Let me tell you a little about Maire. 

Marie is the managing partner, because she's the best for the job.

Marie's been many things from a beauty queen, (Ms. Umatilla County), Miss Oregon Contestant, and a model, commercial actress, but she's has been a sales and business woman for most of her life.  But, she missed her calling by not going into the movies.  She had the beauty for it and also the tenacity to have stayed with it during the lean years. I suspect if she had followed that path, I'd be reading about her, instead of being married to her.

  Marie Paulette Nuanes was born in Valejo, California, lived in Forest Grove, Oregon, and moved to Hermiston after the family home burned and everything was lost. She graduated from Hermiston H.S. She attended  the Seattle College of Business and the University of California at Santa Barbara.  Marie owned day spas and full service salons in Iowa, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington. She also sold business machines and managed her own employment agency. 

Marie had a great son, Stuart Spencer Stratton, who was killed at the Daytona Raceway on October 19, 2001, when he tried to miss hitting a flager on the track.  Stuart was an Eagle Scout and saved a man who was having a heart attack on the beach in Santa Barbara and once a fellow diver, who got the bends.  However to save the third life, he lost his.

Stuart made his home in Royal Oaks, California, and worked as a Marine Engineer and Remote Controlled Vehicle (ROV) Pilot for the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Stuart was unmarried and only 35. see www.motorcyclesarecool.com  He will always be sadly missed by his friends and family.

I originally worked in the railroad industry throughout Maine and eastern Canada for nearly 15 years. I served for over 20 years as a Hazardous Materials Safety Inspector and Regional Safety Specialist for the U.S. Department of Transportation - Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). Since leaving government in October 2002, I have worked as a Railway Safety Consultant, Expert Witness, regulations and training specialist, and full time regulatory issues contractor to an automotive company.

I was born in Milo, Maine, and graduated from Island Falls H.S. I attended the University of Maine, majoring in Chemical Engineering and later Business Administration. I received a B.S. in Business Administration from West Virginia State and an M.S. in Safety Management with a concentration in rail hazardous materials transportation. 

I have two children, April Dawn of Maine and Jason Thomas of Texas and four grandchildren.

STUART LEADING THE PACK.