BUSINESS BRIEFS: Retailer REI seeking to unify in one complex in Bellevue . . . and other items

SEATTLE — Outdoors retailer REI is moving several hundred information-technology staffers to a satellite location in the Eastgate area of Bellevue, as it ponders whether it needs a whole new campus over the next few years.

The move comes in the wake of significant growth by the outdoor retailer, the largest consumer co-op in the country.

About 220 IT staffers will move to Bellevue this fall, and 60 more in 2016.

The Bellevue space will be REI’s fourth satellite location beyond its Kent complex, where it has been since the 1990s.

Salon additions

SEQUIM — Jolie Salon, 10127 Old Olympic Highway, Suite 117, has added Annette Rockenbrant to its staff.

Rockenbrant is a stylist and is available Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

She specializes in coloring, cuts and perms and can be reached at 360-683-6943.

Stylist Debbie Weinheimer is now available Tuesdays through Fridays.

She specializes in perms, coloring and cuts and can be reached at 360-477-1781.

Both Rockenbrant and Weinheimer are longtime stylists in Sequim.

Business expands

PORT ANGELES — Lynda Williamson, owner of Strait Occupational & Hand Therapy, has expanded her business into the wellness and fitness arena.

Williamson recently remodeled her building at 708 S. Race St., Suite C, into a state-of-the-art fitness studio.

She will add new classes to her practice, including the MELT Method and Booty Barre.

A four-week MELT Method course starts Monday, July 6, at 10 a.m.

The business will continue to offer rehabilitation for the upper extremities and Bowenwork.

For more information on classes or to register, phone 360-417-0703.

Legal clinic slated

BRINNON — Clallam-Jefferson County Pro Bono Lawyers will hold its quarterly Jefferson County free legal clinic at the Brinnon Community Center, 306144 U.S. Highway 101, from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 11.

The drop-in, legal-advice event offers local people the chance to address legal issues in one-on-one consultations with volunteer lawyers.

It is intended to help those who are otherwise unable to financially access an attorney but is open to all who show up.

Volunteers will answer questions regarding family law, tenant/landlord, public assistance, estate, bankruptcy, employment and creditor issues.

For more information, phone Executive Director Shauna Rogers at 360-504-2422 or email probonolawyers@gmail.com.

KONP talk guests

PORT ANGELES — Here is this week’s schedule for the 1:05 p.m. to 2 p.m. local talk show segment on KONP radio, at 1450 AM, 101.7 FM and www.konp.com on the Internet outside the Port Angeles area.

Station General Manager Todd Ortloff hosts the Monday through Thursday segments.

This week’s scheduled lineup:

■ Today: Master Gardeners Judy English, Bill Wrobel and Jeanette Stehr-Green.

■ Tuesday: Clallam County Fire District No. 2 Chief Sam Phillips and Clallam County Fire Marshal Annette Warren discuss fire safety during the drought season and Fourth of July fireworks hazards.

■ Wednesday: Pre-empted by Seattle Mariners game.

■ Thursday: WOW! Working on Wellness forum speaker Katherine Wieseman discusses “Recreate and Enliven Whole Body Movement the Feldenkrais Way.”

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