The Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council (SWWDC) is offering $30,000 in hiring incentives to Clark, Cowlitz, and Wahkiakum County employers in an effort to spur hiring by Jun. 30 of the long-term unemployed. The hiring incentive, called the On-the-Job Training (OJT) Program, is designed to help offset training costs incurred ...
One of the Vancouver’s prominent landmarks, The Academy, located at 400 E. Evergreen Blvd, changes hands with the intended purchase of the property by the Fort Vancouver National Trust. Known simply as The Academy, the four-story structure was originally designed and built in the form of a cross in the ...
Vancouver Business Journal announced finalists for their 2011 Business Growth Awards, presented by Riverview Community Bank. All finalists were chosen by a panel of experts from SCORE. The finalists will be showcased at a reception and awards ceremony on Thursday, Apr. 26, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the ...
MarriageTeam is a Vancouver-based nonprofit that offers couples coaching before or after the ceremony. Their goal is to “strengthen and save marriages with well trained marriage coach couples,” says founder Al Ray. Ray and his wife, Autumn, travel to Oregon, Western Washington, California and parts of Nebraska teaching workshops to ...
Located on Esther St. between 6th and 8th the Vancouver Farmers Market has been a mainstay of Vancouver life for over two decades. It returns to downtown for its 23rd season debt free. A few years ago, the market incurred a significant amount of debt and took action by closing ...
Vancouver fitness company Nautilus Inc. reported that a New York investor and his wife purchased a 5.4 percent stake in the company for $3.5 million. Norman H. Pessin spent about $3.2 million and his wife Sandra spent about $326,000 in the deal. Both used personal funds to buy the shares, ...
Unemployment eased slightly in Washington State during 2011, moving from 9.2 percent at the year’s midpoint to 8.6 percent at the end of the year. The latest figures released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro metropolitan statistical area the ratio was a little ...
Social media outreach is a key component to a successful business, but many small-business owners don’t have the time or the tools to research this field on their own. The SMO Books team presents a series of classes geared toward helping small-business owners in Vancouver create customized social media plans. ...
More than 800 high school students and adult volunteers representing 38 teams from Clark County and Portland packed the house at Evergreen High School Jan. 7 to celebrate the kickoff of the 2012 FIRST Robotics Competition. FIRST, an acronym meaning “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology,” is an ...
Audio interview with Janet A. Harte Small businesses in Southwest Washington face the same economic challenges as the rest of the country, but they have the opportunity to tap into the powerful resources of Vancouver’s Small Business Development Center. INC. Magazine rated Vancouver’s center as one of “America’s 10 Most ...
The City of Vancouver has tabled plans to offer Frito-Lay a three-year water bill credit worth $585,000 at its Vancouver plant. The decision represents a reversal from only two weeks ago, when city staff recommended that the Vancouver City Council grant a three-year extension to a $1.4 million contract the ...
The local office of the FBI offers these 10 tips to shop safely. 1. Buying from an auction site : If you are buying goods online, be wary of buying items that are sold on auction sites or through classified ads. Scammers sometimes will collect credit card numbers, bank account ...
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