Published July 2001

Business Briefs

Goodrich lays off 173 at Everett plant
Goodrich Corp. laid off 173 people at its aerospace facility in Everett last month with the promise of more to come as it realigns its work force to meet a downturn in the airline industry.

“It’s no real news that the economic downturn that is hitting the country is hitting the airlines as well,” said Phil Rosnik, Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

Some 2,600 people do maintenance and renovation work for the airlines at the company’s Everett plant at Paine Field.

The company recently changed its name from BFGoodrich, which it had been called since its founding in 1871 by Benjamin Franklin Goodrich. It employs 23,000 people worldwide.

Rosnik said the company is restructuring and expects to lay off a total of 300 workers locally during the next several weeks.

He said employees will receive severance pay and benefits and have been told they are eligible to be rehired as employment levels grow.

The downturn, Rosnik said, is expected to be short-lived.

AWB honors two groups
for community service
The Association of Washington Business has presented a Community Service Award to the Marysville Chamber of Commerce for organizing the North Snohomish County Summit and to Crown Distributing Co. of Everett for a variety of projects, including a major sponsorship of the Everett Public Schools Foundation and financial and staff participation in 19 different community events and organizations.

Lambright golf tourney set
The Jim Lambright Medical Research Foundation of Arlington (www.LambrightFoundation.com) is recruiting golfers for its third annual Celebrity Golf Tournament scheduled for July 17 at Auburn’s Washington National Golf Course.

Sponsors of the event include United Airlines, Nike, Baugh Construction, the TOTE Corp. and the Gigot Family Foundation.

Jim and Lynne Lambright’s two sons are afflicted with the fatal disease Niemann-Pick, Type C, part of the research targeted by the Lambright foundation that is also expected to help people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, epilepsy and related illnesses.

For information or reservations, contact Howard Bogie at 206-4259 or Becky Foster at 877-331-5565.

Restaurant opens in Arlington
Salud Pastaria and Cocktails, a new restaurant venture headed by Justice, More and Brotherhood Israel, opened last month at 526 N. West Ave., Arlington. The eatery is housed in the Stillaguamish Square strip mall in the newly refurbished space that was previously Café Compassion.

Salud Pastaria and Cocktails, serving soups, salads and pasta dishes, is the second restaurant in Arlington owned by members of the Love Israel Family. The other is The Bistro.

CT board OKs contract
with Senior Services
The Community Transit Board of Directors recently approved a new five-year contract with Senior Services of Snohomish County to provide the agency’s paratransit service.

Senior Services has operated Community Transit’s Dial-A-Ride Transportation (DART) vans for the past 10 years.

Because only one bid was received, Community Transit contracted with Porter and Associates to conduct a cost and price analysis. That report showed that the proposed contract was fair, based on the price compared with current costs and what other transit agencies pay for similar services.

The deal will pay Senior Services a total of $24.95 million during the five years of the agreement.

Investing class offered
Everett Community College is offering a course titled “Strategies for Serious Stock Investors” to be conducted in four weekly sessions beginning Thursday, July 26, from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

The class will cover strategies for selecting stocks, ways to analyze stock research and how to properly build an equity portfolio. Participants also will receive a personal financial analysis to help determine which equity investments are best for them. For information or to register, call 425-388-9214.

Fluke Networks plans
purchase of Microtest
Fluke Networks Inc., the small spin-off from Everett’s Fluke Corp., is getting bigger in a hurry with the planned acquisition of Phoenix-based Microtest Inc.

The Everett company announced last month that it had signed an agreement with Microtest to pay $8.15 cents a share, or about $74 million, in an all-cash transaction.

Microtest sells computer and communications network testing tools and network storage and appliance servers. Fluke Networks focuses on testing tools for network engineers and technicians. The Everett company has about 400 employees.

Fluke Networks said it will offer jobs to most Microtest employees, but that some will be let go through restructuring in Microtest businesses not core to Fluke Networks.

Express Personnel Services
moves to bigger office
Express Personnel Services has moved its Everett office from Hoyt Avenue to a larger facility at 4015 Rucker Ave., Suite B. Owners Bonne McArthur and Elizabeth Shinn said the new location, which opened June 4, will enable them to offer improved service.

For more information on Express Personnel Services, call 425-339-8400.

Area SBDC receives Million-Dollar Award
The Edmonds Community College Small Business Development Center has received the Million-Dollar Award from the U.S. Small Business Administration for its record-setting work in assisting business owners to obtain financing.

This year, the center helped clients get a record $2.2 million in business financing for loans and lines of credit to expand their businesses.

Monroe company earns
environmental recognition
Canyon Creek Cabinet Co. of Monroe was honored by the Association of Washington Business for environmental excellence for eliminating toxic air pollutants from its finishing process.

Coastal Community Bank
opens Monroe branch
Coastal Community Bank has opened a branch in Monroe, making it the third branch for the Everett-based financial institution.

“We will open new branches as the best people become available to manage them,” bank President Lee Pintar said, commenting on the June 18 grand opening of the Monroe facility, located in the Safeway shopping center off Highway 2.

Nancy Breuer is the Manager, and Sue Selby is the Assistant Manager of the new branch. Stacey Goodwin is a teller and the new-accounts representative, and Lindsy Burton also is a teller at the bank.

Coastal Community’s other locations are in Everett and Sultan.

EdCC, ANEW receive grant
for construction training
Edmonds Community College and ANEW, the Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Employment for Women and Men, have received a $257,000 federal grant for a one-year project training entry-level workers seeking skilled craft positions in the construction industry.

The grant, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, is awarded through the Snohomish County Workforce Development Council. The project continues the Construction Fundamentals training the college has been offering for income eligible students. The new class starts this summer.

For more information, call 425-640-1008.

Compass Health enters
into operating agreement
Compass Health and Community Mental Health Services have entered into a formal operating agreement, according to a news release.

Under the agreement, the organizations’ executive and administrative services will be integrated to increase operating efficiency.

As part of the agreement, Jess Jamieson will remain the CEO for the two nonprofits, both of which provide mental-health and chemical-dependency services.

Community Mental Health Services operates in Skagit, Island and San Juan counties, and Compass Health operates in Snohomish County.

Turner’s Tavern moves down the block
Turner’s Tavern, a mainstay on Hewitt Avenue, has moved a couple of doors away, to the former Bogey’s Golf and OfficePC.

Turner’s owner Pat Lorbiecki said he decided to move when developer Craig Dieffenbach bought his former quarters.

The new Turner’s will have more restaurant-style seating in front to complement the 100-year-old back bar, Lorbiecki said.

Dieffenbach has said that Chris Beno, who operates Seattle’s Graceland and I-Spy night clubs, plans to open a new club featuring live music and a bar in Turner’s old quarters at 2011 Hewitt Ave.

Cascade moving toward
commercial-bank status
Everett-based Cascade Financial Corp. has announced it is ready to complete the conversion of Cascade Bank from a savings bank to a full-service commercial bank.

To do that, Cascade’s Board of Directors has approved a plan to reorganize the parent company as a bank holding company and to convert subsidiary Cascade Bank to a state-charted commercial bank.

State and federal banking regulators must still approve the moves.

Labor Council honors community service
The Snohomish County Labor Council recently honored a number of people and organizations at its 10th annual Community Services Banquet: Bob Monize, Laborers Local 292, the Seth Dawson Award for outstanding volunteer leadership; Jim Smith, KSER Radio’s “Labor Journal” program, news media reporting award; United Way of Snohomish County, nonprofit service agency award; Rubatino Refuse Removal Inc., business and industry award; Laborers Local 292, union local of the year; Marion Gallagher of Cascade High School and Jennifer Gibson of Granite Falls High School, student volunteers of the year; and Bob James, National Association of Letter Carriers, volunteer of the year.

Whittall Management Group
moving to south Everett
Whittall Management Group Ltd., a firm that works with employers and employees to get people back to work after on-the-job injuries, is moving from Mountlake Terrace to larger quarters in the Quadrant I-5 Corporate Park adjacent to the freeway in south Everett. The company will occupy about 4,000 square feet in the park’s second building.

Scholarships
Fluke Corp. gave $1,000 scholarships to Kai Harwick of Cascade High School and Melissa Newell of Everett High School. Both are children of Fluke employees.

HomeStreet Bank’s Marysville branch gave $1,500 scholarships to Zachary Johnson and Kaeli LaMont of Marysville-Pilchuck High School.

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