Click here to download the Fourth of
July program at the Historic Reserve

Alan Hargrave elected president
of board of Port of Camas-Washougal

Alan Hargrave, three-term member of the Port of Camas-Washougal board of commissioners, has been elected president of the three-member board, effective July 2. His term will continue through Dec. 31, 2008.

Rich Gunderson, immediate past president of the board, will hold the position of secretary of the board through the end of his four-year term in December. Gunderson is not seeking re-election. Jim Carroll, who is in his second year of his first term, will continue to serve as vice president of the board.

Hargrave is a native of Clark County and has been active in the business community for the past 35 years, 28 of which were with the construction company George Schmid & Sons, Inc. In addition to running a private consulting business, Hargrave is involved in the start-up of the Partners Bank of Washington and teaches part-time at the Northwest College of Construction.

Hargrave is the Port of Camas-Washougal’s delegate to the Washington Public Ports Association and the Pacific Northwest Waterways Association. He is a member of the board of the Columbia River Economic Development Council and the Portland International Airport Futures Advisory Group.

Hargrave is a member of the National Utility Contractors Association, a past member of the Washougal Board of Adjustment and past president of the St. Thomas Aquinas Parish Council.

The Port of Camas-Washougal was created in 1935.

Growth management
hearings resume Thursday

Clark County commissioners’ marathon hearings on amendments to its 20-year Comprehensive Growth Management Plan continue with a 10 a.m. Thursday, July 5, session in the Public Service Center.

Public comments will be heard during the session, which may be the last as commissioners try to button down amendments in the plan.

Commissioners last December adopted changes, but as soon as a new board of commissioners was sworn in in January the board opted to reopen hearings, fearing that the earlier document did not properly prepare the county for anticipated growth.

Details of proposed amendments to the plan, including elaborate maps showing changes in property uses and extended urban growth boundaries, can be found by going to www.clarek.wa.gov/longrangeplan/review/index/html

Except for Camas, holiday does not
change garbage pickup schedule

Except for the City of Camas, residential garbage pickup schedules are not affected by the Fourth of July holiday Wednesday. There will be no residential garbage pickup on Wednesday. Wednesday’s garbage will be picked up Thursday. Otherwise, the Camas schedule remains the same the rest of the week.

C-TRAN shuttle service to Historic
Reserve begins at 6 p.m. Wednesday

C-Tran is providing shuttle service to the fireworks celebration in the Historic reserve from the Vancouver Mall parking lot near the former Mervyn’s location, between 6 and 9 p.m. Express buses will leave every ten minutes. Service returning from the Historic Reserve begins at 10:30 p.m.

Round-trip fare is $1 per person or $3 for groups of up to six riders. There is no charge for children 6 and under.

Calendar

A pre-Fourth of July evening entertains visitors at the Vancouver Barracks parade ground. The Portland Brass Society presents a concert of patriotic and American music from the bandstand south of Officers Row this evening, just prior to the dusk showing of a free movie, Happy Feet. <> Ridgefield’s annual 4th of July pancake breakfast is 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 4, in the Ridgefield Community Center, 210 Main Street. <> The Felida Neighborhood Associations annual children’s parade begins at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, July 4, in Felida Park, NW 122nd Street and NW 36th Avenue. <> A short ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of 1937 trans-polar flight of a Russian crew that ended up at Pearson Field is at 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 4, at the Valery Chkalov Monument at Pearson Field, on E 5th Street just south of the Vancouver Barracks parade ground. A delegation of officials from Russia is joining Vancouver’s Chkalov Cultural Exchange Committee for the ceremony, which is being covered by a Russian television crew. <> The Vancouver Barracks parade ground just south of Officer’s Row will be alive with activities beginning at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 4, culminating with a gigantic fireworks show that begins at 10:10 p.m. <> The Insider will not be published on the nation’s first holiday, Independence Day, July 4.  

Headlines Tuesday, July 3

Medical Center to lay off 100 workers--Columbian, Julia Anderson

Soldier with local ties killed in Iraq--Columbian, Dean Baker

Battle Ground cops collar five would-be fireworks thieves--Flash News.Net

Russian delegation to help honor Chkalov--Columbian, Dean Baker

$8.5 million Heritage Plaza in Sifton may open a year from now--Columbian, Cami Joner

Raids target immigrants ordered to leave U.S.--Seattle Times, Lornet Turnbull

Reuters: Mexican Slim surpasses Gates as richest person on the planet--Seattle Times, Benjamin J. Romano

Bush refuses to rule out pardon for Libby--Washington Post, Michael A. Fletcher

Army rescue mission saves downed pilots in Iraq--Washington Post, Ann Scott Tyson

Standoff at Pakistan mosque explodes into violence--Washington Post, Griff Witte

Iraq Coalition Casualties