Oct 31, 2001

Washington Restaurant Association

Restaurants across Washington contributed more than $400,000 to disaster relief efforts from proceeds collected Oct. 11, during the Dine for America and Windows of Hope events. The events were organized through grassroots efforts of concerned restaurateurs and their staff with support from the National Restaurant Association and New York Restaurant Association. It was publicized locally by the Washington Restaurant Association.

Washington State Bar Association

Snohomish County lawyer Paul R. Lehto has been elected to the Washington State Bar Association board of governors. He is the first person elected to the recently created at-large position, representing the Washington Young Lawyers Division. His term will run through September 2003. Lehto recently opened CopyCare, a copying service that donates all profits to charity. His Everett-based practice emphasizes business law, civil litigation and consumer law.

N2H2

Cher L. Paige is the new vice president of marketing at N2H2. Previously, Paige was vice president of sales, marketing and client services at iTango Software, Inc. N2H2, based in Seattle, is an Internet access management company specializing in filtering solutions.

Washington State University

Robert C. Bates is the new provost and academic vice president at Washington State University. He will be responsible for all academic issues. Bates, dean of the Virginia Tech's College of Arts and Sciences and professor of microbiology, will begin his new post in January.

Governor's Office

Gov. Gary Locke appointed business leaders Sally Jewell and Steven Hill to the boards of regents at the state's two largest universities. Jewell, currently chief operating officer of Recreational Equipment Inc., will join the University of Washington board. Jewell is also a director of Avista Corp. and Premera. Hill, currently senior vice president for human resources at Weyerhaeuser Co., will become a Washington State University regent. Hill is also a trustee of the Tacoma YMCA and the Seattle Symphony. The governor also reappointed Peter Goldmark to the WSU board. He has been a regent since 1996.

The governor also chose two new members for the Higher Education Coordinating Board: Gene Colin and Roberta Greene will serve terms on the Higher Education Coordinating Board expiring in 2005.

James Nagle, the Walla Walla County prosecuting attorney, was named to the state Sentencing Guidelines Commission.

Bruce Romanish was appointed and Holly Parker Jensen was reappointed to the board of trustees at the state School for the Deaf in Vancouver.

Glow Natural Health Center

Dr. Daisy Cornforth and Dr. Jennifer Lush, have opened Glow Natural Health Center in the Madison Park neighborhood. Glow offers whole body therapies and carries herbs, supplements and elixirs. The new business is located at 636 Lake Washington Blvd. E

Dykeman Architects

Dykeman Architects of Everett recently promoted Patricia (Trish) Sherman to associate. Sherman has been with the firm for 10 years as project designer and project manager for grocery stores, schools and shopping centers. She is currently working on a number of grocery stores in Washington and Alaska.

David L. Daly has joined as a project architect with 14 years of licensed experience. Daly's experience includes multi-family residential, assisted living, institutional and retail. His recent work with our firm includes a 55,000-square-foot grocery store complex in Kent.

Calvin Finnesand joined the firm as job captain/contract administrator to work with our grocery store group. He brings 15 years of experience in the architectural and engineering fields.

Gail Thompson and Stephanie Blackwell have joined Nicole Standerfer on our administration team and will support our architects, interior designers, marketing and accounting staff.

Reid Middleton

Adina Prisecaru has joined Reid Middleton as project engineer for the structural group. Her responsibilities will include project management, structural engineering and plan review and building inspection. Vicki Nulle joined as a planner in the planning group. Nulle's responsibilities include municipal planning services, as well as shoreline project permitting and environmental review.

Penhallegon Associates

Penhallegon Associates Consulting Engineers, Inc. announced Steve Edwards has joined the staff as a project manager for the municipal department. Edwards graduated from Oregon State University and has 19 years experience which includes project management and design of LIDs, water pump stations, sanitary sewer lift stations and the design and management of private development projects. He is currently working on design of the Clearview Pump Station, 18-inch and 20-inch diameter transmission main, and 24,000 lineal feet of new and replacement watermains.

Sparling

Sparling, an electrical engineering and technology consulting firm with offices in Seattle and Lynnwood, promoted Marc A. Jacques to associate. A senior project manager who joined Sparling in 1999, Jacques has 10 years of experience in the electrical engineering design of commercial high-rise, health care, industrial and educational facilities. His recent projects include 505 Union Station, the Lake Union Center West Campus and a clinic for the Alaska Native Medical Center.

JPC Architects

JPC Architects of Bellevue, recently promoted Dean Harris to senior associate and Randy Morgan to associate.

Board of Registration for Architects

Gov. Gary Locke has named Benson A. Nielsen to a six-year term on the Washington State Board of Registration for Architects, according to the Spokane Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Nielsen, a retiring principal of Northwest Architectural Co., has 42 years of distinguished architectural practice. A past president of AIA Spokane as well as AIA Washington Council, civic responsibilities have also been high priority for Nielsen. He has served on the Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce Executive Board, Spokane Rotary Club No. 21 and Spokane Horizons.

Elliott Bay Design

Elliott Bay Design Group has hired Saiful Islam to join its analysis department. Saiful is a recent graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington where he earned his master's degree in mechanical engineering. Islam has work experience in the field of naval architecture and marine engineering. His first assignment at Elliott Bay Design Group will be to assist with the structural analysis and modeling of an 800-foot, 60,000-ton capacity drydock in the San Francisco Bay area.

CivilTech

CivilTech Corp., a Bellevue structural, geotechnical, and software engineering firm, announced Xuehong Chen has joined the structural group as a staff engineer. Chen has 10 years of experience in structural engineering design and research, including four years in London where she worked on historic buildings such as St. Peter’s Cathedral, Westminster Palace and the Cabinet Office Building, as well as many other public and private facilities. She is currently working on retaining walls design for the Interstate 5 Ash Way HOV Direct Access project in Snohomish County and final design of a removable spillway weir for John Day Dam on the Columbia River.

Brown and Caldwell

Brown and Caldwell announced the following additions: Zimri Moore, a civil engineer with 12 years of experience, rejoins the firm following a brief sabbatical in Alaska. His diverse range of expertise includes design of water, wastewater and water reclamation treatment processes and mechanical systems, construction management, facilities planning and hydraulic analysis.

Mary Hanley joins as the Northwest regional marketing manager. Hanley has been consulting for nearly 20 years as a marketing leader for Seattle A/E consulting firms.

Michael Milne joins Brown and Caldwell as the Northwest water resources practice leader. Milne has 22 years of professional experience in water resources management including basin planning, stormwater quality and quantity management, groundwater and sediment quality, TMDLs, NPDES, Endangered Species Act compliance and environmental permitting.

Gary Anderson joins Brown and Caldwell’s electrical engineering team and has 28 years of experience in the electrical industry. One of Anderson's projects will be senior electrical engineer on the fuel cell project at King County’s South Treatment Plant. Brown and Caldwell’s services include environmental planning, design and construction management for wastewater and water treatment, conveyance, surface water, water resources planning, air, solid waste, site investigations and remediation.

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson's Seattle office recently added Eric Walter to its architectural staff. Before joining BCJ, he worked primarily on custom residences at the Miller/Hull Partnership. He will join the design team for the Diamond Head residence, a 14,000-square-foot home for an art collector near Honolulu