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Inside spring 2021

Departments
Tweets
4 Comments via Twitter

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The Year of the Pandemic : How Business Adapted
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In Focus
6 AWB Events
Of Note
7 Interesting milestones
Inside AWB
8 How AWB is working for you
Events
11 AWB ’ s calendar of events
Columns
From the Chair
10 Brian Forth
Eye on Business
13 Kris Johnson
Covid-19 accelerated workplace transformations .
Richard S . Davis
In Their Words
Industry
A Q & A with Dr . Umair Shah

14 Debbie Ritenour

What ’ s Working
The Washington Employers Who Inspired Us in 2020

16 Lori Maricle and Andrew Lenderman

SECURE Act Helps Small Businesses Offer Robust Retirement Benefits

22 Debbie Ritenour

Rural Communities Must Take Risks to Find New Opportunities

35 Andrew Lenderman

Manufacturing
Making it ! Washington ’ s Manufacturing and Technology Sectors Uplift State Economy

38 Richard S . Davis

Doing Business As
Education and Workforce
Tractor Training in Walla Walla

32 Brian Mittge

Greysam Industrial Services

42 Brian Mittge