May 11, 2001

Laird Norton Trust

Suelzle

Huckabay

Duim

Laird Norton Trust of Seattle has hired Vickie Suelzle as senior vice president and managing director of wealth planning services, Kathleen Huckabay as senior wealth planning advisor and Duane Duim as wealth planning advisor. Suelzle will work directly with high-net-worth clients to recommend tax and financial planning strategies. Huckabay and Duim will work with clients to recommend a range of wealth management planning, from tax-related strategies to retirement planning.

Elevated Transportation Company

The Elevated Transportation Company council elected Dr. Robert Radford to its board of directors. Radford served as principal of Meany Middle School from 1997 to 1999, and principal of Decatur Elementary School from 1994 to 1997. The ETC is charged with developing a plan to build and operate a monorail serving Seattle neighborhoods.

Caffé Appassionato

Locally owned and operated international retail coffee chain, Caffé Appassionato, announced that its Shoreline retail store will go “all-organic,” offering only organic retail and café items. The new plan includes the exclusive use of shade-grown coffee that comes from traditional, environmentally sensitive farms in Central America that protect threatened migratory bird habitat.

Aegis

Aegis of Laguna Niguel, an assisted-living community located in the southern California, was named the Assisted Living Community of the Year for 2001 by Consumer Business Review. The community is operated by Redmond-based Aegis. The company operates several assisted-living communities and plans to build 20-25 more within the next five years in the western United States.

Snohomish County PUD

Snohomish County PUD has named Clair Olivers its new assistant general manager of water resources. Olivers will direct the water utility and its Jackson Hydroelectric Project. He has 25 years of experience with the city of Everett in a variety of engineering and management positions, most recently as the city's director of public works.

May 10, 2001

KING-TV

Jean Enersen, a 33-year broadcast veteran of KING-TV in Seattle/Tacoma, received the William H. Seay Award at station owner Belo's annual meeting of shareholders in Dallas. Enersen joined KING in 1968 and became the station's evening news anchor in 1972. She has received numerous broadcasting awards including the Best News Anchor Regional Emmy Award, and has been inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle in Seattle.

Labor Ready

Labor Ready announced that Melanie De Bond, director of investor relations/communications, will be leaving the company. De Bond will remain with the company until the end of June, after which time she will be available on a consulting basis. Based in Tacoma, Labor Ready is a provider of temporary manual labor to the light industrial and small business markets.

PictureIQ

PictureIQ Corp., a Seattle-based provider image preparation and delivery solutions, has appointed Tom Hull as president and Eric Bean as senior vice president of products. Hull will lead the company's business operations. He joins PictureIQ with more than 14 years of sales experience in the computer software and hardware industries. Bean brings more than 20 years of industry experience to the company. Most recently, he was vice president of products and technology at ImageX.com.

Avista Advantage

Avista Advantage, a Spokane-based provider of facility intelligence products and services, announced the addition of Lisa Metcalfe as vice president and chief technology officer, and Richard Schwartz as vice president of business development. Metcalfe comes to Avista from the Washington Gas Light Co., where she served as vice president and chief information officer. Schwartz will be responsible for directing the company's expansion efforts. He was senior vice president for Cambridge Technology Partners.

Columbia Bank

Dan Patjens was recently named senior vice president, branch manager for the Fircrest office of Columbia Bank. Previously a commercial loan officer for Columbia and Puget Sound National Bank, Patjens brings more than 20 years of banking experience to the bank. Columbia Bank is a full-service commercial bank with 28 branches in Pierce, King, Kitsap, Thurston and Cowlitz counties