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• >«* • I m P oru and O bserver • D ecember 18, 1996 P age A3 After the holidays, act Holiday events from senior center The city’s Senior Enrichment Program has several fun holiday I events planned to entertain and | brighten the holidays for seniors. Vancouver Pops Orchestra Holi day Concert: Get in the holiday spirit and enjoy an evening o f music, Wednesday, December 11 at 7:30 p m . at Luepke Center. Admission is a canned food item to be donated to a local food bank. For details on | above programs, call 696-8202 Toy Box for the holidays I ears ot Joy Theatre unwraps a I very special package for your Hol iday entertainment Toy Box will I be performed at I lam and 2pm on December 2 1 st at the Columbia Art I Center, located at 400 West Ever- | green in Vancouver. The lid on the | Toy Box continues to rise from December 22nd-December 29th at the Winningstad Theatre in the Port • land Center for the performing Arts located at I 111 SW Broadway in Portland. Season tickets are avail able for $7.00. Individual tickets I are $9.50 for adults and $8.50 for ! children. For tickets and informa tion call (5 0 3 )2 4 8 -0 5 5 7 (360)695-0447. or After the ripping o f the wrapping paper and the squeals o f excitement at your family celebrations, the nev er-ending process o f stuffing things into the toy boxes begins. But things keep coming ou, o f Tears o f Joy’s Toy Box, and what you put in is not necessarily what comes out. Peak inside our box and you’ll discover a world o f dancing ballerina dolls, six foot teddy bears, a whale swimming through a sea o f celebration for new life, and "The Little Match G irl”. All will delight and challenge the heart. Toy Box is the collaborative cre ation o f the resident staff at Tears of Joy Theatre. Erin Bouvy, Emily Bra dley, W alter Gaines, and Angela Wand work as an ensemble to cre ate a world o f imagination in a drab city landscape. "The mystery o f the clown who pulls the toy box into an alley on a long rope is what attracts my character," says Angela Wand who portrays the old woman who first encounters the Toy Box. Three o f the actors received training at the Del Arte School o f Physical The atre which specializes in the highly energized movement necessary in | this production. Fears of Joy’s Family Series will I continue with Fire on the Mountain | andcloses with Pinocchio this spring, i All performances are accompanied | You know about the pervasiveness ot alcohol and drug abuse but perhaps you didn' t know you can do a lot about it. Here are some ideas from the state Office ot Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs that Oregonians can act on in 1997. By Toni Phipps Space drinks Serve snack Offer non-alcoholic beverages. Designate a driver. Don't let friends drive drunk. We hear a lot of these party messag es during the holidays, as we should. But alter we've gotten safely through the holidays, let's work on the critical long-term goals: preventing alcohol and other drug abuse among our chil dren and adolescents, encouraging treatment for citizens who need it and ensuring the public safety of all ( )rego- mans. We cannot afford to let these long term goals be forgotten like broken New Year's resolutions. Every one of us can resolve to do something in 1997, even if the time you can spare is only an hour a week. Examples: Join your local Oregon Together! group, which is trying to make your conimu- The City o f Vancouver is seek ing applicants to fill a vacancy on the Planning Com m ission. The Planning Commission serves as a citizen advisory body to the city council. Commissioners work in a voluntary capacity to conduct stud ies and public hearings on subdivi sions, comprehensive plan amend ments, rezone requests and zoning text amendments. The commission makes recommendations to the city manager to give to the city council for review and final decisions. Applicants must live within the city limits, or East County annex November 18 meeting. That deci sion followed one o f the recommen dations o f the Citizens Committee on Representation which had explored the issue o f council participation for the annexation area. “These appointments will help give citizens o f the annexation areas a voice in city affairs before the next election," saysCity Manager Vernon Stoner. Although the new members will be unable to vote on council issues, they will fully participate in all council deliberations. They will be allowed to recommend an ac tion, policy or plan to the City Council on any city matter. Applicants must be registered voters and residents o f the newly annexed areas for a continuous period o f at least two years prior to theirappointment. In addition, they cannot currently hold another city public office or city employment. Application deadline is Decem ber 20. Interested candidates should contact the M ayor’s Office at 696- 8211. fl Announcing a free Christmas haircut for boys & girls! Professional haircuts! Monday December 23rd, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p in. • • S T V IN CEN T JePAUL STAFFINO SERVICES! We have state and county jobs to fill now! We have career opportunities for you! Positions available now with the Port of Port land. Top level Admin. Assistants, Word processing, spreadsheets and high level cus tomer service. Professional work environ ment. Positions available at the PDX Interna- i tional Airport, N.E. Marine Dr. and the Port of Portland building. or by calling 696-8121 (fax 696- 8049). Applications must be sub-| mitted by Tuesday, December 24. City seeks ad hoc council applicants The Vancouver City Council is seeking applicants for two new, non-voting, temporary positions on the council. The ad hoc members will be selected by the council to provide immediate representation for citizens in the newly annexed Cascade Park, Mill Plain and Ev ergreen areas. They will serve in the appointive positions until after the November 1997 general elec tion. The city council unanimously voted to add the two members at its iris tinas ation area. For applications or fur ther inform ation contact Peggy Furno, in the City M anager’s Office I at City Hall, 210 E. 13th St., P.O. Box 1995, Vancouver, WA. 986681 treatment is now available through the Oregon Health Plan Call your coun ty s mental health or alcohol and drug office (listed in the phone fxxik's blue pages). When we’re reading news about alcohol and other drugs, the story often is not a happy one More Oregon teens using tobacco and marijuana. Hun dreds of thousands of Oregon adults abusing alcohol or other drugs. Nearly halt ot people whom police arrest hav ing alcohol or other drug problems, and relatively few receiving treatment The good news is each of us can affect how this story turns out. Port of Portland by a lobby exhibit or activity. Planning Commission vacancy r nity a safer place to raise children and adolescents. Nearly 70 of these coali tions aie working across Oregon If you want to know how to contact yours, call the Oregon Prevention Re source Center at I (800)822-6772. Encourage your child to join OSSOM (Oregon Student Safety on the Move) or similar student group locally. About 75 communities have OSSOM chapters; to I ind out if yours does, call OSSOM ’s Debbie Jarvis at I (8(X)) 678-7956. If you know an alcoholic or addict, help him or her get into treatment. For certain low-income people, outpatient Additional FREE Computer Training for those who qualify. First come first serve zfge.v 16 (V under At The S alvation A rm y Moore St. Corps Communi ty Center, 5325 N. 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