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Lee Pesky Learning Center recently hired Karen Stockstill as a flex educational specialist. Stockstill recently moved to Idaho from Norfolk, Va., where she worked in educational research at Old Dominion University. While living in Fort Wayne, Ind., Stockstill started Specialty Tutoring, a non-profit organization similar to Lee Pesky Learning Center that works with children who have reading and math disabilities. She also taught grades 1-5 in Portland. She is a graduate of the University of Washington and has a M.Ed. from Portland State University. She is also pursuing a doctorate in literacy at Boise State University.

Julie Wall joined the center staff recently after two years of independent work with the training and consultation department at Lee Pesky Learning Center as a program evaluation consultant. She has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of Houston. For the past 15 years, Wall has coordinated implementation of large federal research projects and subcontracts at institutions such as the University of Texas Medical Branch, the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California San Francisco, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical School in Pittsburgh. This work involved assessing both the development of, and program impact on, at-risk behaviors in children and adolescents. At the center, Wall will co-develop and implement program evaluation and research methods to assess and improve the learning center's services.
Openings and Moving
These businesses have recently opened, moved to the area, expanded or changed locations.

Boise

• A residential partnership, out of Boise and southern California, recently purchased a 12,200-square-foot building at 2700 W. Regan. The developer plans to convert the building into living units and add single family homes on the west side of the property. Steve Foster of Colliers International and Heidi Mickelsen of Sperry Van Ness facilitated the transaction.
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• AMI Technology dba Scooters of Boise, a motor scooter retail company, has leased retail space at 704 Fulton St., next to Table Rock restaurant. Bergy Bergesen of Group-One Commercial Real Estate handled the transaction.
Meridian

• Avante Salon has leased 2,500 square feet at 519 E. Fairview. The business is an upscale, full-service salon offering pedicures, manicures and facial treatments. It opened Feb. 1. Cliff Marcum of the J.L. Boyd Co. handled the transaction.
Recognition

Michael M. Mooney has joined the board of Seattle Bank this year as an elected director from Idaho. Mooney is president and chief operating officer of Farmers & Merchants State Bank in Boise and will represent Idaho on the board of directors. He replaces Daniel L. Stevens, president and chief executive officer of Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Nampa, who has reached his term limit as a Seattle Bank director. Mooney, an Idaho banker for over 30 years, joined Farmers & Merchants State Bank in 2003 from KeyBank, where he was a district president. A native of Pocatello, he serves on the boards of numerous community organizations in Idaho and graduated with an MBA from Idaho State University and a BS from Utah State University.
Good Deeds

The Bank of America has donated a grant of $7,500 to help The Bridge, a new program of the Children's Home Society of Idaho and Junior League of Boise Inc.