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Cascade Pest Control has been awarded the prestigious 2011 designation after having received the 2010 award. We appreciate each and every customer taking the time to review and recommend us through Angie's List.

"Only a fraction of the businesses rated on Angie's List can claim the sterling service record of being a Super Service Award winner because we set a high bar," said Angie's List Founder Angie Hicks. "The fact that Cascade Pest can claim Super Service Award status speaks volumes about its dedication to consumers."

Angie's List Super Service Award winners have met strict eligibility requirements including earning a minimum number of reports, an exemplary rating from their clients and abiding by Angie's List operational guidelines.

Ratings are updated daily on Angie's List, but members can find the 2011 Super Service Award logo next to business names in search results on AngiesList.com.

Angie's List collects consumer reviews on local contractors and doctors in more than 500 service categories. Currently, more than 2 million consumers across the U.S. rely on Angie's List to help them make the best hiring decisions. Members get unlimited access to local ratings via Internet or phone, exclusive discounts, the Angie's List magazine and help from the Angie's List complaint resolution service. Take a quick tour of Angie's List and view the latest Angie's List news.

Cascade Pest Control has been protecting health and property since 1979. Learn more about services, coverage areas, and the company's decorated performance record by going towww.cascadepest.com or calling (888) 989-8979.

Cascade Pest Control has been awarded the prestigious 2010 Angie's List Super Service Award, an honor bestowed annually on approximately 5 percent of all the companies rated on the nation's leading provider of consumer reviews on local service companies.

“Our Super Service Award winners are the cream of the crop when it comes to providing consistently high quality customer service, as judged by the customers who hired them,” said Angie Hicks, founder of Angie's List.

“We are proud and delighted to be recognized by our customers for our commitment to providing top quality service”, said Diana Sheridan, co-founder of Cascade Pest Control. Cascade Pest also earned this prestigious award in 2007 and 2008. The company has been protecting property and health since 1979, and provides pest control service all over King and Snohomish counties.

Angie's List Super Service Award winners have met strict eligibility requirements including earning a minimum number of reports, an exemplary rating from their customers and abiding by Angie's List operational guidelines.

Service company ratings are updated daily on Angie's List, but members can find the 2010 Super Service Award logo next to company names in search results on AngiesList.com.

Angie's List collects consumer reviews on local contractors and doctors in more than 500 service categories. Currently, more than 1 million consumers across the U.S. rely on Angie's List to help them make the best hiring decisions. Members get unlimited access to local ratings via Internet or phone, exclusive discounts, the Angie's List magazine and help from the Angie's List complaint resolution service. Take a quick tour of Angie's List and view the latest Angie's List news.

Learn more about Cascade Pest Control's services, coverage areas, and their decorated performance record by going to www.cascadepest.com or calling (888) 989-8979.

The Treftz Corp announced the launch of the industry's newest association, focused on recognizing leaders in environmental achievement. The group's website, www.pcoeag.org, states that the PCO Environmental Achievement Group exemplifies innovation and leadership in the pest control industry. Cascade Pest Control, a division of Treftz Corp., pioneered working with environmental groups and earning environmental awards over 15 years ago. “The pest control industry as a whole has been conscientiously serving families and businesses, protecting them from pests and pest-borne diseases for years,” said Kurt Treftz of Cascade. “And now, a number of companies have developed their practices to where government agencies and others are recognizing them. The PCOEAG provides the platform for us to network, share best practices, discuss aras of concern as well as for each to be recognized for that commitment.”

The PCOEAG is designed to raise public awareness of member companies through three levels of participation. The highest level of recognition, Executive Membership, is awarded to those companies that have earned environmental recognition from either a state or federal government agency. Standard members have earned local recognition for their environmental practices. For smaller companies or those who have yet to be recognized, Associate membership provides a way for them to demonstrate their commitment to adhere to the Group's code of ethics and standards. While the initial launch is focused on pest control operators in the United States, the PCO EAG is open to all pest control companies worldwide that meet the environmental standards of the association.

Don Leland, Group Administrator, encourages every pest control company to consider joining. “With three levels of participation any company can be recognized for their effort to be more environmentally aware, and this prestigious brand will help set them apart in their marketplace.” He goes on, “During the launch of PCOEAG.org we are discounting membership for a limited time, so we encourage everyone to act quickly.”

Members can display a unique logo on their websites to raise customer awareness about their commitment to environmentally-conscious best-practices. The PCOEAG has future plans to develop a blog, design marketing packets, and direct interested consumers to the closest PCOEAG member-company for service.

Founded in 2010, PCOEAG.org is the new industry benchmark for pest control companies worldwide. For more information go to the website at www.pcoeag.org.

Kurt Treftz, president of Cascade Pest Control, announced the acquisition of Executive Pest Control, also formerly of Bellevue, WA.

Executive Pest Control was co-founded by Alex Boddie and Steven Wheeler, who have joined from the pest management industry. "The reputation and quality of service provided by Cascade Control was an important factor in our decision," Wheeler said. "In addition to being able to continue to provide service to my customers, I know they will continue to receive a high quality service, now through Cascade Pest Control".

"We welcome the opportunity to extend our high quality services to our newest group of customers, and are thrilled to be expanding our customer base throughout King and Snohomish counties," said Mr. Treftz.

Cascade Pest Control is a leading green PCO celebrating 30 years of serving King and Snohomish counties. For more information contact Cascade Pest Control, at (425) 641-6264 or visit www.cascadepest.com.

Al Brown, Service & Training Manager of Cascade Pest Control, has joined the Education Committee of the Washington State Pest Management Association (WSPMA).

“I look forward to being involved with helping guide the quality of the education technicians receive,” Brown said. “Working closely with [Education Committee chair] Scott Dideon, I anticipate this will range from selecting speakers to helping design curriculum content to evaluating training locations.,” Brown, who has been with Cascade Pest for 17 years, had previously served on the Education Committee in 2006.

“We're very excited to have Mr. Brown re-join this important committee, continuing our long relationship with the WSPMA,,” said Diana Sheridan, co-owner of Cascade Pest Control. Cascade ownership has a history of leadership within the Association, serving as president, on the Board of Directors, the first Ethics Committee chairperson, and the first Environmental-Health Awareness Committee chairperson.

Cascade Pest Control is a leading pest control operator (PCO) celebrating 30 years of serving King and Snohomish counties. For more information contact Cascade Pest Control at (425) 641-6264 or visit www.cascadepest.com.

If this nice weather's got your internal seasonal clock all confused, you're not alone. Billions upon billions are in the same boat, and they just may be in your house too.

If this nice weather's got your internal seasonal clock all confused, you're not alone. Billions upon billions are in the same boat, and they just may be in your house too.

“It could be a bad season this year for ants. We could have quite a bit of activity,” says Al Brown with Cascade Pest Control.

The problem - our mild winter has the insects all mixed up. Right now, ants are invading local homes. Normally that doesn't happen until late March or April.

"We've also seen wasps that are starting to show up. Honey bees are starting to show up, so everything's popping up earlier than normal,” says Brown.

So you need to be on the lookout. Don't leave food, dirty dishes or drinks out. And if you do have an infestation, call the pros. Home remedies, like sprinkling pepper in problem places could make the problem worse for you and the exterminator.

“It'll just repel them and they'll change direction. They'll split their nest and we'll end up chasing them all over the place,” says Brown.

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Seattle, WA, October 9, 2007 - Continuing a tradition of providing joy and relief to unsuspecting families-as well as good drama with a message of compassion to American viewers-the award-winning ABC-TV hit series, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" came to the Greater Seattle area. And Cascade got to provide extreme pest control.

Cascade, an award-winning pest control company in the Greater Seattle area, donated its services to a deserving family as part of the makeover of their home. Cascade's job was primarily to provide rodent control, rats being a major problem in the Puget Sound region. Rodents spread disease and other contamination-and are also responsible for damage from gnawing-even known to cause fires as a result of chewing through electrical insulation. Often even after they are gone the contamination leaves a home ruined, their urine, feces, chewing and damaged insulation in walls and attics left behind. This means that besides 'pest control measures,' clean-up, repair and disinfecting is required.

A family in the Highlands neighborhood of Kirkland was selected by ABC as the "hero family" for the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition show. The family-Connie Chapin and her four children, were nominated by friends and neighbors. They live in a old house from which Connie operates "Anglefish Swimming" as a home occupation. Due to "life circumstances" she could not keep up with the home's maintenance leaving it with significant structural defects.

The makeover involved demolition of the single-family residence, detached garage and swimming pool from which she works.and replaced with a 3,500 square foot home, a 900 square foot garage and new swimming pool. The work took about 700 volunteers, 100 construction hours over seven days, the Building Industry Association of Washington and the show's crew.

As quoted in the Seattle Post Intelligencer, Daimon Doyle, Building Industry Association President and lead builder, "I've got small companies donating thousands of dollars worth of material and labor, and then asking what they can do."

As the family was away on vacation their existing home was demolished and a new one constructed. The ordeal was named "Project 511" as the story was aired as the 11th episode of the 5th season of the Extreme Makeover show.