PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation’s Lisa Hu has earned certification as a pelvic rehabilitation practitioner.
Hu has been with OMC as a general practice physical therapist since January 2003.
Hu provides service to patients of all ages suffering from pelvic pain, urinary or fecal incontinence and constipation.
“Lisa has a great approach with patients and helps them feel comfortable,” said Gloria Andrus, operations manager at OMC Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation.
New wines
SEQUIM — Wind Rose Cellars, located at 143 W. Washington St., will be releasing three new wines this month.
On Saturday, a new dry rose wine, Rosato, will debut.
On March 21, the business will release its 2013 Sangiovese and 2012 Barbera wines.
Wind Rose is open from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturdays and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays.
Get business advice
PORT ANGELES — Free, confidential business counseling and mentoring services are available from two certified SCORE counselors based with the Clallam County Economic Development Council.
SCORE is a 50-year-old national nonprofit organization that partners with the Small Business Administration to aid small businesses in getting off the ground, growing and achieving their goals through education and mentorship.
The two Clallam SCORE counselors — Mark Hannah and Mike McCarty — have decades of broad, bottom-line business experience.
SCORE counselors offer tools and resources on everything from assessing your business idea — including customers, competition, location and financing — to the brass tacks of legal business structure; necessary licenses; getting insurance; preparing for county, state and federal tax payments; and strategic marketing plans.
Hannah notes that locally, over the last six years, eight new small businesses that are still operating got startup help from Clallam SCORE counselors.
Four people received guidance on how to buy a business, Hannah said, and about 20 existing businesses got useful advice.
For more information or to make an appointment with a SCORE counselor, phone the Clallam EDC in Port Angeles at 360-457-7793.
Bidet store opens
CARLSBORG — Owners Robert and Josslyn Streett have opened Clear Water Bidets, located at 71 Ruths Place, Suite 8.
The business is available to speak to groups on the variety of bidets currently available; the uses, installation and care of toilet seat bidets; and demonstrate the various features of modern bidet seats.
It is offering a complimentary in-home consultation to the first 50 customers in Port Angeles, Sequim or Port Townsend.
Email a request to help@ClearWaterBidets.com.
For more information, phone 360-565-5418 or 888-670-9389, email info@ClearWaterBidets.com or visit www.clearwaterbidets.com.
HUD loans available
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Main Street Program is accepting applications for spring Department of Housing and Urban Development loans.
The application deadline is March 31 at 5 p.m.
These funds can help property owners accomplish historic preservation goals and safety improvements in their buildings and are available to commercial buildings in Port Townsend’s Downtown and Uptown Commercial Historic Districts,.
No retroactive proposals will be accepted.
Applicants should fill out a brief application and include a photo of the building, total budget, timeline for work, two estimates and funding amount requested.
Download the application from www.ptmainstreet.org.
Forms are also available at the Main Street office in the Mount Baker Block Building, 211 Taylor St., second floor, Suite No. 3.
Completed applications must be returned to the Main Street Program office.
For more information, contact the office at 360-385-7911 or director@ptmainstreet.org.
Hiring-practices award
SEQUIM — Holiday Inn Express in Sequim recently was presented the Clallam County Health and Human Services Business Leadership Advisory Committee Employer of the Month Award by Carrie Heaton, Sequim KeyBank branch manager and advisory committee member.
This monthly award recognizes employers who demonstrate diversity and inclusion in their hiring practices by having one or more employees with developmental disabilities.
Holiday Inn Express General Manager Toni Skinner and Assistant Manager Nancy Merrigan received the award.
They were presented with a certificate to keep, as well as a plaque that was displayed in their facility during February.
The plaque will travel each month to the next award recipient and at the end of 2015 will be displayed in the county courthouse.
Merrigan said their employee with a developmental disability takes pride in her work and especially enjoys keeping the employee break room clean for her co-workers.
Olympic Medical Center was presented the same award for January by Lisa Pierson, investment adviser representative for VS Associates Inc. in Sequim and an advisory committee member.
The presentation took place Jan. 21 at OMC’s board meeting in Linkletter Hall.
OMC Chief Executive Officer Eric Lewis, board President Tom Oblak and Nutrition Services Director Graciela Harris received the award.
One of their employees, who has a developmental disability, is said to be very dependable and enjoys his job at the hospital’s Season’s Cafe.
Harris said this employee does his duties well and is excellent with details.
The advisory committee is a business-to-business network promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in the community and workforce.
It has established a mentorship program for businesses interested in exploring the possibility of hiring individuals with disabilities.
For more information, visit www.clallam.net/HHS/HumanServices/blac.html.
KONP talk guests
PORT ANGELES — Here is this week’s schedule for the 1:05 p.m. to 2 p.m. local talk show segment on KONP radio, at 1450 AM, 101.7 FM and www.konp.com on the Internet outside the Port Angeles area.
Station General Manager Todd Ortloff hosts the Monday through Thursday segments. This week’s scheduled lineup:
■ Monday: To be announced.
■ Tuesday: Scott Nagel discusses the Light Up the Lincoln pledge drive, a proposal to turn the Lincoln Theater into a nonprofit performing arts center.
■ Wednesday: Port Angeles City Manager Dan McKeen.
■ Thursday: In the first segment, Dr. Carol Vincent-Hall, Dungeness Valley Health & Wellness Center’s WOW! Working on Wellness forum speaker, discusses her presentation, “Your Food and Your Health.”
In the second segment, Mike McCarty discusses the Kiwanis Clubs KidsFest.
