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Judy Collins opens
the Vancouver
The 2008 edition of Michael Kissinger's Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival opens with “An Evening with Judy Collins” at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22, in Esther Short Park in downtown Vancouver. The three-day festival follows three themes, according to Kissinger. Theme number one is female singer-songwriters--Collins, Melissa Manchester, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, and Rita Coolidge, 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24. Theme number two, New Orleans jazz and jazz ensembles--Nicholas Payton, 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, BeauSoleil, 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, and Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24. Theme number three, the roots of jazz, John Pizzarelli, 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24, Brubeck Brothers, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, The Rippingtons, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, and the Gospel Hummingbirds, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24. Three-day festival tickets are $50 in advance, $60 at the gate. Friday tickets are $17 in advance, $20 at the gate. Saturday and Sunday tickets are $21 each in advance, $25 each at the gate. For ticket information, call (800) 992-8499.
GreenFest is all-day Saturday The public follow-up of Vancouver and Clark County’s two-day Sustainability Conference is GreenFest, a one-day free event for families and children beginning with a bicycle ride led by Vancouver Mayor Royce Pollard at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, July 12. The three-mile ride begins at the Vancouver Landing and follows the Renaissance Trail to Marine Park and the Water Resources Education Center. Ellis Jones, author of Better World Handbook and Better World Shopping Guide, offers advice on how to turn lofty ideals into practical actions at 10 a.m. at the main stage in Marine Park. Other main stage attractions are the One of a Kind Drumline, international drummers entertaining at 11 a.m., a Junk to Funk fashion show is noon, and at 2 p.m. the Justin Klump Band. There is no charge for GreenFest activities, but promoters suggest donations of two cans of non-perishable food.. The Water Resource Education Center offers a variety of children’s activities from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A 9-mile Heritage Tree Ride with urban forestry guides leaves the water center at 2 p.m. Black boxes may help motorists slow down Three-by-five-foot black boxes that record the speed of passing vehicles and then flash the posted speed limit may become an important traffic control device on Clark County roads, according to Richard Gamble, Clark County Public Works spokesman. Two of the boxes have been installed on NE 117th Street between NE 2nd and 3rd Avenues. The boxes do not include cameras, Gamble says. They are not designed to catch speeders, he says. They are designed to be a more significant way of letting motorists know they are exceeding the speed limit in an effort to get speeds down. Motorists driving at or below the posted 30 mph speed limited will not see the box display, but motorists exceeding the speed limit will see a bright electronic 30 mph display appear in the black box. “The idea is to get the driver’s attention and get the driver to slow down,” Gamble says. People Karen A. Waggoner, Meeting Expectations LLC, Vancouver, for her commitment to the meeting planning industry, has earned the 2008 Mentor Award presented by the Oregon Chapter of Meeting Professionals International. News brief A $500,000 grant for Battle Ground’s North Parkway project is included in the federal Transportation and Housing Appropriations Bill, reports U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.). The half-mile improvement between Onsforff Boulevard and N 6th Street includes street lights, sidewalks, bicycle lanes, median islands and turn lanes. Calendar Johnny Limbo and the Lugnuts entertain in a free concert sponsored by the Port of Camas-Washougal and L:aCamas Credit Union. at 2 p.m. in the port’s waterfront Marine Park. Also entertaining is the Washougal High School X-tet & Friends, with special guest pianist Steve Christofferson. The Camas Lions Club are operating a beer and wine garden. Other food vendors will be on hand. <> A used book sale is continuing in the Vancouver Mall Community Library until 9 p.m. this evening and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow, July 12. <> A downtown walking tour sponsored by the Clark County Historical Society is from noon to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 12. The tour leaves from the Clark County Historical Museum, 1511 Main Street. Tour fees are $5 for members of the historical society, $10 for nonmembers. For further information, call 993-5679.
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