Dec 23, 2020

Lasher Holzapfel

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson announced that three lawyers joined the firm this month. Denver Gant joins the Estate Planning Practice Group. His focus areas include estate planning, probate, business and real estate. Christina Smith joins the Family Law Practice Group. Smith began her legal career working with child victims of abuse and neglect, and spent several years working on large corporate civil litigation cases. William Reingold Jr. joins the Family Law Practice Group. He most recently completed a judicial clerkship for the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Lasher Holzapfel was founded 47 years ago in Seattle.

Oregon Wildfire Disaster Relief

GE Appliances, a Haier company, is joining with independent retailers in Oregon to donate over $25,000 to the Oregon Wildfire Disaster Relief Fund. The partnership between GE and the local retailers supports the American Red Cross, which is providing shelter, emergency supplies, financial assistance and recovery planning to Oregon families. Retailers participating in this relief effort include DeWhitt Appliance in Portland, Kelly's Home Center in Salem and West Coast Appliance in Central Point.

T-Mobile

The Public Utility Commission of Texas announced that Bellevue-based T-Mobile has been selected to provide Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS) and Captioned Telephone service (CapTel) in the state of Texas. The commission has 30 years of history with Sprint, now part of T-Mobile. Relay services like TRS and CapTel enable people who are deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind, low-vision or have a speech disability to communicate over the phone by using a specialized text telephone and an operator to convert voice communications to text.

Dec 22, 2020

Lane Powell

Sweeney

Su

Nichols

Moyer

Lane Powell announced five new attorneys have joined the firm's Portland and Seattle offices. Riley Moyer (Seattle) will be an associate on Lane Powell's Labor, Employment & Benefits and Wage & Hour Teams. Ryan Nichols (Seattle) joins Lane Powell's Transportation and Corporate, Securities and M&A Teams as counsel to the firm. L. Paul Ohainle (Seattle) joins the Private Client Services Team as counsel to the firm. Michelle Su (Seattle) joins as an associate on the firm's Finance & Banking Team. Erin Sweeney (Portland) joins the firm as a shareholder on the Labor, Employment & Benefits Team.

Harvest Alaska

Harvest Alaska completed its acquisition of BP Pipeline's midstream ownership, following approval by the Regulatory Commission of Alaska. Harvest immediately acquires BP's approximately 49 percent interest in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System and 49 percent of Alyeska Service's and other Alaska midstream interests. Alyeska will continue to operate the pipeline as it has for decades. The 800-mile-pipeline system, one of the largest pipelines in the world, transports oil from the North Slope of Alaska to the northern most ice-free port in Valdez. Harvest Alaska, a subsidiary of Harvest Midstream, is a privately held midstream services provider based in Anchorage.

City of Kenmore

Joanne Gregory, finance and administration director for the city of Kenmore since December 2007, announced her retirement. Gregory has served in local government finance for more than 29 years. Leticia Salcido will become new finance & administration director. Salcido comes to Kenmore with over 23 years of experience in local government finance, including 13 years as the finance director of El Centro, California. The selection of Salcido was the result of a nation-wide search. She will take over the management and direction of the city's finance, information technology, risk management, and city clerk functions.

Dec 17, 2020

NW Natural Holdings

Northwest Natural Holding's board of directors has elected two new board members, Karen Lee and Nathan Partain. For the past 10 years, Lee has served as CEO of Pioneer Human Services, a nonprofit social-enterprise business based in Seattle. Partain is president and co-chief investment officer of Duff & Phelps Investment Management. Lee and Partain were also elected to the board of directors of Northwest Natural Gas, the company's wholly owned subsidiary. NW Natural Holdings is headquartered in Portland, and through its subsidiaries has been doing business for over 160 years in the Pacific Northwest.

PeopleReady

PeopleReady has received a silver Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Award for Best Advance in Workforce Management Technology for its JobStack app. The app provides a platform for companies to instantly select qualified local workers and manage their entire staffing process. PeopleReady supports a wide range of blue-collar industries, and operates more than 600 branch offices across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Canada.

KeyBank

KeyBank distributed more than $340,000 to small businesses, non-profits and families across its national footprint, as part of the an $18 million commitment KeyBank has made for COVID-19 response. In Seattle, KeyBank teamed with Mariners outfielder Kyle Lewis to make a $12,500 donation to the University District League Food Bank and a $10,000 donation to Friends of Children Seattle, as well as donating $50 gift cards to customers of various small businesses around Seattle. The small businesses that joined in the effort in Seattle were Likelihood Boutique, That Brown Girl Cooks, Kona Kitchen and Ezell's Famous Chicken. KeyBank purchased gift cards to these small business and then donated them as a way to provide additional support to both the business and local families.

Parent Trust for Washington Children

Parent Trust for Washington Children announced the appointment of three new board members, Craig Brauff, Dorothy Miller and Konrad Miernowski. Brauff is managing Partner of Emerald Investment Group, which focuses on technology and real estate investments. Miller is director of public policy and partnerships with Merck, where she works on health policy and public health issues. Miernowski is an attorney at Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson, where he focuses his practice on advising businesses on a variety of matters including formations, governance, mergers, acquisitions, and succession planning. All of Parent Trust's programs are online and include a parent coaching call-in line, developmental screenings, childbirth and new parent classes, parenting groups, stress reduction training for families, and support groups for parents recovering from substance addiction.