Business Beat
New faces:
R. Scott Jamar has joined the staff of Adams & Clark Inc. as project engineer. Jamar is a civil engineer with more than five years of experience in North Idaho and 10 years in California. He will be the primary civil engineer in Adams & Clark’s Post Falls office.
Hummel Architects P.A. has named Jeffery T. Lane and David Everson as architect interns.
Lane attended Washington State University and the University of Idaho, where he received a bachelor’s degree in architecture in 1995.
Everson earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture in 1992 from the University of Idaho. He has seven years of experience in the architectural field, the last four with design firms in the Spokane area.
Sarah Wilkinson has joined Janek Co., a Spokane real estate marketing and sales business. Wilkinson, who recently received her real estate license, previously worked for Horizon Credit Union in Spokane as a teller.
Randy Noel has joined the Spokane-Valley office of Windermere Real Estate as a sales associate. Noel previously worked for 12 years as the plant manager at R.R. Contracting in Spokane.
Geri Flinn has joined the North Spokane office of Tomlinson Black as a licensed Realtor. Flinn has worked in real estate since 1995 as an assistant to a licensed agent.
Nicolette Hertler has joined Tomlinson Black as an associate. Hertler, formerly of Moses Lake, has been a licensed real estate agent since September 1997.
Moving up:
Coeur d’Alene-based Mountain West Bank has promoted Robert Beck to vice president of the bank’s Small Business Lending Department. Beck joined the bank in July 1996 and had a key role in Mountain West’s transition from regular lending to the Small Business Administration’s Preferred Lending Program. Beck has more than 20 years of SBA lending experience in Washington, Idaho, Montana and Colorado and a total of 25 years of experience in commercial lending.
Mark Neupert has been appointed production director for Seabury & Smith (formerly Sedgwick) for the Advantage America product in Spokane. Advantage America is insurance designed specifically for businesses in the Inland Northwest. Neupert will oversee coordination of the Advantage America program’s training, marketing and sales, underwriting and claims handling. A graduate of Gonzaga University, he has been with Seabury & Smith for more than four years.
Transactions:
Sharman Communications LLC has incorporated and begun operations as a division of LK Sharman Inc. The corporation’s officers are Christianne Sharman and Graham Sharman III. Christianne Sharman joined Sharman Communications in 1995, while Graham Sharman has been with the company since 1997. The firm, which was established by the late Linda Sharman in 1990, offers strategic planning, concept development, writing, producing for film and video and project management.
Elected:
Rosanna M. Peterson of Rodgers and Peterson has been elected to the state board of Washington Women Lawyers as president-elect.
Lon Lee, president of KHQ-TV, has been re-elected chairman of the board of directors of the Washington State Association of Broadcasters. Lee, who joined KHQ in 1991, served as chairman of the trade group in 1998-99 and as a member of the association’s board since 1993. His term will run through next fall. Other officers include secretary/treasurer, Val Limburg, professor of communications at WSU’s Edward R. Murrow School of Communications; and immediate past chairman, Verl Wheeler, president and general manager of KEYG-AM/FM, Grand Coulee, and KZLN-FM, Othello.
Kudos:
The following people have qualified as members of the 1999 President’s Council of New York Life Insurance Co. To be named a member of the council, agents must rank in the top six percent of New York Life’s 6,500 active agents in the United States, based on 1998-99 sales performance: Francis A. Cook has been a New York Life agent since 1994. She has been a securities registered representative since 1983, earned the Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow (LUTCF) designation in 1995, and was a qualifying member of the Million Dollar Round Table in 1998.
Roberta A. Dresback joined New York Life in 1986. She serves as a board member of the Inland Northwest Planned Giving Council, a local charitable organization of allied professionals. She is a qualifying member of the Million Dollar Round Table.
Barry C. Folsom has been a New York Life agent since 1981. Prior to that he was an accountant. Folsom is a qualifying member of the Million Dollar Round Table. He has served on the board of directors of the Spokane Optimist Club and as president in 1992.
Wesley M. Teterud is a first-time qualifier as a member of the 1999 President’s Council. He has been a New York Life agent since 1994 and earlier served as a pastor for a church in Great Falls. He earned the LUTCF designation in 1998, and was a first-time qualifying member of the Million Dollar Round Table in 1998.
Events:
Monday - The Small Business Development Center presents a class on “Employee Retention” from 6-9 p.m. at the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute, 665 N. Riverpoint Blvd. Cost: $35; for information or registration, call 358-7890.
Monday through Nov. 19 - The Training and Education Coordinating Center offers a course on “New Directions Career Planning” from 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at the Business Training and Applied Technology Center, 3939 N. Freya. Cost: $221.32; for information, call 533-4721 or 533-4700.
Tuesday - Gonzaga University School of Business Administration holds an MBA/MAcc/MIS information meeting from 7-8:30 a.m. at Jepson Center on the GU campus. For reservations, call 323-3414 or e-mail wilson@jepson.gonzaga.edu.
Wednesday - The Rev. Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., president of Gonzaga University, will discuss “The Role of Ethics in the Legal and Business World” during a talk sponsored by Gonzaga Prep and Gonzaga University School of Law from 3-6 p.m. at Gonzaga Prep, 1224 E. Euclid. For information, call 489-6302, ext. 326.
Wednesday - The Service Corps of Retired Executives presents a workshop on “Preparing a Business Plan” from 8 a.m.-noon on the second floor of the Spokane Regional Business Center, 801 W. Riverside. Cost: $35; for information or to register, call 353-2820.
Wednesday - The Training and Education Coordinating Center presents session IV of a Zenger Miller Leadership Training core workshop on “Dealing with Emotional Behavior” from 6-9 p.m. at the Business Training and Applied Technology Center, 3939 N. Freya. Cost: $230 for the four-class series; for information, call 533-4700.
Thursday - The Idaho Small Business Development Center presents a class on “Discipline/Documentation/Firing” from 6-9 p.m. at the North Idaho College Workforce Training Center, 525 W. Clearwater Loop in Post Falls. Cost: $39; for information or to register, call (208) 769-3444.
Thursday - Raymond Reyes, Gonzaga University’s associate academic vice president for diversity, will present the 1999 Jerry Tucker Memorial Lecture on the University Mission from 7:30-9 p.m. at the Jepson Center Auditorium. The lecture, titled “HOPE: Spirit of the Hive for the Soul’s Journey through Organizational Life,” is free and open to the public.
Thursday - The Service Corps of Retired Executives offers free counseling to existing and prospective small-business owners from 9 a.m.-noon at the Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce, 324 S. Pioneer Way in Moses Lake. For appointments, call 765-7888.
Thursday - The Downtown Spokane Chapter of LeTip International Inc. meets from 7-8:30 a.m. at the Ram Restaurant, 908 N. Howard. For reservations, call Pat Bishop at 926-0141.
Friday - Matthew McCaulley, a partner with the law firm of Hynes & McCaulley in Sioux Falls, S.D., will be the featured speaker for a seminar on “Legal Jeopardy with Y2K: Know the Dangers, Prepare Your Defenses” presented by the Idaho Small Business Development Center from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Coeur d’Alene Inn and Convention Center, 414 W. Appleway. Cost: $25 in advance, $35 at the door; for more information or to register, call (208) 769-3333.
Friday - Salomon Smith Barney equity research strategists Patrick Natale and Andrew Barrett present a free public seminar on “Outlook 2000” at noon. For reservations, call Lynn Fruin at (800) 521-0509 by Tuesday.
Friday - Business retention and expansion is the topic of a meeting presented by the Spokane Area Chamber of Commerce at 7:30 a.m. at the Shilo Inn, 923 E. Third. Cost: $12 for members if paid by Wednesday, $15 later, or $25 for nonmembers if paid by Wednesday, $30 later. For reservations, call 459-4111.
Friday - Epicurean Delight is scheduled from 6:30 p.m.-midnight at the Ag Trade Center as a benefit for Children’s Services at Deaconess Medical Center. Cost: $125; for reservations, call 473-7672.
Nov. 15 and 17 - The Small Business Development Center presents a class on “Marketing on the Internet” from 6-9 p.m. at the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute, 665 N. Riverpoint Blvd. Cost: $45; for information or to register, call 358-7890.
Conventions:
Sunday through Nov. 14 - National Coalition of Title 1/Chapter 1 Parents, Spokane Center.
Monday and Tuesday - Career Fair, Spokane Center.
Monday and Tuesday - Navy Recruiting District, Cavanaughs Ridpath Hotel.