Morning Press: Student dies, Ted Nugent, marijuana supply

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Here’s a look at some of this week’s top stories:

Vigil remembers girl, 7, who died of brain injury

At the vigil for Stormy Solis on Wednesday evening, everyone shook multicolored glow sticks toward the darkening night sky to remember how the 7-year-old girl was bright and full of life.

“Let’s wave to our little light,” Penny Francis, a friend of Stormy’s family, told a crowd of a couple hundred people at Fisher Basin Community Park in east Vancouver.

Stormy died Friday morning from a brain injury. She reportedly fell off the swings at Fisher’s Landing Elementary School two days earlier, on Oct. 1., but no one saw the incident during recess. When she came home from school, she complained about being dizzy and was later admitted to the hospital.

The settlement between the Fairgrounds Site Management Group, Nugent and Northwest Events & Marketing Inc., which booked Nugent, was executed on July 7 but only came to light following a request by The Columbian.

Per the terms of the settlement, Northwest Events & Marketing paid Nugent $15,000 over the summer. The settlement also called for him to be booked at an alternate show on Aug. 5 at the Portland Expo Center and be paid $30,000.

Neither Clark County nor the Fairgrounds Site Management Group, a nonprofit corporation, bore any costs associated with the settlement.

Nugent’s original contract called for him to be paid $61,500 for a show at the Clark County Fair.

Learn more about how the settlement to Nugent happened.

Evergreen football coach apologizes for tweet alleging racism

Evergreen football coach Don Johnson Jr., is apologizing for what he described as a “stupid” tweet, and the school was planning to self report a WIAA violation regarding negative comments about game officials.

Johnson, who is black, posted a tweet Saturday morning after his team’s 55-6 loss to Union on Friday night:

“Evergreen Officials Association gives black head coaches Deep down south, southern hospitality. It’s a great example for today’s youth.”

“We’re pretty much at capacity on what we can store here,” Hamide said. “We’re full. I can’t take anything more until we sell this.”

Both he and his brother, fellow manager Adam Hamide, looked visibly relaxed and happy — relieved after what’s been a bumpy shortage-filled launch to Initiative 502, which legalized marijuana in the state.

Adam Hamide said he was even willing to make a bold prediction.

“We’ll never run out of product again,” Adam Hamide said.

Learn more about the marijuana supply here.

Paul Revere’s Vancouver-based manager pays tribute

More than 50 years ago, Roger Hart walked out of a bank with an unexpected asset. It was the phone number for a rock ‘n’ roll musician with an ear-catching name.

That’s how the longtime Vancouver resident wound up as manager for Paul Revere and the Raiders.

It became a lifelong relationship. When Revere died Saturday in Idaho after a bout with cancer, it was Hart who was cited in the wire service coverage. Hart said he will speak at Revere’s funeral Monday in Boise.

His son Alex Hart — also a Vancouver resident — did public relations and media work for Revere and is serving as spokesman for the Revere family.

A week before Revere’s death, “Alex and myself spent a day with him at his home in central Idaho, reminiscing and swapping stories,” Roger Hart said.

Pairing Italian food with wine

ith Italian food the red sauce with red wine rule is about as old school as a corded telephone. I asked Kathy Aikens, owner of Pasta GiGi’s in Battle Ground and her assistant manager, Lindsey Morris, to share their thoughts on wine pairings with this very regional cuisine.

“I don’t think that red wine with red sauce is always correct. It’s the body of the wine you’re trying to pair with the food. Sangiovese pairs wonderfully with a white sauce,” Morris said.

Aikens added “If it grows together, it goes together. Look at the region it comes from. Wine, even though it’s derived from a red grape and goes into a red wine, it may have been harvested in the Rhone on the coast line where, predominantly, shell fish, chicken and foul are found.

The two ladies went on to share a motto gleaned from Aikens’ mentor, Robert Reynolds, who owned Chef’s Studio in Portland (now Good Keuken) where Aikens gained her culinary background and wine and food pairing skills – if it fights in your mouth, it doesn’t go together.