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Ray Barney’s work ethic
rewarded 
Ray Barney, who works 8 a.m. to noon five days a week at Vancouver-based HDJ Design Group, was nominated by co-worker Bonnie Cross as Washington’s Outstanding Older Worker. The competition was sponsored by Experience Works Inc., and Barney won the statewide competition. With the honor goes a four-day all-expense-paid trip for two to Washington, D.C., where he will be honored along with other older workers this fall. Barney, who earned an engineering degree from Purdue University 56 years ago, has been working ever since, apart from a lull while recovering from multiple heart by-pass surgery two years ago. He joined Hopper Dennis Jellison Engineering, now known as HDJ Design Group, in 1995. The nomination was based on Barney’s community involvement and his work for HDJ Design Group. While in Washington, D.C., Ray and his wife, Port of Vancouver commissioner Nancy Baker, will attend a press conference at the National Press Club and visit Capitol Hill.
Third District Congressman
Brian Baird
has offered to take Barney kayaking on the
Potomac River. Wine and Jazz Festival opens
Michael Kissinger’s Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival Friday, Aug. 22, is in Esther Short Park. Afternoon entertainers are the Joe Powers Trio at 4 p.m. and the Art Resnick Trio at 6 p.m. Headlining the opening day at 8 p.m. is the internationally acclaimed blues and ballad singer-songwriter Judy Collins.
In addition to three days of jazz and music, the festival offers the products of ten restaurants and caterers, 30 wineries and 50 artists. The Rippingtons close out Saturday’s entertainment schedule with a show at 8:30 p.m. The closer Sunday is New Orleans's Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Single day admission is $20 on Friday, $25 on Saturday and Sunday. Children under 12 are free when accompanied by a parent or guardian. For further information, go to www.vancouverwinejazz.com. 2008 Bow Wow Luau Élan & Kenji, from America’s Greatest Dog competition, headline the SW Washington Humane Society’s Bow Wow Luau annual event, which opens at noon, Saturday, Aug. 23, in the parking lot of Beastie Boutique, 13023 NE Highway 99. Kenji is a giant Schnauzer, owned by Élan. The pair were contestants on The Greatest American Dog competition, a summer CBS television reality show. Pet adoptions will be offered, and pet vendors will be on-hand. The humane society is asking for a $20 donation as admission to the fundraising event. For further information, call 574-6400. Hands-on training preparing Scores of Southern Washington middle and elementary school teachers have been using their summer break to engage in hands-on science applications to take back to their classrooms this fall. Educational School District 112's Science and Math Education Resource Center, which serves 30 school districts and seven private schools in Southwest Washington, has been providing to new teachers and teachers changing grades inquiry-centered training kits that will allow teachers to offer 8- to 12-week science studies in their classrooms. The hands-on training teachers have been getting will help them repeat hands-on teaching for their students, according to Mark Lewis, ESD 112’s Science and Math Education Resource Center director. Calendar A discussion of the Confluence Project, in connection with the Saturday dedication of the Maya Lin land bridge is at 7 p.m. this evening in Library Hall in the Vancouver Community Library, 1007 E Mill Plain Boulevard. Susan Noyes, art historian and critic, and Jane Jacobsen, executive director of the Confluence Project, will make presentations. There is no charge for the program.<> Washington State University history professor, Candice Goucher, tells a story of Washington state history and culture, based on what parents feed their children, in a free lecture at 7 p.m. this evening, in the Clark County Historical Museum, 1511 Main Street. The lecture is in conjunction with the museum’s Smithsonian Institution exhibit, “Key Ingredients: America by Food.”
CVTV
programming on demand:
http://www.cityofvancouver.us
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