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Part 1 - Approvals slide
A rapid-fire rattle through Building Approvals figures for September in the usual three parts.
Total residential approvals fell for a second month by -8.7 per cent in the month to 18,945, to be -6.4 per cent lower than a year ago.
To be clear, though, nearly 19,000 approvals in a month is still a LOT!
In annual terms total approvals wormed back to below 238,000, fairly evenly split between houses and other dwellings.
Part 2 - City by city (Sydney not full)
House approvals are now steadily trending lower, driven by ongoing falls in Perth as population growth in the WA capital has slowed.
Even the undisputed king of house-building Melbourne is looking peaky here.
Even the undisputed king of house-building Melbourne is looking peaky here.
The monthly decline in approvals was largely driven by significant declines in unit and townhouse approvals in Sydney, and to a slightly lesser extent Melbourne.
Despite this, after a couple of epic months Sydney still managed to notch a record high 41,650 approvals over the year to September.
Median unit and apartment prices in Sydney hit a record high $705,000 last month according to Residex, so the demand has arguably been there, but there is clearly a sweeping supply response in the post.
Elsewhere, it looks as though developers are gradually backing away from unit developments.
Part 3 - High rise dream!
Finally, the volatility in building approvals was all the way driven by the 'lumpy' high-rise sector, where approvals were 30 per cent lower than a month previously following a barnstorming run.
As you can see, approvals for other dwelling types are generally softening.
As you can see, approvals for other dwelling types are generally softening.
Sydney continues its plans to build up, but elsewhere the market has become saturated, and must fall.
The wrap
Overall, this was a result that matched expectations for a change, and one which suggests that the residential construction boom will peak some time in 2017.
One swallow doesn't make a summer, of course, but a broad-based and monster spike in non-residential approvals for office blocks, retail, and hotels implies that the next wave of construction may be in the commercial sector.
The value of total building approvals in September was therefore by a huge margin the greatest on record at $11.9 billion, which if sustained would be amazingly positive news.


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26. Make sweet treats for Christmas and give them to our neighbours
Im not sure who to give them to though, we live in units and we have 4 units on our level and we know them all on a first name basis. Then there is another 4 directly above us (completing our little block) and we only know one guy up there and we dont know his first name. So, I think it could be a nice little ice-breaker to get us talking to the rest of our neighbours. Now, the next big question is, what do I bake?
I am tossing up between my trusted brownies, some shortbread or something completely different like biscuits (cookies for US folks)? Or a mix of all of them?
I have been hoarding my jars all year so that I could give out beautiful little packages, something like this but with a more Christmassy fabric:

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It was held together by duct tape. To read it click on the images below.
Geoff was on the 1982 six-week trip led by Scott McGregor and Chris Dillistone. Also on the trip were John Parsons, Dave Knox, Jeff Hunt, John Kagan, John Lamont and Gord Sims.
The girl's trip that year was led by Carole Deally and Eileen Askew. On it were Joan Sullivan, Kim Knight, Adrianne Cairns, Linda Beckett, Carolyn Bedford, Anna Ringstrom and Pam Jamieson.
I took this photo from the balcony of the just-completed Lount Lodge.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014
You are now entering the Sports Zone # 1
Right now we have some amazing things happening in sports right now.
Tonight is Game Six of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals. If the Giants win, they will win their 3rd championship in five years. I am pulling for the Royals. I like to see when teams who haven't won in a while finally taste championship. Last time the Royals won the roster included George Brett. There are players on the roster that weren't even alive then. So that says something!
The NBA tips off tonight as well as the Spurs look to repeat. It would be amazing if the Spurs and the Heat make it to the finals again. It would be the 3rd straight year featuring the same two teams. They have split the first two years. Of course the Heat are a bit of a different team then the last time we saw them, as they don't have Lebron James anymore.
Football is in full swing, half way through the season right now. And the top teams in the league lost this week, so honestly it can be anyone's year. Everyone expected the Seahawks to win again at the beginning of the season, but it's not looking likely right now. But we have seen teams get it all together late in the season and go on a run all the way to the Lombardi Trophy. So perhaps they do it again. Two 5-1 teams lost this week, so who knows. It should be a great rest of the season, I will tell you that.
Hockey has just started. Each team has only a handful of games behind them, and it's too early to say who will win the Stanley Cup. Montreal and Anaheim have the best records in the league right now, and the Carolina Hurricanes have the worst record. But that doesn't mean anything right now, since only three teams have played 10 games so far this season. It's too early to say.
And finally we will have the NCAA selection committee make their first votes for the first ever College Football playoff rankings. It should be an interesting selection process leading up to December's final rankings.
Whatever sport you follow, right now it is a GREAT time to be a sports fan!
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I live in a world few know exist. I've trained for this. I know what to say, what to do, and how to act. I've perfected the lethal calm required for this life.
Now it's time to buy my first girl. But all it takes is one look at the brave girl who starts singing mid-auction for that calm to slip.
Briar Chapman is going to be the death of me, and I don't care. I'll take every day with her until that death comes, and I'll welcome it when it does.
On the outside, Lucas Holt is what nightmares are made of. A man cloaked in darkness, with sin-filled eyes and an enticing grin. A devil so devastatingly beautiful and cruel that his very presence instills fear.
But beneath his terrifying, ever-calm exterior is an affectionate man haunted by a past that refuses to stay buried. And Lucas looks at me as though he's finally found the only person who can make it all go away.
We're a battle of the brightest day and the darkest night—and I want to lie in the wake of our war.
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The moment that I began reading this book, I knew that it was a different kind of read from Molly McAdams. "Blackbird" began quite darkly than the usual novels from one of my favourite authors, this took me by surprise, but it also made me curious for more. The story of Briar and Lucas pulled me in from the start and I found that I was enjoying this new darker style of book. By the time that I had reached half way, I was hooked and absolutely loving how the couple's relationship was affecting me. My emotions were all over the place as I was swooning one minute and on the edge of my seat the next. With a few unexpected twists thrown in too, Molly has delivered a nail-biting read that utterly consumed me.
"There was something possessive in the way he was holding me.
And for once, I didn't mind it. Right there in his arms...that felt right."
The heroine of the story was sweet Briar-Rose, who thought that her life was perfect. She had everything she could ever want or need in her life, until everything changed and she met the not-so-perfect, but gorgeous, Lucas Holt. Although Lucas was the bad man of the story, I got the impression that he wasn't quite the devil that he was supposed to be. As the story is written from duel POV, I soon discovered what was actually going on inside Lucas's head and I knew that this man was going to steal my heart. He truly was the heart-melting hero that I am certain everyone is going to be gushing over.
"I would unleash hell on earth if I lost you now, Blackbird."
"Blackbird" was a page-turner of a story with everything that I wanted to keep me enthralled. I highly recommend reading this standalone novel and falling head over heels for Lucas Holt.
"He not only owned my body,
he owned my heart and my shattered soul that he'd pieced back together."
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What does it take to get an opportunity to run an editorial in the Times these days? The standards seem pretty low.
IN his inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy expressed in two eloquent sentences, often invoked by Barack Obama, a policy that turned out to be one of his presidency's — indeed one of the cold war's — most consequential: "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate." Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Kennedy's special assistant, called those sentences "the distinctive note" of the inaugural.Now here, one would think a responsible analysis would point out that it is not appeasement to talk to your enemies, or even to negotiate with your enemies. But Bush gets a free pass for his prevarication. Call it foreshadowing if you will, as you know the quality of analysis is going to get worse from this point forward.
They have also been a distinctive note in Senator Obama's campaign, and were made even more prominent last week when President Bush, in a speech to Israel's Parliament, disparaged a willingness to negotiate with America's adversaries as appeasement.
Senior American statesmen like George Kennan advised Kennedy not to rush into a high-level meeting, arguing that Khrushchev had engaged in anti-American propaganda and that the issues at hand could as well be addressed by lower-level diplomats. Kennedy's own secretary of state, Dean Rusk, had argued much the same in a Foreign Affairs article the previous year....Okay... So we have the typical exaggerated representation of Obama's willingness to meet with "enemies" of the United States, representing the naivete of... a John McCain or Defense Secretary Gates. Should we expect a lecture about how weak Israel is for seeing to reopen peace negotiations with Syria?
But Kennedy went ahead, and for two days he was pummeled by the Soviet leader. Despite his eloquence, Kennedy was no match as a sparring partner, and offered only token resistance as Khrushchev lectured him on the hypocrisy of American foreign policy, cautioned America against supporting "old, moribund, reactionary regimes" and asserted that the United States, which had valiantly risen against the British, now stood "against other peoples following its suit." Khrushchev used the opportunity of a face-to-face meeting to warn Kennedy that his country could not be intimidated and that it was "very unwise" for the United States to surround the Soviet Union with military bases.
Kennedy's aides convinced the press at the time that behind closed doors the president was performing well, but American diplomats in attendance, including the ambassador to the Soviet Union, later said they were shocked that Kennedy had taken so much abuse. Paul Nitze, the assistant secretary of defense, said the meeting was "just a disaster." Khrushchev's aide, after the first day, said the American president seemed "very inexperienced, even immature." Khrushchev agreed, noting that the youthful Kennedy was "too intelligent and too weak." The Soviet leader left Vienna elated — and with a very low opinion of the leader of the free world.
But why not be more concrete? What world leader has, through Bush's tenure, been the closest analog to Kruschev? Could it be... Vladimir Putin? What happens when a President who will not at any time during his lifetime be described as "too intelligent" meets with Kruschev's modern counterpart?
Mr Bush described their meeting as straightforward and effective.I know we're supposed to buy into the author's right-wing talking point that the penny ante dictators Obama will supposedly make his first term priority are the equivalent of Kruschev, but... if you're not a heavy crack smoker that one's probably not very convincing. You want to talk failures of perception? Incompetence at a first meeting resulting in incredible loss of leverage with a dictatorial nuclear power? Do you think Putin walked away from that meeting awed by G.W.'s "strength and somewhat ordinary level of intelligence," or that he was quietly chuckling to himself. And let's not forget the Bush Administration's on-again, off-again love affair with Ahmed Chalabi.
He said it was time to move beyond Cold War attitudes, away from mutually assured destruction towards mutually earned respect.
"I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue.
"I was able to get a sense of his soul.
And yes, I love the way the authors glom onto this notion that Kennedy was "too intelligent", as if we're better served by having Presidents of more modest intelligence - G.W. or, the apparent preference of the authors of the editorial, John McCain. I'm not sure that McCain would be flattered, but at least the authors make up for insulting his intelligence by implying that he would be "strong". But what good does that do us if his self-lauded years of experience leave him unable to distinguish Shia from Sunni, believing that Iran is backing Al Qaeda, or proudly clueless about the power hierarchy in Iran? If his childish rhetoric against diplomacy leaves him afraid to approach or be approached by leaders of "our enemies", "rogue states", whatever you want to call them, under circumstances that could aid us or our allies? Using examples cited earlier, the type of negotiations with Syria that could lead to a severe diminishment of tensions between Israel and Syria, weaken Hezbollah in Lebanon, and may even result in Syria's formal recognition of Israel? You know, the sort of negotiation Israel deems to be in its own self-interest, even if our "strong leaders of somewhat ordinary intelligence" don't see the wisdom.
Of course I'm giving the editorial far more credit than it is due. It's an amateurish argument from anecdote. You find one example of the point you want to make, depict it in the least flattering light to your target, then suggest that there could be no other outcome at any time in future history. Perhaps the Ph.D. student who contributed is so focused on this one incident (for his thesis?) that he isn't aware that history can offer counter-examples. I'm not sure what the other guy's excuse might be, other than preventing Middle East diplomacy of any sort. If you read his other work (here attacking Reagan's record), he seems to fall into the category of people who think that Arab and Muslim nations are incapable of responding to anything but fear of annihilation. Perhaps right now he's furiously scribbling out a screed against Israel's attempts to finally achieve peace with Syria, lamenting how its past leaders were duped and outsmarted in their peace negotiations with Jordan and Egypt.
I am not surprised when right-wingers of various sorts try to depict nations like Iran or Syria as the modern equivalents of Kruschev's Russia. Some don't know better, and the others who favor the argument will say whatever it takes to defeat the Democratic nominee. But is it not reasonable to be surprised when the New York Times agrees to print it? Is honoring this type of straw man argument somehow justified by the fact that it is embraced by McCain? Oh, it's so nice to see McCain threaten to stonewall the


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from The Greek Anthology
I lie here waiting, while this small hole mends.
I lie here waiting. Waiting never ends.
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No she so fair as his,
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What a difference a year makes - not just for Silverstone, with its grand prix future guaranteed well into the next decade, but for McLaren, Formula 1's championship leaders at the midway point of the year.
From the depths of the 2009 early season debacle - when Lewis Hamilton was lapped here and struggled in third last - the Woking-based team now believe they could be on the verge of seizing the title initiative if their new exhaust-blown diffuser performs on track as expected.
For the first time in 2010, team insiders are targeting pole position on merit.
Hamilton's qualifying success in Canada last month owed much to circuit-specific characteristics - their extra F-duct-inspired straight-line speed worked to the MP4-25's advantage.
This weekend, however, McLaren have arrived at their home race, around the new Silverstone layout, with their "biggest upgrade of the season" as one engineer put it to me. They anticipate their first genuine challenge to Red Bull (pioneers of the 2010 blown diffuser) in Saturday's qualifying hour.
"If it (new diffuser) works, it'll be amazing," said one insider.
But is it really worth that much, I asked, mindful of how Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner and McLaren managing director, Jonathan Neale, had downplayed its impact?
"Oh yes," I was told. By two separate insiders. "It could make a difference of at least half a second." Both sources couldn't hide their smiles as they made their predictions.
Those words have a familiar ring to them as Red Bull's rivals attempt to catch up with Adrian Newey's brilliant design.
Without doubt, for example, Ferrari made strides at the last race in Valencia when they introduced their first version of the blown diffuser.
They were quickest in Friday practice, produced their strongest qualifying since the opening round in Bahrain and would surely have scored many more points in the race if they had not come unstuck behind the safety car.
Then again, Mercedes came to Spain with similarly high hopes of their diffuser but got burned - literally - because the exhaust gases overheated the suspension at the rear of the car. The team ended up modifying the changes and found themselves compromised on performance.
McLaren were well aware of their rivals' discomfort in the next-door garage in Valencia and their caution was justified during Friday practice.
Red Bull set the pace in both sessions, Sebastian Vettel in the morning, Mark Webber (in Vettel's cast-off chassis) in the afternoon.
The pair seemed able to exploit their pace at will in response to the rest of the field, with one engineer believing their domination could yet match that of Barcelona in May!
Despite leaving the track twice off the bump at the new Abbey corner, Hamilton and McLaren enjoyed a solid morning workout, second fastest.
But for the afternoon practice, the team changed the suspension on both cars and ended up going slower.
"Disaster" was the muttered verdict from one member of Jenson Button's side of the garage.
My information is that both drivers raised the same complaints about the set-up.
So yet again, McLaren face the prospect of a long night's analysis if they're to achieve the front-line showing they believe the cars are capable of.
Having had no testing apart from a straight-line aero run in Spain, my source had warned, "there are doubts because exhaust gases are so unpredictable. You can't see them. The airflow is so difficult to manage and direct."
The designers have also had to modify the cooling system to accommodate the increased temperatures around the new diffuser.
Changing the level of downforce at the rear of the car calls for changes at the front too, hence the new front wing.
Contrary to Mark Webber's belief that McLaren were sandbagging, one rival engineer claims that actually Ferrari were the team who were disguising their true pace.
The Italian team have brought a second version of their blown diffuser for this weekend.
And both Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa were lapping consistently on heavy and light fuel loads.
The stakes are getting higher as the season progresses, and both McLaren's ambitious drivers are aware of that.
Hamilton - who won here so memorably in 2008 - and Jenson Button - who is yet to finish on the podium in front of his home crowd - have made clear to the team that they need the new parts, and they need them to work if they are to maintain their momentum in the title race.
Red Bull may not have brought a significant upgrade package for this race - like they've done every other race since the Spanish Grand Prix - but their new diffuser looks to have taken them another step forward.
Two Red Bull engineers I spoke to after Sebastian Vettel's impressive victory in Valencia were adamant that they would repeat their 2009 one-two finish here.
Even allowing for the slower corners on the new layout, Silverstone's abundance of higher speed corners, particularly through Copse, Maggotts and Becketts in the first sector of the circuit, will bring the best out of the RB6.
All of which means Red Bull remain the moving target the rest of the grid is aiming at.
For the moment.
One former technical director with experience at three top teams claimed that the McLaren "steamroller" had the greater resources to maximise their performance over a championship run-in.
And because of that, he had no hesitation in predicting that if McLaren can surprise Red Bull and win on Sunday, they will go on to win the 2010 world championship.
McLaren's decision to abandon the blown diffuser, which they made early evening on Friday, is undoubtedly a setback for their hopes this weekend.
Even worse than the overheating problems caused by the exhaust gases, they have brought a major upgrade to the racetrack and it has not delivered the performance they expected.
That, of course, is in marked contrast to Ferrari's experience in Valencia, when the device worked straightaway - and has added performance to the car at Silverstone this weekend as well.
McLaren now have just one hour's practice to find a balance and a set-up on the car around Silverstone's new layout.
Speaking to two of the team's leading engineers, I'm told they have had to revise their ambitions for pole position but remain hopeful that their new front wing will enable them to challenge Red Bull in the race.
This little hiccup demonstrates the fine margins all teams are working within as they race to develop their cars faster than each other.
The consolation for Hamilton and Button is that if any team can recover from this setback, it is McLaren.
Even with a fully functioning blown diffuser, McLaren would have struggled to find nearly a second's worth of performance on Red Bull, who are as far ahead of their rivals as they were at Barcelona, a circuit with similar demands to Silverstone.
Lewis Hamilton's place on the second row was pure quality, a reflection of driver talent to get the most out of inferior equipment which seemed to defeat his team-mate.
Unless Alonso or Hamilton can make telling moves on the opening lap, it's hard to see Red Bull being beaten on Sunday.
If that's the case, Sebastian Vettel could head for his home race as championship leader for the first time.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/jonathanlegard/2010/07/mclaren-have-red-bull-in-their.html
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Like I've already won
I know I haven't blogged in, well - forever - and I should really be telling you about my son's incredible development (he is seconds away from crawling! video to come) or maybe about the awesome progress that is being made on our first home. But, instead, the thing that has motivated to write my first post in weeks is a prize giveaway.
I know, I know. Silly of me.
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February 25, 1861
[Special Correspondence of the Intelligencer.]
Hall, of Wetzel, and the other North Western Members:Mr. Clemens' Explanation:Maj. Loring at Work:Cost of the Convention Per Day.
Richmond, Feb. 20, 1861.
In a dispatch this morning, I gave you the substance of a lettle [sic] in the parlor of our hotel (the Spottswood) last night, in which Hall, of Wetzel, and General John J. Jackson, of Wood, had a set-to about their respective representativeships of the sentiment of the Northwest.:Jackson, it seems, had overheard Hall in the parlor denouncing his colleagues to a company of secessionists, (with whom he runs, now,) as a set of "submissionists," and had also heard him read a letter to them, in which Hall's position on the Union question was approbated and justified. General Jackson stepped up and asked Hall for the authorship of his letter, and he said Charles W. Russell of Wheeling was the writer. Jackson then went into Hall before the crowd, and told them the secret of Mr. Hall's being here, in this city, at the present time: that he did not represent his own constituents, much less the Northwest, and that had it not been for the unfortunate divisions of the Union men in Wetzel, Hall would be on the banks of the Ohio, instead of here on the banks of James river. The old General was very much roused, as, indeed, are all the members from the Northwest against Hall. They make no secret of reprobating and repudiating him on every occasion, and they are earnest in the expression of the hope that his misrepresented constituents will attend to his case at their first opportunity, as they undoubtedly will.:Carlile, Willey, Dent, Burley, Clemens, Hubbard, Tarr, and Porter, all repudiate and resent his course, and his denunciations. And if his was to read a bushel of letters per day, it would not matter a feather with them. But let Hall pass.
Mr. Clemens to-day rose to an explanation and denunciation of the publications which had been made in some newspapers in this State, that he had franked copies of his speeches to free negroes. He characterized it as an infamous libel, and intimated that he would hold the author personally accountable. Montague and Holcombe got up and exhibited copies of the envelopes with Mr. Clemens' frank on, which had been sent to free negroes at their post offices. Mr. C. pronounced the franks a base forgery, as indeed any one would see, upon comparing them with his hand write.
In connection with these remarks of Mr. Clemens, I may say that to morrow he will offer the following resolution
Resolved, That His Excellency, the Governor, and other officers of the Commonwealth, in this city, and the officers and members of the General Assembly be invited to seats in this Convention on the twenty-second day of this month, the birth-day of George Washington; that the reading of his Farewell Address to his countrymen shall be, and is hereby made, the special order of the day; that the Clerk of this convention be, and is hereby instructed to read the same as a testimony of respect, which in Virginia is still due to her greatest son; and that thereupon this Convention shall adjourn until its next regular daily session.
We shall see when this resolution is offered, whether the 22d of February is still considered a national holliday [sic], and one worth celebrating. It is quite probable that objection will be made to the resolution. Nothing patriotic or national goes down any more, you know, with secessionists.
Mr. Willey, of the Committee on Federal relations, informs me to-night that matters are not encouraging in the deliberations of the Committee. There is a disposition to an ultimatum in an indirect form.
A great deal of trouble, and possibly the worst results are apprehended from this resolution which, you remember was offered by Mr. Flournoy, (of 1855 notoriety.)
Resolved, by this Convention, That whilst Virginia has a high appreciation of the blessings of the Union, and would do much and forbear much to perpetuate them, yet it feels itself bound to declare, that identity of interests and wrongs with the seceded States of the South would, in case of an attempted coercion by the Federal Government, demand and receive the interposition of all her military strength in resisting such aggression.
Our friend, Major Loring, is still here and making a good use of his time, too.:He is laboring to secure the abolition of the tax on wages and salaries, or, at least, an important mitigation of the most oppressive features. He thinks he will succeed, as the Chairman of Finance. Mr. Haymond, of Marion, has promised a favorable recommendation. Mr. Haymond, of Marion, has promised a favorable recommendation. Mr. Richardson, I learn, is also heartily co-operating to the same end, and will offer important amendments to the law as it now stands.
Do you know that every day's session of this convention is costing the State of Virginia about two thousand dollars.:The Convention itself:in pay to members and officers, rents and incidentals, costs a thousand or upwards, direct, and as the legislature and its officers merely meets and adjourns in order to attend the convention, their pay and expenses must also be counted. Two thousand dollars is considered a low estimate of what the convention is costing each day. How long do you suppose a State in debt, almost without hope to pay, as we are, can stand it? How long can the city of Wheeling, whose per diem is estimated to be about thirty dollars of the two thousand?
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A strong community advocate for education and inclusion takes The Next Step
Rekah Strong, MSW, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Clark County,
has been appointed to the Clark College Board of Trustees
VANCOUVER, Wash. – Rekah Strong, whose higher education began at Clark College and who has been honored regionally for her commitment to diversity and inclusion, has been appointed to the Clark College Board of Trustees by Gov. Chris Gregoire. Her term will begin Oct. 1. She will succeed Rhona Sen Hoss, who has served as a trustee for 10 years.
"Rekah's commitment to community and its success makes her a valuable asset to the board," said Gregoire. "She cares about the people she serves and understands the importance of a solid foundation in education. I welcome her to this new role."
Clark College President Robert K. Knight said, "Rekah Strong is a well-respected leader in the community. We know that she will be a great advocate for our students and Clark College."
Strong, who serves as Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Clark County, said she is excited to be joining the Board of Trustees. "My personal commitment to the betterment of my local community, along with my desire to utilize my education, and professional skills, to further enhance a respected educational institution, is the primary driver for my desire to serve on the Clark College Board of Trustees," she said.
Strong, who attended Clark College before transferring to Portland State University added, "Clark offers a myriad of support for students, ranging from those who need additional preparation before attending a university to those who are brushing up on a new skill or certification. I have first-hand experience as a student, as an employer, and as a professional, of the amazing benefits that Clark College brings to this community. It is an honor to give back to the institution which provided me with such a solid foundation."
About Rekah Strong, MSW
Rekah Strong, MSW, is the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Clark County. After attending Clark College, Strong transferred to Portland State University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a master's degree in social work (administration). She is currently continuing her studies at Portland State, pursuing a Ph.D. in social work.
For more than a decade, Strong, who resides in Camas, has worked with public and private agencies, developing strategies to improve organizational cultural humility. As Chief Diversity Officer for Clark County, Strong leads the county's efforts to integrate diversity and inclusion measures into policy and practice in the county. She is currently the committee chair of the Clark County Diversity Advisory Committee and the Clark County Diversity Steering Committee. She is co-chair of the 2012 Northwest Public Employees Diversity Conference and serves on the board of We Reign.
She has been an active volunteer in the region, serving as an advisor for the American Society for Training and Development Cultural Competency Team, a board member and diversity team chair for the American Red Cross of Southwest Washington and a personnel committee member for YWCA Clark County. She has also served on the Big Brothers Big Sisters Columbia Northwest African American Advisory Committee, the City of Battle Ground Diversity Task Force, and the Portland State University Social Justice Committee.
She is a recipient of the 2008 NAACP Diversity Leadership Award, 2009 YWCA Val Joshua Racial Justice Award, 2009 Delta Woman of Excellence award for social justice, and the 2010 Vancouver Business Journal Accomplished and Under 40 award.
Her leadership efforts contributed to Clark County's selection as the recipient of the 2009 National Association of Counties Program Award for Diversity and Inclusion and the 2010 Urban Entrepreneurs Network Community Vanguard Award.


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