Aug 28, 2003

Wells Fargo

Brian Donahou and Cy Lindberg have been named private bankers and vice presidents for Wells Fargo's Private Banking team. Donahou will be based in Seattle. He worked previously for Bank of America. Lindberg will be based in Bellingham and was previously a private banker for KeyBank.

Banner Bank

Banner Bank promoted Keith Hergesheimer to senior vice president, director of corporate training. Hergesheimer will oversee all the bank's employee training at 41 branch offices and 8 loan offices in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Hergesheimer joined Banner in 2000. He previously was manager of financial centers for Washington Mutual Bank in Kennewick, and manager for Northwest Mortgage & Financial Services.

Golf Club at Newcastle

Bill Beck has been appointed executive chef at The Golf Club at Newcastle. Beck will oversee operations for The Calcutta Grill and Newcastle's banquet department. Beck previously served as corporate executive chef for Cucina! Cucina! and was executive chef for Blowfish Asian Café in Seattle. The Golf Club at Newcastle has two 18-hole public courses and a 44,000-square-foot clubhouse.

Neah Power Systems

Arthur Homa has been named to direct engineering and R&D activities for Neah Power Systems as vice president, engineering. Homa was most recently with Gold Peak Industries, a Singapore-based battery company. He has held previous positions with General Electric and Rayovac. Neah Power Systems, based in Bothell, is a developer of micro fuel cell power solutions for portable devices.

McCann Saab

Melaine S. McCann has opened a Saab dealership in Fife. The Saab line has been added to the McCann dealership of Cadillac and Hummer vehicles. The McCann Cadillac dealership began in Tacoma in 1958 with Tom McCann and recently moved to Fife. Grand opening ceremonies will be held Aug. 28 - Sept. 8 at 6411 20th St. E. in Fife.

Ellensburg Daily Record

Steve Miller, Idaho State Journal managing editor, has been named publisher of the Daily Record in Ellensburg. Both papers are owned by Pioneer Newspapers. The company previously announced that Journal Publisher Stephanie Pressly would take over the company's newspaper in Nampa, Idaho, and that Daily Record Publisher Bill Kunerth would take over the Journal in Pocatello, Idaho.

Nike USA

Tom Arndorfer will serve as vice president and chief financial officer of Nike USA. Arndorfer joined Nike in 1996 as controller for global footwear. The company named Jim Carter vice president and general counsel. He joined Nike in 1998 as general counsel for the U.S. and the Americas operations. Adam Helfant was named vice president for the U.S. sports marketing position, after serving as director of both global and U.S. sports marketing.

Affordable housing conference Sept. 8-10

The Washington State Housing Finance Commission's 10th annual "Housing Washington" conference on affordable housing is scheduled for Sept. 8-10 at the Spokane Center in Spokane. Speakers include Fannie Mae Foundation CEO Stacey Stewart, Minneapolis Mayor Raymond Thomas Rybak, Temple University sociology professor Anne Shlay and "green guru" Steve Loken of Loken Builders. Issues this year include predatory lending, "creating a real national housing policy," uniting people and place, housing density, green building, housing for aging Americans, innovative multifamily design concepts, the benefits of community land trusts, the latest ideas in tribal housing, preserving heritage with affordable housing and home ownership. For information, go to www.wshfc.org/conf.

Pierce County Street of Dreams

The Pierce County Street of Dreams begins tomorrow and runs through Sept. 28. The five featured homes are in Panorama Heights in Bonney Lake. They range in price from $500,000 to $750,000. Tickets are $12 each and include free donuts from Krispy Kreme Puyallup. For information, call the Master Builders Association of Pierce County at (253) 272-2112 or go to www.StreetOfDreamsPierce.com.

Realtors state conference Oct. 2-3

The Washington Association of Realtors will hold its 70th annual education conference and trade show on Oct. 2 and 3 in Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. The association calls the event Ed.Con 2003, and also "an education fiesta." Jim Remley will present a three-and-a-half-hour seminar on the "Secrets of the Rich Realtor." Other presenters will include gardening guru Ciscoe Morris, Oliver Frascona on ethics, Gary Gilbertson and Terri Murphy. For information go to www.warealtor.com or call (800) 748-7053.

Puget Sound Properties

Fouts

Industrial broker Gordon Fouts moved from Colliers International to the Bellevue office of Puget Sound Properties, where he's a vice president. Fouts has more than 25 years of experience in office and industrial sales and leasing in this market.

John L. Scott

Brewer

Five residential sales agents joined the Belltown office of John L. Scott Real Estate: Monika Reed, Jessica Gaskill, Gloria Lee and Paulette Rhyne. The Issaquah office added Cory Brewer, Stefani Campbell and Michelle Smith. Sue Findley, Les Findley and Vicki Ruscigno started in the Des Moines office.

Windermere

Grover

Stacy Grover has worked for almost 10 years as an administrative staffer for Windermere Real Estate. Now she's taking a shot at selling houses as a new sales associate in Windermere's Wall Street office in Seattle's Belltown area.