Jan 05, 1998

Seattle Economists Club

The Seattle Economists Club has lost founding member and past president Miner Baker, who passed away on December 9 at the age of 83. Baker was a labor market analyst and spent 31 years at Seafirst bank. His public service included serving on the Port of Seattle Commission and serving as economic advisor to two governors. The Seattle Economist Club will be making a contribution to charity designated by Mr. Baker's wife. Any members wishing to make an individual contribution, please send checks to the Seattle Economists Club.

Dec 31, 1997

Reid Middleton

Reid Middleton has promoted Dave Swanson, John Klekotna, Kelli Owen and Mike Wallace to the position of senior engineer. Swanson will take the lead in the firm's structural engineering practice. Swanson was involved in the structural engineering investigation of the 1995 earthquake in Kobe. Klekotka has served in key design and leadership roles for most of Reid Middleton's structural and waterfront projects for the past 12 years. Owen has played a major role in the firm's surface transportation market. She serves on the board of directors for the Washington chapter of the American Public Works Association. Mike Wallace has been promoted to senior engineer. His clients include the cities of SeaTac and Tukwila and the Washington State Department of Transportation.

Entranco

Entranco recently added ten new employees. John Fisher and Erik Van Buskirk are the newest members of the firm's survey services group. Fisher joins the firm as a survey party chief, and Van Buskirk as a surveyor. Jonathan Olds, Stephen Hall and Nick Stackelberg have joined the water resources group at Entranco. Hall and Stackelberg are both water resource engineers. Olds is an ecologist with expertise in wetlands delineation and assessment in addition to endangered species monitoring. Blas Puzon is a new civil engineer in the firm's development services group. Tresa Cooper and Christine Yurick are new project assistants in Entranco's transportation services group. Sarah Brinkerhoff is has joined te accounting department of Entranco as a general ledger accountant, and Ashley Sawyer is a new office assistant with the firm's business services group.

Coughlin Porter Lundeen

Pete G. Lymberis has joined Coughlin Porter Lundeen as a civil project manager. His expertise is in site development, water quality and storm drainage design. He is currently working on CarrAmerica's Canyon Park Development, Lake Washington Junior High School, Quadrant's Lake Union Center, West Campus, Boeing Space Center in Kent, and condominiums in West Seattle.

Bassetti

Dale Lang has joined Bassetti Architects after three years of university post-graduate work and seventeen years as a design principal with WLC. Previously, at Bassetti, Lang was the leader of his own design studio specializing in elementary schools. Margaret Mazurkiewicz has recently become the firm's new interior designer, and is currently assisting in the design of Meadow Elementary School. She has a master's degree in architecture from the School of Architecture in Krakow, Poland. Patricia Dunlavey and Nirupama Sharma have joined the firm as intern architects.

Hedges & Roth

David N. Philips has been named regional manager of the Wenatchee office of Hedges & Roth Engineering, Inc. Philips has 17 years of professional experience in public works, with special expertise in the design and management of water and wastewater facilities. He is section president of the Water Environment Federation and an active member of the Pacific Northwest Pollution Control Association.

Yost Grube Hall

Alexander Khesin has joined Yost Grube Hall (YGH) of Portland as an architect. Formerly an architectural designer with the Wattenberger Architects in Bellevue, Khesin is involved with the design for YGH's overseas projects projects. He received his Masters of Architecture degree from the University of Kharov, Ukraine. Manfred Grabski has also been hired at YGH for overseas project work. Formerly a freelance architect, Grabski has professional experience in Germany. Harley Cowan has joined the firm as an architectural intern. Cowan, a graduate of Washington State University who has also participated in education programs in Russia, will also contribute to design work for overseas projects.

Dec 30, 1997

Holaday-Parks

Mechanical contractor Holaday-Parks has added several new staff members. Robert J. Stokes and Bert Mansfield have joined the company's Controls Division and Deborah L. Crosby has joined the company's Service Department. Stokes is a project manager and controls designer. His new job is to design systems integration networks, including lighting, card access and HVAC controls. Mansfield is a controls field engineer and Crosby a sales manager.

Symposium on future of salmon, commerce

PORTLAND -- Sen. Slade Gorton, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber and National Marine Fisheries Service Regional Director William Stelle will be some of the featured speakers at an upcoming symposium on salmon recovery, commerce and governance of the Columbia and Snake rivers. Set for Jan. 7 in Portland, the symposium is being sponsored by the Columbia River Alliance for Fish, Commerce and Communities. Its theme is: "How Can We Manage the Rivers for Endangered Salmon Recovery While Maintaining Their Multiple Uses?" The symposium is designed for anyone who makes a living from the Columbia and Snake rivers or whose communities depend on the rivers for agriculture, industry, electricity, navigation or recreation. The Columbia River Alliance (CRA) says it is sponsoring this event because the traditional uses of both rivers may have to change drastically in order to help salmon recover. Those uses contribute $30 billion to the Northwest economy each year, CRA says. Representatives from tribes, Northwest states, federal agencies and environmental, industrial and legal groups are expected to attend. Additional speakers include: U.S. Reps. Linda Smith and Elizabeth Furse; U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden; Bonneville Power Administration Acting Administrator Jack Robertson; and Northwest Power Planning Council Chairman John Etchart. The symposium will meet at the Lloyd Center Doubletree Hotel in Portland. The registration fee is $75. For more information, contact the Columbia River Alliance, 825 N.E. Multnomah, Suite 955, Portland, OR 97232, phone: (503) 238-1540, fax: (503) 238-1554.

Shearer joins Agra Earth & Environmental

KIRKLAND -- Bill Shearer has joined the Kirkland office of Agra Earth & Environmental Inc. as manager of business development. Shearer brings 15 years of business development experience to Agra. He previously was manager of project development for Golder Associates Inc. in Redmond. Agra specializes in geotechnical engineering, environmental engineering and materials testing. Shearer says he plans to help Agra expand into the mining industry and pursue environmental restoration work in the Pacific Northwest.

Endangered Species Act conference set

SEATTLE -- A regional conference examining the Endangered Species Act and its potential impacts in the Pacific Northwest is scheduled for Jan. 29 and 30 in downtown Seattle. Major topics to be covered include: integration of the Endangered Species Act with the federal Clean Water Act; watershed analysis; habitat conservation plans; and state-based approaches to the Endangered Species Act. Peter D. Coppelman of the U.S. Justice Department will speak on the future of the Endangered Species Act. John Kostyack of the National Wildlife Federation and Eileen Sobeck of the Justice Department also will be coming to Seattle from Washington, D.C. The conference is being co-chaired by Melanie J. Rowland of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Jeffrey B. Van Duzer, a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine. Other speakers include: Chuck Clarke, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10; Vicki M. Finn, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Patti Goldman, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund; Kristen L. Boyles, The Pacific Rivers Council; James A. Kraft, Plum Creek Timber Co.; and Phil Peterson, Simpson Timber Co. Sponsored by Law Seminars International, the conference will meet at Cavanaugh's Inn on Fifth Avenue. The conference is designed for lawyers, government and agency officials, real estate professionals, consultants, engineers, land owners and environmentalists. To register or receive more information, call (206) 463-4400 or (800) 574-4852.

PEMA luncheon focus: Bunker Hill cleanup

SEATTLE -- Mark A. Ohlstrom, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' project manager for the Bunker Hill Superfund cleanup in Kellogg, Idaho, will be the featured speaker at the Jan. 7 luncheon of the Professional Environmental Marketing Association (PEMA). Ohlstrom will discuss innovative management techniques used during the ongoing $125 million cleanup at the Bunker Hill mining site. The Corps headed up the team that demolished more than 200 contaminated structures at the site. The Bunker Hill site is the second largest non-federal Superfund site in the nation and one of the most complex. Mining at Bunker Hill began in 1886, and on-site smelting began in 1917. The refining and smelting operations continued to expand over the years until they encompassed nearly 200 structures at Bunker Hill's lead smelter and zinc plant. The entire mining operation shut down so abruptly in 1981 that the buildings and smokestacks were simply abandoned with no formal closure or cleanup. After Bunker Hill's owners declared bankruptcy, the Corps developed a demolition team that included private industry, local residents, the state of Idaho and the Environmental Protection Agency. Ohlstrom says innovative methods of handling materials allowed the demolition operations to meet an extremely tight budget. Ohlstrom has been with the Corps for more than 19 years. Prior to working on the Bunker Hill project, he was the project manager for the $395 million Chief Joseph Dam Additional Units Project. The PEMA luncheon is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 7 at the Latitude 47 restaurant on West Lake Union in Seattle. Cost is $20 for PEMA members and $30 for non-members. There will be a $5 surcharge if checks are not received by Friday, Jan. 2. To make reservations, call (425) 455-3680.