Nov 09, 2000

EverTrust Financial Group

Oosterwyk

Day

Belinda Oosterwyk and Ben Day have joined EverTrust Financial Group, the Everett-based holding company for Everett Mutual Bank and Commercial Bank of Everett. Oosterwyk is the new marketing manager for the company. She will be responsible for the development and execution of customer communications and the development and implementation of marketing action plans. Day is the new market research analyst.

Bullivant Houser Bailey

Bullivant Houser Bailey, a full-service law firm with offices in Seattle and throughout the Northwest, announced that Richard Matson has been elected to the firm's board of directors and David Ernst has been re-elected to serve another term on the board. Matson has more than 10 years of general litigation, trial practice and alternative dispute resolution experience. Ernst devotes a substantial portion of his practice to litigation issues unique to the food and beverage industry.

Virginia Mason

Kathy Hughes has joined the Kirkland Clinic, internal medicine department, of the Virginia Mason Medical Center. Hughes specializes in preventive health care and patient education. She recently completed both an internship and residency at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle.

The Silver Co.

The Silver Co., a Seattle-based public relations agency, has added Alyssa Pfau, Jenni Wean, Andrea Bressler and Haley Pingree as account coordinators. Pfau joins the agency from the Eastside Journal where she was a copy editor and paginator. Wean worked as a systems analyst/engineer at Johns Hopkins in Maryland before joining the agency. Bressler comes to the agency after working with several organizations such as Chicken Soup Brigade and the League of Women Voters. Pingree is a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Lake Forest Park Water District

Lake Forest Park Water District in King County recently purchased WaterWare, a customer management, billing and accounting software system from Information Architects, a Poulsbo-based software firm. WaterWare is Microsoft Windows-based software written especially for managing utility customers. The installation process by Information Architects includes onsite configuration, data conversion, training, custom statements and reports, barcoding and graphs and meter reader interfaces.

Heathman Group

Bruce Fery resigned this week as president and CEO of the Portland, Ore.-based hotel development company called The Heathman Group. Fery said he left as a result of the decision by the family that owns the firm, the Stevenson family, to sell the Heathman Hotel and Restaurant to Rim Corp. of Modesto, Calif., and scale back Heathman Group's hospitality operations. Fery ran Heathman for 3 1/2 years and Wally Stevenson spoke well of him in a written statement about the resignation, saying Fery had "enhanced the company."

Two days later, Heathman changed its name to North Pacific Management Inc. and promoted Kevin White from chief financial officer to Fery's replacement as president and CEO. The firm also promoted Brett Wilkerson from general manager of the Heathman Lodge in Vancouver, Wash., to vice president in charge of managing the company's three remaining hotels: Heathman Lodge, Greenwood Inn and the Clarion Hotel. "I've always wanted to work for a small company," the written statement quoted White saying. "You have greater opportunities to focus on customers and make decisions more quickly."

Rep. Chopp will talk to BOMA

State Rep. Frank Chopp, D-Seattle, co-speaker of the House, will talk at the next lunch meeting of the Building Owners and Managers Association. The gathering, at noon in the Washington Athletic Club, will be BOMA's annual business and legislative meeting, so BOMA will also install its leaders for the coming year. Also, BOMA lobbyist Mark Gjurasic will present his analysis of this week's elections and ramifications thereof. For information, call (206) 622-8924.

NAIOP to weigh the merits of light rail

The next lunch meeting of the National Association of Office and Industrial Properties will tackle whether building the area's impending light rail transit line is the best way to spend transportation funds. The gathering is titled: "Light Rail -- Yea or Nay?" NAIOP says attendees will hear about an alternative, called "Ride Free," which calls for providing all bus rides for free to increase bus ridership, adding 4,000 van pools outside downtown Seattle and spending $201 million for improved traffic signals and commuter lanes. Retired business executive Charles Collins will speak. Collins, of Mercer Island, led two solid-waste disposal companies in Arizona and Oregon for the past 17 years. Before that he had, among other things, served as a director for Metro Transit. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 15, at the Bellevue Club, which is southeast of downtown Bellevue. For information, call (206) 382-9121.

Commercial Real Estate Women

Tracy Lent-Anderson, leasing agent for Martin Smith Inc., was elected next year's president of Commercial Real Estate Women Northwest. She replaces outgoing president Gretchan Young, of the appraisal firm Schueler McKown Keenan & Young. Lawyer Deborah Berg of Tousley Brain Stephens became president-elect. Jeanette Flory of Kennedy Associates is secretary and treasurer.