Mar 07, 2001

Harborview Medical Center

Hecker

Cindy Hecker has been appointed associate administrator of patient care services (PCS) and chief nursing officer for Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Hecker has worked at Harborview for the past 20 years, beginning as a staff nurse on the acute care general surgery unit and most recently served as the assistant administrator of PCS for critical care, the burn center and surgical services.

Ogden Murphy Wallace

Gold	Hart-Biberfeld	Ajemian
Fischer	Martin

Seattle law firm Ogden Murphy Wallace announced that Phil Obrechts has returned to the firm as of counsel in the municipal department and that Tod Gold, Teena Williams, Tori Fischer, Emmelyn Hart-Biberfeld, Chris Ajemian and Deric Martin have become associates of the firm. Obrechts focuses on land use law. Gold and Williams join the firm's environmental law practice group. Fischer joins the business and estate planning departments. Hart-Biberfeld and Martin join the litigation department. Ajemian joins the business department.

Emerald Turfgrass Farms

Emerald Turfgrass Farms, established March 17, 1961, celebrates 40 years of sod production in the Puget Sound area. The sod-producing farm will move its corporate headquarters to its new location in Sumner on March 19. The new facility will also serve as the Puget Sound distribution yard.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society

The 12th Annual MS Walk, sponsored by Immunex, will be held on May 5, 6 and 12. Funds raised will support research efforts and programs for over 6,500 clients served by the Greater Washington Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. There are 12 MS Walk sites throughout Western and Central Washington. For more information contact the MS Hotline at (206) 284-4236 or (800) 800-7047, or register online at www.nmsswas.org.

Associated Grocers

Associated Grocers, a retail-owned cooperative of independent grocery stores throughout Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and the Pacific Rim, has named Bruce Turner as director of its produce sales and procurement division. Turner will be responsible for cultivating new produce vendor relationships, building consensus amongst members in order to leverage buying power and increasing market representation with the company's retail members

Mar 05, 2001

Click! Network

Tacoma Power’s Click! Network has won the Silver Pyramid Award from the Promotional Products Association International. Click! is the first Pierce County firm to win this award, which recognizes effective use of promotional products in marketing campaigns. The award was presented for the firm’s Cinema Classics movie soundtrack CD, developed with Tacoma advertising firm Adventures in Advertising/Imprint.com.

Charter Bank

CEO and chairman of Charter Bank Keith Jackson is the new chairman of the board for the Bellevue Boys and Girls Club. Jackson has been involved with the Boys and Girls Club for many years and has been instrumental in bringing strategic partnerships and corporate alliances to the organization.

Hagen, Kurth, Perman & Co.

Seattle-based CPA Hagen, Kurth, Perman & Co.'s employees and their friends and families raised $1,850 for Northwest Harvest. The firm sponsored a charity bowl at a north-end bowling alley to raise the money for the charitable organization.

Entomo

Entomo, a Bellevue-based provider of supplier relationship management products and services, named Dennis O’Donnell as vice president of sales and Suresh Kumar as vice president of engineering. O’Donnell has more than 20 years of sales management and business experience. Increasing Entomo’s sales staff is one of O'Donnell's primary goals for the coming months. Kumar brings more than 18 years of high-tech product development and business experience to the company and will head up the 20-person engineering team, which he plans to double by year’s end