Gail Bauhs elected state representative for the
Community Transportation Association of America

Gail S. Bauhs, brokerage director for the Human Services Council, has been elected to represent Washington as state delegate to the Community Transportation Association of America. The national organization serves community organizations that operate local transportation programs and interpretive services for senior and disabled individuals.

The local "brokerage service" puts together programs that overcome transportation and language barriers for those in need of access to medical services, community resources and employment. Clark County's program currently provides services for more than 12,000 residents of southwest Washington. Bauhs this year coordinated 280,000 rides in five southwest Washington counties.

HCS has been broker of medical transportation for southwest Washington since the program began in 1989. The medical transportation program oversees transportation of Medicaid recipients to and from Medicaid-covered services. Assistance is provided through bus passes, gas vouchers, volunteer drivers, ambulatory vehicles and wheelchair vans. There is no charge to the clients of the program.

Bauhs is also the vice president of the Community Transportation Association of the Northwest and is a founding member of Gorge Translink, which has been awarded state and national grants for bi-state transportation coordination. Previously Bauhs served on C-TRAN Citizens, Technical and Special Advisory Committees. She is a 1996 graduate of Leadership Clark County.

Joe Vance and Ian Sutton
hire on at Miller Nash

    

Joseph Vance and Ian Sutton have joined the Vancouver Miller Nash law office.

Vance, who had been chair of the Portland office of employment practice for Davis Wright Tremaine, joins the Miller Nash litigation department as a partner specializing in employment law.

Vance, a graduate of Brigham Young University, earned his law degree from the University of Washington. He is a member of the Brigham Young University FHSS National Advisory Committee and is a member of the Rotary Club of Vancouver. Young is licensed to practice in Washington and Oregon

Sutton joins the Miller Nash team focusing on land use, environmental and real estate law. Sutton received his law degree in 2005, graduating magna cum laude from the Seattle University School of Law. In addition to participating in a program providing free legal information and services to members of Seattle’s Central District community, Sutton was a clerk in the Washington Court of Appeals and an extern in U.S. District Court for Western Washington.

People

Marcia Carr has been appointed security and safety officer for First Independent. She will manage physical security and safety of the bank as well as manage potential losses, fraud and theft. Carr has an extensive background in bank operations and retail lending, most recently serving as assistant vice president and branch operations officer for Stockman Bank of Montana. Carr is a graduate of Boise State University.

News brief

The Southwest Washington Medical Center’s Center for Weight Management and Nutrition and Diabetes Services has received the 2006 Gerald Bader award along with the $2,500 prize that goes with it, for helping reduce obesity rates among local children. The Bader Award was created and funded by the medical center and its foundation board members David and Patricia Nierenberg, in honor of Dr. Bader’s 30 years of service as a pediatrician. n The Free Clinic of Southwest Washington has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oregon and Southwest Washington to help provide dental care to children of low-income families.

Calendar

The Vancouver Lake Watershed Partnership meets at 4 p.m. today in Port of Vancouver administrative offices, 3103 NW Lower River Road. n Columbia Credit Union is holding a special membership meeting today to decide whether to remove two members of the board of directors and one member of the credit union’s supervisory committee. Registration opens at 4 p.m. The meeting will be in Skyview High School, 1300 NW 139th Street. n Clark County planners are presenting the county’s long-range planning map at a series of open houses this week, including one at 5 p.m. today in the Camas Police Station, 2100 NE 3rd Avenue. The map is the basis for completion of amendments to the 20-year comprehensive plan, which is expected to be adopted in December. The map can be seen at the county Web site, www.clark.wa.gov/longrangeplan/review/index.html. It is also available for public viewing in the Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin Street. n International Week activities continue at Clark College this evening with a 6-to-9 p.m. program featuring Latin Beat harpist, Kit Stowell, and a showing of a dramatic film, Luis Bunuel’sMexican Bus Ride. The event in the Penguin Student Union lounge is free and open to the public.

Wednesday headlines

Vancouver Lake may be getting a new round of loving care--Columbian, Erik Robinson

Klineline Bridge to reopen today--Columbian, Don Hamilton

How Demos will help steer economy--Columbian, Julia Anderson

Tracers of missing ancestors--Columbian, Tricia Jones

Timberline ski season to kick off tomorrow--Oregonian

Al-Jazeera launches English-language news channel--KATU, AP, Jim Crane

U.S. commander warns against deadline for Iraq pullout--USA TODAY, AP

Fed still most concerned about inflation--USA TDAY, Barbara Hagenbaugh

Mortgage applications highest since January--USA TODAY, Reuters