March 31, 2003

People on the Move

Roxanne Smith has been named administrator of Samaritan Heart of the Valley Health Care Center in Corvallis. The senior care facility is affiliated with Samaritan Health Services.

Smith has worked at Heart of the Valley for more than six years and served as the assistant administrator for the past year. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in health care administration, both from Oregon State University, and is a licensed nursing home administrator. Smith also serves on the board of directors for Grace Center for Adult Day Services.

Smith succeeds Mary Ellen Lind, who will continue to supervise some departments and services. Lind has been the administrator of Heart of the Valley for the past four years.

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Carla Allen has joined the Albany office of Northwest Realty Consultants as a broker. Allen, who moved to Albany from Maine in 2000, holds a bachelor's degree in liberal studies. For customers who start the process of buying or selling a home with Allen in the month of April, Northwest Realty Consultants will donate half of its fee to the new homeless shelter in Albany.

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Rob Richards has joined Town & Country Realty as an associate broker.

A native of Albany, he brings more than 15 years of sales and marketing experience and a knowledge of the area.

Comings & Goings

The Clothing Exchange has moved. After 71/2 years at 2031 N.W. Monroe Ave., Lorenzo Chatman has relocated his secondhand clothing store to the old Sunny Brook Dairy building at 1025D N.W. Ninth St.

The Clothing Exchange buys, sells and trades clothing for men, women and children. The hours of operation at the new location are 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The phone number remains 754-2264.

Officers & Directors

A number of new directors have been appointed to the Region 4 Workforce Investment Board. They are Terry Thompson, Lincoln County commissioner; Kim Weil, Stahlbush Island Farms; Doris Johnston, Pacific Power; Clyde Stryker, Spirit Mountain Logistics; and Carol Rick, Nypro Oregon.

Dar Merrill of the Linn County Commission on Children and Families and Gina Knabe of the Linn-Benton Housing Authority have been appointed to fill vacancies on the Region 4 Workforce Investment Board Youth Council.

Take a Bow

Marcia Schnoor of RE/Max 2000 in Corvallis has made the RE/Max 100 Percent Club for 2002. Membership in the 100 Percent Club is awarded to high-producing sales associates based on commissions earned in a single year.

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PacifiCorp is among the winners of the inaugural Roy Family Award, presented by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The Portland-based electric utility, which operates in the mid-valley as Pacific Power, is one of several partners in the Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project in Bolivia.

As one of the largest carbon sequestration projects in the world, the Noel Kempff partnership reduces emissions of greenhouse gases by preventing deforestation from logging and other land uses. The other project partners are the Nature Conservancy, American Electric Power, British Petroleum, the government of Bolivia and Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza.

With an initial investment of $9.6 million in 1997, the project partners purchased and retired the logging rights on

2 million acres of forest land adjacent to one of the most biologically diverse areas in the world, Bolivia's Noel Kempff Mercado National Park. The project should prevent the emission of 7 million tons of carbon (or more than 21 million metric tons of carbon dioxide) during its 30 years.

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Dan Zaiss has received the Distinguished Chapter Achievement Award from the local chapter of the Society for Technical Communication.

Zaiss, of Eugene, has been an active member of the STC Mid-Valley chapter since December 1997, serving as president, vice president and secretary. He is the owner of Blue Chip Communications and does contract work for Hewlett-Packard Co. in Corvallis.

Training & Development

Jackie Pendleton and Gary Shields, Lebanon investment representatives for the financial services firm Edward Jones, were among 40 representatives recently honored at a business management forum in Tempe, Ariz.

Pendleton and Shields were recognized for their excellent business management skills. They also met with other Edward Jones investment representatives to share ideas for increasing office efficiency, improving customer service and increasing their knowledge of investment and estate planning.

News & Notes

Catherine M. Mater, president of Mater Engineering in Corvallis and a senior fellow with the Pinchot Institute for Conservation in Washington, D.C., has been awarded grants from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, the Kohlberg Foundation and the First Nations Development Institute to undertake Pinchot Institute forest certification projects on corporate and Indian nation forest lands across the U.S.

Mater has served as the project manager for all Pinchot Institute forest certification pilot projects in the U.S. since 1997. The latest grants, totaling $400,000, will be used for independent forest certification assessments on almost 3 million acres owned and managed by six different Indian nations, including the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in Oregon, and on Potlatch Corp.'s 670,000-acre timber holdings in Idaho.

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Santiam Liquor Store, 1642 Pacific Blvd. S.E. in Albany, has changed its hours. It will now be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

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The board of directors of Synthetech Inc. has approved a stock repurchase program authorizing the company to buy back up to 500,000 shares of the company's outstanding common stock.

Synthetech intends to finance the purchases using available cash. Depending on market conditions and other corporate considerations, purchases may be commenced, suspended or recommenced at any time without prior notice.

Synthetech has 14.3 million shares of common stock outstanding. The Albany company makes protein-based ingredients for a wide range of drugs under development and on the market.

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