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THURSDAY JAN. 5, 2006 Center for Community Health Clark County’s $38 million Center for Community Health at 1601 E Fourth Plain Boulevard, on the U.S. Veterans Affairs campus, officially opens 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 6. The building, the first of its kind in the nation, combines in a single structure U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs facilities, the Clark County Health Department, Lifeline Connections, Northwest Community Services, and the county Department of Community Services. In addition, the facility offers 60 residential drug and alcohol treatment beds for adults, a 16-bed combined co-occurring mental health and substance abuse evaluation and treatment center, 16 residential drug and alcohol treatment beds for the deaf and hard of hearing, and 16 detoxification beds. “The community health center will serve as a national model for collaboration, savings and efficiency as a unique combination of multiple health and social services,” according to Marc Boldt, chairman of the board of Clark County commissioners. Tours of the facility will be offered following opening ceremonies remarks by Boldt, James Whitfield, regional director of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, James Tuchschmidt, director of the Portland VA Medical Center, Mary C. Selecky, secretary of health for the Washington State Department of Health, and Ruth Leonard, regional treatment manager for the state Department of Social and Health Services, Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse. First of two lantern tours of Visitors to Fort Vancouver will see firsthand what it was like to live at the Hudson’s Bay Company fort in the early 19th century during lantern tours of the fort, the first of which is from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 6. Another lantern tour is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3. Accompanied by National Park Service guides, participants will be issued lanterns and will tour the fur store, kitchen, chief factor’s house and the counting house. Tour fees are $3 per person. Reservations are required. For further information, call 696-7655, extension 10. C-TRAN’s Salmon Creek shuttle C-TRAN’s first new service route since voters approved the transit agency’s sales tax financing package last fall, opens Monday, Jan. 9, providing service between Washington State University Vancouver and the Salmon Creek Park & Ride. The shuttle service includes stops at Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital and Kaiser Permanente health facilities. The Salmon Creek shuttle service was designed with input from local Salmon Creek businesses and community members, reports C-TRAN executive director Lynne Griffith. The trip between the park & ride and the university campus is 13 minutes. The half-hour service will be offered between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Transit service that was curtailed when C-TRAN lost automobile excise tax support four years ago will be restored later this month to Ridgefield, La Center and Yacolt, according to Griffith. Griffith and WSU Vancouver chancellor Hal Dengerink are scheduled to arrive by bus at the university at 8:53 a.m. for an official ribbon cutting ceremony for the new service. Clark Public Utilities adds
over Clark County residential growth in November surged by 511 new customers, according to Clark Public Utilities’ records for new residential hook-ups. The annual rate of customer growth is 2.72 percent, according to utility records. During the first 11 months of 2005, the electric utility added 3,986 families to its roster of customers. 49th District town hall
meeting An hour-long conversation café meeting scheduled by InterACT and the Forum at the Library at 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, in the Dragonfly Café in the Public Service Center, 11300 Franklin Street, will be followed by a 10 a.m.-to-noon 49th District town hall meeting being presented by the district’s Democratic legislators, Sen. Craig Pridemore and Reps. Bill Fromhold and Jim Moeller, in the 6th floor hearing room at the center. There is no charge for either event. The conversation café session puts groups within the room at separate tables with a facilitator to help develop consensus on selected topics. That session is a follow-up of a meeting last October, during which citizen participation in government was discussed. The conversation café will be headed by Heather Tischbein, a member of the Making Democracy Work advisory committee. The legislators will provide their audience with a preview of the 60-day state legislative session that begins Monday, Jan. 9, in Olympia. Patty Murray to give chamber U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) will brief a Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce audience on major issues facing the U.S. Congress in 2006, at a luncheon meeting at noon Thursday, Jan. 12, in the Hilton Vancouver Washington. Sen. Murray will focus on the Patriot Act, and on drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic Refuge. Nonmembers are welcome and are
encouraged to attend the briefing, says chamber president
John McKibbin. The luncheon is
$30 per person. For reservations, call
694-2588.
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