Volume 30 • Number 12
December 2005


Cover Feature
Baron Heating
Customer-driven company expands into new market

Reports
Industry Report: Nonprofit
What's driving up your healthcare premiums?
Area Report: Coupeville
The Center of attention in Central Whidbey

Features
Business Profile: Penn Cove Shellfish Farm
The oldest and largest mussel farm in the United States

Departments
Business News
People on the Move
Beginnings
Good Works


Bill Pinkey and John Barron prove
that listening to your customers
can prove profitable for your business.


More than 1500 nonprofit
organizations in our region
employee thousands and report
millions in revenues.


Coupeville is the second-oldest
city in the state and offers all the
allure of a story book fishing village.