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FRIDAY JAN. 6, 2006 Vancouver schedules Burnt
Bridge The City of Vancouver is holding a series of five annexation information fairs this month to consider citizen input regarding annexations generally and, in particular the Burnt Bridge Creek annexation currently in process. The Burnt Bridge Creek annexation is mostly south of Fourth Plain Boulevard, along the city’s northern boundary extending as far east as NE 162nd Avenue and consists of 882 acres. Signatures of property owners representing 75 percent of the assessed value of the area were obtained as a precursor for the annexation. The next official step in the annexation will be a February review by the state Boundary Review Board—often, but not always a formality. City officials are considering whether the time is appropriate to attempt to annex the remaining area within the city’s urban growth boundary that is within the boundary of Fire District #5. The Vancouver Fire Department and Fire District 5 merged several years ago, and the city already is providing water and other services in that area. But a step from the Burnt Bridge Creek annexation, which is large, to annexing the remaining area within the fire district would be huge. If the Boundary Review Board were to OK an annexation that large, the annexation would the largest in the city’s history—larger than the Cascade Park annexation, which brought some 58,000 people into the city. An annexation that large would catapult Vancouver into being the second largest city in the state of Washington. Currently it is the fourth largest, behind Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane. Hence, the annexation fairs. These fairs, providing citizens an opportunity to talk with city officials, are scheduled for 6 to 8:30 p.m. The first is Thursday, Jan. 12, in the Northwest Regional Training Center, 11606 NE 66th Street. Additional fairs are Thursday, Jan. 19, in the Hazel Dell Sewer District office, 8000 NE 52nd Court; Tuesday, Jan. 24, in Prairie High School, 11500 NE 117th Avenue; Thursday, Jan. 26, in Pacific Middle School, 2017 NE 172nd Avenue; and Monday, Jan. 30, in Covington Middle School, 11200 NE Rosewood Avenue. For further information, call 619-1092. Library trustees to listen to
constituents' The Fort Vancouver Regional Library District board of trustees will review answers to an earlier posed question of what to do about uncensored Internet content during a work session, 4-to 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 9, in the Washougal Community Library, 1661 C Street. The question posed by the trustees is as follows: The library’s current Internet-access policy requires mandatory filtering of sexually-explicit Web sites, with adults 17 and older able to turn off the filter. Should the district change its policy to eliminate the ability of adults to turn off the filter? The board of trustees will not take public comment during the workshop, nor will it take any official action. A regular meeting of the trustees follows at 6:15 p.m. News briefs The Vancouver office for Gov. Christine Gregoire has been mobbed from east Vancouver to the Vancouvercenter, 700 Washington Street, Suite 300, reports Jim Jacks, the governor’s southwest Washington liaison officer. Jacks can be reached at a new telephone number, 816-2216. n First class U.S. postage for an ordinary letter increases to 39 cents from 37 cents on Sunday, Jan. 8. Postcard rates go to 24 cents from 23 cents. It is the first first-class postage rate increase since March 2002. Calendar Reservations are required for
tonight’s 7-to-9 p.m. lantern tour of Fort Vancouver, guided by members
of the U.S. National Park Service. Participation is $3 per person.
Individual lanterns will be provided. Call
696-7655, extension
10, to sign on.
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C-TRAN executive director Lynne Griffith
and Washington State University chancellor
Hal Dengerink will arrive on the
WSU Vancouver Salmon Creek campus at 8:53 a.m. Monday, Jan. 9, from the
Salmon Creek Park & Ride, to inaugurate the new C-TRAN Salmon Creek
Shuttle service, connecting the university and neighboring Legacy Salmon
Creek Hospital with the park & ride and businesses in between. The
service will continue 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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