herald business journal

Supplement to The Daily Herald

Pop starMukilteo business cracks openvintage soda market • 7-9

Plus:Market Facts, Inside this issue

More from the Herald Business Journal:

On www.theheraldbusinessjournal.com:

◗ Keep up to date with our weekly newsletter.

◗ See what’s on the local business calendar and submit your events.

On Facebook: www.facebook.com/heraldbusinessjournal

On Twitter: @SnoCoBizJournalPRSRT STDU.S. Postage

PAIDSound Publishing

98204

The Herald Business Journal1213 California St.Everett, WA 98201

JANUARY 2015 | VOL. 17, NO. 10

If you know of a dedicated, private- or public-sector business executive or small-business owner who excels in business, community involvement and supporting Snohomish County economic development, we want to know. The winners selected for our 2015 Executive of the Year and Entrepreneur of the Year will be featured in the May issue of The Herald Business Jour-nal and will be honored during the Economic Alliance Snohomish County annual recognition luncheon in that month.

ENTRY DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2015

CALLFOR NominationsCALLNominationsExecutive EntreprenerurExecutive EntreprenerurExecutive EntreprenerurExecutive Entreprenerur

NominationsExecutive Entreprenerur

NominationsExecutive EntreprenerurExecutive EntreprenerurExecutive EntreprenerurExecutive Entreprenerur

NominationsExecutive Entreprenerur

Nominations

2015Entrepreneur of theYear

2015Executive of theYear

And

NOMINATE YOUR CHOICE ONLINE!www.TheHeraldBusinessJournal.com • www.HeraldNet.com

1205985

2 The herald Business Journal January 2015

January 2015 The herald Business Journal 3

COVER STORYOrca Beverage Soda Works plunges into the vintage soda market, Pages 7-9

BuSinESS nEwSMaking the business case for fixing traffic chokepoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Western Washington Medical, Snohomish Family join . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Race promoters expand business offerings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Teaching real estate agents and others workplace safety . . . . . . . 10

Mukilteo teen training program wins statewide recognition . . . . . . . . . . 11

BuSinESS BuildERSTom Hoban: Minimum wage increase in Seattle is an opportunity . . . . . . 14

James McCusker: Managers need to foster bonds at work . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Andrew Ballard: How to do relevant research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Business Briefs . . . . . . . . . . . 16

PeoPle WATCHing . . . . . . . . . 17

PuBliC reCords . . . . . . . . . . . 18

eConoMiC dATA . . . . . . . . . 20-21

Business liCenses . . . . . . . 22-23

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

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

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

PublisherJosh o’[email protected]

COVER PHOTOdan 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.

dan BaTes / The herald

orca Beverage soda Works goes retro, making sodas from discontinued brands .

Herald Business Journal 4.833” wide x 12.75” height (Half Page Vertical)4 color

grit

capital

late nights

helping small business fight to win | coastalbank.com

It takes a lot to run a business.

We know. And we’re here to help — with

the capital, banking products and people

who can help you do it your way.

1203265

By Jim DavisThe Herald Business Journal Editor

ARLINGTON — Chris Nussbaum drove to Universal Aerospace at the Arlington Municipal Airport a few times when he worked for other aerospace companies.

It wasn’t until he was hired as vice pres-ident at the company a year and a half ago that he realized just how bad traffic was along Highway 531.

“Sometimes it can take you 20 minutes to get from the freeway to the airport, which is about a mile to a mile and half,” Nussbaum said.

The highway narrows from four lanes near I-5 to two lanes without any shoulders heading east toward Highway 9. The area around the airport has several major employ-ers including Universal, a fabrication and metal shop with 225 employ-ees, Microgreen and OutBack Power.

Rush hour in the mornings and evenings equals a lot of traffic headaches.

“If there’s a wreck or someone gets pulled over for speeding on 531 it’s just a gridlock,” Nuss-baum said.

Highway 531 is one of 23 chokepoints throughout the county that have been identified by Snohomish County, the cities, a citizen’s group and businesses as needing improvement, said Troy McClelland, Economic Alliance Snohomish County president and CEO.

The organization has been working behind the scenes for months along with elected officials to make the case for a slice of transportation funding in this next legislative session.

To fix all the traffic problems in the county would cost $3 billion. McClel-land said they can make a convincing case to address 17 of the most egregious chokepoints, which would require $1.076 billion.

Some of the fixes could include widen-ing 531, improving the Highway 526 cor-ridor and replacing the Snohomish River Bridge over Highway 9.

Transportation seems to be on the agenda for lawmakers in this next ses-sion. Lawmakers promised to work on the transportation system when Boeing agreed to build the 777X in the Puget Sound area, eventually deciding to assem-ble the aircraft at Paine Field in Everett.

No deal materialized in the last session.

This session, transportation figures to be a top priority.

“I think you can characterize this as being one of the outstanding items that was discussed,” McClelland said.

Democrats and Republicans both want to get a transportation package put together, said Sen. Steve Hobbs, D-Lake Stevens, who is the ranking Democrat on the Transportation Committee. He said he’s hearing about traffic from constitu-ents and businesses.

“It’s not just big businesses like Mic-rosoft and Amazon,” Hobbs said. “We’re talking small businesses. They’re all inter-ested in this. They all want to make sure their workers are getting to work and get-ting home safely and getting their prod-ucts to market on time.”

On Dec. 16, Gov. Jay Inslee announced his transportation plan that includes a transportation package that raises $12 bil-lion with bonds, fees and a carbon charge on the state’s industrial polluters. The market-based pollution charge would generate $7 billion over 12 years.

But Inslee’s plan would only direct $81.8 million for highway projects in Everett and other areas of Snohomish

County. That’s far less than what Eco-nomic Alliance Snohomish County and other elected and business leaders are hoping to obtain.

McClelland said elected and business leaders were extremely disappointed. The governor’s plan has King County receiv-ing $3.9 billion, Pierce County receiving $1.1 billion and Spokane County receiv-ing $430 million, he said.

“You’re probably not surprised that people were stunned,” McClelland said. “They just couldn’t understand it.”

The governor’s transportation package surprised Hobbs. It benefited King and Pierce counties too much and did too lit-tle for the rest of the state, Hobbs said.

“I looked at that and thought, ‘Here’s something that we need to improve upon — why would any legislators in Snohom-ish County vote on that package?’”

Snohomish County can make a com-pelling case for transportation dollars, McClelland said. Snohomish County is ripe for job growth with 700 acres of read-ily available industrial land between Paine Field and Arlington. And the county is already the manufacturing backbone of the state with 220 aerospace suppliers and

47,000 aerospace employees.And one of the reasons for a transpor-

tation package is the promise to Boeing, McClelland said.

“We view it as work that needs to be done to follow through on our com-mitments to all of aerospace and the advanced manufacturing community,” McClelland said.

He said $1.076 billion is roughly 12 percent of a $10 billion tax package. And 12 percent is roughly the economic out-put per year by the county, McClelland said.

It’s a case that McClelland and elected officials have been mak-ing to lawmakers, most recently on a van tour in October with Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima, of these chokepoints. The traffic problems have become more pronounced in just the past couple of years. He said there are problem areas that are creating waves of traffic, McClel-land said.

One sign is the commute time into King County where thousands of Sno-homish County residents work. Com-mute times on some mornings are tak-ing 100 minutes or more, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation.

McClelland thinks it’s at least in part a sign of a recovering economy. With more people going to work, it means that more people are on the roads.

“I think we’ve been building toward this for some time,” McClelland said. “We’ve just kind of hit a tipping point.”


File PhoTo

Traffic backups are becoming increasingly common in Snohomish County. Elected officials and Economic Alliance Snohomish County officials are arguing the county’s case for a share of a proposed transporation package to clear up chokepoints.

How traffic is hurting businessesTransPorTaTion news

Business, community leaders make case for transportation dollars

“We view it as work that needs to be done to follow through on our commitments to all of aerospace and the advanced manufacturing community.”

— Troy McClelland

Troy McClelland

Steve Hobbs

Call for an appointment today! • 425-789-3789

Let us help you give the gift of

1192060

We've been helping you do this for more than 30 years...

Healthy Holiday TipsFiber � rst - Eat high-� ber foods � rst - a salad, for example. Foods that are high in � ber make you feel full faster so you eat less.Take it slow - Put your fork down between bites. It can take up to 20 minutes for your brain to get the message that your stomach is full so take a break before going in for seconds.Water it down – Drink a glass or two of water before hopping on that buffet line. Water makes you feel full – it’s an easy little trick to eating less.

Let us help you give the gift of

FIVE CONVENIENT LOCATIONS:

ARLINGTON • EDMONDSEVERETT-NORTH

EVERETT-SOUTH • LYNNWOOD

www.CHCsno.org

1202724


By Debra VaughnFor The Herald Business Journal

A doctors’ office with strong ties in Snohomish this month is joining Western Washington Medical Group, one of the largest in Snohomish County.

Snohomish Family Medicine is the fifth family practice group Western has added, bringing its number of family practice providers to 29. In total, 90 providers work with the medical group.

Both parties say coming together is a win-win. Western, based in Everett, was founded as a clinic of specialists and wants to add more general practitioners to offer comprehensive care. Snohomish can take advantage of a larger organiza-tion’s administrative, capital and technical resources.

“We are excited about this opportunity we feel will allow us to leverage ourselves in the new world we’re coming into and provide good quality care,” said Dr. Ival Salyer, director of Snohomish Family Medicine.

This partnership is an example of one effect of national health care reform: the demise of small, independent med-ical practices. Congress’s plan to fix how Medicare reimburses doctors includes so many complexities that it’s increasingly difficult for a doctor to practice solo — or even in a small group.

“One of the things I hear from provid-ers is how stressful the changes adminis-

tratively are in medicine,” said Jerry Till-inger, chief executive officer of Western Washington Medical Group. “It’s the death from a thousand cuts.”

Doctors spend far more time click-ing boxes on the computer or filling out forms than ever before, he said.

While many of the changes and doc-umentation the federal government or private insurers ask for make sense in iso-lation, together they become overwhelm-ing for a small, independent practice that can’t afford a large administrative staff or sophisticated technical systems.

Dr. Salyer started work at Snohomish in 1978. He’s a soft-spoken physician with a deep faith and a passion for helping his local patients and disadvantaged peo-ple elsewhere.

He spends more time documenting care than ever before and worries it’s tak-ing his focus away from what matters.

“It’s a new skill maintaining that good listening and not getting so involved with the computer we lose track of why the patient is there,” he said.

One of the advantages for his medical practice is the use of Western’s multi-mil-lion dollar electronic medical records system. Patients may not notice, but the family doctors and nurses at Snohomish now have seamless communication with specialists their patients work with at Western.

Another is Snohomish’s patients will have increased access to urgent and after-

hours care. They’ll have more locations with Saturday and evening hours, and one location that is open 365 days a year.

Patients probably won’t notice too many other changes. Snohomish Family Medicine doctors will still see patients at the same office at 629 Avenue D in Snohomish.

Even the sign outside probably won’t change much. That’s because Western values provider autonomy, Tillinger said.

“We don’t put great stock in a homoge-nized brand name,” he said.

Western keeps a lower profile than other large medical groups in the county. You won’t see their doctors on billboards or on the side of buses.

The marketing budget is thin at West-ern and that’s the way they like it, Till-inger said.

Western already had a long, close rela-tionship with Snohomish, referring many of its patients there.

Dr. Leeon Aller, known for his human-itarian work in Guatemala and Ethiopia, established Snohomish Family Medicine in 1953.

Since then, the small practice has become a community fixture.

The five doctors and two nurse prac-titioners that work there today carry on Aller’s legacy. Each year, one provider takes a sabbatical and travels at his or her own expense to a disadvantaged part of the world to provide healthcare and train doctors.

“This is a model where we can support a unique group like Snohomish Family Medicine,” said Dr. David Russian, pres-ident of Western Washington Medical Group and a pulmonary sleep specialist. “They are the best doctors in Snohomish, no question about that.”

Western Washington Medical Group is physician-run, meaning the doctors, not corporate managers, make all the business decisions for the group based on what they feel is best for patients.

A group of doctors formed the group in 1993 when the Clinton administration was looking into changes in health care that would make small groups of doctors ineffective in the health care market.

Its doctors are on staff at Providence Regional Everett Medical Center. West-ern is participating in the Providence Boeing accountable care organization — a network of providers who are paid a premium to deal with all of a patient’s needs.

Western plans to continue to grow. They would like to add 10 to 30 more providers in the next two years.

And they’re still weighing what is the best size. They know they don’t want to grow as large as the Everett Clinic, for instance, which has 357 physicians and 139 nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

“We want to be the right size to effec-tively compete in the market but still keep it personalized,” Russian said.

Western, Snohomish Family a natural fit

REPORTJANUARY 2015

Creating Economic Opportunities

Port of EVERETTCALENDAR

Construction underway on South TerminalStrengthening to Support Heavy Cargoes

Port tenant, ORCA, expands, dedicates new research vessel

BRIEFLY

SEAPORTEverett sets new Portcall records in 2014with 204 vessel calls.

MARINAMark your calendar!The Seattle Boat Showkick o� is on January 23 at Century Link Field.

REAL ESTATEBrandon Whitaker has been promoted to be the Project Manager for the Waterfront Place Central Development.

CommissionersTroy McClelland/District 1Tom Stiger/District 2Glen Bachman/District 3

Executive DirectorLes Reardanz

Information you would like to see in next month’s update? Please email [email protected]

Stay Connected! Visit www.portofeverett.com and Like’ us on Facebook or ‘follow’ us on Twitter

In December 2014, IMCO General Construction, Inc. began work on a $2.55 million upgrade project at the Port of Everett’s South Terminal to strengthen the wharf to support roll-on/roll-o� (Ro/Ro) cargo operations.

This major infrastructure investment, made possible through a grant from taxpayers of Washington State, will strengthening 140-feet of the 700-foot dock to create a ‘heavylift’ pad in the northwest corner of the wharf. Work is expected to be complete in May 2015.

“It is critical that we continue to make necessary capital investments into our seaport to ensure our facilities are world-class,” said Les Reardanz, Executive Director/CEO for the Port of Everett. “Moving high value, heavy cargoes is what we do. We are committed to meeting and adapting our facilities to support and grow our customer base.”

Upgrading the South Terminal is vital in the Port’s ability to support the machinery, heavy equipment and other breakbulk cargoes that are regularly imported and exported through the international terminal. Paired with the Port’s recent investment to construct a Ro/Ro cargo berth at South Terminal in 2013, the strengthened wharf will have an immediate impact on the Port’s ability to more e� ciently load and unload cargo from some of the largest Ro/Ro vessels in the industry.

The Port is also working to develop its rail infrastructure to improve regional freight mobility and rail loading at the

seaport. In 2015/2016, the Port will invest approximately $10.2 million in rail upgrades to add 650 lineal feet of new rail track at the northern end of the seaport, rehabilitate and extend the South Terminal rail spur and construct a double rail siding of approximately 3,600 lineal feet of on-terminal track. This will provide the capacity necessary to move more cargo out by rail rather than truck.

The wharf was originally constructed in the 1970s with a working load capacity of 500 pounds per square foot (psf ). This project will double the strength of the dock, bringing the working load capacity to 1,000 psf.

EXECUTIVEPort Commissioner Troy McClelland was selected to serve as Vice President of the Washington Public Ports Association.

1206

534

In fall 2014, the Ocean Research College Academy (ORCA) kicked o� the school year with its expanded space at the Port of Everett’s Waterfront Center, and the arrival of its new research vessel, the Phocoena.

ORCA, which is an early college high school program through Everett Community College, added on 1,600 square feet to its facility to accommodate two additional classrooms and a student workspace.

ORCA is the only early college in the nation that uses the local marine environment as the unifying theme to integrate the core academic disciplines.

The new research vessel o� ers an on-the-water classroom to provide hands-on learning. These methods for � eld study were somewhat limited based on ferry schedule and weather.

The new vessel o� ers � exibility for curriculum-based study by allowing students to get out on the Sound once a week, rain or shine.

Jan. 6, 13Port Commission Meeting;

EARLY 2015Everett City CouncilWaterfront Place Development

Jan. 23- Feb. 1Seattle Boat Show

1206533

1206

528


By Jennifer SasseenFor The Herald Business Journal

A hh, the sweet taste of yesteryear — a cold soda-pop zinging the senses with a burst of flavor and

pure cane sugar without any high-fruc-tose corn syrup.

Brands like Frostie, Cock N Bull, Goody, Nesbitt’s, Lemmy, Jic Jac, O-So and Brownie — all but obsolete a few years ago — have been making a comeback.

Mukilteo-based Orca Beverage Soda Works is dedicated to producing the fla-vor of these vintage sodas, alchemical mixes of honest ingredients in glass bot-tles. And it looks like there’s a growing thirst.

Orca Beverage has seen an increase in orders from around the country and further afield like Canada, Indonesia

and Australia. The company has gone from producing around 1,000 cases a month of vintage sodas in its early days to many times that today, said owner Mike Bourgeois.

“We do that in a couple of hours now,” he said.

In fact, the business expects to produce as many as 1 million cases of soda this coming year, Bourgeois said.

Bourgeois, 55, started selling the brands out of his car in the late 1980s to mostly small, upscale stores.

Now the beverage company sells to thousands of customers from mom-and-pop specialty stores to the Cost Plus World Market chain and some warehouse Costco stores, including Atlanta, San Diego and Northern California divisions.

The success of Orca Beverage Soda Works, aka Orca Beverage Inc., seems to be a sweet blending of the right man with

a vision, the right employees and the right time for retro.

“The distinct imagery of the 40’s and 50’s hearkens back to a time when life was simpler and life was a little easier,” Bour-geois said. “And the imagery is just a feel-good imagery.”

The company’s packaging builds on that, said Jan Tenzler, national sales man-ager for Orca Beverage.

From bottle labels reminiscent of the painted-on labels of yore, to the design of the retro 10- and 12-pack assortments available seasonally, everything is a careful rendering of yesteryear. The assortment packs are popular gifts, she said.

“Oh my goodness, it’s cheaper than a bottle of wine,” she said. “You go somewhere with this and everybody loves you.”

Bourgeois said his love for all things retro developed while he was growing up and helping to restore old cars in the auto-body repair shop his parents owned in Seattle, but it didn’t merge with the soft-drink industry until his senior year at Seattle University.

His culminating senior project pulled

together students from various disciplines to work with “a real-world company” involved in bottling spring water, Bour-geois said.

He got to know local bottlers and the project piqued his interest in the bottling industry.

In 1988, he formed Orca Beverage Inc. and negotiated with local bottlers to pro-duce his first beverage, Orca Sparkling. That’s when he started “to understand about problems and challenges and for-mulation issues” in business.

More than 50 percent fruit juice, his drink’s pulp content gummed up the works until filters were installed. After that experience, bottlers balked at taking on more jobs for him, prompting Bour-geois to search for a bottling line of his own.

Soon he bought a Pepsi-Cola bottling line that had been written off as a total insurance loss due to flood damage, and rebuilt it.

“We took it all apart,” Bourgeois said, “every nut and bolt, all the bearings, and brought it back to life.”


Cover sTory


Gladys Rodriguez checks bottles as they pass along the conveyor belt in the bottling process at Orca Beverage Soda Works in Mukilteo. The business produces dozens of vintage sodas that had become all but obsolete.

Selling ‘smiles and memories’

Continued on Page 8

Mukilteo’s Orca Beverage Soda Works revives all-but-forgotten soda brands

hardware store include Orca Beverage’s O-So Butterscotch Root Beer. Despite its name, the soda is not connected to the town of Oso; it originated in Illinois in 1946.

In fact, every now and then, people call Orca Beverage wondering if there is a connection, Bourgeois said. (Wanting to do something to help following the land-slide, but not wanting anyone to think he was taking advantage of a tragic event, he quietly donated cases of the soda to Oso volunteers through The Root Beer Store.) Despite the enthusiasm of Bour-geois’ 16 current employees and a very low turnover rate — he describes them as “a great, self-motivated, highly-intelligent group” — the company is not without challenges.

One of these is a dwindling number of glass-bottle suppliers in this country. Pro-ducing glass bottles is a very energy-in-tensive business, Bourgeois said, “so one by one over the years, they closed.”

The few that are left are dominated by the beer industry, he said, which uses mostly amber bottles. Orca Beverage also uses emerald-green and flint, or clear, bottles.

That leaves Orca Beverage in a tight spot because the company is currently relying on one East Coast manufacturer, yet Bourgeois won’t use anything but glass for his vintage sodas.

“They just don’t belong in cans or plas-tic,” he said. Determined to stay true to his vision, Bourgeois has had to go over-seas to find a second manufacturer.

Space is another challenge for his growing company, Bourgeois said. In the early days, Orca Beverage quickly out-grew its first 3,000-square-foot bottling line and warehouse in Redmond.

Soon it relocated to its current home in a 26,000 square-foot building in Mukil-teo, later adding another 10,000 square feet of warehouse space just up the street. Pending city approval, Bourgeois said he plans to build an additional 30,000 square-foot building that would connect the two properties.

The expansion will lead to more jobs for the community, Bourgeois said, but also to more automation as he works on increasing efficiency.

He is proud of the robotic arm he pur-chased at auction about eight years ago from a Boeing research-and-development

Besides producing Orca Sparkling for years, his company also dabbled in the energy-drink business at a time when the only competitor was Red Bull, and today produces Dragon Tail energy drinks as a nod to its roots.

Orca Sparkling was discontinued a cou-ple of years ago, though Bourgeois said he wants to bring it back “to keep the old namesake alive.”

The company also produces Krazy Kritter Vitamin Drinks for children, pop-ular at zoos and the only Orca Beverage drink packaged in plastic bottles.

It’s in the vintage-soda field where the company found its true calling, Bourgeois said.

Brands like Spiffy, Lemmy, Mr. Cola, Goody and Jic Jac were no longer being produced at all when Orca Beverage took an interest in them, acquired the trade-marks and started researching recipes to come up with the authentic flavors.

Bourgeois estimated his company now owns between 30 and 40 such trademarks.

Production manager Hiro Yokoo, an alchemist of sorts who joined Orca Beverage as a University of Washing-ton intern a few years after Bourgeois started the company, mixes the recipes and adds carbonation for some “tast-ing and tweaking” until the right mix is reached.

“Lemmy is absolutely the delightful treat I remembered and has not changed,” according to one fan on the compa-ny’s Facebook page. “Oh so delicious! Thanks for making it available. It has probably been sixty years since I have enjoyed one.”

Sometimes companies come to Bourgeois and ask him to produce their brand. That’s what happened when Mon-arch Beverage Company representatives approached Bourgeois about Moxie soda at a trade show in the early 1990s.

Moxie is the oldest mass-produced car-bonated beverage in the country.

Founded in 1884 in Massachusetts by Dr. Augustin Thompson of Maine, the drink was originally touted as a “nerve food” guaranteed to cure almost any illness.

The Moxie name made it into the dictionary as a word synonymous with “energy” and “pep,” with its namesake supposedly a favorite drink of President Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s and pro-moted by baseball slugger Ted Williams in the 1960s.

Popular throughout the country at one time, Moxie’s production diminished for various reasons, including competition from companies like Coca-Cola.

The Monarch Beverage Company was trying to bring it back, producing the bev-erage through two East Coast bottlers and looking for a bottler on the West Coast. When Bourgeois tasted Moxie, he told the company representatives he didn’t think he could sell the “unusu-al-tasting” soda.

However, the company continued to pursue it until Bourgeois relented and now Orca Beverage is one of three authorized bottlers of Moxie; local retail

outlets include The Root Beer Store in Lynnwood.

While nostalgia is a big part of the ini-tial attraction to Orca Beverage’s vintage sodas, it’s the quality that keeps customers coming back for more, Bourgeois said.

That means pure cane sugar, organic honey, real vanilla and as many other pure ingredients as possible, mixed with water in steel vats, then cooled, carbonated and

poured into glass bottles to preserve that old-time flavor.

The company may have reached its highest flavor potential yet with its own line of Americana sodas.

“That is not an old-time brand but it is a retro-looking brand that’s really kind of our flagship brand,” Bourgeois said. “It’s pretty much a culmination of everything we’ve learned about making soda over the

years.”The Americana Honey Cream, created

by production manager Yokoo, is “just a phenomenal recipe” and, as cream sodas go, “may be the best in the world,” Bour-geois said.

Cost Plus World Market employee Teresa Menzel, of the company’s Lyn-nwood store, said it’s her favorite, “a really nice alternative to cream sodas. It’s like you’re eating ice cream.”

Other Americana flavors include black cherry, cherry cola, honey lime gin-ger, orange cream, root beer and most recently, huckleberry.

New holiday Orca Beverage flavors billed as a “World Market Exclusive” this past holiday season include candy cane, gingerbread, sugar cookie and sugar plum. Orca Beverage created the flavors at World Market’s request, Ten-zler said, but “next year, we’ll sell them everywhere.”

Other seasonal flavors include those sold in last fall’s Halloween variety packs: pumpkin spice tonic, werewolf howling ginger beer and wicked apple brew.

Orca Beverage’s portfolio contains more than 100 retro and specialty glass-bottled products. And the list keeps growing, as does the number of customers.

Arlington Hardware and Lumber started carrying Orca Beverage’s vintage sodas just a year or two ago, said longtime employee Gail Moffett.

“It had a big response right from the beginning,” she said, “and it hasn’t stopped.”

Cases of vintage sodas stacked up at the


Continued from


Owner Mike Bourgeois talks with maintenance supervisor Felix Mendez (left) about a robot that stacks cases of bottled soda on pallets as they come off a rolling assembly line at Orca Beverage Soda Works.


Jan Tenzler, left, listens as production manager Hiro Yokoo explains how he taste tests to figure out historic soft drink formulas that didn’t come with a recipe. Yokoo describes himself as something of a “mad scientist.”

Cover sTory Cover sTory

1203

866

hardware store include Orca Beverage’s O-So Butterscotch Root Beer. Despite its name, the soda is not connected to the town of Oso; it originated in Illinois in 1946.

In fact, every now and then, people call Orca Beverage wondering if there is a connection, Bourgeois said. (Wanting to do something to help following the land-slide, but not wanting anyone to think he was taking advantage of a tragic event, he quietly donated cases of the soda to Oso volunteers through The Root Beer Store.) Despite the enthusiasm of Bour-geois’ 16 current employees and a very low turnover rate — he describes them as “a great, self-motivated, highly-intelligent group” — the company is not without challenges.

One of these is a dwindling number of glass-bottle suppliers in this country. Pro-ducing glass bottles is a very energy-in-tensive business, Bourgeois said, “so one by one over the years, they closed.”

The few that are left are dominated by the beer industry, he said, which uses mostly amber bottles. Orca Beverage also uses emerald-green and flint, or clear, bottles.

That leaves Orca Beverage in a tight spot because the company is currently relying on one East Coast manufacturer, yet Bourgeois won’t use anything but glass for his vintage sodas.

“They just don’t belong in cans or plas-tic,” he said. Determined to stay true to his vision, Bourgeois has had to go over-seas to find a second manufacturer.

Space is another challenge for his growing company, Bourgeois said. In the early days, Orca Beverage quickly out-grew its first 3,000-square-foot bottling line and warehouse in Redmond.

Soon it relocated to its current home in a 26,000 square-foot building in Mukil-teo, later adding another 10,000 square feet of warehouse space just up the street. Pending city approval, Bourgeois said he plans to build an additional 30,000 square-foot building that would connect the two properties.

The expansion will lead to more jobs for the community, Bourgeois said, but also to more automation as he works on increasing efficiency.

He is proud of the robotic arm he pur-chased at auction about eight years ago from a Boeing research-and-development

department. It was finally re-programmed and

placed on the production line a few months ago, he said, and is particularly useful in filling the labor-intensive vin-tage-soda variety packs.

The limited supply of refrigerated trucks this time of year is another huge problem for the company. Orca Bever-age struggles to fill orders from cold-cli-mate customers because its sodas must be

shipped in refrigerated trucks to prevent freezing. Sometimes orders can’t be filled, Tenzler said.

“One of our major issues that we’re dealing with right now is how to move our product around the country,” Bour-geois said. “Especially in the Midwest and the East Coast, which is a growing market for us.”

Regardless of problems, the nature of the vintage-soda industry seems to be a

happy one. When she first started at Orca Beverage her two sons were in their teens, Tenzler said, and they all had a lot of fun when she brought sodas home to taste-test. She hears stories from customers who share similar experiences, she said, particularly when there are older mem-bers in the crowd.

“We sell smiles and memories,” she said.

Persistence was needed to get the com-pany up and running, Boureois said, and he was lucky that he never had to resort to outside investors; he put his own money into the company and it’s been in the black since the first couple of years. But it’s the employees that really make a business, he said.

“When you get a good group of people together,” Bourgeois said, “a lot of things are possible.”

years.”The Americana Honey Cream, created

by production manager Yokoo, is “just a phenomenal recipe” and, as cream sodas go, “may be the best in the world,” Bour-geois said.

Cost Plus World Market employee Teresa Menzel, of the company’s Lyn-nwood store, said it’s her favorite, “a really nice alternative to cream sodas. It’s like you’re eating ice cream.”

Other Americana flavors include black cherry, cherry cola, honey lime gin-ger, orange cream, root beer and most recently, huckleberry.

New holiday Orca Beverage flavors billed as a “World Market Exclusive” this past holiday season include candy cane, gingerbread, sugar cookie and sugar plum. Orca Beverage created the flavors at World Market’s request, Ten-zler said, but “next year, we’ll sell them everywhere.”

Other seasonal flavors include those sold in last fall’s Halloween variety packs: pumpkin spice tonic, werewolf howling ginger beer and wicked apple brew.

Orca Beverage’s portfolio contains more than 100 retro and specialty glass-bottled products. And the list keeps growing, as does the number of customers.

Arlington Hardware and Lumber started carrying Orca Beverage’s vintage sodas just a year or two ago, said longtime employee Gail Moffett.

“It had a big response right from the beginning,” she said, “and it hasn’t stopped.”

Cases of vintage sodas stacked up at the



Owner Mike Bourgeois talks with maintenance supervisor Felix Mendez (left) about a robot that stacks cases of bottled soda on pallets as they come off a rolling assembly line at Orca Beverage Soda Works.


At Orca Beverage Inc., David Sanchez wraps a pallet of old-time sodas on a spinning wheel, of sorts. All pallets are tightly wrapped, many with corner guards, for shipping.

Cover sTory Cover sTory

“The distinct imagery of the ‘40s and ‘50s hearkens back to a time when life was simpler and life was a little easier. And the imagery is just a feel-good imagery.”

— Mike Bourgeois

By Amy WatkinsFor The Herald Business Journal

EVERETT — Feet on the street is important for any business.

None more so than the Snohomish Running Company.

Grant Harrington and Porter Bratten operate a race promotions business, put-ting together the logistics of setting up runs and earning a profit from entry fees.

Harrington, who owned bike and mulit-sport shop Endurance Sports Northwest in Mukilteo, and Bratten started the company in early 2012 and held their first race, the Snohomish River Run, that October. The event offers a 10k race and a half marathon.

“On a whim we put on this half mara-thon and 10k,” said Harrington, 38. “Our original goal in 2012 was to register 500 people and we ended up signing up 900 people.”

A year later, the second Snohomish River Run produced 1,100 registrations. Snohomish Running Company in May introduced a second run, the Snohomish Women’s Run, with 10k and half mara-thon options. The goal was for 400 run-ners to sign up for the race that began at Rotary Park in Everett. A total of 550 people ended up registering for the race, Harrington said.

After the successful inaugural Snohom-ish Women’s Run, Harrington decided to close his shop and work full time on race promotion. Snohomish Running Com-pany purchased this October the Heroes Half Marathon and renamed the event the Everett Half Marathon. The race was started in 2010 by Jon and Lynne Hoskins, owners of Total Health Events. The event includes a kid’s race, a 10k, and

a half marathon.The event, scheduled for April 12, will

still have the same courses, venue, and charity partner as in past years. Active duty military and veterans will also still be able to register at discounted rates.

Changing the name wasn’t an easy decision but does help to promote the event to runners outside of Snohomish County, said Harrington, who grew up in Snohomish County.

“The Heroes Half Marathon was a good, solid name but a lot of people out-side of the immediate vicinity of Ever-ett and Snohomish County didn’t know about the run,” he said. “We’ll add our own flavor to the race as it pertains to entertainment, post-race festivities, pre-

race packet pickup and those types of things.”

All of the races are part of the new Sno-homish Running Pass, which offers entry into two events for $110 or all three for $160.

The races each take about 50 vol-unteers to pull off, Harrington added. Those slots should be fulfilled by Trinity Lutheran College students at all three of the 2015 events.

“We worked the Heroes Half last year and the year before that and were part of the volunteers for the Snohomish River Run,” said Matt Koenigs, athletic director and head coach for cross-coun-try and track and field teams at Trinity Lutheran College. “They have a lot of fun

and it gets our athletes out there in the community.”

Building relationships in the City of Everett will be as important as those Sno-homish Running Company maintains in Snohomish, Harrington said. The Sno-homish River Run in October was the first time the event started and ended on First Street, and 2015 will mark the first time the Snohomish Women’s Run is in downtown Snohomish.

“We’re excited to help grow the oppor-tunities for the runners as well as the spectators,” said Debbie Emge, economic development manager for the City of Snohomish. “We’re planning to have music and entertainment so folks can stay in the city after the race.”

Harrington said his own story about finishing his first 10k race in 2006 and his first half marathon two years later, includes a personal desire to fight addic-tion and become healthy.

“I’m a recovering alcoholic,” Har-rington said. “I got sober in January 2004 and when I first got sober I couldn’t even run a quarter mile. I was terribly out of shape and 60 pounds heavier than I am now.”

Harrington, who worked in the mort-gage industry before switching career paths, said the goal for Snohomish Run-ning Company is to continue striving to offer the closest possible thing to a per-fect race experience.

“I always want to be giving them the experience of feeling when they cross that finish line that they can do anything,” he said. “I want them to feel like I did the first time crossing that finish line, of feel-ing invincible for a day.”

For more information, visit www.sno-homishrunning.com.


File phoTo

Runners start down West Marine View Drive during the Heroes Half Marathon and 10K in Everett. Snohomish Running Company has purchased and renamed the annual event.

Race promoters off to running start

By M.L. DehmFor The Herald Business Journal

When real estate agent Beverly Car-ter went missing on Sept. 25, it sparked a viral social media campaign to find her. Sadly, Carter’s body was found in a shal-low grave north of Little Rock, Arkansas, four days later, making her the latest real estate agent to be murdered in the U.S.

Carter’s case was not rare. It was the social media blitz that helped to make her case high profile. Real estate agents have long been targets of crime.

“It happens all the time unfortunately,” said Shannon Sessions, owner of Lyn-nwood-based business Safety Sessions. “Assaults on real estate agents just isn’t big news.”

As a past public information officer for the Lynnwood Police Department and a crime prevention specialist, Sessions is very aware of the ways in which people can put themselves in danger, particularly through their jobs.

In Carter’s case, she did many things right, Sessions said. Carter let her hus-band know where she was going to be and

when she would be expected back. But there was more she could have done to protect herself.

Safety Sessions offers courses in real estate agent safety, corporate crime prevention, women’s safety, children’s safety and much more. CPR/AED and First Aid cer-tifications are also avail-able through Safety Sessions.

Sessions teaches real estate agents how to walk the line between being personable but not personal.

She also stresses the importance of get-ting identification and checking to see if the person even qualifies for a loan before meeting a stranger inside of an empty house.

If a person is a legitimate client, they usually won’t mind providing informa-tion. That is the message that the industry has been working hard to get out, Ses-sions explained. But agents are still often willing to compromise their own safety and take a chance rather than lose the

opportunity of a potential sale.Sessions is passionate about the busi-

ness that she started to help offset the lack of crime prevention resources available to businesses, organizations and others.

In the past, businesses often looked to the police departments for assistance with crime prevention.

“With budget cuts, most police depart-ments don’t have a crime prevention sec-tion anymore,” Sessions said.

Yet workplace violence is still a reality. In many cases, the situation could have been avoided had certain precautions been taken. Warning signs are frequently ignored.

Sessions believes the most important thing people can do for their own safety is to not ignore their sixth sense and to lis-ten to what their gut is telling them.

“We tend, through human nature, to deny and diminish,” Sessions said. “Those things happen on TV. We can’t imagine them happening to somebody we know or in our own life.”

While at the police department, Ses-sions would frequently hear victims of crime say they knew something wasn’t right about the person or situation. They

just didn’t act on those feelings.People need to empower themselves

to do something about it, Sessions said. If something doesn’t feel right it probably isn’t.

She has found that women, more than men, tend to put themselves into unsafe situations because they don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings.

As a media relations training and con-sulting specialist and former public infor-mation officer, Sessions is also called in to help because something bad has already happened and the business needs advice about dealing with the media.

Most organizations aren’t equipped to deal with a high profile incident that is going to attract a lot of public and media attention.

Corporations will often reply, “No comment” which is not the best answer, Sessions said. It is always better to offer some kind of statement.

“Even if corporately you can’t speak on it, can’t you say that you are cooperating with the police or that you’re sorry for the family? There is always something you can say,” she said. “We help with those kind of things.”

Business offers tips on crime prevention

Shannon Sessions

MARKETPLACE

To have your business or service showcased here, please call 425-339-3445 today!1205987

1811 Everett Ave. Everett(425) 252-2161

1205998

TRANSMISSIONS Our Speciality, Not a Sideline

Quality Transmission Service & Repair

• Remanufactured • Automatic • Standards • Differentials • CV Axles Drivelines • Repairs and/or Replace

Serving the NW Since 1952

TRANSMISSIONSERVICE

www.edstransmission.com 1205

991

Commercial PestSolutionsExperts in ServicingMedical Facilities &

Sensitive Environments.

1105 10th St. in MarysvilleGreen Science, Great Neighbors Since 1991

360-629-7378www.prattpest.com

Call Today for a

FREEEvaluation of

your facility!

CLEARIMAGE

n

n

n

n

n

Contact [email protected]

20%OFF20%OFF

Framing/ Canvas/ Wall Art

For your business*Ad required at checkout.

(360)474-7773

In Everett and Marysville

1205

992

www.TheHeraldBusinessJournal.com

How toA D V E RT I S E in the…

Call 425.339.3445Email [email protected]

1205989 1205995

CLEAR-VIEWCLEAR-VIEWCLEAR-VIEWCLEAR-VIEWCLEAR-VIEWCLEAR-VIEWCLEAR-VIEWCLEAR-VIEWCLEAR-VIEWCLEAR-VIEWCLEAR-VIEWCLEAR-VIEWCLEAR-VIEWCLEAR-VIEWCLEAR-VIEWGLASSGLASSGLASSGLASSGLASSGLASSGLASSGLASSGLASS

COMPANYCOMPANYCOMPANYCOMPANYCOMPANYCOMPANYCOMPANYCOMPANYCOMPANYCOMPANY

AUTO GLASS • GLASS REPLACEMENT • TINTING • VINYL WINDOWS

$3495Rock ChipRepair…

Serving Snohomish

County Since 1980 www.clearviewglass.com

4317 Rucker • Everett425-258-9399


By M.L. DehmFor The Herald

Business Journal

The Work Force Devel-opment Center in Mukil-teo has become the only nonprofit in the state to be awarded Safety Through Achieving Recognition Together status by Wash-ington State Department of Labor and Industries.

It’s a well-earned honor for the orga-nization that trains at-risk and disad-v a n t a g e d high school students in a s s e m b l y, machining and man-ufacturing processes to work in aerospace and other industries.

The center’s executive director, David Trader, hopes the award will bring greater recognition to the aerospace-focused job program.

“We want to get our name out there and let people know we’re here,” Trader said. “We’ve been doing this for 23 years now.”

Basically what the cen-ter does is to train stu-dents to manufacture and assemble real parts that are then sold back to aerospace companies. The teenagers served by this program live mainly in Snohomish County or just beyond. They are students with a significant barrier to success. Most have a diagnosed disability. Some have other risk factors such as homelessness or poverty. Some are English language learners on top of a diagnosed disability.

Teenagers must be in school and working towards their diploma to be considered for the program.

“Our first goal is to get them to graduate ...” Trader said. “We treat them like employees. This

is not a school. They get paid a wage. They get that real-life work experience.”

The center also con-nects them with the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation and Work-source so they under-stand what services there are to support them after graduation.

“And they leave here with a resume in their hand,” said Work Force Development Center’s

director of Student Ser-vices Carmela Morelli.

The center also tries to eliminate basic needs issues that might get in the way of the teens being successful. Because many of the teens are poor or homeless, there is a shower onsite and a closet of clothes if they need them. There is food avail-able for those who haven’t eaten and laundry facili-ties. They even try to help

with transportation if that proves to be an issue.

The program has helped many students over the last 23 years. Some now are employed at the center teaching and mentoring others. Some have gone on to college. Most have gone on to good careers in the aerospace industry.

Hundreds of pictures of center alumni hang on the walls to inspire current students.

Retired NFL player and former Seattle Seahawk Alonzo Mitz believes in the kids and in the pro-gram. That’s why he has been a generous supporter of the nonprofit and a key celebrity at the Work Force Development Cen-ter’s Annual Charity Golf Tournament.

“This program allows them to believe in them-selves,” Mitz said. “These kids are basically not going to get an opportunity like this anywhere else. Where they go from here could

be endless.”Last year, 148 students

requested an interview for only 70 available spots in the program. The center staff wish it could accom-modate more. But the only way the program can expand is to increase the number of business cus-tomers it serves so more student employees can be hired. They work with 26 customers now.

Even if companies aren’t able to place orders for the products manufactured by the Work Force Devel-opment Center, there are other ways they can help.

Trader said what would give the Work Force Development Center staff the most joy are invitations for their graduates to come out for a job fair or an interview.

“We’re trying to have our students recognized so that they have some opportunities out there after they leave us,” Trader

M.l. dehM / For hBJ

Former Seattle Seahawk Alonzo Mitz looks over the shoulder of Work Force Development Center student employee Jazmine Rettig.

David Trader

Mukilteo teen training program lauded

WSU is proud to be part of the Everett University CenterUniversity of Washington-Bothell • Western Washington University • Central Washington University

Eastern Washington University • The Evergreen State College • Hope International Center • Washington State University

The Everett University Center (EUC) provides you with the opportunity to finish your baccalaureate degree, close to home and in the school that is right for you.

For students wishing to transfer from community colleges and earn a bachelor’s degree, the EUC offers more than 25 academic degree programs from seven institutions of higher learning, co-located on the Everett Community College campus.

This year, WSU is asking the state legislature to con-sider expanding the academic program offerings.

“With lawmakers’ support,” says academic dean Paul Pitre, “we hope to offer 10 more quality baccalau-

reate programs, including an aviation management degree through Central Washington University and degrees in software engineering, agriculture, and data analysis from WSU. More bachelor’s degree options means more opportunities for students right here in the North Puget Sound area.”

“We are proud of the unique opportunity the EUC gives to our community,” says EUC chancellor Bob Drewel. “We work closely with the legislature, our civic leaders, advisory board members, and most importantly, our academic partners to provide the breadth and depth of academic programs that will best help each of our graduates thrive here in our area.”

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY NORTH PUGET SOUND AT EVERETT

Sapphire Chan knows a great opportunity when she sees one. A student at Washington State University North Puget Sound at Everett, her story is one of oppor-tunities recognized and seized.

Sapphire (pictured right) was raised in Hong Kong, where, like many residents, she learned to speak fluent English. Seeking

to expand her educational opportunities, she joined an exchange program that brought her to the state of Washington. She graduated in 2012 from White River High School in Buckley, and so thoroughly enjoyed her experience in the U.S. that she made arrangements to stay with her host family after graduation.

Soon after, Sapphire moved to nearby Everett to begin working on an associate of arts in communication at Everett Community College. It was an excellent start—but to achieve her goal of becoming a public relations and communications specialist, she needed the greater depth and experience of a bachelor’s degree.

When she learned she could get a bachelor of arts in communication and a minor in hospitality business man-agement from WSU in Everett, she didn’t hesitate to take advantage of the opportunity.

“Sapphire’s experience is what we believe is our hallmark,” says Paul Pitre, academic dean for WSU North Puget Sound at Everett. “We pro-vide quality higher education opportunities for students who want to stay in the area and who want to transfer from a community college to finish their third and fourth years in one of our outstanding WSU academic programs.”

Building on her associate’s degree from EvCC, Washington State University’s integrated com-munication program is helping Sapphire hone the skills she needs to achieve her goal of being a communications professional.

“I loved my classes at Everett Community Col-lege. And I really enjoy living in Everett,” says Sapphire. “When I learned I could apply to WSU’s prestigious Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, stay on the EvCC campus, and study journalism to earn my bachelor’s degree in integrated communications, I knew I had the opportunity to achieve my dream.”

The integrated communication degree program is highly flexible. While Sapphire’s focus is on journalism and public relations, the program develops communication skills that are applica-ble in many fields and highly valued by employ-ers in a wide variety of industries.

In addition to integrated communications, WSU North Puget Sound at Everett also offers bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and hospitality business management.

“I am so happy I chose WSU North Puget Sound at Everett,” says Sapphire. “I am engaged in our new student government organization, enjoy my classes and fellow students, and work part-time in the front office, greeting students and helping out. I feel supported here and I am experiencing a quality academic program with a terrific reputation.

“It was an opportunity I just couldn’t pass up.”

everettuc.org1204943


We’re closer than you think.EVERETT.WSU.EDU

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

HOSPITALITY BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

WSU North Puget Sound at Everett o� ers bachelor’s degree completion programs in:

WSU NORTH PUGET SOUND AT EVERETT Get a bachelor’s degree from Washington State University

right here, closer to home.

1204944


EVERETT | 1611 SE Everett Mall Way Everett, WA 98208 | 425-290-8308

TULALIP | 8822 Quilceda PkwyTulalip, WA 98271 | 360-716-3605

www.bobsburgersandbrew.com

TULALIP | 8822 Quilceda PkwyTULALIP | 8822 Quilceda Pkwy

1202

010

We offer:Large seating capacity (up to 50!)Powerpoint Presentation Hook-ups

Free Wi-Fi | Large Plasma TV | Privacy| Large Plasma TV | Privacy

Call Today to schedule your next event!

LARGE SEATING CAPACITYin our FREE Banquet Room!

Think of us for:Business Meetings | Banquets

Breakfast Socials

Hours 7:30am-10pm Mon-Thurs7:30am-11pm Fri-Sat | 9am-10pm Sun

Sunday Brunch 9am-1:30pm So much more than just burgers!

in our FREE Banquet Room!

PAIN

AVE

BROA

DW

AY

SMITH

AVE

MCD

OU

GH

ALL AV

E

PAIN

AVE

36th ST

37th ST

I-5

�

Hours of Operation: M-F, 8 A.M. - 5 P.M.

3520 Paine Ave.Everett, WA 98201Evt: 425.258.3476 • Sea: 425.742.0833Fax: 425.258.2520

An Employee Owned Company

Big Job or Small,

Home or at Work…We have the hose and � ttings to

keep Everett connected.

Est. 1984

1202

306

F or some businesses in Seattle, the new $15 per hour mini-

mum wage is forcing them to move out of city limits.

Commercial real estate agents are busy finding new locations for these businesses that have gone through the budget season and face grim forecasts trying to absorb the new cost structure.

For business-literate folk, this was a predictable

outcome.Most businesses operate

on thin margins and a sub-stantial hike in a segment of labor costs, while noble in its intent, simply puts them into an unprofitable and tenuous condition.

When they call for real estate representation, they often come to us reluc-tantly. Most don’t want to leave, but feel they have to now.

Their make-up is

interesting and not at all the greedy, unfeeling corporations they’ve been portrayed as by supporters of the higher minimum wage. Some are for-profit, but many are non-profit businesses supported by enterprises of their own such as light manufactur-ing, laundry, distribution and janitorial services.

They employ peo-ple sometimes tied to a mission to serve a special

needs population, schools and youth programs.

Once they face the reality of having to move, many business owners will take the opportunity to bake in other wants or needs to their search.

Issues such as commute distance, quality of schools for employees, supply chain access, proximity to customers and other factors now can be re-set with plans for a new loca-tion. Some will organize a form of competition and push out a request for proposals to clarify to real estate agents what they precisely need.

Others just shop like they are in the grocery aisle without a list but know they need to walk out with a full cart. Right now is the ideal time for the edge locations to win some of them.

Snohomish County tends to fare well in these competitions unless proximity to a commercial

airport or a traditional deep water cargo port are factors.

In those cases, locations closer to SeaTac Airport or Tacoma tend to win out as Snohomish County’s airport is not yet provid-ing commercial passenger service and it’s major deep water port in Everett primarily serves the break bulk shipping market, cargo too big or heavy to fit into containers. People who support the $15 min-imum wage idea in Seattle might not have predicted these consequences.

Such practical reactions are usually misunderstood as many proponents have misconceptions about how business works. Over time, though, everyone will adjust and the minimum wage will fit the businesses that can support the higher minimum wage.

For now, the exodus is underway and it spells opportunity for the com-munities who go after it.


Business Builders

Tom Hoban

realty Markets

Businesses fleeing Seattle is an opportunity


I n my December column, I cov-ered Part 1 of the problem solving process — framing the problem.

In that process you come up with an initial hypothesis as to the solution. This column delves into the second step — gathering the data.

First, you need to determine what data to gather. In the example I used in Part 1 (framing the problem), the issue was “How do we increase gross margin on XYZ widget sales.”

The two sub-issues were “reduce cost” and “increase price.” We’ll assume that the hypothesis is to reduce the cost of producing the XYZ widget.

To determine what data to gather, you will develop a work plan. In the example above, you’d gather data to determine ways to reduce the cost of production.

Your work plan will include four ele-ments: 1) what data to gather, 2) where to find the data, 3) who will gather the data, and 4) when the data is due.

At my company we simply arrange this information in a spreadsheet with the column headings of what, where, who and when; the rows depict each data gathering task.

Now that you have a work plan, you’re ready to begin the research. There are two kinds of data gathering: secondary

research (data that has already been gathered), and pri-mary research (data you will gather, e.g. from staff, suppliers, channel partners, customers, etc.).

The most expe-rienced business consultants don’t gather as much data as possible; rather, they get the most important informa-tion as quickly as possible.

And there are many fast and free secondary data resources available online, such as BPubs.com, BusinessWire.com and Sno-Isle Libraries (sno-isle.org/research/business).

Primary research takes a bit more time to gather, but is well worth the investment. The most common primary data gathering approach is interviewing. The three key considerations are asking the right people the right questions and documenting the results.

The right people. Based on the prob-lem you are trying to solve (or it might be an opportunity you want to seize) and

your hypothesis, consider who would have useful information.

In our “reduce the cost of production” example, you would likely interview internal staff, e.g. procurement, produc-tion, and sales reps. Externally, you’d probably interview suppliers, channel partners and customers.

The right questions. Based on the same considerations to determine who to interview, develop an interview guide with questions that will provide action-able data.

Your questions might include: how can we make our production process lean, how can we get better pricing from suppliers, how can we reduce our distribution costs and are there prod-uct components that are not valued by customers?

Tip: always gather secondary data first because you don’t want to waste time

gathering data from a primary source when it is already available.

Documenting your results. Even if you are conducting a small data gather-ing process, do not rely on memory. You must document and organize all of your results, from both secondary and primary research. Excel is a better application than Word to enter the results of your research because it is easier to sort data in a spreadsheet.

Focus your data-gathering process based on the problem you are trying to solve and your hypothesis to the solution. Begin by developing a work plan that communicates what, where, who and when.

Next, conduct any relevant secondary research, followed by primary research designed to ask the right people the right questions … and document your results.

Be your own consultant by framing the problem and gathering the data. And be sure to check back next month for the third step — interpreting the results — in the business consulting problem solving process.

Andrew Ballard is president of Marketing Solutions, an agency specializing in growth strategies. For more information, call 425-337-1100 or go to www.mktg-solutions.com.

How to research to solve your problem

I f you are having trouble facing another year of running your busi-ness, don’t give up in despair. You

can improve things, no matter how difficult or even impossible it might seem.

What you can do is to form a bond between each and every individual in your business; a bond that links them to the enterprise and to each other in a way that allows them to move forward no matter what.

A bond like this is created through shared beliefs and shared efforts. It is the energy source of motivation, with a visible impact on our attitude; it makes the difference between forcing ourselves to go to work and looking forward to it each day.

At work our wristwatches seem to run faster and we forget about the things that used to drain the energy out of out of us.

For you, the boss, building such a bond means that there will come a day when you realize that you want to be with this team come what may, success or failure.

Creating a bond will depend on you. It is not something that can be outsourced. A bond powerful enough to make a difference depends on three beliefs, and unless you believe in them yourself no one else will either.

There is a saying in television news, probably apocryphal, that goes, “This

business is all about sincerity. If you can fake that you’ll do well here.” In the real world, though, you can’t fake it. For the CEO or manager there should be an old saying that goes, “He that believeth not shall not be believed.”

The three funda-mentals of moti-vation and team bonding are these:

■ We are all in this together.■ What we are doing is worthwhile

and important.■ We have what it takes to succeed.It is quite possible that you don’t really

believe that you are all in this together. Maybe you never believed it or maybe the day-to-day demands of your work, especially the constant fixing of problems and mistakes, have eroded or erased that belief.

If you think clearly about the situation, though, you know that your business cannot succeed unless every person on the team does his or her job well. From a mom-and-pop pizza parlor to a jet aircraft manufacturer, all the effort and quality assurance systems in the world can come undone in an instant by a single

worker’s failing to stay focused.There is a scene in a 1978 movie,

“Heaven Can Wait,” in which the princi-pal character has purchased a professional football franchise and is trying to show the coach and the team that he can be its new quarterback and take them to the Super Bowl.

The team, however, isn’t having any of it, and on the first two plays he calls he is immediately sacked.

Recognizing that the linemen are just going through the motions and letting the tacklers through, he makes a deal with them for just one more play.

If they protect him and he doesn’t connect with a pass to the wide receiver, he will go home and forget about the whole thing.

The movie, which is a remake of “Here Comes Mr. Jordan,” released 37 years earlier, is shown fairly often on television and you can see for yourself how the football play, and other things, turn out.

The important lesson for us, though, is that success in football requires total effort and focus of the entire team, not just the star quarterback. They win as a team or lose as a team. It is as simple, and as difficult, as that.

From a motivational standpoint, foot-ball is not intrinsically important.

Even those of us who love it realize that playing football is not finding a can-cer cure or developing affordable clean energy.

For the players, then, much of its importance comes from pride in achieve-ment in a competitive activity where your skill and teamwork are constantly challenged, often by those with superior physical skills.

Every business is doing something important. What you make, what you do, what you sell, what you deliver, is import-ant to someone. You and your team have to recognize that in order to create the bond that leads to success.

The bond also needs the third fun-damental: confidence that the team has what it takes to make the business a success, no matter what fate or the competition throws at them. That means thorough, ready-for-anything prepared-ness through training, cross training, and a learning-friendly environment. If you, as leader, take care of these fundamen-tals they will take care of you and your business.

In ordinary time, that will mean fewer mistakes and problems. And when things get tough you will be prepared to over-come obstacles and succeed.

Author’s note: If you would like to see these fundamentals used in a motiva-tional talk, read Shakespeare’s classic “St. Crispin’s Day” speech in “Henry V” (Act IV, Scene 3). It doesn’t get better than that.

James McCusker is a Bothell economist, educator and consultant. He writes a monthly column for The Herald Business Journal.

Businesses need the ties that bindBusiness Builders

James McCusker

Business 101

Andrew Ballard

Growth strategies

Be your own consultantPart 2 in a series of four columns to help your business overcome barriers to breakthrough growth.

ec4arts.org | 425.275.9595410FOURTHAVENUENORTH EDMONDSWA98020

10% discount for Seniors 62+ & Military on events presented by ECA!

TERRANCE SIMIEN & THE ZYDECO EXPERIENCEThursday, February 12, 2015$34, $29 & $24, $15 Youth/StudentFor nearly 30 years, Grammy award winning artist Terrance Simien, 8th generation Louisiana Creole, has been shattering the myths about what his indigenous Zydeco roots music is and is not.

LES BALLETS TROCKADERO de MONTE CARLOThursday, February 19, 2015$54, $49 & $44, $15 Youth/StudentLes Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo presents a playful, entertaining view of traditional, classical ballet in parody form and en travesti.

ECA SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT:

CLINT BLACKFriday, February 20, 2015 | 7:30 pm$59, $54 & $49Prolific singer-songwriter Clint Black has long been heralded as one of Country music’s brightest stars. Opening for Clint Black is Shelby Earl.

1205134

1204

325

Valerie Eckley, MD Diana P. Lewis, MD Laura Paulsen, ARNP I Eric Rommen, MD

629 Avenue D • Snohomish WA 98290 • (360) 568-0502

Douglas Trotter, MD William Art Wolter, ARNP

The caring providers you trust

The convenient location you know

Providing comprehensive healthcare for every stage of your life

Now partnered with Western Washington Medical Group

www.wwmedgroup.com

� e caring providers you trust

� e convenient location you know

Providing comprehensive healthcare for every stage of your life

Now partnered with Western Washington Medical Group

629 Avenue D • Snohomish WA 98290 • (360) 568-0502

www.wwmedgroup.com

Western Washington Medical Group

Snohomish Family MedicineWelcomes its Newest A� liate

16 THE HERALD BUSINESS JOURNAL JANUARY 2015

EVERETT — The Home Instead Senior Care offices serving Snohomish County announced plans to hire nearly 75 additional caregivers next year. Potential hires could include recent graduates, out-of-work job seekers, those looking for a career change or seniors themselves.

LYNNWOOD — Sport Clips Hair-cuts, specializing in hair care for men and boys, has opened a new location at 18700 33rd Ave. W in Lynnwood in the Ross and Buffalo Wild Wings Plaza. Owner Yen Liu plans to open an additional loca-tion next year.

MOUNTLAKE TERRACE — The

former Melody Hill Elementary School site in Mountlake Terrace will be sold to Devco, Inc. of Bellevue. The former school building was razed in 2013. Devco has proposed constructing affordable housing on the site.

MILL CREEK — The Filmore Gam-

ing Lounge and Cafe in Mill Creek Town Center, is now selling The Maltby Cafe’s baked goods, including its signature dinner-plate-size cinnamon rolls.

LYNNWOOD — Comcast Customer Service Center in Lynnwood is getting a new name and a new location. It will become the Xfinity store on Monday when it moves to 3105 Alderwood Mall Blvd., Suite Q.

EVERETT — In December, IMCO General Construction, Inc. started work on a $2.55 million upgrade project at the Port of Everett’s South Terminal to strengthen the wharf to support roll-on/roll-off cargo operations. Work is expected to be complete in May 2015.

LYNNWOOD — In November, the Immediate Clinic location in Lynnwood

began offering physical therapy services to patients. The facility hopes to continue its mission of improving patients’ health through a multidisciplinary approach.

EVERETT — Portland-based Miller Paint celebrated its 125-year anniversary by signing a long-term lease for a new location at 4302 Rucker Ave. in Everett. Jason Willams has been named store manager for the new location.

LYNNWOOD — Mattress City, a locally owned and family-operated mattress and bedroom furniture store, announced its newest location in Lyn-nwood across from Sears at the Alder-wood Mall. Mattress City’s owners, Stewart and Julie Patey, are longtime Snohomish County residents who raised their four daughters in the same com-munity. Daughter Emily is now general manager.

MILL CREEK — A new yoga studio

opened Dec. 1 at 16030 Bothell-Everett Highway, Suite 100, Mill Creek. The Yoga for Every Body studio was founded on the principle that yoga should be accessible to everybody regardless of shape or ability.

STANWOOD — Stanwood’s Leath-erheads Pub and Eatery has changed ownership. The historic Stanwood Volunteer Fire Department building was renovated into a pub about five years ago

by firefighters Chad McCoy and Eric Schweiger. It was recently purchased by Jeff Driscoll, former pastor of Peace Lutheran in Silvana.

LYNNWOOD — Clay Hernandez,

owner of Antonio Melani Salons, opened his third salon in Lynnwood Crossroads on Dec. 1. The salon’s mission is to pro-vide exceptional artistry for its many clients through the use of Aveda products.

MARYSVILLE — WNC & Associ-

ates, a California-based investor in real estate and community development initiatives, announced the completion of The Villas at Lakewood, a 240-unit affordable housing community in Marysville.

EVERETT — Snohomish County

non-profit Cocoon House will receive remodeling thanks to Lowe’s ATGStores.com All That’s Good Deeds program. More than 30 ATGStores.com volun-teers invested time into the project.

CAMANO ISLAND — The Wash-

ington Association of Conservation Districts has named Camano Island’s Kristoferson Farm the 2014 Wildlife Farmer of the Year for Washington State. The family-owned farm is known for its popular zip line tour and efforts to preserve the farm that grows certified organic hay and lavender.

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Long-term includes regularly scheduled vessels only.

Ship port calls 2014 YTD: 100

Barge port calls 2014 YTD: 77

Ship port calls 2013: 112

Barge port calls 2013: 63

Jan. 12: AAL Singapore, AAL

Jan. 9: TBN, EUKOR

Jan. 6: Westwood Olympia, Westwood

Jan. 1: Star Dieppe, Star

Dec. 31: Ocean Seagull, ECL (2nd call)

Dec. 30: AAL Melbourne, AAL

Dec. 30: Westwood Cascade, Westwood

PORT OF EVERETT SHIPPING SCHEDULE

We Know FeetInside and Out!

From simple sprains to major pains, the doctors at Ankle & Foot Clinic of Everett are trained exclusively to diagnose and treat ankle and foot problems.

When experience, knowledge, and personal attention are important to you – give us a call and meet these special doctors. Let us help you put your best foot forward!

3131 Nassau Street • Everett, WA 98201

425-339-8888www.ankleandfootnorthwest.com

(across from Providence Everett Medical Center, Paci� c Campus)

NEW LOCATION!Alpine Foot & Ankle Clinic

17432 Smokey Point Boulevard,Arlington WA • 360-653-2326

www.alpinefootandankle.com

Practicing at both locations:Dr Jarrod Smith

& Dr Robert Stanton

1202308

1203

852


EVERETT — The Port of Ever-ett has hired Steve Kirkelie as chief of administrative and legal affairs. Kirkelie, who is currently the deputy city attorney for Puyallup, starts his new post at the Port on Jan. 5. The position was created to fill the legal role vacated with the promotion of Les Reardanz to executive director/CEO in November. The port also selected Brandon Whitaker to be the project manager for the new Waterfront Place Central mixed-use development on the Everett waterfront. He will manage the design and construction contracts.

EVERETT — The Everett Clinic welcomed pediatrician Dr. Yu Lisa Shen to its Marysville Clinic and Dr. Andrea Drown to Family Medicine at Smokey Point Medical Center. Shen is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Drown is a member of the American Osteopathic Association, American Medi-cal Association and Washington Academy of Family Physicians.

LAKE STEVENS — Jim Maddux,

longtime manager of Lake Stevens Ministorage and U-Haul, has announced his retirement effective Jan.10. Under his leadership, the franchise received multi-ple customer service awards and has fre-quently ranked among the top five AAA U-Haul dealers for the region. The Navy veteran and his wife of 45 years, Evelyn, plan to return to his native Arizona.

EVERETT — Mike Deller has been

appointed to Everett Community Col-lege’s Board of Trustees. Deller, who graduated from EvCC in 1971, is a longtime supporter of the college. He’s the sec-ond of three generations connected to EvCC. His father, Bill Deller, was the dean of students at the college and later established the EvCC Foundation.

EDMONDS — Jody Scott, has joined

RE/MAX Direct Realty in Edmonds. Scott will offer expertise in serving vet-eran and current military families. Scott’s familiarity with the military comes from a long line of family members who served in various branches. Before entering real estate two years ago, she worked to help those with chemical dependencies.

LYNNWOOD — Edmonds Com-munity College Board of Trustees chair Emily Yim was elected to the Association

of Community Colleges Trustees Exec-utive Committee in October. Yim will serve in the secretary-treasurer position on the executive committee for a one-year term.

LYNNWOOD — Sparling welcomed three new support staff members to its Lynnwood office — Laurie Miyatake as senior project accountant, Ehab Habib as information technology specialist, and Kelsi Seidlitz as CAD/Revit specialist. Miyatake has more than 13 years of experience. Habib has more than six years of experience. Seidlitz has four years of engineering and technical experience.

EVERETT — Frontier Communi-cations announced the appointment of Timothy Ross as regional sales manager for the company’s Western Washington markets. Ross is responsible for leading the local commercial sales team and securing and managing business sales relationships, focusing on small, mid-size and enterprise businesses. The company also announced the promotion of Frank Aff to director of operations for its west region.

EVERETT — The Board of Direc-tors of Trinity Lutheran College has announced that John Reed has renewed his contract as president of the college through 2019. Reed is the seventh president of Trinity Lutheran since it was founded in 1944.

EVERETT — Peoples Bank has announced that Natalie Witney joined the bank as assistant vice president and branch manager of the Ever-ett Financial Center. Witney has 17 years’ experience in the finan-cial services industry with the last six years as a branch manager for Union Bank. She is pas-sionate about supporting the Everett community and helping her clients reach their financial goals.

OAK HARBOR — Building Indus-try Association of Washington member and current president Bob Johnson was named 2014 Builder of the Year during a formal awards ceremony at BIAW’s Fall Board of Directors meeting in Cle Elum on Nov. 6. Johnson is an Oak Harbor contractor, owner of Ward-John-son Masonry and Tile and a decorated veteran.

EVERETT — The National Associ-ation of Industrial and Office Properties recognized leadership in commercial real estate development at its November Night of the Stars event in Bellevue. Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson and Lanie McMullin, Everett’s economic development director, were jointly hon-ored as NAIOP’s Public Officials of the Year for Washington state.

people WaTching

Mike Deller

Natalie Witney

Brandon Whitaker

Steve Kirkelie

1184529

Visit a Toastmasters club - it will change your life.

For more info or to find a club near you, visit:

www.toastmasters.org

20 local clubs to choose from

morning • noon • eveningStart your own club

ARE YOU LOOKING TO➤ Build your confidence?

➤ Grow as a leader?

➤ Improve your communication & build speaking skills

1184

529

Transmissionsof Marysville

European • Japanese • Domestic

One Day Service/Rebuilds in Stock36 mo. Unlimited Mileage.

Warranty Available

Free Local Towing w/Major Repairwww.edstransmissions.com

10226 State Ave. Marysville(360) 653-1835

1203863

Federal Tax Lien 201411040266: Nov. 4;

Mike Lavallee Inc. (+) 1033 Ave. D, Ste. F, Snohomish

201411040267: Nov. 4; Savvy Home Furnishings (+) 4320 186th SW, Ste. B, Post Mailbox 341, Lynnwood

201411040268: Nov. 4; Jackson Kathi 2731 Wetmore Ave., Ste. 240, Everett

201411040269: Nov. 4; Free Merle E (+) 6910 Morgan Road, Everett

201411040270: Nov. 4; Phillips Jeffry T 5420 212th St. SW, Apt. F-101, Mountlake Terrace

201411040279: Nov. 4; Bird Peter D 2228 192nd Place SW, Lynnwood

201411040280: Nov. 4; Jirah Enterprises (+) 9830 220th Place SE, Snohomish

201411040281: Nov. 4; Dennis Shantel Kay (+) PO Box 1528, Monroe

201411040282: Nov. 4;

Aspera Brenda M 429 164th St. SW, Apt. H-2, Lynnwood

201411040283: Nov. 4; Townsend Geraldine L 14932 30th Drive SE, Mill Creek

201411040284: Nov. 4; Jones Daniel G 2811 Cavalero Road, Lake Stevens

201411040285: Nov. 4; Folkes Patrick J (+) PO Box 1433, Sultan

201411040286: Nov. 4; Ebel Ulrich G 603 116th St. SW, Everett

201411040287: Nov. 4; Kim Myungsoo 16824 44th Ave. W, Ste. 200, Lynnwood

201411040288: Nov. 4; Bio Management Northwest Inc., PO Box 564, Mountlake Terrace

201411040289: Nov. 4; Puget Sound Painting PO Box 12220, Mill Creek

201411040290: Nov. 4; Odell Corp 11732 Airport Road, Everett

201411040291: Nov. 4; Folkes Patrick J PO Box 1433, Sultan

201411040292: Nov. 4; Denali Construction Inc. 4224 116th Drive SE, Snohomish

201411040293: Nov. 4; Galvez Lisa R (+) 11811 Mukilteo Speedway, Ste. 200, Mukilteo

201411040294: Nov. 4; Potong Floor Covering Inc. 23414 127th Ave. NE, Arlington

201411040295: Nov. 4; Executive Dry Cleaners Inc. 4001 198th St. SW, Ste. 5, Lynnwood

201411040296: Nov. 4; Executive Dry Cleaners Inc. 4001 198th St., Ste. 5, Lynnwood

201411120618: Nov. 12; Logan Scott 8825 192nd Drive SE, Snohomish

201411120619: Nov. 12; Cook Ken H 20309 14th Drive SE, Bothell

201411120620: Nov. 12; Chernoff Christopher A 16019 4th Ave. SE, Bothell

201411120621: Nov. 12; Tolliver Christiana M 5602 69th St. NE, Marysville

201411120622: Nov. 12; Kirkland Lodge (+) 2720 Rucker Ave., Ste. 101, MSC 70680, Everett

201411120623: Nov. 12; Miller Jeff R 8406 70th St. NE, Marysville

201411120624: Nov. 12;

Wilson Scott A 15888 S Lake-shore Road, Chelan

201411120625: Nov. 12; S M C Sound Contracting Inc. 322 172nd Place SW, Unit A, Bothell

201411120626: Nov. 12; Rsm Breakfast Inc. (+) 20016 Cedar Valley Road, Ste. 204, Lynnwood

201411120627: Nov. 12; Sahm Roger A 9020 192nd St. SE, Snohomish

201411120634: Nov. 12; Rusaj Jiri 4803 223rd St., Mountlake Terrace

201411120635: Nov. 12; Snow Alan D 3812 167th Place SW, Lynnwood

201411120636: Nov. 12; Oh Yong S 21000 70th Ave. W, Edmonds

201411120637: Nov. 12; Prater Blanca I 3333 164th SW, Apt. 313, Lynnwood

201411120638: Nov. 12; Goodridge E L (+) 7212 Har-row Place, Arlington

201411120639: Nov. 12; Keyes Kyle 4911 133rd Place SE, Snohomish

201411120640: Nov. 12; Carpenter Jon C PO Box 548, Gold Bar

201411120641: Nov. 12; Marcus Drywall Inc. 2706 Newberg Road, Snohomish

201411120642: Nov. 12; Watkins Daniel L 8430 State Ave., Marysville

201411120643: Nov. 12; Mukilteo Lodge (+) 2720 Rucker Ave., Ste. 101, Everett

201411120644: Nov. 12; Automatic Entries Inc. 6720 210th St. SW, Ste. A, Lynnwood

201411180085: Nov. 18; Bartlett Richard 19324 40th Ave. W, Ste. B, Lynnwood

201411180086: Nov. 18; Abbott Harold PO Box 625, Everett

201411180087: Nov. 18; Donnelson Roderick G (+) 24914 43rd Ave. NE, Arlington

201411180088: Nov. 18; Hamlin Justin C (+) PO Box 1568, Stanwood

201411180089: Nov. 18; Cook Edward (+) 2522 Rucker Ave., Everett

201411180090: Nov. 18; Henry Jason W (+) 26719 469th Ave. NE, Darrington

201411180091: Nov. 18; Roodzant Dustan L (+) 6024 83rd Place NE, Marysville

201411180092: Nov. 18; Hubert Michel (+) 19630 N Danvers Road, Lynnwood

201411180093: Nov. 18; Clark Joe 233 169th Ave. SE, Snohomish

201411180094: Nov. 18; Greening America Landscape Inc. 19428 Highway 9 SE, Snohomish

201411180095: Nov. 18; Cc Sports Injury Inc. 7631 212th St. SW, Edmonds

201411180096: Nov. 18; Savvy Home Furnishings 4320 186th SW, Ste. B Post Mailbox 341, Lynnwood

201411180097: Nov. 18; Auto Express Technologies Inc. 23104 57th Ave. W, Mountlake Terrace

201411180098: Nov. 18; Lindstrom Robert L Gen-eral delivery, Bullhead City, Arizona

201411180099: Nov. 18; Vaja Joshna J 14917 39th Place W, Lynnwood

201411180100: Nov. 18; Brazell Keith C 12303 Harbour Pointe Blvd., Unit AA207, Mountlake Terrace

201411250256: Nov. 25; Domar Luis (+) 19829 8th Ave. W, Lynnwood

201411250257: Nov. 25; Barnett Mickie 6705 Sun-nyside Blvd., Apt. No. A, Marysville

201411250258: Nov. 25; Hayes Roofing Enterprises Inc. PO Box 3633, Everett

201411250259: Nov. 25; Ieplexus Inc. 20700 44th W Ave., Ste. 120, Lynnwood

201411250260: Nov. 25; Kristjanson Jeffrey A PO Box 2598, Lynnwood

201411250261: Nov. 25; Sudra Subhash V 516 195th St. SW, Lynnwood

201411250262: Nov. 25; Haywood Gerald R Ii 31603 Swede Heaven Road, Arlington

201411250263: Nov. 25; Carroll Erin S 1007 Ryan Court, Snohomish

201411250264: Nov. 25; Bibeau Richard J PO Box 1346, Edmonds

201411250265: Nov. 25; Perkins Kraig L 20411 55th Ave. W, Lynnwood

201411250294: Nov. 25; Masterwork Roofing Inc. 2415 40th St., Everett

201411250295: Nov. 25; Millers Interiors Inc. 15615

Highway 99, Lynnwood201411250296: Nov. 25;

Scares Debbie L 6304 230th St. SW, Mountlake Terrace

201411250297: Nov. 25; Sanchez Alice L 4209 77th Place NW, Tulalip

201411250298: Nov. 25; Wilson Daniel W 6618 105th St. NE, Marysville

201411250299: Nov. 25; Stadium Lodge (+) 2720 Rucker Ave., Ste. 101, Everett

201411250300: Nov. 25; Thomas Ann M 24224 47th Ave. NE, Arlington

Release of Federal Tax Lien

201411040297: Nov. 4; Wright Billie C (+) 12207 5th Ave. SE, Everett

201411040298: Nov. 4; Tegman Lawrence G 9914 226th Place SW, Edmonds

201411040299: Nov. 4; Cooper Lona D 13018 Avon-dale Way, Apt. C, Everett

201411040300: Nov. 4; Peters Joshua N 4921 Fobes Road, Snohomish

201411040301: Nov. 4; Bacon Chad R 4315 164th St. SW, No. 304, Lynnwood

201411040302: Nov. 4; Johnson Daniel J 7021 66th Drive NE, Marysville

201411040303: Nov. 4; Simpkins Jomo (+) 4612 195th St. NE, Arlington

201411040304: Nov. 4; Thomas Michael D Estate Of (+) 2221 Jade Ave., Everett

201411120629: Nov. 12; Cyr Toby W 4319 180th St. SE, Bothell

201411120630: Nov. 12; Uriarte Philip C 2605 15th St., Apt. 313, Everett

201411120645: Nov. 12; Carr Ronald (+) 12121 Admi-ralty Way, Q300, Everett

201411120646: Nov. 12; Upstate New York Real Estate Partnership (+) 2521 186th Place SE, Bothell

201411120647: Nov. 12; Public 5114 Glenwood Foss Road, Snohomish

201411120648: Nov. 12; West Steve A Estate Of (+) PO Box 174, Skykomish

201411120649: Nov. 12; West Steve A Estate Of (+) 5114 Glenwood Foss Road, Snohomish

201411120650: Nov. 12; Young George E Jr (+) 14316

McElroy Road, Arlington201411120651: Nov. 12;

Woodinville Tire & Automo-tive Center Inc. 13811 NE 175th St., Woodinville

201411120652: Nov. 12; Coop Walter (+) 4820 Sea-hurst Ave., Everett

201411180101: Nov. 18; Kinssies John E (+) 8330 224th St. SE, Woodinville

201411180102: Nov. 18; Strang Nicholas S 2958 N Shore Road, Bellingham

201411180103: Nov. 18; Benitez Marcela 18501 66th Ave. W, Lynnwood

201411180104: Nov. 18; Ford Henry Allen (+) 1007 130th St. SW, Apt. 306D, Everett

201411180105: Nov. 18; Robertson Christopher D (+) 6134 88th Place NE, Marysville

201411180106: Nov. 18; Evans Mary P 305 Columbia Ave., Marysville

201411180107: Nov. 18; Torres-Meza Ramiro 7015 47th Ave., Apt. 354, Marysville

201411180108: Nov. 18; Allestad Roger L (+) 4925 52nd St. SE, Everett

201411180109: Nov. 18; Lien Research Corp. 16710 Smokey Point Blvd., Ste. 210, Arlington

201411180110: Nov. 18; Prieto Marco S PO Box 2392, Snohomish

201411180111: Nov. 18; Davis Joshua 7702 196th St. SW, Apt. A, Edmonds

201411180112: Nov. 18; Walker William A 8104 238th St. SW, Apt. C, Edmonds

201411180113: Nov. 18; Haggard Electrical (+) 16702 65th Ave. SE, Snohomish

201411190315: Nov. 19; Simon Terry H 113 N Lewis St., Monroe

201411250266: Nov. 25; Miller Jeff R PO Box 1086, Marysville

201411250267: Nov. 25; Miller Jeff R PO Box 1086, Marysville

201411250268: Nov. 25; Blizard Daniel C (+) 11618 51st Ave. NE, Marysville



201411250271: Nov. 25; Dunda Robert E 1031 N Broadway, Trailer 16, Everett

201411250272: Nov. 25; A Double J Accounting Service Inc. PO Box 1166, Marysville

201411250273: Nov. 25; Dotson Arnold D 9300 W Mall Drive, Apt. A410, Everett

201411250274: Nov. 25; Vincent Vicki L 714 Lewis Ave., Gold Bar

201411250275: Nov. 25; Nickel Arthur J 9706 228th Place SW, Edmonds

201411250276: Nov. 25; Perry Shawn D (+) 22811 48th Place W, Mountlake Terrace

201411250277: Nov. 25; Wilson Edward J 22806 60th Ave. W, Mountlake Terrace

201411240692: Nov. 24; Sykes Eric J 9814 186th St.

NE, Arlington

The following Snohomish County businesses or indi-viduals filed business-related bankruptcies with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for West-ern District of Washington between Nov. 1 to Nov. 30.

14-18091-KAO: Chapter 7, Edwin Dwight Vyhmeister and Ingrid Vyhmeister; attorney for joint debtors: Grant E. Courtney; attorney for special request: Kevin B. Hansen; attorney for special request: Aaron V. Rocke; filed: Nov. 3; assets: yes; type: voluntary; nature of business: other; type of debtor: individual

14-18632-KAO: Chapter 7, Young Suk Oh; attorney for debtor: Young Oh; attorney for special request: Binah B. Yeung; filed: Nov. 27; assets: no; type: voluntary; nature of business: other; type of debtor: individual

Bankruptcy filings

18 THE HERALD BUSINESS JOURNAL JANUARY 2015

PUBLIC RECORDS

Snohomish County tax liens

OPEN FOR BUSINESS Whether you’re an

entrepreneur just starting out, an experienced business owner or a manager, Sno-Isle Libraries has services to help you save time and money.

Download legal forms, research your

competition, earn a certification, use a printer, learn to create

spreadsheets, book a meeting room … and

much more.

We are a library district committed to being a partner in the economic growth of Snohomish and Island counties. Think of us as your partner on the road to success.

Learn more at sno-isle.org/business

“I spend a good deal of time on the Sno-Isle website because it offers

excellent – and free – business research resources. It helps me

provide our clients with reliable market intelligence.”

— Andrew Ballard, President, Marketing Solutions, Inc.

1203788



snohomish CounTy eConomiC daTa eConomiC daTa

Pending sales, residential real

estate

Closed sales, residential real

estateUnemployment rate, percent

Continued unemployment

claimsAerospace

employmentConstruction employment

Professional services

employment

Local sales tax distributions,

Snohomish County and incorporated

cities

Consumer price index,

King and Snohomish counties

06/10 818 898 9.7 14,790 34,800 16,100 20,300 $3,900,288 226.12

07/10 870 727 9.6 13,551 35,100 16,500 20,600 $3,876,617

08/10 916 642 9.3 12,834 35,400 16,700 20,400 $4,508,362 227.65

09/10 895 615 9.4 11,930 36,000 16,500 20,800 $4,306,676

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 $3,663,750 247.85

11/14 1,027 885 4.8 6,093 41,600 18,000 24,100 $3,852,205.00

Snohomish County eco-

nomic data by month/year

Boeing Co. stock

price

Snohomish County PUD electricity use in kilo-watt hours

Snohomish County PUD new service connections

New vehi-cle registra-

tions

Average gas price (regular, unleaded) for

Sea-Tac

06/10 $62.75 527,685,275 270 3,955 $2.94

07/10 $68.14 462,923,439 222 3,834 $2.98

08/10 $61.13 502,063,848 218 3,749 $3.07

09/10 $66.54 450,068,037 238 3,754 $2.94

10/10 $70.64 501,194,925 259 3,709 $3.01

11/10 $63.77 492,939,394 248 3,062 $3.08

12/10 $65.72 703,849,280 292 3,329 $3.15

01/11 $65.26 659,071,072 231 3,491 $3.23

02/11 $72.01 635,877,009 197 3,115 $3.34

03/11 $73.93 712,625,392 225 4,327 $3.70

04/11 $79.78 637,552,469 217 4,065 $3.92

05/11 $78.03 562,380,445 257 3,972 $3.99

06/11 $73.93 543,602,022 213 4,196 $3.86

07/11 $70.47 446,373,984 241 3,935 $3.78

08/11 $66.86 521,884,745 227 4,181 $3.75

09/11 $60.51 455,591,472 192 3,896 $3.86

10/11 $65.79 493,315,047 214 3,883 $3.80

11/11 $68.69 518,192,703 188 3,334 $3.67

12/11 $73.35 695,279,915 239 3,504 $3.44

01/12 $74.18 676,580,919 246 3,256 $3.44

02/12 $74.95 688,378,176 294 3,496 $3.57

03/12 $74.37 671,475,890 223 4,419 $4.00

04/12 $76.80 619,896,882 223 4,305 $4.08

05/12 $69.61 495,062,119 290 4,748 $4.16

06/12 $74.30 498,393,947 222 4,585 $4.00

07/12 $73.91 446,516,298 207 4,402 $3.57

08/12 $71.40 468,361,106 282 4,664 $3.81

09/12 $69.60 408,581,275 255 4,155 $4.01

10/12 $70.44 503,030,443 442 4,303 $3.96

11/12 $74.28 473,023,558 225 3,682 $3.47

12/12 $75.36 614,283,104 234 3,636 $3.34

01/13 $73.87 700,861,857 223 4,656 $3.37

02/13 $76.90 674,618,017 316 3,753 $3.62

03/13 $85.85 608,606,315 330 4,713 $3.80

04/13 $91.41 617,541,384 321 4,943 $3.64

05/13 $99.05 492,112,324 276 5,256 $3.83

06/13 $102.32 465,163,451 213 5,275 $3.79

07/13 $105.10 453,404,099 322 5,622 $3.82

08/13 $103.92 470,067,543 232 5,742 $3.78

09/13 $117.50 410,719,601 338 5,141 $3.65

10/13 $138.36 518,766,206 461 5,179 $3.44

11/13 $133.83 461,012,493 447 4,083 $3.24

12/13 $136.92 671,835,200 244 4,752 $3.29

01/14 $125.26 696,306,571 421 5,726 $3.36

02/14 $128.92 682,348,469 386 4,467 $3.31

03/14 $125.49 610,841,349 352 5,428 $3.75

04/14 $129.02 605,381,115 368 6,389 $3.74

05/14 $135.25 468,754,469 466 6,542 $3.87

06/14 $127.23 492,917,254 412 6,626 $3.93

07/14 $120.48 N/A 444 6,611 $3.95

08/14 $126.80 463,314,006 363 5,614 $3.83

09/14 $127.38 451,089,566 264 N/A $3.74

10/14 $124.91 496,335,315 403 N/A $3.40

11/14 $134.36 422,769,229 426 N/A $3.04

1183

491

At Prime Paci� c Bank, we recognize that small business owners sometimes may not be able to get traditional loans due to lack of collateral or equity. Fortunately, our bank is please to tell you that you can still get the loan services you need for your business to grow and expand! We o� er Small Business Administration government guaranteed loans for businesses.

Among other bene� ts, SBA loans can give you: ■ Longer Term Financing

■ Eligibility to purchase real estate, inventory and other needs

■ Fixed Interest Rates

■ And much more!

Mention this ad and receive a free gift when you open a new account.

Main Branch2502 196th St SW

Lynnwood, WA 98036425-774-5643

Kenmore Branch6717 NE 181st St

Kenmore, WA 98028425-415-6564

Mill Creek Branch2130 132nd St SE

Mill Creek, WA 98012425-357-1516

Building Our Community, One Business at a Time

SBA Loans for BusinessesWe invest in your business to help you succeed!

Prime Paci� c is the Place for your

Small Business needs.


snohomish CounTy eConomiC daTa eConomiC daTa

Pending sales, residential real

estate

Closed sales, residential real

estateUnemployment rate, percent

Continued unemployment

claimsAerospace

employmentConstruction employment

Professional services

employment

Local sales tax distributions,

Snohomish County and incorporated

cities

Consumer price index,

King and Snohomish counties

06/10 818 898 9.7 14,790 34,800 16,100 20,300 $3,900,288 226.12

07/10 870 727 9.6 13,551 35,100 16,500 20,600 $3,876,617

08/10 916 642 9.3 12,834 35,400 16,700 20,400 $4,508,362 227.65

09/10 895 615 9.4 11,930 36,000 16,500 20,800 $4,306,676

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 $3,663,750 247.85

11/14 1,027 885 4.8 6,093 41,600 18,000 24,100 $3,852,205.00

Snohomish County eco-

nomic data by month/year

Boeing Co. stock

price

Snohomish County PUD electricity use in kilo-watt hours

Snohomish County PUD new service connections

New vehi-cle registra-

tions

Average gas price (regular, unleaded) for

Sea-Tac

06/10 $62.75 527,685,275 270 3,955 $2.94

07/10 $68.14 462,923,439 222 3,834 $2.98

08/10 $61.13 502,063,848 218 3,749 $3.07

09/10 $66.54 450,068,037 238 3,754 $2.94

10/10 $70.64 501,194,925 259 3,709 $3.01

11/10 $63.77 492,939,394 248 3,062 $3.08

12/10 $65.72 703,849,280 292 3,329 $3.15

01/11 $65.26 659,071,072 231 3,491 $3.23

02/11 $72.01 635,877,009 197 3,115 $3.34

03/11 $73.93 712,625,392 225 4,327 $3.70

04/11 $79.78 637,552,469 217 4,065 $3.92

05/11 $78.03 562,380,445 257 3,972 $3.99

06/11 $73.93 543,602,022 213 4,196 $3.86

07/11 $70.47 446,373,984 241 3,935 $3.78

08/11 $66.86 521,884,745 227 4,181 $3.75

09/11 $60.51 455,591,472 192 3,896 $3.86

10/11 $65.79 493,315,047 214 3,883 $3.80

11/11 $68.69 518,192,703 188 3,334 $3.67

12/11 $73.35 695,279,915 239 3,504 $3.44

01/12 $74.18 676,580,919 246 3,256 $3.44

02/12 $74.95 688,378,176 294 3,496 $3.57

03/12 $74.37 671,475,890 223 4,419 $4.00

04/12 $76.80 619,896,882 223 4,305 $4.08

05/12 $69.61 495,062,119 290 4,748 $4.16

06/12 $74.30 498,393,947 222 4,585 $4.00

07/12 $73.91 446,516,298 207 4,402 $3.57

08/12 $71.40 468,361,106 282 4,664 $3.81

09/12 $69.60 408,581,275 255 4,155 $4.01

10/12 $70.44 503,030,443 442 4,303 $3.96

11/12 $74.28 473,023,558 225 3,682 $3.47

12/12 $75.36 614,283,104 234 3,636 $3.34

01/13 $73.87 700,861,857 223 4,656 $3.37

02/13 $76.90 674,618,017 316 3,753 $3.62

03/13 $85.85 608,606,315 330 4,713 $3.80

04/13 $91.41 617,541,384 321 4,943 $3.64

05/13 $99.05 492,112,324 276 5,256 $3.83

06/13 $102.32 465,163,451 213 5,275 $3.79

07/13 $105.10 453,404,099 322 5,622 $3.82

08/13 $103.92 470,067,543 232 5,742 $3.78

09/13 $117.50 410,719,601 338 5,141 $3.65

10/13 $138.36 518,766,206 461 5,179 $3.44

11/13 $133.83 461,012,493 447 4,083 $3.24

12/13 $136.92 671,835,200 244 4,752 $3.29

01/14 $125.26 696,306,571 421 5,726 $3.36

02/14 $128.92 682,348,469 386 4,467 $3.31

03/14 $125.49 610,841,349 352 5,428 $3.75

04/14 $129.02 605,381,115 368 6,389 $3.74

05/14 $135.25 468,754,469 466 6,542 $3.87

06/14 $127.23 492,917,254 412 6,626 $3.93

07/14 $120.48 N/A 444 6,611 $3.95

08/14 $126.80 463,314,006 363 5,614 $3.83

09/14 $127.38 451,089,566 264 N/A $3.74

10/14 $124.91 496,335,315 403 N/A $3.40

11/14 $134.36 422,769,229 426 N/A $3.04

Rachel Roy’s Cleaning Services: 10405 19th Ave. SE, No. A, Everett, WA 98208-4261; Janitor Service

Sanchez Cleaning Services: 1305 W Casino Road, No. C1, Everett, WA 98204-1526; Jani-tor Service

Schuchart Corp.: 10108 32nd Ave. W, Everett, WA 98204-1302; Nonclassified Establishments

Schurr We Can Designs From: 7726 E Casino Road, Everett, WA 98203-6548; Non-classified Establishments

Senegambia: 11120 Evergreen Way, Ever-ett, WA 98204-3888; 425-353-0901; Nonclassi-fied Establishments

Shea Edwards Enterprises: 11020 Meridian Place W, Everett, WA 98204-7015; Nonclassi-fied Establishments

Sig Co. & Construction: 12005 Andrew Sater Road, Everett, WA 98208-5852; Con-struction Companies

Sunrise Home: 5105 Colby Ave., Everett, WA 98203-3342; 425-789-1435; Nonclassified Establishments

Tiwwgo: 907 Pine St., Everett, WA 98201-1421; Nonclassified Establishments

Ultra HD TV Depot: 2628 9th St. SE, Ever-ett, WA 98208; Television and Radio-Dealers

V&R Interiors Select Inc.: 203 130th St. SE, Everett, WA 98208-6465; 425-337-9876; Interior Decorators Design and Consultants

Vieve Hair Studio: 2525 122nd Place SE, Everett, WA 98208-6294; Beauty Salons

William A Yannus Insurance Inc.: 1616 32nd St., Everett, WA 98201-4382; 425-374-8392; Insurance

Yoga For Every Body: 4930 123rd St. SE, Everett, WA 98208-9176; Yoga Instruction

Gold BarJSW: 705 Verlinde Drive, Gold Bar, WA

98251-9377; Nonclassified EstablishmentsMaid To Assist: 41313 Nelson Place, Gold

Bar, WA 98251-9300; Maid and Butler Service

Lake StevensA More Hair Design: 9615 11th Place SE,

No. B, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-3968; Beauty Salons

Essential Wellness Integrative: 3222 Lake Drive, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-8770; Wellness Programs

Evergreen Filing Services: 402 Rhodora Heights Road, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-9786; 425-405-7032; Filing Services (Manufacturers)

Farm Girl Products: 4516 95th Ave. NE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-4137; General Merchandise-Retail

Nancy’s Dog Walking & Pet Care: 11632 25th St. SE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-5160; Pet Shops

Noble Electric Inc: 9626 60th St. NE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-4010; Electric Contractors

Northwest Woman & Children Fund: 621 Highway 9 NE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-8525; Nonclassified Establishments

Puget Sound Mobile: 2026 Vernon Road, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-8514; 425-212-9705; Nonclassified Establishments

Seattle Tacticals: 1706 95th Ave. NE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-8596; Nonclassified Establishments

Time Capsule Photography: 1622 94th Drive SE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-3732; Photography

Z Networks Computer Services Inc.: 1109 87th Ave. SE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-6650; Computer Services

LynnwoodA Caring Family Home: 2003 144th Place

SW, Lynnwood, WA 98087-5939; Nonclassified Establishments

Abatement Service Inc.: 6327 204th St. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036-6012; 425-673-4900; Asbestos Removal Service

All Aspects Concrete Construction: 903 187th Place SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036-4985; Concrete Contractors

Apples To Go: 19410 Highway 99, No. A-134, Lynnwood, WA 98036-5102; Nonclassi-

22 THE HERALD BuSINESS JouRNAL JANuARY 2015

PLEASE NoTE: Business license informa-tion is obtained monthly from the Washington Secretary of State’s office through the paid commercial services of InfouSA. See the full list of this month’s business licenses at www.theheraldbusinessjournal.com.

ArlingtonBest Gutters: 26802 39th Ave. NE, Arling-

ton, WA 98223-9117; Gutters and DownspoutsChampions Anacortes: 3210 Smokey Point

Drive, Arlington, WA 98223-7805; 360-386-9411; Nonclassified Establishments

Duff Hauls: 29715 387th Ave. NE, Arlington, WA 98223-5210; Nonclassified Establishments

Glitz & Glam Transport: 1302 188th St. NW, Arlington, WA 98223-8324; Trucking

Graham General Contracting: 115 280th St. NE, Arlington, WA 98223-5508; 360-420-6050; General Contractors

Integrity Instrument Repair: 14128 Burn Road, Arlington, WA 98223-7185; Repair Shops and Related Services

Kneaded Bodies: 3810 166th Place NE, No. 201a, Arlington, WA 98223-8403; 360-651-9762; Massage Therapists

Leatherheads Pub & Eatery: 20115 48th Ave. NE, Arlington, WA 98223-6369; Restaurants

Orrino Real Estate: 1411 Lakewood Road, Arlington, WA 98223-9683; Real Estate Management

Princess Race Wear: 20607 67th Ave. NE, Arlington, WA 98223-4254; 360-572-0231; Clothing-Retail

Sanjuan Aviation: 19000 59th Drive NE, No. Ane, Arlington, WA 98223; 360-403-4033; Aircraft-Dealers

Seattle’s Private Reserve: 17731 59th Ave. NE, Arlington, WA 98223-6446; 360-572-0849; Nonclassified Establishments

Sensi Sweets: 17731 59th Ave. NE, Arling-ton, WA 98223-6446; 360-548-3337; Candy and Confectionery-Retail

Smokey Point Licensing: 3411 169th Place NE, Arlington, WA 98223-8422; 360-572-0331; License Services

Stilly Valley Lawn Care: 25620 Whitman Road, Arlington, WA 98223-5321; Lawn and Grounds Maintenance

BothellA Weekend Computer Warrior: 507 211th

Place SE, Bothell, WA 98021-7583; Computer and Equipment Dealers

Belly & Co.: 216 215th St. SE, Bothell, WA 98021-7546; Nonclassified Establishments

Bright Crane: 24023 7th Place W, Bothell, WA 98021-8522; Crane Service

CMC Biologics: 22032 23rd Drive SE, Both-ell, WA 98021-4414; 425-398-0878; Nonclassi-fied Establishments

Dan’s Shop: 3004 182nd Place SE, Bothell, WA 98012-6084; Nonclassified Establishments

Deanne Wilson Music: 204 203rd St. SE, Bothell, WA 98012-9699; Nonclassified Establishments

Fern Landscape Services: 2221 164th Place SE, Bothell, WA 98012-8018; Landscape Contractors

Five Petals Flowers: 1901 235th Place SW, Bothell, WA 98021-5203; Florists-Retail

Infused Of Bothell: 805 238th St. SE, Both-ell, WA 98021-4305; 425-481-9080; Nonclassi-fied Establishments

Jazzy Marketing Group: 17928 Bothell Everett Highway, Bothell, WA 98012-6386; 425-481-7211; Marketing Programs and Services

New Ground Counseling: 21210 31st Ave. SE, Bothell, WA 98021-3901; Counseling Services

Oceano Sushi Asian Fusion: 17917 Bothell Everett Highway, Bothell, WA 98012-6384; 425-415-4617; Restaurants

Polos Income Tax Services: 924 219th Place SE, Bothell, WA 98021-7647; Tax Return Preparation and Filing

Preferred Promotional Products: 507 223rd Place SE, Bothell, WA 98021-8291;

Promotions and Fund RaisingPurity Integrative Health: 3922 148th St.

SE, Bothell, WA 98012-4752; 425-338-2357; Health Services

Rain Networks: 18323 Bothell Everett Highway, Bothell, WA 98012-5246; 425-892-9869; Internet Services-Network Designers/Consultant

Rite Aid: 2323 228th St. SE, Bothell, WA 98021; 425-481-7575; Pharmacies

Rose City Pizza: 22010 49th Ave. SE, Both-ell, WA 98021-8045; Pizza

Symetra: 3009 170th Place SE, Bothell, WA 98012-6633; 425-398-5571; Nonclassified Establishments

True North Business Group: 1708 175th Place SE, Bothell, WA 98012-6462; Business Services

Vader Corp.: 14924 41st Ave. SE, No. C102, Bothell, WA 98012-6153; Nonclassified Establishments

White Horse Barns: 20618 Filbert Drive, Bothell, WA 98012-9611; Nonclassified Establishments

Zulu Lady: 20912 28th Ave. SE, Bothell, WA 98021-7859; Nonclassified Establishments

BrierDesign By Lisa Vonn: 24012 34th Place

W, Brier, WA 98036-8462; Nonclassified Establishments

K J’s Handcrafted Jewelry: 22148 34th Ave. W, Brier, WA 98036-8065; Jewelers-Retail

DarringtonM 24 Industries: 1075 Darrington St., Dar-

rington, WA 98241; 360-436-0404; Nonclassi-fied Establishments

EdmondsABL USA Inc.: 7721 230th St. SW,

Edmonds, WA 98026-8727; 425-678-8789; Nonclassified Establishments

Alkazar Enterprises: 123 2nd Ave. S, Edmonds, WA 98020-8457; 425-967-7050; Nonclassified Establishments

Author Samuel C Waker: 658 Glen St., No. 301, Edmonds, WA 98020-3630; Writers

BCD Tofu House: 21314 Pioneer Way, Edmonds, WA 98026-7343; Restaurants

Belly & Co.: 422 Main St., Edmonds, WA 98020-3138; Nonclassified Establishments

Blue Door Family Home: 23622 Edmonds Way, No. B, Edmonds, WA 98026-9514; Non-classified Establishments

Contrast Photo Video: 9609 231st Place SW, Edmonds, WA 98020-5023; Video Tapes and Discs-Renting and Leasing

Edmonds Treasures Child Care: 8830 Main St., Edmonds, WA 98026-6929; Child Care Service

Element Sports Performance: 8034 18th St. SW, Edmonds, WA 98026; Nonclassified Establishments

Eve’s Adult Family Home: 8428 190th St. SW, No. B, Edmonds, WA 98026-5938; Non-classified Establishments

First Place Clothing: 6923 163rd Place SW, Edmonds, WA 98026-4923; Clothing-Retail

Freimark Properties: 21323 80th Ave. W, No. 101, Edmonds, WA 98026-7423; Real Estate Management

Hair Juno: 23830 Highway 99, Edmonds, WA 98026-9209; 425-967-7891; Beauty Salons

Heather Meikle Interiors: 144 Railroad Ave., Edmonds, WA 98020-7207; 425-967-3885; Interior Decorators Design and Consultants

Himitsu Teriyaki: 22740 Highway 99, No. B, Edmonds, WA 98026-8396; Restaurants

Hunni Water: 186 Sunset Ave., Edmonds, WA 98020-4134; 425-582-0671; Water Com-panies-Bottled, Bulk, Etc.

KAI: 406 Main St., No. 115c, Edmonds, WA 98020-3166; Nonclassified Establishments

KM Roofing: 23811 77th Place W, Edmonds, WA 98026-8816; Roofing Contractors

Norsky Photography: 7011 175th St. SW, Edmonds, WA 98026-5230; Photography

Possession Lane Quilting Corp.: 12806 Possession Lane, Edmonds, WA 98026-3152; Quilting

Power3 Fitness: 7107 180th St. SW, Edmonds, WA 98026-5629; Nonclassified Establishments

Precious Pals: 9657 Firdale Ave., Edmonds, WA 98020-6519; 206-542-7297; Nonclassified Establishments

Puget Sound Wealth Advisors: 330 Day-ton St., No. 2, Edmonds, WA 98020-3582; Consultants-Business

Raymond James: 533 5th Ave. S, Edmonds, WA 98020-3458; 425-673-4677; Financial Advisory Services

SHDP Assoc-Oregon: 8129 Lake Ballinger Way, No. 104, Edmonds, WA 98026-9182; Real Estate Management

Salt & Iron: Po Box 1952, Edmonds, WA 98020-1952; Ironwork

Stone Pot: 22740 Highway 99, No. B, Edmonds, WA 98026-8396; Nonclassified Establishments

Everett5th Gen Media: 606 90th St. SW, Stu-

dio-1, Everett, WA 98204-1621; Nonclassified Establishments

A Beautiful Place: 5009 Colby Ave., Ever-ett, WA 98203-3336; 425-258-3256; Nonclassi-fied Establishments

AFH Training Solutions: 5111 Dogwood Drive, Everett, WA 98203-3158; Training Consultants

AFK Janitorial: 11426 23rd Place W, Ever-ett, WA 98204-4793; Janitor Service

AJ’s Full Services Auto Repair: 2110 25th St., Everett, WA 98201-3049; Automobile Repairing and Service

AMC Painting & Remodeling: 6514 High-land Drive, Everett, WA 98203-4628; Painters

ARO Design Concepts: 12404 E Gibson Road, No. L306, Everett, WA 98204-8678; Nonclassified Establishments

Absolute Hair Inc.: 8422 Monte Cristo Drive, Everett, WA 98208-2255; Beauty Salons

Action Communications: 11630 Airport Road, Everett, WA 98204-6724; 425-212-9735; Communications

Aids Outreach Project: 1625 E Marine View Drive, Everett, WA 98201-1975; 425-258-2977; Non-Profit organizations

Archer Friendly Wellness: 2509 107th Place SE, Everett, WA 98208-4410; Wellness Programs

Atlas Landscape: 201 E Beech St., Everett, WA 98203-4340; Landscape Contractors

Awabs Sweet Home: 13426 11th Place W, Everett, WA 98204-6379; Nonclassified Establishments

Bold Coaching: 2817 Victor Place, Everett, WA 98201-2562; Amusement and Recreation

Bond Street Properties: 2911 Bond St., No. 200, Everett, WA 98201-3943; Real Estate Management

CCMB Insurance & Financial Services: 1600 121st St. SE, No. W106, Everett, WA 98208-7901; Insurance

Chan Thai: 12115 19th Ave. SE, No. K206, Everett, WA 98208-6252; Restaurants

Coqui Gluten Free Kitchen: 2410 Ever-ett Ave., No. B, Everett, WA 98201-3896; Restaurants

Dark Arts: 3702 Rucker Ave., Everett, WA 98201-4633; 425-374-7780; Nonclassified Establishments

Everett Distilling: 2218 Firland Place, Ever-ett, WA 98203-3938; Distillers (Manufacturers)

Eye Candy Coffee Co: 718 93rd St. SE, Everett, WA 98208-3742; Coffee Shops

Fabless Labs: 4925 23rd Ave. W, Everett, WA 98203-1530; 425-374-2507; Laboratories

Foxed Up: 1001 N Broadway, Everett, WA 98201-1586; 425-258-3578; Nonclassified Establishments

Galaxy: 2701 Wetmore Ave., Everett, WA 98201-3593; 425-322-5275; Nonclassified Establishments

Geek Chic: 711 100th St. SE, Everett, WA 98208-3727; 425-903-4366; Nonclassified Establishments

Hasco: 12625 4th Ave. W, No. 200, Everett, WA 98204-6427; 425-374-8374; Nonclassified Establishments

Heart To Heart Home Care Agency: 6524 Tyee Road, Everett, WA 98203-4359; 425-212-9824; Home Health Service

John Damien Construction: 12310 Highway 99, Everett, WA 98204-8518; 425-322-5530; Construction Companies

KUSH Mart: 6309 Evergreen Way, Everett, WA 98203-4559; 425-374-7029; Miscellaneous Retail Stores

Litermal: 10016 19th Place W, Everett, WA 98204-3632; Nonclassified Establishments

Living It Up After 50: 4401 Thomson Ave., Everett, WA 98203-2110; Nonclassified Establishments

Luxuria Lifestyle Travel: 11801 Highway 99, Everett, WA 98204-4807; Travel Agencies and Bureaus

Meryl Poppins Agency: 8710 5th Ave. W, No. K339, Everett, WA 98204-2217; Nonclassi-fied Establishments

Milk & Tea Candles: 3014 95th Place SE, Everett, WA 98208-4355; Coffee and Tea

Mimi Truong Interpreter Services: 10410 Holly Drive, No. A, Everett, WA 98204-9217; Translators and Interpreters

Miss This Boutique: 420 85th Place SW, No. N103, Everett, WA 98204-1795; Boutique Items-Retail

Mr Tired Media: 2309 116th St. SW, No. A, Everett, WA 98204-5104; Nonclassified Establishments

Natures Delight: 4621 119th Place SE, Everett, WA 98208-9164; Nonclassified Establishments

Northside Autosales: 13303 Highway 99, Everett, WA 98204-5423; 425-745-0277; Auto-mobile Dealers-used Cars

Nurse On Demand: 2732 104th Place SE, Everett, WA 98208-4453; Nurses and Nurses’ Registries

Patient Care: 12631 Highway 99, Everett, WA 98204-8545; 425-315-7386; Physicians and Surgeons

BuSINESS LICENSES BuSINESS LICENSES

Room Rentals at Everett Station• •

425-257-67073201 Smith AvenueEverett, WA 98201

• •

ClassesCorporateEvents

MeetingsReceptions

1206

285

Rachel Roy’s Cleaning Services: 10405 19th Ave. SE, No. A, Everett, WA 98208-4261; Janitor Service

Sanchez Cleaning Services: 1305 W Casino Road, No. C1, Everett, WA 98204-1526; Jani-tor Service

Schuchart Corp.: 10108 32nd Ave. W, Everett, WA 98204-1302; Nonclassified Establishments

Schurr We Can Designs From: 7726 E Casino Road, Everett, WA 98203-6548; Non-classified Establishments

Senegambia: 11120 Evergreen Way, Ever-ett, WA 98204-3888; 425-353-0901; Nonclassi-fied Establishments

Shea Edwards Enterprises: 11020 Meridian Place W, Everett, WA 98204-7015; Nonclassi-fied Establishments

Sig Co. & Construction: 12005 Andrew Sater Road, Everett, WA 98208-5852; Con-struction Companies

Sunrise Home: 5105 Colby Ave., Everett, WA 98203-3342; 425-789-1435; Nonclassified Establishments

Tiwwgo: 907 Pine St., Everett, WA 98201-1421; Nonclassified Establishments

Ultra HD TV Depot: 2628 9th St. SE, Ever-ett, WA 98208; Television and Radio-Dealers

V&R Interiors Select Inc.: 203 130th St. SE, Everett, WA 98208-6465; 425-337-9876; Interior Decorators Design and Consultants

Vieve Hair Studio: 2525 122nd Place SE, Everett, WA 98208-6294; Beauty Salons

William A Yannus Insurance Inc.: 1616 32nd St., Everett, WA 98201-4382; 425-374-8392; Insurance

Yoga For Every Body: 4930 123rd St. SE, Everett, WA 98208-9176; Yoga Instruction

Gold BarJSW: 705 Verlinde Drive, Gold Bar, WA

98251-9377; Nonclassified EstablishmentsMaid To Assist: 41313 Nelson Place, Gold

Bar, WA 98251-9300; Maid and Butler Service

Lake StevensA More Hair Design: 9615 11th Place SE,

No. B, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-3968; Beauty Salons

Essential Wellness Integrative: 3222 Lake Drive, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-8770; Wellness Programs

Evergreen Filing Services: 402 Rhodora Heights Road, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-9786; 425-405-7032; Filing Services (Manufacturers)

Farm Girl Products: 4516 95th Ave. NE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-4137; General Merchandise-Retail

Nancy’s Dog Walking & Pet Care: 11632 25th St. SE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-5160; Pet Shops

Noble Electric Inc: 9626 60th St. NE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-4010; Electric Contractors

Northwest Woman & Children Fund: 621 Highway 9 NE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-8525; Nonclassified Establishments

Puget Sound Mobile: 2026 Vernon Road, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-8514; 425-212-9705; Nonclassified Establishments

Seattle Tacticals: 1706 95th Ave. NE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-8596; Nonclassified Establishments

Time Capsule Photography: 1622 94th Drive SE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-3732; Photography

Z Networks Computer Services Inc.: 1109 87th Ave. SE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258-6650; Computer Services

LynnwoodA Caring Family Home: 2003 144th Place

SW, Lynnwood, WA 98087-5939; Nonclassified Establishments

Abatement Service Inc.: 6327 204th St. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036-6012; 425-673-4900; Asbestos Removal Service

All Aspects Concrete Construction: 903 187th Place SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036-4985; Concrete Contractors

Apples To Go: 19410 Highway 99, No. A-134, Lynnwood, WA 98036-5102; Nonclassi-

fied EstablishmentsAreey Thai Noodle Cuisine: 2902 164th

St. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98087-3201; 425-361-1583; Restaurants

Big Mike’s Cleaning: 16011 Admiralty Way, No. C, Lynnwood, WA 98087-6238; Janitor Service

Bradley Commercial Real Estate: 6116 211th St. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036-7526; 425-967-5556; Real Estate

Brio Condominiums: 15415 35th Ave. W, Lynnwood, WA 98087-8452; 425-835-0351; Condominiums

Bubble: 15716 44th Ave. W, Lynnwood, WA 98087-6125; Nonclassified Establishments

Candace Coffee: 4715 188th St. SW, Lyn-nwood, WA 98037-4642; Coffee Shops

Crown Business Services: 2100 196th St. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036-7001; 425-361-7124; Business Services

Dental Association-Millcreek: 2831 156th St. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98087-6355; 425-743-5687; Dentists

Dynasty Construction & Development: 16825 48th Ave. W, Lynnwood, WA 98037-6401; 425-412-3788; Construction Companies

Flowing Health Massage: 516 Hubbard Road, Lynnwood, WA 98036-7234; Massage Therapists

H&M: 13718 Mukilteo Speedway, Lyn-nwood, WA 98087-1661; Nonclassified Establishments

Leashed Seattle: 3333 164th St. SW, No. 2132, Lynnwood, WA 98087-3186; Nonclassi-fied Establishments

Lynnwood Dental Care: 18623 Highway 99, Lynnwood, WA 98037-4552; Dentists

M Market: PO Box 3453, Lynnwood, WA 98046-3453; Food Markets

Mizugiwa: 2803 144th St. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98087-4864; Nonclassified Establishments

Pear Tree Insurance Services: 18023 High-way 99, Lynnwood, WA 98037-4492; 425-673-4656; Insurance

Pro Gamer Media: 18030 36th Ave. W, No. R12, Lynnwood, WA 98037-9403; Nonclassi-fied Establishments

Ravinder Mohan Insurance: 19009 33rd Ave. W, Lynnwood, WA 98036-4717; 425-678-0472; Insurance

Sakuma Japanese Restaurant: 2623 145th St. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98087-5948; Restaurants

Seatlle Vapor Co.: 20101 44th Ave. W, Lynnwood, WA 98036-6745; 425-670-8277; Electronic Cigarettes

Seattle Coffee Gear: 3000 184th St. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98037-4718; 425-673-2706; Coffee Break Service and Supplies

Sea-Way Marine Inc.: 6306 202nd St. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036-6065; 425-640-6633; Marine Contractors and Designers

See’s Candies Chocolate Shop: 18811 28th Ave. W, No. C, Lynnwood, WA 98036-4709; 425-776-3171; Food Markets

Share Tea: 14610 Admiralty Way, No. H303, Lynnwood, WA 98087-1306; Coffee and Tea

Sound Commercial Group: 19721 Scriber Lake Road, Lynnwood, WA 98036-6119; 425-673-4880; Nonclassified Establishments

Tribal Writes: 1402 195th Place SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036-7167; Nonclassified Establishments

Vison Landscaping: 6502 208th St. SW, No. A3, Lynnwood, WA 98036-7431; Landscape Contractors

Yohana Adult Family Home: 5905 190th Place SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036-5137; Non-classified Establishments

MarysvilleComic Shop: 4629 135th St. NE, Marysville,

WA 98271-7805; Comic BooksHeritage Crafts: 4927 128th St. NE, Marys-

ville, WA 98271-8610; CraftsKanekeberg Properties: 8016 State Ave.,

Marysville, WA 98270-6404; Real Estate Management

Kristine Khammungkhune Agency: 514 State Ave., No. 203, Marysville, WA 98270-4549; Nonclassified Establishments

Planet Fitness-Marysville: 1346 State Ave., Marysville, WA 98270-3605; Health Clubs Studios and Gymnasiums

Repo Recovery Inc.: 5722 123rd Place NE, Marysville, WA 98271-6253; Repossessing Service

S&S Petroleum Inc.: 8820 Quil Ceda Blvd., Marysville, WA 98271; 360-658-6996; Petro-leum Products (Wholesale)

Seat Belt Repair: 10305 State Ave., No. 4, Marysville, WA 98271-7227; Repair Shops and Related Services

Smokey Point Licensing: 13721 56th Ave. NE, Marysville, WA 98271-7732; Nonclassified Establishments

Steven’s String Instrument Services: 1501 3rd St., Marysville, WA 98270; Services

Sysec Group: 7708 73rd Place NE, Marysville, WA 98270-6559; Nonclassified Establishments

Thomas J Sullivan Co Inc.: 5623 88th St. NE, Marysville, WA 98270-2739; Nonclassified Establishments

Vintage Restorations: 7610 77th Place NE, Marysville, WA 98270-6509; Nonclassified Establishments

Mill CreekBraack Financials: 16300 Mill Creek Blvd.,

Mill Creek, WA 98012-1737; 425-967-7892; Financial Advisory Services

Bridestar Electric Inc.: 13914 North Pointe Circle, Mill Creek, WA 98012-4685; 425-379-8063; Electric Contractors

Innovative Millwork Solutions: 15720 Main St., Mill Creek, WA 98012-1555; 425-225-5611; Millwork (Manufacturers)

NW Accountants: 16300 Mill Creek Blvd., Mill Creek, WA 98012-1737; 425-678-0059; Accounting and Bookkeeping General Services

NW Climate Controls Consultants: PO Box 13525, Mill Creek, WA 98082-1525; Consultants-Business

Oishi Teriyaki: 1210 146th St. SE, Mill Creek, WA 98012-5515; Restaurants

Remax Town Center: 15117 Main St., Mill Creek, WA 98012-9035; 425-337-5498; Real Estate

Teriyaki Time: 1612 145th Place SE, Mill Creek, WA 98012-1354; Restaurants

Thrivent Financial: 15117 Main St., Mill Creek, WA 98012-9035; 425-258-5000; Finan-cial Advisory Services

Yoga For Every Body: 16030 Bothell Everett Highway, Mill Creek, WA 98012-1741; 425-225-5251; Yoga Instruction

MonroeBack Alley Online: 16654 Wales

St. SE, Monroe, WA 98272-2646; Advertising-Computer

Elmers Fashion: 21507 U.S. 2, Monroe, WA 98272-9343; Clothing-Retail

Kate’s Salon: 18960 U.S. 2, No. 130, Mon-roe, WA 98272-8998; Beauty Salons

Kathy’s Kidz Korner: 16141 Tatty Ave. SE, Monroe, WA 98272-1979; Child Care Service

Monroe Dental & Awareness: 19265 U.S. 2, No. 200a, Monroe, WA 98272-1522; 360-365-5165; Dentists

Prana Run: 24220 Florence Acres Road, Monroe, WA 98272-8932; Nonclassified Establishments

Smoking Gun Tattoo Co.: 114 W Main St., Monroe, WA 98272-1810; 360-805-1250; Tattooing

Mountlake TerraceConcord Law: 6608 216th St. SW, No.

107A, Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043-2084; 206-512-8029; Attorneys

Oxford House Dibble: 6705 234th Place SW, Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043-2723; 425-582-0736; Nonclassified Establishments

Vast Business Services: 23808 60th Ave. W, Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043-5420; Business Services

MukilteoBaycourt Apartments-Greystar: 11108

Chennault Beach Road, Mukilteo, WA 98275-4903; 425-374-2397; Apartments

Cascadia Aviation: 12097 Greenhaven No. 301, Mukilteo, WA 98275-6047; Aircraft-Dealers

GP Custom USA: 5818 125th Place SW, Mukilteo, WA 98275-5548; Nonclassified Establishments

Lean Impact Management: 12429 55th Place W, Mukilteo, WA 98275-5519; Manage-ment Services

MABA 42: 6409 Chennault Beach Drive, Mukilteo, WA 98275-4527; Nonclassified Establishments

Sherwin-Williams: 12502 Mukilteo Speed-way, Mukilteo, WA 98275-5730; 425-265-9436; Paint-Retail

Swift Legal Services: 4419 76th St. SW, Mukilteo, WA 98275-2744; Legal Services

Touch Of Home Pet Services: 922 Ninth St., Mukilteo, WA 98275-1928; Pet Services

Touch Of Latin Latte: 11601 Harbour Pointe Blvd., No. 10, Mukilteo, WA 98275-5262; Coffee Shops

SnohomishAdvanced Plumbing & Heating: 1822 Bick-

ford Ave., No. D, Snohomish, WA 98290-1733; 425-348-5100; Plumbing Contractors

Art In Red Wagons: 902 Ash Court, Sno-homish, WA 98290-2165; Art

At Peace Salon & Spa: 17909 Trombley Road, Snohomish, WA 98290-6352; Beauty Salons

B&M Building Maintenance: 2430 177th Ave. NE, Snohomish, WA 98290-9654; Build-ing Maintenance

Buchanan Chocolates: 5410 Lerch Road, Snohomish, WA 98290-7797; 360-691-1092; Chocolate and Cocoa (Wholesale)

Frank’s Farm Antiques: 1101 Ave. D, No. F203, Snohomish, WA 98290-2009; Antiques-Dealers

Hype Industries: 11616 37th St. SE, Sno-homish, WA 98290-5585; Manufacturers

Market Garden Organic: 17829 Tester Road, Snohomish, WA 98290-6647; 360-799-9622; Food Markets

Native Blooms Green: 18410 87th Ave. SE, Snohomish, WA 98296-8006; Nonclassified Establishments

Northwest Bounce: 410 Ave. A, Sno-homish, WA 98290-2839; Nonclassified Establishments

Quikstride: 17603 105th Ave. SE, Sno-homish, WA 98296-8063; Nonclassified Establishments

StanwoodCuisine De Corazon: 20806 Marine

Drive, No. 35, Stanwood, WA 98292-7848; Restaurants

JPG Marketing & Design: 15607 85th Ave. NW, Stanwood, WA 98292-5324; Marketing Programs and Services

Lady Fit: 8819 Viking Way, Stanwood, WA 98292-8080; 360-629-0155; Nonclassified Establishments

Medley Productions: 22212 62nd Ave. NW, Stanwood, WA 98292-9040; 360-386-0729; Nonclassified Establishments

Zumba With Jaime: 27511 80th Drive NW, Stanwood, WA 98292-9524; Health Clubs Studios and Gymnasiums

SultanSky River Sales: 16315 365th Ave.

SE, Sultan, WA 98294-7725; General Merchandise-Retail

Sky Valley Home Repair & Maintenance: 31620 124th St. SE, Sultan, WA 98294-9662; Remodeling and Repairing Building Contractors

WoodwayMorena: 24140 E Greystone Lane,

Woodway, WA 98020-5226; Nonclassified Establishments

JANUARY 2015 THE HERALD BUSINESS JOURNAL 23

Chan Thai: 12115 19th Ave. SE, No. K206, Everett, WA 98208-6252; Restaurants

Coqui Gluten Free Kitchen: 2410 Ever-ett Ave., No. B, Everett, WA 98201-3896; Restaurants

Dark Arts: 3702 Rucker Ave., Everett, WA 98201-4633; 425-374-7780; Nonclassified Establishments

Everett Distilling: 2218 Firland Place, Ever-ett, WA 98203-3938; Distillers (Manufacturers)

Eye Candy Coffee Co: 718 93rd St. SE, Everett, WA 98208-3742; Coffee Shops

Fabless Labs: 4925 23rd Ave. W, Everett, WA 98203-1530; 425-374-2507; Laboratories

Foxed Up: 1001 N Broadway, Everett, WA 98201-1586; 425-258-3578; Nonclassified Establishments

Galaxy: 2701 Wetmore Ave., Everett, WA 98201-3593; 425-322-5275; Nonclassified Establishments

Geek Chic: 711 100th St. SE, Everett, WA 98208-3727; 425-903-4366; Nonclassified Establishments

Hasco: 12625 4th Ave. W, No. 200, Everett, WA 98204-6427; 425-374-8374; Nonclassified Establishments

Heart To Heart Home Care Agency: 6524 Tyee Road, Everett, WA 98203-4359; 425-212-9824; Home Health Service

John Damien Construction: 12310 Highway 99, Everett, WA 98204-8518; 425-322-5530; Construction Companies

KUSH Mart: 6309 Evergreen Way, Everett, WA 98203-4559; 425-374-7029; Miscellaneous Retail Stores

Litermal: 10016 19th Place W, Everett, WA 98204-3632; Nonclassified Establishments

Living It Up After 50: 4401 Thomson Ave., Everett, WA 98203-2110; Nonclassified Establishments

Luxuria Lifestyle Travel: 11801 Highway 99, Everett, WA 98204-4807; Travel Agencies and Bureaus

Meryl Poppins Agency: 8710 5th Ave. W, No. K339, Everett, WA 98204-2217; Nonclassi-fied Establishments

Milk & Tea Candles: 3014 95th Place SE, Everett, WA 98208-4355; Coffee and Tea

Mimi Truong Interpreter Services: 10410 Holly Drive, No. A, Everett, WA 98204-9217; Translators and Interpreters

Miss This Boutique: 420 85th Place SW, No. N103, Everett, WA 98204-1795; Boutique Items-Retail

Mr Tired Media: 2309 116th St. SW, No. A, Everett, WA 98204-5104; Nonclassified Establishments

Natures Delight: 4621 119th Place SE, Everett, WA 98208-9164; Nonclassified Establishments

Northside Autosales: 13303 Highway 99, Everett, WA 98204-5423; 425-745-0277; Auto-mobile Dealers-Used Cars

Nurse On Demand: 2732 104th Place SE, Everett, WA 98208-4453; Nurses and Nurses’ Registries

Patient Care: 12631 Highway 99, Everett, WA 98204-8545; 425-315-7386; Physicians and Surgeons

BUSINESS LICENSES BUSINESS LICENSES

1207301


herald business journal - 01.01.2015

Documents

business case

business offerings

business newsmaking

business briefs

business licenses

smallbusiness owner

local business calendar