Council
of Homeless to host 10th annual luncheon and award ceremony
Ross A.
Thompson
Council of the Homeless will host its 10th Annual Hope & Action
Recognition Awards Luncheon on Friday, Sept. 25, at the Hilton
Vancouver. Nominations for this year’s awards closed on June 2nd,
and the committee announced the 2009 Recognition Awards honorees:
Gayle Rothrock, first
executive director of the council for the homeless;
Geri Hiller and
Joy Gault, volunteer winter
hospitality overflow shelter coordinators;
Becky Taylor, Lake Shore
Elementary (Vancouver School District);
Alicia Dumlao, Emergency
Shelter Clearinghouse volunteer;
Suzanne Zamberlan,
and John Zamberlan,
Project Homeless Connect; and Shelby
Wickhorst,Project Homeless Connect.
Keynote speaker, Ross A. Thompson,
professor of psychology at the University of California at Davis,
will discuss how homelessness, hunger, poverty and related
conditions in the family and society impact the personal and social
development of children, and how hope and relief can be brought to
families in need.
Proceeds from the luncheon sponsorship support the Emergency Shelter
Clearinghouse, Community Voice Mail and
Community Housing programs of the Council, and outreach, education
and advocacy efforts, and other projects of the Council.
Learn to preserve your
family treasures at Clark County Historical Museum
Archivist Richard Engeman
will be at the Clark County Historical Museum at 7 p.m. Thursday,
Sept. 3, for the First Thursday lecture from 5 to 9 p.m. to provide
advice on preserving family treasures such as historic photographs,
maps, drawings, and other paper ephemera.
Engeman is both a historian and archivist with research and writing
experience in Pacific Northwest history. A graduate of Reed
College, he also holds graduate degrees in librarianship from the
University of Oregon and in history from the University of
Washington.
Engman also specializes in working with historic photographs, maps,
architectural plans and drawings, and paper ephemera. His writing
has appeared in a variety of publications from the
Pacific Northwest Quarterly
to Portland Monthly. He also
authored an award-winning unit of the Oregon Historical Society’s
online Oregon History Project. In 2009, Timber Press released
The Oregon Companion: an Historical
Gazetteer of the Useful, the Curious and the Arcane, and
White House Grocery Press issued his
Eating it Up in Eden: the Oregon
Century Farm and Ranch Cookbook.
For more information, call Karen
Washabaugh at 993-5679
or email cchm@pacifier.com. The
Clark County Historical Museum is at 1511 Main Street, Vancouver,
WA.
Charity motorcycle ride
raises funds for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital
The 4th Annual Credit Union Charity Ride, presented by iQ Credit
Union of Vancouver, WA., and Fibre Federal Credit Union of Longview,
WA., raised $41,000 to benefit Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in
Portland.
More than 200 participants rode 156 motorcycles on a 145-mile ride
starting at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15, from the Camas branch of iQ
Credit Union to Latus Motors Harley Davidson in Gladstone, OR.
The ride has raised a total of $134,000 for the regional pediatric
hospital over the past four years, with additional support coming
from more than 39 sponsors, including financial and logistical
resources from nine other credit unions from the Pacific Northwest.
For the past 20 years, iQ Credit Union and Fibre Federal Credit
Union have participated in charity events that have helped raise
funds in excess of $8 million for Doernbecher Children's Hospital.
News
Brief
Tickets are on sale forTheVancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Chor Anno, conducted and
directed by Howard Meharg at
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, in First United Methodist Church, 401
E. 33rd Street. VSO Season ticket holders pay $10 for general
admission, $7 for seniors and students. Non-VSO members pay $15 for
general admission, $10 for seniors and students. To purchase
tickets, call 735-7278.
Calendar
A Vancouver community homeschooler
conference is being held from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, in
the Magenta Theater, 606 Main Street. For more information, call
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Vancouver Farmer’s Market opens at 5 p.m. today.
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Donate school supplies and have a free lunch courtesy of the Salmon
Creek Lions Club at the School Supply Donation Day and open house
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, at the corner of 12th and Columbia
Streets. Call 695-1325 for
more information.
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The La Center centennial festival fun begins at 8 a.m. on Saturday,
Aug. 29. For further information, visit
http://www.lacentercentennial.com/calendar.html.
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Washougal’s Main Street market is open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 29.
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Clark College is having its open house for the Columbia Tech Center
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m Saturday, Aug. 29.
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La Center Centennial Festival and Clark County Fire & Rescue
Firefighters Association are sponsoring a pancake breakfast
fundraiser from 7 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, at the La Center
Fire Station, 414 East Cedar Avenue in La Center. Adults are $5.00;
Children under 12 are $3.00. Call 887-4609
for further information.
Friday on the
air
Vancouver Code Enforcement Appeal Hearings (8-27)—4
p.m. CVTV
Tacoma Rainiers at Portland (live)—7
p.m. KKAD
Kansas City Royals at Seattle
(live)—7 p.m. 710 FSN
