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TUESDAY, SEPT. 27, 2005
Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt adds
staff moves to Vancouvercenter Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt is adding two attorneys to its Vancouver office and moving its offices to 6,104 square feet on the sixth floor of the north tower of the Vancouvercenter. The new move and expansion follows the hiring of Don Russo as an associate in March. Carol McCaulley, who specializes in employment and labor law, had been an associate with Blair, Schaefer, Hutchison & Wolfe, before being hired by the Schwabe firm. McCaulley holds a masters degree from Washington State University and earned her law degree from the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College.
Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt has offices in Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Bend, Salem and Washington, D.C. Retail electric rates go up, but
Clark Public Utilities increased its retail rates, effective October 1, to cover a $16 million shortfall anticipated during the next 12 months, mostly brought on by higher natural gas prices, which affect about half the utility's power supply. The residential rate increase, about seven percent, is canceled by a Bonneville Power Administration residential exchange rebate program. Unless BPA reneges on the application of its program with Clark, residential customers will continue to buy electricity at the existing rate, at least for the next year. The monthly rate for residential customers is predicated on a $6.40 basic charge, plus an energy charge of 7.36 cents per kilowatt-hour. The per kilowatt-hour rate includes a pass-through of nearly six tenths of a cent from BPA. Industrial and commercial customers, whose rates are figured differently and which are much lower than residential customer rates, will increase by about 2.1 percent, effective October 1. New industrial and commercial rates are 4 cents per kilowatt-hour, April through August, and 4.51 cents per kilowatt-hour, September through March. Industrial customers are also subject to other changes, including demand charges. The rate increases are based on the cost of service among customer classes and are determined so that one class of customer does not subsidize another. Utility commissioner Byron Hanke said the increase is the first in two and a half years, and is necessary because of high prices for natural gas that’s used to generate electricity at the River Road Generating Plant, which provides nearly half of the utility’s power supply. “When completed in 1997, River Road produced electricity at a lower cost than BPA, but that’s changed as gas prices have soared,” Hanke said. “We’re currently buying all the BPA power we can and rely on River Road to meet the rest of our needs.” Clark Public Utilities serves about 170,000 customers and is growing a current annual rate of about 2.61 percent.
Children's mental
well-being workshop includes Families attending at the Children's Mental Well-being workshop, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. this evening in the Jim Parsley Center, 4100 Plomondon Street, will receive free pizza, beverages and a gasoline gift card, according to Dawn Grosz, consumer specialist for the county Department of Community Services. Several of the area's children's public mental health agencies are participating under the sponsorship of the Statewide Action for Family Empowerment of Washington, and the Clark County Family Action Committee. For further information, call 397-2130. People Dave Kern, a panelist on a Clark College forum on media responsibility, associate metro editor of The Columbian, and artistic director and conductor of The Rockaroos, was the victim of a misspelling in the Insider Monday. We also misspelled former Vista High School cheerleader Jane McCulloch-Halcomb's maiden name. We take complete responsibility for these and any other errors that appeared Monday. Calendar Clark County commissioners meet in informal session at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28.
Tuesday headlines
at home and from around the world: State Republican Party endorses repeal of the state gasoline tax--Columbian, Kathie Durbin C-TRAN restoration plans continue apace--Oregonian Top Al-Qaeda insurgent in Iraq reported killed--Washington Post, AP [Video] New home sales plunge--USA TODAY, AP. Martin Grutsinger
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