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Agent uses drones to market homes Legality of eye-in-the-sky video murky By Debra Smith For HBJ
Real estate is a tough business and Ryan Haslet is always looking for that something that will give him an edge. For one Everett home, that something is a stateof-the-art unmanned aircraft — a drone. A few months ago, Haslet began hiring a photographer to fly a drone over some of the high-end homes he lists, capturing high-definition aerial footage of the properties that then can be incorporated into marketing videos. “I’m trying to be on the front end of the trend,” Haslet said. Haslet already uses a variety of marketing strategies to help sell his properties, including professional photos and a video choreographed to a stirring soundtrack. The Everett home he’s listing now even has its own webpage www.3431GlacierPeak. com. The drone can swoop over properties, giving a bird’s eye view and some perspective to the area around a home. It’s a particularly helpful tool when Haslet is working with buyers from other states or overseas, who don’t know the area. He’s not the first real estate agent to use drones but it remains a fairly unusual perk he can offer potential sellers. This listing is a $1.2 million home on 7.5 acres overlooking the Snohomish Valley. It’s the perfect candidate for drone footage. Potential buyers can see the surrounding property far better from the sky. He hired a Seattle company that specializes in photographing real estate, HD Estates. The company owns the drone, and the pilot is photographer John
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Real estate agent Ryan Haslet (right) examines a DJI drone as HD Estates photographer John Gregorits goes over some of the device’s features.
Gregorits. “This is one of my favorite parts of my job,” Gregorits said. The drone, manufactured by DJI, weighs a few pounds and looks like a four-armed star fish with propellers. In the air, it sounds like an angry swarm of bees. Gregorits flies it with a hand-held controller that includes a slot for his iPhone. He clips his smart phone into place and he can see exactly what the drone is filming on the phone screen. He also gets constant readings on the drone’s distance, altitude and speed. The $2,500 drone runs on a rechargeable lithium battery. And the controller uses AA batteries. It can take both video and still photos. It uses a GPS stabilizing system that allows it hover at the same altitude for still shots. It can zoom up to 800
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A DJI drone equipped with a high-definition camera hovers above a home for sale in Everett.
feet in the air and the controller has about a quarter mile range, Gregorits said. He does most of his flying in the 60 to 100 foot range. “That’s high enough to get a good view but close enough to the property to get the detail in what we are shooting,” he said. Gregorits taught himself to fly the drone. He said it wasn’t hard and most people could pick it up in a day with some practice. He watched tutorials online and read the instruction manual.
He expects more real estate agents will want to use drones to help market their listings. In the six months his company has offered the service, requests continue to increase. Creating videos of properties for sale is also becoming more prevalent. He described professionally filmed video as “the future of real estate.” “We’ve noticed people are using video not just for luxury listings,” he said. “They’ll use them on townhomes and smaller single-family homes
because they are trying to be on the cutting edge on what’s popular. They want to get an edge on the competition.” Whether it’s legal to use drones in this situation is murky. The FAA says it has the right to regulate drones and unmanned aerial vehicles should not be used for commercial purposes, unless authorized by the agency. Allen Kenitzer, a spokesman for the FAA, said the agency authorizes unmanned aircraft systems on a case-by-case basis. “A flight that is not for hobby or recreation requires a certified aircraft, a licensed pilot
and operating approval,” he wrote in a prepared response. “To date, two operations have met these criteria, and authorization was limited to the Arctic. The FAA is continuing to review applications from (unmanned aircraft systems) operators as they are received.” In March, an administrative law judge ruled that the FAA doesn’t clearly have authority to ban commercial use of drones. The FAA has since appealed. Gregorits said his understanding is that the drone is legal because it was sold as a recreational device and he’s using it only on private property.
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Stubborn gender gap in aerospace
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The percentage of women working in the aerospace industry in Washington has remained stagnant for more than 20 years, according to a state labor market economist. Women account for one in four jobs in aerospace and that has changed little since the 1990s, said Anneliese Vance-Sherman, an Employment Security Department economist based in Everett. “I try not to go in with too many preconceived ideas when looking at the data,” Vance-Sherman said. “I knew it was going to be a male-dominated industry, but I thought there was going to be some change.” That snapshot is for the entire industry, from accountants and receptionists to machinists and CEOs. The percentage is even lower when focusing on engineers and management. “It’s far fewer,” said Sue Chodakewitz, chair of Women in Aerospace, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., dedicated to expanding opportunities for women in the industry. “It’s not just CEOs. It’s senior managers and executives.” On the positive side, women who work in aerospace in Washington make far more than men and women in other professions. And while there’s a wage gap between the genders within aerospace, it’s been narrowing slowly and surely. The numbers aren’t surprising for people who work within the industry, said Melanie Jordan, the chief operating officer for Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance. But Jordan said she’s seen changes within the industry during her career. She now sees women in every niche of the aerospace industry. “What we need to do is encourage our young people and young women, to ... engage them in math and science in everyday life,” Jordan said. Vance-Sherman did her research when she was asked to give a talk at a Women in Aerospace luncheon hosted by the PNAA this summer. The focus of the conference was the changing demographics of the aerospace workforce. The first thing that Vance-Sherman did was take a look at a U.S. Census database that combines federal and state numbers to get a picture of employers and
employees. What she found was consistent under-representation of women in the aerospace workforce since 1991, the oldest available data, Vance-Sherman said. “I found that overall, when we’re talking about gender, the aerospace workforce is, give or take since the early 1990s, about 25 percent of the workforce,” she said. When looking at wages, Vance-Sherman found that there’s a wage gap between men and women who work in aerospace. Men who work in aerospace made on average $89,943 a year compared to $77,016 a year for women, according to Census data from 2012, the most recent available data. Women in aerospace make far more than men and women in other professions in the state. The average wage for men in Washington is $65,463 a year. Women in the aerospace industry in Washington make almost double the $40,932 for women in other jobs. And the wage gap between genders in aerospace is narrowing, while it’s not doing so as quickly in other industries. In the early 1990s, women in the aerospace industry made about 60 cents for every dollar that men made. That’s increased to more than 80 cents on the dollar. In other professions, women made about 60 cents for every dollar that men made in the early 1990s. And that has stayed the same over the years. The data has limitations since it lumps all jobs together within the industry. The wage gap probably becomes closer when comparing like jobs, said Jordan, adding she’s been in the chair making decisions on hiring. “For the most part, you have a salary in mind,” Jordan said. “Whether it’s a man or a woman, you’re not going to change that number.” But she said it’s a simple fact that there aren’t as many women who are engineers or aerospace executives as men. Aviation Week takes an annual look at demographic data for the aerospace and defense industry each year. In numbers released last month, the publication found that just 15 percent of engineers are women. And that just 11 percent of women occupy senior engineering executive positions. The gender gap is an issue that troubles academics, said Carole Rickard Hedden, executive editorial director for Aviation Week. Engineering schools also see low numbers of women students. “They are flummoxed,” she said. “If they can’t move their needle, the companies can’t move theirs.” There are probably all sorts of reasons for the gender gap, said Chodakewitz of the nonprofit Women in Aerospace.
“I knew it was going to be a maledominated industry, but I thought there was going to be some change.” — Anneliese Vance-Sherman She said it’s a bit like the construction industry, which is thought to be such a traditionally male domain that women gravitate away from it as a career choice. She notes that just 5 percent of pilots are women. And that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, she said. “I don’t think there’s anything inherent in the aerospace industry that would be a roadblock for any competent engineer of either gender,” Chodakewitz said. “There may not be the models in place for young women who are deciding what path to choose in their career.” There’s an opportunity for change to happen quickly, said Jordan of PNAA. The Baby Boomer generation is reaching retirement age. As they leave the workforce, there will be more opportunities for women in younger generations.
“When you look around you see a lot of women in aerospace,” Jordan said. “They may not be engineers and they may not be in the executive suites, but there are more opportunities to do that.” What needs to happen is for young women and girls to take the science, technology, engineering and math courses — the STEM courses, Jordan said. Women within the industry need to mentor young women to keep them inspired to stay on the course from very early ages through college, she said. For her part, Vance-Sherman hopes that the research will lead people to ask further questions. “It’s not really my place to answer those questions,” Vance-Sherman said. “My role is providing information to help industry leaders and help people throughout out state make well-informed decisions.”
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Bringing family lessons from Japan Sisters came to U.S. to learn English, became developers By Jim Davis HBJ Editor
MOUNTLAKE TERRACE – Yuko Abe only knows of one other developer who’s a woman. That’s not a lot different from her previous line of work. “If you think of the fishing industry, there aren’t many females either,” Abe said. She is the president of AFCO & Sons, a Mountlake Terrace firm that builds homes and apartments in south Snohomish County and other parts of the Puget Sound area. She also heads Nomco & Co., her family’s business, which is involved in construction, hotel management and the funeral industry in Ishinomaki in northern Japan. While she lives in America, Abe, 39, spends about half of her time in Japan. “There are a lot of expensive phone calls back and forth,” she said. The company was started by her father, Atsushi Abe, who grew up in Ishinomaki but traveled the world as a radio operator on a commercial ship. In 1980, Atsushi Abe, who died two years ago, decided to return to his hometown and start a business buying and selling vessels. He soon expanded into other industries. Atsushi Abe wanted to get into commercial fishing, but competition was fierce in Japan. He had traveled to Seattle twice and had a friend who lived in the area. He decided to start a fishing business in Edmonds. Because the fishing industry is tightly regulated, Atsushi Abe worked with an American business partner. He had a boat built called the Frontier Spirit in 1989 and then added two more boats, the Frontier Mariner later in 1989 and the Frontier Explorer in 1990-91. Atsushi Abe and his wife, Kimiyo, had three children. When they reached college age, Atsushi Abe sent them to America to learn English. “If you want to do business internationally, you have to speak English,” Yuko Abe said. She spent four years taking classes, first at Seattle Central College and then Seattle University. She then started working with the commercial fishing business, which was called the Alaska Frontier Co. and had offices near Arnies Restaurant on the Edmonds waterfront. For 10 years, Yuko Abe oversaw marketing and sales for the business, which sent the boats and about 60 crew mem-
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AFCO & Sons president Yuko Abe stands in front of Arbor Village, the $19 million, five-story apartment complex that her company built in Mountlake Terrace.
bers to harvest Pacific cod in the Bering Sea. The Alaska Frontier Co. sold thousands of cases of fish each season across the world. In 2006, the family decided to expand operations in America by starting a development company that eventually came to be called AFCO & Sons. AFCO stands for the Alaska Frontier Company. The ‘Sons’ part came from Atsushi Abe. “My dad wanted to name it ‘Sons,’” Yuko Abe said. “He only had one son and two daughters, but we thought, ‘Why
not?’” Yuko Abe would run the company and her younger sister, Kumi Abe, would be vice president. Their younger brother, Daisuke Abe, lives in Tokyo. Atsushi Abe thought that the company’s philosophy would translate well across the Pacific. “My dad was confident that we could be successful in real estate in the U.S.,” said Kumi Abe, who is now 34. Their first project was to build an 18-unit apartment complex in Mountlake Terrace. That’s where they set up offices
for the new company. The Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties doesn’t keep track of the number of developers who are women. “Women are playing an increasing role in development in this area,” said Mike Pattison of the association, who works in Snohomish County. “More and more, we’re seeing women not just running companies, but taking leadership roles in our organization.” He points to Martha Rose, a Shoreline developer who is president of the Master Builders Association. A previous presi-
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dent is Lynn Eshleman of Pacific Ridge Homes in Bothell. Just as the development arm of the company started up, the Abes received an offer from a competitor for their commercial fishing operations. The family was friendly with the competitor, Clipper Seafood, and the deal just made sense, Yuko Abe said. “The offer we received was great,” Yuko Abe said. They sold that portion of the business in September 2008, a month after the financial collapse. Just as they started to focus on development, the housing market went upside down. That didn’t stop her from building the company’s largest project, Arbor Village, a 123-unit, five-story apartment complex at 23609 56th Ave. W. Yuko Abe purchased the land for the development in 2009 and started the $19 million project in 2011. It was finished in August 2013. With her company’s offices next door, Yuko Abe said, she’s comfortable with Mountlake Terrace.
“If you drive to the city, it’s so convenient. It’s not as far as Lynnwood or Mill Creek,” Abe said. “But the price point is so different from Seattle. “We also have a chance to grow with the city.” The Arbor Village project has won praise. This year, Arbor Village received a Vision 2040 award from the Puget Sound Regional Council, which gives annual awards to recognize regional innovations in managing growth and sustaining quality of life. About 95 percent of the apartments are leased. Commercial space on the ground floor has been less successful. The building can accommodate up to nine businesses, but only one space is leased. That’s a salon. “I want to keep building, but it has to pencil out,” Yuko Abe said. AFCO & Sons has also bought apartment complexes in Seattle and Edmonds, renovated them and sold them for a profit, Yuko Abe said. The company has also built about 10 homes, mostly in Seattle’s Eastside sub-
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Arbor Village won an award this year from the Puget Sound Regional Council recognizing it for bringing sustainable growth to Mountlake Terrace.
urbs. Another 10 are in the pipeline. Yuko and Kumi Abe hope to build about 20 a year, but the recession has hamstrung that plan. The operation in Snohomish County is small compared to the Japanese company. AFCO & Sons employs six people. The Japanese portion of the company employs 170 and is one of the largest employers in Ishinomaki, which was one of the city’s most hurt by a 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Even though she grew up in Japan, Yuko Abe says she’s firmly planted in
America. She lives with her husband, Takao Kikuchi, in a Seattle condo the family bought when they first started the commercial fishing business. Her husband, who is not involved in AFCO & Sons, owns Dragonfish Asian Café in the Paramount Hotel in downtown Seattle. Kumi Abe lives a couple of blocks away from their Mountlake Terrace offices. Yuko Abe said she enjoys the business environment in America. “It’s so active and fast,” she said. “In Japan, it’s been quiet for over 20 years.”
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Quantum’s new head embraces role
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EVERETT — Most people wouldn’t expect to start at the bottom of a company and in just over a decade become that company’s president. Melissa Benton did exactly that. She was hired at Quantum Windows & Doors 11 years ago in the human resources department. She was appointed president in May. “As the economy was on the downturn, I slowly started to take on more roles because the company was getting smaller and I needed more work. I acquired different departments, slowly moving out of HR, and more into sales, engineering and client services,” Benton said. She leads the privately held company that expects to make $10 million in sales this year. The company employs 55 and has a factory building doors and windows for high-end custom homes all over the country. Locally, the business does home remodels and helps people find that entry door, sliding door or windows that completes their home. “Melissa brings in-depth industry knowledge and critical insights about operations, our customers as well as a vision for growth,” said Ed Stroman, chairman of the Quantum board of directors, in an email. “The board looked at a number of internal and external candidates, and Melissa stood out as the smart choice. “Melissa has the drive, agility and leadership needed to lead Quantum in the dynamic environment the windows and doors industry is operating in today.”
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Quantum Windows & Doors president Melissa Benton stands in her company’s Everett factory. Benton started in human resources 11 years ago.
Quantum Home & Windows was founded in 1982 by Everett homebuilders. The company, located at 2720 34th St., Everett, now has showrooms in Washington, California, British Columbia and
Connecticut. The company is considering adding a showroom in Hawaii as well. “We deal in a lot of homes where the windows and the doors are actually the main feature of the home,” Benton said.
“So we get really involved with designers and homeowners. They are very invested in the process.” Benton, a Snohomish native, for the past five years has held the position of director of client services, which encompassed administration, engineering, and operations. She said she’s ready for taking on her new role. “It was perfect timing, with kids growing up, being in a position where I can focus more on my career, and having the background I did with the company,” said Benton, who lives with her family near Lake Goodwin. She wants the company to continue on the successful path that it’s been on: Producing quality, high-end openings while providing a seamless process for client from start to finish. “The goal is not to change up the company because we have a great experienced dedicated staff here with several employees celebrating 30 years (with the company) this year,” she said. “They are very knowledgeable in what they do and they continue to bring their knowledge to the market.” Last year, the company introduced their new product line, the Quantum Aluminum Clad, an entire product line from windows to doors with aluminum clad exterior an wood interior. “We’ve been able to take those new products out to new markets and territories, expanding our sales staff.” Benton said. “We’ve always had a national influence, and our goal is to increase that in the next couple of years.” With the economy on the upswing, Quantum Doors & Windows expects to see a 20 percent growth this year. And the company wants to at least double its sales within five years. “I’m just really excited and thrilled to be able to work with this group of people that I’ve worked with side by side for the last 10 to 11 years and now have this opportunity to lead them,” Benton said. “Honestly, as the market goes, the possibilities are endless.”
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Meet Snohomish County’s trip adviser By Amy Watkins For HBJ
LYNNWOOD — Amy Spain describes the growth of tourism while she’s been at the Snohomish County Tourism Bureau as phenomenal. New tourism attractions that have opened since she started include the Future of Flight, Comcast Arena, Lynnwood Convention Center, Tulalip Resort Casino, Flying Heritage Collection and Historic Flight Foundation. “Those developments and others really changed the fabric of tourism in Snohomish County so we had to up our game,” said Spain, who serves as the bureau’s executive director. The 2010 Snohomish County Strategic Tourism Plan was passed in 2011 by the Snohomish County Council and became the bureau’s scope of work. Part of that work included the development of mobile self-guided tours throughout the county and the launch of a new tourism website that is equally responsive for desktop computer users or those using mobile devices. “When I think of successes and highlights of work done with a fairly small organization we have really embraced technology,” Spain said. “I know this
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Snohomish County Tourism Bureau executive director Amy Spain has seen a tremendous growth in attractions that draws visitors to the county.
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Spain began working at the Snohomish County Tourism Bureau in 1996 as a group sales manager and the new organization’s third employee. She attended
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training seminars hosted by the Washington Society of Association Executives to learn about her clients, better understand their businesses, and to bring conventions to Snohomish County. Along the way, she also learned about association management. That knowledge coupled with her then nine years of experience working for the Snohomish County Tourism Bureau, helped lead her into her current role, Spain added. She now heads an organization consisting of eight employees, three visitor information centers, a $1 million budget, about 100 volunteers and a driving mission to bring business into Snohomish County through tourism. “I don’t think we would have any of the things we have for tourism in this county if it wasn’t for the lead of the Snohomish County Tourism Bureau,” said Warren Beach, general manager of Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites in South Everett. “It really has put us on the map.” Spain is the consummate professional, added Beach, who also serves as chairman of the Snohomish County Tourism Bureau Board of Directors. Continued on Page 10
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for me.” Spain worked as a sales manager in the hotel industry in Phoenix and in Washington before starting with the Snohomish Tourism Bureau. One of the largest tasks Spain has taken on since was the launch in May 2013 of a new destination branding campaign. Snohomish County Tourism Bureau partnered with Nashville-based North Star Destination Strategies to create the brand with the tagline, ‘Open Up.’ The brand was designed to increase awareness of Snohomish County and attract more future visitors. Spain is conscientious about making sure all cities in the county are recognized, said Debbie Emge, economic development manager for the City of
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“She has the passion for the industry she’s in and for the county she works in and lives in,” he said. Spain moved to Washington in 1991 but grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned a business in administration degree with a minor in marketing from Arizona State University. Her interest in business and travel started when she was young, Spain said. “I think that’s partially because my father was an entrepreneur and had his own company that was able to work with suppliers in other countries,” she said. “We always ended up having people at our home from other countries and that sparked an interest in international travel
Snohomish. The new brand is also inclusive, she added. “We definitely believe the Open Up strategy does benefit us from the antique shopping aspect as well as the recreational opportunities,” Emge said. The Tourism Bureau over the past year has also focused on educating the local community. For example, a “hot sheet” or sampling of events taking place throughout the county is sent every month to hotel managers, Spain said. They share it with their staff who can then recommend attractions to visitors. Often times, those who spend the most time interacting with visitors are offered opportunities to experience the attractions so they can speak about them from a
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The Johnny Appleseed of tomatoes By Debra Smith For HBJ
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om Wagner isn’t a businessman. Someone told him that once. It wasn’t meant as a compliment but Wagner accepted the comment with pride. He sees himself as a plant engineer. A mad scientist. The Johnny Appleseed of tomatoes. Anything but a businessman. Perhaps that is why the Everett man, one of the most prolific tomato and potato breeders in the world, remains virtually unknown in the U.S. His most famous creation — the tangy, striped Green Zebra tomato — is a favorite in home gardens, farmer’s markets and top restaurants. The tomato was a clue once on Jeopardy. “Tom’s Green Zebra unleashed a whole new age in tomatoes,” said Amy Goldman, author of “The Heirloom Tomato.” “He’s made tomatoes fun and a lot of them are delicious.” He’s created hundreds of thousands of other tomatoes and potatoes — although only the best are trialed and sold as seed for home gardeners or professional growers. Some of his newest varieties are part of a new class of blue tomatoes, including a cherry tomato called Dancing with Smurfs. Another variety he’s created is dark red and sports tiny horns. For Wagner, the obsessive push to create new varieties is fueled not by money but by the drive to give something to the world that is new and better and wholly different. And because he can. “I want to create the best food, the most nutritious food, I can,” Wagner said. “Nobody else is going to do it.”
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Internationally recognized tomato and potato breeder Tom Wagner holds a cluster of his Skagit Valley Gold potatoes grown on The Herbfarm restaurant’s land in Woodinville. Wagner has created thousands of breeds of tomatoes and potatoes.
■■■ Wagner, 68, talks fast, as if there isn’t enough time in the day. It’s not easy to listen to people, he says, because he’s hard of hearing. He’s more of a show-and-tell guy. But plants, he can hear them. They whisper to him. They tell him things. Are they too hot, too cold? Are they stressed? Are they getting enough nutrients? Are they looking for a pollinator? That’s the plant equivalent of trolling a single’s bar. Wagner lives not on a farm but in a two-bedroom apartment off Casino Road with his wife — and his mistress. That’s what he calls the all-consuming work of plant breeding. It consumes his days and sometimes his dreams. “They say you never should bring your mistress home,” he says. “But I did.” He’s a meticulous record keeper. He saves seed from all of his crosses. They go in a plastic bag with a notecard noting the lineage of the plant and some notes on special characteristics. He keeps thousands of these in clear plastic containers in his apartment. Many more are saved elsewhere. Wagner has developed a network of people who help him test his plants. His tomatoes and potatoes are being grown in Wales, France, Switzerland, Belize and
Wagner holds a striped-and-dotted tomato, one of his genetic creations.
Thailand. The Herbfarm, a high-end Woodinville restaurant, gives Wagner space to grow plants at its farm and chefs use some of his tomatoes. “I respect him,” said Bill Vingelen, who manages the farm about a mile away from the restaurant. “He needs a sidekick that can help him physically. We respect his research. He’s doing things most people don’t, and it’s not profitable. He’s doing it out of love. It’s a passion.” It seems as if Wagner himself was bred for this. He grew up on a farm in Kansas. His grandparents bred and sold mules. His grandmother’s chicken breeding skills helped the family get through the Depression. One line of his family hails from the Isle of Man, and includes farmers and herbalists many generations back. His ancestors survived the potato famine partly because they were growing blight-resistant potatoes.
As early as 7, Wagner remembers his first attempts to breed animals and plants: cows, chickens, peas, beans, tomatoes and Indian corn with bright-colored kernels. He could observe and track the particular characteristics of animals and plants. He could tell his father, for instance, which cows produced the best milk. Wagner earned three degrees from the University of Kansas in anthropology, botany and geography. He went onto have “about 50 jobs,” including a stint with Frito-Lay as a potato buyer, a teacher and a consultant for growers. Always, he worked on his own breeding projects. ■■■ He started working on what would become the famous Green Zebra tomato in the 1950s. He was disappointed with the green tomato available in Kansas at the time. It cracked and its flesh was too soft and mushy. Wagner began experi-
menting with other tomatoes, trying to keep the good characteristics and breed out the bad. It took nearly two decades and hundreds of crosses before Wagner finally produced the Green Zebra: sweet, tangy and lined with visually-striking yellow and green stripes. He remembers running into the farmhouse he shared with his parents. “I showed it to my dad and he said, ‘Nobody is going to want a tomato that’s green.’” How wrong his father was. The tomato became famous after Alice Waters, chef, author and owner of Chez Panisse, a famous Berkeley, California, restaurant, listed it as one of her favorites. Wagner makes little money from his work. He started Tater Mater in 1983 and put out a catalog for three years. He didn’t have the time or business skills to manage the catalog and continue his work. Now his seeds are available online through his website TaterMaterSeeds.com. ■■■ Wagner himself is a rare breed. Most professional plant breeders draw a salary working for institutions that can support their work, such as universities, research centers or large seed companies. Independent plant breeders can patent new varieties or apply for a certificate from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that gives them the exclusive right to market their creations in the U.S. Wagner has done neither because he says the process is time-consuming and expensive. Continued on Page 13
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Port chief’s retirement leaves void By Mina Williams For HBJ
EVERETT — John Mohr always aimed to look at the big picture as Port of Everett’s chief executive officer. Under Mohr’s eye, the port has reworked cargo systems, forecast global economies and took a few steps back to take giant leaps forward. After 16 years at the Port of Everett, Mohr is retiring, effective January. His replacement is expected to be chosen this month. “My first care has been to maintain the business, focused inside the fence line,” said Mohr. “Then we have to add value to the whole community. The port has to participate in the community, increase opportunities and be strategic.” While port operations tend to be brickand-mortar centric, Mohr has looked beyond that to envision opportunities to benefit the port that have a spillover effect for Everett and the entire state. “John has been a tremendous asset to the Everett community for the last 16 years,” said U.S. Sen. Patty Murray. “He has been a great partner on so many projects and issues, including port security, international trade and strengthening American ports. He is leaving the Port of Everett in a strong place among our West Coast ports and I will miss working with him.” Addressing shipments of Boeing parts enabled the milestone shipment of the 1,000th Boeing 777 airplane. This could only be done with the investment of infrastructure and the skilled workforce assembled under Mohr’s tutelage. This poised Everett to compete for Boeing 787 and 777X assembly. Mohr points to the addition of the Mount Baker Terminal as a key piece of this achievement. “Mount Baker is as important as a runway at Paine Field,” he said. The terminal serves as a transfer facility for these parts to get the three miles from the docks to the Boeing plant. The sticking point was moving the cumbersome pieces that, because of the size, required the closure of the BNSF rail line so oversize rail cars could be employed. The terminal, completed in 2008, now enables delivery of Boeing’s 787, 777X,
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His seed company online has a few thousand customers and doesn’t come close to supporting his research, although at least one company selling seeds for his tomatoes promised to give him royalties. They’ve also agreed to cover some of his expenses until the royalties come in. Aaron Whaley, a seed producer and distributor in Wisconsin, said he’s screening 15 of Wagner’s tomato varieties at his farm for distribution. “There are not a lot of independent plant breeders like Tom,” Whaley said. “Companies like Burpee or Ball have their own internal breeding programs.”
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Port of Everett executive director John Mohr stands dockside as the Westwood Victoria is unloaded with Boeing cargo. Mohr is set to retire in January.
“He is leaving the Port of Everett in a strong place among our West Coast ports and I will miss working with him.” — U.S. Sen. Patty Murray 747 and 767 parts. Mohr credits the nimbleness of the skilled labor force with this achievement and also pinpoints this as enabling the port to shift emphasis from wood products to break bulk cargo handling. “I came from wood products ports,” Mohr said referring to his former positions at the port in Olympia along with ports in Newport and Coos Bay, Oregon. “When the Asian market sought wood elsewhere (than the U.S.) we knew we had to retool our business plan to go after
other cargoes.” With Everett longshoreman already handling heavy cargo and bulk cargo, including grain and oil, Mohr set his sights on securing special project cargoes that are one of a kind pieces. These break bulk shipments do not fit into containers. Parts for Boeing led the list in addition to heavy equipment used in gold mining and oil refining along with wind mill blades. “These cargoes are big, bulky and have a different center of gravity,” said Mohr. “They have to be handled in an odd man-
Whaley produces seed for SuperNaturals Grafted Vegetables. The company has a series of blue tomatoes — more of a deep eggplant color — called the Indigo Series. Several breeders, including Wagner, created new varieties of tomatoes after working with a blue tomato called Indigo Rose created at Oregon State University. Blue tomatoes contain the same antioxidants found in blueberries. These varieties draw their color from wild tomatoes found in the Galapagos Islands and Peru. Wagner crossed Indigo Rose with his famous Green Zebra to create BlueGreen Zebra, which has blue and green
stripes, and Muddy Waters, which features green flesh and a dark blue skin. Breeding new crops is essential for food security, especially as the climate changes, Wagner says. He breeds potatoes, for instance, that have better yields, disease resistance and nutrition. He’s working on potatoes that have lower glycemic levels and more protein. Taste is essential, too. “People think about a tomato as a vegetable, like a ho-hum carrot or turnip or head of cabbage,” he said. “It’s not. It’s a fruit and the star of the show. All the exotic flavors and aromas bring back thoughts of yesteryear … it becomes a
ner. Everett is now the premier break bulk port in the West.” Mohr has also set the Port of Everett in position to be a recreational hub. The Port of Everett celebrated in August the start of the last phase of an $8 million cleanup on the central waterfront district. The cleanup opens the way for the Waterfront Place development, which is expected to bring a mix of homes, businesses and public spaces to the waterfront. This redevelopment could have not occurred, said Mohr, without an extra ordinary environmental cleanup that has spanned most of his time as port chief. “John’s leadership has changed the face of the Everett and Mukilteo waterfronts,” Port Commissioner Troy McClelland said. “He has worked tirelessly to strategically position the Port of Everett for growth.”
moment. An experience.” ■■■ Wagner can’t do this forever. He wants to keep his research alive. He wants funding. He wants help. His ideas include a non-profit research farm where young people can learn to grow and save seeds. Perhaps chefs could visit and taste new varieties of vegetables. He’s looking for someone who can work side-by-side with him. “I could direct the research for a younger person, and be the absent minded professor.”
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Credit union thrives even post-mill Mill Town marks 75 years serving the community this month By Mina Williams For HBJ
EVERETT — For decades, workers at the former Kimberly-Clark mill built their lives in town, meeting spouses, having children and finding lifelong friends. And that meant mortgages, college tuition and cars. Mill Town Credit Union helped generations of those workers put away savings and secure loans and mortgages for life’s necessities. Today, the mill may be gone — it closed in 2012 — but the credit union founded by workers continues on. This month, Mill Town Credit Union celebrates its 75th anniversary. And it’s going strong thanks to its members, said Mill Town’s chief executive officer Laura Leuze. “The credit union was started by people before we were even born,” said Leuze, who has worked at the credit union for 20 years. “We have generations of memberships coming from just former mill employees. We have to be good at what we do and get to personally know
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Julie Benson, treasurer manager of the then-Scott Employees Credit Union, helps a customer in a photo from 1974. The financial institution, now called Mill Town Credit Union, is celebrating its 75th anniversary.
everybody.” Mill Town Credit Union currently has 2,821 members with more than $45 million in assets. The credit union has one of the highest capital ratios in the state, rated five star by Bauer Financials, she said. A move from the waterfront to more visible offices on Pacific Avenue and
Broadway in downtown Everett in April is credited with swelling membership numbers as individuals not affiliated with the mill look for a credit union style of banking services. Membership was opened in the early 2000s, no longer restricting it singularly to mill workers. Still, the backbone of
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Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson (left), Port CEO John Mohr (center), and Port Commissioner Troy McClelland (right) celebrate the kick-off of the last major cleanup in Waterfront Place.
The Port of Everett, in partnership with the Department of Ecology, is restoring the environmental health of the Everett waterfront and creating opportunities for improved quality of life and jobs. On August 21, more than 75 people attended the Port of Everett’s community event near 14th Street and West Marine View Drive to kick off the final, major environmental cleanup of Waterfront Place Central development. “Cleanups don’t become easier, and they don’t become any quicker, and if you let them persist, they become more
expensive,” Port Commissioner Troy McClelland told the crowd. “I would like to thank the Port staff, the Department of Ecology, and really thank the constituency of the Port of Everett for being with us on this journey. As a community, we should all be proud that we are aggressively cleaning up these sites so they can be put back into productive use as soon as possible.” The event featured an 8-foot tall by 12-foot wide sand sculpture to commemorate the NEARLY $8 MILLION environmental cleanup project and kick’s off the Everett waterfront’s revitalization efforts. Visit www.waterfrontplace.com. The sand sculpture was designed and created by local world-renowned sculpturist, Charlie Beaulieu. The sand sculpture, created with 50,000 pounds of sand, represents the artful blend of healthy, vibrant sea life and creatures as well as the PROMISE of jobs, economic vitality and quality of life on the waterfront. Once this cleanup is complete in April 2015, the Port will have removed 99.9 percent of the contamination and more than 120,000 tons of contaminated soil from Waterfront Place Central. This is equivalent to 12,000 dump truck loads. The project also removes five docks, more than 700 creosote treated piles, a marine railway that supported ship repair and operations for decades, the 14th Street Marine Railway; and the project will also reconstruct 360-feet of failing bulkhead. The contractors for the cleanup projects are Magnus Pacific and Clearcreek Contractors.
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Furniture Girls drummer Thane Mitchell takes a break during a recording session at London Bridge Studio. Mitchell has played drums on two songs that are part of the yearlong project 52x52: A Year in Your Ear.
Banging the drum for local music By Quinn Russell Brown For HBJ
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aitlin Beard has been in rock bands for years. The Everett singer currently takes the stage with a group called In The Between, performing at bars and nightclubs in hopes that she might one day play music for a living. Beard, 32, moved a little closer to that dream in May by signing with London Tone Music, a record label in Shoreline. Unlike most music industry deals, though, hers was for just one song. “Hinder,” the hard rock ballad she recorded in August, is part of the project 52x52: A Year in Your Ear, in which London Tone releases a new song each week for the duration of 2014. So far the label has put out 32 singles, available on iTunes and streaming on Spotify and SoundCloud.com. Most of the musicians hail from the Pacific Northwest. They range from up-and-coming to established, from folk and pop to jazz and country. The only requirement is that their song has never been commercially distributed before. “All these bands in the local market are people who are striving to learn, and grow, and do what they need to do to make this passion a full-time occupation,” said Jeffrey Ross, one of five partners at London Tone Music Group. Ross, whose claim to fame is discovering Kenny G, is one half of the consulting company 2 Jeffs on Music. He and partner Jeff Heiman run the business side of the 52x52 project.
London Tone partners Jeffrey Ross, left, and Jeff Heiman sit in front of a wall of hit records made at the studio. They’re releasing a song a week by Northwest musicians through 2014.
“To find those talents, to develop their careers even two or three notches above where they are, is really quite satisfying,” Heiman said. “We’re helping to build their foundation — their fan base, their social media, the attention they get from press and radio — to a point where they get bigger locally, and then can spread out regionally.” Beard and bandmate Shane Scot, 39, were introduced to Ross and Heiman after competing in a battle of the bands at the Hard Rock Cafe in Seattle. They said joining 52x52 was a no-brainer. “It’s like, what do we have to lose?” Beard said. “We have everything to gain.
If this gets us out there — puts our name a little further than we could have on our own — then that’s what we gain.” The songs are recorded at London Bridge Studio in Shoreline, the birthplace of platinum albums by Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Blind Melon and Candlebox in the 1990s. More recently, it’s hosted acts like 3 Doors Down, Nickelback and OneRepublic. The rich history of the studio is part of 52x52’s pitch to young artists: Come stand where the masters once stood — and where elite engineers are mixing tracks — and record a song. “It’s breathtaking when you go in
there,” Beard said. “There are artists on the wall that I’ve been listening to since the late ‘80s. I remember recording in that room and I was thinking, ‘I should go barefoot.’ Because I’m sure they were sweating just as much as I was, if not more.” A couple of members of the Italian grunge band Neodea, who recorded a song for 52x52, fell to their knees and kissed the parking lot as they walked up to the studio. “Everything they’ve ever loved came out of London Bridge,” Heiman said. The other three partners of London Tone are the owners of the studio, Jonathan Plum, Geoff Ott and Eric Lilavois. They handle the production aspect of 52x52. Heiman met them while serving as president of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Grammys. “They had this germ of an idea to do something once a week,” Heiman recalled. But they had no experience with distribution. That’s where the marketing and management skills of the two Jeffs came in handy. “We didn’t know much about that side,” said London Bridge owner Plum. “We were focused on recording the music, not so much getting it out there and making money from the music.” The five of them sat down to talk about the project in October 2012 and formed London Tone Music Group the next April. The first song in the 52x52 catalog, “Pilots” by 48-year-old Kim Virant of Continued on Page 18
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Seattle, came out on Jan. 20. Since then they’ve tackled tracks from a mixed bag of genres: garage rock, indie rock, hip-hop, R&B, electronica, alternative country, grunge, world music and even a children’s song. “The musical consumer has changed,” Ross said. “Particularly young people — they don’t necessarily just focus on one genre of music. It’s not unlikely for someone to like a rap song and also listen to a country song.” Still, Ross drew a line when the project began:
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“I said no polka music,” he recalled. “Right,” Heiman said. “But if we get a good polka artist, we will.” Musicians can apply to be part of the project on Sonicbids.com, a networking site for people in the music industry. All submissions are considered, whether the artist has a large regional following or no following at all. “A lot of the decisions that are driving the signing of artists now are based on how many Facebook friends you have, how many YouTube views you have, how many Twitter followers you have,” Ross said. “We’ve thrown that
“To find those talents, to develop their careers even two or three notches above where they are, is really quite satisfying.” — Jeff Heiman out the window. We’re looking for great songs.” Once there’s mutual interest between London Tone and an artist, a contract is negotiated and the band comes to the studio to record with the producers. Meanwhile the two Jeffs do interviews, band bios, photo shoots, cover art, press releases and social media promotion. The business model is a talent swap of sorts: artists
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money, the artist receives “a very generous split of the revenues from dollar one,” according to Ross. This is because there’s no recoupment, a standard industry process whereby musicians must repay the studio for the cost of production before earning any money. For the London Tone team, the project is an investment in emerging talent and an exercise in owning intellectual property. “We’re building this catalog of music of all these interesting artists, and you never know where any of them are going to go,” Heiman said. Ross added: “The music industry is a river of nickels. There’s a lot of little pots of money that are out there, and you have to just try to exploit those and hopefully they’ll add up to something at some point.” Four of the 52x52 songs have been licensed to play in the overhead music systems of 10,000 Starbucks stores around the world. One of those songs, “Constellations” by I’m With Amy, was licensed by the hit MTV series “Awkward” for the upcoming fall season. It also happened to be the first song that singer Amy Piñon ever recorded in a professional studio. She met guitarist Abe Woolsey while studying audio engineering at the Art Institute of Seattle and the two submitted a demo track to the London Tone team. “She has a lot of potential,” Ross said. “But prior to her involvement in 52x52, nobody knew who she was and she was trying to find her way. We’ve helped her by establishing some steps along the path.” Other 52x52 artists are more experienced. The most prolific performers of the bunch are indie rock duo Science!, which consists of a Shoreline Community College instructor Jim Elenteny and music booking agent Justin Stang. They’re on track to play over 100 live shows this year. Stang says working with
London Tone opened new doors and expanded their fan base. He also liked meeting fellow 52x52 artists. “The music business tends to be a very network-oriented business, so having that wide variety of musicians and artists certainly helps,” he said. Ross and Heiman say they couldn’t find anything like 52x52 when researching the idea last year. There was an artist who recorded a new song each week, charging fans a subscription. Another did a song a day for a while. “I’ve never seen this model before, in this particular way,” said David Hirshland, an executive vice president at BMG Chrysalis, one of the world’s largest music publishing companies. “In some ways those guys are crazy, but thank God for them is what I say,” he said. “Honestly, if they’re good at it — as they should be — it could be a good model for scenes around the country. ” In March, hip hop mogul Russell Simmons partnered with Samsung to launch an Internet radio station called ADD52, which streams music by unsigned pop artists from “all corners of the world.” Each week one of the songs is chosen to be professionally recorded. While ADD52 is a more expensive and extensive endeavor than 52x52, the primary difference between the two projects is that London Tone takes on all genres, from mainstream to esoteric, with the ultimate goal of developing regional musicians rather than discovering bankable pop stars. “Whether the song or the artist ever go to a super high level — because most don’t — there’s still that song that they wrote that meant something to them when they were writing it,” Heiman said. “Whether they felt that it would be shared with the world, or just their family, or just themselves in their room… they’ve written a great song that has touched at least the five of us in this company. “And we wanna bang the drum for them.” Learn more about the 52x52 project at londontonemusic.com. Listen to songs at soundcloud.com/ londontonemusic52x52.
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otice to current and wannabe entrepreneurs: Big time changes may be coming. And, in the words of actress Bette Davis, “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” Ms. Davis’s famous line is from a movie called, “All About Eve” and the night’s bumpiness was coming from her guests’ stormy dialogue. For today’s entrepreneurs, the bumpiness is coming from a legal action by the federal government. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is claiming that McDonald’s, as a franchisor, is a “joint employer” with its franchise owners in localities throughout the United States. This legal view, if upheld in court, would change the economic structure and very nature of franchising. It is not certain that the courts will see things the NLRB’s way. In earlier court rulings, and even NLRB’s own rules, there are strong precedents for just the opposite view — that franchisors are not joint employers unless they make a distinct effort to be so. Still, it would be unwise to underestimate the skill and, most importantly, the persistence of a government agency like the NLRB to pursue its case. If the NLRB’s view were to prevail against McDonald’s one significant change is that it would open up the cash
drawers of franchisors to litigants — current or former employees of local franchises that have any sort of beef with their local manager. Currently, those James disputes have to be McCusker settled locally with the local franchise Business owner, who is the legal employer. 101 This usually makes the potential payoff of a lawsuit too small to attract big-league attention. If the courts redefine McDonald’s legal standing as a franchisor to include being a joint employer with its more than 3,000 U.S. franchisees, who operate over 11,000 restaurants in the U.S., it will change the foundation of the company and its business strategy. Moreover, it will do the same thing to every one of the franchise-based businesses in America. McDonald’s has long been a target of labor union advocates. Its size and role in creating the fast-food business has made it an industry leader, and its active anti-union stance has made it organized labor’s nemesis. Now that labor unions have the
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ruling stands. Turning franchisors into joint-employers could create many opportunities for organized labor. But because the idea of entry-level labor being a stepping stone rather than a permanent position is inimical to the seniority concept behind organized labor, there would not be room enough for both in the new franchising structure. Even if the NLRB ruling doesn’t produce a wave of unionization it will increase the costs for franchisees and for customers. The costs of litigating workplace disputes will be distributed to all franchises and, ultimately, be passed on to those who purchase products or services from them. Translation: Be prepared to pay more for your sandwich or hamburger. The NLRB ruling might also cause individual franchises to be caught up in the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, with the result that even the smallest franchise operations will have to absorb the costs of medical insurance coverage into the price of your meal or your oil change. It will take a while for this legal issue to sort itself out but anyone considering going into business as a franchise owner should consider its possibilities when calculating and forecasting margins, capital requirements, and profits. It’s going to make a big difference.
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dominant voice at the NLRB, McDonald’s provided the opportunity to raise the level of conflict — translation: the Golden Arches were Target No. 1. There’s a lot more at stake than litigating workplace disputes at McDonald’s. In 2007, the Census Bureau reported that more than 10 percent of businesses in the U.S. were franchises. At that time franchises produced $7.7 trillion in total sales and employed 7.9 million workers, more than 13 percent of our country’s total workforce. It is a major part of our economy, and certainly not an economic structure to play around with heedlessly. All businesses are built around the skills, habits, costs, and availability of their workforces. Franchises, especially food service and other hospitality businesses, have organizational structures built on entry-level workforce members. Employment in these franchises opened the door to the workforce for millions of people, providing wages and work experience for young people, recent immigrants, and late-entry workers. There are very few career-level or lifetime jobs in these industries, but a remarkable number of today’s top executives in large corporations got their first paychecks from a food-service franchise. All that will change if the NLRB
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hat do Intel, Proctor & Gamble, IBM, Wells Fargo and Microsoft have in common? They are all sited on both Fortunes’ Most Profitable Companies and Top U.S. Corporate Citizens lists. Corporate citizenship, also referred to as corporate social responsibility, suggests that businesses have a responsibility to the communities in which they operate and to society in general. Beyond being good for the community, it can be a sound growth strategy. You don’t have to be a Fortune 500 Company to benefit from having a company philanthropy program. Potential gains include market visibility, competitive advantage and customer and employee loyalty. These all translate to a positive impact on your bottom line. Dianne Taylor, a respected business management and leadership coach wrote, “Being socially responsible creates goodwill and a positive image for your brand. Trust and a good reputation are some of your company’s most valuable assets. A 2013 survey conducted by Cones Communications revealed that, 91 percent of consumers are very or somewhat
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likely to switch brands to one associated with a good cause, when price and quality are equal. As with all growth endeavors, those that are well planned deliver a better return on investment. Here are the three key components of developing an effective company philanthropy
program: Mission Alignment: Tying your philanthropy program to your corporate mission and market position will generate greater consumer recall and results. There should be a strong connection between the cause you support and your customers’ values. McDonald’s, whether you’re “Loving It” or not, has had an outstanding philanthropy program since 1974 through their Ronald McDonald House Charities. One of the primary markets McDonald’s
targets is families with children. Their charitable foundation’s mission is to support families in healing their children…and they involve their customers. They raised more than $28 million last year just through their store donation boxes. Program Focus: Develop a plan that defines your philanthropy focus, e.g. education, health and human services, arts, etc.; then determine a budget and giving cycles. Define the structure of your program in terms of the time, treasure and talent you will contribute. In addition, focusing on one cause at a time will create a bigger impact. During the planning process, evaluate the public relations potential of each strategy you consider. Some programs have a greater potential for generating a buzz than others by virtue of their “news appeal.” Cause Selection: The most common question I hear is, “How do we choose from the countless requests we receive?” The answer — develop a Request for Proposal (RFP) that communicates your giving guidelines. Your request for proposal should include a program overview, applicant
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step. As Ronald Reagan said, “trust but verify.” Good mobile device management software allows an employer to set a wide range of boundaries. The number of minutes used can be monitored and controlled. Geographic locations can be blocked to control roaming costs. Websites can be whitelisted or blacklisted. Even the installation of apps can be controlled. So how does mobile device management work? Well, there’s an app for that. The app installs on the device and reports back to the mobile-device-management program. The master program resides in the cloud, on a local computer, or with your provider. The employer installs this app on the device to be monitored or has the employee download it to the device they’re using. To avoid tampering, the app can be set to automatically re-install if removed or to require a password to remove it. The spectrum of mobile device management tools is broad, and so is the cost.
If these devices fall into the wrong hands, the consequences could be severe. Very basic protection that locates and erases a device may cost a few dollars a month, while a full-featured system will obviously require more significant investment. And the more sophisticated the software, the more challenging it can be to manage. You will need to tailor your solution to meet not only your budget but also make it match your written mobile device policy. You may want to consider enlisting a third party to provide mobile device management as they will likely be able to provide features a la carte so you can add or remove features as your needs change. Your feedback is always welcome! Please email me at feedback@ineedacto.biz or post a comment on my Facebook page: facebook.com/ ineedacto.
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hen taxi cab drivers and school teachers start speculating in real estate, that’s when you know it’s an overheated market,” said a colleague of mine about a year before the 2008 real estate market crash. He moved his positions over to apartments in anticipation of what was coming. While it was a purely an anecdotal observation, his remarks seem almost prophetic as I sat down with him over lunch again recently to talk about the current market conditions. The back drop of that conversation is the structural problems with that U.S. economy. U.S. households still have more debt than their annual incomes, with debt now at 103 percent of disposable income. While that’s down from the 2007 high, it’s still above the 100 percent mark of 2002, which was a high mark and well above norms decades earlier. Fueled by cheap credit, corporations have been borrowing more money in recent years adding debt at a 9.5 percent annualized rate since the third quarter of 2010 compared to 7.5 percent pre-crash. Then there’s this pesky federal debt of ours. Outside of debt held by the Social Security Trust Fund, federal debt has risen by roughly $7.3 trillion over the past six years, an increase of 140 percent over where it was then. The only sector that actually de-leveraged was the financial sector because it had to in order to survive. Meanwhile, Chinese capital flowing into the Puget Sound region is a curious thing if not a signal of some kind. Could it be an indicator of what’s coming in the Chinese economy? China has been propping up our economy to keep us consuming their products by buying our treasuries, which has the effect of keeping interest rates low for us. If that stops or slows, interest rates and inflation could go up here and that would
trigger another contraction. My colleague is concerned. “When wealthy Chinese start buying houses and condos here sight unseen, their run is probably coming to an end,” he said. If he’s right, then affordably priced apartments and discount retail remain appealing places to invest even though they’ve
Chinese capital flowing into the Puget Sound region is a curious thing if not a signal of some kind. been on a strong run the past six years. Investors in the office sector and higher-end retail, with some exceptions, should play their hands cautiously even though the temptation with cheap debt and
corporate liquidity is to expand. Whether he’s right about the behavior of Chinese investors signaling a market adjustment is hard to say. He has my attention
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BUSINESS BRIEFS Announcements EVERETT — Snohomish County’s newest Walmart is expected to open in early September. The 90,000-squarefoot store across from the Everett Mall hired about 200 employees and was still looking to add another 20 to 30 to help with the upcoming holiday season. The newest location is at the former Top Foods supermarket at 1605 SE Everett Mall Way. This is the seventh Walmart in the county with the eighth expected to open in Monroe in November. EDMONDS — The Edmonds Chamber of Commerce is holding their annual photo contest. The winning photo with photo credit will be featured on the 2015 Edmonds Chamber of Commerce Membership Plaque and Preferred Business Directory. All submissions must be received by Nov. 6. For more information, contact the chamber office at 425670-1496 or by email at membership@ edmondswa.com EDMONDS — A new education and outreach initiative has been launched by the Edmonds Center for the Arts called Arts for Everyone, which will offer schools in this region significantly discounted tickets to performances in ECA’s Education Matinee series, based on their overall percentage of students on free and reduced-price meal programs. For details, contact Gillian Jones at gillian@ ec4arts.org or 425-275-9483. OLYMPIA — Time is running out for nominations for a 2014 Corporations for Communities Award. The nomination deadline is Aug. 31. Anyone can nominate businesses for the award. Nomination forms can be found at http://www.sos. wa.gov/corps/corpsforcommunities/. EVERETT — The Port of Everett has signed a new five-year lease with Eagle Home Mortgage and renewed three additional leases for its Waterfront Center facility, bringing the building to 70 percent occupied. The Port’s Waterfront Center opened for business in 2011, and is designed for marine-related services, office and retail users that support and revitalize the Craftsman District. ARLINGTON — Cascade Valley Hospital and Clinics is seeking businesses, organizations and vendors to participate in the 2014 Women’s Expo on Oct. 11 at Cascade Valley Hospital in Arlington. The focus of the expo will be local health and safety related services, local businesses, and community organizations. There are also sponsorship opportunities available. For more information, call 360-618-7848 or visit www. cascadevalley.org/expo. EVERETT — The YMCA of Snohomish County has received 144 new basketballs, thanks to a donation from NBA Cares, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Spalding. The balls will be shared among the five YMCA of Snohomish County family branches and used for open gym, youth sports and camp programs.
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EVERETT — Cannabis Cup, a twoday trade show and concert celebrating the cannabis culture and offering information, is being held for the first time in Everett on Sept. 6 and 7 at Comcast Arena. Previously held in Seattle, the event drew nearly 10,000 attendees from throughout the Pacific Northwest, and is expected to generate $2.3 million in economic impact for Snohomish County. Passes are on sale now at www.cannabiscup.com. EVERETT — QFC has completed a $2.7 million remodel of the store at 2615 Broadway in Everett. To celebrate the re-opening, store management presented $500 donations to Volunteers of America and Boys & Girls Club of Everett. The five-month long remodel included upgrades in the produce, deli, bakery and wine departments. The store opened in 1995 and received its last major improvement in 2003. LYNNWOOD — Washington’s first Nestle Toll House Café by Chip opened at the Alderwood mall in Lynnwood The bakery serves freshly baked cookies, premium Nescafe Milano coffee, smoothies, crepes and other treats and snacks. The location is the 135th franchise. LYNNWOOD — Edmonds Community College is one of nine colleges highlighted for its strategies to combat student loan defaults in a national study released last month. According to the study, key findings show the default rate for people who obtain a degree was 9 percent, but it was 27 percent for people who don’t. To download and read the report, go to either www.acct.org or www.ticas.org. EVERETT — Frontier Commu-
nications Corporation has announced their partnership with the Tulalip Resort Casino to provide free Wi-Fi for the summer concert series that began in July. Frontier had installed a temporary free Wi-Fi hotspot so the audience can share pictures, videos and tweets. OLYMPIA — The Washington State Department of Commerce has announced a new revolving loan fund that will help increase small business access to credit through the Washington Small Business Credit Initiative. With the new Collateral Support Program, SSBCI funds will reduce banks’ credit risks and help programs developed by the state to use U.S. Small Business Administration loans to finance more businesses.
Good deeds BELLEVUE — Master Builders Career Connection will cease to operate this month. However, the foundation is distributing $85,150 in grants immediately and transferring $365,000 in assets to The Seattle Foundation in order to continue its legacy of providing scholarships, training and outreach to those interested and involved in the homebuilding industry. LYNNWOOD — U.S. Bank employee volunteers helped to distribute new backpacks and school supplies for 84 children who reside at Mercy Housing in Lynnwood. The backpacks and school materials were supplied through collaboration between U.S. Bank and nonprofit Schoolhouse Supplies. More than 650 children in seven cities who reside in Mercy Housing rental developments benefited from the program.
Events LYNNWOOD — Edmonds Community College invites the public to a free open house exploring composites and aerospace manufacturing programs from 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 4 in Monroe Hall on campus, 20000 68th Ave. W, Lynnwood. Staff will explain how to apply and enroll, as well as answer any financial aid questions. For more information, go to www. edcc.edu/composites. MARYSVILLE — McKeon Financial invites the public to a shredding event from 2 to 5 p.m. Sept. 11 at the office located at 1507 172nd St. NE, Marysville. Everyone is welcome at this community event that features a shredding truck onsite. Shredding old documents can help protect you from identity theft. SULTAN — The Sky Valley Chamber of Commerce and Sultan Mayor Carolyn Eslick will host a free business growth workshop. The guest speaker is Andrew Ballard, the owner of Marketing Solutions and a long-time Herald Business Journal columnist. The workshop is scheduled from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 12 in the City Council Chambers, 319 Main St, Sultan. Reserve your seat at 360-793-0983 or email debbie@skyvalleyvic.net
SNOHOMISH — Instructor and award-winning distiller Ryan Hembree joins the Northwest Agricultural Business Center to present the first Puget Sound area workshop on The Art of Liqueurs. This workshop runs 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 2 and 3 at Skip Rock Distillery in Snohomish. The fee is $345 and includes materials, beverages and food. For more information, visit www.agbizcenter.org. BELLEVUE — The Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties presents the 2014 Housing Summit focusing on dwindling buildable land in the Puget Sound area from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. Sept. 23 in Bellevue. Space is limited for this free event. Early reservations can be made online at MasterBuildersInfo.com or by calling the Association’s Events Department at 425-451-7920.
Good deeds MONROE — Housing Hope held “An Evening at Adam’s for Monroe Family Village” on July 28 at Adam’s Northwest Bistro and Brewery in Monroe. The event was in support of the non-profit’s latest development, a 47-unit homeless and low-income housing project in Monroe. They raised $10,600. All of Adam’s Bistro staff donated their time and service for the evening.
Kudos EVERETT — Frontier Communications Corporation has announced that Ken Baldwin, general manager of Everett, recently received the Red Cross Snohomish County Chairman’s Award for his “incredible support and leadership.” The award was given by outgoing board chair Kim Buike. Baldwin has been a Snohomish County Red Cross board member for four years and is former philanthropy committee co-chair. EVERETT — Sarah Ozanne, a senior accountant with Moss Adams in Everett, was one of several award winners in this year’s presentations by The Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants. Also earning awards in the Puget Sound region were Rick Anderson, Peterson Sullivan, Wendy Kwan, Dave Trujillo and Mike Cheney. EVERETT — Coastal Community Bank’s executive vice president has been installed as governor for Rotary District 5050, overseeing Rotary clubs in western Washington and the Fraser Vally area of British Columbia. Lyle E. Ryan is a member of the Everett Rotary club and has been part of the service club for most of his adult life. LAKE STEVENS — The Rotary Club of Lake Stevens has selected Tracy DeLorm as the Rotarian of the Year for 2013-14. The Rotarian of the Year Award goes to members who have demonstrated exemplary service. DeLorm has been a member of the club since 2002 and has made major contributions serving on several committees.
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people WatChinG EDMONDS — Jean Hernandez, president of Edmonds Community College, attended an event on Aug. 12 hosted at Jean the White Hernandez House focused on exploring effective strategies to improve success for students in need of remediation. It was Her-
nandez’s second visit to the White House. EVERETT — Everett Community College has hired María Peña as the college’s chief diversity officer, a new position created to lead the Maria Pena college’s efforts to create and sustain a climate of diversity
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EVERETT — Four people have been elected to the KSER Foundation’s Board of Directors. The new board members are Alan Jacobson, branch manager of the Evergreen Branch of the Everett Public Library; Nina Martinez, a health care business consultant and chair of the Latino Civic
Alliance; Robert Shoup, engineer; and Laurie Wheeler, owner of Maestra Communications. KSER 90.7 is an independent public radio station.
tants’ Board of Directors for fiscal year 2015. Fitzpatrick is president and CEO of MarketFitz Inc., a management consulting company based in Edmonds.
EDMONDS — Heather L. Fitzpatrick, CPA and a chartered global management accountant, is the new executive chair for the Washington Society of Certified Public Accoun-
LYNNWOOD — Professional Service Industries announced that Richard Fredricksen has joined their Lynnwood operations office as a project geologist. Fredricksen has been a project
geologist over a 20 years. MOUNTLAKE TERRACE — Dr. Shawn West has joined Premera in Mountlake Terrace as the medical director of Shawn provider West engagement. West comes from Coordinated Care as chief medical director.
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the following Snohomish County businesses or individuals filed business-related bankruptcies with the u.S. bankruptcy Court for the Western district of Washington between July 1 to July 31. 14-15078-KAO: Chapter 7, William Kenneth bailey; attorney for debtor: robert a Wolle; attorney for special request: Christopher r Graving; filed: July 2; assets: no; type: voluntary; nature of business: other; nature of debt: business; type of debtor: individual 14-15125-KAO: Chapter 11, 1002 Student housing everett; debtor: pro se; filed: July 3; type: involuntary; nature of business: single-asset real estate; nature of debt: business; type of debtor: corporation 14-15299-KAO: Chapter 7, John eric Kinssies; attorney for debtor: darrel b Carter; filed: July 15; type: voluntary; nature of business: other; nature of debt: business; type of debtor: individual 14-15359-KAO: Chapter 7, duke holdings; attorney for debtor: thomas d neeleman; filed: July 16; assets: no; type: voluntary; nature of business: other; nature of debt: business; type of debtor: corporation 14-15450-KAO: Chapter 7, terri ann Klippenstein; attorney for debtor: darrel b Carter; filed: July 18; assets: no; type: voluntary; nature of business: other; nature of debt: business; type of debtor: individual 14-15634-KAO: Chapter 7, Steve Son and uen Son; attorney for joint debtor: Young oh; attorney for special request: lance e olsen; filed: July 25; assets: no; type: voluntary; nature of business: other; nature of debt: business; type of debtor: individual 14-15672-KAO: Chapter 7, Seong hee Kang and lavone Simpson; joint debtor: pro se; filed: July 29; assets: no; type: voluntary; nature of business: other; nature of debt: business; type of debtor: individual
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public recordS Snohomish County tax liens Federal Tax Lien 201407010079:: July 1; Guerzon lynn m (+), 5131 115th St. Se, everett 201407010080: July 1; deaver Scott (+), 8111 207th St. Se, Snohomish 201407010081: July 1; paylor brent c (+), po box 342, lake Stevens 201407010082: July 1; Kaneris George d (+), 8521 holly drive, everett 201407010083: July 1; Salo ray o, 24570 74th nW, Stanwood 201407010084: July 1; thrash Frank (+), 5222 158th place SW, edmonds 201407010085: July 1; all Seasons Waterproofing & drainage inc, 914 164th St. Se, Suite b12-pmb 526, mill creek 201407010086: July 1; Stratakos James a, 21303 oak Way, brier 201407010087: July 1; blanes timothy a (+), 21429 44th ave. W, unit 10, mountlake terrace 201407010088: July 1; blanes timothy a, 21429 44th ave. W unit 10, mountlake terrace 201407010089: July 1; buchele heather a, 1805 186th place Se, apt. c202, bothell 201407010090: July 1; brossard Jeffrey b (+), 17607 84th ave. ne, arlington 201407010091: July 1; dewey christopher c, 23743 76th ave. W, edmonds 201407010092: July 1; White laura a (+), 11505 158th St. ne, arlington 201407010093: July 1; business communication Services inc, 2525 broadway 3003, everett 201407010094: July 1; nguyen thy Y, 20430 63rd place W, lynnwood 201407010095: July 1; davis dawn l, 11758 place SW, everett 201407010096: July 1; holmes John m (+), 2219 256th St. nW, Stanwood 201407010097: July 1; Frontier drywall corp, 3105 123rd St. Se, everett 201407010184: July 1; Quezada ernie (+), 14123 admiralty Way, apt. b, lynnwood 201407010185: July 1; denali construction incorporated, 4224 116th drive Se, Snohomish 201407010186: July 1; mcclain charles V iii (+), 18012 31st ave. ne, unit a, arlington 201407010187: July 1; porter Gerry l (+), 2225 columbia ave., everett 201407010188: July 1; morgan branch c n c inc, 19011 62nd ave. ne, unit 2, arlington 201407010189: July 1; mccarty Steven S, 20715 larch Way, apt., lynnwood 201407010190: July 1; ingmire Jefferey m (+), 10924 mukilteo Speedway, apt. 296, mukilteo 201407080028: July 8; mike lavallee inc (+), 1033 avenue d, Suite F, Snohomish 201407080029: July 8; davison James Jr, 9321 244th St. SW, apt. r203, edmonds 201407080030: July 8; rinaldi Vito J, 4507 172nd place SW, lynnwood 201407080031: July 8; Simmons laura t, 11030 evergreen Way, apt. d318, everett 201407080032: July 8; edwards randi b, 5915 highway place, apt. 201, everett 201407080033: July 8; porter Joy l, 6332 107th place ne, marysville 201407080034: July 8; horton Stephen (+), 2912 150th lane Se, mill creek 201407080035: July 8; Santos luciano, 2026 187th place Se, bothell 201407080036: July 8; monro Stephen K (+), 10431 trombley road, Snohomish 201407100135: July 10; top Secret paint & coatings, 6205 192nd St. ne, arlington 201407100136: July 10; Sidoine Kaaren a, 4731 200th St. SW, apt. 117, lynnwood 201407100137: July 10; Sidoine Kaaren a (+), 4731 200th St. SW, apt. 117, lynnwood 201407100138: July 10; lighthouse natural medicine p l l c (+), 17115 3rd place W, bothell 201407100139: July 10; Wyman patricia a,
2717 143rd St. SW, apt. unit c, lynnwood 201407150616: July 15; Wamsley Jason m, 212a dorn ave., everett 201407150617: July 15; reynolds-bowler Vicky l, 2707 lincoln Way, apt. b34, lynnwood 201407150618: July 15; crelencia olivia b (+), 5818 125th place SW, mukilteo 201407150619: July 15; hact construction corp, 13410 highway 99, Suite 201, everett 201407150620: July 15; Straight Shots inc, 6996 265th St. nW, unit 102, Stanwood 201407150621: July 15; artistic eco design inc, 818 175th ave. ne, Snohomish 201407150622: July 15; mike lavallee inc (+), 1033 avenue d, Suite F, Snohomish 201407150623: July 15; millcreek a F h inc, 16000 75th place W, edmonds 201407150632: July 15; Ferrara louis, 2220 Grand ave., everett 201407150633: July 15; bachman Steven t, 3203 189th St. Se, bothell 201407150634: July 15; Wang Yi m, 2610 141st St. SW, lynnwood 201407150635: July 15; Kim Jung h (+), 303 91st ave. ne, c-302, everett 201407150636: July 15; Jones michael S, 9617 18th ave. W everett 201407150637: July 15; abrigo michael m (+), 1205 147th place SW, lynnwood 201407220141: July 22; ross Kevin, 2821 152nd St. SW, lynnwood 201407220142: July 22; cobbin tracy Sr (+), 17009 77th place W, edmonds 201407220143: July 22; Webb Joseph p, 1533 252nd St. nW, Stanwood 201407220144: July 22; boe Keith d (+), 10406 132nd St. ne, arlington 201407220152: July 22; northwest movers l l c (+), 6501 216th St. SW, mountlake terrace 201407220153: July 22; Wilson Karen l, 20227 80th ave. ne, unit 5, arlington 201407290311: July 29; palomaki paul e, 216 belmark ave., Granite Falls 201407290312: July 29; thorn mark l, 221 172nd St. ne, arlington 201407290313: July 29; Galvez lisa r (+), 11811 mukilteo Speedway, Suite 200, mukilteo 201407290314: July 29; musch-plumb Julie, 2510 140th St. SW, lynnwood 201407290315: July 29; mukilteo hotel l l c, 19009 33rd ave. W, Suite 203b, lynnwood 201407290316: July 29; lec contractors l l c (+), 11611 airport road, Suite 206, everett 201407290317: July 29; nanoice inc, po box 14983, mill creek 201407290318: July 29; Gemmer erwin l (+), 9889 central Valley road nW, bremerton 201407290319: July 29; Fletcher douglas e, 6406 185th St. SW, lynnwood 201407290320: July 29; hovde cheryl l estate of, 24126 Florence acres road, monroe 201407290321: July 29; potong atthapong, 23414 127th ave. ne, arlington 201407290322: July 29; archer John r (+), 22526 44th ave. W, mountlake terrace 201407290323: July 29; archer Karla a (+), 22526 44th ave., mountlake terrace 201407290324: July 29; Smith marquis a, 1316 129th St. Se, everett 201407290325: July 29; musch-plumb Julie, 2510 140th St. SW, lynnwood 201407290348: July 29; mukilteo lodge l l c (+), 2720 rucker ave., Suite 101, everett 201407290349: July 29; brewer George h Jr, 23532 82nd ave. Se, Woodinville 201407290350: July 29; brewer George h (+), 23532 82nd ave. Se, Woodinville 201407290351: July 29; all Seasons Waterproofing & draining inc, 914 164th St. Se, Suite b12, pmb 526, mill creek 201407290352: July 29; Singh avtar (+), 205 79th place Se, everett 201407290353: July 29; masterwork roofing inc, 2415 40th St., everett 201407290354: July 29; munoz eulalio (+), 8129 beverly blvd., everett 201407290355: July 29; Jantz Gregory l (+), po box 700, edmonds 201407290356: July 29; maxfield Jean-
nette m, 76th ave. W, apt. 1, edmonds 201407290357: July 29; phelps richard e Jr, 2525 pine ave., Snohomish
Lien-Employment Security 201407090050: July 9; commercial design consultants l l c, State of Washington (dept of) 201407090334: July 9; melonys Village corp (+), State of Washington (dept of) 201407090337: July 9; borgman electric inc (+), State of Washington (dept of) 201407090349: July 9; Walters robert J (+), State of Washington (dept of) 201407170500: July 17; cascadia equity leasing, State of Washington (dept of)
Partial Release of Federal Tax Lien 201407010098: July 1; Scanlon-hay linda e, 111 108th St. Se, everett 201407210432: July 21; herron Sindey (+), 3018 russell Way, lynnwood 201407220154: July 22; hickman miriam e, 11311 184th drive ne, Granite Falls 201407290326: July 29; lucarelli Stacie m, 606 duchess road, bothell 201407290358: July 29; Shrauner Gary, 4129 139th ave. Se, Snohomish
Release of Federal Tax Lien 201407010099: July 1; Weiss lori l, 1220 avenue a, apt. 2, Snohomish 201407010100: July 1; Shelco inc, 8600 19th ave. ne, marysville 201407010101: July 1; percy brian J, 1816 200th St. ne, arlington 201407010102: July 1; Groen William J (+), 8811 196th St. Se, Snohomish 201407010103: July 1; Weiss lori l, 1220 avenue a, apt. 2, Snohomish 201407010104: July 1; percy brian J, 1816 200th St. ne, arlington 201407010105: July 1; allem daniel mark, 13427 28th ave. Se, mill creek 201407010106: July 1; ainsworth ronnie J, 1926 192nd place SW, lynnwood (+) 201407010107: July 1; ainsworth ronnie J, 1926 192nd place SW, lynwood (+) 201407010108: July 1; potter marie, 2902 206th place SW, lynnwood 201407010109: July 1; Walters allen d, 10710 evergreen Way, apt. l304, everett 201407010191: July 1; Yevsyugov anatoliy (+), 13014 42nd ave. Se, everett 201407080037: July 8; hemmingson teri ann m, 2214 a Grade road, lake Stevens 201407080038: July 8; brewer barbara G, 3623 156th St. SW, apt. 4, lynnwood 201407080039: July 8; brand Kenneth W, 22219 64th ave. W, mountlake terrace 201407080040: July 8; malmberg Wendell, 9603 196th St. Se, Snohomish 201407080041: July 8; malmberg Wendell, 9603 196th St. Se, Snohomish 201407080042: July 8; Valley techs inc, 4630 200th St. SW, l2 lynnwood 201407080043: July 8; Kanarick John c, 10308 62nd drive ne, marysville 201407080044: July 8; hernandez-los-Gavilanes Felipe (+), 209 e casino road, everett 201407080045: July 8; barela rick (+), 2211 61st Street Se, everett 201407080046: July 8; b Y l inc (+), 2615 184th St. SW, lynnwood 201407080047: July 8; Shriver Stephen a (+), 5732 Sunset lane, mukilteo 201407080048: July 8; olstad Kenneth b, 6515 76th drive ne, marysville 201407080049: July 8; el puerto inc, 425 main St., edmonds 201407080050: July 8; el puerto inc, 425 main St., edmonds 201407080051: July 8; el puerto inc, 425 main St., edmonds 201407100140: July 10; hatch clark Jr (+), 4000 76th Street Se, Space 51, marysviille
201407150638: July 15; clark charles c, 14322 admiralty Way, apt. 130, lynnwood 201407150639: July 15; cade Scott m (+), 5113 109th place ne, marysville 201407150640: July 15; colbert James c, 7205 137th ave. Se, Snohomish 201407150641: July 15; hall Kirsten, 28717 82nd St. Se, monroe 201407150642: July 15; hall chad a (+), 28717 82nd St. Se, monroe 201407150643: July 15; Farros corp (+), 21110 76th ave. W, Suite a, edmonds 201407150644: July 15; aviation covers inc, 18712 59th drive ne, arlington 201407150645: July 15; colbert James c, po box 1511, marysville 201407150646: July 15; Wilson Scott a, 15888 S lakeshore road, chelan 201407220145: July 22; Jarvi Gene F, 32518 138th St. Se, Sultan 201407220146: July 22; diemert duane m (+), 7208 63rd place ne, marysville 201407220147: July 22; terhune molly a, 26205 135th St. Se, monroe 201407220148: July 22; potter John p, 2902 206th place SW, lynnwood 201407220149: July 22; claflin rolene J (+), 21907 95th ave. W edmonds 201407220150: July 22; Sexton eric c, 23119 165th ave. Se, monroe 201407220151: July 22; hayes patrick, 15916 68th ave. Se, Snohomish 201407220155: July 22; dragoy nils p (+), 24107 56th ave. W, mountlake terrace 201407220156: July 22; Wheeler Grant, 4826 196th St. Se, bothell 201407220157: July 22; Wheeler Grant, 4826 196th St. Se, bothell 201407240340: July 24; hartford James, 18021 dubuque road, Snohomish 201407240340: July 24; hartford James, 18021 dubuque road, Snohomish 201407290327: July 29; pfeiffer ronald, po box 813, lake Stevens 201407290328: July 29; larsen Joshua n (+), 4817 103rd place SW, mukilteo 201407290329: July 29; ristow Walter G, 2327 186th place Se, bothell 201407290330: July 29; ristow Walter G, 2327 186th place Se, bothell 201407290331: July 29; obrien business Group l l c (+), 20529 maplewood drive, edmonds 201407290332: July 29; obrien business Group l l c, 20529 maplewood drive, edmonds 201407290333: July 29; ristow Walter G, 2327 186th place Se, bothell 201407290334: July 29; Girardi bruno, 21830 84th ave. W, edmonds 201407290335: July 29; howard robert J, 17219 109th place ne, bothell 201407290336: July 29; Gillen michael t (+), 20723 32nd place W, lynnwood 201407290337: July 29; bella balducci l l c (+), 19565 u.S. 2, monroe 201407290338: July 29; obrien James (+), 20529 maplewood drive, edmonds 201407290339: July 29; northway aviation of Washington inc, 10108 32nd ave. W, building c-3 unit 1-b, everett 201407290340: July 29; northway aviation of Washington inc, 10108 32nd ave. W, building c-3 unit 1-b, everett 201407290341: July 29; luckovich laurie, 430 avenue b, Snohomish
Release of Federal Tax Lien Paid For 201407030076: July 3; roundy lance e (+), 110 W marilyn ave., everett 201407080465: July 8; Yoshihara laura, 2803 128thy St. Se, everett
Satisfaction of Employment Security Lien 201407150847: July 15; porter Joy l (+), State of Washington (dept of)
28 The herald Business Journal
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Pending sales, residential real estate
Closed sales, residential real estate
Unemployment rate, percent
Continued unemployment claims
Aerospace employment
Construction employment
Professional services employment
Building permits issued, unincorporated Snohomish County, residential and commercial
06/10
818
898
9.7
14,790
34,800
16,100
20,300
101
$3,900,288
07/10
870
727
9.6
13,551
35,100
16,500
20,600
88
$3,876,617
08/10
916
642
9.3
12,834
35,400
16,700
20,400
70
$4,508,362
09/10
895
615
9.4
11,930
36,000
16,500
20,800
89
$4,306,676
10/10
968
579
9.8
11,627
35,800
16,500
21,000
119
$4,184,474
11/10
854
572
9.8
12,498
36,300
15,800
20,900
87
$4,486,570
12/10
787
684
10.1
13,142
36,700
15,400
21,100
91
$4,038,376
01/11
938
533
9.8
14,391
37,000
14,300
20,200
106
$4,211,277
02/11
1,046
494
10.4
13,175
37,600
14,300
20,500
109
$5,374,920
03/11
1,375
785
10.2
13,200
38,000
14,300
20,700
124
$3,392,214
04/11
1,233
734
9.5
12,341
38,800
14,500
21,200
126
$3,415,252
05/11
1,315
820
9.2
11,974
39,300
14,700
21,200
101
$4,103,347
06/11
1,279
866
10.1
10,737
40,200
15,200
21,500
146
$4,202,089
07/11
1,207
851
10.1
10,388
41,100
15,700
21,800
85
$4,169,784
08/11
1,325
916
9.1
9,443
41,400
15,900
22,100
136
$4,591,484
09/11
1,161
837
9
8,938
42,100
15,800
22,100
115
$4,117,816
10/11
1,226
828
8.8
9,342
42,300
15,000
21,900
102
$4,165,352
11/11
1,041
854
8.7
9,989
43,100
15,000
21,700
111
$4,317,909
12/11
1,013
846
8
10,433
43,300
14,800
21,600
98
$4,007,300
01/12
1,150
593
8.7
12,829
43,500
14,100
21,800
91
$4,030,147
02/12
1,391
698
8.9
11,430
43,800
14,300
22,400
105
$5,348,753
03/12
1,665
828
8.4
10,937
44,100
14,400
22,400
144
$3,503,955
04/12
1,570
886
7.3
10,674
44,400
14,700
23,100
148
$3,761,069
05/12
1,579
1,000
7.8
9,578
44,700
15,100
23,300
139
$4,247,900
06/12
1,448
1,025
8.4
8,951
45,200
15,400
23,300
152
$4,064,415
07/12
1,400
1,029
8.4
9,114
45,800
16,100
23,300
151
$4,264,446
08/12
1,324
1,027
7.5
7,834
46,300
16,500
23,400
139
$4,485,421
09/12
1,206
880
7.1
7,865
46,900
16,300
23,600
121
$4,522,340
10/12
1,325
937
7
7,870
46,800
16,300
23,300
191
$4,577,850
11/12
1,114
806
6.8
8,445
47,500
16,100
23,000
100
$4,768,450
12/12
872
892
6.6
9,351
47,100
15,900
23,100
73
$4,378,797
01/13
1,154
713
7.1
9,962
46,800
15,600
22,600
108
$4,466,777
02/13
1,236
673
6.3
9,182
46,600
15,300
22,500
95
$5,680,845
03/13
1,576
932
5.7
9,060
46,400
15,400
22,500
145
$4,093,977
04/13
1,500
1,020
4.9
8,891
46,100
15,500
22,900
123
$3,970,313
05/13
1,487
1,131
4.7
8,093
45,500
15,800
22,700
195
$4,725,432
06/13
1,488
1,159
5.7
7,888
45,700
16,200
22,900
152
$4,316,634
07/13
1,470
1,141
5.6
7,787
45,900
18,000
24,000
169
$4,584,288
08/13
1,402
1,143
6.2
7,062
44,900
18,400
24,000
132
$4,921,104
09/13
1,150
1,032
N/A
7,180
45,100
18,300
24,000
77
$3,573,194
10/13
1,219
1,041
6.0
7,149
44,500
18,200
23,900
124
$4,998,366
11/13
1,010
833
5.7
7,499
44,300
17,900
24,200
91
$5,132,975
12/13
835
871
5.3
8,829
44,700
17,800
24,000
82
$3,348,852
01/14
1,195
615
6.0
9,651
44,000
14,500
23,300
122
$3,382,321
02/14
1,180
688
6.4
8,850
43,700
14,800
23,100
N/A
$4,087,089
03/14
1,481
949
6.0
8,897
43,700
14,800
23,400
N/A
$3,013,059
04/14
1,454
943
4.9
8,069
43,400
14,800
23,100
N/A
$2,923,521
05/14
1,718
1,074
5.0
7,502
43,600
15,100
23,100
N/A
$3,370,904
06/14
1,545
1,220
5.1
7,177
44,400
15,400
23,300
N/A
$3,290,880
07/14
1,457
1,172
5.3
6,587
44,000
18,400
23,500
N/A
3,474,652
Snohomish County economic data by month/year
Local sales tax distributions, Snohomish County and incorporated cities
Consumer price index, King and Snohomish counties
226.12 227.65 227.25 226.89 229.48 231.31 233.25 233.81 235.92 234.81 235.74 237.93 239.54 240.21 241.36 237.99 239.90 240.82 242.82 242.77 242.78 241.05 242.77 246.61 247.64
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Snohomish County PUD new service connections (res., comm., ind.)
New vehicle registrations
Average gas price (regular, unleaded) for Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton
$62.75
527,685,275
270
3,955
$2.94
$68.14
462,923,439
222
3,834
$2.98
$61.13
502,063,848
218
3,749
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3,709
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3,329
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4,327
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4,196
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3,504
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3,256
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4,402
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Arlington Alliance Custom Sheet Metal: 8904 Grandview road, arlington, Wa 98223-8635; sheet metal work contractors Cahoon Law Office: 122 e Fifth st., arlington, Wa 98223-1272; 360-386-8179; attorneys Cascade Kropz: 19129 smokey point Blvd., arlington, Wa 98223-4258; 360-659-5422; nonclassified Edmonds Plumbing: 17621 osprey road, arlington, Wa 98223-5952; plumbing contractors Fluid Motion: 17935 59th ave. ne, arlington, Wa 98223-6352; 360-363-4609; nonclassified G&S Greenery: 19321 63rd ave. ne, arlington, Wa 98223-6355; 360-548-3370; nonclassified GSF Construction: 31220 403rd drive ne, arlington, Wa 98223-5296; construction companies Jenny Plus Seven Accessories: 30508 412th drive ne, arlington, Wa 98223-5236; general merchandise-retail Letter Works Sign Design: 19221 63rd ave. ne no. 1, arlington, Wa 98223-4708; 360435-7877; signs (manufacturers) Samantha’s Beauty & Waxing: 117 e division st., arlington, Wa 98223-1234; salons Shelly Nissan: 17532 smokey point Blvd. no. 43, arlington, Wa 98223-3721; 360-6519800; automobile dealers-new cars Smokey Point Tattoo: po Box 3186, arlington, Wa 98223-3186; tattooing Top Shelf Cleaning & Maintenance: 16405 41st ave. ne, arlington, Wa 98223-8436; janitor service Want It More: 18028 smokey point Blvd., arlington, Wa 98223-8752; nonclassified
Edmonds Choice Home Sense: 22618 highway 99, edmonds, Wa 98026-8395; 425-673-1065; nonclassified Crane Design: 1111 6th ave. s, edmonds, Wa 98020-4677; nonclassified Edmond’s Fit Club: 9639B Firdale ave., edmonds, Wa 98020-6519; health clubs studios & gymnasiums Hook Seafood & Broiler: 18521 76th ave. W, no. 101, edmonds, Wa 98026-5833; 425673-0466; seafood-retail Juhee’s Alteration & Cleaner: 6018 137th place sW, edmonds, Wa 98026-3312; alterations-clothing N Joy Fitness: 23203 77th place W, edmonds, Wa 98026-8764; nonclassified Pacific Funding Partners: po Box 1689, edmonds, Wa 98020-1689; financing Park’s Handyman Services: 7703 224th st. sW, edmonds, Wa 98026-8335; handyman services Providence Health & Services: 21601 76th ave. W, edmonds, Wa 98026-7507; 425-6731175; health services Sage On The Mountain: 8806 218th st. sW, edmonds, Wa 98026-7862; nonclassified Saveit Solutions: 9639B Firdale ave., edmonds, Wa 98020-6519; nonclassified Senior Living Link: 8022 cyrus place, edmonds, Wa 98026-5028; nonclassified Sound Community Builders: 8524 214th place sW, edmonds, Wa 98026; contractors Survati Toula: 21511 88th ave. W, edmonds, Wa 98026-7311; nonclassified U Village Grease Monkey: 22106 76th ave. W, no. B, edmonds, Wa 98026-7906; automobile lubrication service Venture General Contracting: 4902 148 st. sW, edmonds, Wa 98026; 425-741-0090; contractors
Everett ATE: 120 W casino road, no. 29c, everett, Wa 98204-1758; nonclassified Abou Zaki & Associates: 5113 116th st. se,
everett, Wa 98208-9705; nonclassified Abundance Nutrition Consulting: 315 138th place se, everett, Wa 98208-7318; health & nutrition consultants Amen Adult Family Home: 8717 10th drive se, everett, Wa 98208-2036; nonclassified Arete Fitness: 3319 oakes ave., no. B, everett, Wa 98201-4491; nonclassified Axleinc Cleaning Services: 3207 colby ave., no. 303, everett, Wa 98201-4361; janitor service BNC Painting: 1318 75th st. se, everett, Wa 98203-5763; 425-404-3066; painters Bender Boutique: 13320 60th drive se, everett, Wa 98208-9408; boutique items-retail Best Foot Massage: 2932 101st place se, everett, Wa 98208-4560; massage therapists Bridge’s Insurance: 13320 highway 99, everett, Wa 98204-5436; 425-582-2646; insurance Buildinghopesanddreams.org: 2524 130th st. se, everett, Wa 98208-7134; organizations Central Outreach: 1421 Broadway, everett, Wa 98201-1719; 425-374-3297; nonclassified Chrysalis Counseling Services: 2804 Grand ave., no. 300, everett, Wa 98201-3586; counseling services Clear Choice Medical Billing: 11526 52nd ave. se, everett, Wa 98208-9235; 425-3323169; billing service Colby EZ Mart: 2608 colby ave., everett, Wa 98201-2922; convenience stores Creative Images By Renate: 1608 71st place se, everett, Wa 98203-5253; nonclassified Cross Water Yacht Sales: 1205 craftsman Way, no. 107, everett, Wa 98201-1594; yachts Dental Defined: 5929 evergreen Way, everett, Wa 98203-6031; 425-610-3994; dentists Doctor Water Heater: 12421 8th drive se, everett, Wa 98208-6302; water heaters-repairing Doug’s Power Washing: 601 57th st. sW, everett, Wa 98203-3065; patio & deck cleaning & restoration Eclectic Enterprise: 1001 hewitt ave., everett, Wa 98201-3914; 425-374-2580; nonclassified Electronic Cigarettes: 617 128th st. sW, everett, Wa 98204-6371; 425-322-5943; electronic cigarettes Family & That’s All Janitorial: 21 107th st. sW, no. a, everett, Wa 98204-7029; janitor service Geek Chick Satellite Office: 715 100th st. se, everett, Wa 98208-3762; 425-405-3469; satellite equipment & systems-retail Grove & Kane: 520 128th st. sW, no. a6, everett, Wa 98204-9350; nonclassified Hampton Inn: 2931 W marine View drive, everett, Wa 98201-3927; 425-349-4466; hotels & motels J&S Plumbing & Mechanical: 1127 74th st. se, no. a, everett, Wa 98203-5747; plumbing contractors Jim’s Web Assortments: 8828 corbin drive, everett, Wa 98204-7141; internet home page development consulting Juarez Brothers Construction: 7220 lower ridge road, everett, Wa 98203-4925; 425438-9974; construction companies Kaduku Clothing: 11306 36th drive se, everett, Wa 98208; 425-249-2151; clothing-retail Keverline Designs: 2108 summit ave., everett, Wa 98201-2645; nonclassified Marine Effect: 1506 49th st. sW, everett, Wa 98203-1754; towing-marine Memphis Pit Barbeque: 3208 Wetmore ave., no. 20, everett, Wa 98201-6406; barbecue restaurant Mike’s Construction: 2324 119th st. sW, no. B1, everett, Wa 98204-4740; construction Moe Built Automotive: 13425 highway 99, everett, Wa 98204-5405; 425-245-7679; automobile repairing & service Museum Associates: 12414 highway 99, everett, Wa 98204-5544; 425-322-5142; museums Nautical Holdings: 2614 colby ave., no. 154, everett, Wa 98201-2922; holding companies (non-bank) Navy Gateway Inn: 13918 45 ave.
ne, everett, Wa 98201; 425-304-4860; nonclassified New Hope Nutrition: 12404 e Gibson road, no. J103, everett, Wa 98204-8670; nutritionists New York Life Insurance: 12414 highway 99, everett, Wa 98204-5544; 425-212-9666; insurance Northwest Insurance Options: 11311 19th ave. se, everett, Wa 98208-5101; 425-3323189; insurance Northwest Renovations: 605 center road, no. d108, everett, Wa 98204-5920; remodeling & repairing building contractors Northwest Spice: 1021 center road, everett, Wa 98204-4820; nonclassified Oh Sweet! Chocolate: 2918 hoyt ave., everett, Wa 98201-4003; 425-258-8080; chocolate & cocoa (wholesale) Organically Managed Gardens: 10516 23rd drive se, everett, Wa 98208-4430; organic farms Pacific Ridge Homes: 11713 10th place W, everett, Wa 98204-6013; 425-404-3060; nonclassified Pristine Properties: 3324 Wetmore ave. no. 6, everett, Wa 98201-4335; real estate Public Defender Association: 2722 colby ave., everett, Wa 98201-3557; 425-339-6300; associations RBS Properties: 4823 Gardner ave., everett, Wa 98203-1305; real estate management Relief Water Damage Restaurant: 8812 5th ave. W, everett, Wa 98204-7111; fire damage restoration Rocha Transport: 12433 admiralty Way, no. K401, everett, Wa 98204-8052; trucking Saljooq Aero Tech: 2229 120th place se, everett, Wa 98208-6228; nonclassified Sandy’s Fine Art Photography: 1427 100th st. sW no. 53, everett, Wa 98204-1102; photography Sasquatch Electric Inc: 8719 cascadia ave., everett, Wa 98208-3510; electric contractors Science Of Antipolygraphy: 5010 s 2nd ave., no. a, everett, Wa 98203-4130; polygraph service Seattle Furnace: 13017 25th ave. se, everett, Wa 98208-7114; 425-337-4777; furnaces-heating (wholesale) Seven Seas USA: 1710 100th place se, no. 101, everett, Wa 98208-3839; nonclassified Slice Dynamics: 5931 lombard ave., everett, Wa 98203-4046; nonclassified Steve & Eumy’s Investment: 7601 evergreen Way, everett, Wa 98203-6424; 425-5128229; investments Tanya’s Take On Cake: 1205 125th place sW, everett, Wa 98204-5687; bakers-retail TCBY: 1405 se everett mall Way, everett, Wa 98208-2816; 425-513-8229; ice cream parlors Translink: 10733 20th place W, everett, Wa 98204-9219; nonclassified True Blue Inc: 210 sW everett mall Way, everett, Wa 98204; 425-712-7025; nonclassified UHS Inc Of Delaware: 916 pacific ave., everett, Wa 98201-4147; nonclassified United Tint & Customs: 3209 rucker ave., everett, Wa 98201-4224; 425-212-9113; glass coating & tinting Universal Health & Fitness: 3319 95th place se, everett, Wa 98208-4303; health services Weston Arms: 2305 pine st., everett, Wa 98201-3227; nonclassified White Lotus Services: 702 73rd st. sW, everett, Wa 98203-5851; services not elsewhere classified Wonders At Hand: 13513 54th ave. se, everett, Wa 98208-9545; nonclassified establishment
Granite Falls Green Chief: 12315 mountain loop highway, Granite Falls, Wa 98252-9505; 360-3634683; nonclassified Momentos Felices Martsan: 606 pine lane, Granite Falls, Wa 98252-8433; nonclassified
Index Nomadic Creative: po Box 250, index, Wa 98256-0250; nonclassified Wild Sky Honey: po Box 101, index, Wa 98256-0101; honey (wholesale)
Lake Stevens Betty Jean’s 63rd Street: 1805 112th ave. se, lake stevens, Wa 98258-7927; tattooing Caaya Cafe: 2141 84th ave. ne, lake stevens, Wa 98258-6478; restaurants Cannablyss: 2705 hartford drive, lake stevens, Wa 98258-9204; 425-374-8106; nonclassified Cavelero Espresso: 1706 Vernon road, lake stevens, Wa 98258-9424; coffee shops Chrissy’s Hawaiian Shaved Ice: 201 s davies road, lake stevens, Wa 98258-8534; miscellaneous retail stores not elsewhere classified Euphoria Limited: 1417 90th drive se, lake stevens, Wa 98258-3720; nonclassified Lasting Impressions Concrete: 106 96th ave. se, no. a, lake stevens, Wa 98258-7911; concrete contractors Nourish Your Inner Diva: 625 97th drive ne, no. 1, lake stevens, Wa 98258-1616; nonclassified On Target Construction Inc: 2013 81st ave. ne, lake stevens, Wa 98258-6452; construction companies Skyflight Images: 2314 hartford drive, lake stevens, Wa 98258-8643; nonclassified U Fish Road: 9623 32nd st. se, no. d112, lake stevens, Wa 98258-5783; nonclassified Vintage Books Press: po Box 1383, lake stevens, Wa 98258-1383; publishers-book (manufacturers) Vision 1: 8708 11th st. ne, lake stevens, Wa 98258-2428; nonclassified Walk Sit Stay Inc: 6617 110th ave. ne, lake stevens, Wa 98258-2001; dog training Why Weight: 516 95th drive se, lake stevens, Wa 98258-3930; weight control services
Lynnwood 12th Fan Espresso: 19401 highway 99, lynnwood, Wa 98036; 425-673-0212; coffee shops 77 Photography: 4700 176th st. sW, no. a117, lynnwood, Wa 98037-3449; photography AJ Trade: 3526 158th place sW, lynnwood, Wa 98087-1493; nonclassified Awesome Exterminators: 4811 180th st. sW, no. d208, lynnwood, Wa 98037-3635; pest control B&J Supplies: 2110 163rd place sW, lynnwood, Wa 98087-2519; general merchandise-retail B2B Convergence: 20007 44th ave. W, lynnwood, Wa 98036-6744; 425-412-3423; nonclassified Best Days Trucking: 16726 32nd ave. W, lynnwood, Wa 98037-3264; trucking Burrows Draperies: 18904 highway 99, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5219; 425-697-6504; drapery & curtain fabrics-retail CO Locksmiths : 3710 204th st. sW, no. J203, lynnwood, Wa 98036-9352; locks & locksmiths Casabal Construction: 18311 42nd place W, lynnwood, Wa 98037-3718; construction companies Cascade Cigarland: 4217 164th st. sW, no. a203, lynnwood, Wa 98087-9014; cigar cigarette & tobacco dealers-retail Das Brat Wagen: 3711 164th st. sW, no. Z403, lynnwood, Wa 98087-7061; nonclassified Divine Distributing Inc: po Box 3443, lynnwood, Wa 98046-3443; distribution services Eden Clinic: 2122 164th st. sW, lynnwood, Wa 98087-7811; 425-245-7122; clinics Edlab Group: 3500 188th st. sW, lynnwood, Wa 98037-4716; 425-977-4741; nonclassified Ezell’s Chicken: 3925 196th st. sW, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5798; 425-245-7883; restaurants Flynn’s Carpet Cents: 16825 48th ave. W,
September 2014 lynnwood, Wa 98037-6401; 425-582-7870; carpet & rug dealers-new Fotolia: 19730 64th ave. W, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5957; 425-412-3033; nonclassified Good Guys Gardening: 17516 60th ave. W, lynnwood, Wa 98037-2836; lawn & grounds maintenance Hop Jacks: 19702 highway 99, lynnwood, Wa 98036-6040; 425-245-7901; nonclassified Massage Envy: 2701 184th St. SW, lynnwood, Wa 98037-4739; 425-409-5300; massage therapists Nano Well Being Grill: 18623 highway 99 no. 150, lynnwood, Wa 98037-4552; restaurants Necessity Skin Care & Training: 19031 33rd ave. W no. 200, lynnwood, Wa 98036-4731; skin treatments Northwest Cleaning Lady: 16825 48th ave. W, lynnwood, Wa 98037-6401; 425-835-0909; janitor service Omen Board Industries: 5001 208th St. SW, lynnwood, Wa 98036-7637; 425-967-3434; manufacturers PG VIP Driving: 14611 32nd place W, lynnwood, Wa 98087-3410; driving instruction Pathology Associates Medical Lab: 5821 188th St. SW, lynnwood, Wa 98037-4304; 425-673-0880; laboratories-medical Plum Marketing Services: 18428 blue ridge drive, lynnwood, Wa 98037-4134; 425582-2048; marketing programs & services Prosperity Real Estate: 15714 e Shore drive, lynnwood, Wa 98087-6624; 425-7874373; real estate management Qliance Medical Management: 19401 40th ave. W, no. 100, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5600; 425-673-1440; medical management service Real Food Only: 6501 196th St. SW, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5980; food products-retail Refurb Shoppe: 4818 168th St. SW, no. 8, lynnwood, Wa 98037-6881; interior decorators design & consultants Royal Cause: 1205 215th place SW, lynnwood, Wa 98036-8682; nonclassified Seachrom: 17510 34th place W, lynnwood, Wa 98037-7724; nonclassified Seattle 420 Glass Pipes: 17318 44th ave. W, lynnwood, Wa 98037-7403; glass-wholesale Seaview Accounting: 17610 67th place W, lynnwood, Wa 98037-7124; accounting & bookkeeping general service Small Time Fleet Maintenance: 5103 192nd St. SW, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5446; maintenance contractors Spectrum Therapy: 19221 36th ave. W, no. 208, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5795; 425-6729990; nonclassified Sterling Electrical Contractors: 5907 196th St. SW, lynnwood, Wa 98036-6147; 425-6730664; electric contractors Three Stars Proprietor: 3704 204th St. SW, no. l103, lynnwood, Wa 98036-9305; nonclassified Top Notch Bracelets: 2721 lincoln Way, no. a202, lynnwood, Wa 98087-5657; jewelers-retail True Shine House Cleaning Services: 14722 meridian drive Se, lynnwood, Wa 98087-6735; house cleaning VSS Lingerie Retail: 3000 184th St. SW, no. 270, lynnwood, Wa 98037-4719; 425-6730179; lingerie Villa Italian Kitchen: 3000 184th St. SW, lynnwood, Wa 98037-4718; 425-673-1999; restaurants WPW Media: 15914 44th ave. W, no. b203, lynnwood, Wa 98087-6157; nonclassified Your Pal: 3304 134th place SW, no. b, lynnwood, Wa 98087-1755; nonclassified You’ve Got It Maid: 5519 172nd place SW, lynnwood, Wa 98037-3030; maid & butler service
Marysville Chelle Belle Photography: 18111 25th ave. ne, no. S103, marysville, Wa 98271-2901; photography Dominic Herrick State Farm: 2730 172nd St. ne, no. 104, marysville, Wa 98271-4420; insurance Evergreen State Med Billing: 12203 45th ave. ne, marysville, Wa 98271-8524; 360-3869041; billing service Happy Catering: 1715 2nd St., marysville,
Wa 98270-5126; caterers Jessica Finetti Jewelry: 5704 66th ave. ne, marysville, Wa 98270-9519; jewelers-retail Lael Frenzel Paparazzi Access: 6716 40th St. ne, marysville, Wa 98270-6913; nonclassified Lindal Cedar Homes: 16132 Smokey point blvd., marysville, Wa 98271-5903; 360-6584000; nonclassified Living Room Coffee House: 1212 State ave., no. d, marysville, Wa 98270-3644; 360658-8646; coffee shops Marysville Optometry Clinic: 801 State ave., marysville, Wa 98270-4236; 360-6593212; optometrists Paradigm Shifts Training: 1701 9th St. no. a, marysville, Wa 98270-4682; training programs & services Revenge Apparel: 4627 116th St. ne, marysville, Wa 98271-8528; apparel & garments-retail Rodarte Construction: 8627 84 St. ne,
Kyle Kestle: 914 164th St. Se, no. b12 no. 161, mill creek, Wa 98012-6339; nonclassified Schreiber Investments: po box 13167, mill creek, Wa 98082-1167; investments Soap Fectionery: 16101 bothell-everett highway, no. e101, mill creek, Wa 980121732; miscellaneous retail stores Tiempo De Taxes: po box 13313, mill creek, Wa 98082-1313; tax return preparation & filing West Coast Security: po box 14892, mill creek, Wa 98082-2892; security control equip & systems-wholesale
Monroe Alpine Dental & Wellness: 19265 u.S. 2, no. 200a, monroe, Wa 98272-1522; 360-8058252; dentists Bill Warburton Insurance: 18639 u.S. 2, monroe, Wa 98272-1429; insurance
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Golden Eagle Home Services: 22801 58th ave. W, mountlake terrace, Wa 98043-3808; services not elsewhere classified Hansen’s Rentals: 4610 217th St. SW, mountlake terrace, Wa 98043-3492; nonclassified Pacific Imaging: 6808 220th St. SW, mountlake terrace, Wa 98043-2187; 425-673-1412; nonclassified Southwest Logistics: 6100 219th St. SW, no. 480, mountlake terrace, Wa 98043-2222; logistics Top Dollar Real Estate Services: 23110 51st ave. W, mountlake terrace, Wa 980434839; real estate management
Mukilteo Chemcore: 12303 harbour pointe blvd., mukilteo, Wa 98275-5202; nonclassified Compass Accounting & Business: 12303 harbour pointe blvd., mukilteo, Wa 982755202; 425-374-7851; accounting & bookkeeping general services Paramount Construction Group: 11700 mukilteo Speedway, no. 201, mukilteo, Wa 98275-5436; construction companies
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Mill Creek AMV Appraisal: 16228 32nd ave. Se, mill creek, Wa 98012-8340; appraisers Best Lynnwood Inn: 14825 13th drive Se, mill creek, Wa 98012-1344; nonclassified China City: 15402 main St., mill creek, Wa 98012-9020; 425-337-3600; restaurants Grill On Rice: 14511 38th drive Se, mill creek, Wa 98012-4280; restaurants
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Eoperformance.net: 21001 brown road, monroe, Wa 98272-8734; advertising-computer Fashion Consultant: po box 332, monroe, Wa 98272-0332; fashion consultants Heintz Building: 125 e main St., monroe, Wa 98272-1543; 360-805-8226; building contractors Leaning Cedar Tool Co: 634 monroe St., monroe, Wa 98272-2111; tools-new & used OC Decorators: 16409 currie road Se no. 209, monroe, Wa 98272-2878; interior decorators design & consultants Twisted Easels Studio Inc: po box 883, monroe, Wa 98272-0883; art instruction & schools Wesley Brian Salon Inc: 19053 137th St. Se, monroe, Wa 98272-8342; beauty salons
Mountlake Terrace All Season Window Tint Inc: 4212 236th St. SW, no. u203, mountlake terrace, Wa 980436305; glass coating & tinting
Blume Keeney: 15433 72nd drive Se, Snohomish, Wa 98296-8622; nonclassified Crop Circle Extracts: 16421 3 lakes road, Snohomish, Wa 98290-9352; nonclassified Duce Bastian Peterson: 6606 141st St. Se, Snohomish, Wa 98296-5227; 425-332-3000; nonclassified Gotcha Pest Control: 2824 132nd ave. Se, Snohomish, Wa 98290-4792; 425-335-0318; pest control JJDAD: 9331 212th St. Se, Snohomish, Wa 98296-7164; nonclassified Master Pantry: 4921 144th drive Se, Snohomish, Wa 98290-9304; nonclassified McDaniels Roofing & Siding: 12121 Seattle hill road, Snohomish, Wa 98296-5299; roofing contractors Mel Industries: 20617 121st ave. Se, Snohomish, Wa 98296-3934; liquors-retail Microburst Entertainment: 12033 60th ave. Se, Snohomish, Wa 98296-5220; entertainment bureaus Nocrates: 5310 Weber road, Snohomish, Wa 98290-8547; nonclassified Parker Concrete Construction: 14315 180th place Se, Snohomish, Wa 98290-6627; concrete contractors Rogers Riverview Bistro: 1011 1st St., Snohomish, Wa 98290-2908; restaurants Triple J Music Services: 7627 Skipley road, Snohomish, Wa 98290-5151; services not elsewhere classified Vickers Construction Inc: 23800 135th drive Se, Snohomish, Wa 98296-3995; 360799-9535; construction companies
Stanwood Cold Tech: 14617 e lake Goodwin road, Stanwood, Wa 98292-7792; nonclassified DJ&SW Consulting: 27725 old pacific hwy, Stanwood, Wa 98292-9555; consultants-business not elsewhere classified Dental Temps Staffing Solutions: 9105 176th St. nW, no. b, Stanwood, Wa 982929116; personnel consultants For Him By Him Media: 27406 76th drive nW, Stanwood, Wa 98292-7451; nonclassified Hummdinger Hot Dogs: po box 762, Stanwood, Wa 98292-0762; restaurants New Country Grill: 6996 265th St. nW, no. 102, Stanwood, Wa 98292-6259; 360-6290335; restaurants Sherman Lawn & Landscape: 7011 300th St. nW, Stanwood, Wa 98292-9704; lawn & grounds maintenance Still Lookin’ Good: 8721 271st St. nW, Stanwood, Wa 98292-5995; 360-939-0831; nonclassified
Tulalip Rez Products: 128 old tulalip road, tulalip, Wa 98271-6808; general merchandise-retail Salish Winds Seafood: 115 marine drive ne, tulalip, Wa 98271-7315; seafood-retail
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