Business FYI

  • Sunday, September 25, 2005 9:00pm
  • Business

Gregg Herman has been appointed aerospace group director of customer service at Crane Aerospace &Electronics.

Barbara Scharping has been promoted to vice president of system operations at Frontier Bank.

Ted Vega has joined University Mechanical Contractors, Inc. as a detailer. Also, Kevin Coffman has been named project engineer, Mark Rosas, detailer; Steve Bueler, design engineer; James Drink-water, contract administrator and Owen Welling, project engineer; Brandon Kappus, HVAC detailer; Mitch Droz, project engineer; Bob Hollowed, operations manager; and Linda Barnhart, executive assistant. William Broz has launched a new Seattle-based forensic mechanical engineering firm, WRB Engineering, PLLC.

Susie Detmer has joined Cushman &Wakefield of Washington, Inc. as senior director. Also, Stacy Reid has been named retail associate.

Richard Hertzog has received the 2005 Carlson Wagonlit Travel Award of Excellence.

James Shipman has been appointed to Everett Community College’s Board of Trustees.

Geoff Owen has been appointed vice president/loan officer at Prime Pacific Bank in Lynnwood.

Events

Pacific Northwest Workforce Support’s job fair will be 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday at the Quality Inn, 101 128th St. SE in Everett. For details, call Jan Scudder at 425-359-7706.

“Travel Tips and Ideas for the Road,” will be the topic as the American Business Women’s Association’s Mountain View Chapter hosts the Puget Sound Interchapter Council at a luncheon meeting at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Walter Hall Golf Course Breezeway Cafe in Everett. For details, call 425-334-1446 or 360-568-4351.

Sound Styles at 100 5th Ave. N. in Edmonds will celebrate its 20th anniversary in October with various activities and specials running Oct. 6-9. For details, call Jenny Murphy at 425-771-4111, visit soundstyles.com or e-mail info@soundstyles.

“A Future Worth Protecting,” a free one-hour satellite broadcast hosted by 20 Everett-area Edward Jones investment representatives, will be at 8:30 a.m., 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Oct. 11 at various locations. For details, call James D. Kellett, AAMS at 425-258-6434.

Doing Business With China will be from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 11 at Edmonds Community College’s Edmonds Conference Center, 201 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds. Cost is $139, box lunch included. For details, call 425-640-1243.

“Avoiding Legal Traps,” a breakfast hosted by the Everett Chamber of Commerce and the Snohomish County Chapter of Society for Human Resource Management, will be held from 7:30 a.m.-noon Oct. 13 at the Quality Inn &Conference Center, 101 128th St. SE in Everett. Cost for members is $55 and $65 for non-members. For details, contact Keri Boswell at 360-794-4448 or kboswell@damarmachine.com.

The University of Washington Business School Leadership Banquet will be held 6-9:30 p.m. Oct. 13 at The Sheraton Seattle, Grand Ballroom, 1400 6th Ave., Seattle. Public admission is $150 per seat. RSVP by Oct. 7 at 206-543-0304.

Free information technology lectures are being offered at Edmonds Community College. “Information Security – An Overview” will be held 9 a.m.-noon Oct. 15 in Snohomish Hall, room 110; “Forensic Analysis Of The Windows Registry” will be 9-10:30 a.m. Oct. 29 at Snohomish Hall, room 110; and “Identity Theft – What You Need To Know” will be 2-4 p.m. Dec. 11 at Triton Union Building 202. E-mail shailey@edcc.edu, call 425-640-1902, or visit www.cis.edcc.edu.

“Managing Security in a Converging World” will be the topic at the fifth annual ASG Security Expo on Nov. 10 at SAFECO Field. The 20th Annual Partnerships Forum, hosted by the Human Services Council of Snohomish County, will be 5-7 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Weyerhauser Room of the Everett Station. For details, call 425-252-1244, e-mail to humansc@msn.com or mwindsorvest@verizon.net.

Business news

A Clinical Advisory Board has been appointed to guide Northwest Biotherapeutics in its late stage clinical trial for a personalized vaccine treatment for glioblastroma multiforme, the most lethal form of brain cancer.

Fluke Corp. and Fluke Networks will provide equipment and technical expertise to support nine events in the recent WorldSkills 2005 Competition in Helsinki.

Cascadia Community College will offer a new two-year associate in business degree beginning this fall. For details, call 425-253-8383.

Good deeds

The Greater Edmonds Chamber of Commerce will donated $1,000 to the American Red Cross relief efforts for hurricane victims. The chamber also has a matching fund program of up to an additional $1,000 for donations received before Nov. 1 from chamber members. Mail checks (made out to “The American Red Cross” with “Assistance to Katrina Hurricane Victims” written on the memo line) to the chamber at PO Box 146, Edmonds, WA 98020. For details, call 1-800-797-8022.

Notable

A modified Fluke 54 Series II digital thermometer was used by the crew of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery in a demonstration of space-based repair of Thermal Protection System tiles during the shuttle’s recent mission.

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