Oct 01, 1996

Reed McClure

Vanessa Lee has joined the Seattle law firm of Reed McClure. Lee joins the firm with extensive experience in litigation, emphasizing insurance defense, insurance coverage, and suspicious loses. Reed McClure is a professional services corporation providing businesses and individuals throughout the Northwest and Western Canada with legal expertise emphasizing cost-effective, personal service.

U.S. Bank

U.S. Bancorp has named Lynn Manley manager of Private Banking, a newly created position. U.S. Bank's Private Banking Division offers customers a comprehensive selection of banking and financial services. By working with a private banking officer, customers can access and manage deposit accounts and credit facilities, individual retirement accounts (IRAs), investment and brokerage services, personal trusts, and pension and profit-sharing plans. Based in the Northwest, U.S. Bancorp is one of the 30 largest bank holding companies in the nation. The company has over 600 branches and provides comprehensive financial products and services to consumers and businesses as well as individual and institutional investors in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Northern California and Utah.

Virazon

Virazon, formerly known as Un Deux Trois, has formerly opened its doors. The restaurant features traditional Northwest ingredients prepared with classical French techniques. Co-owners are Judy Schocken and Chef Astolfo Rueda. Located at 1329 First Avenue, Virazon will serves lunch Monday through Saturday from 11:30am to 2:30pm and dinner Tuesday through Saturday from 5:30pm to 9:30pm. For reservations call (206) 233-0123.

Medalia HealthCare

John Sashko, M.D. has joined Medalia HealthCare at St. Joseph Hospital, located at 1708 South Yakima Avenue in Tacoma. Dr. Sashko's medical interests include women's health, pediatrics and obesity issues. Medalia HealthCare is the Northwest's largest network of primary care clinics, with more than 300 providers and 41 clinics throughout the Puget Sound Region. Medalia is sponsored by the Providence and Franciscan health systems, two of the Northwest's largest Catholic health systems.

The Woodmark Hotel

The Woodmark Hotel on Lake Washington has been selected as a member of Preferred Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, a collection of 102 independent luxury properties across the world. Preferred recognizes properties for "unparalleled distinction," in accommodations, service and cuisine. All properties are required to pass unannounced annual inspections that cover a 100-page checklist with 1,500 criteria ranging from the number of minutes required for check-in, to the number of seconds it takes to receive a greeting at the restaurant. The Woodmark Hotel on Lake Washington, located at Carillon Point in Kirkland, is the only hotel on the shores of Lake Washington.

Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation has promoted Ben Schreiber to corporate consulting engineer, one of the company's highest levels of technical achievement. Schreiber served as Director of the Digital's Windows NT Systems Group both at DECwest in Bellevue, Wash. and in Acton, Mass., leading the company's technical efforts in delivering Windows NT on the Alpha platform. Digital is a world leader in open client/server solutions from personal computers to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha and Intel platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together with industry-focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.

Chronology Corporation

In an effort to expand its worldwide sales force, the Chronology Corporation, a supplier of timing verification software for electronics designers, has hired Mark Leonard as vice president of sales and James Stewart as director of strategic accounts. Two direct sales engineers, Matt Baker and Ernest Chiu, have been hired to help with sales expansion, and agreements have been made with additional U.S. and international distributors to help with the expansion. The corporation has also added six distributors to help with the company's business growth in the U.S. and abroad. The six distributors are CADSoft Solutions, Inc. (Germantown, Maryland), TriLogic (Wilmington, Mass.), ALS Design (Boulogne, France), EDA Solution (Hawthorn, Australia), Mercatek (Milan, Italy), and Tranfer EDS (Enschede, Netherlands).

Kemper Systems

Monty Blessing has joined Kemper Systems Inc. as technical manager. Blessing has 22 years of experience in the waterproofing and roofing industries. He will be responsible for all technical support to owners, architects and contractors. Kemper is based in Seattle.

K-C Sales

Beginning today, Ron Harnden is assuming the position of general manager for K-C Sales Inc. in Woodinville. The company is a manufacturer's representative for the turf and agricultural irrigation industries in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia and Alberta.

NWCCC safety awards

The Northwest Construction Consumer Council recently held its fourth annual Construction Industry Safety Excellence Awards program. The association's Owner Safety Award honored the Shell Oil Refinery in Anacortes for its outstanding safety record, which includes 18 months without an OSHA recordable incident. The Constructor Safety Award went to Baugh Enterprises (over 200,000 worker hours) and Haskell Corp. (under 200,000 worker hours).

Hanford citizens' committee seeks members

RICHLAND -- Two federal agencies are soliciting applications for new members to the Hanford Health Effects Subcommittee. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are looking for new members to the citizens' advisory committee. Congress created the committee in 1994 to advise ATSDR and CDC on activities both agencies should undertake to address human exposure to toxic releases from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The HHES currently has about 20 members who were chosen for their interest and expertise in Hanford exposure issues. Those members include activists, downwinders, health physicists, nuclear engineers, physicians and representatives from the Hispanic and labor communities. ATSDR and CDC are trying to broaden the pool of available expertise on the committee. The HHES also has government liaisons from the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho and the governments of the following tribes: Coeur d'Alene, Colville, Kalispel, Kootenai, Nez Perce, Spokane, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Yakama. The HHES meets for two-day sessions approximately five times a year. Members are paid $188 for each day of the meetings, along with travel expenses. The 1997 meetings will take place in Portland, Kennewick, San Francisco and Coeur d'Alene. For more information, contact James K. Carpenter by Oct. 15 at one of the following addresses: Executive Secretary, Hanford Health Effects Subcommittee, 1600 Clifton Road, MS E-28, Atlanta, GA 30333, fax: (404) 639-0759, e-mail: jkcl@atsoaa1.em.cdc.gov.

Ecology awards grants, loans to communities

OLYMPIA -- The state Department of Ecology has awarded grants and loans to the following cities, counties and tribes for needed water quality improvements and waste management projects:

• a $2.1 million loan to the city of Kent for its 98th Avenue Regional Treatment Pond project, which will improve the water quality of Garrison Creek by reducing streambed erosion and bank erosion;
• a $1.1 million grant to Snohomish County for a coordinated program of waste management projects;
• a $929,000 loan to Wilbur to rehabilitate parts of its sewage collection system;
• a $356,823 grant and a $356,823 loan to the city of Aberdeen to replace an aging, leaking sewer main line that crosses the Chehalis River near the Highway 101 Bridge;
• a $250,000 grant to Island County to develop a watershed action plan for South Whidbey Island;
• a $237,200 grant to the Tulalip Tribes of Washington to improve water quality and shellfish habitat from Possession Sound to Port Susan and Saratoga Passage;
• a $186,623 grant to Clallam County to teach local residents how to protect and improve water quality;
• a $150,000 grant to the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians to reduce nonpoint pollution in the Stillaguamish Watershed;
• a $119,582 loan to the city of Snohomish to design improvements to its sewage system;
• a $98,250 grant to Pend Oreille County for a coordinated program of waste reduction, recycling and technical assistance projects;
• a $75,000 to Skamania County to assess water quality in the Washougal River;
• a $50,000 grant to King County to take action on the Beaver Lake Management Plan;
• and a $35,000 grant and $10,000 loan to Pomeroy to develop and prepare a general sewage plan and facilities plan, including collection and treatment.

For more information on water quality improvement projects listed above, call Mary Getchell at (360) 407-6157. For information on waste management projects, call Jerry Gilliland at (360) 407-6149.

Conference on contaminated sediments

SEATTLE -- Law Seminars International is planning a two-day conference on contaminated sediments. The conference will meet Oct. 17 and 18 in Conference Center Room H at Seattle Center. Topics will include sediment science, liability, regulatory requirements, cleanup standards and remediation. The conference is designed for consultants, engineers, lawyers, environmental managers, port officials and employees of cities, counties, public works departments and resource agencies. The seminar fee of $495 a person includes attendance at all sessions, coffee breaks and all course materials. For information on how to register, call Law Seminars International at (206) 621-1938 or (800) 854-8009.

House boosts salt-water treatment

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government would earmark $55 million to research ways to convert salt water into usable form under a bill passed by the House last week. The legislation, approved by voice vote, would require the Interior Department to evaluate at least three desalinization techniques, with the states sharing 75 percent of the cost. Congress first authorized funding for desalinization projects in the 1950s but has provided little money since. The Senate has passed a similar bill. Negotiators will attempt a compromise.

Yakamas file complaint over fish habitat

TOPPENISH (AP) -- The Yakama Indian Nation has filed a complaint against Klickitat County for allegedly failing to protect critical salmon habitat as required by the state's Growth Management Act. Klickitat County Planner Curt Dreyer said Tuesday he was surprised to learn of the tribe's filing, which comes almost four years after the county passed a resolution saying it had complied with the act. The tribe on Sept. 12 asked the Eastern Washington Growth Management Hearings Board to review the situation and force the county to comply with the act. "No ordinances have been passed to prevent further degradation of salmon spawning and rearing habitat," said Scott Nicolai, Yakama Nation assistant environmental manager. Although Klickitat County opted to meet only minimum requirements of the act, it is still required to designate critical areas to be protected, including wetlands and fish and wildlife habitat, said Steve Wells, assistant director of the state Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development. Dreyer said the county's comprehensive plan, written before the act took effect, includes goals and policies to maintain environmental quality. The tribe wants to ensure that the Columbia River corridor and streams and wetlands throughout the county are protected, Nicolai said. "This is not a development vs. salmon issue," he said. "The development just needs to be done with consideration of other components." A hearing date for the petition has not been set. The hearings board has six months to render a decision.