Business buzz: Hog Island Oysters coming to Oxbow Pubic Market in fall

Hog Island Oyster Company, based in Marshall, will open a second Hog Island Oyster Bar at Oxbow Public Market in Napa.

It is expected to open in September.

It will be modeled after the Hog Island Oyster Bar at the San Francisco Ferry Building Marketplace.

Hog Island “Oxbow” will serve market visitors premium, fresh raised oysters on the half shell, gourmet versions of traditional baked oyster classics, organic salads and a daily local, seafood entrée.

“We wanted to take our farm-to-market approach a step further and deliver our oysters fresh from the farm-to-the table,” said John Finger, co-owner and co-founder of Hog Island.

 

Napa CPA firm hires tax manager

Ganze & Company, a CPA firm in Napa, announces that Laura Stark, CPA, has joined the firm as accounting manager.

Stark is a graduate of Sonoma State University and holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting.

She received her CPA license in 1991. Stark was formerly a partner at Uboldi, Heinke & Velladao, LLP, a public accounting firm in Napa.

Stark joins Ganze & Company with a broad range of qualifications.

Her experience includes professional staff supervision and working with corporations, non-profits, partnerships and individuals with an emphasis on establishing productive client relationships and providing customized solutions.

Ganze & Company serves individual and business clients in construction, manufacturing, distribution and retail, farming and agriculture, food production and distribution, health care, real estate and non-profit industries throughout the Napa Valley community. The firm provides a full range of audit, accounting, tax and consulting services.

Evans-White joins Frank Howard Allen Realtors

 Gerrett Snedaker, Henry Mayo and Earl Shuttleworth, owners of Frank Howard Allen Realtors, the Wine Country Group, are pleased to announce that Holly Evans-White has joined its Main Street office in St. Helena.

A former business owner, Evans-White brings nearly 30 years of sales and marketing experience.

After living and working in Sonoma for two decades, she and her husband moved to Hidden Valley Lake in 2005, a gated community  situated between Clear Lake and Napa Valley.

 Evans-White can be reached at 963-5266 ext. 71 or evanswhite@winecountrygroup.com.

Cope Family Center names new officers, members

Cope Family Center, First Stop for Families, announces its new board president is Wendell R. “Dell” Coats. Also, Doris Gentry and Karin Poiré have been appointed to the board of directors.

Coats is a partner at G&J Seiberlich & Co, LLP, in Napa, where he specializes in accounting and financial reporting for construction, professional service companies and non-profit organizations.

He has served on Cope Family Center’s board of directors since September 2004, most recently as board treasurer.

Gentry is president and CEO of Lift Mates, Inc., which manufactures and sells ergonomically correct lifting tools.

At Cope, Gentry serves on the community circle committee, helps to coordinate the blended family workshops, and chairs the silent auction committee for the organization’s annual April fundraiser, The Blue Plate Special.

Poiré is a partner at Coombs & Dunlap, LLP, specializing in family and collaborative law, including dissolutions, legal separations, custody and support, adoption, guardianships and mediation.

Poiré serves on Cope Family Center’s community circle committee, focused on enlisting financial and employee/member involvement from businesses and service organizations.

Gentry and Poiré join Coats and Board Officers Dorothy Streich, vice president/secretary; John Schweigert, treasurer; and members Kerri Greene-Curtis, Angela Peatman and Lee Schwab.

Karpman marks two years at Cartons and Crates

Jeff Holmes, owner of Cartons and Crates Packaging and Shipping Company, announces that sales rep Myles Karpman has completed two years of service with the company.

Karpman has more than 20 years of sales and customer service experience.

Karpman can be reached at 224-7447 or myles@cartonsandcrates.com.

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