Jan 29, 1997

WOSCA Shippers Cooperative

Gaye Hundley has joined WOSCA Shippers Cooperative as account executive in Southern California. Headquartered in Seattle, WOSCA has terminals across the U.S. that provide less-than and full trailerload shipping, air freight service, private consolidations and electronic data interchange tracing programs.

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt

The Portland office of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt has added the following new attorneys to its firm: Douglas Bryson, Neil Cole, Jeffrey Davis, David Howitt, Raymond Kindley, Allyson Krueger, Corey Parks, Anne Talcott, R. Cammon Turner and Linda Vierra. In the Seattle office, Mary Shima has been elected as a shareholder, and Chase Alvord has joined as an attorney.

Columbia Analytical Services

Columbia Analytical Services, Inc. (CAS) announced senior management has signed a memorandum of understanding with its parent company, EMCON, to purchase 100 percent of its common stock, financed by an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). CAS, which has shown sustained growth and profitability since its founding in 1986, is one of the largest environmental testing laboratory networks in the United States with annual sales exceeding $20 million. Headquartered in Kelso, Wash., CAS operates facilities in Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington.

CobWeb

CobWeb, just six months after opening its corporate headquarters in Issaquah, has moved to larger quarters. CobWeb's new office space in located at 1065 12th Ave. N.W., Suite E-3, Issaquah. The new location quadruples the square footage of the previous headquarters. Drew Holland and Willie Reed have both been hired at CobWeb to meet the company's anticipated growth. Holland joins from M1 Software in Los Angeles as web producer, overseeing major productions with clients like Microsoft and Edmark. Reed comes from Commerce Direct International. He will manage the company's Internet Service Provider operations on the newly purchased Quad Pentium, in partnership with regional ISP, AccessOne.

EvansGroup

John Maley has been promoted to vice president at EvansGroup Public Relations, assuming the dual title of account supervisor, creative/director, business development. Maley will manage all creative projects undertaken for EvansGroup Public Relations clients, working in coordination with creative director Dan Bockman and account staff.

Miriani's

Miriani's, a new restaurant, has opened in Wallingford located at 2208 N. 45th St., Seattle. Tom and Linda McElroy, who also own and operate Ristorante Machiavelli on Capitol Hill, opened Miriani's together with partner Tom Dillard. Miriani's features Italian fare by chef Linda McElroy, with a strong accent of fresh seafood.

B.F. Day Elementary

On Jan. 15 the Fremont Chamber of Commerce and merchants of Fremont held an auction for the B.F. Day Elementary School, raising $13,000 to support various programs at the school. The programs supported are "Family Dinner," "Reading Is Fundamental," "Conflict Management," and "Parent-Pal." Parent-Pal looks for ways to find work at the school for B.F. Day parents who are unemployed. B.F. Day's goal is to raise $50,000 this year. Like all schools, B.F. Day is having to turn to the community to keep current services in place. B.F. Day is the oldest continuously-operating elementary in Seattle.

Physio-Control

The City of Boston recently purchased 100 state-of-the-art automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) from Physio-Control International of Redmond. The defibrillators will be used for the Boston Emergency Medical Services in partnership with local firefighters, police and other "first responders" to reduce cardiac-arrest deaths. Two elements of the program make it unique among American cities: The Boston Police Dept. will equip strategic police units with life-saving AEDs, and two major Boston high-rise office buildings, the John Hancock Tower and the Federal Reserve Bank Building, will have units onsite with trained security guards to use the same defibrillators employed by EMTs, firefighters and police.