Jody Shulnak hired by Clark College to run
Service Learning and Volunteer Program

Jody Shulnak has been named manager of the Clark College new Service Learning and Volunteer Program, reports college president Bob Knight.

Shulnak completed an academic internship in pre-school teaching in South Africa. Additionally, Shulnak worked in tsunami relief in south India, orphan outreach in Bolivia and teaching English as a second language in the Himalayas. Shulnak is a magna cum laude graduate of Northern Arizona University.

The college Service Learning Program pairs college instructors and students with disadvantaged studentspre-school through high school, in an effort to improve the success of these disadvantaged students.

The program has just received a $10,000 grant from the "Count Me In: Learning and Serving for School Success" program in Washington and Idaho.

Cheryl Delamarter named development
director at Vancouver Christian High School

Cheryl Delamarter, a former teacher at King's Way Christian School, has been appointed director of development and public relations at Vancouver Christian High School, reports Rob Winkler, chairman of the school board.

Winkler will oversee a capital development program as the ten-year-old school prepares to move into its first permanent location in January 2008 in the former Moose Lodge on Fourth Plain Boulevard.

Founded in 1996, Vancouver Christian High School has 125 students. Over 70 percent of Vancouver Christian graduates are pursuing a college degree and the school has a strong athletic program that has won several state championships, Winkler says.

Popular campfire storytelling program
returns to Fort Vancouver site

With a campfire providing the ambiance, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site visitors will hear fascinating true-life accounts from the lives of the Engagés, the "engaged" or contracted workers of the Hudson’s Bay Company during the 19th-century fur trade era.

The hour-long storytelling programs are free and will be presented at 7 p.m. Saturday October 13, and Saturday, Oct. 20, in the grassy area just north of the walls of the reconstructed fort. Parking is available in the main gravel parking lot just south of Fifth Street.

Representing a sizeable part of the work force of this British fur company, these men were the trappers, blacksmiths, carpenters, boatmen, herders, dairymen, and laborers largely responsible for the Hudson's Bay Company's success. A mix of many different cultures and ethnicities, including French Canadians, Hawaiian Islanders, Metis, Orkney Islanders, Scots, and many American Indian tribes, their lives of adventure and hardship throughout the west, fostered a rich multicultural storytelling tradition.

Free breast cancer seminar is Thursday
in Southwest Washington Medical Center

Three of the region's top breast cancer specialists, Kiren Jain, S. Christopher Hoffelt and Michaelann Liss, are presenting a free seminar discussion on recent advances in breast cancer diagnostic and treatment options at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in the Health Education Center at Southwest Washington Medical Center, 400 NE Mother Joseph Way.

To celebrate Southwest Washington Medical Center's new Pioneering Medicine program, the
first 25 persons to register for the seminar will receive a Pink Power umbrella. To register for the seminar, call 514-2190. 

County auditor urges Animal Protection
and Control Division to collect charges
for services and to issue more pet licenses

Payments made by the City of Vancouver to Clark County for animal control services have not been adjusted for actual costs, as required by contract, reports Clark County auditor Greg Kimsey. Payment reconciliation showed that an additional $245,437 should have been collected from the City of Vancouver for services provided from 2001 through 2006. We recommend that the department assure that actual costs incurred are recovered from the city in accordance with contract provisions, Kimsey said.

Auditor Kimsey instituted performance audits early in his tenure as county auditor. The performance audits are advisory in nature and carry no penalties. Kimsey said after the audit that the Department of Community Development has already begun implementing recommended changes.

The performance audit also noted, that while the number of pets has increased over the years, the number of pet licenses has decreased. According to the report, the number of dog and cat licenses has declined by five percent since 2001. The number of cat licenses issued between 2003 and 2006 decreased by 25 percent.

The auditor recommended that before the agency implements a proposed substantial increase in cat license fees that it analyze the impact the increase would have on the number of licenses issued.

The auditor noted that a proposal to issue licenses by the Internet could make licensing easier and goals more attainable.

Calendar

A public forum on Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias is from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in the Health Education Center at Southwest Washington Medical Center, 400 NE Mother Joseph Place. Laura Baker, assistant professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and member of the Veterans Administration Memory Wellness Program, will present information on her latest research on diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease. There is no charge for the program, but registration is required. For further information, call (800) 848-7097, extension 227. <> Clark County Historical Museum's First Thursday After Hours program gives the public a free program from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4. At 7 p.m. history once again comes alive at the museum with a lecture by noted author and Native American basketry expert Mary Dodds Schlick, who will speak about her latest book, Coming to Stay: A Columbia River Journey, an intimate memoir encompassing thirty years of life amongst her friends and neighbors on the Colville, Warm Springs, and Yakama reservations. For further information, call 993-5679. 

Headlines Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007