Dec 27, 1996

Graham & Dunn

The Seattle law firm of Graham & Dunn has named Robert Bergquist as a shareholder, and Taraneh Maghame has joined the firm's litigation group as an associate. Bergquist counsels businesses in acquisitions, financings and other corporate matters with an emphasis on hospitality, communications and technology-based companies. Maghame focuses her practice on commercial litigation involving intellectual property matters.

Firmani & Associates

Firmani & Associates, a Seattle based strategic marketing and communications firm, has hired Jason Standifer and Ellen Bukey. Standifer brings seven years of marketing communications experience to Firmani & Associates, including extensive project work in writing, print production, direct mail and special events promotion. Buckey joins as an associate and will provide communications, marketing and public relations consultation to the firm's new and existing clients.

NWMTI/Metro West Ambulance

Two Portland organizations, Metro West Ambulance Service and representatives from Northwest Medical Teams International (NWMTI), have combined their efforts to donate two ambulances to fire departments in the Republics of Georgia and Belarus. Firefighters in the republics have been hoping to obtain ambulances for their departments in order to provide free transport to the city's hospitals. NWMTI is a nonprofit agency that provides assistance to vulnerable people suffering from war, epidemics, poverty, physical deformities, and natural disaster.

Perkins Coie

As a result of its merger with the Denver antitrust firm of Musgrave & Theis, the Seattle law firm of Perkins Coie has opened a new office in Denver. The office will open on January 1st, benefiting Perkins Coie clients in the telecommunications industry and other clients with interests in that region. Partners Bobbee Musgrave and Larry Theis, along with two associates and two administrative staff members, will join Perkins Coie's twelfth office. Musgrave concentrates her practice in antitrust, business torts, commercial disputes, constitutional law, employment law, health cases and unfair competition. Theis, a former chief of the Colorado Attorney General's Antitrust Section, concentrates his practice in trials and appeals, commercial litigation: antitrust, unfair competition, civil rights, employment litigation, health care, trade regulation, lender liability and telecommunications.

Evergreen Community Development

At its 2nd Annual Lender's Luncheon and Awards Ceremony, the Evergreen Community Development Association awarded the top lenders in the Western Washington area for the fiscal year which ended September 30. The ceremony was and opportunity for Evergreen to recognize and award the area lenders which have contributed to the growth of the economy and the prosperity of small businesses, their employees and customers. The "Most Active Lender" awards were given to Seattle-First National Bank and Frontier Bank. Seafirst Bank also received the "Greatest Increase in 504 Lending" award, as did Enterprise Bank and Towne Bank. Chandra Tollefsen of Key Bank of Washington and Craig Chance of Centennial Bank each received an individual award for "Most Active Lending Partner", the individual the produces the most 504 loans with Evergreen.

U.S. Savings Bond Campaign

Phyllis Campbell, president and CEO of U.S. Bank of Washington, has been selected to serves as chair of the 1997 Puget Sound/Washington State U.S. Savings Bonds Campaign. The goal of the campaign is to inform as many citizens of the value of savings bonds, both to the purchaser and to our country. Campbell is working to build a committee of local volunteers who share her values and commitment to this campaign, and are motivated to educate community members on the importance of saving for the future.

Ninth Circuit Judicial Council

The Ninth Circuit Judicial Council has appointed United States Bankruptcy Judge John Ryan of the Santa Ana Division of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California to serve on the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP), effective January 1. Judge Ryan has served on the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California since 1986. The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel was designed as an appellate forum with special expertise in bankruptcy law.

Dec 26, 1996

ABKJ

Pavel Fuchs has been promoted to the position of project manager at Andersen Bjornstad Kane Jacobs Inc. (ABKJ). He has 32 years experience in structural engineering and recently completed designs for the Pacific Mall and the PKNS Building in Malaysia. He is currently working on a project for the Oregon Department of Corrections. Stephen Yu also has been promoted to project manager at ABKJ. As head of the company's international project division, he is working on the Triangle Shopping Mall in Manila. Andres Lepage, who has a doctorate in earthquake engineering, has joined ABKJ's engineering team. He is working on the structural design of the 88 Mines View Condominiums in the Philippines. ABKJ's administrative department has added Jackie N. Gehlen as office manager, Steve M. Gorton as production assistant and Erica R. Asahan as accounting assistant.

Triad

Triad Associates has named Jon Nelson, Bill Dunlap, Clay Loomis and Jeff Cox as new stockholders in the company. A project manager and associate, Nelson has been with the firm for eight years. He is project manager for Gleneagle, a 450-acre master planned community in Arlington, and Couger Ridge, a 23-acre residential development in Bellevue that will have 80 homes. Dunlap also is a project manager and associate with the firm. He is now managing Intracorp's Seaway Industrial Park development in Everett and Trossachs, a 254-lot single-family residential development in King County. Loomis oversees the firm's 16-person civil engineering staff. Cox is Triad's director of landscape architecture and site planning.

Murase

Karen Kiest has joined Murase Associates as manager of the Seattle office. Most recently she was with Wallace Roberts & Todd in San Francisco. Current projects include the University of Washington Law School and the Benaroya Symphony Concert Hall.

Mayer/Reed

Nick Wilson has been promoted to the level of associate at Mayer/Reed, a Portland landscape architecture firm. He is a senior landscape architect and project manager for the new 22-acre Riverfront Park in Salem, and for the Washington State University Vancouver master plan. Kin Baumgardner has joined the firm and is now serving as project manager for the Nike World Campus North Expansion. Baumgardner is responsible for overall project management, design and construction documentation. Jeff Lang, a recent graduate of Utah State University's Department for Landscape Architecture, has joined the firm and is working on the Nike campus expansion. Holly Daigle has joined Mayer/Reed and is at work on a Portland International Airport parking structure and Salem Riverfront Park. Both Daigle and Lang will assist in the schematic phases of the Eastbank Riverfront Park and Esplanade.

DLR/John Graham

Damien McBride has joined DLR/John Graham Associates as an architectural designer. A recent graduate of the University of Kansas, he is now working on the Ala Moana Shopping Center Expansion in Honolulu. Andrew Cottrill, a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, also has been hired as an architectural designer. Carolyn Peet, also a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, has joined the firm as an interior architectural designer. Both Cottrill and Peet were previously members of FRCH Design Worldwide in Cincinnati, where they worked on Bangkok Dome Plaza. Jennifer Riley has joined the firm as a marketing assistant. Prior to joining DLR/John Graham, she handled marketing for Hotes Industrial Technology Inc. in Kirkland.

Shannon

Neil Christopher Phelps has become a partner in Shannon Engineering Inc. of Boeing Field. The industrial airplane and helicopter development company was founded by Jack Shannon 25 years ago.

BOORA

BOORA Architects of Portland has promoted six key staff members in the firm. Brian Jackson has been named an associate principal, and Pamela Birkel, Patti Buser, Eve Fagenstrom, Ellen Fortin and John Medvec have been promoted to the level of associate. Jackson, who joined the firm in 1987, has served as architect and construction administrator for numerous projects in Portland, including the 23-story 1000 Broadway Building. He is now working on the Southwest Portland Community Center and on Tualatin Hills' new Aquatic Center. A graduate of Princeton University and UCLA, Birkel joined BOORA in 1993. Her recent work includes NikeTowns in San Francisco, Seattle and New York. Buser, who also joined the firm in 1993, has worked on the $108 million U.S. Courthouse in downtown Portland and on NikeTown San Francisco. Fagenstrom also is working on the federal courthouse project and has experience with a broad range of other project types. Fortin, a graduate of Harvard University with 14 years professional design experience, recently won a 1996 American Institute of Architects Merit Award. She is currently working on a large-scale retirement housing community. Medvec joined BOORA last year and has served as architect and construction administrator for several school projects. He is currently serving as architect for NikeTown Honolulu.

Work of recycling task force is complete

OLYMPIA -- The Future of Recycling Task Force has completed its final report. The task force presented its report and recommendations to Gov. Mike Lowry and the state Legislature for action earlier this month. The task force is calling for the state to develop a long-term recycling strategy that focuses on resource conservation and places more emphasis on waste reduction. Other recommendations include:

• increase the amounts of materials collected in municipal solid waste programs;
• increase availability of recycling services for apartment buildings and condominiums and for small- to medium-sized businesses;
• expand recycling services for construction, demolition and land-clearing industries;
• increase organics recycling;
• increase industrial waste recycling;
• expand markets for recycled materials; and
• develop infrastructure to recycle new types of packaging.

Task force members also agreed that additional funding mechanisms were needed to provide long-term, public funding for recycling. They made these two recommendations: local planning jurisdictions should have the authority to impose a fee to fund solid waste programs; and a state solid waste collection surcharge should be reinstated and structured so as to qualify as a fee under Initiative 601 rules. To receive a copy of the final report, call the Clean Washington Center report hotline at (206) 587-5520.

Geraghty & Miller releases remediation book

DENVER -- The book Remediation Engineering: Design Concepts by Suthan Suthersan is now available. It is the latest volume in the Geraghty & Miller Environmental Science and Engineering Series. Suthersan wrote the book for remediation design engineers, scientists, regulatory specialists and project managers responsible for site cleanups. Suthersan is vice president and director of remediation engineering at Geraghty & Miller. The 384-page book discusses the evolution of remediation technologies, contains figures to help readers visualize technologies, includes theories and actual design of systems, offers rules-of-thumb for dealing with emerging remediation technologies and provides cost-benefit analyses within the changing regulatory framework. The book is published by CRC Press/Lewis Publishers and costs $69.95 plus $7.50 for postage and handling. It also is distributed by Water Information Center Inc., 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Suite E4-910, Boulder, CO 80302. For more information, call Water Information Center at (800) 425-6127 or Judi Schoeck at Geraghty & Miller at (303) 294-1200.

Public participation grants to be awarded

OLYMPIA -- The state Department of Ecology is offering public participation grants to 21 non-profit organizations to help pay for a variety of cleanup and pollution prevention activities. A public participation grant program was established as part of the Model Toxics Control Act, which went into effect in 1989. MTCA provides that 1 percent of revenues from a tax on hazardous substances be set aside for the grants. In 1997, these revenues will fund nearly $500,000 in grants. Non-profit organizations are eligible for grants of up to $50,000 each. In some instances, the organizations may use their grant money to hire environmental consultants. The following organizations will receive grant money:

• Heart of America Northwest, Seattle, for promoting public input on Hanford Nuclear Reservation issues.
• Skykomish Environmental Coalition, Skykomish, for promoting public involvement regarding cleanup of a petroleum-contaminated site.
• Northwest Marine Trade Association, Seattle, to distribute kits to encourage good environmental practices by new boat owners.
• Washington Citizens for Resource Conservation, Seattle, for demonstrating cost savings and inviting hospitals to switch from disposable to durable materials.
• Keyport/Liberty Bay Restoration Board, Indianola, for leading citizen oversight of hazardous waste cleanup at Naval facilities.
• Association of Bainbridge Communities, Bainbridge, for helping residents participate in decisions affecting a landfill cleanup.
• Citizens for a Healthy Bay, Tacoma, for working to keep the Commencement Bay watershed clean.
• Northeast Everett Community Organization, Everett, for sharing information on the Everett smelter site area and its human health effects.
• Brackett's Landing Foundation, Edmonds, for public involvement in the Unocal-Edmonds Bulk Fuel Terminal cleanup site.
• Envirostars Partnership/Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, Everett, for recognizing Snohomish County businesses that prevent and reduce hazardous waste.
• Energy Outreach Center, Olympia, for establishing an on-line clearinghouse of reusable building materials.
• Laughing Crow Productions/Sound Decisions, Olympia, for using performance arts to promote environmental awareness and dispute resolution skills.
• Inland Empire Public Lands Council, Spokane, for developing a middle school curriculum with information about mining wastes in the Spokane River.
• The Green Zone Committee, Spokane, for exhibiting a display on sustainable living.
• Re Sources, Bellingham, for reducing non-point pollution by promoting sound gardening methods and products.
• Whatcom Paper Reuse Coalition, Bellingham, for showing businesses how to increase profits by preventing pollution and reusing and recycling materials.
• CCIIW Citizen Task Force, Vancouver, for bringing waste-source reduction methods to apartment and condominium residents.
• Columbia River United, Bingen, for basin-wide strategies to assure protection of the river's quality.
• Lighthouse Environmental Programs, Greenbank, for programs on waste-free traveling and on-site composting.
• Curlew Lake Association, Republic, for encouraging responsible change in environmental behaviors.
• Economic Development Association, Mount Vernon, for creating a unified waste reduction and recycling plan for the Northern State industrial campus.

For more information on Ecology's public participation grant program, call Dolores Mitchell at (360) 407-6057.

Conference on geophysics set

RENO, Nev. -- The Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems (SAGEEP) will take place March 23-26 in Reno, Nev. Shallow geophysical surveys are being used more and more to find cost-effective ways to define water contaminant pathways, identify old landfill sites, evaluate existing structures and locate development hazards such as sinkholes and archaeological sites. SAGEEP '97 will feature three days of technical sessions and poster presentations in hydrology, environmental site assessments, radioactive waste management, mining, cavity and void geophysics, borehole geophysics and 3-D/tomography. SAGEEP is the national meeting of the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society. The meeting will take place at John Ascuaga's Nugget Hotel. For registration or other information, contact Jayne Sturges, SAGEEP, 7632 E. Costilla Ave., Englewood, CO 80112, (303) 771-2000, e-mail: 103443.720@compuserve.com.