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City Seeks People
with Cultural Interests
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The City o f V ancouver has ex­
tended the deadline for applica­
tions for five vacancies on the
Cultural Com m ission to Thursday,
Sept.30. This 11-member commis­
sion serves in an advisory capacity'
Spotlight on Local
Salmon Recovery
As part o f W ashington W ater
W eek, A statew ide environm ental
aw areness program ,
V ancouver’s W ater Resources
Education C enter w ill offer H elp­
ing Salm on Tours. These free van
tours w ill visit projects around
V ancouver and C lark County that
protect stream s for salmon.
Take this opportunity to see
w hat citizens and groups are do­
ing to stabilize stream banks, pro­
vide cooling shade and improve
w ater quality.
Space is limited; call (360) 696-
8478 for reservation.
events and activities. The C om ­
mission acts as a central clearing­
house for inform ation on arts, cul­
tural and internatoinal activities
and provides guardianship o f pub­
lic art assets C om m issioners are
appointed by the mayor, confirm ed
by the City Council and serve for a
period o f three years
In terested a p p lican ts should
contact Peggy Furno in the C ity
M anager’s O ffice at (360) 696-
8484. Completed applications must
be subm itted to V ancouver City
Hall, P.O Box 1995,V ancouver,
W A 9866801995,orby Fax a t 696-
8049 by Thursday, Sept.30.
City Invites Applications
for Planning Commission
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The City o f V ancouver 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 studies
and public hearings on subdivisions
comprehensive plan amendments,
rezoning requests and zoning text
amendments.
The com m ission makes recom ­
m endations to the City Council
for review and final decisions.
A pplicants must live w ithin the
city limits.
F o r a p p lic a tio n s o r fu rth e r
inform ation.contact Peggy Furno
in the City M anager’s O ffice at
City Hall, 210 E. 13th St, P.O.
Box 1995, Vancouver, WA. 98668,
or call (360) 696-8484 (fax (360)
696-8049). A pplications must be
subm itted by Friday, O ct.8.
Hertz Opens New
Location In Vancouver
Park Ridge, NJ. The H ertz Cor­
p o ra tio n (N Y S E :H R Z ) , the
w o rld 's largest car rental company
announces the opening o f a new
car rental in V ancouver, W ashing­
ton. The new facility, opened as
W ashington’s first Local Edition
site, will serve custom ers from its
lo c a tio n a t 2 7 0 0 N o rth E a st
A ndersen in Vancouver.
The new location offers cu s­
tom ers a full range o f rental ve­
hicles and services.
In addition, as w ith all H ertz
corporate locations, vehicles are
available to rent w ith free unlim ­
ited m ileage and all rate struc­
tures are honored.
“w e’re excited to open our first
Local Edition site in Washington.
The facility, located in the heart
Vancouver and, quite accessible to
Portland, Oregon, will provide cus­
tom ers with added convenience
when renting from H ertz,’ com­
mented Scott Sider, Regional Vice
President, W estern Regional for
Hertz Corporation.
"O ur Local Edition service has
received a positive response from
other areas o f the country and we ’ re
expecting residents o f V ancouver
and Portland, to also be receptive
to H ertz Local E dition” ’
For more information, customers
can call their travel agent, or Hertz’
Reservations toll-free at 1 -800-704-
4473. For more information on hertz,
visit our website at hertz.com .
H e rtz o p e r a te s a f le e t o f
550,000 vehicles from 6,100 lo­
cations in over 140 countries.
Meetings Focus on Updating Plan
fo r Regional Parks and Open Space
Vancouver, W A -C la rk C o u n ty
has scheduled a series o f five pub­
lic m eetings to so licit com m ent
about the update o f the regional
parks and open space elem ent o f
its com prehensive land use plan.
This planning focuses on regional
parks, greenw ays, trails and other
facilities that serve a countyw ide
population. The plan also includes
an urban w ildlife habitat elem ent.
The plan is prerequisite to apply­
ing for state and federal grant
m onies through the W ashington
State interagency Com m ittee for
O u td o o r R e c re a tio n and o th er
granting agencies. The purpose o f
the m eeting is to provide an op­
portunity for public com m ent re­
garding regional parks and open
space services. Some o f the things
the county w ould like to know are:
W h at re c r e a tio n fa c ilitie s do
county resid en ts currently use?
W hat kinds o f regional recreation
facilities and service are m ost im ­
portant to county residents? W hat
should be the c o u n ty ’s priorities
for regional parks? O pen space,
and habitat lands over the next
five years? Public com m ent will
be a key elem ent in developing the
parks and open space plan, which
will be subm itted for consideration
to the board o f C ounty C om m is­
sioners early next year. The m eet­
ing will be located in various sec­
tions o f the county to encourage
participation. The m eetings are
scheduled as follow s:
NE 3rd Avenue, Battle Ground.
Wednesday, September 29
Clark County Emergency Services
B uilding, 710 W. 13th Street,
Vancouver.
Tuesday, October 5
Vancouver Police East Precinct,
1210 SE Tech Center Drive (off
164th Avenue), Vancouver.
All meetings will take place from
7 to 9 p.m. and will be hosted by
the V ancouver-Clark Parks and
Recreation Commission. The pro­
gram will include a presentation on
the purpose and scope o f the plan;
opportunity for questions and-an-
swers and public comment; distri­
bution o f survey forms; and an ex­
planation o f the adoption schedule
and other ways to provide com ­
ment. For more information, please
contact Jeroen Kok, regional parks
planner for the Vancouver-Clark
Parks and Recreation Department,
(360) 696-8171.
Portland Police B ureau H om icide Investigators, in
cooperation with C rim e Stoppers, are asking for your
help in locating and apprehending Thearone Giles.
A felony arrest w arrant is on file in M ultnom ah
County, charging G iles w ith M urder in the shooting
death o f 32-year-old Ronald A nthony Johnson. The
shooting took place at 1:30 in the m orning o f Thursday,
August 26, 1999, at C isco and P oncho’s R estaurant,
located at 107 N orthw est Fifth Avenue. A ccording to
investigators. G iles and Johnson w ere in the bar area
when a verbal argum ent betw een the two escalated into
a fistfight. Giles pulled a handgun and fired several shots
at the victim who was struck in the torso. Johnson was
transported to OHSU H ospital w here he later died.
Thearone G iles is a 25-year-old black m ale, w ith a
date o f birth o fN o v em b er 1 1, 1973. He is described as
5’8" tall, w eighing 160 pounds w ith black hair and
brown eyes. G iles has “C V C” tattooed on both arms, and
should be considered arm ed and dangerous.
Crime Stoppers is offering a cash rew ard o f up to
$ 1,000 for inform ation, reported to Crim e Stoppers, that
leads to an arrest in this case, or any unsolved felony
crime, and you can rem ain anonym ous. Call Crim e Stop­
pers at (503) 823-HELP.
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Twenty-Four Of Forty-Seven
Wanted Drug Suspects Arrested
At ju st after noon, on Tuesday,
Septem ber 7, 1999, in N ortheast
Precinct, officers began looking
for, and arresting, forty-seven in­
dividuals w anted on drug related
indictments. As o f 1:00 p.m. on
T h u rsday, S e p te m b e r 9, 1999
twenty-four o f the individuals have
been taken into custody.
The indictm ents were obtained
w ith inform ation gathered over the
past several months by N ortheast
Precinct O fficers, assisted by the
T actical O perations D etail and
D rugs and Vice D ivision, in an
anti-drug mission.
The mission, dubbed "Operation
Home Improvement,” targeted street
level drug dealing, because street
level drug dealing directly affects
the livability o f a neighborhood.
O f the forty-seven indictm ents,
thirty-four were for adults and thir­
teen were for juveniles. O f the
subjects arrested so far, fifteen
have been adults and nine have
been juveniles.
Man Arrested with Weapons
Outside High School
(Lebanon-A P) — A 19-year-
old man has been arrested outside
Lebanon H igh S chool w ith an
em pty assault rifle, a K evlar b u l­
letproof vest and a bayonet. No
am m unition was found.
The w eapons were found in
K enneth M aham ’s car yesterday
afternoon after a road rage inci­
dent in the high school parking lot.
Police say M aham becam e angry
at another person, chased that per­
son into the school and then kicked
in the door o f the perso n ’s car.
M aham is facing crim inan m is­
ch ief and w eapons charges
Window of At Least Forty
Sellwood Area Businesses
Etched with Graffiti
Two Seventeen-Year Old Males Charged
Two 17-year-old juveniles have
been taken into custody in connec­
tion w ith a vandalism spree in
Southeast Portland. On Saturday,
Septem ber 4, 1999, at about 4:30
in the m orning, a w itness saw two
individuals vandalizing a business
on Southeast Tacom a Street, in
the Sellw ood N eighborhood, by
etching graffiti “tags” into the glass
w indow s. O fficers found that
rocks had been used to inscribe
the nam es o r “ ta g s” o f “ R E ­
V O L T ” and “ A D E M O N ” into the
glass. A short time later, at South­
east 13th A venue and Southeast
Bidwell Street, officers located and
took into custody the two suspects.
The two 17-year old subjects, iden­
tified as E van D ouglas Lowe and
N icholas W ad e S p ra g u e , were
charged with C rim in a l M ischief
in the F irs t D egree and trans­
ported to the M ultnom ah County
Juvenile D etention Facility. B usi­
nesses struck include num erous
restaurants and antique stores on
and around Southeast 13th and
17th Avenues. The dollar amount
o f damage reported thus far is over
$42,000. For more inform ation,
please contact Southeast Precinct
N eighborhood Response Team O f­
ficer Dan Liu by calling 823-5043.
or paging 795-0963
Call (503) 288-0033 To Advertise bi
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A t least th at’s what the control system computers
at Pacific Power's Gadsby power plant thought. It was
actually a Saturday afternoon in early September 1998.
An off-line generator at the plant was first on the
list for David Register's generation Y2K team to
have its computer clocks set ahead as part of testing
for Year 2000 readiness. David, the Year 2000 Project
Manager at Pacific Power, is in charge of ensuring
that every piece of equipment at Pacific Power, from
fax machines to power substations, functions as it
should January 1, 2000
That day at Gadsby, everyone who was gathered
around the monitors held their breath as the hour
finally flashed 12:00 a.m. And then... nothing
Community
happened. The unit was working exactly as it should.
Smiles quickly replaced the serious expressions of the
test team.
In the weeks that followed, the generator
continued to operate without a hitch, even as its clock
was set to other year 2000 test dates. So there was no
need to test the other identical power units at Gadsby,
right? Wrong, the team decided. They continued to
test everything. Minor problems were found on the
other two generators, but they were quickly corrected,
as retesting verified. All systems passed the tests with
flying colors.
"Here is a success story in two folds," says David.
"First, we verified that systems will perform as
It was just before midnight, Dec. 31,1999.
expected in the year 2000 and second, by finding small
glitches, we confirmed that our testing strategy is
the right one."
" Because of work like this, our customers can feel
confident that we will be conducting business as usual
on January 1,2000." And beyond.
David Register and Pacific Power's Y2K team.
Taking the mystery out of the millennium.
You can reach us 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Just call 1-888-221-7070.
TiiMday, September 21
La Center Community Center, 1000
E. 4th Street, La Center
# PACIFIC PO W ER
A PacifiCorp Company
Thursday, September 23
Camas Community Center, 1718 SE
7th Avenue, Camas
Making it happen.
Tuesday, September 28
Battle Ground Senior Center, 116
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