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Tornado-like winds whack Hazel Dell Clark Public Utilities reports about 800 customers in the Hazel Dell area are without electric service this afternoon as a result of damage caused by today's tornado. The outages were caused primarily by trees that fell through power lines. Several utility poles are broken, and power lines are down primarily near Fruit Valley Road south of NE 78th Street. Utility crews have restored power to about 1,700 customers and are now working to replace the damaged poles and power lines. It's unknown when power will
be restored to those still without service. (See today’s Insider
Headlines.) Gershwin and Brahms on tap Jazz aficionados get a double-barreled treat this weekend during Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performances of selections from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and Yaron Gottfried's Capitol Jazz Suite The double barrels: Vancouver jazz drummer Gary Hobbs, and symphony guest conductor Gottfried.
Conductor Gottfried will be at the piano during the jazz portion of the concert. The second half of the concert is Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Opus 98, which Gottfried will conduct. Hobbs is a Vancouver product, son of the late Larry Hobbs, peripatetic Vancouver Chamber of Commerce executive director of the 1970s and 1980s. Hobbs has played professionally for over three decades and appears on over 50 recordings. Hobbs played with The Stan Kenton Orchestra from 1975 through 1977. Hobbs has played at Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Tivoli Garden, Kennedy Center and Wolf Trap Hobbs is active in jazz education, teaching at the University Of Oregon and traveling all over the U.S. doing clinics, concerts and jazz camps with the help of Bosporus Cymbal Company and Yamaha Drum Company. This weekend concerts in the concert hall at Skyview High School are at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, and 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13. Each concert is preceded by an hour-long discussion of the music by Travis Hatton, music director of the Sunnyside Symphony Orchestra and conductor of the Vancouver Children's Opera. Tickets are $7 for students, $12 for seniors, $27 general admission and $36 for reserved seats. Commissioners to decide what Clark County commissioners, who will be meeting in a retreat session Friday, will take time out to go into executive session to decide what course of action to take regarding the currently invalidated memorandum of understanding with the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. The MOU, agreed to by the tribe and the county commissioners, spelled out who would pay for what should the tribe build a $500 million casino resort near La Center on Interstate 5. The MOU was invalidated by the state Growth Management Hearings Board, a decision that was upheld in state superior court. The county has until tomorrow to decide whether to appeal the decision. Today, however, commissioner Betty Sue Morris, in an interview on CVTV, the county cable television station, said it is her belief that while the MOU was invalidated, the contractual agreements as laid out were very much in force. Meanwhile, the tribal council has unanimously adopted an ordinance reiterating the tenets of the MOU. Morris said today she wasn’t sure whether the tribal ordinance would be as enforceable as a contractual agreement between the tribe and the county commissioners. The federal Indian Gaming Commission has accepted the Cowlitz Tribe’s ordinance as part of the tribe’s request to have the La Center property become tribal land on which to build the casino resort. News brief Applications for two vacancies on the Clark Count Historic Preservation Commission are being sought by the board of Clark County Commissioners. Both are three-year terms, beginning in July 2008. Persons interested in serving on the board should have a special interest, experience or knowledge of history, public history, architecture or related disciplines. Letters of interest along with a resume should be sent to Jennifer Clark, Board of Clark County Commissioners, P.O. Box 5000, Vancouver, WA 98666-5000, or email Clark at Jennifer.clark@clark.wa.gov no later than Friday, Jan. 25. Calendar The Fairgrounds Neighborhood Association meets at 7 p.m. this evening in the Community of Christ meeting room, 400 NE 179th Street. <> Vancouver’s Downtown Association board meeting is at 7:45 p.m. this evening in Divine Consign, 904 Main Street. <> The Puget Sound Blood Center is conducting a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, in the Forum Room in the Waterford Village, 2911 SE Village Loop. <> A used-book sale continues in the Vancouver Community Library, 1007 E Mill Plain Boulevard, through 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12.
CVTV programming on demand: http://www.cityofvancouver.us/cvtv/cvtvindex.asp
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