The first of the four finalists for the Columbia Gorge Community College presidential vacancy will be in the area later this week, and there will be three public forums with her during the interview process. Leanne Frost, the director of the General Studies Division at Montana State/Great Falls, will be at The Dalles campus lecture hall on Thursday at 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., and at the Hood River campus commons on Friday at 8:30 a.m. She will also be interviewed by the CGCC board in an executive session Thursday evening. The three other finalists will be in the area for similar functions over the next two weeks, with Sara Thompson Tweedy visiting this coming Monday and Tuesday, Marta Yera Cronin on March 15 and 16, and Paul Jarrell March 19 and 20. The complete schedule is available at cgcc.edu.