Area business happenings

Names and Faces

Ryan Screnar, senior vice-president/audit director for Glacier Bancorp and its 11 subsidiary banks, has been named ex-officio for the Montana Society of CPAs for the 2009-10 board year. Screnar served as president in 2008-09 and will mentor current president Kyla Stafford. He is a graduate of the University of Montana (accounting) and the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington.

Ronni Poore of Sugar Salon recently attended a three-day Design Workshop at Bumble University in New York, focusing on advanced cutting techniques.

Recognition

Chad Lee received the Outstanding Committee Chairman Award from the Montana Society of CPAs for his work on the society's Membership Committee. Lee works for the Montana Department of Agriculture Bureau of Marketing and Business Development and owns Greenfield Accounting and Consulting in Helena.

Nicole Riebe, program and creative services manager for Beartooth NBC, and Erin Yost, Beartooth NBC weathercaster, were honored at the Montana Broadcasters Association's EB Craney Awards. Riebe won runner-up for Television Public Service Campaign for the Helena Education Foundation's Distinguished Teachers campaign, and Yost won the EB for Weathercaster of the Year.

Mary Ulrich, residential services manager for Spring Meadow Resources, has been nominated by board president Michael Kakuk for the Irwin Siegel Agency's 2009 Direct Support Professional Award. Ulrich has been with Spring Meadow Resources since 1981.

Learning Ops

A four-hour Beginning QuickBooks class will be held by the Business Resource Center at Career Training Institute and Anderson ZurMuehlen on Wednesday, July 15, from 8 a.m. to noon. The course will cover the chart of accounts, setting up vendors and customers, reconciling bank statements, entering credit card charges and several other hints and tips. Cost is $75. For more information or to register, call CTI at 443-0800.

Robert Siciliano, a national speaker on personal protection and security, will speak July 23 at a free seminar on identity theft and what consumers can do to protect themselves. Siciliano will speak from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Carroll College Lower Commons. The talk is sponsored by the Montana Independent Bankers, American Federal Savings Bank and First Security Bank of Helena. For more information, contact Montana Independent Bankers (449-7444) or American Federal (442-3080).