Oct 25, 2001

Association of Sewer & Water Districts

Danielson

Jones

Goodwin

Port Orchard's Karcher Creek Sewer District was named District of the Year by the Washington Association of Sewer & Water Districts. The award is presented to the special purpose utility district which most exemplifies and supports the goals of the association. The association also awarded the Alderwood Water and Wastewater District its Distinguished Service Award for 2001 for its support and active participation. The association also named Lynne Danielson, commissioner of the Tahuya River Valley Water District, president; and Larry Jones, commissioner of the Alderwood Water District, vice president of its board of directors. In addition, Ken Goodwin, commissioner of the Woodinville Water District was elected to the board of directors and treasurer.

Bellingham Herald

Christine Chin has been named publisher and president of The Bellingham Herald. Chin was previously strategic development director for the Reno Gazette-Journal. She replaces John Swanson, who resigned as publisher in September.

Edmonds Community Colleges

The Business and Technology Center at Edmonds Community Colleges will be among the first in the nation to train students for a high-demand job in information technology: ensuring the security of computer networks. Prometric, a computer-based testing and assessment company, will offer security-certified program testing at the community college. Students will be able to acquire skills and gain certification as security-certified network professionals or security-certified network architects. Network professionals defend businesses from computer criminals by providing firewall systems, intrusion detection systems and secure networks. Network architects help businesses provide secure online services to their customers.

Miller Nash

C. Henry Heckendorn has joined the Seattle office of Miller Nash. Heckendorn has been in practice since 1948, served as chief of staff of the state Attorney General's office and represented the 36th District for two sessions of the state Legislature.

WestCoast Sea-Tac Hotel

The new front desk manager at the WestCoast Sea-Tac Hotel is Dixie Scahel. She was previously the front office manager at Stage Coach Inn.

Graham & Dunn

R. Corbin Houchins joined Graham & Dunn as of counsel in the firm's hospitality, franchise and distribution industry team. He was most recently in private practice and currently chairs the Washington Bar Association's continuing education program on distribution law.

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo has named several Seattle-area employees top performers in 10 western states. Selected for their sales, service or management excellence were: Hans Illingsworth, Joseph Steele, Teresa Varney, Taralee Douglas, Anthony Brickner, Amy Shanafelt, Bryan Long, Robin Sjolund, Jeffrey Benton, Irene Cobaugh, Wendy Duthie, Michelle Oritz, William Yonehara, Hamza Qadri, Majurina Gomez, Michael Lyon, Jocelyn Newman and Liliana Grip

Nicastro looks at adding apartments

A Seattle City Council committee will take public comments Monday, Oct. 29, about modifying city code to allow adding one apartment to existing apartment buildings, regardless of density.

"This provision will only apply to structures that can accommodate an additional residential unit without expanding the existing building envelope," said Landlord/Tenant and Land Use Committee Chairwoman Judy Nicastro. The public hearing will start at 4:30 p.m. in the Council Chamber. For information, contact Jill Berkey in Nicastro's office at (206) 684-8806.

Seneca up next at CREW

Laura Domoto of Seneca Real Estate Group will review an array of area public and private projects her firm is guiding at the Commercial Real Estate Women's Nov. 8 lunch meeting. Domoto will talk about the temporary central library in the downtown Seattle convention center expansion, the planned new library, the Getty Images building in Fremont, the Star Building, PATH's new structure, work at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Safeco Field, the new aquarium and Children's Hospital's expansion. The event will begin at noon at the Washington Athletic Club's Crystal Ballroom in downtown Seattle. For information, call (206) 361-6859.

Later in November, Crew will hear from Irene Leonard King, a professional development coach, on "what it takes and what holds us back from promoting ourselves." King worked as a real estate and corporate attorney in Canada and then the U.S. from 1979 to 1997, when she switched to coaching lawyers, executives and other professionals. The event will be at noon on Thursday, Nov. 29, in the third floor conference room of the Norton Building in downtown Seattle.

Berg

Lawyer Deborah Berg, meanwhile, was elected CREW's president for the coming year. Berg, of Tousley Brain Stephens, replaces 2001 president Tracy Lent-Anderson, who works as project manager at Martin Selig Real Estate. Shawn Rush, a principal at the architecture firm Gensler, is the new president-elect. Peggy Emerson became secretary and treasurer.

New board members are: Carleen Kinch, administrator at Olympic Coast Investments; Linda Larabee-Dawson, senior manager at Investco Management Services; Rebecca McIntyre, assistant director at the University of Washington real estate office; Barb Nystrom, property manager at Martin Smith Inc.; Libby Stevenson, assistant vice president at Kennedy & Associates Real Estate Counsel; Helen Wattley-Ames, director of property management at Market Management, Inc.; Gayle Wilder, president of G. Wilder & Associates. National delegates are Lent-Anderson and appraiser Gretchen Young, principal at Shorett Kidder Mathews & Segner.

Seneca Real Estate

Tina Gilbert joined Seneca Real Estate as project manager for the Children's Hospital expansion. Gilbert's 20 years in medical project management include 15 with Turner Construction. She recently worked on pre-construction for a new medical building at Northwest Hospital and for redevelopment of the Rosen Building in South Lake Union. Gilbert holds a B.A. from New England College.

John L. Scott

Vouk

Smith

Viktor Vouk and Spencer Smith joined the Kent office of John L. Scott Real Estate. Both residential agents are new to real estate.

Windermere

Morgan Freeland became a sales associate in Windermere Real Estate's Lakeview office. Freeland previously worked as strategic account manager with Aptimus Inc. Candace Berde and John Coake joined Windermere's Eastlake office as new sales associates. Berde previously taught school in San Francisco. Coake was vice president of operations for @Once in Portland.

Three new sales associates started at Windermere's Capitol Hill office. Dierdre Doyle came from product manager with Progressive International in Kent. Jim Paddleford came from selling homes for Re/Max. The third new associate, Adam Briscoe, remains president of Genius Corp and holds a degree in business and finance from the University of Washington.

Shelley Kelber joined the agency's Wall Street office. Kelber previously worked as an executive recruiter for Kelly Harris Associates in Bellevue.