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THURSDAY MARCH 2, 2006 Click here for a clear path home Bi-state forum about as
high-powered Governors Chris Gregoire, Washington, and Ted Kulongoski, Oregon, are the headliners and the marquee also includes Mayors Royce Pollard, Vancouver, and Tom Potter, Portland, with Columbian publisher Scott Campbell moderating the mayors’ section. The Bi-State Forum, 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, March 16, in the Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom at Portland State University, is also populated by the following: Hal Dengerink, chancellor, Washington State University Vancouver, and George Pernsteiner, chancellor, Oregon State University System, in a panel on higher education and training, moderated by Wayne Branch, president of Clark College; Doug MacDonald, Washington State Secretary of Transportation, and Mike Garrett, director, Oregon Department of Transportation, in a panel on transportation, moderated by Jay Waldron, chairman of the Port of Portland commission; Mark Sidran, chairman of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, and Lee Beyer, chairman of the Oregon Public Utilities Commission, in a panel titled “Smart Energy,” moderated by Margie Gardner, executive director, Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance; Roger Qualman, executive vice president, Norris Beggs and Simpson, and Stuart Cohen, director of Open Source Development Lab, Beaverton, in a panel on economic development, moderated by Charlie Allcock ,director of economic development, PGE. The luncheon keynote speaker is Kip Bergstrom, executive director of the Rhode Island Economic Policy Council. The Bi-State Forum is sponsored by the Portland State University’s Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning’s Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies. The institute was formed in 1992, to consider key issues of metropolitan significance in the six-county Vancouver-Portland area. The registration fee is $50. For further information, call (503) 725-5170. Construction of county’s
56-acre Construction of the 56-acre Pacific Community Park, south of NE 18th Street between NE 164th and 172nd Avenues, will begin following ground-breaking ceremonies at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 15. The community park is supported by real estate excise taxes and park impact fees within unincorporated areas of Clark County. When completed a year from now, the park will offer a 10,000-square-foot extreme sports area for skateboarders, BMX riders and in-line skaters, a fenced 8-acre area where dogs can run unleashed, play areas, ball fields, trails and picnic shelters. The County Parks District property taxes will finance maintenance of 35 new parks, seven miles of trails, and 41 sports fields outside the city of Vancouver but inside the city’s urban growth area. Rotary Clubs renewing offer of
Scholarships for study abroad, valued up to $26,000, again are being offered by Rotary Clubs of Clark County and the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. Applicants, who must apply by Friday, March 24, must be outstanding students, technicians or teachers and potential ambassadors of goodwill, and must have completed two years of college or university studies when the scholarship begins. The scholarships are available for more than 160 countries. For further information, call George Middleton, 694-2752. News brief Battle Ground’s new police department building, 507 SW 1st Street, will be dedicated by Mayor John Idsigna and police chief James McDaniel at 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 22. Building tours will be conducted until 7 p.m. People Elizabeth Brown and Jesse Magna have been reappointed to the state Home Care Quality Authority by Gov. Chris Gregoire. Brown, a registered nurse, is a certified guardian ad litem with the Clark County Superior Court and a member of the state Agency on Aging advisory council. Magna, also a member of the state Agency on Aging advisory council, is a member of the Vancouver Disability Resource Center Board, and is a lobbyist on aging issues before the state legislature. Calendar Vancouver/Clark Parks & Recreation public planning sessions continue at 6:30 p.m. this evening in the new Firstenburg Community Center, 700 NE 136th Avenue. Subject matter is the planning of open space for the next six years. n InterACT Clark County will discuss the Cowlitz Casino Resort at its noon, Friday, March 3, meeting in My Friends and I Restaurant, 1010 Broadway. Call 695-2164 for reservations.
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