Callegari, Cameron join First Indy
Wealth Management Group

  
            John Callegari                         John Cameron

John Callegari and John Cameron have joined First Independent’s Wealth Management Group, reports the bank’s executive vice president Brett Bryant.

Callegari has been named vice president and senior portfolio manager. He is a graduate of Santa Clara University and has eight years’ experience in the investment industry. A Camas resident, Callegari is a member of the Investment Committee of the Clark County Skills Center.

Cameron was named a vice president and senior relationship manager for the team. He is a graduate of Bucknell University and has been a broker, financial advisor and private investment consultant for more than 13 years. He is a member of the board of directors of the March of Dimes and the Alexa Dyer Live Challenge Award Foundation. A Ridgefield resident, Cameron is the treasurer of Janus of Southwest Washington and is a member of the 2007 Leadership Clark County class.

First Independent’s Wealth Management Group, which  provides private banking, brokerage and investment services, retirement planning and trust and estate planning services, manages nearly a half-billion dollars in assets.

Northwest Cancer Specialists
gets clinical trial participation award

Northwest Cancer Specialists is one of ten community oncology practices in the United States and the first in Washington and Oregon to receive a Clinical Trial Participation Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. The award will be presented this June in Chicago.

Fewer than 5 percent of adult patients with cancer are enrolled in clinical trials. Northwest Cancer Specialists, with nine offices, including one each in Vancouver and Salmon Creek, last year enrolled 168 patients in clinical trials.

Clinical trials are research studies for patients that are designed to evaluate whether a new therapy is safe, effective and better than current standards of care, and they allow patients to receive advanced therapies.

The award is based in part on innovative techniques, and on quality assurance audit reports.

Parade of Homes in Ridgefield’s
Hillhurst area opens August 10

Clark County’s 30th annual Parade of Homes, sponsored by the Building Industry Association of Clark County, opens a 17-day run in the Hillhurst section of Ridgefield at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 10, reports BIA special events director Ericka Carlsen.

Five homes will be on display. Special events include a meet-the-builder-program, color and design tours, a playhouse parade, a parade of dog homes.

Adult admission is $12. For further information, call Carlsen at 694-0993, or go to www.clarkcountyparadeofhomes.com/sponsors/cfm.

Camas “poker tour”
downtown Friday

Camas’s First Friday is 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 1, in downtown Camas under the name of Camas Poker Tour, during which time participating boutiques, restaurants, art galleries and merchants will issue visitors playing cards.

Visitors are to turn in their five-card hand at the end of the day, and those with highest poker hands will win prizes.

The Camas Poker Tour is sponsored by the Camas-Washougal Chamber of Commerce. For further information, go to www.downtowncamas.com.

People

Mary Beth Crouch is one of three college students nationally awarded $2,500 scholarships by the Dana Kull Memorial Scholarship for Christian Vocations. Crouch is a sophomore at Waynesburg College, where she is in the college leadership program. She is also active in her home church, Columbia Presbyterian in Vancouver.

Calendar

Fundraiser for Vancouver City Council candidate Larry J. Smith is 5:30 to 7 p.m. this evening in Caldwell Banker offices, 5101 NE 82nd Avenue, suite 100.

Thursday, May 30 Headlines

Gasoline tax fuels highway project--Columbian, Michael Andersen

Survey finds that Advanced Placement success not always tied to wealth--Columbian, Isolde Raftery

Baird: Technical training deserves attention--Columbian, Courtney Sherwood

Two persons critically hurt in east Vancouver house fire this morning--Columbian, Craig Brown

Saying work isn't done, Leavitt to seek re-election--Columbian

Law officers run with a purpose--Columbian--Dave Olson

Carr to complete move to Vancouver Auto Mall by next spring opening downtown property for redevelopment--Columbian, Jonathan Nelson

Kalama police nab driver speeding in reverse--KATU

Ten arrested in alleged sales of guns, drugs, at three Federal Way high schools--Seattle Times, Jennifer Sullivan

Bush calls for global goals for emissions--New York Times, David Stout and Brian Knowlton

Iraq Coalition Casualties