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Beyond the blue fencing near the Port of Everett’s Central Marina sits a waterfront property with a long history of industrial use, and a major environmental cleanup project nearly complete.

The former Everett Shipyard (ESY) property, located between 14th and 15th Streets and West Marine View Drive, was known for decades as an economic hub on the Everett waterfront — a site that provided a source of jobs in the region.

In 2009, ESY relocated its operations to the Port of Ever-ett’s Seaport and was later purchased by Vigor Marine. The relocation created an opportunity to cleanup the site and stimulate a mixed-use development on the water-front.

The Port, in partnership with the Department of Ecol-ogy, has taken active steps to aggressively and efficiently cleanup this site and five other major cleanup sites within the Port’s Central Marina property to ready it for a $350 million mixed-use development — Waterfront Place Central.

With the ESY cleanup set to be complete in April 2015, the Port will be one step closer to transforming this area into Fisherman’s Harbor – a new economic asset that will be the face of the Waterfront Place Central project.

The $11 million cleanup is funded by the Port of Everett, an Ecology Remedial Action Grant funded by a voter-approved tax on hazardous substances, and settlement funds from Everett Shipyard. The project includes two phases: upland and in-water.

Upland cleanup was completed by Clearcreek Contractors in 2013, and included building demolition and removal of approximately 17,000 tons of contaminated soil. In-water work began in mid-August 2014 and is nearing comple-tion. So far the Port’s contractor for the project, Magnus Pacific, has removed hundreds of creosote piles and aging marine infrastructure, including the marine railway, 14th Street haulout and L, M and N docks; has installed sheet piles for the reconstructed bulkhead, and continues to dredge contaminated sediments.

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Everett Shipyard Project environmental cleanup

Everett Shipyard Project

For nearly 70 years, Everett Shipyard Inc. has been a part of the Everett community along the shore of Port Gardner Bay. Restoring the site’s environmental health and returning it to productive use is a top priority for the Port of Everett. environmental cleanup

Everett Shipyard ProjectA Thriving EconomyEverett Shipyard served as a backbone of

our economy for many years. As part of

Waterfront Place, Fishermen’s Harbor will be

a crucial component of a project expected to

create 887 jobs, and generate approximately

$3.77 million in state and local taxes.

SustainabilityThe Everett Shipyard site consists

of just over 11 acres of property.

The redevelopment of this site into

Fisherman’s Harbor will be economically,

environmentally and socially sustainable.

Public AccessThe ESY site will become Fishermen’s Harbor,

front door to a transformed waterfront

which offers access to restaurants, retail, and

recreational boating. Visitors will be ableto enjoy

a mix of public and private spaces which offer

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1947-2010Contamination

Restoration Planning

Late 1980s/2000s

Everett Shipyard Inc. began as Fishermen’s Boat Shop in 1947, serving Everett’s maritime industry by offering marine vessel repairs and maintenance for area fishermen.

Studies found unsafe levels of hazardous soil and sediment at the facility.

2008

The Port partnered with the Department of Ecology to begin a two-phased cleanup at the Everett Shipyard site which will address both the upland and in-water legacy contamination on the property.

Ecology and the Potentially Liable Parties (PLPs), the Port of Everett and ESY, Inc., entered into an Agreed Order for site cleanup.

The Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study (RI/FS) Work Plan was finalized and approved.

RI data (soil, groundwater and marine sediment samples) were gathered.

2009

The remedial Investigation and Feasibility Work Plan were finalized and data from the plan was submitted.

Additional soil, groundwater and marine sediment samples were collected.

Public comment period was held for the final draft RI/FS Report.

In-water Clean Up in Progress

($6.5 million investment)dredging approximately 11,000 cubic yards of sediment, removal of five docks, a haul-out structure, reconstructing an environmentally safe bulkhead, public access enhancements

Additional soil, groundwater and marine sediment samples were collected and results incorporated into the draft RI/FS.

2010 2011

Restoration

2012 2013 2014 2015

Port of Everett entered into a Consent Decree with Ecology.

Upland Clean Up Complete ($2.5 million investment) removal of 17,000 tons of contaminated soil, approximately 8,400 tons of concrete and asphalt were recycled for use as road base.

The draft RI/FS was submitted to Ecology.

Public comment period was held for the draft Cleanup Action Plan (CAP), proposed Consent Decree (CD), State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) Checklist, and Determination of Non Significance (DNS).

Fisherman’s Harbor is the front door to Waterfront Place that extends along the inner harbor’s eastern most edge. The district reestablishes the City’s street grid and integrates multiple land uses to create a well-defined balance of public and private spaces. The district is a year-round hub of activity that includes commercial fishing, recreational boating, retail shopping, and dining that attracts residents and

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regional visitors. The key features of this area include: Fisherman’s Wharf, The Esplanade at Fisherman’s Harbor, Floating Activity Barges, Dock Walk, Pacific Rim Plaza at 14th Street, and a small boat course for kids.

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COVER STORYHow Vine Dahlen has sustained success for so long in the community, Pages 6-7

BuSinESS nEwSWhere the collected gas tax money goes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Pot generates new tax revenue for the state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Arlington dance studio winning national reputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

HopeWorks’ businesses help people up wage ladder . . . . . . . 10

Former Revenue director finds like mind in new job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Family finds flexibility in running small business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

BuSinESS BuildERSAndrew Ballard: How to use data to solve your business problem . . . . . 15

Tom Hoban: Communities need to prepare now for urbanization . . . . 16

James McCusker: Practice is needed to refresh skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Sven Mogelgaard: Four scams making the rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

PuBliC ReCoRdS . . . . . . . . . . . 20

BAnkRuPTCieS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

BuSineSS BRiefS . . . . . . . . . . . 22

eConoMiC dATA . . . . . . . . . 24-25

BuSineSS liCenSeS . . . . . . . 26-27

nEwSROOMeditor: Jim davis 425-339-3097; [email protected]; [email protected]

Contributing Writers: M.l. dehm, Jennifer sasseen, amy Watkins

Contributing Columnists: James McCusker, Tom hoban, Monika Kristofferson, andrew ballard

PublisherJosh o’[email protected]

COVER PHOTOPartners lisa McKeirnan, Thomas over, scott Minnig, dale bonn and stacy Minnig in the hallway of their lynnwood office.Dan Bates / The Herald

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lisa Mckeirnan is managing partner at Vine dahlen, a lynnwood accounting firm that’s been in business more than 50 years .


COVER STORYHow Vine Dahlen has sustained success for so long in the community, Pages 6-7

BuSinESS nEwSWhere the collected gas tax money goes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Pot generates new tax revenue for the state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Arlington dance studio winning national reputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

HopeWorks’ businesses help people up wage ladder . . . . . . . 10

Former Revenue director finds like mind in new job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Family finds flexibility in running small business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

BuSinESS BuildERSAndrew Ballard: How to use data to solve your business problem . . . . . 15

Tom Hoban: Communities need to prepare now for urbanization . . . . 16

James McCusker: Practice is needed to refresh skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Sven Mogelgaard: Four scams making the rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

PuBliC ReCoRdS . . . . . . . . . . . 20

BAnkRuPTCieS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

BuSineSS BRiefS . . . . . . . . . . . 22

eConoMiC dATA . . . . . . . . . 24-25

BuSineSS liCenSeS . . . . . . . 26-27

nEwSROOMeditor: Jim davis 425-339-3097; [email protected]; [email protected]

Contributing Writers: M.l. dehm, Jennifer sasseen, amy Watkins

Contributing Columnists: James McCusker, Tom hoban, Monika Kristofferson, andrew ballard

PublisherJosh o’[email protected]

COVER PHOTOPartners lisa McKeirnan, Thomas over, scott Minnig, dale bonn and stacy Minnig in the hallway of their lynnwood office.Dan Bates / The Herald

AdVERTiSinG SAlESJody knoblich425-339-3445 — Fax [email protected]

SuBSCRiPTiOnS425-339-3200 www.theheraldbusinessjournal.com

CuSTOMER SERViCE425-339-3200 — Fax [email protected]

send news, op/ed articles and letters to: The herald business Journal, P.o. box 930, everett, Wa 98206, or email to [email protected]. We reserve the right to edit or reject all submissions. opinions of columnists are their own and not necessarily those of The herald business Journal.


lisa Mckeirnan is managing partner at Vine dahlen, a lynnwood accounting firm that’s been in business more than 50 years .

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By Jennifer SasseenFor The Herald Business Journal

Lawmakers will soon be debating a new transportation package.

As they do so, it’s worth looking at the existing gas tax.

Once hailed as a hero for building a world-class system of roads throughout the country, the gas tax has fallen on hard times, unable to keep pace with a crum-bling infrastructure that’s eroding faster than it can be fixed.

“Since 1990, transportation construc-tion costs have risen by 63 percent, mean-ing that a construction project that previ-ously cost $50,000 would now cost over $80,000 to complete,” states a policy brief last year by the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-partisan research organization.

A fixed-rate tax like Washington’s, which collects a specific number of cents on each gallon of gas sold, is “the most unsustainable type of gas tax,” the report states, largely because of increasing fuel efficiency and the ever-rising costs of construction.

Thirty-two states have this type of fixed-rate gas tax.

Washington’s 37.5 cents-per-gal-lon gas tax is the ninth-highest in the nation, according to an analysis by the Washington State Department of Transportation.

Yet Gov. Jay Inslee told a group of local government officials in September 2013 that an increase in the gas tax of perhaps 6 to 10 cents is needed to prevent more disasters like the May 2013 collapse of the I-5 bridge over the Skagit River.

Information in the report supports Ins-lee’s concern: “According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, a quarter of America’s bridges are structurally defi-cient or obsolete, one-third of the nation’s major roads are in poor or mediocre condition, almost half of all major urban highways are congested and nearly half

of all Americans lack access to bus or rail transit.”

Despite these problems, the report says the gas tax is a vital funding source, accounting for about 30 percent of state-sourced highway funding.

In Washington, that amount is lower and appears to be dropping — listed as 23 percent of the 2013-15 transportation budget’s projected revenue of $9.165 bil-lion, compared to 32.5 percent of the $7.9 billion revenue in the 2011-13 budget.

Gas taxes collected are projected to total $2.4 billion over the 2013-15 bien-nium, compared to $2.3 billion in 2011-13, according to the Legislature’s Joint Transportation Committee.

The rest of the money in the 2013-15 biennial transportation budget comes from bonds (23 percent), federal funds (26 percent), vehicle license, permits and fees (12 percent), and other sources (16 percent).

Washington residents actually pay 55.9 cents per gallon in taxes at the pump, as the federal government levies 18.4 cents per gallon on top of the state’s 37.5 cents.

According to WSDOT, the state’s 18th amendment dedicates the state’s gas tax to “highway purposes,” with the state getting

about half the gas tax money to support WSDOT programs including the state ferry system, which is deemed a highway system by state constitution.

The other half of the gas tax goes to cities, counties and other agencies for use on roads that are not part of the state highway system.

Some of that money filters down in the form of grants for projects to ease con-gestion, primarily in cities, and some of the money is distributed directly, accord-ing to the committee.

Cities get 2.96 cents, distributed based on population, for construction, mainte-nance and policing of city streets. Coun-ties get 4.92 cents, with 10 percent of that evenly distributed among counties, 30 percent by population, 30 percent based on annual road costs and 30 percent based on construction and maintenance needs.

For Snohomish County, the gas tax amounts to roughly $9 million of its $100 million Public Works roads budget, said Scott Camp, manager of the county’s financial and accounting department.

Payments are distributed to the county monthly, he said, so can vary. One-third of the money goes toward the county’s capital budget, for improvement projects

and the like, one-third to preservation and maintenance and one-third to traffic operations, such as planning and traffic signals.

Paying off the bonds on past projects is another challenge the state faces. Camp said bonds are a common method of pay-ing for transportation projects, yet the Joint Transportation Committee notes an increasing amount of debt consuming a larger and larger portion of the gas-tax pie.

“The debt service peaks around 70 percent of total state gas tax revenues in 2018-20,” it predicts, leaving only 30 per-cent of the gas tax for new projects.

Paying the state 37.5 cents per gallon at the pump may sound like a lot to motor-ists, especially considering the rate was 1 cent per gallon when Washington first imposed the tax in 1921, but the Insti-tute of Taxation report says gas taxes have actually declined.

“When viewed as a percentage of fami-lies’ household budgets,” the report states, “state gas taxes are lower than at any point since the widespread adoption of those taxes at the end of the 1920s.” Adjusted for construction costs, the rates “are a full 17 percent lower today than they were in 1990.”

As for the federal tax of 18.4 cents per gallon, a report released July 2013 as a project of The George Washington Uni-versity in Washington D.C., “Face the Facts USA”, notes that the federal gas tax rate hasn’t changed in 20 years, and claims that’s reduced the money for road repairs by 35 percent.

“Americans pay far less in total gas taxes than any other industrialized country except Mexico, where gas is subsidized,” the report says, noting that Canada pays 80 cents per gallon, the U.K., $3.31 and Germany, $3.43.

Still, increasing the gas tax is a tough sell. In the state of Washington, the last time the gas tax was increased was in 2008. Since 1990, counties have had the option, requiring voter approval, of insti-tuting their own gas tax of up to 10 per-cent of the state gas tax. In 1994, with the gas tax at 23 cents per gallon, Snohomish County tried for a 2.3 cent tax, but the effort failed. To date, no county in the state has its own gas tax.


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ing while finding enough accounts to start her own business. She would later move into offices at a now-defunct Both-ell newspaper, and then in the American Legion building in Bothell.

She wasn’t the first woman to get a CPA license in the state. Milt Vine said there were women who had licenses 20 to 30 years before her. But women accoun-tants were few and far between in those early days.

“She used to talk about the early accounting society meetings and semi-nars she attended where she was the only woman in the room,” Milt Vine said.

If she had clients look elsewhere because of her gender, Ann Vine kept that fact to herself, Milt Vine said.

“Based on what I know about the industry, I’m sure she did,” Milt Vine said.

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A former partner used to comment that Ann Vine had two careers: The first was raising her family and the second was becoming an accountant.

When she passed the CPA exam, David and Barb were teenagers and Milt was about 10. Starting a new business took long hours — especially during tax sea-son — but Ann Vine made time for her family.

“She was very family oriented,” Milt Vine said. “She was by and large there when we needed her when we had con-certs and sporting events.”

She was also a devout Southern Baptist, attending church regularly and serving as the organist for the church choir, which meant weekly practices.

“It was many nights a week at church on top of her business and on top of rais-ing kids,” Milt Vine said.

Over time, Ann Vine sought to grow her business, adding employees and later partners, some of whom didn’t work out. It wasn’t until she met Ron Dahlen in the 1977 and later Roger Werner that she found the partners that she needed.

Dahlen and Werner both worked for Peat Marwick Mitchell, now KPMG in Seattle and one of the largest accounting firms in the country.

“I vividly remember that she said, ‘I think I found the right guy,’” Milt Vine said of Ron Dahlen.

Together, they created Vine, Dahlen, Werner & Co. (Roger Werner would later go on to establish a competing firm in Lynnwood, Werner O’Meara & Co.)

Dahlen, who retired from the firm in 1999, had become disillusioned working for the larger firm.

Dahlen and his wife had problems having children, and his wife was preg-nant one winter. He had to go on busi-ness to Spokane. He asked to get out of it, but was told the firm needed him on the job.

His wife went into emergency labor while he was on the trip. He tried to fly back, but the plane was fogged in.

“I was sitting on a plane in Spokane when my first son was born,” Dahlen said.

He decided to look for a new job after that experience.

He can’t remember where he met Ann Vine, but the two hit it off. She had a background in taxes and payroll taxes and had a customer base. His background in

By Jim DavisHerald Business Journal Editor

LYNNWOOD — It would be easy to look at the partners of Vine Dahlen and assume the accounting firm is a reflection of its founder.

After all, Ann Vine started the business more than 50 years ago when she was one of just a few women accountants in Washington.

Now Vine Dahlen is still a rarity: Five of its eight partners are women in

an industry where the majority of accounting firms are run by men.

The simple math would be that a woman pioneering in her field created a firm allowing other women to thrive.

It’s not that easy.Ann Vine, who died in

1997, set out to create a firm to help other businesses, not other women.

“I can’t recall ever hearing anything out of her mouth that you’d call feminist,” said Milt Vine, one of her sons who fol-lowed her in accounting. “I can’t recall an instance where she would say she was going to hire a woman just because she was a woman. I think she just went after the people who worked.”

The firm that Ann Vine launched — and her partners helped build — did cre-ate an environment that embraced flexi-bility, said Lisa McKeirnan, Vine Dahlen’s managing partner. That has allowed employees and clients to succeed over the years.

“I think her legacy really is letting peo-ple work and create their own success,” McKeirnan said. “Public accounting from the very beginning you approach it as if you are a business owner, because you’re developing your clients.

“However you do that, however you got the job done, was fine as long as you’re successful.”

It’s been a successful formula for an accounting firm that has proved staying power within the community.

“If you look at her, she had zero back-ground for that,” Milt Vine said. “Hers was total bootstrap. She started with almost nothing, not even a degree in accounting from a school.”

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Vine Dahlen, at 3500 188th St. SW near the Alderwood mall in Lynnwood, offers help with taxes, auditing, financial statements and consulting, mainly for businesses and nonprofits.

Ann Vine started the firm by her-self in 1964, naming it Vine & Co. It now employs 28 and is one of the lon-gest running local firms in Snohomish County.

Born Oct. 21, 1921, Evelyn Ann Doyle grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, where her father worked as the registrar for what is now Florida State University.

She went to the college after high school and studied language. During her senior year, her father died, leaving behind her mom who had never had a job

outside the home.After graduating, Ann met Vern Vine,

who was in the Navy. They married in 1947 and moved to his home of Seattle.

In the next few years, Ann Vine had three children, Barb, David and Milt. Her husband held several jobs over the years, including a “suit-and-tie job” at Boeing that he hated.

With financial obligations for her mother and a younger sister, Ann Vine worked as a secretary, a job that she hated. She decided to take correspondent

accounting courses.“She did lesson after lesson after les-

son for, oh I don’t know how many years, until she felt she was able to take the CPA exam,” Milt Vine said. “She didn’t pass it the first time, but if you know anything about the CPA exam that’s par for the course.”

After a couple of attempts, Ann Vine did pass and she worked briefly with a CPA to get required experience. Then she went to work with a drywall supply busi-ness in Bothell, doing the firm’s account-


Firm finds formula for success

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Managing partner Lisa McKeirnan (right) Stacy Minnig (center) and Dale Bonn are among five women and three men partners at the CPA firm, Vine Dahlen.

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Ann Vine

Vine Dahlen creates culture that allows business to thrive

ing while finding enough accounts to start her own business. She would later move into offices at a now-defunct Both-ell newspaper, and then in the American Legion building in Bothell.

She wasn’t the first woman to get a CPA license in the state. Milt Vine said there were women who had licenses 20 to 30 years before her. But women accoun-tants were few and far between in those early days.

“She used to talk about the early accounting society meetings and semi-nars she attended where she was the only woman in the room,” Milt Vine said.

If she had clients look elsewhere because of her gender, Ann Vine kept that fact to herself, Milt Vine said.

“Based on what I know about the industry, I’m sure she did,” Milt Vine said.

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A former partner used to comment that Ann Vine had two careers: The first was raising her family and the second was becoming an accountant.

When she passed the CPA exam, David and Barb were teenagers and Milt was about 10. Starting a new business took long hours — especially during tax sea-son — but Ann Vine made time for her family.

“She was very family oriented,” Milt Vine said. “She was by and large there when we needed her when we had con-certs and sporting events.”

She was also a devout Southern Baptist, attending church regularly and serving as the organist for the church choir, which meant weekly practices.

“It was many nights a week at church on top of her business and on top of rais-ing kids,” Milt Vine said.

Over time, Ann Vine sought to grow her business, adding employees and later partners, some of whom didn’t work out. It wasn’t until she met Ron Dahlen in the 1977 and later Roger Werner that she found the partners that she needed.

Dahlen and Werner both worked for Peat Marwick Mitchell, now KPMG in Seattle and one of the largest accounting firms in the country.

“I vividly remember that she said, ‘I think I found the right guy,’” Milt Vine said of Ron Dahlen.

Together, they created Vine, Dahlen, Werner & Co. (Roger Werner would later go on to establish a competing firm in Lynnwood, Werner O’Meara & Co.)

Dahlen, who retired from the firm in 1999, had become disillusioned working for the larger firm.

Dahlen and his wife had problems having children, and his wife was preg-nant one winter. He had to go on busi-ness to Spokane. He asked to get out of it, but was told the firm needed him on the job.

His wife went into emergency labor while he was on the trip. He tried to fly back, but the plane was fogged in.

“I was sitting on a plane in Spokane when my first son was born,” Dahlen said.

He decided to look for a new job after that experience.

He can’t remember where he met Ann Vine, but the two hit it off. She had a background in taxes and payroll taxes and had a customer base. His background in

auditing and more technical accounting were skills that he brought to the firm.

He said he wasn’t put off by Ann Vine’s lack of formal training: “You don’t learn everything you need to know in a god-damned college classroom.”

Vine and Dahlen spoke to a banker about joining together.

“I said, ‘If I joined, Ann, do you think we would starve together?” Dahlen recalls saying.

The firm doubled business within a year.

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They call them shoebox clients, cus-tomers who keep receipts, bills and every-thing else they think is important in a shoebox and bring it into an accounting firm during tax season.

That was one of the first jobs that Ann Vine had for McKeirnan, who started at the firm out of the University of Wash-ington in 1986.

“She thought it was fun training me on my first shoebox, that it would be kind of challenging,” McKeirnan said.

The culture of the business was differ-ent than many of the accounting firms of the 1980s, McKeirnan said.

“I know there were a lot of firms that when you first started working they said you had to work a minimum of 60 hours a week, you’re going to have meeting every Saturday and it’s going to start at 7 to get people in here and you’re going to have to have this many chargeable hours,” McKeirnan said.

Vine Dahlen was more accommodating to their employees.

That didn’t mean that the accountants worked less than other firms. Ann Vine and Ron Dahlen emphasized customer service and being available for clients. That’s continues today.

“They all have our direct lines and cell-phone numbers,” said Dale Bonn, one of the firm’s partners. “I’ve had partners who have called me at home when one of their business partners have died they wanted to let me know.”

Dahlen said he learned his lessons waiting on the plane in Spokane.

“So when people worked for me they still had to get their work done, but they were treated with respect and a lot of large institutions forgot that,” Dahlen said.

And that helped the firm retain employees over the years.

Becky Mackenstadt saw that firsthand when she started at the firm 17 years ago.

“I started in November and I announced at the April 15 event that I was pregnant, it was unintentional, it hap-pened,” said Mackenstadt, who became an equity partner in January. “So that meant my son was due in November at the beginning of my tax season.

“They left it up to me, ‘You tell us how much you can think you can work and we will make sure we can support you for that.’”

Over the years, other accounting firms have embraced work-life balances, but what’s promoted doesn’t always become reality, said Stacy Minning, another part-ner who also started at the firm 17 years ago.

“The men who work in our office are dads and they work in the same man-ner that we do with a work-life balance,” Minnig said. “They take off to go to soc-cer games and coach in their kid’s baske-ball games.”

The firm’s flexibility has helped in other ways. Vine Dahlen went paperless as an office in 2003, years ahead of many firms, McKeirnan said.

Keeping a stable workforce over the

years has helped the firm’s clients.Accounting firms know intimate

details about finances and structures of businesses.

Having the same accountant year after year is an asset especially when develop-ing a succession plan, a trust or deciding future ownership of a business.

“For a business owner, they’re lonely people,” McKeirnan said. “There are not a lot of people they can talk to about their business issues whether it’s employees or any kind of strategic decision making. We can be that person who can help guide them through some of those issues.”

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Vine Dahlen reached 50 years in business last year. The celebration: They added a logo on their email that says “1964-2014 — Celebrating 50 years.”

The firm was busy, because it merged with Gillespie & McMahon, McKeirnan said.

“We bought a firm so we spent all of our time working on assimilating them,” McKeirnan said. “In the back of my mind, I kept thinking we need to be doing something and it was our intention to do that.”

That’s part of accounting, the business is always looking forward to the next tax season, the next reporting deadline.

But 50 years is a milestone for any firm.

“When we hit the recession in 2008 or 2009, and you see some of the companies that are failing around you, you appreci-ate what you have achieved especially in this type of environment,” McKeirnan said.

The success of a firm isn’t just its cul-ture. Dahlen points to work ethic.

“I don’t care what your business is but if you are set up to provide a product or service, if you provide it earlier than they expected for a better price than they expected, they’ll send all their friends,” Dahlen said.

But he also notes that the employ-ees they hired and how long they’ve remained with the firm.

“If you take look at a lot of the bigger local firms that were around at the time (we formed the firm), they disappeared,” Dahlen said. “They were selfish in how they treated people.”

Ron Dahlen now splits his time between the Puget Sound area and Arizona.

Ann Vine died at the age of 75, just a few years after her husband, partly from complications of scoliosis, which she suf-fered her entire life.

Milt Vine never worked for the firm — he worked for Arthur Andersen in New York before returning to Seattle to work for Ernst & Whinney. But his daughter — Ann Vine’s granddaughter — Katy Vine, did an internship at the firm a few years ago.

McKeirnan said the firm’s success can be attributed to Ann Vine and Ron Dahlen and those who came after them.

“The legacy she left behind was that family is important, life is important, but our clients are important too,” McKeir-nan said. “And everyone is a business per-son when they start in public accounting and it’s up to you to get the work done and, however, you do it is up to you.”

accounting courses.“She did lesson after lesson after les-

son for, oh I don’t know how many years, until she felt she was able to take the CPA exam,” Milt Vine said. “She didn’t pass it the first time, but if you know anything about the CPA exam that’s par for the course.”

After a couple of attempts, Ann Vine did pass and she worked briefly with a CPA to get required experience. Then she went to work with a drywall supply busi-ness in Bothell, doing the firm’s account-


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Managing partner Lisa McKeirnan (right) Stacy Minnig (center) and Dale Bonn are among five women and three men partners at the CPA firm, Vine Dahlen.


Accountants gather in the conference room to work on their approaches to the upcoming tax period.

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LAKE STEVENS — Reed Evans and his family members make frequent trips to the Washington State Liquor Control Board office in Olympia.

That’s because they, like others who have recreational marijuana businesses, owe a monthly excise tax of 25 percent on all marijuana sales. Evans and his family in October opened Cannablyss, the only retail marijuana shop in Lake Stevens.

“We drive on down with our 25 per-cent,” Evans said. “We’re smart about it. It was really confusing in the beginning but we have an awesome accountant and he just helps us along.”

The excise tax is applied to all taxable sales of marijuana, marijuana-infused products, marijuana concentrates and useable marijuana. At Cannablyss, that means a gram of marijuana sold for $20 nets a profit of less than $4 after account-ing for purchase price, state taxes, and set-ting some aside to pay federal income tax, Evans said.

“Out of that we have to pay for rent, employees, PUD, cable, a little marketing and really any normal expense of a busi-ness,” he said. “If that means just breaking even for a while, it’s great with us but the taxes are expensive.”

The state’s Liquor and Control Board updates a list every Tuesday with figures showing the amount of excise tax on retail

marijuana sales from the state’s 334 retail locations.

Totals posted from June 16 through Jan. 19 showed marijuana sales activity reaching approximately $75.7 million with the state collecting more than $18.9 million in excise tax.

Last year, budget forecasters predicted that the still young industry could gen-erate as much as $143 million in the

state’s next biennium, which runs through 2015-2017.

Payments are always due no later than the 20th day of every month for the pre-vious month’s sales, said Brian Smith, communications director for the state’s Liquor Control Board.

“So far it’s been 100 percent compli-ance,” he said. “It’s been smooth. We’re finding that about roughly three quarters

(of marijuana business owners) are paying with check. People are finding banks. It’s slowly opening up.”

The Washington State Department of Revenue also plays a role in collecting marijuana taxes.

The department collects business and occupation tax from marijuana producers, processors, and retailers, as well as retail sales tax on sales of marijuana and mari-juana-infused products.

Figures released through Dec. 11 show the department has collected approxi-mately $3.6 million in recreational mari-juana taxes.

“We have done our own contact with businesses to walk them through tax forms and how to file electronically and pay electronically,” said Kim Schmanke, communications director for the state’s Department of Revenue. “To the best of my knowledge it’s run rather smoothly with businesses telling us they appreciate the customer service.”

Reed’s parents, Bob and Denise Evans, were the ones to get the license to open the shop at 2705 Hartford Drive NE. Although he’s looked, Reed said he hasn’t yet found a bank to do business with but that paying cash is working for now.

He and his family are also carefully sav-ing money from gross sales to pay federal income tax when it’s due.

“We’re just starting to understand the business and it’s working for us,” Reed said. “We’ve really gotten in a routine.”


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ARLINGTON — Augga Hawkins was trained as a dancer and choreographer in her native China, but she thought that

part of her life was past her.

She was raising five children with her hus-band Bruce Hawkins and that kept her pretty busy. As they grew older, she began to teach them how to dance and wanted to do more instruct-ing. Hawkins eventu-

ally taught gymnastics classes on and off for about two years. Then in 2007, she opened Northwest Dance and Acro in a small building on 172nd Street NE.

“Acro for acrobatics means gymnastic, tumbling, balance, flexibility, and contor-tion, all put together,” said Hawkins, 46.

Hawkins moved in 2013 into a new space at 17306 Smokey Point Drive. The 6,000-square-foot location is twice the size of the first and includes four studio spaces, parent viewing areas, and a stu-dent lounge.

Hawkins and nine other dance instruc-tors at Northwest Dance and Acro now teach about 300 students.

Hawkins got her start in dance at age 12 while growing up in Sichuan, a prov-

ince in southwest China. She was selected at a tryout to train

in dance at the Central University of Nationalities, in Beijing. She remem-bers taking a three-hour train ride to arrive at her new home. For seven years she trained in ballet, acrobatics, Chinese ethnic minority dancing, jazz, lyrical and international dancing.

“It wasn’t like here where everybody takes a class,” Hawkins said. “It’s different because the government trains you. It’s

kind of your future job.After the first five years, Hawkins could

either begin a master’s degree in dance or choreography or audition for a dance company.

She continued on with her education, completing one year before she met Bruce Hawkins.

He was an exchange student from Brigham Young University who was teaching English in Beijing. They even-tually married. Augga Hawkins traveled

to Utah and taught for a year in the uni-versity’s dance department before she and her husband moved to Washington in 1988.

Northwest Dance and Acro through-out the years has gained a reputation by winning or placing high in regional and national competitions.

Dancers also from the studio received national attention the summer of 2010 when they performed as one of the top 48 acts on the television show, America’s Got Talent.

“I think maybe in another two years we might audition again (for America’s Got Talent),” Hawkins said. “It’s a lot of work but is worth it when you have talent.”

Above all, Hawkins wants her studio to be a positive place for dancers to grow.

Kari Darby of Marysville has seen it firsthand with her daughters, Klara, 8, and Sophia, 5, who participated in a mas-ter classes in August.

“The way Augga is with the children is phenomenal,” she said. “I love her positiv-ity. She can take a group of kids and make them all feel good about themselves.”


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EVERETT — An oar leans against a wall near fish netting. A pair of skis stand next to a fireplace with a roaring blaze. Sea-shells lay scattered on an end table.

There’s a lot of thought put into the displays of the casual, homey look in the showroom of ReNew-Works Home and Decor Store at 3331 Broadway.

Even the names of the merchandise get the same treatment: A table isn’t just a table, it’s an Asian- inspired inlay sideboard.

“My boss places stuff where it doesn’t just look like furniture it looks roomy, so you can be like, ‘Oh I could picture that in my house,’” Kim Cul-ley said. “The whole goal when we name furniture on the pricetag is we don’t think of it as a dresser, we think of what it could be.”

Culley, 20, is working a three-month internship helping her gain job skills

that she can hopefully use for the rest of her life. She’s had other jobs, but she’s learning new skills includ-ing inventory, cashiering and how to market items like an Asian-inspired inlay sideboard on Facebook and Instagram.

The store is one of three self-sustaining businesses run by the nonprofit HopeWorks, an offshoot of Housing Hope, which has been providing afford-able housing for people in need for 27 years.

HopeWorks aims to create these businesses to generate jobs, build skills and help low-income people move up the wage ladder, said HopeWorks CEO Ed Petersen.

“What this site is doing is building on the Hous-ing Hope program and the stability and the attitude change and the growing self confidence by creat-ing that next step toward jobs,” Petersen said. “And helping people be produc-tive in our economy.”

Petersen helped launch HopeWorks in 2011.

“It was all dreamland,” Petersen said. “I felt out on a limb a lot of this time, but I started with Housing Hope Day One with five other board members so I figured we know how to do this and we know what the community wants and we know a lot about marketing communica-tion and grant resources and people in the com-munity who want to be involved.”

The first business started was Ground-Works Landscaping, in part, because Housing Hope has so many prop-erties around Snohomish County.

“Landscaping started, because Housing Hope owned 20 different land-scapes and we thought we could learn on our own nickel and use our own sites,” Petersen said. “We were paying others to do our landscaping.”

Signature Landscape Services in Redmond has helped HopeWorks with understanding how to run and operate a landscaping business. The company also helped HopeWorks with its second venture, WaterWorks Irrigation Services. The third ven-ture was the upscale, consignment store ReNewWorks.

HopeWorks were orig-inally located on Ever-green Way, but moved in September to the build-ing on Broadway at what’s being called HopeWorks Station.

The building used to be an MRI and diagnostic clinic, but the company went out of business. In July 2013, a bathroom in

the building leaked during the weekend and heavily damaged the inside of the building.

HopeWorks was able to purchase the building for $1.25 million in March 2014. The nonprofit moved its headquarters and three businesses to the site.

Petersen said it’s an

ideal location, because it is only a couple of blocks away from the buses at Everett Station and easily accessible to anyone who lives in the Housing Hope properties.

It’s also large enough for Petersen’s vision. The nonprofit owns about an acre at the site and would like to add another three businesses. The nonprofit would also like to build a five-story building at the site to include housing on the top floors and com-mercial space on the bot-tom floor.

HopeWorks has landed several low-interest loans from investors in the com-munity to support the effort. And it received a huge vote of confidence in December when the Employees Community Fund of Boeing Puget Sound gave it a $500,000 grant.

The money will be used for building improvements at HopeWorks Station. It will also purchase two new trucks and equipment for three existing HopeWorks businesses and will help launch a fourth business this year.

Culley came to ReNew-Works through Housing Hope. A year and a half ago, she and her then 1 1/2-year-old son Michael were “roommating” with friends until when she got an apartment in Everett through Housing Hope. Soon after, she was able to get her GED.

She’s worked a few jobs at a temp service and later as a canvasser for a vacuum company, walking through neighborhoods to set up appointments for sales people.

She applied for the internship at ReNew-Works to learn skills to help her move out of Housing Hope. She works 20 hours a week and gets paid minimum wage.

Still, her ultimate goal isn’t to work in retail. She would like to eventually start her own restaurant. She said the HopeWorks people will help her with that.

“They’re trying to make the city better, and they’re trying to help the home-less, not just put them in a place,” Culley said. “They’re trying to help them. I really like that.”


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By Jennifer SasseenFor The Herald Business Journal

When Carol K. Nelson left the Depart-ment of Revenue last month to return to banking, she chose a bank whose CEO is a woman bent on helping other women achieve the C-suite, slang for the indus-try’s top jobs, such as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer.

Named the “Most Powerful Woman in Banking” by American Banker mag-azine last year for the second year in a row, KeyBank Corp. CEO Beth Mooney, 59, stressed ‘’the need for women to help women find the path to success” when she spoke last October to a group of women recognized by the magazine as leaders in their field.

“We at the top of our organizations have an obligation to reach down and to lift up the next generation of women as they dream and stretch for the C-suite,” Mooney said.

Mooney’s position as KeyBank CEO “was definitely a factor that I consid-ered” before deciding on her new job, said Nelson, 58, former chief executive of Everett-based Cascade Bank, who joined KeyBank on Jan. 20 as Seattle market president and Pacific region sales executive.

The Edmonds woman called Mooney “a phenomenal leader” and said she agrees with Mooney that women in lead-ership positions have an added respon-sibility of being role models for their peers.

“My views are very much in alignment with hers on this issue,” Nelson said.

It’s not just about women, Nelson said, but about creating a diverse team that includes women and minorities.

Of Cleveland-based Key’s 14,000 employees, 36 percent of its leadership team is comprised of women and minori-ties, which also hold seven of 13 positions on Key’s board of trustees, she said.

“Beth believes that diversity balances an administration,” she said. “I certainly agree with her on that.”

It’s a viewpoint shared by Gov. Jay Inslee, Nelson said, which she experi-enced firsthand during her two-year stint as director of the Department of Revenue.

“Our state has done an excellent job in promoting women into positions of responsibility,” she said.

Inslee promoted a “broad diversity” by including not just women in his appoint-ments, but different ethnicities as well as representatives of both the public and pri-vate sectors, Nelson said.

And diversity makes for a strong team, she said.

In the financial world, however, women still have a long way to go.

Mooney may have shattered a glass

ceiling when she was named CEO in 2011 of KeyBank Corp., recognized as being among the top 20 largest banks in the country; Nelson herself at least cracked it when she became CEO of Everett-based Cascade Financial in 2001.

But women remain under-represented in banking leadership positions.

And the ranks have thinned in the past couple of years, as some women have gone on to start their own businesses and others, like HSBC USA chief executive Irene Dorner, 60, seek retirement.

“We need a pipeline of talented women in the system, and this is about critical mass,” said Dorner, at American Banker’s recognition of women event last October. “If we stick to the current rate of turn-over, it’s going to take 75 years to reach parity.”

A report released in December by global management consulting firm Oli-ver Wyman agrees women are far-too-of-ten an untapped talent.

Noting that it’s been suggested the financial crisis might have been averted if more women had been in charge, the firm analyzed the gender mix of 150 financial companies worldwide and surveyed more than 1,000 current and potential financial services employees from five countries, finding that “it is less than half as likely for a woman in financial services to prog-ress from a middle to a senior level posi-tion as it is for a man.”

“The glass ceiling appears to be largely intact,” states the report, which itself was prompted, as stated in the foreward, by Oliver Wyman’s struggle to under-stand and rectify its own lack of gender diversity.

“Diversity improves average staff cal-iber,” the report states, “and not only by making better use of half of the talent pool. A diverse and inclusive workplace is an important part of attracting and retaining the best talent, both male and female, and allows firms to understand

their customers better.”As the former CEO of Cascade Bank,

which struggled during the financial crisis and was sold in 2011 to California-based Opus Bank, Nelson has come under her share of criticism, particularly from

shareholders who lost money during the crisis.

“That just goes with the territory,” she said of the criticism, pointing out that 17 banks failed in the state of Washington, including Frontier Bank, one of Cascade’s former competitors, which “left a hole in the community.” Nelson said she consid-ers Cascade’s merger with Opus a success and she is proud of the fact they were able to return some money, however small, to shareholders.

As for her new position with KeyBank, in which she is expected to lead revenue and growth across Oregon, Washington and Alaska from regional headquarters in Seattle, Nelson said she is looking for-ward to reducing her commute from her home in Edmonds to Olympia by “150 miles a day,” as well as to returning to the financial industry.

“It is what I love the most,” she said, “and I’m delighted to go back to banking.”


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“Beth believes that diversity balances an administration. I certainly agree with her on that.” — Carolyn K. Nelson

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By M.L. DehmFor The Herald Business Journal

It’s hard to imagine that fish could have anything to do with a budding baseball career. But if it hadn’t been for the Kelliher Fish Co., Branden Kelliher might not have had the oppor-tunities that led to him being selected by the Oak-land Athletics in the Major League Baseball draft last June.

Branden Kelliher is one of three children of Jenni and Dan Kelliher, second generation owners of the Kelliher Fish Co. in Lake Stevens.

The family business has allowed them the flexibil-ity to work from home in order to spend more time with their children and the community sports teams they played on.

“We’re so lucky,” Dan Kelliher said from his office in a building behind his home. Adjacent to his office is a recreation room. The walls are covered with

sports jerseys from the various teams the couple’s children have played on over the years — baseball, soccer, football and more.

Although the walls are completely filled, these jerseys represent only two-thirds of the family’s total collection.

Plaques from teams that

had been sponsored by the company are displayed on the walls in Dan’s office and there are trophies dotted everywhere, both in rear building and in the main house where Jenni Kelliher maintains her office. There is no doubt what the passion is in this family.

“It’s been fun and we’ve met a lot of awesome peo-ple,” Dan Kelliher said. “In fact, a lot of our good friends we met through our kids’ sports.”

The couple has also made a lot of friends in the fish distribution indus-try. That’s also where they met. Both worked at the Kelliher Fish Company before they were married.

The family firm buys halibut, salmon, bottom fish and crab directly from fishermen or larger processors in Alaska and then resells to wholesale distributors in this region. Products can go directly from the airport to the distributor or to a distri-bution point. This is what allows the Kellihers the flexibility to maintain their company office at home.

“I sell to large and smaller distributors — those people who deliver to restaurants or retail stores that have a fleet

of trucks,” Dan Kelliher explained.

His customers include Seattle vendors such as Pike Place Fish, Pure Food and other dealers in the Pike Place Mar-ket. He does not usually sell directly to restau-rants though he does sell to Anthony’s Restaurant commissary that distrib-utes fish to restaurants within that chain.

Instead, most of Kelli-her’s customers are sim-ply mom-and-pop-style distributors who serve the local community.

Loyalty and good busi-ness relationships are vital in the distribution indus-try. You have to have a good name with the fleet in Alaska and pay your accounts on time or you won’t get any future busi-ness, Dan Kelliher said.

That was something he learned from his father, company founder Wil-liam J. Kelliher. The senior Kelliher worked in the fish industry from the time he was 16, spending many years with the historic New England Fish Com-pany that moved its head-quarters to Seattle in 1931.

In 1981, years after the New England Fish Com-pany went bankrupt, Wil-liam J. Kelliher started Kelliher Fish Co. from the basement of his house in Edmonds with just a $500 investment. In one year, the business was making money and incorporated.

“Dan’s dad always believed in the three ‘Fs’ – firm, fair and friendly,” Jenni Kelliher said. Those are the values they still try to adhere to in the com-pany today.

In 2001, William Kelli-her passed away and Dan and Jenni Kelliher offi-cially took the reins. They decided to keep overheads low and work from their own home as Dan’s father had.

Over the following years the company office moved, along with the Kellihers, from a desk in an apartment to a house in Snohomish, before finally settling into the large family home in Lake Stevens where it currently occupies two private office spaces and a file room.

They were always able to make time for their family and to participate in the community activities they loved.

The company did well in the pre-recession years, experiencing million-dol-lar sales some months. They managed to make it through the recession in part, they believe, to the low overhead of doing business from home.

And they’re still doing well even though the industry as a whole isn’t as strong as it once was. New fishing quotas have made some parts of their busi-ness more difficult.

“Things are chang-ing,” Dan Kelliher said. “I would like to say that one of the kids someday might like to be third generation but I’m just not sure if that’s going to hap-pen because the little guys like myself get squeezed out.”

Of the three Kelliher children, Branden is the one who thinks he might like to join the family business when his baseball career is over, but he isn’t really sure yet.

Older son Daniel left sports behind him and joined the financial indus-try. Daughter Kahlia is still in high school, active in volleyball and softball and trying to decide where she would like to attend college.

All three children have helped out in the family business as needed and are aware that the indus-try is challenged and each have their own interests to pursue. That’s fine with their parents. That was the whole reason they wanted to work from home in the first place.


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I n January, I covered Part 2 of the prob-lem-solving process

— gathering the data — used by business-con-sulting firms. This column explores the third step — interpreting the data.

Here is a recap. In the first step, you framed the problem that is keep-ing your business from achieving your growth goals by creating an issue tree, designed to lay out the issue and sub-issues of the problem in a visual progression. Then, by gathering the data you asked the right people the right questions and docu-mented your results.

This column is ded-icated to the third step, interpreting the data, that you gathered in the second step, to identify the best solution to your business problem.

The process involves more than merely analyz-ing the data you gathered; rather, developing action-able insights that lead to a solution to your business problem. The purpose is to either prove or disprove the solution hypothesis you developed when fram-ing the problem during the first step.

Your course of action in Part 3 includes two func-tions: 1) tabulating the data, and 2) developing a key findings report.

Tabulation involves sorting through the data to separate the irrelevant facts from those relevant to the problem. Using the same example I presented in Parts 1 and 2, “how do we increase gross margin on XYZ widget sales,” you would start by reviewing the results of interviews you conducted with your procurement staff and your suppliers. You’d then weed out any informa-tion that wasn’t directly relevant to your goal of increasing gross margin.

Once you have nar-rowed your data set down to only the relevant facts, you’ll organize those data (the responses from your interviews) and group them by similar responses.

One interview respon-dent’s answer to a question is not necessary meaning-ful, unless it matches up with several other respon-dent’s answers to the same question. You may

recall from the gathering the data column, that my company documents all of the responses from inter-views into an easy-to-sort spreadsheet.

After you have tabulated the data (grouped simi-lar responses), enter the dominate themes into a key-findings report. Even if you are only reporting to yourself, it is important to document your key findings. It is difficult, if

not impossible, to look at an entire spreadsheet of individual responses and perceive any meaningful correlations.

While evaluating a written report, that

presents and prioritizes the dominate themes from each interview question, actionable insights will become evident.

In summary, after gath-ering your data organize

the results to separate out irrelevant responses and tabulate the relevant infor-mation to surface domi-nant themes. Then format those data into a key findings report and look for actionable insights.

Be sure to check back next month for the fourth and final step — imple-menting the solution—in the business consulting problem solving process.

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I n 30 years, more Americans than ever will be living in urban areas.

With the coming wave of Milleni-als, about 20 percent more people will be living in cities and suburbs than there are today, according to most estimates.

And that presents planners and the private sector with challenges of how best to organize communities as more people squeeze into limited space.

Urban villages landed on the scene a decade ago as one answer.

On the west side of I-5 at the 164th Street exit in Lynnwood are more than 400 new apartments and retail clustered together around a park-n-ride lot where 10 years ago there was nothing.

We will see others like that in answer to this urbanization trend.

Transit-oriented developments are another way to bring an urban experience to people who live outside of the city core.

Like many urban villages or clusters of apartments, homes and retail, they are located adjacent to a transit station.

Kent Station (www.kentstation.com ) is a newer example of a transit-oriented development that followed light rail into

that city. As light rail and other forms of mass transit expand, we will see more like this in other areas of the Puget Sound.

Over the next decade, expect Lake Stevens to join Mill Creek and Red-mond and offer an urban-like expe-rience clustered around Frontier Village.

Bothell will be first out of the gate, with Bothell Landing (www.futureofbothell.com/) fed by more than 15,000 full time college students at the University of Washington Bothell campus, high-tech jobs and a geographic advantage that links to both sides of Lake Washington.

Downtown Everett will begin to take shape as a draw much like the Pearl Dis-trict in Portland with its gritty but chic blend of urban living, restaurants, and waterfront access.

Two new hotels and more than 300 new apartment units are being con-structed now to fit this narrative.

Downtown Edmonds will look like Downtown Kirkland today and most of old Stanwood will have moved up out of the flood plain into urban village arrangements where a cluster is already having success at the Stanwood-Camano Village. Monroe may transform into an Issaquah with its commuter links to Everett and the Eastside via U.S. 2 and Highway 522.

In each case, an urban-like blend of apartments, condominiums, townhomes, office, retail and some organized open space often linked to transportation hubs will serve residents and visitors alike whether it comes organically in bits and pieces or in one fell swoop like Bothell Landing, Kent Station or Mill Creek Towncenter.

The Achilles’ heel for the north Puget Sound continues to be its heavy reliance on a single employer in Boeing and, in Everett’s case, a still very low average household income.

Low household incomes make it diffi-cult to draw in retail, in particular.

Opening Paine Field to commercial passenger service will leverage that public asset to draw in the sort of diversity needed as the long drive to SeaTac remains a major obstacle to attracting new businesses to Everett who simply need closer access to air travel.

That single act alone, if it is followed with quality regional carriers, would begin to draw higher earning house-holds to Everett and address its income problem. Another major step forward would be to secure Link Light Rail Fail-ing downtown Everett as the next phase is being considered. A lot is at stake for Everett and the north Puget Sound in the current discussion around the next phase.

Make no mistake, though.The urbanization of America is real

and going to stay.Those communities who plan for and

capture it are going to be the winners. Millennials wants and needs will soon carry the day the way their Baby Boomer parents did during their earning and spending years at their peak.

Millennials, though, are an even bigger demographic with the peak having just celebrated their 24th birthdays.

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B usiness managers love football. They love football analogies, they love the tough language, the

locker room speeches and the simplicity of the win-lose measurement system.

What they don’t love, apparently, is practice. Most winning football teams get that way because they get the most out of their practice sessions. And players get the most out of themselves by hard, focused effort in practice; doing the same thing the right way over and over until both your mind and your body ache;.

Business managers are different. They don’t practice, and generally do little, if anything, to refresh their skills. This is especially true in smaller businesses, but the behavior pattern isn’t much different in large corporations.

For some reason, business managers believe that the lessons of practice and preparedness don’t apply to them. They believe, instead, that you can “learn by doing.” That is like saying that you get to be an outstanding professional football player by playing a lot of football, or become a concert pianist not by slogging through daily exercises but by just play-ing the piano a lot.

Some managers rely on the belief that football is physical and needs practice but management, being mental, does not. But neither life nor football work that way.

Piloting a pas-senger jet aircraft, for example, takes a combination of physical and mental skills. And these skills are practiced and tested regularly. Advances made in computer controls and the increas-ingly sophisticated use of algorithms, though, have raised questions about the effects of cockpit automation on pilot proficiency.

Those questions have been given an additional sense of urgency because of a series of recent accidents that pointed to pilot error as a cause or a contribut-ing factor. A most interesting research report was published last May in the journal, “Human Factors” entitled, “The Retention of Manual Flying Skills in the Automated Cockpit.”

The researchers “tested the manual fly-ing skills of a sample of airline pilots who have spent the majority of their flying careers operating highly automated air-planes.” Their findings supported earlier research on the subject, but provided a

surprise, too — one that has implications that go far beyond airplane cockpits.

The test results indicated that automa-tion did not significantly reduce pilots’ manual flying proficiency, the so-called “stick-and-rudder” skills involved in con-trolling an airplane in three-dimensional space. Overall, test results showed that “Pilots’ instrument scanning and manual control skills…were found to be largely intact.”

Those results were unexpected, but even more surprising were the scores on the thinking side of aircraft piloting — what psychologists call “the cogni-tive skills.” The researchers report that, “when we tested the cognitive skills that accompany manual flight, we observed more frequent and serious problems. Pilots sometimes struggled to maintain an awareness of where the airplane was with respect to the planned route…and to recognize and deal with instrument systems failures when they arose.”

Workplace management is different from piloting a passenger jet, and yet there are similarities. Managers who learn their initial lessons well — their “stick and rudder skills” — do not tend to forget them, despite the increasing levels of information and process automation in the workplace.

What often deteriorate are the

thinking skills in the areas of “situational awareness,” as well as in recognizing and dealing with the systems failures that arise. Managers tend to become mas-ters of the mini-world that workplace automation creates for them and lose sight of how that mini-world fits into the larger picture — the “flight plan” of the organization.

Managers’ situational awareness skills usually deteriorate from disuse. They are not needed every day, and, instead, a manager’s typical day is filled with tasks that require mental effort, but not inde-pendent thought. This is not a dumb-ing-down but a numbing-down of work.

The numbing-down produces inad-equate, late or warped responses when confronted with system failures or emergency situations of any sort. It could explain how a passenger aircraft fully manned with experienced professionals can land disastrously short of the runway. And it also could explain how a danger-ous automobile quality issue can remain unaddressed for years.

There is considerable uncertainty about how to deal with the numb-ing-down effects of automated systems. While we’re waiting, managers need to keep their cognitive skills proficiency up through training and, most important, practice, practice, practice.

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A s technology moves forward it seems like the creeps that are out to steal your money are keeping

pace. Unfortunately, it’s getting harder and

harder to tell what’s legitimate and what’s a scam.

Here are four underhanded schemes I’ve run across recently. Perhaps calling them out will shine a light on these crooks and drive them back under the rocks they crawled out from.

First: “It’s time to renew your domain name…” is a letter informing you that your web address is about to expire. For a fee, the company will be happy to renew it for you — usually with a promise of search engine visibility and more.

Unfortunately, the fees they charge are greatly inflated. Chances are the com-pany that holds your domain name regis-tration likely has a credit card on file and will renew your domain automatically.

If you did not opt for automatic renewal, you will receive an email asking you to log in to the company’s web site and renew your domain.

To avoid this scam, you should know where your domain name is registered (GoDaddy, Network Solutions, etc.) and where it’s hosted. You or someone in your company should be listed as both the registrant and the administrative contact for all domains your business owns. You should also know the login and password for the registration and hosting accounts as well.

Next: “Another business in (pick a country) is trying to buy your domain name” usually comes as a phone call urg-ing you to buy more domains like yours, usually at an inflated price. For example, if you own xyzcompany.com you may be encouraged to buy other top-level-do-main extensions like xyzcompamny.cn (for China). First of all, only the reg-istered owner (registrant) of a domain name can sell or transfer that domain.

As long as you know who is listed as the owner of your domain (see above) you should have nothing to worry about. Just hang up the phone. That being said, with over 200 top-level-domain exten-sions available, it might be worth a few minutes of your time to see if there are some that might work well with your business. For example, I just grabbed up millcreektech.guru and millcreektech.support.

You can potentially avoid both of these scams by making your domain registra-

tion private. This will hide your contact information from public record and make it much more difficult for the creeps to find you. It costs a few dollars more, but may be worth it.

A scam that can potentially cost you a lot of money comes with “advanced technical support” from companies you would expect to be more reputable. I’ve heard this story from clients who have called tech support numbers for their router, their anti-virus software and even the cable company.

Here’s how it works: The first person you talk to can’t seem to resolve the problem, so you are transferred to the next level of support. In reality this is a separate company that wants you to sign up for a maintenance plan that typi-cally includes a setup up fee as well as a monthly fee. Once they have you signed up, they often find additional problems that need to be “cleaned up” before your coverage kicks in. This clean up can clean you out.

A scam like this is hard to get around. If you’re not a technical person, or if you’re anxious to get your problem resolved, you don’t have much recourse. This is exactly what the bad guys are counting on.

To be fair, the problem you’re having usually gets resolved. But is paying $189 — plus $14.95 a month — really worth it to fix a $50 router? Yes, this was the “deal” offered to someone who became one of my clients.

If you are offered this solution, hang up the phone and do some research. You can often resolve your own problem or at least get some good advice that will save you a bundle just by using your favorite search engine.

The most nefarious scam is the phone call that starts “I’m calling from (Mic-rosoft or Comcast or Norton Security or…) and we’ve noticed your computer has (a virus or spyware or other issue) and we need to resolve this now or else we have to shut you down.”

I’ve had several calls from people you wouldn’t think would buy in to this kind of scam, but these scammers are good and can really play on your fears.

For a small fee, usually under $50, they promise to rid your system of the problem. All you need to do is give them your credit card number and access to your computer.

If you’re lucky all you get is a bogus charge on your credit card. Most often your credit card number is stolen and your computer is loaded up with mal-ware that will cost you even more to get cleaned up.

If anyone is afraid their computer may have a virus after getting a call like this, they should simply hang up and call a trusted local computer professional to check it out. You’ll be glad you did!

Four scams that play on your fears

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Sven Mogelgaard

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PuBlic records

Tax liens are gathered from online public records filed with the snohomish county audi-tor’s office. These federal and state tax liens were filed between dec. 1 and dec. 31.

They are listed by document type, lien number, date filed, grantor (+ signifies additional names) and address or grantee (+ signifies additional names) and agency.

Federal tax lien 201412020179: dec. 2; Wilson daniel W

(+), 6618 105th st. ne, Marysville201412020180: dec. 2; Gonzalez-Torres

Juan M, 11225 19th ave. se, apt. n-207, everett

201412020181: dec. 2; yu Jimmy (+), 21025 highway 99, lynnwood

201412020182: dec. 2; el Puerto inc., 423 Main st., edmonds

201412020183: dec. 2; Moore Kent W, 12918 s Pinetreelane, la habra

201412020184: dec. 2; al-aboudy arkan J, 707 93rd st. se, everett

201412020185: dec. 2; ayco Joseph, 21022 cypress Way, lynnwood

201412020186: dec. 2; nelson stuart G (+), Po Box 1126, everett

201412020187: dec. 2; Bjornsen-Peterson s Jr, Po Box 250, n lakewood

201412020188: dec. 2; Tharp chad e (+), 21945 oak Way, Brier

201412020189: dec. 2; Tharp chad e, 21945 oak Way, Brier

201412020190: dec. 2; stalkfleet dennis (+), Po Box 1118, stanwood

201412020191: dec. 2; Williams daniel J, 1225 183rd st. se, apt. h-201, Bothell

201412020192: dec. 2; robert Perry yacht designers inc., 11530 Tulare Way W, Tulalip

201412020193: dec. 2; Teno James M Jr (+), 3628 167th Place sW, lynnwood

201412020194: dec. 2; Teno James M Jr, 3628 167th Place sW, lynnwood

201412020195: dec. 2; dolan lawrence P, 6230 189th Place sW, lynnwood

201412090077: dec. 9; ringler John d, 3409 oakes ave., everett

201412090078: dec. 9; K&T We do dirt (+), Po Box 3123, arlington

201412090079: dec. 9; rice daniel F (+), 7512 180th st. sW, edmonds

201412090080: dec. 9; Johnson errol F (+), 601 122nd court ne, lake stevens

201412090081: dec. 9; rose stephen d, 10014 149th st. se, snohomish

201412090082: dec. 9; Borovina daniel P, 3616 colby ave., Private Mailbox 815, everett

201412090083: dec. 9; Gamble chianti s (+), 3708 188th st. sW, apt. 11, lynnwood

201412090084: dec. 9; Burgett Michael s, 4213 172nd st. sW, lynnwood

201412090085: dec. 9; naicker rajnesh (+), 18115 15th ave. W, lynnwood

201412090086: dec. 9; dehn sharon, 7411 201st st. sW, lynnwood

201412090243: dec. 9; Bacheller Bruce F, 19508 damson road, lynnwood

201412090244: dec. 9; ieplexus inc., 21312 30th drive se, suite 201, Bothell

201412090245: dec. 9; dumont John, 8733 Turk drive, Marysville

201412160325: dec. 16; connelly debra s, 7127 skipley road, snohomish

201412160326: dec. 16; Galvez lisa r (+), 11811 Mukilteo speedway, suite 200, Mukilteo

201412160327: dec. 16; chamberlin Michael, 22121 95th Place W, edmonds

201412160328: dec. 16; Matriotti steven l, 7326 88th st. ne, Marysville

201412160329: dec. 16; larson Jared l, 127 e lake stevens road, lake stevens

201412160330: dec. 16; neil James e o (+), 1115 2nd st., Mukilteo

201412160331: dec. 16; duell rene l, 6928 e cady road, everett

201412160332: dec. 16; crane John B, 13119 17th ave. W, unit 3, everett

201412160333: dec. 16; romo edward M, 514 146th st. sW, lynnwood

201412160334: dec. 16; Martin robert a (+), 19506 80th ave. W, apt. d, edmonds

201412160335: dec. 16; lopez-de-arriaga cassandra (+), 20114 Filbert road, unit B, Bothell

201412160336: dec. 16; lec contractors, 11611 airport road, suite 206, everett

201412160337: dec. 16; slaeker lynne r, 1302 Mill creek Blvd., apt M208, Mill creek

201412160371: dec. 16; caudill Kent h, 621 highway 9 ne, Private Mailbox 44, lake stevens

201412160372: dec. 16; romo edward M (+), 514 146th st. sW, lynnwood

201412160373: dec. 16; Pidgeon Kiel M, 1315 Bruskrud road, apt. 4, everett

201412160374: dec. 16; Baker Julie l, 8416 134th st. ne, arlington

201412160375: dec. 16; Meyers richard h, 23005 63rd ave. W, Mountlake Terrace

201412160376: dec. 16; Warren steven a (+), 1623 151st Place sW, lynnwood

201412230155: dec. 23; executive dry cleaners inc., 4001 198th st. sW, suite 5, lynnwood

201412230156: dec. 23; Generation dry-wall inc., 21114 22nd ave. W, lynnwood

201412230157: dec. 23; capstick Ward K (+), 20625 76th ave. se, snohomish

201412230158: dec. 23; Gifford robert, 1812 198th Place sW, lynnwood

201412230159: dec. 23; orca electrical contractors (+), Po Box 14693, Mill creek

201412230160: dec. 23; Widdis drywall (+), Po Box 12604, Mill creek

201412230161: dec. 23; hernandez leonardo r (+), 19305 36th ave. W, apt. 9, lynnwood

201412230162: dec. 23; Gregory charlotte l, Po Box 36, startup

201412230163: dec. 23; Mobley carlton, 10710 evergreen Way, apt. h205, everett

201412230164: dec. 23; nuss russell s (+), Po Box 252 n, lakewood

201412230165: dec. 23; nuss russell s, Po Box 252 n, lakewood

201412230166: dec. 23; austin aaron l (+), 2521 Burley drive, everett

201412230167: dec. 23; Grant Karen s, 12623 133rd Place se, snohomish

201412230168: dec. 23; lavalle dennis (+), 18206 96th drive se, snohomish

201412230169: dec. 23; ramos deborah, 8431 Madrona lane, edmonds

201412230193: dec. 23; Modern siding specialists, 10121 evergreen Way, 25-180, everett

201412230194: dec. 23; Mccoy Joseph, 1304 chestnut st., apt 8, everett

201412230195: dec. 23; romero ezequiel cesar, 4405 241st st. sW, Mountlake Terrace

201412300284: dec. 30; Frostology (+), 15421 Main st., suite h102, Mill creek

201412300285: dec. 30; asphalt services & Paving (+), 1025 ludwig road, snohomish

201412300286: dec. 30; Bradley inc. J K (+), 18802 67th ave. ne, arlington

201412300287: dec. 30; Jim & Val inc. (+), 2331 Broadway, everett

201412300288: dec. 30; Walker Jessie l, 20410 dawson road, lynnwood

201412300289: dec. 30; Peterson Todd M, 3103 rim drive, everett

201412300290: dec. 30; Pickens charles J Jr, 14113 23rd ave. ne, arlington

201412300291: dec. 30; Wilcox Jon c, 2205 186th Place se, Bothell

201412300292: dec. 30; Johnson christo-pher a (+), 5528 218th ave. ne, Granite Falls

201412300293: dec. 30; Bosch John a (+), 1725a 157th st. sW, lynnwood

201412300294: dec. 30; Bosch John a, 1725a 157th st. sW, lynnwood

201412300295: dec. 30; Murray alfred h,

7323-B 147th ave. se, snohomish201412300296: dec. 30; strickland-Wil-

liford lorena M, 12199 Village center Place, suite 201, no. a, Mukilteo

201412300297: dec. 30; Matson Jenifer l, Po Box 54, edmonds

201412300298: dec. 30; Welch Michael (+), Po Box 15050, Mill creek

201412300299: dec. 30; drywall By Martin & co (+), 101 alder ave., apt 201, snohomish

201412300300: dec. 30; stergo Kelly d (+), 3321 188th st. sW, apt. 3, lynnwood

201412300301: dec. 30; humble Kelly, 2607 143rd Place sW, lynnwood

201412300302: dec. 30; sarsten robert G Jr, 2801 s Machias road, snohomish

201412300303: dec. 30; schneider-man donald, 23715 84th ave. W, unit 102, edmonds

Federal tax lien — paid for 201412290252: dec. 29; holcomb ray s

(+), Po Box 751, sultan

Partial release — federal tax lien

201412020196: dec. 2; appleton William, 13732 228th st. ne, arlington

201412020197: dec. 2; Brueske scott a (+), 23516 81st ave. se, Woodinville

201412160377: dec. 16; storkel Karen P, 5701b 12th ave. W, everett

201412160378: dec. 16; randall rodney l, 10710 evergreen Way, apt. c206, everett

201412160379: dec. 16; swinburnson shannah l, 515 s davies road, lake stevens

Release of federal tax lien 201412020198: dec. 2; northwest Movers,

6501 216th st. sW, Mountlake Terrace201412020199: dec. 2; Jakesd corp.,

19414 8th Place W, lynnwood201412020200: dec. 2; hundal-halpin G,

12327 52nd drive se, everett201412020201: dec. 2; herrera Guillermo,

14825 10th ave. se, Mill creek201412020202: dec. 2; herrera Guillermo,

14825 10th ave. se, Mill creek201412020203: dec. 2; Frogchildren stu-

dios inc., 20501 14th ave. W, lynnwood201412020204: dec. 2; herrera Guillermo,

14825 10th ave. se, Mill creek201412090087: dec. 9; Forsberg robert G

(+), 20425 calhoun road, Monroe201412090088: dec. 9; hautamaki Jerry l,

719 Baird ave., snohomish201412090089: dec. 9; henry Jason W (+),

26719 469th ave. ne, darrington201412090090: dec. 9; ryan Floyd

Timothy (+), 11018 springhetti road, snohomish

201412090091: dec. 9; ryan Floyd Timo-thy (+), 11018 springhetti road, snohomish

201412090092: dec. 9; sans cynthia e, 11018 springhetti road, snohomish

201412090093: dec. 9; Biddle scott d (+), 14729 Westwick road, snohomish

201412090094: dec. 9; scott Kevin K (+), 12006 58th Place se, snohomish

201412090095: dec. 9; rock solid Trucking inc., 2225 cherry road, lake stevens

201412090096: dec. 9; shawn o’donnell enterprises inc. (+), 122 128th st. se, everett


201412090098: dec. 9; shawn o’donnell enterprises inc. (+), 122 128th st. ne, everett


201412090100: dec. 9; lester Joel r (+), 633 2nd ave. n, edmonds

201412090101: dec. 9; Gill Thomas a Jr (+), 9630 145th st. se, snohomish

201412090102: dec. 9; o’neil contract-ing & construction inc., 11625 center road, everett

201412090103: dec. 9; lund Karen, 15824 36th ave. W, no. 17, lynnwood

201412090104: dec. 9; lavender Moon society (+), 11018 springhetti road, snohomish

201412090246: dec. 9; hudson randi M, 120 124th ave., everett

201412150619: dec. 15; casey caleb, 820 88th ave. ne, everett

201412160338: dec. 16; nguyen Thy y, 20430 63rd Place W, lynnwood

201412160339: dec. 16; arnold Mary l, 8527 228th st. sW, edmonds

201412160340: dec. 16; Marcus drywall inc., 2706 newberg road, snohomish

201412160341: dec. 16; schmidt roger J, 4531 195th st. ne, arlington

201412160342: dec. 16; silbaugh dale r, 13326 22nd ave. W, lynnwood

201412160343: dec. 16; Woodin View stables inc., 8124 224th st. se, Woodinville

201412160344: dec. 16; silbaugh dale r (+), 12326 22nd ave. W, lynnwood

201412160345: dec. 16; silbaugh dale r, 12326 22nd ave. W, lynnwood

201412160346: dec. 16; Zickefoose Paul (+), 7423 179th st. sW, edmonds

201412160347: dec. 16; Valle-cano, 15121 Main st., Building d, Mill creek

201412160380: dec. 16; sorenson alan d (+), 320 skyline drive, everett

201412230170: dec. 23; harrison Mechani-cal inc., 1220 n carpenter road, snohomish

201412230171: dec. 23; Thomas Mary a, 17407 30th drive se, Bothell

201412230172: dec. 23; littrell russ T, 24106 57th Place W, Mountlake Terrace

201412230173: dec. 23; harrison Mechanical inc., 1220 n carpenter road, snohomish

201412230174: dec. 23; Thornburg Kris-ten, Po Box 6155, edmonds

201412230175: dec. 23; Wedgewood one Property (+), Po Box 252, n lakewood

201412230176: dec. 23; Fraternal order of eagles 3358 aerie, Po Box 448, Granite Falls

201412230177: dec. 23; Valle-cano (+), 15121 Main st., Bldg d, Mill creek

201412230178: dec. 23; Woods residen-tial services inc., 222 143rd st. se, everett

201412230196: dec. 23; clark inc. h, Po Box 2080, Woodinville

201412300304: dec. 30; stanton Michael l, 19733 Filbert drive, Bothell

201412300305: dec. 30; Pope robert l, 1631 114th drive se, lake stevens

201412300306: dec. 30; cottingham ran-dall s, 13708 62nd drive se, everett

201412300307: dec. 30; holguin irene s (+), 5905 lowell larimer road, everett

201412300308: dec. 30; unirom express Partnership (+), 8801 5th ave. W, everett

201412300309: dec. 30; Janetto Jo ann, Po Box 86, Mountlake Terrace

Satisfaction of employment security lien

201412020211: dec. 2; creative concrete inc. corp., state of Washington (dept of)

201412030368: dec. 3; Burkett cecil J Jr (+), state of Washington (dept of)

201412030369: dec. 3; Martin Jimmie leann (+), state of Washington (dept of)

201412040369: dec. 4; Pilchuck heating & corp., state of Washington (dept of)

201412040371: dec. 4; complete con-struction (+), state of Washington (dept of)

Withdrawal of federal tax lien

201412160348: dec. 16; Jirah enterprises (+), 9830 220th Place se, snohomish

201412160381: dec. 16; Kondel chester d, 7127 Picnic Point road, edmonds

201412300310: dec. 30; Wood Jo l, 1724 Grove st., apt 41, Marysville

Snohomish County tax liens

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New signs next step in Heritage merger

Heritage Bank replaced the signs on most of the Whidbey Island Bank branches in January, another step in the merger between two of Washington’s largest community banks.

Signs were replaced at all 12 branches of Heritage in Snohomish County. The six offices of the bank on Whidbey Island will keep the Whidbey Island Bank name and signs.

The new logo aims to creates a con-sistent brand for Heritage, which has 66 branches mostly along the I-5 corridor from Bellingham to Portland, Oregon.

Heritage and Whidbey Island Bank announced the merger in October 2013 and the merger was completed on May 1.

Heritage’s headquarters are in Olympia.

Bankruptcy filingsThe following snohomish County businesses

or individuals filed business-related bank-ruptcies with the u.s. bankruptcy Court for Western district of Washington between dec. 1 to dec. 31.

14-18784-KAO: Chapter 7, Carlos r. Veliz; attorney for debtor: lawrence M. blue; attor-ney for special request: douglas r. Cameron; filed: dec. 5; assets: no; type: voluntary; nature of business: other; type of debtor: individual

14-19091-KAO: Chapter 7, Gail a. Fager-lie; attorney for debtor: nicholas d. Fisher; attorney for special request: lisa M. McMa-hon-Myhran; filed: dec. 19; assets: no; type: voluntary; nature of business: other; type of debtor: individual

14-19142-KAO: Chapter 7, John C. sisley and andrea K. sisley; attorney for joint debt-

ors: larry b. Feinstein; filed: dec. 23; assets: no; type: voluntary; nature of business: other; type of debtor: individual

14-19178-KAO: Chapter 7, bradley r. sonne and Molly e. sonne; attorney for joint debtors: Patrick l. hinton; attorney for special request: Christopher r. Graving; attorney for special request: lance e. olsen; attorney for special request: Jeffrey l. smoot; filed: dec. 24; assets: no; type: voluntary; nature of busi-ness: other; type of debtor: individual

14-19196-TWD: Chapter 11, Maddy Claire; attorney for debtor: Jesse Valdez; attorney for special request: arnold M. Willig dore; filed: dec. 29; assets: yes; type: voluntary; nature of business: single-as-set real estate; type of debtor: corporation

14-19271-KAO: Chapter 7, Tower Construc-tion inc.; attorney for debtor: darrel b. Carter; filed: dec. 31; assets: no; type: voluntary; nature of business: other; type of debtor: corporation

EVERETT — The Everett Clinic welcomed Dr. Yomi Adekeye to its

Occupational Medicine department. Adekeye is now seeing patients in Everett. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Occupa-tional Medicine. Adekeye completed a fellowship in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

from University of Texas where she also earned her masters of Public Health. She earned her medical degree from Univer-sity of Ilorin, Nigeria.

EVERETT — Long-time Port of Everett Marine Terminal director Dave Madill has announced his retirement and marketing director Walter Seidl has been appointed to the key port role. Madill, who came to the Port of Everett in 2007, officially retires in April. Seidl, a veteran maritime professional who was hired in 2013, began transitioning into Madill’s position on Jan. 15.

EVERETT — Unique Beverage Co.’s new Cascade Ice package topped the list in the Beverage Industry’s Best Packages of 2014 survey with 27 percent of the vote, making it the Best Package of 2014. The Everett-based company decided to release its five most-popular flavors — lemonade, coconut, black raspberry, orange mango and pink grapefruit — in slim and eye-catching 7-ounce bottles.

EVERETT — Coastal Community Bank celebrated the grand opening of its 11th branch on Jan. 12. The new branch is located at 5415 Evergreen Way in Everett. Mayor Ray Stephanson and Coastal Community Bank CEO and president Eric Sprink attended a rib-bon-cutting ceremony to officially kick off the bank’s entry into south Everett.

EVERETT — The Rotary Club of

Everett has recognized Ralph Quaas for a half-century of service to the club and the Everett community. Quaas, 80, is the former owner of City Floral, which was located on Colby Avenue in downtown Everett. He took over the business from his father, J. Herbert Quaas, and ran it for 44 years.

EVERETT — On Jan. 23, Comcast opened the ninth official Xfinity Store in Washington at 7725 Evergreen Way in Everett. The new, interactive center allows customers to explore, learn, and interact directly with the latest Xfinity products and services. The store’s hours are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays.

EVERETT — Northwest Agriculture Business Center offers a one-day seminar, State of Cider: 2015 & Beyond, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Feb. 14 at Everett Community College; Jackson Center/Wilderness Center, Room 101. Keynote speaker is internationally renowned cider maker and educator Peter Mitchell from the UK. A fee of $95 includes beverages,

lunch and cider. Register at www.agbi-zcenter.org

ARLINGTON — Rockin Easy Travel of Arlington has been selected for the 2014 Best of Arlington Awards in the travel category by the Arlington Award Program. The award that focuses on quality rather than quantity came as a surprise to business owners Larry and Diana Estep. Rockin Easy Travel handles both local and global travel destinations.

BELLEVUE — AAA Washington has announced its 2015 Board of Trustees officers and board members. Robert Flowers, retired senior vice president of Washington Mutual Bank, was elected as chairman of AAA Washington’s Board of Trustees. David Madeira, Carolyn Kelly and Kirk Nelson were also named officers of the board. Returning trustees include Everett’s Gigi Burke, former co-owner and executive vice president of Crown Distributing.

EDMONDS — Landau Associates made several promotions and additions. Darlene Ruth was promoted to oper-ations associate, Brandon Duncan to project engineer, Mark Brunner to senior planner and Jeremy Davis to associate at the Edmonds office. The firm also added Jon Polka as a staff engineer in the Environmental Permitting and Com-pliance group. Becky Meggs joined the accounting department as an accounting specialist and will primarily be responsi-ble for accounts payable.

LYNNWOOD — Sparling has added William Phelps to its technology practice as project manager. He has more than 35 years of experience as a technology consultant. Currently, Phelps is providing technology design and project manage-

ment for Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Base-wide Upgrades, Lincoln Square Expansion in Bellevue, University of Washington Medical Center Montlake Tower Phase II, and Grays Harbor College STEM Building.

LYNNWOOD — North Homes Realty has hired Jennifer Bianchi as a sales associate. She will specialize in resi-dential and commercial property sales in the Lynnwood area. Bianchi completed extensive training through the Rockwell Institute in Bellevue. She is a supporter of Easter Seals through Century 21 and donates a portion of every sale to that organization.

LYNNWOOD —The Edmonds Community College Foundation reached its $1 million fundraising campaign goal for Boots to Books and Beyond on Dec. 31. The campaign offers student veterans extensive on-campus support services and provides emergency and gap funds for unexpected expenses. It also offers help in translating their military experiences into credits, and peer mentoring to provide emotional and academic support.

LYNNWOOD —A grand open-ing celebration for the new Cruise & Travel presented by AAA Lynnwood was held Jan. 6 at 3000 196th St. SW near the Whole Foods shopping center in Alderwood.

LYNNWOOD — Stevenson Adver-tising in Lynnwood has added three new

hires. Merri Hanson has joined the agency as vice presi-dent of Busi-

ness Development. Shirley Thom has been appointed to the newly created position of content writer. Kurt Stephan has joined the agency as editor of the Dealer Marketing Magazine. All three are seasoned professionals.

LYNNWOOD — Home Cinema Extreme is opening a home theater showroom at 10 a.m. on Feb. 6 at 18904 Highway 99, Suite P, Lynnwood. Cus-tomers are invited to come in and test drive an extreme home theater system. Drawings for home theater electronics are available for all who attend. The com-pany’s website is at www.homecinemaex-treme.com.

MARYSVILLE — RE/MAX Associ-ate Brokers has opened its third location and added a new managing broker, Rich Jones. The newest RE/MAX Associate Brokers office is in Marysville at 922 State St. Other locations are in Stan-

wood and Camano Island. Jones is a top producing agent and a native of the Marysville area. He began his real estate career in 2001.

MONROE — Canyon Creek Cabinet Company announced the appointment of Jeff Meehan to their sales management team, Jim Evans as pre-finish man-ager and Carlos Chris-tiansen as pre-finish supervisor. Meehan will be responsible for direct sales and for leading the contractor sales division.

MONROE — A holiday food drive by the Emerald City Athletic Club in Mon-roe, in support of the Sky Valley Food Bank, netted 8,820 pounds of food. John Canada, owner and manager of the club, organized the event.

MUKILTEO — Veteran Diamond Knot brewer Brian Guerrant is taking over the title of production manager at the Diamond Knot production brewery in Mukilteo. Brian Gilligan, just in from Kalamazoo, Michigan, will be manning the Mukilteo Brewhouse as the new swing shift production brewer. Lindsey Evans, formerly of The Ram, joined the Diamond Knot team as the new assistant manager at Mountlake Terrace.

MUKILTEO — A new business in Mukilteo, A Honu World of Hula, pro-vides hula classes for babies and moms, children of all ages and adults. Owners JoanMarie Hughes and Marcie Cheung want to make hula accessible to all people regardless of their age or ability. The website is www.ahonuworldofhula.com and they are on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ahonuworldofhula

SEATTLE — The Puget Sound Regional Council is accepting nomina-tions for its annual Vision 2040 Awards program until March 27. The awards recognize the superb work being done to achieve the region’s growth, economic, and transportation strategy, Vision 2040. Award nomination materials are available online at www.psrc.org/about/awards/v2020nominations or by contacting Michele Leslie at 206-587-4819, [email protected].

SNOHOMISH — The Snohomish Education Foundation has hired Sherri Williams to be its new director. She began work on Jan. 12. Williams previ-ously worked for Columbia Bank and First Heritage Bank, both located in Snohomish.

SNOHOMISH — The winner of this year’s Snohomish Battle of the Banks competition to � ght hunger is Columbia Bank. Five banks collected 772 pounds of food and $1,830 cash for the Snohomish Community Food Bank in the month of December. The other participating banks were Coastal Community, Opus, People’s and Washington Federal.

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County data (month/

year)

Pending sales,

residential real estate

Closed sales, residential real estate

Jobless rate, percent

Continued jobless claims

Aerospace employment

Construction employment

Professional services

employment

Local sales tax distributions, Snohomish

County

Consumer price

index, King, Snohomish counties

10/10 968 579 9.8 11,627 35,800 16,500 21,000 $4,184,474 227.25

11/10 854 572 9.8 12,498 36,300 15,800 20,900 $4,486,570

12/10 787 684 10.1 13,142 36,700 15,400 21,100 $4,038,376 226.89

01/11 938 533 9.8 14,391 37,000 14,300 20,200 $4,211,277

02/11 1,046 494 10.4 13,175 37,600 14,300 20,500 $5,374,920 229.48

03/11 1,375 785 10.2 13,200 38,000 14,300 20,700 $3,392,214

04/11 1,233 734 9.5 12,341 38,800 14,500 21,200 $3,415,252 231.31

05/11 1,315 820 9.2 11,974 39,300 14,700 21,200 $4,103,347

06/11 1,279 866 10.1 10,737 40,200 15,200 21,500 $4,202,089 233.25

07/11 1,207 851 10.1 10,388 41,100 15,700 21,800 $4,169,784

08/11 1,325 916 9.1 9,443 41,400 15,900 22,100 $4,591,484 233.81

09/11 1,161 837 9 8,938 42,100 15,800 22,100 $4,117,816

10/11 1,226 828 8.8 9,342 42,300 15,000 21,900 $4,165,352 235.92

11/11 1,041 854 8.7 9,989 43,100 15,000 21,700 $4,317,909

12/11 1,013 846 8 10,433 43,300 14,800 21,600 $4,007,300 234.81

01/12 1,150 593 8.7 12,829 43,500 14,100 21,800 $4,030,147

02/12 1,391 698 8.9 11,430 43,800 14,300 22,400 $5,348,753 235.74

03/12 1,665 828 8.4 10,937 44,100 14,400 22,400 $3,503,955

04/12 1,570 886 7.3 10,674 44,400 14,700 23,100 $3,761,069 237.93

05/12 1,579 1,000 7.8 9,578 44,700 15,100 23,300 $4,247,900

06/12 1,448 1,025 8.4 8,951 45,200 15,400 23,300 $4,064,415 239.54

07/12 1,400 1,029 8.4 9,114 45,800 16,100 23,300 $4,264,446

08/12 1,324 1,027 7.5 7,834 46,300 16,500 23,400 $4,485,421 240.21

09/12 1,206 880 7.1 7,865 46,900 16,300 23,600 $4,522,340

10/12 1,325 937 7 7,870 46,800 16,300 23,300 $4,577,850 241.36

11/12 1,114 806 6.8 8,445 47,500 16,100 23,000 $4,768,450

12/12 872 892 6.6 9,351 47,100 15,900 23,100 $4,378,797 237.99

01/13 1,154 713 7.1 9,962 46,800 15,600 22,600 $4,466,777

02/13 1,236 673 6.3 9,182 46,600 15,300 22,500 $5,680,845 239.90

03/13 1,576 932 5.7 9,060 46,400 15,400 22,500 $4,093,977

04/13 1,500 1,020 4.9 8,891 46,100 15,500 22,900 $3,970,313 240.82

05/13 1,487 1,131 4.7 8,093 45,500 15,800 22,700 $4,725,432

06/13 1,488 1,159 5.7 7,888 45,700 16,200 22,900 $4,316,634 242.82

07/13 1,470 1,141 5.6 7,787 45,900 18,000 24,000 $4,584,288

08/13 1,402 1,143 6.2 7,062 44,900 18,400 24,000 $4,921,104 242.77

09/13 1,150 1,032 N/A 7,180 45,100 18,300 24,000 $3,573,194

10/13 1,219 1,041 6.0 7,149 44,500 18,200 23,900 $4,998,366 242.78

11/13 1,010 833 5.7 7,499 44,300 17,900 24,200 $5,132,975

12/13 835 871 5.3 8,829 44,700 17,800 24,000 $3,348,852 241.05

01/14 1,195 615 6.0 9,651 44,000 14,500 23,300 $3,382,321

02/14 1,180 688 6.4 8,850 43,700 14,800 23,100 $4,087,089 242.77

03/14 1,481 949 6.0 8,897 43,700 14,800 23,400 $3,013,059

04/14 1,454 943 4.9 8,069 43,400 14,800 23,100 $2,923,521 246.61

05/14 1,718 1,074 5.0 7,502 43,600 15,100 23,100 $3,370,904

06/14 1,545 1,220 5.1 7,177 44,400 15,400 23,300 $3,290,880 247.64

07/14 1,457 1,172 5.3 6,587 44,000 18,400 23,500 $3,474,651

08/14 1,393 1,163 5.4 6,244 43,000 18,800 23,800 $3,695,926 247.18

09/14 1,328 1,057 5.1 N/A 42,900 18,800 23,800 $3,838,762

10/14 1,327 1,113 4.8 N/A 41,400 18,300 24,200 $3,663,750 247.854

11/14 1,027 885 4.8 6,093 41,800 18,000 24,100 $3,852,205.00

12/14 956 920 4.5 6,943 42,000 17,700 24,100 $3,582,032.00 245.05

Boeing Co. stock

price

PUD retail electricity use

PUD new service

connections

New vehicle registrations

Average gas prices

$70.64 501,194,925 259 3,709 $3.01

$63.77 492,939,394 248 3,062 $3.08

$65.72 703,849,280 292 3,329 $3.15

$65.26 659,071,072 231 3,491 $3.23

$72.01 635,877,009 197 3,115 $3.34

$73.93 712,625,392 225 4,327 $3.70

$79.78 637,552,469 217 4,065 $3.92

$78.03 562,380,445 257 3,972 $3.99

$73.93 543,602,022 213 4,196 $3.86

$70.47 446,373,984 241 3,935 $3.78

$66.86 521,884,745 227 4,181 $3.75

$60.51 455,591,472 192 3,896 $3.86

$65.79 493,315,047 214 3,883 $3.80

$68.69 518,192,703 188 3,334 $3.67

$73.35 695,279,915 239 3,504 $3.44

$74.18 676,580,919 246 3,256 $3.44

$74.95 688,378,176 294 3,496 $3.57

$74.37 671,475,890 223 4,419 $4.00

$76.80 619,896,882 223 4,305 $4.08

$69.61 495,062,119 290 4,748 $4.16

$74.30 498,393,947 222 4,585 $4.00

$73.91 446,516,298 207 4,402 $3.57

$71.40 468,361,106 282 4,664 $3.81

$69.60 408,581,275 255 4,155 $4.01

$70.44 503,030,443 442 4,303 $3.96

$74.28 473,023,558 225 3,682 $3.47

$75.36 614,283,104 234 3,636 $3.34

$73.87 700,861,857 223 4,656 $3.37

$76.90 674,618,017 316 3,753 $3.62

$85.85 608,606,315 330 4,713 $3.80

$91.41 617,541,384 321 4,943 $3.64

$99.05 492,112,324 276 5,256 $3.83

$102.32 465,163,451 213 5,275 $3.79

$105.10 453,404,099 322 5,622 $3.82

$103.92 470,067,543 232 5,742 $3.78

$117.50 410,719,601 338 5,141 $3.65

$138.36 518,766,206 461 5,179 $3.44

$133.83 461,012,493 447 4,083 $3.24

$136.92 671,835,200 244 4,752 $3.29

$125.26 696,306,571 421 5,726 $3.36

$128.92 682,348,469 386 4,467 $3.31

$125.49 610,841,349 352 5,428 $3.75

$129.02 605,381,115 368 6,389 $3.74

$135.25 468,754,469 466 6,542 $3.87

$127.23 492,917,254 412 6,626 $3.93

$120.48 N/A 444 6,611 $3.95

$126.80 463,314,006 363 5,614 $3.83

$127.38 451,089,566 264 N/A $3.74

$124.91 496,335,315 403 N/A $3.40

$134.36 422,769,229 426 N/A $3.04

$132.25 N/A N/A N/A $2.88

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snohomish CounTy eConomiC daTa eConomiC daTaSnohomish

County data (month/

year)

Pending sales,

residential real estate

Closed sales, residential real estate

Jobless rate, percent

Continued jobless claims

Aerospace employment

Construction employment

Professional services

employment

Local sales tax distributions, Snohomish

County

Consumer price

index, King, Snohomish counties

10/10 968 579 9.8 11,627 35,800 16,500 21,000 $4,184,474 227.25

11/10 854 572 9.8 12,498 36,300 15,800 20,900 $4,486,570

12/10 787 684 10.1 13,142 36,700 15,400 21,100 $4,038,376 226.89

01/11 938 533 9.8 14,391 37,000 14,300 20,200 $4,211,277

02/11 1,046 494 10.4 13,175 37,600 14,300 20,500 $5,374,920 229.48

03/11 1,375 785 10.2 13,200 38,000 14,300 20,700 $3,392,214

04/11 1,233 734 9.5 12,341 38,800 14,500 21,200 $3,415,252 231.31

05/11 1,315 820 9.2 11,974 39,300 14,700 21,200 $4,103,347

06/11 1,279 866 10.1 10,737 40,200 15,200 21,500 $4,202,089 233.25

07/11 1,207 851 10.1 10,388 41,100 15,700 21,800 $4,169,784

08/11 1,325 916 9.1 9,443 41,400 15,900 22,100 $4,591,484 233.81

09/11 1,161 837 9 8,938 42,100 15,800 22,100 $4,117,816

10/11 1,226 828 8.8 9,342 42,300 15,000 21,900 $4,165,352 235.92

11/11 1,041 854 8.7 9,989 43,100 15,000 21,700 $4,317,909

12/11 1,013 846 8 10,433 43,300 14,800 21,600 $4,007,300 234.81

01/12 1,150 593 8.7 12,829 43,500 14,100 21,800 $4,030,147

02/12 1,391 698 8.9 11,430 43,800 14,300 22,400 $5,348,753 235.74

03/12 1,665 828 8.4 10,937 44,100 14,400 22,400 $3,503,955

04/12 1,570 886 7.3 10,674 44,400 14,700 23,100 $3,761,069 237.93

05/12 1,579 1,000 7.8 9,578 44,700 15,100 23,300 $4,247,900

06/12 1,448 1,025 8.4 8,951 45,200 15,400 23,300 $4,064,415 239.54

07/12 1,400 1,029 8.4 9,114 45,800 16,100 23,300 $4,264,446

08/12 1,324 1,027 7.5 7,834 46,300 16,500 23,400 $4,485,421 240.21

09/12 1,206 880 7.1 7,865 46,900 16,300 23,600 $4,522,340

10/12 1,325 937 7 7,870 46,800 16,300 23,300 $4,577,850 241.36

11/12 1,114 806 6.8 8,445 47,500 16,100 23,000 $4,768,450

12/12 872 892 6.6 9,351 47,100 15,900 23,100 $4,378,797 237.99

01/13 1,154 713 7.1 9,962 46,800 15,600 22,600 $4,466,777

02/13 1,236 673 6.3 9,182 46,600 15,300 22,500 $5,680,845 239.90

03/13 1,576 932 5.7 9,060 46,400 15,400 22,500 $4,093,977

04/13 1,500 1,020 4.9 8,891 46,100 15,500 22,900 $3,970,313 240.82

05/13 1,487 1,131 4.7 8,093 45,500 15,800 22,700 $4,725,432

06/13 1,488 1,159 5.7 7,888 45,700 16,200 22,900 $4,316,634 242.82

07/13 1,470 1,141 5.6 7,787 45,900 18,000 24,000 $4,584,288

08/13 1,402 1,143 6.2 7,062 44,900 18,400 24,000 $4,921,104 242.77

09/13 1,150 1,032 N/A 7,180 45,100 18,300 24,000 $3,573,194

10/13 1,219 1,041 6.0 7,149 44,500 18,200 23,900 $4,998,366 242.78

11/13 1,010 833 5.7 7,499 44,300 17,900 24,200 $5,132,975

12/13 835 871 5.3 8,829 44,700 17,800 24,000 $3,348,852 241.05

01/14 1,195 615 6.0 9,651 44,000 14,500 23,300 $3,382,321

02/14 1,180 688 6.4 8,850 43,700 14,800 23,100 $4,087,089 242.77

03/14 1,481 949 6.0 8,897 43,700 14,800 23,400 $3,013,059

04/14 1,454 943 4.9 8,069 43,400 14,800 23,100 $2,923,521 246.61

05/14 1,718 1,074 5.0 7,502 43,600 15,100 23,100 $3,370,904

06/14 1,545 1,220 5.1 7,177 44,400 15,400 23,300 $3,290,880 247.64

07/14 1,457 1,172 5.3 6,587 44,000 18,400 23,500 $3,474,651

08/14 1,393 1,163 5.4 6,244 43,000 18,800 23,800 $3,695,926 247.18

09/14 1,328 1,057 5.1 N/A 42,900 18,800 23,800 $3,838,762

10/14 1,327 1,113 4.8 N/A 41,400 18,300 24,200 $3,663,750 247.854

11/14 1,027 885 4.8 6,093 41,800 18,000 24,100 $3,852,205.00

12/14 956 920 4.5 6,943 42,000 17,700 24,100 $3,582,032.00 245.05

Boeing Co. stock

price

PUD retail electricity use

PUD new service

connections

New vehicle registrations

Average gas prices

$70.64 501,194,925 259 3,709 $3.01

$63.77 492,939,394 248 3,062 $3.08

$65.72 703,849,280 292 3,329 $3.15

$65.26 659,071,072 231 3,491 $3.23

$72.01 635,877,009 197 3,115 $3.34

$73.93 712,625,392 225 4,327 $3.70

$79.78 637,552,469 217 4,065 $3.92

$78.03 562,380,445 257 3,972 $3.99

$73.93 543,602,022 213 4,196 $3.86

$70.47 446,373,984 241 3,935 $3.78

$66.86 521,884,745 227 4,181 $3.75

$60.51 455,591,472 192 3,896 $3.86

$65.79 493,315,047 214 3,883 $3.80

$68.69 518,192,703 188 3,334 $3.67

$73.35 695,279,915 239 3,504 $3.44

$74.18 676,580,919 246 3,256 $3.44

$74.95 688,378,176 294 3,496 $3.57

$74.37 671,475,890 223 4,419 $4.00

$76.80 619,896,882 223 4,305 $4.08

$69.61 495,062,119 290 4,748 $4.16

$74.30 498,393,947 222 4,585 $4.00

$73.91 446,516,298 207 4,402 $3.57

$71.40 468,361,106 282 4,664 $3.81

$69.60 408,581,275 255 4,155 $4.01

$70.44 503,030,443 442 4,303 $3.96

$74.28 473,023,558 225 3,682 $3.47

$75.36 614,283,104 234 3,636 $3.34

$73.87 700,861,857 223 4,656 $3.37

$76.90 674,618,017 316 3,753 $3.62

$85.85 608,606,315 330 4,713 $3.80

$91.41 617,541,384 321 4,943 $3.64

$99.05 492,112,324 276 5,256 $3.83

$102.32 465,163,451 213 5,275 $3.79

$105.10 453,404,099 322 5,622 $3.82

$103.92 470,067,543 232 5,742 $3.78

$117.50 410,719,601 338 5,141 $3.65

$138.36 518,766,206 461 5,179 $3.44

$133.83 461,012,493 447 4,083 $3.24

$136.92 671,835,200 244 4,752 $3.29

$125.26 696,306,571 421 5,726 $3.36

$128.92 682,348,469 386 4,467 $3.31

$125.49 610,841,349 352 5,428 $3.75

$129.02 605,381,115 368 6,389 $3.74

$135.25 468,754,469 466 6,542 $3.87

$127.23 492,917,254 412 6,626 $3.93

$120.48 N/A 444 6,611 $3.95

$126.80 463,314,006 363 5,614 $3.83

$127.38 451,089,566 264 N/A $3.74

$124.91 496,335,315 403 N/A $3.40

$134.36 422,769,229 426 N/A $3.04

$132.25 N/A N/A N/A $2.88


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ArlingtonArlington Flight Services: 18810 55 drive

ne, Building 44a, arlington, Wa 98223; 360-435-5700; services not elsewhere classified

Mr Mudder: 239 W Jensen st., arlington, Wa 98223-8223; nonclassified establishments

Thomco Inc.: 16910 59th ave. ne, arling-ton, Wa 98223-3725; 360-548-3965; nonclas-sified establishments

BothellAda’s Polish Pottery: 826 237th st. se, no.

F, Bothell, Wa 98021-4306; PotteryAWE Photography: 17520 north road, no.

B, Bothell, Wa 98012-9106; PhotographyCampax Global: 809 234th Place se,

Bothell, Wa 98021-6810; nonclassified establishments

Data Rivet: 4117 215th st. se, Bothell, Wa 98021-7986; Business services not elsewhere classified

Ennen Aerospace Consulting: 18811 20th ave. se, Bothell, Wa 98012-8722; consul-tants-Business not elsewhere classified

Evolution Tool & Design: 22930 2nd ave. se, Bothell, Wa 98021-8702; Tools-new and used

Generation Hope: 3301 Monte Villa Parkway, no. 200, Bothell, Wa 98021-4800; nonclassified establishments

ICOB: 3300 Monte Villa Parkway, Bothell, Wa 98021-8972; 425-481-8216; nonclassified establishments

Limitless HR Solultions: 3409 176th Place se, Bothell, Wa 98012-7482; human resource consultants

Message Heights: 22833 Bothell everett highway, Bothell, Wa 98021-9385; 425-481-7948; nonclassified establishments

Messy Handz Studio: 23613 23rd ave. W, Bothell, Wa 98021-9205; nonclassified establishments

One Stop Wireless: 17525 14th drive se, Bothell, Wa 98012-6456; cellular Telephones (services)

Paint & Party: 22926 38th ave. se, Bothell, Wa 98021-8922; Paint-retail

Pixelty: 19703 1st ave. se, Bothell, Wa 98012-9220; nonclassified establishments

Shridisairaj 777 Inc: 24030 39th lane se, Bothell, Wa 98021-9074; nonclassified establishments

Stargate Technologies Inc.: 22122 20th ave. se, Bothell, Wa 98021-4433; nonclassi-fied establishments

Sustainable Methods Institute: 20611 Bothell-everett highway, no. e171, Bothell, Wa 98012-7146; associations

Thermo Fisher Scientific: 22025 20th ave. se, Bothell, Wa 98021-4406; 425-398-6509; scientific organization

Top Tier Enterprises: 20115 Bartlett road, Bothell, Wa 98012-9647; nonclassified establishments

Vinale: 3350 Monte Villa Parkway, no. 220, Bothell, Wa 98021-8963; 425-286-9200; liquors-retail

BrierJeanie Faye Knits: 2949 216th Place sW,

Brier, Wa 98036-8044; needlework and nee-dlework Materials-retail

Todd Ramsey Consulting: 2392 231st Place sW, Brier, Wa 98036-8385; consultants-Busi-ness not elsewhere classified

DarringtonSteadfast Research: 30607 sauk Prairie

road, darrington, Wa 98241-9437; research service

Whitehorse Farmers Market: Po Box 1290,

darrington, Wa 98241-1290; Fruits and Vege-tables and Produce-retail

Edmonds2 Point 0: 416 daley st., no. d, edmonds,

Wa 98020-3186; nonclassified establishments320 Dayton: 320 dayton st., edmonds,

Wa 98020-3567; 425-673-5229; nonclassified establishments

Ah Ha: 18211 76th ave. W, edmonds, Wa 98026-5408; nonclassified establishments

Betayum: 7907 212th st. sW, edmonds, Wa 98026-7541; 425-412-3856; nonclassified establishments

Big Teriyaki: 23416 highway 99, no. B, edmonds, Wa 98026-9328; restaurants

Brigid’s Bottle Shop: 190 sunset ave., no. c, edmonds, Wa 98020-4134; 206-491-7056; Bars

Harbor Freight Tools: 22111 highway 99, edmonds, Wa 98026-8041; 425-640-3728; Tools-new and used

JHM Inc: 921 spruce st., edmonds, Wa 98020-3333; nonclassified establishments

KCR Global Entertainment Group: 23416 highway 99, no. B, edmonds, Wa 98026-9328; entertainment Bureaus

Korea House: 20901 Woodlake drive, edmonds, Wa 98026-6955; restaurants

Lynnwood Dental Care: 23416 highway 99, no. B, edmonds, Wa 98026-9328; dentists

Mobile Home Seismic: 4725 142nd Place sW, edmonds, Wa 98026-3934; surveyors-seismic

My Punkin’s Closet: 610 5th ave. s, edmonds, Wa 98020-3404; clothing-retail

Pacific Xpress: 23416 highway 99, no. B, edmonds, Wa 98026-9328; nonclassified establishments

Polar Bear Mechanical: 7907 212th st. sW, edmonds, Wa 98026-7541; Mechanical contractors

Steel Magic Northwest: 20104 88th ave. W, edmonds, Wa 98026-6621; steel-distribu-tors and Warehouses (Wholesale)

Your Salon: 1233 olympic View drive, no. a, edmonds, Wa 98020-2658; Beauty salons

EverettAE Service & Repair: 801 hawthorne st.,

no. 2, everett, Wa 98201-1269; services not elsewhere classified

Angie’s Hair Studios: 13027 Bothell everett highway, everett, Wa 98208-7226; 425-585-0413; Beauty salons

Belle Dita: 1802 73rd st. se, everett, Wa 98203-5255; nonclassified establishments

Bethany’s Grooming: 514 Waverly ave., everett, Wa 98201-1144; Pet Washing and Grooming

Betty June’s 63rd St Tattoo: 6325 ever-green Way, everett, Wa 98203-4555; 425-353-1333; Tattooing

Big Dawg Motors: 9901 evergreen Way, everett, Wa 98204-3831; nonclassified establishments

Blue Flight Dynamics: 1901 Merrill creek Parkway, no. M108, everett, Wa 98203-5872; nonclassified establishments

Cellaxs Repair: 1312 chestnut st., no. 1, everett, Wa 98201-1936; cellular Telephones (services)

Coeur D’Alene Window Co.: 4003 smith ave., everett, Wa 98201-4551; 425-512-9159; Windows

Critter Calls Mobile Vet: 5129 evergreen Way, no. 275, everett, Wa 98203-2869; Veterinarians

D&S Home Care Solutions: 9021 11th Place W, everett, Wa 98204-2694; home health service

Danetora Taxi: 6c W intercity ave., everett, Wa 98204-2730; Taxicabs and Transportation service

DR & Sons Solutions: 1516 rucker ave., everett, Wa 98201-2016; nonclassified establishments

DVE Store Inc.: 2727 W Marine View drive, everett, Wa 98201; 425-212-9884; General Merchandise-retail

Eastern Massage: 5705 evergreen Way,

everett, Wa 98203-6030; 425-353-0911; Mas-sage Therapists

Emanuel Inc.: 3702 Broadway, everett, Wa 98201-5030; 425-512-0113; nonclassified establishments

Employee Transportation Services: 6320 evergreen Way, everett, Wa 98203-4500; 425-374-2211; Transportation

Evergreen Shell Food Mart: 5001 ever-green Way, everett, Wa 98203-2826; 253-941-2415; service stations-Gasoline and oil

Faith Baptist Church Of Everett: 2814 rockefeller ave., everett, Wa 98201-3525; 425-252-1847; churches

Faso Grocer: 2024 Broadway, everett, Wa 98201-2318; 206-225-9050; Grocers-retail

Friendship Diversion Services: 3015 colby ave., everett, Wa 98201-4090; 425-258-4063; services not elsewhere classified

Future Ryders: 12605 e Gibson road, no. 22, everett, Wa 98204-5698; nonclassified establishments

Gamb Trading: 12720 4th ave. W, everett, Wa 98204-5707; 425-610-4613; nonclassified establishments

Golden Tree WA: 5620 seahurst ave., everett, Wa 98203-3025; nonclassified establishments

JDB Fisheries: 12616 25th ave. se, everett, Wa 98208-6605; Fishery consultants

Karen’s Kollectibles: 3425 colby ave., no. 305, everett, Wa 98201-4759; collectibles

L&L Custom Sports Jewelry: Po Box 1034, everett, Wa 98206-1034; Jewelers-retail

LA LA Nail Salon: 6229 rockefeller ave., no. a, everett, Wa 98203-3835; Manicuring

Lulu’s Pets Spa: 12102 4th ave. W, no. 2-201, everett, Wa 98204-5728; Pet Washing and Grooming

Natures Delight: 1523 132nd st. se, ever-ett, Wa 98208-7200; 425-357-0220; nonclassi-fied establishments

Network Plumbing NW: 12712 admiralty Way, no. h102, everett, Wa 98204-8030; Plumbing contractors

Nick Trucking: 2309 116th st. sW, no. c, everett, Wa 98204-5104; Trucking

Parker Family Movers: 327 126th Place se, no. B, everett, Wa 98208-6427; Movers

Pipers Palace & Treasures: 1420 hewitt ave., everett, Wa 98201-3503; 425-258-1589; nonclassified establishments

Quality Framing RSR Construction: Po Box 4219, everett, Wa 98204-0022; construction companies

Rijo Athletics: 6501 rainier drive, ever-ett, Wa 98203-4672; 425-267-4195; athletic organizations

Sasquatch Kettle Corn: 1402 se everett Mall Way, everett, Wa 98208-2857; 425-263-9437; Popcorn and Popcorn supplies

Savvy Sketch Writing Services: 2932 96th Place se, everett, Wa 98208-2976; Writers

Sky Ridge Periodontics: 10814 19th ave. se, everett, Wa 98208-5153; dentists

Spade Life: 1315 Pacific ave., no. 203, everett, Wa 98201-4284; nonclassified establishments

Subthing Special: 910 se everett Mall Way, everett, Wa 98208-3709; 425-290-3938; non-classified establishments

Supreme Supply Inc: 12414 highway 99, everett, Wa 98204-5544; 425-263-9689; Gen-eral Merchandise-retail

Suzuki Manaji MD: ste 190, everett, Wa 98208; 425-316-5000; Physicians and surgeons

Taqueria El Taquin: 520 128th st. sW, no. B5, everett, Wa 98204-9351; restaurants

Triton EHM: 1714 hewitt ave., everett, Wa 98201-3561; 425-322-5082; nonclassified establishments

Twin Foxes: 2718 hewitt ave., everett, Wa 98201-3740; 425-249-2299; nonclassified establishments

Vertaqua: 1901 Merrill creek Parkway, no. M108, everett, Wa 98203-5872; nonclassified establishments

Gold BarAll Purpose Cleaners: 42700 156th st. se,

Gold Bar, Wa 98251-9335; cleaners

Granite FallsAppliance Services & Parts: 231 W stanley

st., Granite Falls, Wa 98252; 360-386-8503; appliances-household-Major-repairing

Boris Koeten Photography: Po Box 33, Granite Falls, Wa 98252-0033; Photography

Pangea: 18212 crooked Mile road, Granite Falls, Wa 98252-9767; nonclassified establishments

Uhphose.Com: 8902 164th ave. ne, Granite Falls, Wa 98252-6902; advertising-computer

Wildshoot Forest & Farm: Po Box 686, Granite Falls, Wa 98252-0686; Farms

Lake Stevens360 Auto Recycling: 2017 n Machias road,

lake stevens, Wa 98258; 425-334-2898; auto-mobile crushing service (Wholesale)

Absolute Home Improvement & Mainte-nance: 9327 15th st. ne, lake stevens, Wa 98258-8599; home improvements

Awkward Brewing: 12202 11th Place ne, lake stevens, Wa 98258-9294; Brewers (Manufacturers)

Car Chasers: 2008 Grade road, lake stevens, Wa 98258-9182; 425-512-8462; non-classified establishments

Cornerstone Orthopedic Pro: 2210 soper hill road, lake stevens, Wa 98258-4232; 425-212-9712; Physicians and surgeons

Golden Tree: 2524 n Machias road, lake stevens, Wa 98258; 425-610-4545; Tree service

Gyro Heroes: 525 highway 9 ne, lake stevens, Wa 98258; 425-512-9804; restaurants

Ken’s Sales & Consulting: 1504 85th ave. se, lake stevens, Wa 98258-3687; General Merchandise-retail

Lasco Products: 1804 118th ave. ne, lake stevens, Wa 98258-9502; General Merchandise-retail

Luca’s Wood Fired Pizza & Alehouse: 430 91st ave. ne, no. 10, lake stevens, Wa 98258-2534; 425-501-3835; restaurants

Morbiz: 10005 n davies road, lake stevens, Wa 98258-8566; 425-367-4490; non-classified establishments

Robert & Andrea Management: 8632 6th st. se, lake stevens, Wa 98258-3675; Management services

West Pacific Builders: 9623 32nd st. se, lake stevens, Wa 98258-5779; 425-249-2359; Building contractors

LynnwoodC’s Teriyaki: 18514 highway 99, no. e,

lynnwood, Wa 98037-4549; restaurantsCube Grill: 15215 28th ave. W, lynnwood,

Wa 98087-2499; restaurantsCustom Sensor Design Inc: 2006 196th

st. sW, no. 102, lynnwood, Wa 98036-7042; 425-315-7348; nonclassified establishments

E Solution Paralegal Service: 2015 142nd Place sW, lynnwood, Wa 98087-6057; Paralegals

G Mart Lynnwood: 17424 highway 99, lynnwood, Wa 98037-9241; 253-886-3200; Grocers-retail

Global Aquaculture Alliance: 19105 36th ave. W, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5760; 425-582-0563; associations

Hair By Jody: 5723 203rd st. sW, lynnwood, Wa 98036-6216; Beauty salons

Happy Feet Wellness: 17825 16th ave. W, lynnwood, Wa 98037-4047; Wellness Programs

Imelody Telecom: 3310 209th Place sW, lynnwood, Wa 98036-8965; Telecommunica-tions services

Impact Painting: 6125 200th st. sW, lyn-nwood, Wa 98036-6004; Painters

Integrity Granite & Tile: 4210 196th st. sW, lynnwood, Wa 98036-6726; 425-582-7442; Granite (Wholesale)

Italian Custom Tailor: 3301 184th st. sW, no. 110, lynnwood, Wa 98037-8013; 425-

673-5228; TailorsJourney School: 21500 cypress Way,

lynnwood, Wa 98036-7939; 425-673-5005; schools

Lime & Melon: 19400 36th ave. W, no. 101, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5726; nonclassi-fied establishments

Loving Care AFHII: 19215 56th ave. W, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5200; nonclassified establishments

M Market: 14920 highway 99, lynnwood, Wa 98087-2300; 425-745-1180; General Merchandise-retail

Melani Antonio Salon: 19620 highway 99, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5565; 425-673-4828; Beauty salons

MET Apparel: 21318 8th Place W, lyn-nwood, Wa 98036-8613; apparel and Garments-retail

MJM Motors: 3314 128th Place sW, lynnwood, Wa 98087-5101; 425-353-1503; nonclassified establishments

Mystic Moon Abstractions: 15700 larch Way, lynnwood, Wa 98087-2636; Title companies

New Widget Tek Sales: 21824 17th Place W, lynnwood, Wa 98036-7990; General Merchandise-retail

Pacific Ridge Homes Belterra: 3527 171st st. sW, lynnwood, Wa 98037-9100; 425-678-8091; nonclassified establishments

Red Zone Bar & Grill: 6212 165th Place sW, lynnwood, Wa 98037-2725; restaurants

Rose Vape: 18415 33rd ave. W, no. P, lynnwood, Wa 98037-4702; 425-771-3329; electronic cigarettes

Ross Labs: 5631 208th st. sW, lynnwood, Wa 98036-7513; 425-673-4967; laboratories

Snohomish Office Partners: 19000 33rd ave. W, no. 130, lynnwood, Wa 98036-4753; nonclassified establishments

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business licenses business licensesGold bar, Wa 98251-9335; cleaners

Granite FallsAppliance Services & Parts: 231 W stanley

st., Granite Falls, Wa 98252; 360-386-8503; appliances-household-Major-repairing

Boris Koeten Photography: Po box 33, Granite Falls, Wa 98252-0033; Photography

Pangea: 18212 crooked Mile road, Granite Falls, Wa 98252-9767; nonclassified establishments

Uhphose.Com: 8902 164th ave. ne, Granite Falls, Wa 98252-6902; advertising-computer

Wildshoot Forest & Farm: Po box 686, Granite Falls, Wa 98252-0686; Farms

Lake Stevens360 Auto Recycling: 2017 n Machias road,

lake stevens, Wa 98258; 425-334-2898; auto-mobile crushing service (Wholesale)

Absolute Home Improvement & Mainte-nance: 9327 15th st. ne, lake stevens, Wa 98258-8599; home improvements

Awkward Brewing: 12202 11th Place ne, lake stevens, Wa 98258-9294; brewers (Manufacturers)

Car Chasers: 2008 Grade road, lake stevens, Wa 98258-9182; 425-512-8462; non-classified establishments

Cornerstone Orthopedic Pro: 2210 soper hill road, lake stevens, Wa 98258-4232; 425-212-9712; Physicians and surgeons

Golden Tree: 2524 n Machias road, lake stevens, Wa 98258; 425-610-4545; Tree service

Gyro Heroes: 525 highway 9 ne, lake stevens, Wa 98258; 425-512-9804; restaurants

Ken’s Sales & Consulting: 1504 85th ave. se, lake stevens, Wa 98258-3687; General Merchandise-retail

Lasco Products: 1804 118th ave. ne, lake stevens, Wa 98258-9502; General Merchandise-retail

Luca’s Wood Fired Pizza & Alehouse: 430 91st ave. ne, no. 10, lake stevens, Wa 98258-2534; 425-501-3835; restaurants

Morbiz: 10005 n davies road, lake stevens, Wa 98258-8566; 425-367-4490; non-classified establishments

Robert & Andrea Management: 8632 6th st. se, lake stevens, Wa 98258-3675; Management services

West Pacific Builders: 9623 32nd st. se, lake stevens, Wa 98258-5779; 425-249-2359; building contractors

LynnwoodC’s Teriyaki: 18514 highway 99, no. e,

lynnwood, Wa 98037-4549; restaurantsCube Grill: 15215 28th ave. W, lynnwood,

Wa 98087-2499; restaurantsCustom Sensor Design Inc: 2006 196th

st. sW, no. 102, lynnwood, Wa 98036-7042; 425-315-7348; nonclassified establishments

E Solution Paralegal Service: 2015 142nd Place sW, lynnwood, Wa 98087-6057; Paralegals

G Mart Lynnwood: 17424 highway 99, lynnwood, Wa 98037-9241; 253-886-3200; Grocers-retail

Global Aquaculture Alliance: 19105 36th ave. W, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5760; 425-582-0563; associations

Hair By Jody: 5723 203rd st. sW, lynnwood, Wa 98036-6216; beauty salons

Happy Feet Wellness: 17825 16th ave. W, lynnwood, Wa 98037-4047; Wellness Programs

Imelody Telecom: 3310 209th Place sW, lynnwood, Wa 98036-8965; Telecommunica-tions services

Impact Painting: 6125 200th st. sW, lyn-nwood, Wa 98036-6004; Painters

Integrity Granite & Tile: 4210 196th st. sW, lynnwood, Wa 98036-6726; 425-582-7442; Granite (Wholesale)

Italian Custom Tailor: 3301 184th st. sW, no. 110, lynnwood, Wa 98037-8013; 425-

673-5228; TailorsJourney School: 21500 cypress Way,

lynnwood, Wa 98036-7939; 425-673-5005; schools

Lime & Melon: 19400 36th ave. W, no. 101, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5726; nonclassi-fied establishments

Loving Care AFHII: 19215 56th ave. W, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5200; nonclassified establishments

M Market: 14920 highway 99, lynnwood, Wa 98087-2300; 425-745-1180; General Merchandise-retail

Melani Antonio Salon: 19620 highway 99, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5565; 425-673-4828; beauty salons

MET Apparel: 21318 8th Place W, lyn-nwood, Wa 98036-8613; apparel and Garments-retail

MJM Motors: 3314 128th Place sW, lynnwood, Wa 98087-5101; 425-353-1503; nonclassified establishments

Mystic Moon Abstractions: 15700 larch Way, lynnwood, Wa 98087-2636; Title companies

New Widget Tek Sales: 21824 17th Place W, lynnwood, Wa 98036-7990; General Merchandise-retail

Pacific Ridge Homes Belterra: 3527 171st st. sW, lynnwood, Wa 98037-9100; 425-678-8091; nonclassified establishments

Red Zone Bar & Grill: 6212 165th Place sW, lynnwood, Wa 98037-2725; restaurants

Rose Vape: 18415 33rd ave. W, no. P, lynnwood, Wa 98037-4702; 425-771-3329; electronic cigarettes

Ross Labs: 5631 208th st. sW, lynnwood, Wa 98036-7513; 425-673-4967; laboratories

Snohomish Office Partners: 19000 33rd ave. W, no. 130, lynnwood, Wa 98036-4753; nonclassified establishments

Strawberry Cupcake: 20414 1st Place W, lynnwood, Wa 98036-7391; bakers-retail

Sweetly: Po box 5681, lynnwood, Wa 98046-5681; nonclassified establishments

Truce Group: 15914 44th ave. W, no. h304, lynnwood, Wa 98087-6162; nonclassi-fied establishments

Wardrobe Limited: 19101 36th ave. W, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5759; 425-835-0382; clothing-retail

Yaqui Molecular: 18915 49th Place W, lynnwood, Wa 98036-5455; nonclassified establishments

Marysville4 Elements Brewing: 7809 29th Place

ne, Marysville, Wa 98270-6849; brewers (Manufacturers)

Angela Margaurite Salon: 9920 state ave., Marysville, Wa 98270-2255; 360-659-7714; beauty salons

Bel Mer Construction: 6521 58th st. ne, Marysville, Wa 98270-9587; construction companies

Chan Thai: 11605 state ave., Marysville, Wa 98271-8427; 360-386-9787; restaurants

Comic Shop: 1326 5th st., Marysville, Wa 98270-4517; 360-651-0437; comic books

Hidden Vine: 17317 27th ave. ne, no. 104, Marysville, Wa 98271-4745; 360-654-8171; restaurants

KNR Products: 4425 126th Place ne, Marysville, Wa 98271-8748; General Merchandise-retail

Lashes By Jen: 1925 7th st., no. 7, Marysville, Wa 98270-4642; artificial eyelashes (Wholesale)

Northwest Pageantry Association: 8417 80th st. ne, Marysville, Wa 98270-7404; associations

Plant Doctor: 10128 42nd ave. ne, no. b,

Marysville, Wa 98271-8386; Plants-retailROI Technology: 5733 139th Place ne,

Marysville, Wa 98271-6657; nonclassified establishments

Safe Traffic Avoidance Tech: 7211 78th st. ne, Marysville, Wa 98270-7859; Traffic control services

Salvation Army: 7227 44th ave. ne, Marys-ville, Wa 98270-3718; 360-926-2228; social service and Welfare organizations

Shannon Quintana Spa: 1510 3rd st., Marysville, Wa 98270-5002; health spas

Si Senor: 9515 state ave., no. b, Marysville, Wa 98270-2264; 360-659-3939; restaurants

St. Marys Market: 10310 state ave., Marys-ville, Wa 98271-7212; 360-658-2469; Food Markets

Swinnerton Brewery: 1809 8th st., Marys-ville, Wa 98270-4610; brewers (Manufacturers)

Mill CreekBlack Sheep: 166 16212 bothell-everett

highway, Mill creek, Wa 98012; nonclassified establishments

Caitlin Campbell: Po box 14637, Mill creek, Wa 98082-2637; attorneys

Carla Thompson Consulting: 1918 148th st. se, Mill creek, Wa 98012-8228; consul-tants-business not elsewhere classified

Forever Changed: 14511 n creek drive, no. d102, Mill creek, Wa 98012-5477; non-classified establishments

Mr. Tired Media: 14116 n creek drive, Mill creek, Wa 98012-5383; 425-225-5190; nonclassified establishments

Title Boxing Club-Seattle: 13920 n creek drive, no. 2835, Mill creek, Wa 98012-8427; boxing instruction

Yoga In The Center: 15515 25th lane se, Mill creek, Wa 98012-4829; yoga

MonroeBeverage Stop: 215 s lewis st.,

Monroe, Wa 98272-2318; 360-294-1870; Grocers-retail

Brian Wesley Salon: 203 n lewis st., Mon-roe, Wa 98272-1503; 425-327-9051; beauty salons

Bright Owl Landscapes: Po box 1362, Monroe, Wa 98272-4362; landscape contractors

Green Valley Collective: Po box 1467, Monroe, Wa 98272-4467; nonclassified establishments

Hutchings Performance Horses: 26018 old owen road, Monroe, Wa 98272-9069; horse breeders

Intentional Footsteps: 16723 Wales st. se, Monroe, Wa 98272-2647; nonclassified establishments

King Lake Cellars: 22819 King lake road, Monroe, Wa 98272-8944; Wines-retail

Net Compliance Environmental: 217 e stretch st., Monroe, Wa 98272-1520; 360-805-1418; environmental and ecological services

Travel There & Back: 16865 ladd st. se, Monroe, Wa 98272-2620; Travel agencies and bureaus

Mountlake Terrace3003 Cabin Creek Lodge: 6912 220th st.

sW, no. 202, Mountlake Terrace, Wa 98043-2171; resorts

Champ Signs: 4407 243rd Place sW, Mountlake Terrace, Wa 98043-5829; 425-412-3235; signs (Manufacturers)

Delgado Trucking: 21404 52nd ave. W, no. h12, Mountlake Terrace, Wa 98043-3059; Trucking

Helpful Housekeeping: 4809 236th st. sW, Mountlake Terrace, Wa 98043-5309; house cleaning

James Games: 21604 54th ave. W, Mount-lake Terrace, Wa 98043-3020; Games and Game supplies

Kathryn L Jagow DDS: 22905 56th ave. W, no. 101, Mountlake Terrace, Wa 98043-3925;

dentistsTender Loving Homecare: 4409 218th st.

sW, no. 1, Mountlake Terrace, Wa 98043-5979; home health service

MukilteoAculine Corp: 4204 russell road, Mukilteo,

Wa 98275-5424; 425-903-4052; nonclassified establishments

Emergency Assistance-Mukilteo: 11817 harbour Pointe blvd., Mukilteo, Wa 98275-5200; 425-609-3157; nonclassified establishments

J&T Junk Removal & Hauling: 10924 Mukilteo speedway, no. 170, Mukilteo, Wa 98275-5022; Junk removal

K12 Installs: Po box 1513, Mukilteo, Wa 98275-7713; nonclassified establishments

Mukilteo Executive Offices: 8490 Mukilteo speedway, Mukilteo, Wa 98275-3206; 425-512-0910; nonclassified establishments

Sequoyah Electric: 8227 44th ave. W, Mukilteo, Wa 98275-2815; 425-263-9434; electric contractors

Spinnaker Imports: 204 leslie lane, Mukilteo, Wa 98275-1712; importers (Wholesale)

Sully’s: 403 lincoln ave., Mukilteo, Wa 98275-1527; 425-249-2452; nonclassified establishments

Snohomish19 Series Transport: 12020 207th ave. se,

snohomish, Wa 98290-7206; TruckingApsis Computers: 407 Pine ave., snohom-

ish, Wa 98290-2542; computer and equip-ment dealers

Buck’s Gun Shop: 10117 159th ave. se, snohomish, Wa 98290-4517; Guns and Gunsmiths

EMA International Sales: 605 2nd st., snohomish, Wa 98290-2957; 360-568-9779; General Merchandise-retail

Imagine Shelbys Potions: 8013 206th st. se, snohomish, Wa 98296-7973; nonclassified establishments

Ixtapa Mexican Restaurant: 18104 highway 9 se, snohomish, Wa 98296-5389; 425-239-8462; cocktail lounges

Product Warehouse: 9815 145th st. se, snohomish, Wa 98296-7715; Warehous-es-Merchandise and self storage

Redmond Autoworks: 6501 215th ave. se, snohomish, Wa 98290-3221; automobile repairing and service

Snohomish Home Loans: 15704 67th drive se, snohomish, Wa 98296-8601; real estate loans

Snohomish: 1001 ave. d, snohomish, Wa 98290-2018; 360-563-4904; nonclassified establishments

Superiorstory.Com: 420 175th ave. ne, snohomish, Wa 98290-9610; advertising-computer

StanwoodCookie Mill & Eatery: 9405 Thomle road,

stanwood, Wa 98292-9336; cookies and crackers

Jimmy’s Jewelry & Loan: Po box 1582, stanwood, Wa 98292-1582; Jewelers-retail

Kara’s Creations: 7521 222nd st. nW, stanwood, Wa 98292-6819; 360-631-5580; nonclassified establishments

Massage By Kelsey: 7524 208th Place nW, stanwood, Wa 98292-7887; Massage Therapists

Plastic Music: 19932 soundview drive nW, stanwood, Wa 98292-7817; nonclassified establishments

Quil Ceda Recycling: 31607 78th drive nW, stanwood, Wa 98292-9796; recycling centers (Wholesale)

S Crites Editing Services: 10030 271st st. nW, no. 5, stanwood, Wa 98292-8017; editorial services

Timeless Beauty: 9416 271st st. nW, stan-wood, Wa 98292-8094; beauty salons

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