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Marathon Group appoints execs

Marathon Group LLC, parent company of BEI Hawaii, appointed Marc C. Tilker as acting president and chief executive officer and Frederick H. Kubota as president of BEI Hawaii's distribution division.

Tilker replaces Richard Hill, who has served as Marathon's president and CEO for the past two years. Hill is leaving the company to pursue other business opportunities in Hawaii.

Damon Estate to sell cattle

The Estate of Samuel Mills Damon said it plans to sell the cattle on its Kahuku Ranch and close the Big Island ranching operation by July 31.

The Damon Estate sold most of the ranch's 116,000 acres of land to the National Park Service last July for $22 million.

A Damon Estate representative said the estate is in talks with a potential buyer for the livestock but offered no further comment. The ranch had 4,500 head of cattle when the estate first proposed selling the ranch in 1999.

Seven ranch employees will lose their jobs through the closing of the cattle operations, the estate said in a notice to the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

The ranch lands will be added to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The sale was the largest conservation land transaction in the state's history and will enlarge the park by 50 percent.

PCC team to perform in Vietnam

The Polynesian Cultural Center's promotional team will share tourism skills and perform at the Hue Folk Festival in Vietnam that begins tomorrow and runs until June 20.

The center's performers will participate in the festival's cultural programs. Following the performances, a delegation from the University of Hawaii will conduct a meetings and convention workshop after the festival for government officials in Hue.

Members of the Hue government also have been invited to join the Asian Executive Management Program at Brigham Young University-Hawaii for a 10-month training program and to work at the Polynesian Cultural Center to further develop their understanding of Western marketing skills.

Long-term care hospital opens

Select Medical Corp. announced yesterday the opening of a 30-bed long-term acute care hospital within Queen's Medical Center.

Select Specialty Hospital will treat patients with serious and complex medical conditions such as respiratory failure, neuromuscular disorders, cardiac disorders, non-healing wounds, renal disorders and cancer.

Select Medical operates 81 long-term acute care hospitals in 25 states.

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NEW JOBS

» Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties has hired Pat Richards Giles as executive vice president, administrative. She will be responsible for overseeing information technology, ancillary services, marketing, bank-owned properties and personnel support and development. She previously served as president of @venture, a business consulting company on the Big Island.

>> TheoDavies Food Service Group has appointed Tanya Andrews general manager of the Mililani Long John Silver's /A&W restaurant. She was most recently the Hawaii Kai Taco Bell general manager. She joined the company in 1992.

» The Hawaii Dodge Chrysler Jeep Dealers Association has appointed Ivan Nakano corporate controller for I. Kitagawa and Co., the parent company of Kamaaina Motors. He came out of a short retirement to take the job.

» American Savings Bank has hired Jon Nelson as senior residential loan officer. He previously worked for First Hawaiian Bank.

» Unexploded ordnance expert Eric Brundage has been chosen as field services and architect engineering firm ZapataEngineering's new Kailua office general manager.

» Castle Medical Center has appointed Kevin Roberts president and CEO. He will assume his new role on July 1. He currently serves as COO and chief nursing officer at South Coast Medical Center in Laguna Beach, Calif.