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<< Previous   of   Next >> (click to enlarge) Carl March (click to enlarge) Michelle Morris (click to enlarge) Tim Serban (click to enlarge) Robert Hilton (click to enlarge) Daniella Moreano (click to enlarge) Diana Schmid (click to enlarge) Marjorie Heidrich (click to enlarge) Frank van der Harst (click to enlarge) Sean Abbott   ADVERTISEMENT   CONTACT THE HERALD Mike Benbow, Business Editor benbow@heraldnet.com   Published: Monday, July 14, 2008 Business FYI People Carl March has joined 1st Security Bank as manager of its Marysville branch. March has more than seven years experience in financial services. Robert Hilton has joined the bank as a business development officer. Based out of the Mountlake Terrace Financial Center, Hilton will work with businesses in the north Puget Sound and Seattle areas. Elza Korenovskiy has joined the bank as Everett branch manager. She has more than 10 years of experience in financial services. Marjorie Heidrich, local Avon representative since 1992, recently won the award for top sales in her district for the second consecutive year. Heidrich also received the honor in 2003 and 2004. Her sales district is comprised of Everett, Marysville and Mukilteo. Michelle Morris has been named senior manager of the volunteer center for the United Way of Snohomish County. Morris comes to United Way from the Eastern Washington 2-1-1 Call Center in Spokane, where she served as the site's manager. Frank van der Harst, a senior plumbing designer; marketing specialist Debbie Hernandez; Sean Abbott, a registered mechanical engineer; and mechanical designer Daniella Moreano of CDi Engineers in Lynnwood have passed the examination administered by the Green Building Certification Institute/U.S. Green Building Council to become LEED-accredited professionals. Erika Heer has been promoted to assistant vice president of Cascade Bank. A senior human resources employee, she joined the bank in 2005. Steve Klein, general manager of the Snohomish County PUD, is a new member of the board of directors for the American Public Power Association. He will serve a three-year term. Klein has been with PUD since 2006 and was previously superintendent of Tacoma Power. Kelvin Moore has been named general manager of the Lynnwood Convention Center. Moore most recently served as general manager of the Richard M. Borchard Regional Fairgrounds in Robstown, Texas, and has more than 15 years of industry experience in executive and personnel management, media relations, booking and project management. Tim Serban, director of Mission Integration and Spiritual Care at Providence Everett Medical Center, was elected chairman of the board of directors for the Snohomish County Chapter of the American Red Cross. Serban has been a Red Cross volunteer for more than nine years. He served as Red Cross Spiritual Care Response Team lead in New York City after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. Serban has been a member of the Snohomish County chapter's board since 2002. Also, Diana Schmid of Everett has joined the staff of the Snohomish County chapter of the American Red Cross as volunteer coordinator. She is responsible for volunteer recruiting, placement and administration of the chapter's more than 250 volunteers, and also serves as liaison between employees and the chapter's corps of volunteers. Jim Duncan, chairman of the board and chief engineer for Sparling, has been elected as vice chairman of the American Council of Engineering Companies, the nation's largest and most respected engineering organization for the built environment. It represents more than 5,500 engineering firms. Jack Wagner, Whidbey Island Bank president and chief executive, will take over from Michal Cann as president and chief executive officer of Washington Banking Co., the bank's parent firm, when Cann retires Sept. 30. The Moss Adams Partners announces the following promotions: Craig Chase and Stephanie Onzay, senior managers; Jenny Keeney and Jason Thompson, managers; John Adeeb, Phil Knudson, Juston Masuda, Sarah McKnight, Travis Riley, Melanie Rudquist and Rachel Salz, managers. Special events Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash.; Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson and Bob Drewel, executive director of the Puget Sound Regional Council, will give keynote addresses at a conference focusing on the roles that strong and secure infrastructure and open trade play in Washington's economy. Attendees will learn how their businesses can benefit from trade, what resources are available to help compete in a global economy, how to effectively move goods throughout the region and the world, and the effects of trade and transportation on the Puget Sound region. The conference is set for 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. July 21 at the Holiday Inn Everett, 3105 Pine St. Registration is $60, which includes all sessions, continental breakfast, lunch and a resource packet. Registration deadline is today. For more information and to register, go to www.everettchamber.com or call 425-257-3222, ext. 0. Business news The Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce Board Treasurer Richard Toyer, and his firm Toyer & Associates Inc., have been selected for the 2008 Best of Everett award in the financial advisory services category by the U.S. Local Business Association. The awards recognize outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the association identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local firms that enhance the image of small business through customer and community service. The Department of Labor and Industries is reminding employers that a permanent outdoor heat rule took effect recently. The rule protects workers from outdoor heat exposure, which can result in serious medical conditions, including disability or death. The rule requires employers with employees who work outdoors to train employees and supervisors to recognize heat-related illness and on what to do if someone has symptoms. Steps include increasing the volume of water available to employees and having the ability to appropriately respond to any employee with symptoms of illness on days when temperatures require preventive measures. Classes, workshops Individuals who are re-entering the work force because of divorce, separation, death or disability of a spouse, or loss of welfare, can find tools and support in free workshops presented by the Pathways for Work through the YWCA. The workshops are designed for individuals who have spent at least 10 years as a homemaker not working outside the home and now find it necessary to earn a living. Additional registration spots may be available for other women seeking employment with a similar situation. The next workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Aug. 13-26 in Shoreline. For more information and location, call Cindy Fisher 425-258-2766, ext. 226 or e-mail cfisher@ywcaworks.org. Good deeds The Marysville/North County Family YMCA recently received a donation of 31 personal floating devices valued at $1,000 through a grant from West Marine. The equipment will be used in YMCA swim lesson programs as well as provide a safe option for visiting groups with participants who do not meet the height and swim test requirements. Standard Biodiesel announced that local restaurants have agreed to donate the proceeds from the sale of their used cooking oil to local charities. Standard Biodiesel pays local restaurants for their used cooking oil, and then refines the oil into diesel. Of those restaurants, 59 have chosen to donate the fees they earn from Standard Biodiesel to Children's Hospital and other local charities. A total of $1,426.25 has been donated so far. Meetings Safety tips for the working woman will be the topic Joanne Factor and Karen du Four des Champs cover at the Women Business Owners Power Lunch, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. July 24 at the Washington Athletic Club, 1325 Sixth Ave., Seattle. Cost is $31 before July 22, $41 after for members and first-time attendees, $46 and $56 for nonmembers. For information, call 206-575-3232 or go to www.women businessowners.org. Honors Roy Robinson Chevrolet, Subaru and RV Center has been named Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce's business of the year. Roy Robinson was recognized because of its commitment to its community. It is a strong supporter of Safe Kids Snohomish County, has donated vehicles for various local events, including RVs for families at naval homecomings, and is actively involved in the Marysville Rotary. The leadership awards recognize Chamber business and community leaders who make a substantial contribution to the Chamber, business issues and the community at large. Winners were chosen from nominations submitted from the chamber's membership. Commercials for Vern Fonk Insurance were recently awarded four Telly Awards, including two bronze medals each for both the "Pulled Over" and "Back to the Fonk" spots. Vern Fonk Insurance is well-known in the Seattle market for its wacky television commercials starring the manager of its Everett office, Rob Thielke. The commercials, which have developed a local cult following, usually satirize movies and TV shows or feature unusual dance numbers. The commercials, written by Thielke and Vern Fonk owners Kevin and Rene Mulvaney, are produced by Stevenson Advertising of Lynnwood, and are edited by Stephan Gray of Stevenson Advertising. Founded in 1978, the Telly Awards honor the best local, regional and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions, and work created for the Internet. More than 14,000 entries from all 50 states and five continents were submitted this year. Miscellaneous Livestock producers have until Friday to enroll in the 2005-2007 Livestock Compensation Program and Livestock Indemnity Program. The two programs provide aid to livestock producers who suffered eligible livestock or livestock feed losses between Jan. 1, 2005, and Dec. 31, 2007, because of a natural disaster. The Livestock Indemnity Program provides payments to eligible livestock owners and contract growers who incurred the death of livestock because of a natural disaster. The Livestock Compensation Program provides payments to eligible livestock owners and cash lessees who suffered feed losses or increased feed costs because of a natural disaster. More information about the programs is available online at disaster.fsa.usda.gov. Send news and color photos to Mike Benbow, Business editor, The Herald, P.O. Box 930, Everett, WA 98206, by fax to 425-339-3435 or by e-mail to economy@heraldnet.com.

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