Sep 14, 1995

Northwestern Trust

Northwestern Trust & Investors Advisory Co., a Seattle-based company providing trust, custody, and investment management services, has added David C. Williams as managing director. Williams has 18 years of trust and investment experience. Prior to joining the company, he served as the regional manager, personal trust for Interstate Bank. His experience also includes managing the personal trust departments for SeaFirst Bank, Security Pacific Bank of Washington, and Rainier Bank. Williams is a member of the Estate Planning Council of Seattle and is past president of the Corporate Trustees Association of Washington.

Marina Village Inn

Bill Rode, Marina Village Inn's original innkeeper, has returned to the Everett hotel after two years with Penninsula Management in Tumwater and the Tri Cities. Rode helped Marina Village owners Bob and Su Champion open the 15-room hotel in 1986. Since then, it has grow to 26 rooms with two conference facilities, and became the only Snohomish County hotel to win the AAA Four Diamond Award.

Azteca Restaurant Enterprise Inc.

Seattle-based Azteca Restaurant Enterprises Inc. has announced the opening of its 27th Azteca Mexican Restaurant, at 420 Three Rivers Mall Drive in Kelso. The 5,550-square-foot restaurant will open Sept. 21. Azteca was named "Business of the Year" for 1995 by the Southwest King County Chamber of Commerce. In 1994 and 1995, Azteca was named "Best Mexican Restaurant" in Evening Magazine's Best of Western Washington Viewers' Poll and "Favorite Overall Establishment" by Seattle Entertainment '94. The company operates 27 Azteca restaurants in Washington and Oregon.

Sep 12, 1995

ATS

Applied Technical Services Corp. (ATS), a Bothell-headquartered provider of turnkey manufacturing services for Northwest electronics companies, has added three employees to its staff. Daniel L. Ritz, who has more than 30 years of experience in electronics materials management, procurement, engineering and manufacturing, takes on the responsibilities of director of materials. He previously worked for Texas Instruments in Austin, Texas. Sandy Leonard has been hired as manager of human resources. Leonard comes to ATS with 20 years of experience providing comprehensive information and developing programs covering all aspects of human resources in the workplace. Former positions include manager of human resources for Motorola Inc. Wireless Data Group in Bothell, and CISD International Inc. in Costa Mesa, Calif. And, David North has joined ATS as senior production supervisor, continuing an 11-year career in contract manufacturing that includes tenures at Prism Electronics in Redmond and Assemblers Automated in Rush City, Minn.

Health Care Policy Board

Gov. Mike Lowry has appointed Susan M. Johnson to the newly created Health Care Policy Board. She will fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Pam McEwan. Johnson currently serves as director of government relations for the statewide council of Services Employees International Union. She formerly served on the governor's Citizen Task Force on Government Efficiency and Effectiveness, an advisory committee to the Health Services Commission, a committee to the Department of Health and the State Board Community and Technical Colleges, and currently serves on the Governor's Task Force on Higher Education. Johnson also has served on boards for the Seattle Metrocenter YMCA, the Seattle Downtown Human Services Council, People for Fair Taxes, Washington Women United and the University of Washington Women's Center. The Health Care Policy Board, a nine-member group which replaces the Health Services Commission, will focus on involving and informing the public on emerging health care issues.

Sagent Corp.

Sagent Corp., a six-month-old company with headquarters in Bellevue, has been awarded a contract by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Entitled "Cost-based Generation of Scalable, Reliable, Real-Time Software Components," the contract extends for two years, committing Advanced Technology Program funds of $1.9 million with a cost share of $168,000. The technology area of the contract is component-based software. It addresses the problems associated with the design and operation of distributed networks of computers and information systems faced by business and industry in the creation of "virtual enterprises." Sagent technology, "multiple autonomous decision makers," is designed to synchronize the many events in a network to ensure that they happen in the proper order and that data remain consistent throughout the network.

Business letter writing class

The Associated General Contractors of Washington Education Foundation has scheduled a business letter and daily report writing class Oct. 13 at the Education Center, AGC Building, 1200 Westlake Ave. N., Seattle. Class participants will learn how to: produce simple, concise and organized communications; identify and write to the reader's specific needs; critique and edit your own and other's work; and write communications that promote an internal and external customer service orientation. Topics to be covered include: the ABC's of business writing; basic letter, memo and report writing; the "kiss-kick-kiss" approach; the conversational approach; the "you" approach; and style, tone, grammar and punctuation. Class instructor is Stephany Bruell. The class will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Registration is $100. For further information, contact Alison McGuire at (206) 284-0061 or (800) 562-2868.

Residential building permit process class

The King County Department of Development and Environmental Services, in collaboration with the Master Builders of King and Snohomish Counties, is presenting an introductory class on the single-family residential building permit process in unincorporated areas of King County. The program is targeted toward landowners and the general public interested in making application for development within King County. Participants will learn about the requirements for permits, what activities require permits, the costs, and the time frames for permit processing. The class will be held Sept. 20, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., at the Department of Development and Environmental Services, fourth floor conference room, 3600 136th Place S.E., Bellevue. Cost of the class is $30. Pre-registration is required. For further information, contact the MBA of King and Snohomish Counties at (206) 451-7920.

CSI meeting

The Sept. 20 meeting of the Portland Chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute will feature a tour of the Oregon Rose Garden Arena. The tour will feature 10 stops, including the rotunda, fountain plaza, catwalks, locker rooms, private suites, the arena bowl and more. Tour groups will start at 5:05 p.m. and will last two hours. A dinner buffet will be served after the tour. Cost is $25 per person. The event is limited to the first 200 people to prepay. Registration must be received by Sept. 15. For further information, contact the Portland CSI at (503) 297-2162.

Johnstone Supply meeting/trade show

Portland, Ore.-based Johnstone Supply Inc. is holding its 14th annual meeting and trade show Sept. 18-23 in Washington, D.C. The event will be held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. Over 90 vendors and nearly 800 store owners, managers and vendor personnel will be on hand at the trade show. As part of the event, Johnstone's training department has developed product and service seminars, including vendor-sponsored classes on product fundamentals and applications, and professional training sessions on marketing, sales and financial skills. Johnstone is a cooperative comprised of over 195 individually-owned and operated wholesalers of HVACR and appliance service repair parts. For further information, contact Lisa Walker or Janet Tipton at Johnstone Supply, (503) 256-3663.

Golf tourney

The 1995 AGC Seattle District Golf Scramble is scheduled for Oct. 6 at the Rainier Golf and Country Club in Seattle. The format is five-person scramble. The event will feature member-sponsored holes plus a putting contest, door prizes, a Mariachi band, dinner buffet, and some other surprises. Cost is $125. Dinner-only tickets can be purchased for $34. Tee times can be made with the Seattle AGC office beginning at 8 a.m. on Sept. 13. The number is (206) 284-0061 or (800) 562-2868.

Browning-Ferris

HOUSTON (Dow Jones News) -- Browning-Ferris Industries Inc. has named President and Chief Operating Officer Bruce Ranck to the additional post of chief executive, effective Oct. 1. Ranck replaces William Ruckelshaus, who will remain chairman of Browning-Ferris, a Houston-based waste services company. Ruckelshaus, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, has been chairman and chief executive of Browning-Ferris since October 1988.

Feds test "green" highway paint

ALBANY, Ore. (AP) -- The federal government is testing alternatives after determining that the yellow and white paint now used to mark lanes on highways nationwide is helping to deplete the planet's ozone layer. Fifty different products that release fewer volatile organic compounds during application are being tested on a half-mile stretch of Oregon Highway 34. Some are paints; some are thermal plastics. The Federal Highway Department picked Oregon as one of its test states because of its wet and mild weather conditions, and because the state is a leader in its willingness to test new technology, said Mike Dunning, new products coordinator for the state Department of Transportation. There are 400 strips of paint placed every six to eight inches in the test area. Most products have about eight lines, while one has 16 strips. The products will be evaluated for durability, how the color changes over time, and how bright the colors are at night. Similar test areas have been placed in Texas and Kentucky. The federal government is requiring that states meet new paint guidelines next year, Dunning said. The new paint must be water based, contain less solvents, and have lower lead content, Dunning said. The new paint is expected to reduce the solvents released into the air by 1.1 million pounds a year in Oregon alone. State highway workers used about 390,000 gallons of paint in 1993 for fog and center lines at a cost of $7.50 a gallon, Dunning said. The state does 7,600 miles of striping in an average year.

Environmental management standard

The International Standards Initiative will host a presentation on ISO 14000, this Friday Sept. 15, at 7:30 a.m., at US West's New Vector University, 15800 S.E. Eastgate Way, Bellevue. IS 14000, the new international environmental management standard that applies total quality management principles in the environmental arena, is important to all companies that do international business and may be used by state and federal regulatory agencies as well. Draft standards have begun to be released and are expected to become effective in 1996. The presentation will describe the main components of the ISO 14000 series, how they apply to specific businesses, and discuss outstanding issues and controversies. It will be led by Mike Ruby, president of Envirometrics, an environmental engineering firm that specializes in air pollution control, and John Kinsella, vice president of SCS Engineers, an environmental consulting firm with 25 years experience in dealing with solid and hazardous waste issues in North America and overseas. Ruby is a member of the U.S. technical advisory committee on ISO 14000. SCS is currently working with several Northwest firms on developing their ISO 14000 programs. ISI is also sponsoring a two-day conference on ISO 14000: Environmental Management for the 21st Century, on Nov. 6-7, at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. Call ISI at (206) 392-7610 for further information.