Cherif Khazem named baking
arts instructor at the academy

Cherif Khazem, Cordon Bleu-trained European chef, has been named baking instructor for the new baking arts course offered by the International Air and Hospitality Academy.

Algerian-born Khazem, after working as a chef in Paris, London, Brussels  and Ottawa, joined Brown College in Minneapolis in 1979, where he taught the Cordon Bleu course.

The academy’s new baking course is a five-month program aligned with the Retail Bakers Association and the American Culinary Federation Accrediting Commission. Graduates will be eligible for national certification as bakers through the American Culinary Federation. The next class begins in July.

Khazem will also be responsible for the bakery, which provides baked goods for The Restaurant at the Historic Reserve, The Club at the Historic Reserve and E. B. Hamilton Hall in Vancouver Barracks.

Ron Frederiksen elected chairman
of economic development council

Ron Frederiksen, president of RSV Construction Services, has been elected chairman of the Columbia River Economic Development Council for 2007. Elected with Frederiksen were the following: Tim McMahan, Stoel Rives, vice chairman; S. Kelly McDonald, vice president, Clark County Title, secretary; John McDonagh, publisher, Vancouver Business Journal, treasurer; and Paul Winters, Winters and Associates, past chairman.

CREDC board members named to executive committee are: Doug Anderson, Barbara Bushell, Parker Cann, Curt Christiansen, Carol Curtis, Paul Dennis, Pat McDonnell, Betty Sue Morris, Jim Short and Paul Winters.

Nine county employees
earn Personal Best Awards

Nine Clark County employees received Our Personal Best Awards from county commissioners today and in addition, a special award was presented to Brian Miller, an investigator in the county medical Examiners Office.

Miller, last year called to the scene of an apparent suicide, discovered that the victim was still breathing and had a pulse. Because of his attentiveness, commissioners said, Miller saved a life.

Our Personal Best winners are as follows: Above and Beyond the Call of Duty, deputy sheriffs Wayne Hamilton and Craig McCollom; Customer Service, Rebecca Perry, Innovation, Twila Barbieri; Leadership and Management, Lynda Harper; Quality, Kathy Smith and Andrew Penta; Working Relations, Bill Springmeyer; and Multiple Achievement, Anita Johnson.

Our Person Best team awards were presented to David Heal, Shawn Ryan, Marie Ades, Holly Barnfather and Staci Sturges in the HIV Case Management Team, and to Kevin McViker and Diann Souder, on the Sex Offender Registration Team.

Bravo! offers finger-busting, two
piano Westside Story sample

Bravo! Vancouver, in what music director Maria Manzo calls, “hot music for a winter day,” is offering a concert next week in St. Joseph Catholic Church, a two-piano version of symphonic dances from West Side Story, as well as chamber orchestra pieces by Franz Schubert and Max Bruch.

The concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 18, features the Washington Chamber Orchestra. The church is at 400 S Andresen Road. Reserved seating is $20. Tickets are available through TicketsWest outlets and online at www.bravoconcerts.com. For further information, call 906-0441.

Bravo! Vancouver has presented more than 70 choral, orchestral, classical chamber music and jazz concerts in Vancouver since 1993. Bravo! Vancouver also produces the annual Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival.

Public Playhouse presents
The Boys Next Door

The Public Playhouse is presenting The Boys Next Door, a comedy written by Tom Griffin and directed by Jolin Milberg, during the last four weekends in March in the Decker Theatre at Clark College.

The actors are Robert Alsman, Jessica Geffen, David Hudkins, Debra Hudkins, Sean Kelly, Dustin Milberg, David Millstone, Jess Prichard and Gary Romans.

Produced in association with Clark College, a portion of the proceeds benefits the Clark College Theatre Scholarship Fund. Admission is $16; $14, for students and seniors. For further information, call 573-4984.

Calendar

Arts Equity Onstage presents Hot ’N’ Throbbing at 7:30 p.m. this evening and Saturday, Feb. 3, in the Main Street Theatre, 606 Main Street. For further information, call 695-3770. ■ The La Center City Council and Planning Commission are holding a joint planning meeting from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, in the Heritage Room, 419 E Cedar Avenue. ■ A Citizen Transportation Summit open house, sponsored by a North Portland group, is from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Saturday, Feb. 10, in the community room of the Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin Street. Presentations are at noon and 4 p.m. For further information, call (503) 283-9585. ■ The Clark County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner and Auction begins at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, in the Hilton Vancouver Washington. Tickets are $60. For further information, call 695-1609.

Friday, Feb. 9 headlines

Battle Ground parents asked to pick up students at Main Street staging area near Parkway, across street from Value Giant Store after bomb threat touches off investigation in district's schools--Columbian, Craig Brown

Freightliner's ripple effect; hundreds of other jobs at stake--Columbian, Courtney Sherwood

Well-liked, wiley, former Clark County Clerk, George Miller closes out courthouse career at 70--Columbian, Don Hamilton

Vancouver has special interest in annexation bill introduced by State Rep. Jim Moeller--Columbian, Kathie Durbin

Wal-Mart exec confirms interest in Salmon Creek--Columbian, Scott Hewitt

OHSU's biggest give ever puts dream campus closer--Oregonian, Joe Rojas-Burke and Ted Sickinger

Probe concludes some prewar intelligence work inappropriate but legal--USA TODAY, AP