Just after Jim Hanna, director of environmental impact for Starbucks, got through telling Association of Washington Business members at the organization’s annual meeting last week that businesses will solve the world’s environmental challenges, AWB handed out awards to seven companies that are already proving him right.
Recipients of the 21st AWB Environmental Excellence Awards included two Kitsap Peninsula companies. The Environmental Innovator (Small Business) award was presented to Davis Studio Architecture + Design, LLC, of Bainbridge Island. In the Large Business category, Watson Furniture of Poulsbo was the Environmental Innovator award winner.
Davis Studio is the principal architect for a new multi-generational community of green homes, rowhouses and apartments built in “micro-hoods” around community gardens. read more »
The GuestHouse Inn & Suites in Poulsbo received two awards for 2012 Inn of the Year and 2012 Innkeeper of the Year from Boomerang Hotels, the national franchise lodging company for the GuestHouse International and Settle Inn & Suites brands.
Inn of the Year award is given in recognition of the overall performance of the property within its competitive set, and its performance in standards of the brand. Innkeeper of the Year honors the individual operator or manager for their performance in terms of utilizing the programs offered through corporate, high Quality Assurance scores, and support of the brand.
Micah Kim is the owner operator of 63-room GuestHouse Inn & Suites at 19801 17th Ave. North near downtown Poulsbo. read more »
NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Puget Sound’s Navy Food Management Team recently sponsored the weeklong Navy Culinary Apprenticeship Program at Boston’s Deli & Pizza in Bremerton.
Naval Base Kitsap (NBK) Bangor galley staff CS3 Roy Mosby (at left in photo) and CS2 Joseph Fusco trained in the restaurant’s kitchen with owner/chef Don Stauff (center), who worked with them on preparing dough for the next day’s pizzas and calzones. read more »
Avid Ratings, a customer loyalty management firm, has awarded Estes Builders the 2013 Avid Custom Builder Diamond Award, the highest customer satisfaction award presented to custom builders in the United States.
Estes Builders designs and builds custom homes on the Olympic and Kitsap peninsulas. The company is a North Peninsula Building Association Built Green member and has offices in Sequim and Poulsbo.
To contact the company, go online to www.estesbuilders.com or call 1-800-630-4399.
Ozone International marked its 10-year anniversary with recognition by Seattle Business magazine as 2013 Manufacturer of the Year in the Small Firms category.
The Bainbridge Island-based company founded in 2003 by Jim and Jon Brandt makes sanitizing and cleaning systems for the food processing industry.
As the magazine’s summary of the company notes read more »
WestSound Home & Garden magazine has launched its new website, featuring content from the current issue of the quarterly publication. The current issue features the 2013 Best of West Sound Readers’ Choice Awards.
Read about elegant and interesting homes, creative gardeners, the latest in products for the home, restaurants and artists. It’s all local and about the West Sound area, where we live, from Bainbridge Island to Gig Harbor. Please go to www.wshg.net for more information or to subscribe to the magazine.
Liberty Bay Books in Poulsbo has two upcoming author events scheduled. On May 7, popular local author Kristin Hannah will debut her newest novel, Fly Away, which revisits characters from her 2009 novel Firefly Lane. The event will be at the Poulsbo Sons of Norway at 6 p.m.
A session with Lance Weller will be May 15 at 6:30 p.m. at The Loft. Weller is the author of the popular adventure book Wilderness that takes place in the Olympic Mountains. read more »
The second home lending office opened this year in Kitsap County by 1st Security Bank will have Kathy Hite on staff as loan officer.
The Mountlake Terrace-based bank’s new office is in Port Orchard at 1140 Bethel Road. The bank’s Poulsbo home lending office opened in February.
Hite has been a loan officer in the area since 2000 and has worked in the industry for over 20 years.
Liz Reese has joined Poulsbo-based furniture manufacturer Watson as the company’s director of sales services.
She has more than 15 years experience in business development, sales, marketing and product management. Reese was previously with Heritage Business Interiors as the Calgary-area architect and design representative, and was a board member and marketing chair for the Canada Green Building Council, Alberta Chapter.
Reese studied interior design at Bellevue College and earned a master’s in International Business from NHH in Bergen, Norway.
