marines die in blast in Fallujah--USA TODAY, AP French woman says 'merci' after face transplant--USA TODAY, AP
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