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Signed applications may be submitted as follows: Via Email: Humanresources@ per month, depending on qualifications, Benefit Package (Health, Retirement, Life Insurance, Accrued PTO) Full job description and County application can be found at: https://www.skamaniacounty.org/departmentsoffices/human-resources

Signed applications may be submitted as follows: Via Email: Humanresources@ co.skamania.wa.us or In Person or Via Postal: Skamania County Courthouse 240 NW Vancouver Avenue PO Box 790 Stevenson, WA 98648

Candidates who wish to deliver their applications may do so Monday through Thursday from 7:30am5:30pm. Applications will be accepted until February 22nd at 4:00 PM. Skamania County is an equal opportunity employer.

Public Works Director

The City of White Salmon, Washington, is seeking a strong, collaborative, and professional leader to serve as Public Works Director. This key leadership position within a small, forward-focused city is tailor-made for a professional looking for an opportunity to lead the city’s public works department in one of the most beautiful locations in the state.

Located just an hour outside of Portland, Oregon in the picturesque Columbia River Gorge, White Salmon is a tight-knit community of approximately 2,500 people.

As the gateway to the White Salmon River and Mt. Adams Wilderness Area, White Salmon provides not only a quaint mountain setting, but direct access to numerous scenic adventures.

For a full description of the position and qualifications sought, please visit the City of White Salmon web site at https://www.white-salmon.net/jobs behind it,” he said.

The coalition backing the package includes: King, Inslee, Rep. Jake Fey, D-Tacoma, Rep. Andrew Barkis, R-Olympia, Sen. John Lovick, D-Mill Creek, and Rep. Sharlett Mena, D-Tacoma.

Many roads in Washington, like the one in Parkland where young Michael Wielert died, do not have sidewalks for pedestrians and cyclists to use, according to bill advocates, and that puts people at risk.

“Our transportation system is not safe. People from all communities across the state of Washington are being injured and killed at unaccept-

The Public Works Director contract is offered at the discretion of the Mayor and must be approved by City Council. The expected hiring range of $89,426.25$125,652.72 will depend on the qualifications of the successful candidate.

White Salmon provides a complete benefits package that includes excellent medical, dental, vision, life insurance, employee assistance program, and pension with the Washington State Department of Retirement. Paid time off and holidays are also included.

Interested candidates shall submit a cover letter, resume, and references digitally to clerktreasurer@ ci.white-salmon.wa.us or via mail to the following:

Stephanie Porter, Human Resources / Personnel Director, City of White Salmon, PO Box 2139, White Salmon, WA 98672.

The City of White Salmon is an equal opportunity employer and provider.

Studies have shown that many segments of society are less likely to apply for a specific job unless they believe they can perform every job description task. Our goal is to hire the candidate who is best able to meet the performance objectives of the role. We will consider any equivalent combination of knowledge, skills, education, and experience to meet minimum qualifications. If you are interested in applying, we encourage you to think broadly about your background and skill set for the role.

First review of applicants will be week of February 13, 2023.

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“At least half of the deaths on our roadways are caused by impaired people, which is not acceptable to see.”

Senate Bill 5002, sponsored by Lovick, co-sponsored by Sen. Jim McCune, R-Graham, reduces the breath or blood alcohol concentration limit for operating a vehicle from 0.08 to 0.05. This includes driving under the influence of liquor, cannabis, or any other drug.

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A SONG THAT LAUNCHED A PEACEFUL REVOLUTION: In 1939 Billie Holiday first sang a song called “Strange Fruit,” released on an obscure label called Commodore because her own label, Columbia, didn’t dare release it. A million copies later, the song was entrenched as a signature piece for the singer and raised awareness in the U.S. of the heinous practice of routine lynching of Black men and women, mostly in the South but also in other unexpected areas such as Indiana. A lynching in that state inspired the song.

Was ‘Strange Fruit’ the true start of the Civil Rights movement?

She was a star already, beloved for her poignant voice and powerful stage presence. But when Billie Holiday stepped up to a microphone in 1939 at the Cafe Society in Greenwich Village to sing a troubled tune called “Strange Fruit,” she was filled with trepidation. This was not a toe-tapping ditty or jazzy lost-love ballad. It was a subdued, ironic, and anguished musical plea to end the lynching of Black men and women, all too commonplace in the south and other regions. The strange fruit described in the song referred to the bodies of Blacks hanging from trees. Some say Holiday’s performance of the song—an act of extraordinary courage in that day for a Black woman who was a huge audience favorite—marked the real beginning of the Civil Rights movement. Holiday was fearful of retaliation. Thankfully, her performance of the song not only became well received; it was to become a regular part of her performances from then on, something of a signature song. Because of the power of the song, the manager of the room in which Holiday often sang drew up some rules: Holiday would close her show with it; the waiters would stop all service in advance; the room would be in darkness except for a spotlight on Holiday’s face; and there would be no encore. During the musical introduction to the song, Holiday stood with her eyes closed, as if she were evoking a prayer.

“Strange Fruit” originated as a poem written by a Harvard-educated white Jewish-American writer, teacher, and songwriter named Abel Meeropol, under his pseudonym Lewis Allan, as a protest against lynchings. In the poem, Meeropol expressed his horror at the practice, induced by Lawrence Beitler’s photograph of the 1930 lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana. Meeropol published the poem under the title “Bit- ter Fruit” in January 1937 in The New York Teacher a magazine of the Teachers Union. Though Meeropol had asked others to set his poems to music, he set “Strange Fruit” to music himself. First performed by Meeropol’s wife and their friends in social contexts, his protest song gained success in and around New York. Meeropol, his wife, and Black vocalist Laura Duncan performed it at Madison Square Garden. It was there that it was heard by the manager of the Cafe