Owen Applequist

Northwest Kidney Centers, a nonprofit that provides 80 percent of the dialysis care in King and Clallam counties, has named Owen Applequist to its board of trustees. Applequist is a supply operations analyst at REI and was one of the first kidney transplant recipients to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. An advocate in Olympia on behalf of issues affecting people with kidney disease, he receives dialysis at Northwest Kidney Centers Renton clinic.