BUSINESS BRIEFS

Castle receives

Castle receives

WSU certificate

Art Castle, executive vice president of the Home Builders Association of Kitsap County and Secretary of the Kitsap Home Builders Foundation, received a certificate from Washington State University for low-impact development technical workshop series. The certificate is based on attending each of the four two-day workshops in the series and completing a test on each segment of the series and a final test.

Castle attended the first workshops in Sequim in May and June 2008. Additional workshop series have been held in Bellingham and Lacey and the final series is in Seattle this month and next.

Each workshop series has four two-day workshops on different aspects of low-impact development including low impact development for buildings; permeable paving; site planning; temporary erosion and sediment control and inspections; and bioretention.

Victoria provides

life coaching in Poulsbo

Joanne Victoria, owner of New Directions in Silverdale and author of four books, is now seeing life-coaching clients at Wunderful Health located at 18978 Eighth Ave. NE in Poulsbo. Appointments are required from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays and 4-8 p.m. Thursdays.

Victoria is the author of four books including “Lighting Your Path — How to Create the Life You Want” and “Vision With a Capital V — Create the Business of Your Dreams.”

Victoria coaches in career; finances; friends and family; health; home; personal growth; relationships; and business.

For more information, contact Victoria at (360) 377-2995.

RE/MAX associates

attend convention,

receive designation

RE/MAX Platinum Services recently announced Associate Brokers Linda Wood and Gary Marcy attended the RE/MAX International Convention in Las Vegas.

RE/MAX International Chairman and Co-Founder Dave Liniger addressed the audience at the convention. He announced the debut of a Distressed Properties channel on RE/MAX University’s Agent Training on Demand site. He also mentioned two agreements designed to bring business to RE/MAX associates: one with InvestorLoft that will connect agents to investors and one with New Vista Asset Management of San Diego, an organization that assists multicultural buyers.

RE/MAX Platinum Services also announced that Shelly Sanders, Joanie Peters and Marcy earned the Certified Distressed Property Expert Designation.

RE/MAX Platinum Services is located at 9224 Ridgetop Blvd. NW, No. 100 in Silverdale.