Should you stop by Ballew’s Restaurant in Vancouver’s Heights area
this week you may just ask that same question. Over the next few
days a transformation of sorts will take place at this great place
for food and drink. David Ballew,
owner of Ballew’s Restaurant, is moving on to other adventures while
Steven and
Jane Waddle move in with DuckTales Kitchen. On Wednesday,
Sept. 9, DuckTales Kitchen opens for business.
Ballew’s Restaurant opened at this location in 1996. Since that time
it has become a traditional meeting and eating place on the east
side of town, one well known for its fresh cuisine, simple menu, and
fantastic happy hour.
“I
don’t know where my next pay check will come from, “David says,” so
until then I might do a little traveling. What the heck, no job, no
kids, nothing to tie me down right now.” David also has an enormous
amount of gratitude when it comes to the thirteen years he has been
at this location. “I thank everyone in the neighborhood and the
community for supporting Ballew’s Restaurant.”
By
the way, Steven Waddle is the kid who bused the carhop trays at
Waddle’s Drive-In Coffee Shop, his father’s restaurant, at Jantzen
Beach. After that closed, he continued as general manager for
Applewood NW Cuisine & Catering the past seven years. Jane, whom
Steve calls “the driving force,” brings many years of experience in
the restaurant business, along with sales and marketing experience.
Jason Forster will be on
board as chef and kitchen manager. Jason, who is Steve’s son-in-law,
graduated from Western Culinary Institute and, following a stint at
the Hotel Coronado in San Diego, California, worked with Steve at
Applewood.
While there are changes in store over time with new menu items and
catering to be added, some things will remain the same. The great
staff of Ballew’s Restaurant will stay. This includes
Lisa Laurance, who has been
at Ballew’s for twelve and a half years. David makes clear that
“Ballew’s wouldn’t have been the success it is without the staff.
Lisa was always the boss.” Hours of operation and phone are the
same: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Friday; noon -8 p.m., Saturdays;
closed on Sundays.
Yes, the name DuckTales Kitchen plays on the locally famous duck
that sat atop Waddle’s Drive-In sign. Stop by next week and say
hello; Steven and Jane look forward to hearing some of your favorite
duck tales.
Fort Vancouver National Trust, Pearson Air Museum, and the Fort
Vancouver National Historic Site will host a free public screening
of a new documentary, The National
Parks: America’s Best Idea, in the Tex Rankin Theater at
Pearson Air Museum. Show times are at noon, 2 p.m., and 4 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 2. This screening is free to the public.
This is a new six-episode PBS documentary directed by
Ken Burns and written and
co-produced by Dayton Duncan.
It was filmed over the course of more than six years at some of
nature's most spectacular locales — from Acadia to Yosemite,
Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Florida Everglades to the Gates
of the Arctic in Alaska. It will begin airing on PBS on September
27.
For further information, call the Fort Vancouver Visitor Center at
816-6230, or call the Pearson
Air Museum at 694-7026.
Columbia River Crossing
Project Sponsors Council meets Sept. 4
The Columbia River Crossing Project Sponsors Council will begin
reviewing potential design refinements and related potential cost
reductions for the project when it meets at 10 a.m. to noon Friday,
Sept. 4, in the WSDOT SW Region building, 11018 NE 51st Circle,
Vancouver, WA 98662. The meeting is open to the public.
As
part of ongoing project development and financial planning,
transportation officials and community leaders in the
Portland-Vancouver area will consider ways to reduce anticipated
project costs and still meet the project’s overall goals. The
Project Sponsors Council is expected to make a recommendation on
refinements later this year to provide federal and state partners
with updated project costs.
The Sept. 4 agenda also includes an update on project funding,
development of performance measurements for the corridor, and a
summary of public input received for the project’s ongoing tolling
study, and pedestrian and bicycle advisory committee’s
recommendation for the location of the improved bike and pedestrian
path.
City of Battle Ground is having an Old Town Revitalization Open
House from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1, in Battle Ground Community
Center, Lewis River Reception Hall. For more information, call
342-5047 or visit
www.cityofbg.org.
Monday on the
air
City Council Workshop (8-24)—4 p.m. CVTV
Portland Beavers at Colorado
(live)—5 p.m. KKAD
Our Personal Best Employee Award Program (8-20)—5:15
p.m. CVTV
Top Projects 2009 (7-23)—6:30 p.m. CVTV
LA Angels at Seattle (live)—7 p.m.
710 FSN
Vancouver City Council (8-24)—7 p.m. CVTV
Clark County Planning Commission (8-20)—7:45 p.m.
CVTV
Town Hall: Congress Brian Baird (8-18)—11:15 p.m.
CVTV
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