Southwest Washington Medical Center
adds three medical oncologists to team

   
          Steinberg                        Ye                                 Liss

Southwest Washington Medical Center has announced the addition of three medical oncologists to its Cancer Center team.

They are Lewis M. Steinberg, Gang Ye and Michaelann Liss. They will practice at the medical center’s main campus on Mill Plain Boulevard and in the Vancouver Clinic’s 87th Avenue medical center.

Dr. Steinberg is a former instructor at Georgetown University School of Medicine and an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Ye recently completed his fellowship at Louisiana State University Health Science Center. Dr. Liss began her medical career in rehabilitation and holds a masters degree in physical therapy.

The SWMC Cancer Center offers programs focusing on cancer education, prevention, detection, treatment and support. The Cancer Center is affiliated with the Columbia River Oncology Project and the Oregon Health and Science University.

Security Signs gets second
award for excellence

Security Signs, Portland, owned by Tom and Carol Keljo, Camas, has been presented the 2006 Excellence in Family Business award by the Autzen Family Business Program at Oregon State University.

Security Signs was one of 12 award recipients recognized at a recent awards dinner sponsored by West Coast Bank. Security Signs was recognized for innovation, entrepreneurship, commitment, and community involvement.

The company also won the award in 2002. The Keljos bought the company in 1997. Carol Keljo, company president, is chair of the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce board of directors.

Port of Vancouver settles
suit over contamination

The Port of Vancouver has reached a tentative $14 million settlement with Granite State Insurance Company, ending nearly eight years of litigation over liability for environmental cleanup at the Cadet Manufacturing electric heater production facility in Fruit Valley.

“The port will net about $12 million, with the balance paid out to cover previously agreed to costs of the litigation,” according to port executive director Larry Paulson.

Last May the port acquired the Cadet property, along with the right to seek recovery of the funds from Granite State. Two other insurance carriers settled with the port earlier this year for $10 million.

That agreement also allowed Cadet to continue operating its manufacturing plant, which employs about 100 workers, as a port tenant. Cadet has signed a five-year lease for the site, with two additional five-year options.

Contamination was discovered during the construction of the Mill Plain Extension project in the late 1990s. The cleaning solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) was found to have impacted soil and groundwater at the site and at the former Swan Manufacturing site, a business acquired by Cadet. TCE was commonly used as an industrial solvent until the 1980s.

“The port is continuing to work with the Department of Ecology and others, including the residents of the Fruit Valley neighborhood, to clean up the contamination in the aquifer,” said Paulson.

Warren Miller ski film festival
lights up city Water Center

The Vancouver Resources Education Center will open the day after Thanksgiving for a special showing of three films by extreme-ski cinematic virtuoso Warren Miller.

The films are Miller's Light Side of Skiing!, The Best of Comedy V. 1, and Vertical Reality, and are being shown between 1 and 3 p.m. The center at 4600 SE Columbia Way, will be open from noon until 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 24.

Admission is free. For further information, call 696-8478.

Calendar

A free parenting workshop, being offered by the Center Point Resolution Specialists through Vancouver Mediation Services and the Greater Vancouver Interfaith Association, is at 6:30 p.m. this evening in the Fisher’s Landing Transit Center, 3510 SE 164th Avenue. n Clark County commissioners meet in an informal session at 1:30 pm. Wednesday, Nov. 22, in conference room B in the Public Service Center.

 

Tuesday headlines

Vancouver inks four-year contract with Police Department--Columbian, Jeffrey Mize

Vancouver council backing coalition-backed transportation tax plan--Columbian, Jeffrey Mize

Vancouver expected to approve tax for street improvements--Oregonian, Allan Brettman

Libraries giving away paperback copies of two books on which new movie releases are based--Columbian, Howard Buck

Clark College culinary students offer bold recipes for Thanksgiving--Columbian, Erin Middlewood

Eastern Oregon resident first from state to die from West Nile virus--Oregonian

Clark County gets two grants totaling more than $860,000 to teach residents how to make compost--Oregonian

Almost four in 10 U.S. children born out of wedlock in 2005--USA TODAY, AP

In France birthrates are rising, marriage rates plunge 30 percent--Washington Post, Molly Moore