Back Issues: November, 2015
Port of Woodland commissioners meeting Dec. 17
Monday, November 30, 2015The Port of Woodland Board of Commissioners will be holding their regular scheduled monthly commission meeting on Thursday, Dec. 17, in the Port of Woodland office, 115 Davidson, Woodland. Meeting begins at 5:30 pm.
City hosts toy and gift drive for employee now through Dec. 3
Monday, November 30, 2015
The City of Vancouver invites the community to support “Korey’s Joy Drive,” a toy and gift drive in honor of Korey Cochran, a Computer Support Specialist in the City’s Information Technology Department who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer. The City and will collect unwrapped toys now through Thursday, Dec. 3, for Korey’s two young children, as well as gift cards to support family expenses such as groceries and gas. New, unwrapped toys or gifts cards are being collected at the following locations:
- City Hall’s front desk: 415 W Sixt St.
- Vancouver Tennis Center’s front desk: 5300 E 18th St.
- Marshall Community Center’s front desk: 1009 E McLoughlin Blvd.
- Firstenburg Community Center’s front desk: 700 NE 136th Ave.
These gifts will be hand-delivered to the Cochran residence at noon on Friday, Dec. 4. Unwrapped toys and gifts are also being collected for donation to local Vancouver charities in Korey’s honor.
A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to support the cost of clinical trials and other experimental treatment options. Donations can be made here: https://www.gofundme.com/koreycochran.
For more information about Korey’s Joy Drive and to learn how to help, call Jen Thomas in Vancouver Parks and Recreation at 360-487-7019 or Katherine Nye in the City’s Information Technology Department at 360-719-0596. The community is invited to follow Korey’s journey via his personal blog at: www.caringbridge.org/visit/koreycochran.
Port of Camas-Washougal commissioners hold regular meeting Dec. 1
Monday, November 30, 2015The Port of Camas-Washougal commissioners will meet Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 5 p.m., at the port office meeting room, 24 South A St. in Washougal. For more information, call 360-835-2196.
Master Gardeners present “Urban Lumber: The Future of Forestry” this evening
Monday, November 30, 2015
Every year in the United States an estimated four billion board feet of usable lumber from urban trees is turned into firewood, shredded for mulch, or simply taken to the landfill to rot. This is a loss of many billions of dollars in economic activity. The Master Gardener Foundation of Clark County will host a presentation: “Urban Lumber: The Future of Forestry” with David Barmon, at 7 p.m. tonight, Dec. 1. Barmon co-owns Fiddlehead LLC, a sustainable landscape construction company and is a partner in Epilogue LLC, a company that mills urban trees in to lumber. He will talk about how to save current trees from the landfill and chip yard as well as share his vision for the future to retool our urban forestry system. The presentation will be held in the CASEE Center Bld. B, Rm. 202/205, 11104 NE 149th St., Brush Prairie. The event is free and no registration required. To learn more, visit www.mgfcc.com.