Real Ag 2010

1ST Quarter 2010

Luncheons are held atthe Pasco Red Lion. Call547-9755 or email admin@pascochamber.org to RSVP.

Pasco Ag Show —January 5th & 6th

January/February/March

January 11thFebruary 8thMarch 8th

Saundra Hill, Superintendentof the Pasco SchoolDistrict, will speak.Kris Watkins, Presidentand CEO of the Tri-CitiesVisitor & ConventionBureau, will speak.Doug Crandall, President,of Blue Rudder, will speak.

The Pasco Chamber of Commerce andLes Schwab Tires invite you to visit thisyear’s Pasco Ag Show—Real Ag 2010— January 5th and 6th at TRAC.In addition to visiting with 90+ tradeshow exhibitors, come take part in theWashington Policy Center’s Ag PolicyForum—“Fireback”—discussions of biofuels, alternative approaches to envi-ronmental stewardship and carboncredits and cap-and-trade legislation arescheduled.This year’s Agricultural Hall of FameGala—the 10th annual—will take placeThursday, January 7th, at Columbia BasinCollege. Awards go to the area’s Agri-business man or woman of the year, theAgriculture Advisory Leader of the yearand the year’s Hall of Fame inductees.Tickets to Real Ag 2010—the Pasco AgShow—are available at Ranch and Homeand at the Chamber. Look online atwww.pascorealag.com for information.

Luncheons

Liaison MemberCARL ADRIAN

TRIDEC

PresidentBENJAMIN BEHEN

Lucky Flowers

1st Vice-PresidentMONICAVAN HOLLEBEKE

Simplot Grower Solutions

2nd Vice-PresidentHEIDI ELLERD

Kuffel, Hultgrenn,Klashke & Shea

2nd Vice-PresidentLEN HARMS

Harms Engineering

Past PresidentRYAN BRAULT

Edward Jones

DirectorBRITTATHOMPSON

Tri-City Area Journal of Business

DirectorMITCH ROACH

Baker Boyer Bank

2009 - 2010 PASCO CHAMBER BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Executive DirectorNIKKI GERDSAssistantExecutive DirectorSTEVE LEELiaison Member JIM TOOMEY

Port of Pasco

Liaison MemberMICHELLE OLIVAS

Tri-Cities Visitor &Convention Bureau

Liaison MemberRICK MILLER

Franklin County Commission

Liaison MemberMELANIE JOHNSTON

Lourdes HealthNetwork

Liaison MemberCOURTNEYSTENSON

Pasco School District

Liaison MemberGARYCRUTCHFIELD

City of Pasco

Liaison MemberDEBBIEBONE-HARRIS

Franklin PUD

Liaison MemberDENIS AUSTIN

Pasco Police

DirectorCARRIECHAMBERS

River Realty

DirectorGLEN CLIFFORD

Clifford Farms

DirectorRICH CUMMINS

Columbia BasinCollege

DirectorANNE KOVIS

Allstate

DirectorLORI LANCASTER

Benton FranklinFair and Rodeo

DirectorWALT NEFF

Neff Ranches

DirectorCHENYN PRESTON- JOHNSON

Preston PremiumWines

PresidentialAppointee JULIE KILLIAN

Bank Reale

PASCO SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD

Board of the Year

Members of the Pasco School District Board of Directorswere recognized at the Annual Washington State SchoolDirectors’ Association Conference in Seattle when theboard was announced as “School Board of the Year.”Board members from left: President Saul Martinez,Student Representative Ofelia Rodriguez, StudentRepresentative Kiersten Merrill, Vice-President SherryLancon, John Hergert and Bill Leggett. Board memberPete Felsted is not pictured. The Pasco School DistrictSuperintendent is Saundra L. Hill.

WORTH MENTIONING

John LaFemina

has beenappointed Director of Institutional Strategy forScience and Technologyat

PNNL

Avonte Jackson

is thenew executive Directorof the

Tri-Cities Pregnancy Network.Josh Bohlke

Key Bank

and

JimMcGown

Reata Springs BaptistChurch

are new board members.

Kelly Machart

joined the

United Wayof Benton and Franklin Counties

asCommunications Manager.

Syngenta’s

$42 million seed processingfacility in Pasco isopen. It is the newestaddition to the

PascoProcessingCenter

Gesa Credit Union

has completed a new headquartersbuilding on Gage Boulevard in Richland.

NewEdge and The Brewery’s

“Aperi-tivo on the go” beer design was a 2009winner of the Peroni Blue RibbonDesign Awards.

Gretchen Strother

is the new Directorof Sales for the

Tri-Cities Visitor andConvention Bureau’s

Convention andSports Departments.

Hector Cruz

isnow the Sports Development Manager.In addition,

Allie Moore

is the Housingand Group Services Coordinator.

May Hays

, Executive Di-rector of the

West Rich-land Area Chamber of Commerce

, was recentlyawarded the

WashingtonNational Guard

Com-mander’s Award for PublicService.

Dade Moeller & Associates

has acquired

Environmental Quality Management,Inc.

, an environmental data managementand assessment company.

PNNL

Chemist

Wei-Jun Qian

received the

National Institutes of Health

Director’s NewInnovator Award.

InnovaTek

has beenawarded a $750,000 Phase II Small Busi-ness Innovation Research contract bythe

U.S. Department of Energy.

im Watts

was named the 2009-2010

Columbia Basin College

OutstandingAlumus.The

Columbia Basin College

Agri-culture Program is four years old thismonth. The program offers a two-yeardegree program and an industry-driven,science-based transfer degree program.

Magill’s

restaurant won the Best Soup inthe Tri-Cities 2009 Competition at the

8th annual Beggar’s Banquet benetting

Safe Harbor Crisis Nursery

Abbott’s Printing

of Yakima and

SaraNelson Design

together created a

KadlecHealth Systems’

recruiting departmentmedia folder that was recently awarded a2009 International Gallery of ExcellenceGold Award. Abbott’s also won GoldAwards for pieces printed for

CadwellLaboratories

and

Central WashingtonUniversity

, as well as three Silver awardsfor other clients.

Marc Harden

recently retired as the Ex-ecutive Director of the

Children’s Read-ing Foundation of the Mid-Columbia.Popular Science

magazine named a

PNNL

technology—a nanomaterial thatabsorbs toxic metals—to its 2009’s listof 100 Best Technologies. The technol-ogy also won the grand award for greentechnologies.

Kayla Pratt

has joinedthe

Tri-City Develop-ment Council

(TRIDEC)as Director of Commu-nications and MemberServices.

Our Best Investment...Pasco Schools

Syngenta

As a businessperson, a PHS graduate,community member and national leaderin my industry I know that our bestinvestment is Pasco Schools.The PSD is a good steward of our taxdollars. They managed $14.1 million inshortfall in government funding in 2009.Learn more at

www.psd1.org

.Programs such as Instruments for Loanand the Bulldog House provide studentswith opportunities to explore who theyare and what they can accomplish,keys to keeping them in school. Theseare part of the reason Pasco graduationrates BEAT THE STATE AVERAGE.Pasco School District is the largestemployer in Franklin County. They areour family, neighbors and friends with

43 Nationally Board Certied teachers

on staff.How do you invest in Pasco Schools?Will you volunteer, attend events ormentor students? Please invest by votingYES for the two year Maintenance andOperations Levy February 9.

www.yes4pascoschools.com

Mike Miller, Moon Security &Co-Chair Pasco Citizens for Better Schools2010 Levy Campaign