The INDEPENDENT, January 7, 2010
Banks 2009 Year in Review
Jan. 12 – School Board discusses bond options.
Jan. 13 – New Mayor John Kinsky and councilors
Craig Stewart, Brian Biehl, Christy Greagor
and Mark Gregg sworn in.
Jan. 26 – Chief Warrant Officer Joshua Tillery of Banks
dies in Kirkuk, Iraq.
Jan. 31 – 6th International Soup Festival
Feb. 5 – School Board decides not to pursue a bond
measure in May election.
Feb. 6 – Bomb threat closes school for two hours.
Feb. 10 – Virginia Peterson sworn in as Banks
Municipal Judge.
Feb. 27 – 13-year-old juvenile arrested for Feb. 6
bomb threat.
Feb. 28 – Banks’ Hometown Tribute.
Mar. 1 – Banks Volunteer Firefighter’s annual
Breakfast.
Mar. 9 – Superintendent Marv Ott announces he will
retire at end of school year.
June 1 – Banks Farmers Market opens for season.
Aug. 14-16 – 63rd Banks BBQ, Truck/Tractor Pull &
Combine Demolition Derby.
Oct. 10 – “All You Can Eat” Crab Feed.
Martin Luther
King Jr. Day is
January 18
JANUARY CLEAN UP
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Citizen input sought on Fair Complex
Washington County would
like to hear from the public by
January 25 about a proposed
agreement between the Board
of County Commissioners and
the Washington County Fair
Board.
Among other goals, the
agreement is meant to
strengthen the Fair event held
each year at the 101-acre
County Fair Complex property
located at the intersection of
NE Cornell Road and NE 34th
Avenue in Hillsboro.
“Streamlining the operations
at the Fair will help all of us to
continue providing a quality
Fair as we implement the rede-
velopment plan,” said Washing-
ton County Commissioner
Andy Duyck. “The current man-
agement model is not as effi-
cient as it was when we were
still a rural County.”
The agreement also seeks
to: Strengthen partnership and
collaboration among the Board
of Commissioners, Fair Board,
Fair Boosters, county staff and
other interested parties; Clarify
Fair Board and county roles
and responsibilities and formal-
ize channels of communication
and collaboration; Focus ener-
gy, passion and expertise of the
Fair Board on the production of
the Fair event; Optimize opera-
tional efficiencies and leverage
the resources, staff and expert-
ise of Washington County; and
Form and staff an advisory
committee to the Board of
Commissioners to provide in-
put for updating and imple-
menting the Fairgrounds Mas-
ter Plan, Fairgrounds Capital
Projects Plan and other major
site-related initiatives.
Members of the public are
welcome to review the pro-
posed agreement and send
written comments by January
25 to the Board of County
Commissioners.
Visit
www.co.wash ington.or.us/fair
for background and to down-
load a form to submit written
testimony.
For more information, e-
mail: fair@co.washington.or.us
or call 503 846-8685.
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