May 30, 1995

Key Bank of Washington

Michael D. Gaberman and Stephen L. Harrison have joined Key Bank of Washington's business consulting group as vice presidents. Previously, Gaberman and Harrison were both financial consultants at Merrill Lynch. Also, Raymond E. Otto Jr. has been named vice president and manager, profitability enhancement, accounting and finance. Otto was formerly assistant vice president and senior business analyst in the bank's accounting and finance group.

Elma Airport

Patrick and Patricia Conroy, owners of Conroy Flying Service, have taken over the Elma Airport, a private facility for public use located 30 miles west of Olympia and 20 miles east of Aberdeen/Hoquiam. The previous owner was Jack Duffy of Gold Beach Aviation. The airport offers services such as a flying club, a flight and ground school, aerial photography, fly-ins, scenic rides, flight camp, rental hangars and a restaurant.

Cole & Weber

Seattle-based advertising agency Cole & Weber has hired Laurie Pierson as media planning supervisor on the newly acquired Silicon Graphics account. Prior to joining the company, Pierson worked for five years with Floathe Johnson Associates, where she served as media supervisor and later, as media director. Pierson's background also includes stints at Houston-located agencies Taylor Brown Smith & Perrault, Taylor Brown & Barnhill and McCann-Erickson.

Marjan Companies

The Bellevue-based Marjan Companies, including Sales Center Concepts and Design Decor, received two "Reggie Awards" from the Builders Association of the Twin Cities for interior merchandising and sales center development on behalf of Lundgren Brothers Construction, one of the largest home builders and development companies in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

Construction Associates

Construction Associates Inc. recently announced the addition of James Houston as director of construction operations. He is responsible for coordination of all project management and operations for the entire company. Houston has over 20 years of construction experience, most recently as president of Houston Construction Services. He holds a degree in building construction from the University of Washington.

W.G. Clark

The state's Department of Labor and Industries has awarded W.G. Clark Construction Company a Meritorious Achievement Award for its safety record. The Seattle contractor has gone five years without a time loss accident and has decreased its industrial insurance rate to .35.

CFMA

The Construction Financial Management Association has elected its new national officers and directors for 1995. Christine M. Thompson of Sedro-Woolley was appointed treasurer. She is vice president of Seven Sisters Inc. and past president of CFMA's Puget Sound Chapter. Other national CFMA officers elected include: Danny B. Parrish of James N. Gray Construction Company of Lexington, Ky., president; Steven D. Lords of Roy Anderson Corp. of Gulfport, Mass., president-elect; and Richard W. Rice of the Jaynes Corp. of Albuquerque, N.M., secretary.

CITC

The Construction Industry Training Council of Washington is holding June 23 graduation ceremonies and student of the year awards at the Bellevue Conference Center in Bellevue. A total of 34 students will receive their certificates of completion in carpentry, electrical, HVAC, sheet metal, painting and plumbing. Nine students will be honored as "student of the year." CITC will also make a special presentation to all third-and fourth-year students who have maintained a 4.0 grade point average. The evening kicks off with a 6 p.m. social hour, followed by dinner at 7 p.m. Reservations are limited. For further information, contact Halene Sigmund at (206) 454-2482.

Financial strategies

Financial Strategies in a Tight Economy for the Construction Company is the title of a June 28-29 seminar sponsored by the Associated General Contractors of Washington Education Foundation. Topics include: strategies to improve bonding capacity; strategies to boost bottom line profits; quick-analysis ratios used by bonding agents and banks; understanding financial reports; accounting theory for contracting; and construction financial management concepts and methods. Instructors are William Ames, a principal with Minard-Ames Insurance Group, and John Murdough of the CPA firm of Pittman and Murdough. The AGC is recommending that senior management and financial staff take the seminar as a team for maximum results. Participants will need to bring their company's annual financial statements for the last five years, a calculator and two sharp pencils with erasers. Cost is $175 per person. The program will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on June 28 and 8:30 a.m. to noon on June 29. It will be held at the AGC Building's Second Floor Education Center (1200 Westlake Ave. N.). For further information, contact Alison McGuire at (206) 284-0061 or (800) 562-2868.

First aid/CPR

An all-day first aid/CPR class is scheduled June 10 at the CITC training facility in Bellevue (1930 116th Ave. N.E.). Topics will include: injury and illness assessment, bleeding, airway management, heart attacks and poisonings. Instructor is Mike Newhouse. Cost is $30 for currently enrolled CITC students; $45 for supporting CITC members (AGC, ABC, PHCC, PDCA, UCAW and WSECA); and $50 for non-supporting members. The deadline for registration is June 5. For further information, contact Halene Sigmund at (206) 454-2482.

Local winners for recycling programs

Washington Recycling in Everett, the Boeing-Everett Division Commercial Airplane Group and the Solid Waste Management Division of Snohomish County Public Works were honored this month by the Department of Ecology for their solid waste reduction and recycling programs. Washington Recycling, which won the award for Best Recycling or Buyback Center, have recycled over 155,000 tons of material and paid the public over $5 million for those materials since it opened in 1972. Boeing-Everett won for Best Business/Commercial Waste Reduction & Recycling programs. The company saved $570,000 last year by recycling 57 percent of its total potential waste stream. Boeing's 777 airplane was designed by computer, saving tons of paper and plywood. And, Snohomish County received the honor for Best Public Information or Education Program for its activities during Recycle Week last October.

Company plans to pay Ecology fine with land

OLYMPIA (AP) -- A Monroe rock-quarry company fined $42,000 for polluting a stream plans to pay part of the Ecology Department penalty with a tract of land, the state announced Thursday. Cadman Inc., High Rock Quarry wants to give property worth $37,000 to Snohomish County and pay the $5,000 balance in cash, which would go to the state general fund. Cadman was penalized in May 1994 for violating state water-quality laws. Workers struck an aquifer while preparing for excavation at the quarry in October 1993. Water from the aquifer mixed with process water and stormwater runoff at the site and then flowed into a stream that flows into the Snoqualmie River. The discharge increased the stream's turbidity, which can be harmful to aquatic life, Ecology officials said in a Thursday news release. "Cadman eventually took steps to treat the water before discharging it to the stream. However, the actions they took were simply too slow and for months turbid water was discharged to the stream," said Kevin Fitzpatrick, unit supervisor for industrial permits at Ecology's Northwest Regional Office. Water quality at the site has improved, the release said. The location and size of the tract has not been determined. The specifics will be worked out over the next year, Fitzpatrick said in a telephone interview. Ecology and Snohomish County must approve the parcel and ensure it can be used as green space or a similar alternative, and will then work together to ensure its best use.

Businesses sought for carbon dioxide cleaning

Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL), which has acquired a commercially available super-critical carbon dioxide cleaning unit, is seeking businesses that have cleaning processes and would like to have the technology demonstrated at their facility. Businesses will have to provide space for the equipment (about 7 feet wide by 7 feet deep by 8 feet high), a 230-volt electrical supply, industrial compressed air and possibly the carbon dioxide. PNL will provide the cleaning apparatus, a PNL staff operator, and a presentation to host facility staff covering the technology and its applications. Demonstrations would run from two to five days each from June through September. Additional information may be obtained from Max Phelps of PNL at (509) 375-6678.

AGRA Earth & Environmental Inc.

AGRA Earth & Environmental Inc., an international engineering and environmental corporation, has named David Mastroieni to the new position of Corporate Business Development for its Materials Engineering Group in the Portland office. He will oversee the marketing efforts throughout the Western Region of the United States and Canada. Mastroieni has 11 years of Materials Engineering experience and has held senior marketing and business development position throughout the West.

Toxic spill kills Vancouver salmon

VANCOUVER, B.C. (AP) -- A toxic spill has killed about 200 juvenile coho salmon in Vancouver, British Columbia's Cutthroat Creek, the last remaining stream with a natural fish population in the city. Fisheries Department biologist Lee Nikl said Wednesday the dead fish were reported by a local resident involved in fish-habitat enhancement the night before. The nature of the toxic substance involved was not immediately known. The dead salmon were found only in the vicinity of a storm drain, he said, and others were alive both upstream and downstream. "It's made a dent in the population," said Nikl. "It hasn't wiped the run out." But the spill may have destroyed the salmon run for several years, Musqueam tribe Chief Joe Becker said, explaining that coho salmon have a three-year life cycle. Cutthroat Creek flows through the tribe's reserve. The tribe has been trying for years to get the creek back to its original wild-spawning potential. But spills from nearby residences on land leased from the Musqueam reserve have upset the plans. Becker said the spill was the third of its kind in 10 or 12 years. About three years ago, 20,000 fish were wiped out, he said.

PEMA luncheon

Chuck Clarke, Director of EPA Region 10, will discuss the future of regulation and enforcement at the June 7 luncheon of the Professional Environmental Marketing Association, to be held at the Kayak Lakefront Grill, 1200 Westlake Ave. N. in Seattle. To secure a reservation, checks must be received at PEMA, P.O. Box 717, Seattle, WA 98111-0717, by June 2. For more information, call PEMA at (206) 455-3680.

Jacobs Engineering names subsidiary head

HOUSTON (BW) -- Michael J. Higgins has been named president of JE Remediation Technologies Inc. (JRT), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Higgins was formerly vice president of Federal Programs for Jacobs Southern Region. Prior to joining Jacobs, he served as president and chief executive officer of Hazwaste Industries Inc. Earlier, Higgins was chief of the Point Source Analysis Branch of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He will be responsible for managing JRT's commercial and federal remedial construction business to accommodate client requirements for site cleanup and closure. His mission will be to combine Jacobs' environmental services and process engineering capabilities with the firm's construction work force, currently numbering 8,000 personnel in the field. JRT will lead Jacobs' efforts in completing all current remedial action contracts which together constitute more than $500 million of backlog. Headquartered in Pasadena, Calif., Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. is an international engineering and construction company with over 30 offices in the U.S. and abroad. Jacobs established JRT in 1994 to focus its construction expertise on environmental remedial action contracts in the private and public sectors.