Kristi Gillam named membership director
for county Building Industry Association

Kristi Gillam has been appointed membership director of the Building Industry Association of Clark County, reports David Roewe, executive director.

Gillam will manage the membership department of the 1,050-member trade association representing the interests of businesses involved with land development and construction.

Gillam is a native of Portland and a graduate of the University of Oregon. She had been an advertising account executive for a Bend radio station before joining the BIA of Clark County.

Firstenburgs give Innovative
Services NW $1 million

 Innovative Services NW proposed $6.9 million headquarters

Innovative Services NW has announced its largest gift ever, $1 million from Ed and Mary Firstenburg, which will be applied toward financing the nonprofit organization’s proposed $6.7 million headquarters and operations building. The gift brings the capital campaign to $4.6 million and will help leverage a $1.9 million budget item currently in the state budgets of Gov. Chris Gregoire and both houses of the state legislature.

Innovative Services NW provides programs in southern Washington that serve over 900 people with disabilities or disadvantages on a weekly basis, including therapy and childcare, employment training and job support for teens and adults, and intervention, education and support for families.

“Innovative services NW has been a client of First Independent for the past 43 years, so essentially, we grew up together,” said Ed Firstenburg, adding, “Mary and I feel privileged to make this investment, especially as it leverages even more funding to help people.”

Founder and former chairman and president of First Independent, Firstenburg and his wife have made major gifts to the Firstenburg Tower at Southwest Washington Medical Center, a new student commons at Washington State University Vancouver, the Firstenburg Community Center and the Clark County Skills Center.

The Firstenburg family will be guests of honor at Innovative Services’ annual Caring Heart Award dinner that begins at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 31, in the Heathman Lodge. Firstenburg is a former Caring Heart Award recipient. For further information on the dinner and auction, call 823-5177.

Three new sites being considered for
performing and visual arts center

The SW Washington Center for the Arts has narrowed its choices for a potential performing and visual arts center and has hired E. D. Hovee and Company to conduct a feasibility assessment of the three. The study is financed by the City of Vancouver, Clark County, Identity Clark County and Citizens for Cultural Arts.

The proposed location are as follows: the present site of the Vancouver Community Library at the corner of Fort Vancouver Way and Mill Plain Boulevard, the city block north of the Vancouvercenter near Esther Short Part, and on the campus of Washington State University.

In 2004, SWCA found that 75 percent of the people in Clark County said they would support a performing arts center, according to SWCA chairwoman Val Ogden. An earlier feasibility study would have located the center at Clark College, but the college nixed that idea.

Other locations may also be considered, according to Ogden.

150 voices sing music and drama: Christ & War

The Bravo! Vancouver concert series continues its 2006-07 season with two dramatic choral masterpieces,

Franz Joseph Haydn’s Mass is Time of War and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Christ on the Mount of Olives. The concert is at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 1, in St. Joseph Catholic Church, 400 S Andresen Road.

The SnoKing Civic Chorale of Edmonds, Wash., will join the Bravo! Chorale and guest soloists to create a combined 150-voice chorale. The Washington Chamber Orchestra also performs.

Reserved seating is $20 and available at the door or at all Safeway TicketsWest outlets. For further information, call 906-0441.

Calendar

Eugene O’Neill’s The Long Voyage Home, directed by Llewellyn Rhoe, is being presented by Arts Equity On Stage at 7:30 p.m. this evening, Friday, March 30, and Saturday, March 31, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 1, in the Main Street Theatre, 606 Main Street. Admission ranges from $8 to $24. A package, which includes a three-course dinner at the Restaurant at the Historic Reserve, can be had for $55. For further information, call 695-3770.  

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