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Here are some of the stories that grabbed readers’ attention this weekend.
The city of Vancouver is snow ready. In fact, preventive measures have already occurred. The city applied de-icer to streets Monday evening for the first time this year.
De-icer is generally applied to major streets, overpasses and major intersections that are prone to slick driving conditions. This year, Portland may test the widespread use of salt for the first time, but Vancouver is sticking with de-icer.
The city makes the product itself by the ton.
De-icer reserves are currently stocked full at 300 tons with the ability to mix up to 10,000 gallons per hour if conditions demand more.
A Clark County Superior Court judge handed down a longer sentence Friday than what was recommended by the prosecution in a fatal hit-and-run case, ordering a 35-year-old Vancouver woman to serve about four years in prison.
Judge John Fairgrieve said Jessica Lyn Bankhead showed genuine remorse and had accepted responsibility for her crime, but he was obligated to impose a “mid-range” sentence of 50 months.
The prosecution had asked for a prison term of 46 months.
Bankhead pleaded guilty during Friday’s hearing to a single charge, admitting she failed to remain at or return to the scene and help 44-year-old Richard Waller.
She struck and killed the Vancouver resident on Feb. 25 and sped away, prosecutors said.
“I’m very, truthfully sorry for your loss. If I could trade places with him I would, but that wasn’t in God’s plan,” Bankhead said through muffled cries.
A Vancouver police officer traveling on a work assignment was stopped and then interviewed when airport security at Portland International Airport spotted a handgun in her bag, according to officials.
On Sunday, Port of Portland Police Department officer Anthony Byrd went to the ABC gates checkpoint at PDX on a report of a loaded firearm, according to a report written by Byrd.
A Transportation Security Administration screener “advised she was operating the X-ray when she saw what appeared to be a firearm in a bag,” the report says.
The owner of the firearm, Jamie Haske, told the officer that she herself was an officer with VPD and “forgot that the pistol was in her bag,” the report says. Byrd wrote that he later removed the gun from the bag; he described it as a Glock pistol with an ammunition magazine loaded with six rounds and its chamber clear.
The first drinks and plates of food sold to the public at The Waterfront Vancouver could be served within seven months, on July 1.
That’s the deadline given out Thursday by Matt Grady, vice president of development for Gramor Development, while walking through the industrial husks that stand there now.
“We’re probably 90 percent done (on the buildings),” he said. The waterfront has been more than a decade in the making, so when asked how he felt, Grady responded: “It’s monumental.”
Blocks 9 and 12, the two restaurant buildings that flank both sides of the Grant Street Pier, will have their exteriors finished by the end of the month. Then, the tenants will bring it home with their own designs and improvements — even though some tenants haven’t been announced and another has recently been cast in doubt.
A whole lot of Holland is set to move to Camas, and it’s not a foreign delegation.
Holland Partner Group, the Vancouver property manager and multifamily developer, has submitted ambitious plans to build in west Camas, right next to the headquarters of multibillion-dollar money management firm Fisher Investments.
It proposes three four-story office buildings, each slated to be 100,000 square feet in size. It will have 12 garden-style apartment buildings nearby, complemented by a clubhouse and pool. A 20,000-square-foot market will toss in an upscale grocery and restaurants for good measure.
Dubbed the Grass Valley Development, it will be built across 35 acres south of Northwest 38th Avenue and add to the frenetic corridor that is the Vancouver-Camas border.
