Christopher Lui earns
first MAP scholarship

Christopher Lui, Mountain View High School junior, has been awarded a Mentoring Advanced Placement program scholarship. The $1,500 scholarship is the first awarded by the MAP program started by Vancouver's nLight Corporation.

Lui is a member of the National Honor Society. He participated in the science Olympiad and was selected as a semi-finalist for the 2006 U.S. Physics Team. He placed first in the region in the 2005 Physics Bowl. Lui has taken 13 advanced placement classes and 10 honors courses.

The MAP program is a partnership among nLight and other local businesses, Educational Service District 112, Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council and local school districts. The program provides mentors, from businesses, to high school students pursuing advance placement coursework.

NLight manufactures high-powered semiconductor lasers.

Report suggests county Fire Marshal’s
Office should increase inspection fees

A recently completed Clark County performance audit of the county Fire Marshal’s Office reports that the county may want to adjust fees for fire inspections. The report, issued by county auditor Greg Kimsey, shows that the county general fund paid for 62 percent of the cost of annual fire inspections during 2005 at a cost to the general fund of $326,000.

The audit is part of an ongoing series of performance audits of local governmental agencies conducted by the county Auditor’s Office.

The report also recommended that the Fire Marshal’s Office should set up improved inspection schedules, utilize digital technology, analyze data to determine whether re-inspection fees would increase compliance, and analyze data to determine if more on-site follow-up is needed.

Kimsey said that the county Department of Community Development, which oversees the Fire Marshal’s Office, is already taking action to implement the recommendations.

Southwest Washington Medical Center
marketers get national ad award

A one-time newspaper advertisement that was converted into an in-house poster thanking Southwest Washington Medical Center Foundation donors Ed and Mary Firstenburg and Patricia and Davie Nierenberg for their combined $30 million contributions to the medical center won a silver award from Marketing Healthcare Today magazine.

The award was selected from nearly 2,500 entries nationwide.

The ad was created by the medical center’s marketing team, Sarah Mottram, Ken Cole and Matt Schoolfield, according to director of marketing Chad Dillard.

Information on low-income
drug assistance programs
is in Portland next Monday

Part of a national program designed to explain low-income and senior citizen prescription drug benefits, the “Help Is Here” express bus sponsored by the national Partnership for Prescription Assistance, will be in Portland Monday, June 12, reports state Rep. Richard Curtis (R-18th).

There are 475 different programs that can help pay for prescription drug medications, according to Curtis.

The “Help Is Here” bus will be in the parking lot of  the Salvation Army Moore Street Community Center, 5352 N Williams Street, between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday.  

Additional information is available  on the Partnership for Prescription Alliance at www.pparx.org, or by calling toll free, (888) 477-2669.

Calendar

Val Ogden is keynote speaker for the Leadership Clark County graduation at 6 p.m. this evening in the Water Resources Education Center. n Clark County commissioner Betty Sue Morris is the speaker at the Fairgrounds Neighborhood Association meeting at 7 p.m. this evening in the Community of Christ Church meeting room, 400 NE 179th Street. n The Greater Brush Prairie Neighborhood Association meets at 7 p.m. this evening in the CASEE Building, 11104 NE 149th Street, Brush Prairie. n The free CREDC workshop on how to sell goods and services to the government is 8 to 9 a.m. Friday, June 9, in CREDC offices at 1101 Broadway, Suite 120. For further information, call Deb Wallace, 694-5006. n Vancouver Mayor Royce Pollard is the speaker at the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce East Forum at 7:30 a.m. Friday, June 9, in Nautilus headquarters, 16400 SE Nautilus Drive. Attendance fee is $10 and includes breakfast.

Lori Hughes, manager of the Vancouver Miller Nash
law office, was recently elected president of the
Oregon Chapter of the Association of Legal
Administrators. 

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Friday on the air         Clark County Land Use Hearings (live)—6 p.m. CVTV    Portland Beavers at Sacramento (live)—7 p.m. KKAD

Town Tabloids and the weather Dan Ogden having a few choice words, too. n Mary Granger still dreaming. n Elson Strahan conned. n Nancy Hales sailing smoothly. n Greg Flakus expecting to report only good news. n John McDonagh investigating. n Cathy Miller graduating with straight A’s. n Craig Pridemore reciting improvements. n John White’s cards close to vest. n Thursday, mostly gray, mostly dry, 69. Friday, mostly sunny, 72. Saturday, buttermilk sky, 78.

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