Dec 16, 1997

Seattle Symphony

Seattle Symphony's Capital Campaign has received a $1.25 million challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation, the single largest grant the foundation has ever given to any Washington arts program. The Seattle Symphony is raising money both for the construction of Benaroya Hall as well as for an Endowment fund, and has recently kicked off the Community Campaign phase of their larger Capital Campaign. The community phase is designed to enable individuals at all levels to become part of this effort; the grant is dependent on raising $4.5 million from the larger community by September 1998. For more information, contact Alice Kaderlan, Director of Public Relations, at (206) 215-4780.

Friends of King Street Station

A grass-roots citizen group has formed to advocate and raise funds for the full rehabilitation of King Street Station in Seattle. The group, Friends of King Street Station will be designated a 501 nonprofit corporation. Early renovation design plans indicate that an estimated $43 million dollars will be needed to complete the station rehabilitation. The group will work with private and public groups to raise the money needed. For more information, call Gretchen Bakamis at (206) 329-4023.

Rushforth

Don R. Lloyd has teamed up with Rushforth Construction Co. Inc. as director of marketing. Lloyd has 17 years of experience in the design development and construction industries.

Lambert, Hitch join MFG

LYNNWOOD -- McCulley, Frick & Gilman Inc. (MFG) has hired Deborah Lambert to direct engineering operations in the company's Lynnwood office. Lambert will be responsible for overseeing engineering projects that involve commercial development and industrial operations. Lambert has more than 16 years experience in environmental permitting, civil design and construction management. Her specialties are waste management and surface water management. Most recently she worked for W&H Pacific Inc., a civil engineering firm in Bellevue. MFG also has hired Janelle Hitch as a staff engineer. Hitch accumulated four years of consulting experience in the Midwest, where she worked for Fluid Management Inc. Her experience includes air quality projects and investigation and remediation of sites contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons. Based in Boulder, Colo., MFG provides full-service environmental consulting and engineering services throughout the United States. The company has nine offices across the country. Its Lynnwood office specializes in air quality, noise, solid waste, surface water and environmental impact statements.

Environmentalists vow to fight to keep wolves

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- Environmental groups that challenged a portion of the federal wolf reintroduction program never intended their actions to lead to the removal of wolves from Yellowstone and central Idaho, an attorney said Monday. The environmental groups represented by the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund are outraged by Judge William Downes' order that the Canadian wolves transplanted in the northern Rockies in 1995 and 1996 be removed, said Doug Honnold, the managing attorney for the fund's northern Rockies office. Although the National Audubon Society and Predator Project were part of the legal action that led to Downes' decision on Friday, the groups do not want to see the wolves removed, Honnold said in a telephone news conference from his Bozeman, Mont., office. "We and our clients want the wolves to stay," he said. "We have fought hard to protect the wolves in the northern Rockies. We want all the wolves to stay." He added he recommended to the groups that they appeal the ruling to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But a representative of the National Wildlife Federation said by challenging what became a successful reintroduction program, the Legal Defense Fund made a strategic error that resulted in a ruling that pleased no one. "They were playing a very close game with the law," said Tom France. "To complain about a program that everybody admits has been successful is what is so odd." Under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's wolf reintroduction program, the transplanted wolves are considered an "experimental, non-essential" species. The designation means they can be shot if they are caught preying on livestock. It was developed to ease the concerns of ranchers who were worried about losing livestock to the predators.

Dec 10, 1997

Harza

Glenn Tarbox has been appointed president of the Western Division of Harza Engineering Company. This new division will integrate branch offices in Bellevue, Portland, Los Angeles, Oakland, Salinas and San Diego. Tarbox spent his early career in dam construction and has since specialized in water resource projects. He was the chief engineer for Harza Engineering Company from 1988-1990, and has now rejoined the firm.

HDR

James Hess has been promoted to senior vice president at HDR Engineering, Inc., and Matthew Harvey, Mark Hunsicker, Richard Sprague, Raymond Hamilton, Alan Batog and Steven Reiber to vice presidents. Hess is one of HDR Engineering department managers responsible for a four-state region including Arizona, Utah, Nevada and New Mexico. Harvey is the national director of federal programs for HDR, working out of Omaha. Hunsicker is HDR's waste and energy marketing program manager, also located in the Omaha office. Sprague, of the firm's Denver office, is national director of HDR's landfill services. Hamilton is senior project manager in the water section of HDR's Charlotte, N.C. office. Batog is department manager of the Boston office, and Reiber is HDR Engineering's director of water quality research, located in the company's Bellevue office.

Parametrix

Katherine Casseday has joined the Kirkland office of Parametrix as a senior transportation engineer. She was most recently with Parsons Brinckerhoff. She is now at work on the connector road feasibility study for the City of Gig Harbor, and also on projects in Alaska, Oregon and Massachusetts.

Weber+Thompson

Steve Price and Donna Nordquist have been promoted to associate at Weber+Thompson Architects. Price joined the firm in 1995 and is currently project manager for a mixed-use project with 69 condominium units on Meydenbauer Bay in Bellevue. Nordquist also joined the firm in 1995 and is head of the interior design group. Courtney Folds has joined the firm as marketing director. She is currently coordinating the firm's new corporate identity and marketing materials design.