Sara Evans headlines Clark County fair tonight

Sara Evans, female country traditionalist, headlines the entertainment at the Clark County Fair at 7:30 p.m. this evening.

Reserved seating is $18. All reserved tickets must be bought through Ticketmaster, but unsold tickets the day of the concert will be available at the orange gate.

The ten-day county fair concludes Sunday, Aug. 12. General admission is $9 per person. Senior tickets are $7, and children 7 through 17 are $5 per child. Parking is $5 per vehicle. C-TRAN is offering shuttle service from the Vancouver Mall, Fisher’s Landing, Salmon Creek, Ridgefield and La Center for $1 each.

The fair is open from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. except Sundays, when the fair closes at 10 p.m.

For additional fair information, go to www.clarkcofair.com.

David Bristol named First Independent
vice president and chief legal officer

David Bristol, former partner with Miller Nash, LLP, Portland, has joined First Independent as executive vice president and chief legal officer, reports First Independent president and CEO Bill Firstenburg.

During his 15-year career at Miller Nash, Bristol’s practice focused on banking, mergers and acquisitions, finance and real estate law.

 An Oregon native and Lake Oswego resident, Bristol graduated summa cum laude from the University of Oregon and was graduated at the top of his class from Vanderbilt University Law School. Bristol is a past board member of Comprehensive Options for Drug Abusers, Coleman Youth Education Fund and Cascade College. He also has coached for various youth sports groups.

Don’t believe everything
you read in the newspapers

On Feb. 21, 2007, the Daily Insider, reporting on the Port of Vancouver’s annual Port Report, said in part: “‘The Port of Vancouver could potentially generate another 15,000 additional jobs resulting from development of Columbia Gateway, the newly bought Alcoa/Evergreen site on the Columbia River and the new light industrial properties in Fruit Valley,’ Paulson said.

“The Alcoa/Evergreen property was bought this month by the port and is being financed by a property tax-based industrial bond issue.”

The Daily Insider’s story was wrong on both counts.

In handout issued during the Port Report, the port said: “Earlier this month the port signed letters of intent to purchase the 218-acre site that previously housed the Alcoa, and then Vanalco, aluminum smelter. The site could provide nearly 1,900 direct jobs and have a ripple effect that generates another 2,700 jobs in our community, according to projections by a national economic consultant. The commission voted to implement its final option for an Industrial Development District tax levy to raise funds for the $48.25 million purchase and improvements.”

The port has not yet bought the Alcoa/Evergreen property. A property-tax-based bond issue to be financed by a six-year special levy was approved by the board of port commissioners, but that was set aside after a group of citizens collected enough signatures to put the levy on the ballot.

Voters within the port district are now deciding the fate of the special levy. Voting on the special levy concludes at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21.

The Daily Insider regrets having made a factual error in reporting that has been used by opponents of the port’s proposed Industrial Development District tax levy as a claim that the port already owns the Alcoa/Evergreen property.  

News brief correction

The Portland Trail Blazers’ 38th season home opener is Wednesday, Nov. 7, against the New Orleans Hornets in the Rose Garden. The game will be televised on ESPN. We erroneously reported the Blazers would open against the New Orleans Saints. What a game that would have been. For the Blazers’ complete and correct 2007-2008 NBA schedule, go to http://www.nba.com/blazers.

Calendar

The Vancouver City Council, meeting in a workshop session at 4 p.m. today, will discuss methods of financing high-capacity transit within the city and county and will also hear a discussion of plans for a state Department of Transportation interchange on Highway 500 and St. John’s Boulevard. <> The Vancouver City council meets in regular session at 7 p.m. this evening. <> Clark Public Utilities’ commissioners meet in regular session at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7. <> Clark County commissioners meet in regular session at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7. <> U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, Vancouver Mayor Royce Pollard and Arch Miller, president of the board of Port of Vancouver commissioners, will break ground on the Port of Vancouver’s West Vancouver Freight Access Project at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7, at Terminal 1, just west of the Red Lion Hotel at the Quay. <> The Southwest Washington Regional Transportation Council meets at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7, in the sixth floor training room in the Public Service Center.  

Headlines Monday, Aug. 6

Clark College, Bob Knight agree to three-year contract--Columbian, Howard Buck

Officials study how to teach kids under 5--Columbian, Isolde Raftery

Wetting their whistles at the fair--Columbian, Howard Buck

Muchas momentum: Vancouver-based Muchas Gracias restaurants on a roll--Columbian, Cami Joner

Vancouver's "Dreamers" do more than dream--Columbian editorial

Three Fort Lewis soldiers killed in Iraq--Oregonian, AP

Stocks rebound in volatile trading--Washington Post, AP Tim Paradis

Six miners trapped in Utah mine collapse--USA TODAY, AP

Bush, scientific community at odds--USA TODAY, Dan Vergano

Iraq Coalition Casualties