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 Mayors
Mayors for Peace Mayors for Peace is an international organization of cities, dedicated for the promotion of peace that...
Mayors of Coon Rapids, Minnesota Since its incorporation as a village in 1952, mayors: 1.
List of mayors of Dayton, Ohio The mayor of Dayton is also a member of the city commission.
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 Mayor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mayors may also function as the head of the city council, sometimes elected as mayor by the council rather the citizens, while day-to-day operations of the city are delegated to a professional city manager.
In Canada mayors are usually elected at large by the citizens of a municipality for a fixed term.
In the United States, mayors are usually elected by the citizens of a locality for a fixed term.
www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mayor

  
 David Oppenheimer
David Oppenheimer served as mayor of Vancouver without pay from 1888 to 1891 and donated his own land for schools and parks.
As mayor, David Oppenheimer presided over the dedication of Stanley Park on October 29, 1889.
The reported date of their first appearance in Vancouver varies, and there are also conflicting reports as to whether or not Brooklyn-born Julia was his second or only wife.
freemasonry.bcy.ca /biography/vancouver_mayors/oppenheimer_d.html

  
 Bruce Elgort - Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon, USA
Well Mayor Pollard feels that Vancouver, Washington has an identity problem and this is one of the ways he plans on letting the world know that Vancouver, Washington is not Portland, Oregon or Vancouver, BC for that matter and that we live in "America's Vancouver" or "Vancouver, USA".
Part of the mayor's job is to assist the city in developing those things that do give the city (Vancouver, Washington, USA) an identity.
Mayor Pollard also contacted Starbucks Corporate Offices and told them he wanted all of the "Portland" mugs removed from all of the Starbucks in the county which Starbucks then proceeded to do.
www.bruceelgort.com /blogs/be.nsf/plinks/BELT-6E9M6E

  
 Vancouver - SFA Software Knowledgebase
In the race for mayor, the COPE's Larry Campbell defeated Jennifer Clarke of the NPA by a margin of 58% to 30%.
Vancouver is also served by two B.C. Ferry terminals, one to the northwest near the village of Horseshoe Bay, and one to the south, at Tsawwassen (the flagship terminal), linking the mainland to Vancouver Island and other nearby islands.
Vancouver is emerging as a world leader in fuel cell technology, accounting for 70 percent of Canadians employed in the industry.
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 washingtonpost.com: Huge Homeland Security Drill Planned
Within 36 hours of the first attack, the terrorists' "safe house" in Washington state and the Illinois sites where the biological agent was produced are identified, according to the scenario.
The participants will range from governors, mayors, county executives and other elected officials to police officers, firefighters, medical personnel and other "first responders" to a terrorist attack.
Officials said this would be the normal response in the nation's capital to an attack with weapons of mass destruction anywhere in the country.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A13847-2003May4?language=printer

  
 Learn more about New York, New York in the online encyclopedia.
The current mayor of New York City is Michael Bloomberg, elected in 2001 on the Republican ticket.
Regional and interstate bus service travels from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in downtown and the smaller George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal, both run by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Bloomberg had come to prominence as an expert on Wall Street, which had brought him great wealth, but the mayoralty is his first political office.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /n/ne/new_york__new_york.html

  
 List of mayors of Vancouver
For a list of Mayors of Vancouver, Washington, go to List of Mayors of Vancouver, Washington.
The following is a list of Mayors of Vancouver, British Columbia.
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 Jan-June 1998
Mayor Tate and the city of Philadelphia; as a gift; gave him a building that had originally belonged to Ben Franklin.
I always heard that I was a relative of Mayor Jim Tate who lived in the Hunting Park area, and I can't seem to find any information about him.
He was given a citation by Mayor Tate in 1963 for being the City's oldest merchant.
www.ushistory.org /writearc/write_1998a.htm

  
 NORTH PACIFIC
The community assessment began with letters from Mayor Karl Heinicke of South Bend and Mayor Michael Runyon of Raymond requesting the Washington Rural Development Council bring a Resource Team to the North County area for a community assessment.
The Washington Rural Development Council (WRDC) provided a resource team to assist the communities in the North Pacific County area in evaluating the community’s assets, and liabilities and in developing suggestions for improving the environment, social and economic future of the North Pacific County area.
While I was Mayor of Shelton in the late 70’s we established a youth advisory group to advise the commission on the needs of young people.
www.ruraldevelopmentcouncil.org /north_pacific.htm

  
 List of Mayors of Vancouver, Washington
The following is a list of Mayors of Vancouver, Washington from 1858 on.
) For a list of Mayors of Vancouver, British Columbia, go to List of Mayors of Vancouver.
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 The Political Graveyard: Mayors of Vancouver, Washington
The coverage of the site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.
The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
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 Lists of office-holders - InformationBlast
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Current incumbents may also be found in the countries' articles (main article and "Politics of") and the list of national leaders, recent changes on 2004 in politics, and past leaders on 1957 (the first year-page to include them), lists of people associated with the American Civil War, World War I, World War II.
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 The Daily Insider
The public is invited to join Vancouver Mayor Royce Pollard and Rob Masonis, director of the northwest office of American Rivers, along with other local leaders for a special event to welcome the award-winning exhibit to Vancouver.
Now in its 17th year, the Marshall Public Leadership Award is organized by the Vancouver National Historic Reserve Trust as one of many Celebrate Freedom programs that honor the legacy of Gen. George C. Marshall, who served as commander of Vancouver Barracks from 1936 to 1938.
The Fort Vancouver Regional Library District board of trustees meets at 6 p.m.
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 Cathedral High School Class of 1958
In 1995, Pollard ran for mayor of Vancouver, Washington and was elected after Bruce Hagensen decided not to run for a fifth two-year term.
Royce Pollard: The Mayor Who Walks His Talk
Pollard, a 63-year-old Burlington, Vt., native, is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and former commander at Vancouver Barracks.
www.johnfishersr.net /CHS1958.htm

  
 Washington Department of Natural Resorces
To reach the event site at Vancouver’s Mayors Grove, park your vehicle in the Marshall/Luepke Center lots and follow posted directions to the southeast corner of the park.
For the commemorative planting, Mayor Pollard selected a paper birch, a tree native to his home state of Vermont.
The Washington Arbor Day Council is joined by DNR in promoting tree planting by individuals and community groups.
www.dnr.wa.gov /htdocs/adm/comm/nr01-043.htm

  
 Earth Share of Washington News
From Washington state to Southern California, the decision to count hatchery-bred fish in assessing the health of wild salmon runs could have profound economic consequences.
In a news conference in Washington, D.C., commission members cited the flagging health of Puget Sound and Chesapeake Bay as evidence that action is urgently needed.
Robert Paine, one of the scientists and an ecologist at the University of Washington, said when the Science article was published in late March, "the current political and legal wrangling is a sideshow to the real issues.
www.esw.org /news/archives/2004_04.php

  
 Links - Sprawl - Sierra Club
Washington State Department of Transportation Northwest Technology Transfer Center
Growth Management Services by the Washington State Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development
The mission of Growth Management Services is to help communities plan for growth and development, consistent with the state's Growth Management Act.
www.sierraclub.org /sprawl/resources/links.asp

  
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 The Dogwood Center, Princeton, NJ, USA
National Drug Control Strategy: Annual Report, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Report Number GAO/HRD-93-60, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Made available to the public, March 7, 1995, by the Drug Policy Foundation, Washington, DC 20008.
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 Windy City Times
Mayor Harold Washington appointed me to his Committee On Gay and Lesbian Issues ( COGLI ), which is the reason that I was on the cover of [ Windy City Times’ ] first edition.
Despite the crisis, the upside was that former Mayor Harold Washington welcomed vigorous debate, Rolla said.
A physician as well as a health and civil-rights activist, Dr. Ron Sable served on Mayor Harold Washington’s Committee on Gay and Lesbian Issues in 1985.
www.windycitymediagroup.com /gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=9514   (2673 words)

  
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Washington, D.C., March TK, 2003- Former Mayor Walter E. Washington, the District of Columbia's first appointed and elected mayor, will be honored by the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., on April 9, 2003 at a dinner at the new Washington Convention Center.
He was the first appointed and the first elected Mayor of Washington, D.C., a role in which he served five United States Presidents.
In 1975, after successfully campaigning for the restoration of self-government for the residents of the District of Columbia, Mayor Washington became the city's first elected Mayor in 104 years.
www.citymuseumdc.org /media/releases/News_Release_050103.asp   (491 words)

  
 Walter Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walter Edward Washington, (April 15, 1915– October 27, 2003), was the first elected mayor (and first black mayor) of the District of Columbia, (Washington, D.C. From 1975 until 1979 he served as mayor in that capacity.
Soon after his initial appointment by President Johnson as mayor-commissioner in late 1967, Washington was faced with the riots in the District that followed the assassination of the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Washington was also the first elected black mayor of a major American city.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Washington   (313 words)

  
 City Mayors: Quality of city life
The contest World Mayor 2005 aims to raise the profile of mayors worldwide, as well as to honour those who have served their communities well and who have made contributions to the well-being of cities nationally and internationally.
In December, the most outstanding mayor of 2005 will be presented with the World Mayor Award.
We are looking for mayors who have shown that they have the vision, the passion and the skills to make their cities amazing places to live in, to work in and to visit.
www.citymayors.com /features/quality_survey.html   (1836 words)

  
 Biddle v. Washington Terrace City
In the instant case, the electorate of Washington Terrace City affirmatively voted to change their form of government, which action consequently cut short the term of office for the former mayor.
It is proposed by petition of registered voters that Washington Terrace City reorganize from its present manager form of government to a mayor-council optional form of government.
¶2 The citizens of Washington Terrace City voted on November 3, 1998, to abandon their traditional form of government and to adopt an optional council-mayor form of government pursuant to the Optional Forms of Municipal Government Act, sections 10-3-1201 et seq.
courtlink.utcourts.gov /opinions/supopin/biddlecmd.htm   (1836 words)

  
 nbc4.com - News - Walter Washington Dies At 88
After the U.S. Congress and President Richard Nixon granted the city limited home rule and the right to elect local leaders in 1973, Washington won the first elected contest for mayor in 1974 under the slogan: Washington for Washington.
In the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Washington, a graduate of Howard University, mayor-commissioner.
Washington accepted the appointment after being assured he would be in control of the police and fire departments.
www.nbc4.com /news/2583266/detail.html   (236 words)

  
 Walter Washington, October 29, 2003
Mayor Walter Washington, DC's first elected mayor of the twentieth century, died last Friday morning.
The Historical Studies Conference is jointly sponsored by the George Washington University, the Washingtonia Division of the DC Public Library, the Humanities Council and the Historical Society.
As a footnote, the mayor's “Citizen Summit III” that was scheduled for this Saturday has been rescheduled for November 15, supposedly so that it would not conflict with Mayor Washington's funeral.
www.dcwatch.com /themail/2003/03-10-29.htm   (3682 words)

  
 Bruce Elgort - Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon, USA
Well Mayor Pollard feels that Vancouver, Washington has an identity problem and this is one of the ways he plans on letting the world know that Vancouver, Washington is not Portland, Oregon or Vancouver, BC for that matter and that we live in "America's Vancouver" or "Vancouver, USA".
Part of the mayor's job is to assist the city in developing those things that do give the city (Vancouver, Washington, USA) an identity.
Mayor Pollard also contacted Starbucks Corporate Offices and told them he wanted all of the "Portland" mugs removed from all of the Starbucks in the county which Starbucks then proceeded to do.
www.bruceelgort.com /blogs/be.nsf/plinks/BELT-6E9M6E   (1539 words)

  
 Washington, Harold - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Washington, Harold
In the 1987 election, with voting going largely along racial lines (and with both sides accused of fraud), Washington defeated the challenge of former mayor Jane Byrne but died before he could begin a second term.
Running for mayor of Chicago as a Democrat, but largely without party backing, he defeated Bernard Epton to become the city's first African-American mayor (1984–87).
A decorated air force veteran of World War II, he was a member of the Illinois legislature (1966–76), the state senate (1978–80), and the US House of Representatives as a Democrat serving Illinois (1981–83).
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Washington,+Harold   (164 words)

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