ISR trims 15 positions

Liberty Lake-based ISR, a company that develops high-performance cooling systems for technology users, has reduced its work force by roughly 5 percent, or 15 positions.

Company managers announced the reductions Friday.

The 15 full-time positions eliminated were at the privately held firm’s Liberty Lake and Pullman offices, a spokesman said.

The reductions leave the company with 260 workers, 195 of whom work in Liberty Lake.

The company also is reorganizing some departments to “better align our business with market opportunities in both the government and commercial sectors,” ISR said in a prepared statement.

ISR’s largest customers to date have been the military and defense contractors. Its next-largest market target is commercial data centers.

Coeur d’Alene

Selkirk Loop group woos Acura owners

The International Selkirk Loop Association is hoping for some mileage from a four-page spread in the July issue of Acura Style.

More than 800,000 Acura owners will receive the magazine, which features a five-day travel itinerary for the scenic loop, including best places to eat in Sandpoint, a kayak trip on the Pend Oreille River and stops in the British Columbia towns of Kaslo and Castlegar.

A similar article, published in Sunset magazine in 2001, is still generating traffic for the Selkirk loop, said Carol Graham, the U.S. operations director.

The 280-mile loop was created seven years ago to market small towns in northeastern Washington, interior British Columbia and Idaho. Last year, it was added to the National Scenic Byways Program as an “All-America Road.”

Bentonville, Ark.

Gore will speak at Wal-Mart HQ

Former Vice President Al Gore will take his campaign against global warming to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. next week, speaking at Wal-Mart headquarters, a company spokesman said Friday.

Gore will speak about global warming, the subject of his recent documentary film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” Wal-Mart spokesman Dan Fogleman said.