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Women’s Rights exhibit opens Thursday Clark County Historical Museum will open a new exhibit, Road to Equality: The Struggle for Women’s Rights in the Northwest, on Thursday, June 24, with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. This new exhibit commemorates the centennial of Washington State women gaining the right to vote in 1910. Reception attendees will have the opportunity to make their own political buttons and vote on the Equal Rights Amendment while mingling with some of Vancouver’s legendary ladies as played by the Vancouver Heritage Ambassadors. Light refreshments will be served. CCHM is located in Vancouver’s 1909 Carnegie Library building. Regular museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is charged. The museum also is open free from 5 to 9 p.m. the first Thursday of each month February through November for First Thursday Museum After Hours. A wheelchair-accessible entrance to the museum is located on the east side of the museum building on 16th street.
Legacy Salmon Creek Celebrates Fifth Annual Kids Fair
Tammy Jones, an R.N. at Legacy Salmon Creek, center, helps children “operate” on Suzi Surgi-Duck, one of the more popular activities at the recent Healthy Kids Fair. Helping Tammy is her son, at left, Matt Jones. On June 12, more than 1,500 children, parents and grandparents attended the fifth annual Healthy Kids Fair this month at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center. Children’s services departments from throughout the hospital took part, along with 20 community partners. The Salmon Creek Lions Club painted 1,000 children’s faces; Salmon Creek Hospital Foundation handed out a free book to each child; the Children’s Center, which provides pediatric rehabilitation services, offered a children’s obstacle course focused on movement and balance; Fire District 6 offered fire safety tips. Clark Public Utilities offered electrical safety tips; the Free Clinic of Southwest Washington brought its Dental Van, offering information on oral health; Clark County YMCA offered a soccer kick-out; Kids Club Fun & Fitness offered swim-safety tips; Salmon Creek Burgerville offered games and snacks; the Clark County Sheriff’s Office offered gun safety locks; and AMR and Metro West offered ambulance tours. "It was a busy day, with a steady stream of visitors, and we saw a lot of smiles all day long, from children and adults alike," said Brian Willoughby, community relations specialist for Legacy Salmon Creek. The fair also offered low-cost bicycle helmets, with fittings to make sure helmets are the right size and are worn correctly. More than 500 helmets were sold at the fair. In addition, more than 80 child safety seats that were damaged or had expired were brought in to be recycled, and more than 30 child-safety seats were checked to make sure they were being used properly.
Auditions to sing the national anthem before one of the grandstand shows at the Clark County Fair are tonight at 6 p.m. at the Clark County Event Center adjacent to the fairgrounds, 17402 NE Delfel Road in Ridgefield. The fair is from Aug. 6 to Aug. 15. More information is available at www.clarkcofair.com.
Wagner joins Port of Vancouver
Theresa Wagner Today, Port of Vancouver USA announced the hiring of Theresa Wagner as the port’s communications manager. Theresa’s responsibilities include oversight of communications, media relations and public relations. Prior to coming to the port, Wagner served as U.S. Sen. Patty Murray’s southwest Washington regional director where she assisted the senator’s constituents in Clark, Cowlitz, Skamania, Wahkiakum, and Pacific Counties. In addition, Wagner spent several years as communications manager for the southwest region of the Washington State Department of Transportation. Wagner grew up in Vancouver, earned her Associates in Arts degree from Clark College, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington State University. She is a graduate of Leadership Clark County, a local leadership development program, and a General George C. Marshall Public Leadership award recipient. Wagner and her husband, Don Wagner, live in Hockinson. The Port of Vancouver USA, created by Clark County taxpayers in 1912, is one of the major ports on the Pacific Coast. For more information, visit www.portvanusa.com. Want to know more? All of our advertisements are embedded with a link to the website of the business or organization; more information about them is just a click away. Try it! Campaign Events Tony Golik: A fundraiser for Tony Golik’s campaign for Clark County prosecutor is planned for 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 24, at Dolce Gelato, 535 West 8th St. in downtown Vancouver. Leadership Clark County will host a candidate forum at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 8, at Clark College's Gaiser Hall, featuring candidates running for the open seat in the U.S. 3rd Congressional District. The event is free and open to the public. League of Women Voters: The Clark County League of Women Voters will be hosting their primary night at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 14, on the seventh floor of the Clark County Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin St., Vancouver. Questions for candidates will be available at 6 p.m. All races with three or more candidates, except the 3rd Congressional District and the Prosecuting Attorney, are invited to participate. The public is welcome to attend. The program will be taped by CVTV for later broadcast. For more information, contact Jane Van Dyke at 503-459-1011. Candidate forum: The Forum at the Library and League of Women Voters are offering a candidates forum at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 15, in the community room at Clark Public Utilities, 1200 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver. For more information, call 360-695-1566. Daily Insider submission guidelines Items are best submitted via email with the information, as well as photos, included in the body of the email. Please send two weeks before the date of the event to tony@dailyinsider.info. News Briefs
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