Movers and shakers
Spahn and Rihn join Cd’A Casino team
Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort Hotel announced it has filled two managerial positions. Charles “Chuck” Spahn joins as food and beverage director and Beverly Rihn joins as operations controller.
“Chuck has an amazing resume with extensive experience in the tribal casino food industry,” said Francis SiJohn, CEO of the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort Hotel. “We expect great things to come.”
Spahn excelled as a chef in Arizona before returning to Minnesota to raise his two boys and open six restaurants in the Mall of America. He then partnered with a management firm, traveled and consulted with several casinos throughout the Midwest and southern part of the country.
Spahn spent the last 10 years with Snoqualmie Casino in western Washington as food and beverage director.
Rihn, CPA and certified fraud examiner, brings extensive experience in gaming, auditing and finance. Originally from Texas, she is excited to work for a business that shares her values with an open-door policy.
“Not only am I impressed with the value system, I’m excited to work in this beautiful region,” said Rihn. “It’s so nice to be around big trees and clean water.”
Info: cdacasino.com
Up North Distillery wins awards
Up North Distillery in Post Falls recently won two silver medals, for its Apple Brandy and Big Kid Cider, and the Judges’ Pick award for its 3 Year Apple Brandy in the 2018 SIP Northwest magazine’s Spirits Competition. It also earned a silver medal and two bronze medals in the inaugural National Honey Board Spirits Competition.
In the National Honey Board’s first spirits competition, 90 made-with-honey spirits competed for recognition at the 2018 Honey Spirits Competition. Up North Distillery won the following medals for its Honey Spirits which is a distilled mead wine: Barrel Reserve Honey Spirits- Silver Medal in the distilled with honey category, Honey Spirits- Bronze Medal in the distilled with honey category, Barrel Finished Honey Spirits- Bronze Medal in the distilled with honey category.
Info: upnorthdistillery.com
Nelmark and Olp join Windermere Cd’A Realty in Post Falls
Windermere Coeur d’Alene Realty announced the addition of sales associates Nick Nelmark and Rue Olp to its Post Falls office.
Nelmark has an associate’s degree in criminal justice and previously spent five years as a correctional officer before joining the Windermere team.
Olp grew up in the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas and previously worked in customer service.
Windermere Coeur d’Alene Realty has offices in Coeur d’Alene, Post Falls, Hayden and Liberty Lake. Windermere specializes in residential, new construction, commercial real estate and relocation.
Kimball honored at PNCWA Conference
Jim Kimball received the Individual Distinguished Achievement Award Oct. 23 at the Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association annual conference, in recognition of his 50 years of dedication to maintaining clean water in the Pacific Northwest.
This award is presented to a PNCWA member who is most deserving of special recognition as a result of distinguished service rendered in the interest of pollution abatement, and who has contributed fundamentally and practically to the advancement of the industry.
Kimball graduated from Coeur d’Alene High School in 1963 and from the University of Idaho in 1968, with a master’s degree in civil engineering.
His career began with the Department of Health and Welfare (now called the Department of Environmental Quality) just after graduation. His first major project for the department in 1968 was to follow up on the extensive contamination of the south fork of the Coeur d’Alene River from mining and domestic waste.
After leaving the Department of Health and Welfare, Kimball spent six years with LePard and Frame Engineers before starting his own firm, Kimball Engineering, which eventually merged with J-U-B Engineers.
Throughout his consulting career, Kimball has focused on solving wastewater challenges for communities while keeping rates low, and has helped to implement innovative technologies such as the use of hybrid poplars for the Hayden Area Regional Sewer Board, Sno-fluent at Schweitzer Mountain, and phosphorus treatment using extended air activated sludge.
In addition to his consulting work, Kimball routinely presents at universities, professional conferences, and city events to bring awareness to water health and climate change. He has been a significant contributor to PNCWA through his conference presentations and sponsorship, as well as being the Conference Chair in 2000. He is currently working with the state of Washington to rewrite the Reclaimed Water rules and has significant involvement in toxics rule-making in Idaho.
Though he has retired from J-U-B Engineers, Kimball plans to continue working with quality control of engineering projects as well as researching and presenting on climate change and clean water in the Northwest area.
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