Jun 29, 2011

Banner Bank

Banner Bank named the winners of its annual Banner's Best Awards: John Austenson, Bruce Nelson, Jill Rice, Roy Wallace, Erica Erdozain, Christine Chi, Sue Gammell, Cheryl Bosh, Tom Sackmann, Kirk Johnson and Angela Potestivo. The Production Club Award winners are Sam Adrian and Cheryl Williams. Vicki Smith is operations coach of the year. Rob Bennett won the Service Excellence Award. Lee Ann Anderson won the Real Estate Leader's Club Member Award.

REI

Kent-based REI is opening a store in Indianapolis at the Plaza at Castleton next spring. The 23,800-square-foot store will have a bike shop, seasonal gear rental department and community space. REI Indianapolis will be the first REI store in Indiana. The company has 117 stores in 28 states and two online stores.

VLST Corp.

VLST Corp., a Seattle-based biotechnology company focused on therapeutics for autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, hired Brian Blackman as vice president, finance and administration. Blackman joins VLST from BN ImmunoTherapeutics where he was director of business operations since 2008.

NAC|Architecture

Waterman

Pratt

Moneymaker

Holland

Hanley

Gordon

Wortman

Wall

Buzan

Braun

NAC|Architecture promoted Gary Braun, Trish Buzan, Marcia Wall and Sarah Wortman to senior associate, and Kelly Gordon, Brooke Hanley, Missy Holland, Marc Moneymaker, Greg Pratt and Kelly Waterman to associate. Braun is a project architect and project manager on health care and education projects. He is working on View Ridge Elementary School in Everett. Buzan is technology director at NAC. She has worked toward firm-wide implementation of Revit. Wall is director of the Seattle interior design department, and specializes in senior living communities and education facilities. She is designing interiors for View Ridge. Wortman is executive director of marketing and oversees marketing for NAC offices. Gordon is an interior designer, and is working on Ferris High School in Spokane. Hanley is a project architect, also working on Ferris High. Holland is an architect specializing in construction administration. Her focus is K-12 projects, including Cordata Elementary School in Bellingham. Moneymaker is a project architect and worked on Bellevue High School. He is now construction administrator for the project. Pratt is an architectural modeler and software trainer who helped the firm implement Revit. He is working on Auburn High School. Waterman is an electrical engineering technician and engineer-in-training. She has worked on Eastern Washington University's Patterson Hall. NAC has offices also has offices Spokane, Los Angeles and Denver.

Century West Engineering

Westerman

Brehmeyer

Wall

Century West Engineering hired Dave Wall, Jesse Brehmeyer and Chris Westerman in the Spokane office. Wall is an engineer with 25 years of experience in utility, roadway and drainage design. He has 12 years of experience in Spokane as project manager for municipal projects, subdivisions and commercial site development. Brehmeyer is an engineer-in-training and staff engineer with experience in CAD and designing water, sewer, storm drainage and roadways. Westerman is an engineer-in-training and staff engineer with experience in solid waste and wastewater. He has interned for the Department of Ecology and worked as stormwater coordinator for the city of Spokane. Century West Engineering provides municipal and aviation engineering, with offices also in Ellensburg, Portland and Bend, Ore.

ALSC Architects

Bevington

Schreiber

ALSC Architects hired Marci Schreiber as an interior designer and Gale Bevington as an architectural intern. Schreiber holds a master's in interior design from Washington State University and a master's in organizational leadership from Gonzaga University. She is working on the Grant Elementary School modernization. Bevington holds a master's of architecture degree and a bachelor's in architectural studies, both from WSU. She is on the Orient School team. ALSC provides planning and design, with offices in Spokane and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Jun 28, 2011

Columbia Bank

Columbia Bank hired Eric Deisler as assistant vice president and commercial banking officer of the Silverdale branch. Deisler worked for U.S. Bank in Grand Forks, N.D., as a small business relationship manager.

Crista Ministries

Crista Ministries in Shoreline hired Mark Crozet as vice president of fund development. Crozet has 26 years of experience with fundraising and recently worked with Atlanta-based Habitat for Humanity International as senior vice president of resource development.

Helsell Fetterman

Helsell Fetterman hired Benjamin Nivison as an associate attorney. Nivison focuses on individual and corporate clients in complex commercial and product liability litigation, and was an associate attorney at a Northwest regional law firm.

Merit Construction Northwest

Seelye

Scott Seelye joined Merit Construction Northwest as senior estimator. Seelye has been in the construction industry for more than 27 years and is a construction management graduate of the University of Washington. Merit, a general contractor, is based in Lakewood.

AGC Education Foundation

Several students in the state won 2011-12 scholarships from the AGC Education Foundation in Seattle. University of Washington students winning scholarships are: Mead's Frieda Elliot for the Frank and Susan Young Endowment Scholarship, the Betcher Family Foundation Scholarship and the American Public Works Scholarship; Bellingham's Brett Hartle for the Robert L. & Betty L. Landau Scholarship, the AGC Northern District Scholarship, the Robert W. Austin Memorial Endowment Scholarship and the American Public Works Scholarship; Bothell's Ryan Hunter for the Mr. and Mrs. Allan F. Osberg Scholarship and the Mr. A.E. DeAtley Memorial Scholarship; Black Diamond's Matthew Smith for the Prime Construction Endowment Scholarship and the Larry Johnson in Memory of Mark Johnson Scholarship; and Seattle's Erika Szuster for the Donald and Clarice Bocek Endowment, the Betcher Family Foundation Scholarship and the William and Jean Scott Building Construction Fund Scholarship. Washington State University student winners are: Spokane's Chad Curtis for the Employees of J.R. Abbott Construction Inc. Scholarship, Employees of GLY Construction Scholarship and the American Public Works Scholarship; Pomeroy's Gregory Feider for the Chester and Elizabeth Johnson Memorial Scholarship; Richland's Nicole Johnson for the Hugh S. Ferguson Endowment Scholarship, the James P. Crutcher Scholarship and the American Public Works Scholarship; Enumclaw's Daniel Marine for the MulvannyG2 Architecture Endowment in Memory of Patricia Chikamoto Lee Scholarship, the Foushee and Associates Inc. Endowment Scholarship and the American Public Works Scholarship; and Kennewick's Tyler Richardson for the Robert B. McEachern Memorial Scholarship and the Howard S. Lease Memorial Scholarship.

Parr Co.

Hillsboro, Ore.-based Parr Co. received a Marketing Excellence Award from the Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Portland. Parr won Best Production Media PR Video for its 7-minute video summarizing the company's 80-year history. The video was written, directed and produced by SportsOne of Beaverton, Ore. Parr Co. is the parent of Parr Lumber Co., Parr Cabinet Outlet, Cascade Wholesale Hardware, NSC, NSCi and Parr Marketing Group. It operates 40 facilities in the West, including Washington.