Jan 25, 1996

Northwest Cable Advertising

The Seattle office of Northwest Cable Advertising (NCA), which provides advertisers access to 14 cable networks, has hired Bruce Kimura as an agency sales representative, and John Landry as a retail sales representatives, and has promoted Jill Thomas to agency sales representative. Before joining NCA, Kimura held a similar position with KCPQ-TV, Channel 13, in Tacoma. Previously, Landry was a retail sales representative for Bay Cable Advertising in San Francisco. And, Thomas was a retail sales representative.

Emerald Downs

Marie Connelly has been named vice president-general manager of Renton-based Emerald Downs, a race track under construction in Auburn where 100 days of racing will be conducted during the inaugural season from June 20 to November 4. Connelly comes off two years of running operations as vice president of Emerald Racing Association and also worked many years at Longacres, serving as controller there from 1983 to 1990. Since 1992, she has managed Wooden Horse Investments Inc., for the group that owns champion race horse and sir Seattle Slew. Other appointments have been announced. They are: Grant Holcomb, director of racing. Holcomb served as racing secretary for Longacres and Emerald Racing since 1990. Don Campbell, director of food and beverage. Campbell began as a bartender in 1964 and has worked in the industry since 1976. Gary Hallett, director of mutuels. Hallett was first employed in racing at Longacres in 1965 and has held a myriad of positions since, most recently operations manager for Emerald Racing for the past three years. And, Bob Myers, director of television services. Myers served for 22 years as chief engineer for Video Patrol in Longacres and Emerald Racing.

Hagen, Kurth, Perman & Co., P.S.

Hagen, Kurth, Perman & Co., P.S., a Seattle certified public accounting and business consulting firm, has added Paula Williams as an accounting software specialist. Previously, Williams owned and operated Century Accounting Services in Las Vegas for over 15 years.

Price Waterhouse LLP

The Seattle office of Price Waterhouse has named Richard D. Greaves, audit partner, to succeed Daniel C. Regis as office managing partner, effective July 1, 1996. Greaves joined Price Waterhouse LLP in Seattle in 1974. He developed his career in the company and was admitted to the partnership in 1986. Regis, who retires, has held the Seattle office managing partner position since 1991. From 1979 to 1991, he was office managing partner in the Portland, Ore., office and was also managing partner of the Northwest Group (Seattle, Portland, and Anchorage) from 1988 to 1993.

Jan 24, 1996

Port of Olympia

Nick Handy, deputy director of the Washington State Office of Marine Safety during the past three years, has been selected as the next executive director of the Port of Olympia. Handy, who was a state deputy attorney general and later executive assistant for the state Commissioner of Public Lands, has been chosen from a field of 308 applicants for the port's chief executive position. During the past 20 years, Handy's career has crossed paths with Washington public ports and the maritime industry. As executive assistant to the Commissioner of Public Lands, he served as executive secretary to the Harbor Line Commission and he regularly represented the lands commissioner on trade issues, including testifying for free trade on behalf of Washington state exporters. As assistant general for the Department of Natural Resources for eight years, he served as counsel to the state aquatic land's program. Also as an assistant attorney general, he handled several significant court cases involving harbor areas and aquatic lands policy.

Jensen Maritime Consultants Inc.

Jensen Maritime Consultants, a Seattle naval architecture and marine engineering firm, has completed a new tug design for Cleveland-based Tugz International L.L.C., engaged in towing on the Great Lakes. A series of up to four tugs will be build by Gulfport, Miss.-based Trinity Marine Group. The tugs are powered by two Caterpillar diesel engines, have a design speed of 14 knots, and can be operated by a 3-man crew.

SeaFirst Gallery Exhibit

The SeaFirst Gallery, located in Seattle in the Columbia Seafirst Center, 701 Fifth Avenue, will feature, from February 2 to February 15, a photo exhibit by Jacques Lowe on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, to gather funds for the Leukemia Society. A Tribute to Jackie: Jacques Lowe's Photo Exhibit to Benefit the Leukemia Society of America will be unveiled by Jacques Lowe, John F. Kennedy's personal photographer during his Senatorial and White House years, at a public reception at Noon on Friday, February 2. Lowe created the exhibit to help raise awareness and funding for the Leukemia Society's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Lymphoma Research Fund. Kennedy Onassis died from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in May 1994. An exhibit catalogue, including 67 of the 75 from the national tour along with personal remembrances from Mrs. Kennedy's friends and family, and limited-edition poster will be available at the Gallery to benefit the Lymphoma Research Fund. Additionally, the Leukemia Society will host a private exhibition showing and dinner at the Columbia Tower Club on Friday, February 2, at 7 p.m. with all proceeds benefiting the Society's Fund.

Conductive Rubber Technology

Randy C. Noland has been added to the executive team of Bothell-based Conductive Rubber Technology. In his new position, Noland is responsible for all marketing functions, and will manage the company's national network of sales representatives. Noland's experience in sales and marketing management includes positions with Procter and Gamble, Leviton Telcom, and Augat Communications Group. Most recently, he was corporate director of marketing for Eagle Healthcare Inc.

The Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers

Devon Walter, convention services manager for the Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers, has been awarded the Convention Services Manager of the Year Award. The award, sponsored by Successful Meetings magazine and the Association for Convention Operations Management, recognizes outstanding customer service in the hotel, convention and tourism industries. A recipient of the 1995 Washington State Chapter of Meetings Professionals International's Supplier of the Year Award, Walter has worked for the Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers for more than 12 years and has been a convention services staff member since 1987.

Northwest

Richard A. Salogga has joined the offices of Northwest Architectural Company as director of medical care facilities design for Western Washington. Coinciding with the closing of the firm of Veninga and Salogga, the move brings Salogga's 18 years of medical and retirement facility planning ad design in the Seattle area with the statewide experience of Northwest Architectural Company in hospital, clinic and residential care facilities for special populations.

TAMS

Barry S. Knight has taken over as manager of TAMS Consultants Inc.'s Seattle office, following the recent retirement of Phillip Perdichizzi. Knight is a principal associate of the firm and has been based in the Seattle office since 1983, where he has been involved in managing many of the firm's civil and structural engineering projects throughout the Northwest. Prior to this, he was assigned to TAMS' International Division, with responsibility for the marketing and management of overseas work.

Walker & Macy

Laura Herbon has joined Walker & Macy of Portland. Herbon, an landscape and envinronmental designer who specializes in site analysis and planning, planting and wetland mitigation, revegetation and environmental assessments, has worked with public and private clients throughout the Great Lakes Region and the Pacific Northwest.

FFA

Stan Jones has joined Fletcher Farr Ayotte (FFA) of Portland as a project coordinator with over 20 years of technical experience. He is currently working on the Mt. Rainier Curatorial Storge Facility for the National Park Service. Esther Cho Anunciado is an intern architect working as a team member on the a new Fred Meyer project in Idaho. Hai Luc is an intern architect assisting with new construction projects for the U.S. Postal Service.