BusinessAugust 15, 1993

*Molly Lyon Steele, a personal financial planner with the Lewiston office of IDS Financial Services, Inc. , has been named to the IDS Silver Team. The Silver Team is comprised of select members of IDS' field organization and rank in the top 12 percent of IDS' 7,267 personal financial planners.

*Jamie Olson, branch coordinator of the northern division of First Security Bank of Idaho at Lewiston, graduated from the 18th annual session of the Northwest Intermediate Banking School July 30. Ceremonies marked the occasion at the University of Portland, where the school is held each summer. This year's class consisted of 81 middle-management bankers from Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah and Washington.

*Dirk Sanderson, general manager of the Lewiston Super 8 Motel at 3120 N & S Highway, completed a one-week management training program for Super 8 motels held at the corporate training center in Aberdeen, S.D. The program consists of seven days of intense classroom study in all aspects of motel management.

*Steve Rana, a nationally certified dispensing optician at Lewiston's Optical Shop , recently attended a seminar in Spokane about Occasions, a new bifocal contact lens from Bausch and Lomb .

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*Gary and Ardelle Mellstrom of Clarkston were the winners of $1,000 in Valley Scrip in a recent drawing at Rogers Motors in Lewiston. Valley Scrip is legal tender dispensed by the Lewiston and Clarkston chambers of commerce , redeemable only at valley merchants in an effort to promote buying locally.

*Gene Nelson and Chip Wahlberg, owner of Twin Rivers Physical Therapy in Clarkston, recently returned from Chicago, Ill., where they attended the three-day International Back Pain Conference. The primary focuses were industrial injuries and sports-related injuries.

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