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Buzz:Music studio opens
in Snohomish, 4
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COVER STORYMeet the next generation that will shape the future of Snohomish County, 14-21
BUSINESS NEWSBeehive Studio in Snohomish makes music away from Seattle . . . . . . . . 4
J. Matheson Gifts in Everett celebrates its 25th anniversary . . . . 6
James McCusker: Why you shouldn’t ignore online reviews . . . . . . . . . . 25
BUSINESS LICENSES . . . . . . . 26-27
BUSINESS BRIEFS . . . . . . . . . . . 28
PEOPLE WATCHING . . . . . . . . . 30
PUBLIC RECORDS . . . . . . . . . 32-33
BANKRUPTCIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
ECONOMIC DATA . . . . . . . . . 34-35
By Patricia S. GuthrieFor The Herald Business Journal
Ever wonder what the inside of a bee-hive sounds like?
Then wander on down the main street of historic downtown Snohomish to the bright mural of a beehive painted on the exterior of a repurposed spa.
Depending on the booking calendar of Beehive Sound at 629 First St., a small, new recording space offering an alterna-tive to Seattle’s costly and crowded stu-dios, any kind of music could be buzzing.
“We cater to all — country, folk, pop, heavy rock. We’ve had all kinds of clients come through,” said owner Derek Smith, who opened for business in January after seven months of renovations. “A lot of it is overflow from Seattle.”
Smith, a software engineer by day, has long had a dream of creating an intimate recording space. He consulted his long-time friend, Sean Walker, a freelance audio engineer, about how to do just that.
Smith and Walker, who both grew up in Snohomish County, now share the day-to-day operations (actually, the nightly duties since most musicians tend to their passion at night following day jobs.)
“If someone came in and built a stu-dio in your living room, that’s what I was going for. I wanted a place where a singer/songwriter feels comfortable,” Smith said of the transformation of the 1,400-square-foot former day spa, The Beehive. It featured the outdoor bee-hive mural that Smith liked so much, it became his business name.
The style, decor and feeling evoked inside the small brick building is indeed warm and homey. Tones of washed brick, soft cedar, and high ceilings are accented with brightly-colored acoustic panels.
Overhanging colorful glass lamps that came with the place give the interior a 1920s speakeasy vibe. Smith renovated the leased space himself after selling his house in Mukilteo to raise some cash. Along with using his many carpentry, wir-ing, flooring and other construction skills, Smith found that the renovations took a lot of innovation.
“Nothing is square, plumb or level. Nothing,” he says while giving a tour of the studio. To get a level surface, he con-structed a “floating floor” that sits atop u-joints.
Originally, the 1930s building housed Snohomish County PUD transformer and switching equipment. It now buzzes with 5,000 feet of audio wire connecting two small recording studios to the con-trol room, where the mixing and magic of music is recorded in both analog and digital formats.
“World Class recording at Working Class prices” is the motto of Beehive Sound. The space rents for $500 a day, which includes Walker’s hands-on engi-neering expertise. Several bands have
already recorded there since its January opening.
“We’ve made it affordable to record in a studio with world-class equipment with a world-class engineer,” Smith said. “We are bringing the unattainable to the masses.”
Walker, 35, also wants to mentor the younger generation, the “kids” who view YouTube and “American Idol” as the path to success, and who prefer “steal-ing” music instead of buying it. He’s been recording at various professional stu-dios the past eight years as a contractor. Just recently, Walker completed the Mix
with The Master’s program, an exclusive, on-site program at Studio La Fabrique in the South of France. It was led by Gram-my-award winning mix engineer Chris Lord-Alge.
Walker would like to share what he’s learned and make Beehive a learning laboratory.
“We’re going to open our doors to the budding engineers,” he said, “to show them the things they can’t learn on the Internet.”
Live sound recording and produc-tion is fast becoming a lost art in today’s computerized culture, Walker points out.
Vocalists who don’t play instruments or even read music comprise much of today’s popular music. They only need push a button to retrieve any sound they desire.
“We’re trying the preserve the craft,” he says. “Training someone’s ear for what to listen for is a journey someone is on their entire life.”
The studio can also be booked for other needs, such as recording an audio book, making a commercial and developing a podcast — audio short stories which have become wildly popular. A person booking the studio doesn’t need to know the tech-nology or how all those mics, wires, but-tons and blinking lights come together.
That’s the job of Smith and Walker, who both say being a part of an art-ist’s creative process is rewarding and inspiring.
Beehive owner Smith is also betting location will be a lure. In the rural, scenic town of Snohomish, musicians can stroll the river walk just outside the studio door or explore dozens of quaint shops just down the street. There’s also plenty of eating, drinking and lodging for the most discerning out-of-town clients, including a natural food eatery offering grass-fed beef, non-GMO pesto tofu and shots of wheatgrass.
“There’s actually a lot going on in downtown Snohomish,” Smith points out. “There’s 20 different restaurants, open mic nights, and live music in many venues.”
And, now at the corner of Maple and First streets, a beehive is alive again.
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PHOTOS BY KEVIN CLARK / THE HERALD
Chantel Bailey, left, and Matt Blount of MARBLE plays a set on Sunday afternoon at Beehive Studio in Snohomish. The studio hopes to be an alternative to Seattle studios.
Beehive Studio was named after the mural on the outside of the building in downtown Snohomish.
Snohomish studio buzzes with soundOwner aims to create space to make singer/songwriter comfortable
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By Jim DavisThe Herald Business Journal
EVERETT — It takes a special eye to find the items that line the aisles of J. Matheson Gifts, Kitchen & Gourmet.
It also takes a special ear.J. Matheson celebrates 25 years in busi-
ness in early April. The store is a fixture in downtown Everett, offering a mix of gifts and home decor. Shop owner Judy Matheson credits the store’s longevity to listening to what her customers tell her, what they like and what they need.
“I go to gift shows with customers in mind,” Matheson said. “If I see some-thing, I think, ‘Oh Mary or Sue would love this.’”
And Matheson has a special knack for finding what will be popular with her cus-
tomers, said store planner Galen Spauld-ing. In fact, that level of customer service is what separates J. Matheson from other shops of its kind around the Puget Sound area, she said.
“The product selection, you can’t argue with, it’s top notch,” Spaulding said. “What puts this store over the top is people enjoy coming in here. It’s a good experience.”
The store at 2615 Colby Ave. plans a two-day anniversary sale Friday and Sat-urday, giving away merchandise every half hour. Matheson grew up in Everett and has lived almost all of her life in Snohom-ish County. In the 1970s, Judy Matheson went to work for Jim and Nancy Mitchell of Mitchell’s Pharmacy in Lake Stevens. She spent 18 years at the pharmacy and even became a partner in their Granite
Falls store. Still, she wanted to venture out on her own.
In 1991, Matheson opened her store on Colby with the help of the Mitchells. Over the years, J. Matheson Gifts has evolved from offering quality and unusual gifts to a store that features home acces-sories, kitchen and bake wares, gourmet foods, clothing and accessories, children’s wear and toys, jewelry and more.
To find all her wares, Matheson or one of her employees — she employs two full- and six part-time — heads to gift shows across the U.S. She also spends much of her free time looking for what may be the next hot seller.
“I read every giftware catalog I can get my hands on,” Matheson said. “I really take them to bed and read them at night. I don’t read novels, I read giftware
catalogs.”Over the years, Matheson said she has
chosen only a few duds, remembering a bottle warmer that didn’t do as well as she expected. She said if she really believes in an item and loves it, that it’s easier to sell. Besides, most of the stock gets cleared out when she does an annual sale.
“We don’t mark things up to mark them down like the big stores do,” she said.
After 25 years, Matheson has gotten the inevitable question: How much lon-ger will she run the shop? While her hus-band Hugh has retired, Matheson doesn’t expect to step away any time soon.
“If you love what you’re doing, why quit?” Matheson said. “I enjoy getting up and going to work each day. I can’t ask for anything more.”
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Kusler’s Compounding Pharmacy has helped keep Cheryl Decker’s family healthy for more than 15 years.
She and her husband occasionally fill prescrip-tions for themselves, but the majority is for the cou-ple’s cats. Kusler’s creates liquid options to treat the felines’ high blood pres-sure and hyperthyroidism.
“It’s really a whole dif-ferent feeling going into Kusler’s where everyone is on the same path to make the customer happy. That’s refreshing,” Decker says. “Too many independent businesses have gone by
the wayside in recent years because of the extreme focus on the bottom line and stock prices.”
The Snohomish fam-ily business at 700 D
Ave. opened in 1967 and remained in the Kusler family until 2014 when it was purchased by longtime employee Dawn Ipsen. A Washington native, Ipsen
worked as a pharmacist at Kusler’s for more than a decade before buying the business.
A compounding phar-macy prepares personal-
ized medications in the exact dose, strength and form to suit a patient’s needs. In comparison, cor-porate pharmacies gen-erally offer standardized
options.In 2012, the Interna-
tional Academy of Com-pounding Pharmacists estimated that of 56,000 community-based, inde-pendent pharmacies in the U.S., around 7,500 spe-cialize in compounding services.
“Drug companies saw an avenue for increased profits and started mass producing medications to fit all patients with a one-size-fits-all approach. That works for some people, but there are still a lot of community members that doesn’t work for,” Ipsen says.
In addition to address-ing unique dosing require-ments, a compound pharmacy can modify ingredients as needed. It can substitute or remove ingredients such as gluten, additives or dyes, to which a patient might be sensi-tive or allergic.
“I have a patient who is allergic to corn and almost all of the medicines that she used were those that contained corn starch as
one of the inert compo-nents. As such, all of the medicines she needed were also making her sick,” says Dr. Paul McBride, The Everett Clinic.
In working with Kusler’s, the patient’s medications were refor-mulated. She can now take seven needed pre-scriptions and, accord-ing to McBride, is finally enjoying good health again. Kusler’s is further unique due to their vet-erinary compounding. It can be challenging to address an animal’s needs via medications meant for humans. Ipsen grew up in Eastern Washington on a dry-land wheat and cattle farm, which partially inspired her additional training in veterinary compounding.
She brings that knowl-edge to Kusler’s and has served everything from barnyard customers, such as horses and pigs, to exotic patients such as snakes, tarantulas and wallabies.
“We’re still a bit rural here in Snohomish County,” Ipsen says. “We really see animals as part of the family. They have their
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Dawn Ipsen owns and operates Kusler’s Compounding Pharmacy in Snohomish. Compounding means the pharmacist controls what goes not go into medications, such as dyes or preservatives.
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options.In 2012, the Interna-
tional Academy of Com-pounding Pharmacists estimated that of 56,000 community-based, inde-pendent pharmacies in the U.S., around 7,500 spe-cialize in compounding services.
“Drug companies saw an avenue for increased profits and started mass producing medications to fit all patients with a one-size-fits-all approach. That works for some people, but there are still a lot of community members that doesn’t work for,” Ipsen says.
In addition to address-ing unique dosing require-ments, a compound pharmacy can modify ingredients as needed. It can substitute or remove ingredients such as gluten, additives or dyes, to which a patient might be sensi-tive or allergic.
“I have a patient who is allergic to corn and almost all of the medicines that she used were those that contained corn starch as
one of the inert compo-nents. As such, all of the medicines she needed were also making her sick,” says Dr. Paul McBride, The Everett Clinic.
In working with Kusler’s, the patient’s medications were refor-mulated. She can now take seven needed pre-scriptions and, accord-ing to McBride, is finally enjoying good health again. Kusler’s is further unique due to their vet-erinary compounding. It can be challenging to address an animal’s needs via medications meant for humans. Ipsen grew up in Eastern Washington on a dry-land wheat and cattle farm, which partially inspired her additional training in veterinary compounding.
She brings that knowl-edge to Kusler’s and has served everything from barnyard customers, such as horses and pigs, to exotic patients such as snakes, tarantulas and wallabies.
“We’re still a bit rural here in Snohomish County,” Ipsen says. “We really see animals as part of the family. They have their
own files and we find our-selves sometimes making prescriptions for a Fluffy or Gus,” Ipsen chuckles.
Whether it is serving their two- or four-legged customers, it is Kusler’s community roots that sets them apart. Surviving — let alone thriving — as an
independent pharmacy is an accomplishment itself in the modern economic landscape.
Using U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare data, a 2014 Har-vard study found that over 75 percent of pharmacists worked as part of indepen-
dent businesses in the late 1950s. By 2009, it hovered around 14 percent.
“I feel drawn to and pas-sionate about this commu-nity,” Ipsen says. “There are a lot of advantages to being a locally owned business. We offer per-sonalized service and care
about our customers with a more small-town feeling. Also, from an economic standpoint, everything we do returns into the com-munity financially.”
Kusler’s currently aver-ages a staff of 15 includ-ing students. University of Washington Doctorate of Pharmacy students spend their final year of school-ing obtaining hands-on experience. A former, paid intern is now a full-time Kusler’s pharmacist. Also, a local, Snohomish woman worked as a pharmacy clerk during high school and is now pursuing a uni-versity degree in pharma-ceutical studies.
Kusler’s national pro-file is also on the rise. In February, Michelle Fredi-ani was recognized as the national Pharmacy Tech-nician of the Month by the Professional Compound-ing Centers of America. Also in February, Ipsen was honored with the prestigious designation of becoming a Full Fellow of the American College of Apothecaries.
The landscape of com-pounding pharmacy has changed dramatically in recent years.
According to Ipsen, new guidelines include issues such as increased protective equipment for staff, better contain-ment methods and closed systems while making prescriptions.
Kusler’s is already well ahead of the curve in bringing quality com-pounding services to customers.
“We’ve been aware of it (new guidelines) and doing great work to be on top of it,” Ipsen says. “The whole point is ensuring quality and safety. Those are always good things.”
The dedication to pro-viding a quality product and consistent customer service is what guarantees devoted patronage.
The Decker family lives 20 miles away in Lake Forest Park and goes out of their way to support Kusler’s.
“They embody the old business acumen of making sure the cus-tomer is always happy. They always answer the phone, are always respon-sive and available. We’re loyal because we feel connected to Kusler’s,” Decker says.
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Dawn Ipsen saved the original wooden Kusler’s Pharmacy sign, and hung it prominently next to an entryway to the store.
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By Jennifer SasseeenFor The Herald Business Journal
A bachelor’s degree from the Univer-sity of Washington Bothell is worth more in dollars than one from any other four-year public university in Washington, according to a statewide study that com-pares earnings one year after graduation.
UW Bothell 2012 grads earned an average of $54,498 in 2013, compared to a $47,573 average for grads from all other campuses, said the study, which looked at earnings of 2008-2012 graduates one year later.
The figure for median earnings (mean-ing half are higher, half lower) is $49,474 for UW Bothell and $41,381 for all oth-ers, including UW Seattle median grad earnings of $40,065 and a UW Tacoma median of $40,183.
Second highest in median earnings is Bellevue College at $48,200 and lowest is The Evergreen State College at $30,200.
The gender gap in wages is also negli-gible at UW Bothell, with women gradu-ates earning 99.5 percent of male gradu-ates’ wages, according to an analysis done by the UW Bothell Office of Institutional Research and replicated at the state level. That compares to 87 percent for women graduates on all UW campuses, which is still higher than the national average for women’s wages of 79 percent that of men’s and the statewide average of 77 percent.
One reason for the narrowness of the earnings gap for UW Bothell women may be the larger proportion of women in the school’s nursing program, the anal-ysis notes.
UW Bothell is the fastest-growing, four-year university in the state, going from an enrollment of 1,884 in 2007 — a year after the Legislature allowed the school to start accepting freshmen — to 5,279 in fall 2015. It has been nationally ranked by Money Magazine for two years in a row as the best university in Wash-ington in terms of value and quality.
The higher earnings of UW Bothell grads can be at least partially attributed to the school’s large number of graduates in high-demand professions like computer science and engineering, business and the health fields.
Created in 2013, UW Bothell’s School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics is its fastest-growing school. Discovery Hall, a 74,000-square-foot state-of-the-art science and aca-demic building with 11 labs and space for 1,000 students, opened in fall 2014. Of the school’s 45-plus degree programs, 33 were added in the last seven years, 14 of which are in STEM.
Of equal impact are UW Bothell’s learning strategies, or the “three Cs”, that help graduates succeed in the workplace, Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs
Susan Jeffords said in a news release. They are community engagement, link-ing classroom learning with issues in the real world; cross-disciplinarity, requiring students to learn across fields; and con-nected learning, building interconnected relationships among students, faculty and staff.
Twenty-two-year-old Eleanor Wort, who graduated from UW Bothell in 2015 with a degree in applied computing, said she agrees with all those points. She spent her freshman year at Washington State University in Pullman, where lec-ture halls of 200 to 300 students are not uncommon.
“In a way, it was kind of like I was another number,” she said.
She found her feet at Bothell, where the average class size is 29, and formed close relationships that lasted through college and into her career.
A quarter spent abroad in Spain in cul-tural studies — totally unrelated to her STEM field — actually helped her get her current job at Microsoft, Wort said. Charged with giving a presentation on “something I was passionate about” for one of her interviews, she said she chose to compare women in STEM across cultures.
UW Bothell Chancellor Bjong Wolf Yeigh, in a recent visit to Voyager Middle School in Everett, cautioned girls not to
let anyone discourage them from STEM.“Women are just as talented, just as
capable, just as qualified to go into STEM as men,” he said, and they should resist social pressures that have long pushed women away from STEM.
“If your passion is in the performance arts or your passion is in writing,” he said, “then pursue performance arts, pursue writing.
“But if your passion is in science, don’t let anybody tell you you can’t do it.”
For those with the interest and the ability, a STEM degree can really pay off. Wort said she actually knew she had the Microsoft job long before graduation in November 2014.
While declining to give her exact sal-ary, she said it’s between $70,000 and $80,000. At this point, she is looking to buy a house or condo, plans to stay in the area and would like to work for Microsoft throughout her career.
Positioned as UW Bothell is in the Eastside/Snohomish County biotech cor-ridor, “There really is no better place to put a school,” Wort said, and the numbers are proving that.
“UW Bothell is really proving that they are doing well and that they are here to stay,” she said.
Compiled by the Education Research and Data Center — part of the Office of Financial Management in Olympia — the
earnings figures are just a snapshot of the kind of information being collected to help match students to the workplace.
The idea was to improve student suc-cess from kindergarten through college.
Where once universities and other agencies had to rely on student surveys for information on which programs needed improvement, longitudinal stud-ies like the state’s earnings report give more “real” information because they’re based on actual data, said Tim Norris, data warehouse manager for the Educa-tion Research and Data Center.
To gather earnings records, a student’s name, birthdate and Social Security num-ber are plugged into the data system and linked with the state’s Employment Secu-rity Department’s unemployment insur-ance wage records, he said.
To be included, an earner must be employed in Washington, have worked all four quarters and have earned at least 75 percent of full-time hours at minimum wage or more.
Not included are earners who are self-employed, work outside the state or are employed by the federal government, according to the data center’s website. A few other earners might have been missed for various reasons, including that their school was not identified.
So while 910 UW Bothell students graduated with bachelor’s degrees in 2012, according to the school’s website under its Office of Planning and Budget-ing, only 557 were counted in the earn-ings report.
That number was 2,767 of 7,914 grad-uates at UW in Seattle and 549 of 1,046 UW Tacoma graduates.
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UW Bothell Chancellor Bjong Wolf Yeigh encourages students — especially girls — at Voyager Middle School in Everett to consider studying STEM, or Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics courses.
UW Bothell is winner for pocketbook
“UW Bothell is really proving that they are doing well and that they are here to stay.”
— Eleanor Wort
Study shows recent graduates earn more than other state colleges
By John WolcottFor The Herald Business Journal
ARLINGTON — Modern technol-ogy training programs are coming to north Snohomish County.
In June, Everett Community College will launch new programs in Arlington to prepare students and workers for jobs in aerospace and manufacturing industries.
Inspired by EvCC’s successful Advanced Manufacturing and Training Center, known as AMTEC, Arlington community leaders are planning for simi-lar successes here.
Partners in the new venture include the college, Arlington School District, the City of Arlington and local industries.
Ideas for the new education venture were first generated by the combined effort between Arlington and Darrington to develop new economic and community vitality in the area.
That plan recently advanced the two cities to the semi-final round of the America’s Best Cities’ national competi-tion to compete with 14 other cities for a $3 million prize.
“We’ve been working hard to develop a new education and training program that will benefit students, employers and technology enterprises,” Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert said. “Now we’re taking the first step toward adding those valu-able resources for residents, students, job seekers and people already working in industrial and technology fields.”
The first AMTEC-North classes are expected to begin with a limited curricu-lum in June, according to Everett Com-munity College officials.
Temporary space has been provided in the Arlington School District’s Weston High School west of the Arlington Airport,
“Improving access to higher educa-tion benefits the local economy,” Everett Community College President David Beyer said in an e-mail. “Earning a col-lege degree or certificate pays off for stu-dents by leading to higher-wage jobs.
“Many of our graduates go on to work at local companies in need of skilled employees.”
Tolbert sees the development of an AMTEC-North facility as a new way to allow students to earn industry-related college certificates or degrees in manu-facturing and technology skills needed to excel in industrial workplaces, a venture she expects to be fully developed within the next two to three years.
Ultimately, AMTEC-North will train students for high demand jobs in aero-space, maritime, transportation infra-structure, aviation and related industries.
The site will include a replicated manufacturing facility, using indus-try-driven curriculum and employ-ing cutting-edge technologies, adding a fresh new layer to the area’s available education and skilled training courses.
“We believe that educating a workforce is paramount in order to meet our needs,” said Jeff Kurtz, operations manager at Absolute Manufacting, which is part Senior Operations.
There is and has been a shortage of semi-skilled and skilled labor in the area to fill the positions required to support
our customers. With the current aircraft industry
projections, and business contracts with 20-year durations, this shortage will only continue to grow. ”
Kurtz said the company’s involve-ment with Arlington High School, Everett Community College and the state’s Aerospace Joint Apprenticeship Committee “allows us to give feedback to the curriculum about areas we see as important when we bring on new employees.”
He said his company has 97 employees but needs more, evidenced by the pres-ence of “Hiring Now” signs in front of its headquarters.
Just south of his building is Senior Operations AMT facility, with 475 employees. Together the two enterprises fill seven buildings in the business park. Senior Operations also has a third plant in Snohomish County, DAMAR, with 154 employees, in Monroe.
The Senior Operations companies’ products are found in Boeing Co. Airlin-ers and Bombardier’s business jets.
Arlington School District Superinten-dent Kristine McDuffy said she’s “excited about continuing joint efforts with Arlington, Everett Community College and local businesses to offer new pro-grams to help prepare students and work-ers for jobs in the manufacturing sector.
As the programs, grow there will be more opportunities for students, young people and production workers to further their education within the area, including preparation for specific manufacturing and production jobs.”
The district already has created an innovative K-12 STEM curriculum and will work with the AMTEC North facil-ity to create certificate training programs to help students find jobs in local indus-tries, according to a recent joint news release by the school district and Everett Community College.
Current AMTEC programs provided by Everett Community College include training in precision machining, weld-ing, fabrication, composite materials, engineering and mechatronics, a syner-gistic combination of precision engineer-ing, electronic control and mechanical systems.
Tolbert said the influx of new training courses will benefit growing local man-ufacturing and technology businesses, such as Universal Aerospace, Senior AMT, Senior Absolute and ABW Tech-nologies, noting that as the training program develops it will be able to sup-port other manufacturers in the county, including Everett’s Boeing plant, where as many as 14,000 manufacturing jobs will need to be filled over the next five years.
In the future, Arlington also plans to develop 1 million square feet of new manufacturing space to encourage industrial expansion and relocation to Arlington.
“We’re working closely with the City of Marysville to secure a Manufacturing Industrial Council (MIC) regional desig-nation,” Tolbert said.
That plan will encourage North County development at Arlington’s air-port industrial park as well as in a new business park being developed by Marys-ville north of the city.
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Like many businesses, aerospace supplier Senior Operations is looking to hire, even putting a sign in front of its headquarters in the Jensen Business Park in Arlington.
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TULALIP — More than 900 people showed up at the Snohomish County Career Fair last September and met with more than 50 employers.
Some of the companies hired peo-ple on the spot, said advertising director Carrie Radcliff. The second career fair is planned for April.
“When we saw the success of the first one, it was a no-brainer that we should do it again,” Radcliff said.
The second career fair is sched-uled from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 12 in the Orca Ballroom at the Tulalip Resort Casino, 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd.,
Tulalip. About 60 employers plan to host
booths at the event with many returning companies and some new ones, Radcliff said. Employers who plan to be on hand include the Bellevue Police Department, Campbell Soup Co,, Electric Mirror, T-Mobile, U.S. Border Patrol and Wash-ington State University North Puget
Sound at Everett. The fair is being organized by The
Daily Herald and hosted by the Tulalip Resort Casino. Everett Community Col-lege is sponsoring the event.
The unemployment rate for the state has risen slightly since September up to 5.5 percent for the state and 5.3 percent for the county. That’s up from 5.3 percent
for the state last fall and 4.3 percent for the county.
Still, Radcliff said there are com-panies that are in need of quality job candidates.
“The main test of its success is if the hiring companies are pleased with the quality of jobseekers who are coming through and the jobseekers find the posi-tions that they’re looking for and it’s well attended,” Radcliff said.
People who register and upload their resumes will have a chance to earn $100 gift certificate to Jimmy Mac’s Restaurant. To learn more about the job fair or to upload your resume, visit www.snococareerfair.com.
Career fair to connect employers, jobseekersIf you goThe Snohomish County Career Fair is planned from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 12 in the Orca Ballroom at the Tulalip Resort Casino, 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd., Tulalip. To learn more, go to www.snococareerfair.com.
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It’ll soon be a new choice for passionate dessert lovers.
BlackBall Taiwanese Desserts, a chain that started in Asia a decade ago, is com-ing to Edmonds. The opening for the restaurant at 22001 Highway 99, Suite 300, is scheduled for April 15.
The first U.S. franchise opened last year in San Gabriel, California, to rave reviews and has quickly became a popular destination.
Blackball’s No. 1 signature dessert uses grass jelly as a base with taro balls, boba and sweet potato balls; it is served hot or cold. The cold version is topped with crushed ice and tastes like a refined ice cream.
Grass jelly is made from the mesona chineensis plant, an herb in the mint fam-ily, which grows in East Asia. The stalks and dried leaves of the plant are boiled and turn into a dark brown jelly.
“Grass jelly is believed to have medic-inal and cooling properties and has an herbal scent,” said Tim (Thieu) Nguyen, who owns the Edmonds location. “Grass jelly is popular with Asians; they have been eating it for a thousand years.”
He added, “The menu focuses on healthy food and natural ingredients.”
Nguyen is a former computer pro-grammer who owned Seattle Nails Spa Supply and who also worked as a real
estate agent. His sister, Thuy Nguyen, will manage
BlackBall Taiwanese Desserts.Another one of the desserts at Black-
Ball is aiyu jelly that is used as the base for seven combinations. Aiyu jelly is made from the gel of seeds of a variety of fig plants that are grown in Taiwan and East
Asian countries.The menu includes three dessert soups,
xian cao, almond and black glutino rice soups, which are served hot or warm.
The restaurant also has seven crushed ices that include flavors like cranberry and taro.
Part of the experience for customers is
to taste and test different combinations. Customers can choose from 18 toppings to add to their desserts such as rice balls, aloe vera and kidney bean.
The menu also offers 33 drinks sepa-rated into six categories. The fresh milk section includes fresh milk with xian cao, grass jelly or boba. Smoothies have a vari-ety of flavors such as sour plum, red bean and taro milk.
Customers can enjoy 10 specialty drinks such as xian cao tea with grass jelly, passion fruit green tea or cranberry lemon drink.
Traditional black or green teas are included in the freshly brewed category along with caramel milk or fresh milk green teas.
Nguyen chose Edmonds as the site for Washington’s first BlackBall location, because of a large Asian population in the Puget Sound area, the nearness to two community colleges and what he believes are a number of people eager to experi-ence new food delights. He traveled to Taiwan to meet with the owner, learn about the company and to prepare for the store’s opening.
The “black” part of the name comes from the color of grass jelly and “ball” from the sweet potato and taro balls.
Although BlackBall is new to the U.S., it is growing with 50 franchises in 15 countries. The U.S. headquarters is in California and Nguyen owns the Wash-ington franchise opportunities.
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Siblings Tim (left) and Thuy Nguyen will open BlackBall, a Taiwanese dessert restaurant, on Highway 99 in Edmonds in April.
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Congratulations to all of Snohomish County’s Emerging Leaders. The
potential our County offers will be realized through your leadership.
The top four for the inaugural Emerging Leader campaign are attorney Chris Adams (clockwise from top left); Lisa Lefeber of the Port of Everett; Shanon Tysland, Experience Momentum owner; and George Kosovich of the Verdant Health Commission.
Y ou can see it happening across Snohomish County.
Many of the people who have helped shape the community today — through their businesses, through their work or through their volunteer involve-ment — are nearing retirement age.
The dynamic can seen at the execu-tive level of businesses and on nonprofit boards and committees around the county, Herald publisher Josh O’Connor said.
That’s why The Herald Business Jour-nal along with its partners, accounting firm Moss Adams, Economic Alliance ,and Leadership Snohomish County and others, introduced the Emerging Leaders
campaign.“We took up the
challenge to iden-tify, highlight and celebrate these future leaders of our county,” O’Connor said.
In the fall, The Herald Business Journal solicited nominations of people who are accomplished in their field and are work-ing to make the county a better place to live and work today and into the future. About 50 people were nominated and many were nominated multiple times.
“The quality of the nominations were exceptional,” O’Connor said. “It was
extremely difficult for the judges to determine a winner.”
The judges nar-rowed the field to the top four along with eight finalists.
The lone winner will be announced at an event for nominees in April. O’Con-nor said he hopes the campaign will help bring what he described as “extremely tal-ented people” together and — encourage others in the future.
As for the Emerging Leader campaign, O’Connor said he believes the effort was successful.
“We certainly look forward to continu-
ing this effort for many years to come as we continue to highlight the work of these up-and-comers,” O’Connor
Here are profiles of the top four along with a look at the finalists:
Chris AdamsThe line blurs between work and com-
munity involvement. Or that’s how Chris Adams sees it.As a partner at Adams & Duncan law
firm in Everett, he sees himself and his firm as being in a unique position to make a difference in the community.
“In our office, we don’t take that lightly,” Adams said. “One of the things
Meet generation next
that we really push is community involve-ment and making sure we take advantage of the opportunities we have to impact the community.”
At his firm, Adams and the other law-yers — six of the seven attorneys at the firm are under 40 — talk about what they can do from a legal perspective to help with the community whether it be with economic development, homelessness or other issues.
Adams has served both nonprofit boards and several commissions with the city of Everett. He’s a former board pres-ident of Sherwood Community Service helping people with disabilities, served on the board and executive committee for Providence Hospital and worked on the Everett YMCA board, chairing that non-profit’s 2015 annual campaign.
Adams was a member of Everett’s planning commission and was chair-man in 2013 and 2014. He’s also worked on the city’s salary and charter review commissions.
One of his proudest achievements was the work he did as co-chair for Everett’s Community Street Initiative Task Force.
That commission recommended embedding a social worker within police, expanding a program for people who fre-quently are in crisis and started work on expanding housing opportunities.
Adams, whose wife Megan is the leadership/Associated Student Body teacher at Kamiak High School, has also worked pro bono legal counsel for several nonprofits.
He said he enjoys being a part of some-thing bigger than himself and being part
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ing this effort for many years to come as we continue to highlight the work of these up-and-comers,” O’Connor
Here are profiles of the top four along with a look at the finalists:
Chris AdamsThe line blurs between work and com-
munity involvement. Or that’s how Chris Adams sees it.As a partner at Adams & Duncan law
firm in Everett, he sees himself and his firm as being in a unique position to make a difference in the community.
“In our office, we don’t take that lightly,” Adams said. “One of the things
Meet generation next
that we really push is community involve-ment and making sure we take advantage of the opportunities we have to impact the community.”
At his firm, Adams and the other law-yers — six of the seven attorneys at the firm are under 40 — talk about what they can do from a legal perspective to help with the community whether it be with economic development, homelessness or other issues.
Adams has served both nonprofit boards and several commissions with the city of Everett. He’s a former board pres-ident of Sherwood Community Service helping people with disabilities, served on the board and executive committee for Providence Hospital and worked on the Everett YMCA board, chairing that non-profit’s 2015 annual campaign.
Adams was a member of Everett’s planning commission and was chair-man in 2013 and 2014. He’s also worked on the city’s salary and charter review commissions.
One of his proudest achievements was the work he did as co-chair for Everett’s Community Street Initiative Task Force.
That commission recommended embedding a social worker within police, expanding a program for people who fre-quently are in crisis and started work on expanding housing opportunities.
Adams, whose wife Megan is the leadership/Associated Student Body teacher at Kamiak High School, has also worked pro bono legal counsel for several nonprofits.
He said he enjoys being a part of some-thing bigger than himself and being part
of a community that has given him as much as he’s given.
He notes the county has a long history of dedicated people who raise money or give of their time to make a difference.
“Our community networks to a large degree through community work and that can be through committees of non-profits, boards of nonprofits,” Adams said. “I think there’s a long legacy that exists in our community of trying to make the community better.”
George KosovichAfter college, Kosovich worked as a
financial analyst at Intel in Beaverton. He could have made a career with the com-pany. Instead, he followed his girlfriend — who later became his wife — to Los Angeles.
He started working in economic devel-opment in South Central Los Angeles, helping people in a community that lived through two riots, people who weren’t really safe day to day.
“I thought if you can make an OK liv-ing at it you should figure it out without a lot of expectations,” Kosovish said. “I worked in that community for about five years.”
It was a rewarding experience not the least of which in meeting people who shared his same goals and hopes. Koso-vich returned to the Pacific Northwest in 2007 when he took a job working at the United Way of Snohomish County.
In 2011, Kosovich joined Verdant Health Commission, helping the com-mission shift from managing a hospital to becoming a nonprofit that aims to create
a healthier community. “Since we were literally starting from
scratch, I needed to think creatively and build relationships with partners to accomplish our work,” Kosovich writes in his nomination form.
In his work in the community, Koso-vich serves as the vice chair of the Casino Road Youth Development Center Advi-sory Board through the YMCA of Sno-homish County. He volunteers as an income tax preparer through the United Way’s free tax preparation program, something he’s done for the past in 11 tax seasons.
He’s on the leadership committee for the Snohomish County Dental Access Coalition. He’s also chair of the Uni-versity of Washington Bothell School of Nursing and Health Studies Advisory Board. He recently joined the board of the Community Foundation of Snohom-ish County.
For the past several years, Kosovich has helped facilitate Leadership Snohomish County’s Young Professionals program, guiding young and developing leaders in the county. He said he’s firmly in the Generation X era, but many of the peo-ple he’s worked with in the program are Millennials.
“They are really, really engaged and want to be engaged,” Kosovich said. “That surprised me and it shouldn’t sur-prise me.
“They are a group of young profes-sionals and they’re kind of hungry and very proactive about it and I think that gets them in trouble a little bit. They’re very engaged but they’re going to do it in different ways than have been done
previously.”
Lisa LefeberLisa Lefeber joined the Port of Everett
at a rough time.The port had managed to anger nearly
everyone in the community.People were upset about the con-
struction of the Mount Baker Terminal in Mukilteo. Others were angry at the port seeking to raise building heights for the now-shelved Port Gardner Wharf project.
Still others were mad about the port’s decision to dismantle the historic water-front Collins Building, a link to Everett’s mill town past.
Lefeber, who was working as a reporter at the Snohomish County Tribune, was invited to apply for a newly created job of community relations representative. Her job was not only to convey the port’s mes-sage to the community but also to listen to community.
In the end, the port did decide to tear down the Collins Building, but the port worked with historic preservationists to document the history of the structure. The port also salvaged the best materi-als such as windows, columns and beams for reuse restoring 10 historic buildings across the state.
Lefeber, who was promoted to director of strategic communication and policy last year, said she has worked to build a strong and transparent communication and outreach program for the port.
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Judges for the Emerging Leader campaign were (left to right) Herald publisher Josh O’Connor; Jim Stephanson, Economic Alliance Snohomish County; Kathy Coffey, Leadership Snohomish County; Ryan Crowther, Puget PR; Maureen Bozlinski, HBJ; Carrie Radcliff, The Herald; Jim Davis, HBJ; and Arlington City Councilwoman Jesica Stickles.
jobs and opportunities and that’s what the port brings, Lefeber said.
“Snohomish County is on the cusp of greatness,” Lefeber said. “We’ve had a lot of development and a lot of businesses moving north.”
She said she spent four years in col-lege commuting to Western Washington University and “never got off the freeway unless I was running out of gas.”
Since she started working here, Lefeber realized the potential of the city. “I love Everett, it’s a beautiful city,” she said.
She’s become involved in several orga-nizations around the county, including serving on the marketing board for the YMCA of Snohomish County, the advo-cacy board for the Economic Alliance Snohomish County and Snohomish County for Improved Transportation.
She’s also been involved in the past in Senior Services of Snohomish County, Imagine Children’s Museum and the Future of Flight Foundation.
At the port, she jokes that her job is “‘Other duties as assigned.’ I help where people need me to wherever there’s a hole or lapse in the organization, I always find a way to plug it.”
In that role, she helped the port secured millions of dollars in environmental cleanup and transportation infrastruc-ture grants. She also helped the port earn the Presidential Excellence Award for Exports three years ago.
She is excited about the Waterfront Place Central project, which aims to bring housing, shops and hotels to Ever-ett’s marina. She hopes that will dovetail with an improved downtown.
“I’m very committed to this commu-nity,” Lefeber said. “Hopefully that shows in my interactions with people.”
Shanon TyslandThe way Shanon Tysland sees it, it’s
rather simple.“We’re here and then we die and we
have this period in between where we get to choose who we want to be and what we want to do,” Tysland said. “Who I want to be is a person of service.”
Tysland, with his wife Kelly, owns Experience Momentum, a fitness, nutri-tion and rehabilitation facility in Lyn-nwood. It’s grown over the past 10 years from just himself to one that employs 37
people in Lynnwood. Running a small business is a full-time
job, but that hasn’t stopped Tysland from giving back to the community in dona-tions and time.
He’s part of the Alderwood Terrace Rotary, serves as the community service and international chair and is the imme-diate past president.
He volunteers with the Edmonds School District, raising money and food for the district’s Nourishing Network and serves on the district’s sports medicine advisory board. Experience Momentum also partners with Edmonds Commu-nity College to provide athletic training and sports medicine services to collegiate athletes.
Tysland is a triathlete and his business has sponsored several runs in the county. He’s also a member of the Economic Alli-ance Snohomish County and the Lyn-nwood Chamber of Commerce. Tysland said he’s witnessed the efforts people deeply involved in the community.
“It’s humbling to see the amount of people doing amazing things behind the scenes in Snohomish County,” Tysland said.
He’s most proud of having his business join the 1 Percent for the Planet Part-nership, giving 1 percent of the business’ profits to environmental nonprofits. He sees a connection between healthy bodies and a healthy planet. He and his co-work-ers have volunteered to restore the Duwamish River, build trails in the Cas-cades and plant trees at Snoqualmie Pass.
Experience Momentum has also spon-sored a reforestation project for a village in the Dominican Republic. He sup-ported it not only financially, but he and 13 Experience Momentum employees traveled to do the work.
He takes inspiration from a personal crisis with the birth of one his children. His wife was hospitalized for nearly a month because of complications with her pregnancy. He spent much of that time with her in the hospital room. He and his wife drew on support from family and friends to help them get through the experience. He said he learned a lesson in life from the crisis.
“I don’t have all the answers,” Tysland said. “I never will. The more I can bring in a team of people ... and the more col-laborative we can get with a common mission, a common vision, just look out. It’s scary.”
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It would be enough to be responsi-ble for one major innovation at Everett Community College.
John Bonner has had a hand in two.Bonner, who has
worked at the college since 2005, worked to reinvent EVCC’s Corporate & Continu-ing Education Center, which aims to help peo-ple already underway in their careers learn a new trade, sharpen
skills, pursue a promotion, prepare for a new job or increase profits at their business.
The program was struggling before Bonner stepped in. Afterward, it became the second biggest program of its kind in the state with 9,500 enrollments per year. The program operates like a business and its revenues help support the college as a whole.
Then, Bonner was tapped to make a long-held dream at the college into a reality: Create a one-of-a-kind train-ing facility that resembles a factory to give students hands-on experience. The Advanced Manufacturing Training &
Education Center opened in the 2014-15 school year.
In its first year, more than 1,000 students went through the center, the project earned industry praise including from Boeing and the college’s Board of Trustees has approved a 17,000-square-foot expansion.
Bonner has also been involved with other efforts both at the college and the community, including co-chairing the college’s five-year strategic vision and serving as a board member for both Economic Alliance Snohomish County board member and Boys & Girls Club Snohomish County.
Bonner credits his father Don for setting an example for his life. Bon-ner’s mother died when he was 6 and his father raised him and his two siblings.
He said his father had many admira-ble traits and one that he’s attempted to follow is to work for something greater than oneself.
“It is hard to think of a greater gift to give someone than a quality educa-tion,” Bonner writes in his nomination form. “Learning has intrinsic value. It inspires, empowers, and enables. ”
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Making EVCC more innovative for students
Terrie Battuello’s fingerprints could be all over the future of Everett.
As the Port of Everett’s chief of busi-ness development, Battuello is helping lead the team working on Waterfront Place Central, a redevelop-ment of 65 acres in north Everett inside the Port’s Marina district.
As envisioned, the Port would construct the roads, lots and other infrastructure and then attract developers to build 1.5 million square feet of mixed-use development. The project could include hundreds of luxury apartments and condos, two hotels with a couple hundred rooms and shops along the city’s waterfront.
“My philosophy is to dream big but realistically to create concrete projects and activities that people can get excited about,” Battuello writes in her nomina-tion form. “The result has the type of magic that invites the whole world join in. This is the type of energy our entire Port team brings to Waterfront Place Central.”
This concept replaces a previous plan,
Port Gardner Wharf project, which fell through when a previous developer filed for bankruptcy during the recession.
Battuello has a history in this type of development, working on the Bremerton waterfront redevelopment and also lead-ing economic development for Bothell.
She’s a relative newcomer to Everett, moving from Bothell just last year. But she’s already gotten involved with several groups, including Northwest Neighbor-hood Association, Friends of the Library and Everett Historical Commission. She’s also been involved with United Way of Snohomish County, Domestic Vio-lence Services of Snohomish County and Hopelink.
She credits a grounding from her family.
“My parents were Depression-era folk who taught me that a strong character including honesty, hard work and follow-ing through on promises made, is essen-tial to success in business and in life,” Bat-tuello writes. “I do not see my own life as more important than others, but that we all have a right to live a good life. I believe that the act of caring and taking an inter-est in other people’s lives makes one’s own life fuller.”
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Faith is an important part of JJ Frank’s life. So is community.
Frank, the executive director of the Marysville/North County Family YMCA, is a “home-grown man” having attended Everett Pub-lic Schools and then going to the Univer-sity of Washington where he played col-lege football.
Frank came back to live and serve in the community where he was raised. He worked for the Everett Police Depart-ment before joining the YMCA.
In 2002, Frank started the innovative Minority Achievers Program to moti-vate and support student of color and immigrants to achieve their higher edu-cation and career goals.
It started with just 24 students in two school districts. It’s grown to six school districts serving more than 400 students countywide. Many of those students have gone to college, some with support from donations that Frank and others have been able to obtain for them.
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Faith is an important part of JJ Frank’s life. So is community.
Frank, the executive director of the Marysville/North County Family YMCA, is a “home-grown man” having attended Everett Pub-lic Schools and then going to the Univer-sity of Washington where he played col-lege football.
Frank came back to live and serve in the community where he was raised. He worked for the Everett Police Depart-ment before joining the YMCA.
In 2002, Frank started the innovative Minority Achievers Program to moti-vate and support student of color and immigrants to achieve their higher edu-cation and career goals.
It started with just 24 students in two school districts. It’s grown to six school districts serving more than 400 students countywide. Many of those students have gone to college, some with support from donations that Frank and others have been able to obtain for them.
Frank, who is African-American, helped form the Communities of Color Coalition. He’s also served on several boards in the community, including on the United Way of Snohomish County, the executive board of the NAACP of Snohomish County and Providence Regional Medical Center Everett. He’s also part of the Marysville Rotary.
He’s also served as a member of the Black Prison Caucus at the Washington State Reformatory at Monroe. In the role, helped inmates learn new skills to transition back in their community. He’s also said he’s a minister at his church and is in charge of its Sunday school.
“I mention this because my faith in Jesus Christ has really shaped my char-acter as a servant leader,” Frank said. “It is not about myself but about serving others.”
He said in his nomination form that wants to continue to work with like-minded organizations and serve Sno-homish County in a greater capacity.
“I plan to retire in Snohomish County, dedicating a lifetime of service back to the community that has given me so much,” Frank said.
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Clothes mean so much children and teens.
Go to school with tattered clothes or falling apart shoes and there’s a risk the
kid feels out of place. And a kid who doesn’t fit in, may fall behind in the classroom or, worse, drop out of school altogether.
Enter Joy Ingram.She’s the devel-
opment director for Clothes For Kids, a
Lynnwood nonprofit that provides ward-robes for any kid in Snohomish County who needs clothing and whose family qualifies for reduced lunches.
“I believe personally that empower-ing students is a key ingredient to build self-esteem and confidence so students can find success,” Ingram wrote in her nomination form.
Clothes For Kids intentionally doesn’t have an executive director. Instead, Ingram in her role as development direc-tor works directly with the operations manager, Board of Directors, staff and volunteers to help raise funds.
She started in 2010 and in her first year she was able to double revenue for the nonprofit.
Four years ago, Clothes For Kids was successful enough to be able to serve the whole county. Clothes For Kids has provided 15,000 children and teens with wardrobes.
Ingram has also helped the board grow from four to nine members. She created the Transforming Lives Breakfast that has grown from 120 attendees in its first year to 260 in its fifth year.
Her background includes working for the Snohomish County Boys & Girls Clubs and the Northshore Public Edu-cation Foundation. She’s active with the Lynnwood Rotary.
And she represent Clothes For Kids as a member of Economic Alliance Sno-homish County, the Edmonds and Lyn-nwood chambers.
“I believe wholeheartedly in service to others,” Ingram said. “I have commit-ted my career to working with nonprof-its that serve children and families and believe strongly that success of the next generation is essential to success of our community.”
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Top nominees will be honored at an event in Spring 2016 and featured in the April edition of The Herald Business Journal.
They’re emerging leaders of Snohomish County, the people in business and industry who shape the county for the better today and into the future.
The Herald Business Journal, Economic Alliance Snohomish County and Leadership Snohomish County honor the next generation of leadership in our community. The
Emerging Leaders Award was created to annually recognize an emerging individual whose leadership has made a positive impact on Snohomish County. It pays tribute to an individual who exemplifies outstanding professional values: demonstrates the ability to go above and beyond the expectations of a leader; and serves as an inspiration to the community.
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The Herald Business Journal, Economic Alliance Snohomish County and Leadership Snohomish County honor the next generation of leadership in our community. The
Emerging Leaders Award was created to annually recognize an emerging individual whose leadership has made a positive impact on Snohomish County. It pays tribute to an individual who exemplifies outstanding professional values: demonstrates the ability to go above and beyond the expectations of a leader; and serves as an inspiration to the community.
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Someone saw something in Shawn Smith that he didn’t see himself.
He had dropped out of high school and college seemed like an impossibility.
At 18, Smith met a teacher for Port-land Public Schools and a youth leader at St. John’s Christian Church. She talked him into getting a GED and later helped him enroll in college.
“This is what I want for the kids I have the privilege of working with daily,” Smith writes in his nomination form. “I want them to see what I see in them and push their per-sonal limits and personal expectations.”
He’s had opportunity to accomplish this both with his volunteer work in the community and his job as a youth and community pastor with New Hope Christian Church in Everett.
As a volunteer, Smith spends most of his time working at Voyager Mid-dle School or Olivia Park Elementary School in the Mukilteo School District. He’s helped with the Homework Club at the elementary school, providing a safe
Sara McArdle believes that we are all deeply connected and the smallest of our actions ripple out to impact others all around us.
The senior graphic designer with United Way of Snohomish County has volunteered hundreds of hours every year attempting to make the world a better place.
She has worked since last year with Freedom Project Seattle, assisting inmates at Monroe Correctional Com-plex with nonviolent communication.
She also works with Seattle Restorative Justice helping communities from Sno-homish County south to Seattle serving on-call to help facilitate reconciliation between people in conflict.
She also serves on the board of direc-tors for Kids4Peace Seattle, an interfaith group that works to bring together Jew-ish, Christian and Muslum youths for after-school activities, weekend events and international summer camps.
In that same vein, McArdle has served
as a lead fundraiser on a project to help bring teams of four Israelis and four Palestinians to the Vashon Island Nonviolent Communication Family Camp.
She and her team raised $15,000 in just two months, and succeeded in bringing over all eight. Those people are now teaching what they learned at a class series at universities and commu-nity centers in Israel.
From 2001 to 2003, McArdle worked full-time as a fundraiser and commu-nity organizer to permanently pre-serve 106,000 acres of public land near Index. In 2008, the land was federally designated as the Wild Sky Wilderness by Congress and President George W. Bush.
During the last 12 years, she’s worked for the United Way creating graphics and marketing material to support the nonprofit.
Through her own business, Sara McArdle Design, she’s illustrated the marketing materials for The Penn Cove MusselFest in Coupeville for the past seven years, illustrating a different mer-maid each year.
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Sarah Olson has worked to make Sno-homish County a healthier place to live.
She spent eight years chairing the Get Movin’ program, promoting an active lifestyle for youths in the county during the summer. She’s helped spearhead a 10-year Healthy Com-munities Action Plan for Lynnwood and the county through the Healthy Communities Coalition and Live-Healthy2020 program.
In her job as deputy director of the City of Lynnwood’s parks department, Olson helped the city win a $1.9 million grant from Verdant Health Commission for the Bike2Health proj-ect in south county, which funds critical missing pieces of the multi-modal trans-portation plan. And she’s also helped suc-cessfully launch the Lynnwood Farmers Market.
In her early career, Olson spent time with municipal aquatics programming. She dedicated herself to drowning pre-vention in the county and the state.
For five years, she chaired the Wash-
ington State Drowning Coalition and worked closely with Children’s Hospital and Seattle/King County Public Health to coordinate April Pools Day statewide with a public outreach campaign.
Olson has helped coordinate three neighborhood National Night Out block parties, organized two neighborhood backpack giveaways with View Ridge Community Church and volunteered at the Fun in the Sun for First Baptist Church in downtown Everett. She’s also served three years on the City of Everett’s parks board.
In that role, she was selected to serve on a special committee to create a new city policy on naming rights of parks, streets and facilities in Everett.
What’s she’s done on her job and in her city, Olson has attempted to bring the same to her neighborhood.
“At home in Everett, I apply many of the same principles and values to con-nect with and support my neighbors and the broader community,” Olson writes in her nomination form. “Getting to know my neighbors, checking in on them, and offering support are the basis of my per-sonal relationships.”
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Someone saw something in Shawn Smith that he didn’t see himself.
He had dropped out of high school and college seemed like an impossibility.
At 18, Smith met a teacher for Port-land Public Schools and a youth leader at St. John’s Christian Church. She talked him into getting a GED and later helped him enroll in college.
“This is what I want for the kids I have the privilege of working with daily,” Smith writes in his nomination form. “I want them to see what I see in them and push their per-sonal limits and personal expectations.”
He’s had opportunity to accomplish this both with his volunteer work in the community and his job as a youth and community pastor with New Hope Christian Church in Everett.
As a volunteer, Smith spends most of his time working at Voyager Mid-dle School or Olivia Park Elementary School in the Mukilteo School District. He’s helped with the Homework Club at the elementary school, providing a safe
environment for children to learn. He’s also worked on the Kid’s Night
Out/Parent’s Night Off event, the first of which occurred at his church in Decem-ber and attracted 50 kids.
This year, he’s helping with a volun-teer project called Lighthouse that will be provide clothing, food, and hygiene products free of cost for students and families. Counselors will help them pick those in need. He’s also been involved with two separate backpack drives, help-ing get kids school supplies and food over weekends.
Smith also regularly volunteers with the Casino Road Kids Ministry.
One of his favorite volunteer activities is serving as the lunch supervisor at Voy-ager Middle School every Thursday.
“I love this time as it allows me to have intentional conversations with students that often don’t feel very com-fortable talking to adults,” Smith writes. “Through this time I have been able to share advice, mentor, and show students that I care about them. Every week I meet someone new, every week I hear a new story, every week I get the opportu-nity to speak into the lives of these awe-some kids.”
A friend once told Zsofia Pasztor that if she was “the captain of the Titanic, it would still be floating, patched and with lots of marks, but floating.” It’s an accu-rate portrayal of her life.
Pasztor and her husband left commu-nist Hungary in 1987 and spent two years in a United Nations camp before being picked to go to the U.S. in 1989. When she arrived, Past-zor spoke no English, had no marketable skills and had little idea about American culture.
“We overcame many obstacles, includ-ing poverty and serious health chal-lenges,” Pasztor wrote in her nomina-tion form. “We left Hungary with two backpacks. By 2008, we had a high-end landscape design-build company with many employees, equipment and fantastic clientele.”
Then the recession hit. Everything came tumbling down. Work dried up fast and it became obvious the business wouldn’t survive.
“I went into survivor mode,” Pasztor said. “Working to hold onto all of our
employees because they had family, figur-ing out ways for them to delay the need to go on unemployment so they can last longer with income during the holidays.”
They closed after the holidays on Feb. 25, 2009. She and her husband filed for bankruptcy that year.
Since then, she and her husband opened Innovative Landscape Tech-nologies, a small business building rain gardens and sustainable landscapes. She founded Farmer Frog, a nonprofit orga-nization that supports edible school gar-dens. She started teaching horticulture part-time at Edmonds Community Col-lege. And she righted her ship.
“I do not plan on coloring my hair. I earned every white and silver line I have,” she said.
Paztor belongs to several organizations including the Financial Asset Develop-ment Coalition of Snohomish County; the Rain Garden Coalition of Snohom-ish County; the Sno-King Watershed Council; Livable Snohomish County; the EdCC’s Horticulture Curriculum Board; Snohomish County Professional Wom-en’s Network. She’s also served as pres-ident of the Sustainable Development Task Force of Snohomish County.
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ington State Drowning Coalition and worked closely with Children’s Hospital and Seattle/King County Public Health to coordinate April Pools Day statewide with a public outreach campaign.
Olson has helped coordinate three neighborhood National Night Out block parties, organized two neighborhood backpack giveaways with View Ridge Community Church and volunteered at the Fun in the Sun for First Baptist Church in downtown Everett. She’s also served three years on the City of Everett’s parks board.
In that role, she was selected to serve on a special committee to create a new city policy on naming rights of parks, streets and facilities in Everett.
What’s she’s done on her job and in her city, Olson has attempted to bring the same to her neighborhood.
“At home in Everett, I apply many of the same principles and values to con-nect with and support my neighbors and the broader community,” Olson writes in her nomination form. “Getting to know my neighbors, checking in on them, and offering support are the basis of my per-sonal relationships.”
T he Puget Sound real estate market is about as healthy
as it’s been since the crash of 2008-09.
The question on minds today is, will it last or is this another bubble that might burst?
The answer depends on who you talk to and what category you’re talking about.
Some forecasters are concerned about the ratio of the cost of housing in the Puget Sound area to income levels.
There are areas of the country where wages are rising and keeping pace with increasing rents, but for most Americans today their buying power is unchanged since the crash and now they are facing increased housing costs in a supply-constrained market.
This is particularly pronounced in the Puget Sound region.
There is growing concern that if the cost of housing out-paces income, demand will drop off.
Lots of attention is being paid to this wid-ening housing cost-to-income gap since it was a contributor to the last bubble burst.
Downtown Everett office and retail rents took a dive after the crash as well, dropping as much as 30 percent from their pre-crash levels.
Unfortunately, unlike housing, office and retail has not recovered to their pre-crash levels, leaving many investors and landlords still licking wounds.
Most healthy central business districts have a large private sector employer in them. Down-town Everett does not, leaving mostly govern-ment, nonprofits and professional services to fill space.
Those categories do not drive enough demand on their own to support the level of inventory in that submarket.
The trend line is favorable, though. Just lagging behind other categories.
Home builders point to limited land inventory as
a new reality in the Puget Sound, choking supply at the same time demand is high.
Unique to the market today is a wave of aggres-sive buyers from China trying to get their cash into real estate and other hard asset classes in the U.S.
To the south of us, King County, in par-
ticular, is feeling the effect as domestic buyers complain about being out-bid by foreign nationals in a housing market that is already way under-supplied.
Jobs drive everything in the real estate game, of course.
Real estate is simply shelter for us at home or at work and can only
have a role in the econ-omy if there is reason for people to live and work there.
Changes in the Chinese economy and easing of interest rates by the Fed are two areas to pay close attention in the upcom-ing months and years to forecasting how long this current market will remain in this
condition. Changes to both could
trigger changes in demand and allow supply in the pipeline today to catch up.
Tom Hoban is CEO of The Coast Group of Companies. Contact him at 425-339-3638 or [email protected] or visit www.coastmgt.com. Twitter: @Tom_P_Hoban.
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W hat should you do if you find out that your business is getting bad reviews on the Internet?
You could do nothing, which is the option that many companies choose.
And unless the review was written by a major influence on public opinion — if the president says your software doesn’t work or the Kardashians say your pizza stinks — usually one bad review can safely be just filed away, especially if it is a simple rating.
If the review contains details and refers to specific aspects of your product or service, though, it is best to look into it because it could reveal some weaknesses in your product or in your service. And if they occurred once you can bet your business that they will show up again and again.
Smart, successful businesses take customer reviews and feedback seriously. The treasures in this area are, of course, the letters or emails that people take the time to write — sometimes with a complaint and sometimes to share a good experience with your company’s product or service.
The most effective way to approach Internet reviews is systematically. That means collecting the information so that reviews are read, sorted, analyzed, integrated into management decisions, and saved in some systematic way — just as you would approach any data that had a direct effect on your bottom line.
As a practical matter, you should include these steps:
Start a list of each Internet site that contains mentions of your company, your product, your ser-vice, or your prices, and, most impor-tantly, those sites that provide ratings or evaluations of your products and services. Making and maintaining a list isn’t as easy as it sounds. The Internet is a fluid not a solid and sites come and go without warning. Some are updated in real time, some daily and some rarely or never.
It is important that in the initial stages of developing this list you assign your top people, not only to make sure that they are involved and “buy into” the project, but to add some experience and perspec-tive as the system is developed. Later, much of the work can be delegated.
Build an indexing system based on the categories of ratings that best apply to your business.
This system does not have to be com-plicated, and many of the best and most usable ones resemble the kind of key-words used to describe books and articles
in newspapers and magazines. The general categories might include
such things as “interaction with sales staff,” “interaction with customer service,” prices, product quality, return policy, payment or accounting issues, etc.
The selection and naming of subject categories depends on the nature of your business and its market, of course, but many of the basic problems that arise show up in customer reviews of all businesses.
Develop a ranking system that indi-cates the credibility and value of the review. As your collection gets larger, this becomes more and more important and you will need a way to sort out the reviews or comments that obviously do not apply to your business — your restaurant has never served escargot, with or without socks, for example, and most certainly has never carried socks on its menu.
The Internet, while a glorious river of information, also is filled with misdi-rected communications.
Design a follow-up system to ensure that the more significant reviews, good or bad, are addressed. In some cases some effort to contact the customer would be in order.
Others might be followed up by reviewing the records of the transaction (customer order, return, accounting entries, etc.) and making sure that the matter was settled — internally and
externally — in some satisfactory way.Integrate the system with any existing
or planned manual methods of collecting information about customer satisfaction and the array of quality measures that apply to your business. Again, don’t ignore overall scores or ratings but writ-ten or spoken comments are the treasure gold.
In addition to being very useful, implementing a system to review and evaluate customer reviews will have ben-eficial side effects.
Your entire organization, top to bottom, will know that you think the customers, their experiences, and their opinions are important.
Without further effort this will lead to workers’ taking more care with customer help issues and ensure that they are not filed away and forgotten.
You can accelerate the good effects of the system by getting personally involved in resolving some customer issues.
This will correct any misunderstand-ings about “company policy” that the staff may have, and it will energize and transform your customer service function, and, best of all, it works every time.
If you want better Internet reviews, that’s one good way to get them.
James McCusker is a Bothell economist, educator and consultant. He also writes a column for the monthly Herald Business Journal.
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C old calling, otherwise known as canvassing, can a be surefire way to make your phone feel like it
weighs 15 pounds. I imagine there are people out there
who are pretty comfortable and just ‘go for it’ when it comes to cold calling, but I think a greater number of us struggle with this marketing technique.
Do I dare say outdated marketing technique?
Another form of cold calling is going door-to-door, knocking on doors to meet homeowners or business owners face-to-face.
Creating a conversation with a stranger can be difficult, so it can be tempting to text potential clients as a way to start the conversation. Don’t do that.
You will have to do your own research on this topic, but we have something called the Telephone Consumer Protec-tion Act.
It’s is a federal law that regulates calls and text messages to cellular telephone numbers.
With statutory damages of $500-$1,500 per prohibited call or text, many class action lawsuits are brought under this law. I’d just stay clear of that to be on the safe side.
Recently, I wrote a column about com-
municating with our clients.
Something that I wrote about was how people are becoming more protective of their time and find interruptions like voicemail and phone calls during their work hours irritating and counterpro-ductive to working effectively.
That’s the main reason I suggest that cold calling may be on its way to being outdated. It may become less and less effective as a mar-keting tool as more people strive to work efficiently to improve work life balance while avoiding interruptions.
The possibilities to connect has evolved in business. There are many ways to meet that business professionals didn’t have at their disposal in the past through social media.
Personally, I would consider LinkedIn as a form of cold calling. We often “con-nect” with people that we have never met in person but we recognize their name or
face from our community or within our industry.
When you connect on LinkedIn, you have the opportunity to send the other person a note saying thank you for con-necting with you.
This puts your name, face and online resume in front of your intended business contact.
This comes with no great interruption to them as they can control when they are connecting with you and reviewing your information.
I think we each need to consider our own industry to see if cold calling is a good way to connect.
For the residential organizing side of my business, I feel like calling a list of residential phone numbers to see if people need help getting organized in their homes would likely be very ineffective.
Working with a professional orga-nizer is very sensitive and personal and a generic phone call probably wouldn’t yield good results.
Now when I teach organizing classes in my community, that’s a better strategy for me because people can meet me and see me from a safe distance before consider-ing having me enter the personal space of their home.
I may fare better with cold calling with business productivity training though.
There are many tips online to be more effective in cold calling.
If this is a strategy you’re using or would like to use in your business, here are a few tips I thought could be helpful:
■ Be prepared for the call.■ Be respectful during the call.■ Research your list of prospects so
you know a little bit about them or the company.
■ Write a short script with the goal of making an appointment with your prospect.
■ Be positive when you make the call.■ Be prepared for objections. Keep in mind that your product or ser-
vice should be valuable to your prospect. You are helping them by meeting with them.
Do you find cold calling has been beneficial for you in your business? I’d love to hear from you by phone, email or text to hear what strategies are working well for you.
Monika Kristofferson is a professional organizer and productivity consultant who owns Efficient Organization NW in Lake Stevens. Reach her at 425-220-8905 or [email protected].
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LYNNWOOD — The Edmonds Community College Foundation auction, Havana Nights: Making Dreams Take Flight, held on March 5 raised more than $207,000 in support of access, success, and excellence for students, faculty, and staff at the college. More than 240 people attended the annual auction.
MUKILTEO — Join Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance at the Women in Aero-space Conference to hear from success ful female executives including Beth Anderson, Kat Moran, Beth DeYoung, KC Yanamura and Guila Muir. The event is 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. April 26 at the Rosehill Community Center in Mukilteo. Go to http://tinyurl.com/hgt6d2q for tickets.
EVERETT — Providence Regional
Medical Center Everett’s Colby Campus has ranked at No. 40 out of the Top 50 Hospitals in America with the most annual emergency room visits, by Becker’s Hos-pital Review. Providence had an estimated 90,400 emergency room visits. The top ranking hospital was Florida Hospital in Orlando at 249,400 visits.
LYNNWOOD — The Edmonds
Community College Board of Trustees has recognized Boeing for its support of EdCC Foundation’s scholarships and emergency student assistance programs along with the company’s commitment to student success by hiring EdCC graduates. Boeing, which is celebrating its centennial year, annually donates $53
million in the areas of education, health and human services, arts and culture, environment, and civic engagement.
EVERETT — Everett Community
College is hosting a college planning Family Night in Spanish for high school students and their families at 5:30 p.m. April 12 at EvCC’s Henry M. Jackson Conference Center. At Noche Entre Familia, families will learn about options to help pay for college, earning college credit in high school and how to get
started. Call 425-388-9306 for details. SNOHOMISH — The fifth Annual
Snohomish on the Rocks Distillery Festival is April 23 at the Thomas Family Farm in Snohomish. Taste award-win-ning vodka, gin, liqueurs and whiskey products from local distillers. Proceeds benefit GROWashington. The general admission price is $35 per person which includes five tasting tickets, a commem-orative shot glass, and a $5 food truck coupon. Details are at www.snohomis-hontherocks.com.
EVERETT — Coast Real Estate
Services, one of the Pacific Northwest’s largest property management firms that is based in Everett, announced its acquisi-tion of Norris Beggs & Simpson Com-panies Portland, Oregon, multifamily division. This acquisition expands Coast Real Estate’s presence in Portland and Vancouver, and puts it at 17,000 multi-family units and just more than 5 million square feet of commercial space under management.
EVERETT — CORT Party Rental has opened a new, state-of-the-art design center and distribution facility at 6101 Associated Blvd. in Everett. CORT Party Rental’s Everett Design Center and Warehouse blends CORT’s two party rental brands, ABC Special Event Rentals and AA Party Rentals, under the CORT Party Rental name. This new store combines and replaces the Mukilteo and
Mountlake Terrace showrooms.
EVERETT — The Snohomish STEM (Science, Technology, Engi-neering, and Math) Network rolled out its new website portal to highlight and promote STEM education and oppor-tunities throughout Snohomish County. The website is SnohomishSTEM.org.
LYNNWOOD — In March, North-west Motorsport celebrated the grand opening of its new location at 17510 Highway 99 in Lynnwood. The company has four other locations, all in Puyallup. Northwest Motorsport started iin 2004 and has sold thousands of signature, lifted trucks.
EVERETT — Leadership Snohomish
County is now accepting nominations for 2016-17 programs. The Signature pro-gram will accept up to 36 class members and the Young Professionals program will accept 20. Go to www.leadershipsc.org/apply. Nominations are open through April 30.
LYNNWOOD — The Veterans
One-Stop Resource Center has opened in Lynnwood to serve veterans and their families. The center will assist with referrals to Veterans Affairs, medical and employment assistance. It is open every Tuesday and the first Wednesday of each month from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Ver-dant Community Wellness Center, 4710 196th St. SW, Lynnwood.
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BUSINESS BRIEFS
Long-term includes regularly scheduled vessels only.
Ship port calls 2016 YTD: 15
Barge port calls 2016 YTD: 13
Ship port calls 2015: 133
Barge port calls 2015: 61
April 4: Swire, Shengking
April 5: Westwood, Westwood Frasier
April 12: Westwood, Westwood Rainier
April 18: ECL, Asian Naga
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Upcoming EventsEASC to Present Community Awards and Annual Update on May 12th
Who is Economic Alliance?
EASC 5th Annual Meeting & Community Awards
Thursday, May 12th, 201611:30 a.m.- 1:30 p.m., Tulalip
Engage Everett - Community Networking & Update
Wednesday, April 13th, 20164:30 - 6:30 p.m., Everett
Annual State of the StationFeaturing CMD Mark A. Lakamp
Thursday, April 14th, 201612:00 - 1:30 p.m., EverettRegister by 12:00 p.m. on April 5th
Economic Alliance Snohomish County’s (EASC) Annual Meeting is on Thursday, May 12th at the Tulalip Resort Casino. Our new President and CEO, Patrick Pierce. Pierce will highlight successes of the region the past �ve years and outline new opportunities and areas of focus for the organization growing forward.
At the event we will present two business / community leader awards, which have been given to deserving individuals by EASC founding organizations since the 70s.
Our two awards are the Henry M. Jackson Citizen of the Year and the John M. Fluke, Sr. Community Ser-vice. The following are descriptions of our award criteria.
The Henry M. Jackson Citizen of the Year Award, established in 1977, honors someone who demonstrates exemplary service to the community and is committed to the business in-terests of the region. This individual drives local, state, and regional initiatives for business, promotes civic, social, and cultural programs, and participates in programs that expand the potential and quality of life in Snohomish County.
The John M. Fluke, Sr. Community Service Award, established in 1970, annually recognizes an individual who has demonstrated entrepre-neurial spirit, and business and community leadership coupled with signi�cant community contribution and commitment.
Last year, our award winners were Steve Klein from Snohomish County PUD for the Citizen of the Year Award; and Jerry Goodwin from Senior Aerospace for the Community Service Award. We look for-ward to presenting our awards to deserving individuals, such as these, this May.
Apart from our awards, The Herald Business Journal (HBJ) will be presenting three business awards, their Executive, Entrepreneur and Emerging Leader of the year. Nominations for the HBJ’s awards are taken separately; please visit their website for more information.
Once the awards have been given, the event will continue with our annual business review. We will discuss the regional successes of the last �ve years, the latest on EASC, including what we have been working on in Q1,
as well as what the region can expect to see in the remainder of 2016.
Tickets can be purchased at $55 for investors of EASC and $65 for non-investors.
For more information please visit our website at: www.economicalliancesc.org. If you have any questions, or are interesting in becoming a sponsor, please contact Nicole Amor at 425-248-4228.
We look forward to seeing you there!
As a regional leader, Economic Alliance Snohomish County exists to be a catalyst for economic vitality resulting in stronger communities, increased job creation, expanded educational opportunities, and improved infrastructure.
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2016 Strategic Goals
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Attract New Investment
Improve Quality of Place
Market the Region
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EVERETT — Former Enterprise editor and
publisher Jim Hills has joined Sno-Isle Libraries as the public information manager.
Hills comes to the library system after eight years as special assistant to the president for communi-cations, marketing and government relations at
Shoreline Community College. Before that, Hills worked for the Enterprise Newspapers, which were managed by The Herald.
MILL CREEK —
Edward Jones financial adviser Mary Basili of Mill Creek has attended a conference to recog-nize successful female Edward Jones financial advisers. About 19 percent of Edward Jones’ finan-cial advisers are women,
compared to the industry average of less than 16 percent, according to global research firm Cerulli Associates.
MARYSVILLE — Scott Watkins, a real estate agent from Keller Williams Real Estate in Marysville, used gofundme.com to raise $9,900 to buy much needed professional-grade misters for the City of McFarland’s Animal Shel-ter in California. Watkins had adopted one of his dogs from the shelter after seeing it online. The rural California animal shelter desperately needed the misting system to help animals through the hot months.
LAKE STEVENS — Everett Community Col-lege student Jeff Noyes of Lake Stevens will receive $250 from Koz Devel-opment for coming up with the winning name
for the college’s new student housing building: Mountain View. EvCC received 50 entries for the contest to name the 120-room residence hall. Mountain View will open in September.
EVERETT — Peo-ples Bank has announced changes to the Everett Commercial Banking Team. Steve Erickson was promoted to senior vice pres-ident and commercial banking team leader. Peter Sontra was hired as vice pres-ident and commercial loan officer for the Everett Commer-cial Banking Team. Both are lifelong residents of Everett and very active in the community.
LYNNWOOD — Renee Comey, with RE/
MAX Elite in Lynnwood, has been presented with the RE/MAX Hall of Fame Award which hon-ors successful agents who have earned more than $1 million in commissions during their careers with the company. Less than 23 percent of all RE/MAX Affiliates have earned this award.
LYNNWOOD — Tim Morgan is Central Washington University’s new College of Business Westside Business Pro-gram coordinator. He will promote CWU’s College of Business programs throughout Puget Sound to help increase student enrollment at the three Westside Centers. One of those centers is located in Lynnwood. Morgan also teaches sports finance, sports marketing, and general marketing courses for CWU’s College of Business.
LYNNWOOD — Edmonds Community College has hired Steve Woodard as the new
dean for Student Success: Retention and Com-pletion. Woodard will provide leadership and
vision for student sup-port services such as the Advising Resource Center, Counsel-ing and Resource
Center, Wellness Center, Services for Students with Disabilities, and the Veter-ans Resource Center.
LYNNWOOD —
Edmonds Community College Foundation board members Steve Penning-ton and Dr. Bill Keppler received Outstanding Community Advocate Awards at Verdant Health Commission’s Healthier Community Conference on Feb. 29. They served as co-chairs on the Founda-tion’s Boots to Books and Beyond Campaign raising $1 million to support student veterans and their families at the college.
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201602020531: Feb. 2; Wamsley, Jason M., 212A Dorn Ave., Everett
201602020532: Feb. 2; Thompson, Vincent R., 7019 Woods Creek Road, Monroe
201602020533: Feb. 2; Szechenyi, Keith D., 15007 67th Ave. NE, Arlington
201602020534: Feb. 2; Logan, Marlene (+), 11014 19th Ave. E, Suite 8, No. 323, Everett
201602020535: Feb. 2; Shriver, Stephen A., 5732 Sunset Lane, Mukilteo
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16-10629-MLB: Chapter 7, Daniel Lee Rairdan and
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16-10705-MLB: Chapter 7, Christine Yoonsoon Jung; attorney for debtor: Young Oh; filed: Feb. 12; assets: no; type: voluntary; nature
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