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In case you missed them, here are some of the top stories of the week:
Cinetopia has officially been acquired by AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., the largest multiplex theater operator in the world. The four Cinetopia theaters — two in Vancouver, one in Beaverton, Ore., and one in Overland Park, Kan. — will reopen as AMC theaters.
Cinetopia announced the news in a post on its Facebook page Thursday afternoon, and the company’s website redirected visitors to a page on AMC’s website with a list of the four theaters, now with AMC names.
With Clark County business advocacy groups and more than three dozen Republican legislators arrayed in opposition, Don Thompson held out hope.
Thompson, founder and owner of longtime furniture seller America The Beautiful Dreamer, had hoped Gov. Jay Inslee might announce Tuesday his own opposition to a bill requiring Washington retailers to charge state sales tax to people with Oregon identification. Instead, in a brief ceremony Tuesday morning in Olympia, Inslee signed ESSB 5997 into law.
“That makes me sick to my stomach,” Thompson said when told the bill was now law.
Clark College will eliminate three programs in the midst of ongoing budget cuts, issuing notice to eight employees Wednesday that their jobs will be eliminated.
The Vancouver school is cutting its machining, business technology and computer aided design and drafting programs, citing low enrollment and low interest in the programs. Those classes are likely to be retooled so they fit into other degree programs, college spokeswoman Kelly Love said, and those employees’ jobs could be maintained under those changes.
A Vancouver Public Schools bus driver says she hopes a recent frightening experience will lead to systemic changes in the district.
Jeanette Weaver has been a school bus driver in the west Clark County school district for 18 years. She says on May 9, she was attacked by a student on the special education bus she drives.
A woman was taken to the hospital after being pinned by a car that crashed into a Hazel Dell pizza restaurant Monday afternoon.
Emergency crews were dispatched around 2:45 p.m. to Bortolami’s Pizzeria, 9901 N.E. Seventh Ave. A dark-colored Toyota Camry had crashed into the restaurant and pinned a woman into a counter, according to a news release from Clark County Fire District 6. She was taken to Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
