Oct 22, 1996

Todo Inc.

Shawn Holder has been named president and chief operating officer of Todo Inc., parent company for the Seattle-based Todo Wraps restaurant chain. He was formerly president and CEO of Hamburger Hamlet in Los Angeles and spent 25 years with Chart House Enterprises, leaving as president of the firm withe 125 restaurants and $200 million in sales. Todo Inc. has 16 restaurants in the Seattle area and has begun national expansion with 28 locations in southern California. The goal is to have 50 by the end of 1997.

Odyssey, The Maritime Discovery Center

Odyssey, The Maritime Discovery Center, recently raised $200,000 in 10 days, reports Odyssey president Brian Boyle. The center, to be located at Pier 66, received a pledge of $100,000 from Holland America Line Tours; $75,000 from the Alaska Crab Coalition; and $25,000 for Manson Construction. Odyssey has raised over $8 million of the $12.76 million needed to complete the facility. Odyssey is scheduled to open in December 1997.

County transit advisory group

The King County Department of Transportation is forming a citizens advisory group to help the department revise its guidelines for evaluating transit service. The group will review and recommend changes to the department's proposals for evaluating bus service. Community members with a background or interest in transit planning may apply to: Radford Duckworth, King County Department of Transportation, Community Relations, 821 Second Ave., MS 92, Seattle, WA 98104-1598. Information, 206-684-2165.

Public Affairs Council

Mack L. Hogans, senior vice president for corporate affairs at Weyerhaeuser is the new chairman of the Public Affairs Council, Washington D.C. The council is the professional organization for corporate public affairs officers.

Thaw Corp.

Richard Brune is the new director of marketing and sales for Thaw Corp., an REI subsidiary which manufactures recreational products. Brune will develop Thaw's private label manufacturing business and coordinate sales for Walrus brand products. He was formerly with Hartmann Luggage Co.

fine.com Interactive

Dan Stull, president of the Seattle-based Web site design firm fine.com Interactive, has been named to the board of directors of LaserDirect, a direct marketing communications company based in Kent. Diana Bury has joined fine.com Interactive as director of Internet services. She was most recently with Sanctuary Woods Multimedia and AT&T Microelectronics in the San Francisco area. Tom Shannon and Stacy Speicher have joined the firm with Shannon as an interactive designer of Web sites and Speicher as a producer. Shannon was with FreeRange Media in Seattle and Speicher was with LaserDirect.

SDL/McCarthy

Marcia Karr is a new project manager at SDL/McCarthy in Bellevue. She has 12 years of experience as a design engineer and project manager. Karr is currently working on the King County Regional Justice Center project in Kent.

Mortenson

M.A. Mortenson Company's new business development coordinator is Keli Hagen. She spent the last six years at Bassetti Architects where she specialized in Native American and educational facilities. Hagen holds an architecture degree from the University of Washington.

Workshops on Asarco smelter site

EVERETT -- The state Department of Ecology and Asarco are working toward starting the cleanup of the Everett Smelter Site. Before the cleanup can begin, several activities must be completed, including:

• demolition of the vacant homes on the former smelter property;
• surface water characterization and controls;
• additional remedial investigation and feasibility study (RI/FS) work for the lowland area;
• soil sampling on residential properties;
• and community protection measures.

A workshop on how Ecology and Asarco are working together to clean up the site and how people can get involved in the initial activities will meet at 7 p.m. Oct. 29 in the Jackson Center of Everett Community College, 801 Wetmore Ave., Everett. A workshop on exposure to metals, arsenic and lead by people who live near the site will meet at 7 p.m. Nov. 21. This workshop will explain medical tests to be made available for local residents. The workshop location will be announced at a later date. For more information, contact the following people at the Department of Ecology: site manager Dave Nazy, (206) 649-7258, e-mail: dnaz461@ecy.wa.gov; or Susan Lee, (206) 649-7138, e-mail: slee461@ecy.wa.gov.

Expert in urban village planning to speak

SEATTLE -- Peter Calthorpe, a national expert in transit-oriented development and urban village planning, will speak at noon Thursday in downtown Seattle. The brown-bag lunch will meet at Plymouth Congregational Church -- Hildebrand Hall at Sixth Avenue and University Street. The event is free to the public. Since 1972, Calthorpe has been combining his experience in both planning and architecture to develop an environmental approach to community development and urban design. He wrote the Sierra Club book Sustainable Communities with Sim Van der Ryn. His most recent work is The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. The event is being sponsored by 1000 Friends of Washington, the Puget Sound Regional Council and the Puget Sound Chapter of the American Planning Association. For more information, call (206) 343-0681.

Vancouver area meets air quality standard

VANCOUVER -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has removed southern Clark County from its list of air pollution "non-attainment areas" for carbon monoxide. The EPA's action follows years of efforts by the Southwest Air Pollution Control Authority (SWAPCA), the Department of Ecology and the region's businesses and residents. The EPA has approved a 10-year plan adopted by SWAPCA earlier this year. The plan would prevent future carbon monoxide violations through the turnover and maintenance of motor vehicles. The wintertime oxygenated gasoline program will be discontinued, but it could be reinstated if the area fails to stay within the carbon monoxide standard. EPA is considering applications to discontinue other non-attainment areas in the Portland-Vancouver region. Agencies on both sides of the state line have been preparing separate, coordinated applications to remove the Portland-Vancouver area from the list of non-attainment areas for ozone, the chief ingredient in smog.

Forum on threats to San Juan waterways

FRIDAY HARBOR -- A forum with the theme "Whales, Tankers & Jet Skis -- Ways to Protect Our Marine Waters" is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in Friday Harbor. The forum will focus on current controversies affecting the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the San Juan Islands, such as the ban on jet skis, whale-watching tourism, habitat loss, pollution and the growing number of oil tankers entering the Strait. The keynote address will be given by Scott Cathey of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Cathey will explain how Monterey Bay achieved restrictions on personal watercraft. Representatives from the San Juan County Marine Resources Commission, the National Marine Sanctuary Program and People for Puget Sound also will speak at the forum. The forum will meet at the Friday Harbor Grange Hall, which is located near the Whale Museum across from the county courthouse. For more information, call Mike Sato at People for Puget Sound at (206) 382-7007 or Nancy De Vaux at Friends of the San Juans at (360) 378-5790.