Dollars for Scholars program
coming to Barnes and Noble

Heritage High School students, including the school’s jazz band, will perform at the Barnes and Noble store, 7700 NE Fourth Plain Road, beginning at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, as part of the school’s Dollars for Scholars program,  which generates money for college scholarships for graduating seniors.

Barnes and Noble customers will be offered vouchers that will designate 15 percent for the scholarship program from every purchase.

In addition to jazz music, students will present a scene from a forthcoming production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.

Formations Design Group
returns to downtown Vancouver

Managing partners Bruce Wilson and Laren Laksamana have relocated Formations Design Group to downtown Vancouver at 1610 C Street, Suite 100, reports Laksamana.

Founded by Wilson in 1987, the company was first located in the historic Webber Building on Columbia Street. The company provides clients with website development, network and server administration, graphic design and project development services.

Bus rides to Mariners’ game for sale

Tickets for the Clark College Alumni Association’s 6th annual No-Hassle Seattle Mariners Game and Good Time Motor Coach Trip, providing transportation and tickets to the Seattle Mariners-San Francisco Giants baseball game in Seattle Sunday, July 18, are on sale now.

Buses depart the Clark College campus at 8 a.m. for the 1:05 p.m. game. Tickets, including transportation and the game, are $55; $49, for members of the alumni association. For further information, call 992-2542.

People

Yevhen Usachov, Clark College dental program student, has been awarded the Clark College Alumni Association’s first one-year scholarship. Usachov emigrated to the United States after graduating from high school in Ukraine in 1988, and has since become a U.S. citizen. Usachov, who has a 3.75 GPA, works full-time and is the sole provider for his mother and sister. The $3,000 scholarship is the first financial aid he has accepted. The alumni association has raised nearly half of its goal of $100,000 to maintain endowed scholarships for Clark students.

Calendar

Farewell receptions for departing Clark College alumni director Cheri Cole today are at 3 p.m. in the Penguin Athletic Club and 5 p.m. in the Quay Bar at the Red Lion Hotel at the Quay. n Hazardous waste may be taken to the Clark College parking area near the campus soccer field between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday, April 22. There is no charge for the service, part of the College’s observance of Earth Week. n The 9th annual Nez Perce Chief Redheart Memorial begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 22, at the former military stockade site in Vancouver Barracks, just north of the Fort Vancouver parking area on E 5th Street. The colorful, three-hour event concludes with the pipe smoking ceremony, in which all military veterans are invited to participate. Those attending should bring lawn chairs or blankets. There is no charge. n Used book sale at the Vancouver Community Library, 1007 E Mill Plain Boulevard, is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 23. n Groundbreaking ceremony for currently named Erickson Farms Neighborhood Park is at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 22. Park is at NW 114th Street and NW 38th Avenue. n Southwest Washington Independent Forward thrust’s 31st annual gala auction, this year including an art auction, begins at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 22, in the ballrooms of the Hinton Vancouver Washington and Vancouver Convention Center. For further information, call 619-4498. n Share’s 5th annual Share-a-Bowl fundraising dinner function begins at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 23, in Skyview High School, 1300 NW 139th Street. The $25 soup dinner, which includes a take-home hand-thrown pottery bowl, benefits Share homeless and hungry programs in Clark County. Concert rock violinist Aaron Meyer and guitarist Bill Lamb entertain at 6 p.m. For further information, call Becky Parker, 573-0662. n Thornton Wilder's Our Town is being presented at 7:30 p.m. in the evening through Sunday, April 23, and at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 22 and 23, in the Columbia Arts Center, 400 W Evergreen Boulevard.  

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Town Tabloids and the weather Louis Schaefer sharing success stories. n Maiji Mercer saying all the right things. n Amanda Mayoral says hi, to dad. n Joe Melroy should be proud. n Chic Scarpelli with good-looking chic. n Ron Keil making introductions. n Scott Barbour making his own camera adjustments. n Dean Sutherland reacting to student rapport. n Janell Sessions getting showmanship kudos. n Friday, possible early showers, late sun breaks, 60. Saturday, should be dry and mostly sunny, 68. Sunday, turn thermostat down, blue sky, 74.

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