The INDEPENDENT, April 15, 2004
Page 5
Business Notes
Keenon Land Services to be under new ownership after 16 years
Keenon Land Services, Inc.
(KLS) has announced the re-
tirement of founder L. Jerry
Keenon effective May 1, 2004.
Keenon and wife, Dolly, started
the survey company in 1985
and have served the area’s
needs ever since. KLS is now a
full-service surveying company
offering many surveying and
mapping services, including
water rights examinations.
Jerry Keenon, left, is going fishing while Don Wallace takes
over the business.
New Wauna information services
V-P Nickerson brings experience
Terry Nickerson has been
named vice-president of Infor-
mation Services for Wauna
Federal
Credit
Union.
Nickerson
brings
over 25
years of
experi-
ence in
Terry Nickerson b a n k i n g ,
manufacturing, engineering,
and information technology to
his new position.
His experience includes
managing projects for ERP
systems, large medical and
marketing databases, banking
projects, HRIS, CRM, POS
systems and complex business
applications. Nickerson has de-
veloped, engineered and man-
aged six major data/call cen-
ters from concept to comple-
tion. His last center was an in-
ternet provider capable of sup-
porting 80,000 servers, an in-
ternational network that ex-
ceeded three-million hits per
shift.
Nickerson’s engineering pro-
jects included designing two
major computer systems and a
high-level cyber security sys-
tem. He has also designed logic
analyzers, security systems and
graphical avionics systems.
Nickerson is pleased to be
able to put his skills to work at
an organization that is located
in and serves smaller rural com-
munities.
Lewis & Clark Bridge project update
Rolling slowdowns will continue
on weekdays so workers can ac-
cess the bridge. The slowdown is
usually two vehicles, one carrying
the crew and the second driving
behind the first to give the crew
time to exit the first vehicle. Mo-
torists will experience a slowdown
as opposed to a stop and start sit-
uation. This is done to avoid any
sudden stops and rear-end acci-
dents.
See the following for a monthly calendar of scheduled closures,
including dates when closures cannot be scheduled.
• Toll Free Project Hotline: 1-866-427-4630
• Project Web Page: www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/lewisclarkbridge
• Lewis & Clark Bridge Deck Replacement Project E-mail:
lewisclarkbridge@wsdot.wa.gov
• Highway Advisory Radios:
Kelso, WA AM 1580
Rainier, OR AM 530
Keenon plans to do some fish-
ing, though he will still serve the
company in a consulting role.
The company will now be in
the capable hands of new own-
ers, Don and Kim Wallace.
Don Wallace has been with
Keenon for 16 years and has
wide experience in both field
and office elements of survey-
ing. The Wallaces will have two
crews fully equipped for sur-
veying, to continue offering the
fast, accurate, and professional
services that Keenon Land Ser-
vices, Inc. has become known
for providing.
There will be no change in
the office location, 1224 E.
Alder Street, Vernonia, or the
phone number, 503-429-6115.