Vancouver Flyers to play in Propstra Stadium this summer

Owen Sanford, left, who will manage the Vancouver Flyers, Mike Clark, right, president of Collegiate Baseball of the West and Vancouver’s Arch Miller, center, today announced in Propstra Stadium the formation of the Vancouver Flyers, who will play baseball in the stadium this summer.

Collegiate baseball is coming to Propstra Stadium at Hudson’s Bay High School this summer. The home opener of the Vancouver Flyers, one of eight teams in a 38-game schedule Northwest Collegiate Summer Baseball League, is 6 p.m. Sunday, June 10, in the Vancouver School District’s elite baseball stadium that comfortably seats about 1,000.

The formation of the Vancouver baseball team and its entry in the summer collegiate league was announced at a news conference this afternoon instigated by Arch Miller, founder of Vancouver’s Friends of Baseball, whose ultimate goal is to have a professional baseball team in the city.

The Vancouver Flyers look like a good start. For the most part players will be northwest college baseball players, who will pay $500 to play the season and the chance to advance through American Amateur Baseball Congress’s annual national tournament in Huntsville, Texas, in mid-August.

Owen Sanford will manage the team, according to Mike Clark, president, American Collegiate Baseball of the West. Sanford played at Central Washington. In 2005 Sanford was assistant coach of the Wenatchee Apple Sox.

Teams in the league, in addition to the Vancouver Flyers, are Pacific Javelinas and Portland Titans, both of Portland, Bend Bucks, Olympia Athletics, Seaside Wildcats, Southern Oregon Riverdogs and Tacoma Cardinals.

Ticket prices are $5 in advance, $6 at the gate. Season passes which are available for $75, are and good for all NWCL games in Vancouver, Sckavone Field, Portland and Seaside.

The league will pay the Vancouver School District for use of the field, according to district superintendent John Erickson.

For further information on the team, advertising possibilities and becoming a host family for one of the players, call Clark at (800) 694-1940.

Sheri Jensen named administrator
for Clark County Prosecutor’s office

Sheri Jensen, a Clark County employee for the past 18 years, has been appointed administrator for the county prosecuting attorney’s office. Jensen succeeds Mary Young, who has been with the county since 1982.

Jensen will supervise a staff of 55 employees. She has worked in the county’s Community Development, Public Works and General Services departments. Most recently, Jensen was permit services manager for Community Development.

Jensen is a graduate of Clark College.

Fran McNa appointed dental
coordinator for Free Clinic

Fran McNa has been named coordinator for the dental program at the Free Clinic. She succeeds Ann Gilbert, who has accepted a research position with the University of Washington, but who will continue to work part-time work for the dental program.

McNa will be responsible for all aspects of the Free Clinic’s dental program, according to Free Clinic executive director Dennis Cole. These include children’s urgent and preventative dental care, community education and outreach, and limited adult restorative dental clinics.

Cole says the dental health needs of the uninsured are every bit as daunting as their medical needs.

McNa was most recently manager of an a Kaiser Permanente internal medicine clinic in Redmond. She has

been a volunteer for Medical Teams International (formerly NW Medical Teams) and the American Cancer Society.

Duvic Vocal Studio students
offering free opera selections

A free concert of opera arias and ensembles is being offered students of the Duvic Vocal Studio at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 13, and Saturday, April 14, in the First Congregational United Church of Christ, 1220 NE 68th Street.

Many facets of love are illustrated by selections from The Marriage of Figaro, The Pearl Fishers, The Telephone Rusalka, and Cosi fan tutte and others.

Directed by April Brookins Duvic, the cast is Jay Boekeloo, Elizabeth Johnston, Bruce Kyte, Inna Nepochatov, Heather Petersen, Mark Pomerville, Kareina Thomas, David Warner, Amanda Worley and Meliea. The accompanist is Kathy Edsill-Charles.

The performance is partially financed through a Clark College Research and Performance Committee grant. For further information, call Duvic at 992-2245.

Calendar

The Vancouver City Council meets in a workshop session at 4 p.m. today and will follow that with a regular session at 6 p.m. The council meets in City Hall. n The Neighborhood Associations Council of Clark County meets in regular session at 7 p.m. this evening in the Public Works Conference Room, 4700 NE 78th Street. n Clark Public Utilities’ commissioners meet in regular session at 9 a.m. Tuesday, April 10. n Port of Vancouver commissioners meet in regular session at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 10. n Clark County commissioners meet in regular session at 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 10. n The C-TRAN board of directors meet at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, and will discuss proposed fare increases.

Monday, April 9, Headlines

Craig Pridemore tells of learning about state government; about where we spend money--Columbian, Kathie Durbin

World War II POW Eugene Liggett has stories to tell--Columbian, Dean Baker

City employees making the move to temp offices near Vancouver Mall--Columbian, Jeffrey Mize

U of W's Donald Brownlee studying message in "4.5-million-year-old-bottle--Columbian, Tom Vogt

Clark County church makes a splash with Easter service in Rose Garden--Columbian, Jose Paul Corona

Scott Aiken guided by faith on path to becoming a deacon in the Catholic faith--Columbian, Michael Andersen

Salmon Creek's Dick Jazbec represents a new breed of philanthropist--Columbian, Eric Apalategui

Patterns of war shift in Iraq amid U.S. buildup--New York Times, Alissa J. Rubin and Edward Wong

Mystery marine back in Iraq--The Desert Sun, Marine Corps Times, Beth Zimmerman

Iraqis loyal to cleric protest U.S. occupation--New York Times--Edward Wong

Iran claims uranium enrichment--Washington Post, Ali Akbar Dareini

Sol LeWitt, master of conceptualism, dies at 78--New York Times, Michael Kimmelman