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Dingus, Zarecor & Associates PLLC, a Spokane Valley accounting firm, has hired Molly Rupp and Kaylea Passmore. Rupp is a document production specialist. Passmore has been hired as a staff accountant.

Bernardo|Wills Architects has hired Licia LeGrant, architect; Philip Ward, landscape architect; and Saul Rip Hansen, BIM/CAD technician. LeGrant is working on the Catalyst Project in Spokanes University District and a manufacturing facility for Katerra Inc. in the Spokane Valley. She has 16 years experience in architecture. Ward is working on landscape and irrigation modifications for Mission Park as well as projects at Farragut State Park and The Club at Rock Creek near Coeur dAlene. He has 36 years of landscape architecture experience. Hansen is drafting, designing and providing construction support for improvements to the North Idaho Dermatology medical office building and a tenant improvement for Kootenai Healths medical office building.

Jeff Jurgensen has been promoted to regional director of OAC Eastern Washington. Jurgensen has 26 years of project and construction manager experience and will lead strategic development in the district, manage OACs Spokane office and contribute as a service provider to clients. OAC is a construction management, forensic architecture and engineering firm headquartered in Seattle with offices in Olympia, Spokane and Silicon Valley.

STCU has hired Jeff Stone as business banking manager. Stone has 25 years of banking experience and comes to STCU from US Bank. The credit union has also announced four promotions. Amy Butler has been promoted to manager of the Crossroads Branch in Coeur dAlene. Janell Pavlica, who has been with STCU for 20 years, has been promoted to manager of the Indian Trail branch. Tanya Yost has been promoted from assistant manager to manager of STCUs Silver Lake branch in Dalton Gardens. Brandy Stern has been promoted to manager of the U-District branch after serving as the assistant manager at the Cheney location.

The National League for Nursing has named the Washington State University College of Nursing a Center of Excellence. The college was given the honor under the category enhancing student learning and professional development and is one of 15 universities or health care organizations in the nation to receive the Center of Excellence award.

Washington State University chemistry professor Aurora Clark has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. Clark received the award for her research and service in nuclear/inorganic and computational chemistry. With 157,000 members, the American Chemical Society is the worlds largest scientific society. Fellows make up less than 0.7 percent of the societys membership.

Selkirk Wealth Advisors LLC has hired Todd Koyama as a wealth adviser. He has worked in the industry in Spokane since 1999.

Dr. Richard Burt, DDS, will open a new Aspen Dental office in Coeur dAlene on Monday. The office is at 223 Ironwood Drive.

The Spokane County Public Works Department has hired Cathy Westby as training and performance manager. She will focus on employee development and performance measures.

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