BUSINESS BRIEFS: Peninsula Friends of Animals’ rescue care fund now at Sequim bank . . . and other items

SEQUIM — Peninsula Friends of Animals has established the Animal Rescue Care Account at Sound Bank, 645 W. Washington St., for rescues that require extra care and expenses to meet special physical and emotional needs.

Presently, the fund will assist two adults and one kitten, according to a news release.

For more information, visit www.safehavenpfoa.org.

License gained

SEQUIM — RE/MAX Fifth Avenue Office Manager Marcus Oden recently passed his state real estate exam and is now a licensed broker with Team Parks.

For more information, contact Oden at marcus.oden@remax.net or 917-763-9273.

Hospital facilities

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson Healthcare hospital has received re-accreditation for both its laboratory and sleep medicine centers.

Accreditation bodies the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the College of American Pathologists are the standard for patient safety, clinical quality and attention to detail, according to a news release.

Alice Smith, lab director, and Pam Hawley, sleep medicine director, led in achieving both the designations.

The sleep medicine center has been re-accredited for five years.

Jefferson Healthcare’s laboratory has been re-accredited based on the results of a recent on-site inspection.

Woman on $10 bill

WASHINGTON — Harriet Tubman? Eleanor Roosevelt? Rosa Parks?

Speculation is rising over which American woman will be chosen to grace the $10 bill, which has featured Alexander Hamilton since 1929.

The answer will come sometime after summer, after Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew considers suggestions from anyone who wants to offer one — through town hall meetings or online.

Whoever is chosen by Lew will be the first woman to appear on U.S. paper currency in more than a century.

The bill’s actual design won’t be unveiled until 2020, the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.

Treasury has created a website — www.thenew10.treasury.gov — for Americans to submit suggestions.

The public can propose both which woman should be chosen and which symbols of democracy should be included in the redesigned bill.

Comments can also be submitted on Twitter using the hashtag #TheNew10.

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