Margaret Rice
Skills Center dean earns national honor
Margaret Rice, dean of students at the Clark County Skills Center, received the 2009 Richard Miller Scholarship from the American Association of School Administrators. She was one of six to earn the $2,000 award nationally. Rice is working toward school principal administrator certification through Heritage University, where she received a master’s degree in education. Rice also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in family and consumer sciences from Central Washington University and taught for nine years at Mountain View High School. She volunteered there as a coach for the East County Girls Swim Team and as an adviser for Family Careers and Community Leaders of America, and has volunteered for programs with the Clark County Sheriff’s Department and Washington State University Extension.
Rep. Jim Moeller
House Transportation Committee selects member
Rep. Jim Moeller, D-Vancouver, was named to the House Transportation Committee for the 2009 legislative session. Moeller represents Washington’s 49th Legislative District and is in his fourth term.
Moeller will be Deputy House Speaker Pro Tempore and co-chairman of the Joint Committee on Veterans & Military Affairs. He also serves on House rules, health care and wellness and commerce and labor committees, and is a 25-year health care professional.
John Jackson
State Farm agent locates in Vancouver
John Jackson opened a Vancouver agency of State Farm Insurance and Financial Services Jan. 1. Jackson has worked 10 years for State Farm as an agency field executive in DuPont, Wash., an agency field consultant in the Vancouver-Portland metro area and as an agent in Minneapolis. Jackson holds a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Minnesota Law School and was a Life Underwriting Training Council Fellow of the American College. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Carleton College. His Vancouver agency will have four employees.
Jill Stansbury
Naturopath granted $10K for research in the Amazon
Jill Stansbury, owner of Battle Ground Healing Arts medical clinic and natural goods store, received a $10,000 grant from the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Studies to continue her research in Peru’s Amazon basin. In 2009 and 2010 she will collect video and written records of botanical and cultural practices of the Queros and Matsigenka tribes in the rain forest. Stansbury opened her clinic in 1988 and has chaired the Portland-based National College of Natural Medicine’s botanical medicine department for 20 years. Her research will be published and presented at conferences throughout the United States.
