Issue XLIX

The Lincoln Voice

A Newsletter for the Lincoln Neighborhood of Vancouver , WA

LNA Meeting

Monday, September 10th 6:00 p.m.

Lincoln Elementary 4200 NW Daniels

It’s a Meeting!

It’s a School Supply Drive! It’s a Cookie Social! It’s a Kickball Game!

Join us for an evening of neighborhood fun and the first LNA meeting of the

new school year.

We will be collecting school supplies for the

neighborhood kids at both Lincoln Elementary and

Discovery Middle schools.

Columbia River Crossing (CRC) staff involved two Vancouver citizen commit-tees to refine their designs and proposals in case a new bridge is approved with light rail. Out of over 40 neighborhood associa-tions in Vancouver, Lin-coln was one of only 5 represented on the Van-couver Working Group (who recommended a light rail route) and one of 6 on the Vancouver Transit Advisory Committee (who recommended designs for stations and parking ramps). The work of VWG and VTAC is now done. Our elected leaders on the city, county, state and national level, and citi-zen voters, will now pro-ceed with further deci-

sions regarding the pro-posals. A citizen vote is expected this November on some aspect of the transportation proposals.

In past years, the Lincoln Neighborhood Association has invited CRC staff to make presentations and answer questions at LNA meetings. We hope to have another opportunity before November.

Transportation changes to 39th Street, including a new bridge, tree plantings, and revised parking and striping, have been made after long and continued input from concerned neighbors in Lincoln. The LNA continues to monitor usage and performance of these changes in order to

provide input to the city, although there is now much less city staffing and funding to address this then when the process began.

For more information, or to volunteer on a commit-tee to address on-going transportation issues, please contact Ken Becker at 360-993-5372.

Columbia River Crossing Update

September 2012

The LNA Needs You! The Lincoln Neighborhood Association is looking for a few good volunteers!

Are you looking for a great way to exercise and meet neighbors? Deliver the Lincoln Voice!

Are you an organized, detail oriented person? The position of LNA Treasurer may be right up your alley!

Perhaps you are looking for a short term project that makes a big impact on our neighbor-hood? We could use your help with the fall cleanup!

To volunteer please contact Jenny Brown at 360-693-1947.

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We are now on Face-book. It is the place to go for the most up to date information about what is happening in Lincoln.

www.facebook.com/ LincolnNeighborhood

coln neighborhood. The new “Sassy Ape Theater” will thrive in the building that once housed both the Sassy Dress Shop and Ape Over Music at 39th and Main.

An all day benefit for the new thea-ter company will happen on Sunday,

September 2nd, from 11:00a.m. - 7:00p.m. at Latte Da Coffeehouse. There will be fantastic local entertain-

ment, raffle prizes gener-ously donated by local businesses, and the chance to be a part of supporting the local arts community.

The Slocum House Theater Company has been an important part of the art community in Vancouver for over 42 years. The mostly local actors have entertained generations of theater goers and contributed to the livability of our community.

Recently, the theater company changed it’s name to the Slocum Players and relocated to a new building in the Lin-

The Southwest Washington Clean Air Agency has received a grant from the Washington Department of Ecology to provide financial assistance for replacement of old un-certified woodstoves in Vancouver in an effort to improve air quality.

New certified wood-stoves improve air in-door air quality by 70% over old uncertified woodstoves, and burn more effi-ciently to save you money on fuel.

To qualify, you must live in the City of Vancouver and burn at least two cords of wood per year in a wood-

stove that was manu-factured prior to 1990. Pellet stoves, fireplaces and uninstalled wood-stoves are not eligible.

Qualified applicants will receive a voucher and a list of participating woodstove dealers in the Clark County area.

The voucher depends on the fuel type of the replacement unit:

• $500 credit for a certified wood burning unit.

• $1,000 credit for a certified pellet stove.

• $1,500 credit for a natural gas, propane or electric unit.

Low-income support is also avail-able, and recent low-income par-ticipants have replaced their old uncertified units with little out-of-pocket expenses.

Apply on-line at www.swcleanair.org or call 360-574-3058.

Trinity Lutheran has gra-ciously volunteered the use of their parking lot for guests attending the event.

Evergreen Habitat for Hu-manity is the local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity Inter-national. They work to

The Evergreen Habitat for Humanity (EHFH) will be dedicating their Women Build home at 1039 West 19th Street on September 16th at 2:00p.m. Lincoln neighbors are in-vited to join the celebration and wel-come the Bastidas family to our neighborhood.

break the cycle of generational poverty and to revitalize Clark County neighborhoods by pro-viding stable, permanent housing to low-income families.

For more information, please contact Josh Townsley at 360-737-1759.

A Sassy Ape Moves to Lincoln

Help Available to Replace Wood Stoves

Habitat for Humanity Home Dedication

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“Slocum Players are new in the

neighborhood and excited to

bring the building to life.”

Did you know that about 25% of the solid waste stream is compostable materials like leaves, grass and yard waste? For about the price of a matinee movie ticket, you can have up to 96 gallons of yard debris picked up every other week … right at your curb!

Yard debris that is placed in your garbage container is not pulled out at the processing facility; it ends up at the landfill as garbage. Waste Connections’ yard debris ser-vice is a sani-tary way to

locally recycle any unwanted yard waste. All yard debris from Clark County is processed within the re-gion and is available locally for pur-chase as compost. Waste Connec-tions’ curbside yard debris service is a convenient alternative to self-hauling yard debris, saving you time and fuel.

If you’ve hesitated to sign up because you don’t think you would utilize the

service year round, you don’t have to. Waste Connec-tions offers and “on-call” service

option. This service allows you to keep the cart until you decide it needs to be picked up. Find out more about curbside yard debris at wcnorthest.com. Starting service today will divert weight from your garbage and possibly help lower your garbage bill. When you call or e-mail Waste Connections to start service, a container will be delivered to you and will be picked up on the next service day in your area!

For more information call Waste Connections at 360-892-5370.

available properties on the Lincoln market, homes in good condition are going quickly, some-times even with multiple offers. Nearly seven years after the housing bubble burst, home prices

A combination of histori-cally low interest rates and desirable location, have helped to improve the real estate market in the Lin-coln neighborhood.

With the low inventory of

in Lincoln have been trending up-wards in the last several months.

For more information, please contact Shawn Sturos at 360-606-5389 (Lincoln.Neighborhood@gmail.com).

Growing Our Neighborhood Tree Canopy

Recycle Your Yard Debris

Lincoln Housing Market Improves

were planted over 60 years ago, and are nearing the end of their lifespan. A healthy tree canopy can increase property values, reduce home cool-ing costs, and help to clean our air, water and soil. Tree lined streets also calm and slow traffic, making our neighborhood a safer and more beautiful place to live.

You can sign up now at

www.friendsoftrees.org and join us as we plant more trees in the neighborhood.

For more information, please contact Cynthia Thornton-Tang at 360-695-0786 (ttangc@gmail.com) or Glenn Dollar (gfdollar@gmail.com).

It’s time again to be considering whether you need more street or yard trees. Every year the Lincoln Neighborhood participates in the Friends of Trees planting, which is held in the spring. Signing up now with Friends of Trees is an easy and inexpensive way to purchase and plant trees.

Many of the larger trees in Lincoln

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CALENDAR of LINCOLN EVENTS

Sunday, September 2nd Slocum Players / Sassy Ape Theater Benefit

11:00a.m. - 7:00p.m. Latte Da Coffeehouse / 205 East 39th Street

Monday, September 10th

LNA Meeting, Kickball Game and School Supplies Drive 6:00p.m. - 8:00p.m.

Lincoln Elementary School / 4200 NW Daniels Street

Sunday, September 16th “From Critters to Sweaters” Fiber Arts Demonstration

with the Vancouver Handspinners 12:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.

Latte Da Coffeehouse / 205 East 39th Street

Saturday, September 22nd Open Mic Night

Latte Da Coffeehouse / 205 East 39th Street

Do you have an event you want to share? Please send event listings to:

lincoln.neighborhood@gmail.com

CHAIR Jenny Brown / 360-693-1947 VICE-CHAIR Dave Howard / 360-750-6677 TREASURER - SECRETARY Jessie Ghiglieri / jghiglieri@lcsnw.org TRANSPORATION CHAIR Ken Becker / 360-993-5372 NEWSLETTER EDITOR Christiane Smith / lincoln.neighborhood@gmail.com NEWSLETTER DISTRIBUTION Caron Welch / 360-936-7690 lincoln.neighborhood@gmail.com

Please use contact information

considerately.

Lincoln Neighborhood Contacts

Community Celebrates New Bulletin Board

The City of Vancouver supports the neighborhood association in its effort to share vital information with residents in order to create a more in-formed public. However, the information provided and the opinions and views expressed in neighborhood association newsletters and other docu-ments do not necessarily represent the position of the City, nor does the city determine whether the information published is accurate or appropri-ate. This newsletter is printed by the City of Vancouver’s Office of Neighborhoods.

The ribbon cutting for our community bulletin board on June 29 was a joyful event attended by many neighborhood residents, Mayor Tim Leavitt and Councilman Bart Hansen. If you have not yet had the opportunity, you need to stop by Latte Da Coffeehouse and Wine Bar at 205 East 39th to see the board and the hand painted tiles.

We would like to thank the over 100 members of our neighborhood who helped with the design and construction of the board, the tiles and the landscaping. Thank you also to Wendy Armstrong for the artistic signage on the outer side of the board. Thank you to those who donated mate-rials to the project, particularly Evergreen Habitat for Humanity, Shorty’s Nursery, Dr. Brian Mahoney, and Pratt & Larson. Thank you to Scott Flury and Latte Da Coffeehouse for hosting the board (and congratula-tions for your one year anniversary!).

Finally, we also wish to thank the Vancouver Watersheds Alliance for the grant that made this project possible.

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9-1-1 Dispatch Center

Tours

Fire trucks, police cars

& ambulances

K9 Police Dog Demon-

strations

Emergency Operations

Center tours

Refreshments by local

businesses

Homeland Security

equipment

Emergency Preparedness

Information

Citizen Emergency

Groups: “How Can I vol-

unteer?”

ID/Fingerprinting Kits

for children

Face Painting

Coloring station and

creative button making

for kids

September 8th

11:00 am—2:00 pm

Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency

710 W. 13th Street, Vancouver, Washington

FREE PARKING is offered for this event in the Clark county parking garage

(On Franklin Street between Mill Plain & W. 13th Street)