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Clark College graduation is joyous occasion
In ceremonies in the Amphitheater at Clark County, Clark College, the state’s second largest community college, issued 1,252 associate in arts degrees and certificates. Included were 86 Running Start students. who completed the first two years of college at the same time they graduated from high school. Graduate Kenneth Nyholm, Vancouver, was named recipient of the college’s President Award, which carries with it a full tuition and fees two-year scholarship to Washington State University Vancouver. Nyholm, who graduated with highest honors, was a member of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges, a student ambassador, and a co-founder of the Clark College Veterans Awareness Organization. Three Clark instructors were singled out for Exceptional Faculty Awards. They are creative writing instructor Larry Blakely, biology professor William Cushwa, and professor of business technology Nancy Johnson. Cushwa and Johnson are repeat winners.
Commissioners appeal state’s
Clark County commissioners have appealed to Clark County Superior Court to defend changes in the urban growth boundaries approved by the county commissioners in 2007. At issue are lands that the commissioners believe should be in urban growth areas that would promote the economy of the county. The state board ruled that the county’s Growth Management Plan took too much agricultural land out of the mix of land designations. Parks foundation adds
Nelson Holmberg, communications manager for the Port of Vancouver, and Matthew Bisturis, associate attorney with Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, have been appointed to the board of directors of the Parks Foundation of Clark County. Holmberg, a 2008 graduate of Leadership Clark County, has been on the boards of the Clark County Family YMCA, Clark College Penguin Athletic Club and the Columbia River High School Booster Club. Bisturis earned his law degree from the University of Oregon. Calendar Volunteers wishing to help re-open hiking trails along the Lewis River are asked to gather at the closed information station in the Pine Creek Work Center, 18 miles east of Cougar on Forest Road 90, at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 21. The trail clearing is a project of the Mount St. Helens Institute. <> The annual brigade encampment reenactment, just outside the National Historic site, is presented by the National Park Service between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 21 and 22. This event is free. There is, however, an admission charge to visit the National Historic Site. <> A tour of homes and gardens in the DuBois Park neighborhood begins at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 21. The $15 event includes wine tasting and jazz from 3 to 6 p.m. For further information go to www.devinedesignfurniture.org. <> The Junior Symphony of Vancouver, conducted by Timoteus Racz, presents a concert featuring the works of Telemann and Bach in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 21, in the First Church of God, 3300 NE 78th Street. General admission is $10. Student and senior tickets are available for $8. For further information, call 696-4084. <> The first free outdoor concert of the year in the Port of Camas-Washougal Marine Park is 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, June 22. 5 Guys Named Moe entertain. <> The Clark County Jefferson-Jackson dinner and auction begins at 4 p.m. Sunday, June 22, in the Hilton Vancouver Washington. Invited guest speakers are Gov. Chris Gregoire, U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, and U.S. Rep. Brian Baird. For further information, call 798-0043. <> Port of Camas-Washougal commissioners meet in regular session at 7 p.m. Monday, June 23.
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