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THURSDAY JAN. 12, 2006 Brian Scott named director
Brian Scott, former director of research and analysis for Database Marketing Agency, Portland, has been appointed director of marketing for Clark College. Director of marketing is a new position for the 73-year-old community college. Clark has an enrollment of over 11,000. The college focuses on professional and technical training, academic transfer students, and on pre-college and basic skills, personal development, and cultural enrichment. Prior to joining Database Marketing Agency, Scott served as marketing director for Centennial Bank, Portland, and as an advertising and marketing group manager for US Bank. He has been a member of the Portland Chapter of the American Marketing Association and the Credit Union Association of Oregon. He has served on several committees for the Washington State Bank Marketers Association and the Oregon Bankers Association. He was a member of the Greater Portland Metro Advisory Committee for Regional Parks and Greenspaces. Scott earned undergraduate degrees from both Portland State University and the University of Oregon, and earned a masters degree in business administration from PSU. Local artists to be featured The Southwest Washington Center for the Arts and the Building Industry of Clark county are asking local artists to submit portfolios of their work for consideration as part of the 2006 Parade of Homes. The two groups are working with interior design teams and builders to provide an all-regional aspect to the show of homes. “Every medium and nature of artwork will be considered for selection by the design team,” according to SWCA spokesperson Jill Botvinik. Ten homes will be displayed during the 2006 Parade of Homes in Washougal July 14 through 30. Deadline for submission of artists portfolios is noon, Thursday, Jan. 19, according to Botvinik. A $25 application fee will be required of artists. For further information, call 241-5284. Percussionist Joel Bluestone
featured Percussionist Joel Bluestone, music professor at Portland State University, will be the solo performer in the Suite for Percussion and Orchestra by Felix Martinez Comin during the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s “The Road Less Traveled” concerts Saturday, Jan. 21, and Sunday, Jan. 22, in the concert hall at Skyview High School, 1300 NW 138th Street. Bluestone is also a percussionist with northwest contemporary music ensemble Fear No Music, which he founded. The 3 p.m. Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday concerts are preceded by a one-hour musical discussion. General admission is $25. Reserved admission is $35. Student admission is $5, and senior admission is $20. For further information, call 735-7278. Insider readers may win pairs of free tickets to either performance by correctly answering the following question: What is the name of the work by Debussy that will be performed at the January concerts. Answers are to be emailed to www.thevso@vancouversymphony.org. News brief The Clark County Community Development Department has earned from customers an A- rating for 2005, reports department director Richard Carson. Carson said that, last year, the department’s 150 employees reviewed and inspected $583 million in new residential, commercial and industrial construction. When the department was first rated by its customers in 2000, it earned a C-minus rating, according to Carson. Calendar University of Maryland
president Freeman A. Hrabowski III
will celebrate the life and dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. at 6
p.m. this evening in Gaiser Hall at Clark College. The public is invited
to the Clark College-sponsored program which will include entertainment
by the A.M.E. Zion Church choir.
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The first in a series of annexation “fairs” being offered by the City of
Vancouver is at 6 p.m. this evening in the Northwest Regional Training
Center, 11606 NE 66th Street. The city is exploring the possibility of
expanding the pending Burnt Bridge Creek annexation south of Fourth
Plain Boulevard to include as many as 50,000 additional people north of
Fourth Plain Boulevard, all within the city’s urban growth boundary.
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at home and from around the world:
C-TRAN takes first step toward building a $3.8 million transit center--Columbian, Thomas Ryll Seattle Sonics may go to Bellevue--Seattle Times, Ashley Bach and Jim Brunner Europeans urge U.N. to take up Iran nuclear issue--USA TODAY, AP 30-year mortgages dip for fifth straight week--USA TODAY, AP
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