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YWCA, Clark College name Following the theme “Visionary Women: Shaping Generations,” the YWCA Clark County and Clark College have named eight women as the 2008 Women of Achievement. In addition, the two organizations designated three high school students as Young Women of Achievement.
The awards will be presented during an 11:30 a.m. luncheon in the Hilton Vancouver Washington. The Women of Achievement Award winners are as follows: Susan Davis, medical director, Urgent Medical Center; Patricia Downey, teacher and advisor, Mountain View High School; Jean Lacey, the first executive director of the YWCA Clark County; Kris Miller, vice president and relationship manager, West Coast Bank; Tracy Reilly-Kelly, program manager for Mature Learning and Continuing Education, Clark College; Elizabeth Asahi Sato, owner of Rise to Excellence; Jeanne Stewart, member, Vancouver City Council; and Susan Torres, teacher and mentor, English as a Second Language program, Clark College. The Young Women of Achievement are the following: Sarah Brown, Vancouver School for the Arts and Academics; Mariah Hairston, Skyview High School; and Navit Virdi, Heritage High School. Anna Song, KATU weekend news anchor, will be mistress of ceremonies during the luncheon. Tickets are $35 each. For further information, call 906-4301.
Ed Firstenburg celebrates 95th
birthday
Ed Firstenburg, founder and former chairman of First Independent, celebrated his 95th birthday today with a photographic portrait and by opening another branch of the bank, this one the 21st, in The Quarry Senior Living in east Vancouver. The bank will open three new branches this spring. Although retired from the now $1 billion bank, which Firstenburg acquired in 1936, he is the manager of a small branch in The Waterford, a senior retirement complex where he and his wife, Mary, live. The Firstenburgs have contributed nearly $25 million to local causes in the past five years. Cost of State-of-County Address
luncheon is The cost of the State-of-the-County Address luncheon is $20 if paid by Wednesday, Jan. 23, $25 after that date, and the deadline for reservations is Thursday, Jan. 31. Betty Sue Morris, chair of the board of Clark County Commissioners, will deliver the address in the Red Lion Hotel at the Quay. Reservations may be made by calling 397-2232. Twice elected to the board of commissioners, Morris says she is not a candidate this year. Calendar The Columbia River Crossing Task Force meets at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, in the Hilton Vancouver Washington. Public comment will begin at 4:40 p.m. <> The 81st YWCA Clark County membership meeting and annual celebration, which is free and open to the public, is 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, in the YWCA Helene Schoen Center, 3609 Main Street. Keynote speaker is S. Renee Mitchell, award-winning columnist for the Oregonian. For further information, call 696-0167. <> The North Salmon Creek Neighborhood Association meets at 7 p.m. this evening in the community room in the Three Creeks Library. <> The Clark County Board of Health meets at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, in the Public Service Center. <> The Puget Sound Blood Center is holding a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, near the cafeteria at Washington State University Vancouver. <> The Sirens, Vancouver’s Rebecca Olson, flute, Victoria Racz and Maria Manzo, piano, entertain in the Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Avenue, Portland, at noon Wednesday, Jan. 23. Part of a sack lunch series, the concert is free. <> Clark County commissioners meet in an informal session at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, in conference room B in the Public Service Center.
CVTV programming on demand: http://www.cityofvancouver.us/cvtv/cvtvindex.asp
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