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Sunday 6 2003 - ' rj ' ' ' 'i — - v s t v ril 4 A10 The Herald Journal People in business I Receives degree Garr J Crookston audiologist and president of Hearing Zone has recently received his Doctorate of Audiology at the Arizona School of Health Sciences The new degree will be the future recognized degree for the field of audiology Its development has occurred due to the expanded training needs of the profession and the increasing role within the medical community Gait has practiced in the Logan area for the past IS years and owns seven other locations in Utah and Idaho Garr’s son Ray Crookston also acquired his audiology doctorate and currently practices in Walnut Creek Calif Local company builds its own niche in competitive pharmaceutical industry By Pat Bohm Itoatle features writer yClonc is a company that bears out the adage “Necessity is the mother of invention’ It with one man’s search began for a product to further his research on viruses Rex Spendlove a virologist at Utah State University in 1967 needed pure serum — any foreign bacteria or viruses would skew his research results When he found only poor quality unreliable products he began to make his own Other scientists soon realized their need for Spendlove’s cleaner version of fetal boVine serum and he founded HyClone to meet that need To produce FBS HyClone collects fetal bovine blood using a patented collection method that results in serum with low levels of contaminants Fetal bovine serum is taken from slaughtered animals as a ' Wins award top-quali- ty The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners is pleased to award Gifford N Grover the designation “Certified Fraud Examiner” (CFE) The Association’s Board of Regents awards this designation only to select professionals who meet a stringent set of criteria including strict character experience and education requirements Grover has successfully met these criteria and now joins the ranks of over 26000 business and government professionalswho have also earned the CFE certification CFEs are responsible for resolving a wide range of allegations of fraud closed-syste- crime Grover has had significant accounting and management experience in the construction manufac- -' and white-coll- ar - turing retail government contracting and real estate develop- ment industries manufacturing retail government contracting and real estate development industries byproduct Since it was founded Spendlove’s company has transformed itself expanding into the international arena of supplying products for Honored Detective Brad Hansen of the Logan Police Department is the March 2003 City of Logan employee of the month Detective Hansen began working for the Logan City Police Department as a reserve officer 12 years ago After serving die City of Logan in this capacity for 2 years he was hired as a full time police officer in 1993 Detective Hansen distinguished arson cases! Chosen Eli LuceraHerald Journal Appointed Nancy A Nowak has been appointed as vice president of Clini-- " cal OperationsChief Nursing Executive for Intermountain Health Care (IHC) In this role Nowk will coOrdi- nate strategic directions for nursing clinical with IHC's hospital-base- d also will She provide programs direction and support for care management senior services quality management patient safety and hospital clinical program data man- agement Nowak comes to IHC from Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation in Memphis Tennessee where she was a vice president and chief nursing executive Prior to that she held leadership positions with health organizations in Wisconsin and Missouri She received her training as a registered nurse in Pennsylvania and earned degrees from the University of Missouri and Webster University in St Louis ‘ research Lynn Quilter acting president said “We deal in -based drugs Three are other ways to produce drugs but if it’s cell culture it’s proteins Everything we do is designed to help them produce a protein out of a bioreactor” He said although the company started by making a superior version of one type of serum for cell culture it now makes several types of sera along with cell culture media and sterile containers ' This year the Cache Chamber of Commerce awarded HyClone top honors as its Established Business of the Year for 2002 When Spendlove HyGone’s founder was approaching retirement he sold the company to the protein- himself in the patrol division and became a leader on his shift He showed an interest in investigating fires and has become the Police Department’s lead investigator in Brandee Halverson is the classified employee of the winter quarter 2002-200- 3 at Utah State University Brandee started working for USU in 1994 She has worked for the Computer Science Department the last three years where she is considered the most dependable person If you need something done and done right ask Brandee to do it She-i-s the expert in her field She does what three people do in other departments of similar size She does all this without complaining or without extra compensation m Jared Northrup packages small volume liquid media at Hyclone Thursday The company started out producing sterile serum for researchers but has since branched out into containers and mass delivery Its parent company Perbio also has plants in Sweden and other European countries Canada Australia New Zealand and China The business started almost by accident in 1967 when Utah State University virologist Rex Spend love couldn't find a satisfactory sanitary serum for his experiments so he started producing his own Before long other researchers were it Later when Hydohe couldclamoring for Spendlove's product so he started mass-produci- n’t find suitable containers for its product it started producing those too Follow nature’s si By Loralle Plate ro optimal by Successful pest management in the landscape depends on correctly identifying the pest weed or pathogen and then applying the appropriate control measure when the pest is most vulnerable Traditionally calendar dates are used to determine plant pest tontrol applications However there is a direct correlation1 between stages of insect and plant development according to climate rather than calendar Gardeners that rely on environmental factors to determine gardening activities are using phenology Phenology is the science of periodic biological events ip the animal and plant world as influenced by the environment especially weather and climate Plant development such as sprouting and flowering in the spring are phenological events Color changes in the fall bird migration insect hatches and animal hibernation are as well Plants are highly sensitive weather instruments that integrate weather factors such as temperature rainfall humidity wind and sunshine and respond when all of these factors are iUait growing Year alter year plants can be observed in certain stages of growth such as open-in- g of leaf buds or appearance of first flowers according to climatic conditions Phenological events in plants can be correlated with weather conditions and with other less easily observed events like insect eggs hatching These correlations can be used to predict when an insect pest will appear in the landscape much more effectively than a calendar date For instance in March the ' crocus and daffodils were in bloom due to pleasantly warm days but last year we woe still ice skating in March So treatments for a particular insect iq April of this year would have a much different effect than a pesticide application in April of last year Right now die forsythia are in bloom This means that the soil tem Swedish family-owne- d corporation Perstorp In 1999 Perstorp divested itself of HyClone by spinning it off to form a Swedish corporation Perbio in combination with -- two other companies HyClone the cell culture division of Perbio accounted for 54 percent of the corporation’s total sales with net sales for 2002 coming to more than $137 million Perbio stands with its feet on both sides of the Atlantic — in Sweden and in the United States In terms of sales and employees a majority is n in North America in of North are sales percent America compared to 26 percent in Europe The United States and Canada account for ' Sixty-seve- 786 percent of Prebio’s employees with the rest divided among Sweden other European countries Australia “We're trying to make their (the pharmaceutical Plant's) back door our front door" — Lynn Quitter acting president Hyclone New Zealand and China According to its annual report Perbio Science sup- plies life science researchers and the biopharmaceutical industry Its products systems and services are for protein-relate- d research and the proof protein and nucleic drugs It also man- ufactures a medical device for ear nose and throat medicine Of Perbio’s three divisions its cell culture division HyClone is premier In fact Leland Foster HyGone's previous president took the helm of Perbio last November HyClone's fastest growing product is its bioprocess containers — flexible single-us-e containers for handling sterile liquids The reason for its increase is linked to the explosive growth of die pharmaceutical industry in the last 10 years Researchers who used duction acid-bas- ed See HYCLONE on A13 to manage pests peratures arc near 55 degrees F which is the temperature that crab ' If a crab-gra- ss grass seeds germinate is preventer product applied too early the herbicide breaks down and becomes ineffective before it has a chance to work If applied too late crabgrass seeds will have already germinated and the herbicide won’t halt the actively-growin- g plants If those weeds have been a problem in the past this is the time to apply a herbicide for successful control Another management practice to complete when forsythia are blooming is pruning rose bushes Another plant to watch is the bridal wreath spirea (Spiraea x According to die book “Coincide” by Donald A Orton the stage of development of several species of insects is based on the blooming of this planL Remember this information is listed as a basis for scouting and identifying potential problems not a biological calendar to indiscriminately apply pesticides to these plants When bridal wreath is in full bloom look for young larvae of lurch leafminer elm leaf beetle and pine van-houtt- ei) needle scale When in foil to late bloom lilacash borer larvae are present as well as oystershell scale crawlers As the bridal wreath finishes blooming the bronze birch borer larvae is newly hatched When most blossoms are brown but a few white remain the peach tree borer larvae have begun to hatch Other gardening activities that correspond with plant growth are planting peas when daffodils are inttotom planting corn when apple blossoms begin to fall and planting beets and carrots when dandelions are blooming Aldo Leopold in a 1947 report stated “Many of the events of the annual cycle recur year after year in record a regular order A of this order is a record of the rates ' at which solar energy flows to and through living things They are tire arteries of the land By tracing their responses to the sun phenology may eventually shed some light on that ultimate enigma the land’s inner workings" year-to-ye- ar Loralie Ratero is a Utah State University Extension agent specializing In horticulture She can be reached by email at toraliepOextusuedu |