Jun 06, 1997

Kibble & Prentice

Ryan Gamaunt has joined the Business and Estate Planning Division of Kibble & Prentice as an account executive. Kibble & Prentice is a Seattle-based financial services firm.

Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell

Michael Pfau, Annie Fitzsimmons and Sandra Rovai have joined the law firm of Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson & Daheim. William Dixon, has been named as an associate, and Judge Donald Thompson has joined the firm as Of Counsel. Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell has offices located in Seattle and Tacoma.

Hotel Monaco

Hotel Monaco Seattle, located in the former U.S. West building at 1101 Fourth Avenue, will open August 1. The hotel features 189 guest rooms and nine conference rooms totaling over 6,000 square feet. The largest meeting room will accommodate private dining for up to 160. Sazerac, a 175-seat restaurant located in the hotel, will feature rotisserie cooking and Southern-style cuisine. It will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Frontier Bank

Everett-based Frontier Bank is opening a new commercial banking office in Redmond. Terry VanNostrand will serve as vice president and manager of the office. Michael Tan joins as a commercial loan officer. Both were formerly with Western Bank.

Jun 05, 1997

Columbia Wine & Spirits

Columbia Wine & Spirits, the new sales and marketing division of Associated Vinters, Inc., has acquired Idaho's oldest and largest winery, Ste. Chapelle. The C.W. & S. family of Northwest wineries include Columbia Winery of Woodinville, Paul Thomas of Sunnyside and Covey Run of Zillah.

Sheperd Public Relations

Question.net, a new online survey facility owned and operated by Seattle-based E-valuations Research LLC, has chosen Seattle-based Sheperd Public Relations to provide services for its market launch. Question.net offers unique surveying capabilities. Michael Sheperd, managing partner of Sheperd PR, will serve as lead counsel.

Elliott Bay Design Group

Elliott Bay Design Group of Seattle has been awarded a contract to develop a concept structural design for a 301-foot housing barge for use by revetment crews working on the Mississippi River. The award is part of a two-year indefinite-delivery contract with the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers' Marine Design Center. The new barge is part of a fleet of similar housing vessels, where crews live while working six-month shifts laying concrete pads to stabilize the river bed.

Pacific Lutheran University

William Frame, vice president for finance and operations at Pacific Lutheran University, has been elected as the 10th president of Augsburg College, an independent Lutheran college located in Minneapolis. Frame will assume his new position later this summer. PLU will name an interim vice president for finance and operations, and form a search committee to fill the permanent position.

Washington Research Council

The Washington Research Council, a non-profit public policy research organization, has awarded John McFarland, a Tukwila City administrator, its Pathfinder Award. McFarland has been honored for his Highway 99 revitalization program. The Pathfinder Award recognizes an outstanding non-elected public administrator who has instituted a program that substantially improved service quality while reducing costs.