Etc. Column

URS names Becker senior

vice president

Dan Becker, a member of the Colfax High School class of 1973 who has been employed with URS Corporation for 34 years, has been named senior vice president of the company’s power group with responsibility for accounting and finance functions. Becker, who earned a degree in accounting from Eastern Washington University, for the last four years has been finance director for the corporation’s Sellafield Nuclear Complex in West Columbia, England.

His wife is the former Kim Small of Colfax. They plan to return to the United States where he will begin his new assignment at Princeton, N.J. The Beckers have two grown daughters and one granddaughter. Becker is the son of Norma Becker of Cofax.

Dub, Mundt named

First Wind scholars

Two of this year’s 16 national recipients of $3,000 from the First Wind Scholars program are Kayler Dub from Tekoa High School and Tyler Mundt from Rosalia High School. First Wind presents the awards to college-bound students in areas where the company has installations.

Dub, Farmington, has served as FFA president and student body treasurer. She is a recipient of the FFA state degree and participated in softball, basketball and cross country. Dub plans to study nursing at Carroll College next fall.

Mundt is Rosalia’s valedictorian with a 4.0 grade average. He served as president of the National Honor Society and FBLA and treasurer of FFA. He also participated in baseball and football and is a volunteer at Free Rein Therapeutic Riding of Spokane. Mundt plans to study engineering at the University of Washington.

Hatten will talk

on Palouse Bees

Palouse Prairie Foundation and the White Pine chapter of the Idaho Native Plant Society will sponsor a public presentation on Bees of Palouse Prairie by Dr. Tim Hatten June 6 at 7 p.m. in the 1912 Center Fiske Room, Moscow.

He will provide background information on bee species found in the area while showing results from a study that he and colleagues conducted on the bee community of the critically-endangered Palouse Prairie. Bees are amongst the most important of all pollinators, critical for the survival of both agricultural systems and native habitats. There are many important and interesting species of bees beyond the common honey bee.

The public is invited. For further information contact Dave Skinner at Moscow.

BIRTHS

Whitman County Gazette, May 23, 2013

AT WHITMAN HOSPITAL & MEDICAL

CENTER

Lindgren, Alexis Sophia, born May 7 at six pounds, six ounces, to Ilda and Chad Lindgren of Pomeroy. Maternal grandparents are Fransisco and Consuelo Arteaga of Pomeroy. Paternal grandparents are Zanna Lindgren and Mack Blakeley of Rosalia. She joins sister Hally.

AT PULLMAN REGIONAL HOSPITAL

Yan, Acadia Anqi, born May 6 at six pounds, six ounces to Yaqin Zhao and Changmin Yan of Pullman. Paternal grandparents are Jian Hua Yan and Jian Rong Zhao of Wuhan, China. Maternal grandparents are Suo Peng Zhao and Dong Mei Zhao of Beijing, China. The baby joins brother Wilson, 3.

Stull-Moe, Bridget Elyse, born May 7 at eight pounds, eight ounces to Rebecca Stull and Aaron M. Moe of Pullman. Paternal grandparents are David and MichalAnn Moe of Spokane. Maternal grandparents are Dean and Nora Stull of Boulder, Colo. The baby joins sister Daphne, 3.

Helbling, Gabriel James, born May 8 at seven pounds, six ounces, to Matthew and Ellie Helbling of Moscow, Idaho. Paternal grandparents are Jeff and Carla Helbling of Moscow, Idaho. Maternal grandparents are Ramiro and Anne Garcia of Potlatch, Idaho. The baby joins brother Mason, 2.

Opdahl, Titus Kade Harlan, born May 9 at six pounds, 13 ounces, to Stanford and Kaitlyn Opdahl of Moscow, Idaho. Paternal grandparents are Jim Opdahl and Cynthia Anderson of Palouse. Maternal grandparents are Kevin and Lynda Hedges of Union Springs. The baby joins sisters Grace, 2, and Ryann 1.

Seaman, Olivia Brooke, born May 12 at seven pounds, seven ounces first child to Andrew and Carly Seaman of Moscow, Idaho. Paternal grandparents are Ron and Susan Seaman of Moscow, Idaho. Maternal grandparents are Ron and Karen Westacott of Potlatch, Idaho.

Garcia, Alexander Leonel, born May 12 at six pounds, first child to William and Allison Garcia of Pullman. Paternal grandparents are Jose and Ester Garcia of San Mateo, Calif. Maternal grandparents are Mark and Jean Samson of Walnut Creek, Calif.

Dira, Jonathan Samuel, was May 13 at nine pounds, eight ounces, to Samuel Jilo Dira and Fasika Kebede Debisso of Pullman. Paternal grandparents are Kawajo Badacha and Jilo Dira of Arbegona, Ethiopia. Maternal grandparents are Kebede Debisso and Alemitu Tuturo of Hawassa, Ethiopia. The baby joins brother Erko, 3.

Roberts, Hadley Lynn, May 13 at nine pounds, nine ounces, to Mike and Amber Roberts of Colfax. Paternal grandparents are Bruce and Joyce Bell of Hay. Maternal grandparents are Guy and Lynn McCaw of Waitsburg, and Don Dayton of Spokane. The baby joins brothers Tucker, 13, and Trace, 7.

Reisenauer, Jack Henry, born May 14, at six pounds, 14 ounces, first child to Jason and Cristin Reisenauer of Uniontown. Paternal grandparents are Frank and Roxy Reisenauer of Colton. Maternal grandparents are Clark and Lillian Capwell of Colfax.