Events

In case you missed it, recently elected Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt gave a State of the City speech at the heritage Ballroom of the Hilton Vancouver hotel today.

Here's the entire text of Leavitt's speech. 

"Good morning friends, honored guests and fellow citizens:

As you know, I grew up in here in Vancouver. 

It is very emotional and humbling for me to be standing here before you this morning. 

I share your dreams for our community. 

I have attended our schools and played in our parks.

And I love Vancouver too much to accept anything less than the best.

We have worked too hard and come too far to go backwards now. 

I come before you this morning to report on the State of the City, and to speak both frankly and candidly to the residents of our community, the fine employees of our city, and those at all levels of our government.

I’d like to thank my predecessor, Mayor Royce Pollard, as well as councilmember Pat Jollota for over 20 years of dedicated service to our community.

Now, we enter into a new decade, and for all intents and purposes, with a

Managing Credit Risks: When Good Customers and Vendors Go Bad

March 2, from 8 a.m.  to 9:30 a.m. at 111 SW 5th Ave, Suite 3400, Portland, OR 97204

Miller Nash LLP, one of the Pacific Northwest's larger multispecialty law firms focusing on business and litigation, will host a roundtable discussion on Tuesday, March 2, titled "Managing Credit Risks: When good customers and vendors go bad."  Miller Nash partners David W. Hercher, Mike Ryan and Brian S. Thompson will lead an interactive discussion offering practical tips for doing business with customers, vendors and others who are experiencing financial distress. Reservations are required. Respond to breakfast@millernash.com or call 503.205.2608.

The sets are built, the costumes are ready, the actors and directors are so excited....as the opening show of CYT's presentation of "Alice - The Looking Glass Girl" begins at 7pm tonight (Friday, Feb 26th) at Fort Vancouver High School.

In this unique version of "Alice - The Looking Glass Girl", you will meet familiar characters like the Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter, and the Red Queen...with a twist!  Alice tumbles into Wonderland and meets up with air guitar playing Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, battles a ferocious Jabberwock, and is sernaded by a White Knight and his merry band. 

For this weekend, tickets can be purchased at the door, starting 30 minutes before the show.  On Saturday, Feb 27th, there are two shows at 3pm and 7pm.  All Saturday tickets are $10 each at the door.

On Sunday, Feb 28th, one more show at 3pm.

School Bus Fleet magazine has named Evergreen Public Schools' Transportation Department as one of its 2010 Great Fleets Across America.

The annual series profiles five outstanding pupil transportation operations around the country and highlights their safety practices, innovative training programs and open lines of communications.

The article on Evergreen mentioned the district's outstanding inspections the last 20 years, including the fact that many of those years, the department has had an out-of-service rate of less than one percent.

Evergreen Public Schools has 240 school buses and transports 16,000 students daily.

The other school districts featured include: Dare County Schools, Nags Head, North Carolina, with 46 buses transporting 1,910 students each day; Garfield School District, Rifle, Colorado, which transports 2,000 students on 43 buses, Hanover Park Regional High School District, East Hanover, New Jersey with 40 buses carrying 3,000 students; and Stumbo Transportation, Ogden, Iowa, which each day transports 350 students on 10 buses.