Community Bulletin and Business Briefs

Community Bulletin

During the week of Jan. 31, Trinity Preparatory School’s Peace Jam club encouraged students to learn about the importance of water. The club allowed the students to experience what it would feel like to be living in a place where you had to walk at least three miles to get drinking water. Contact Katie Seymour at [email protected]

More than 2,500 people went to the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art over the weekend to tour the new $5 million wing. The Morse opened its 12,000-square-foot addition on Saturday, Feb. 19. There’s free admission through March 20. Call 407-645-5311 or visit MorseMuseum.org

Maitland resident Bobbe Lyon has been named Central Florida Ambassador for Florida House in Washington, D.C. Visit FloridaEmbassy.com or contact Lyon at [email protected] or 407-645-0089.

The Central Florida Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution recognized its outstanding Eagle Scout Andrew Popp during its meeting on Feb. 12.

Members of the Orlando Regional Realtor Association reported a 7.14 percent year-over-year increase in the 1,950- home sales in January 2011. Visit orlRealtor.com and click “Housing Statistics” on the top menu bar.

The following students were named to the Dean’s List of Emory College for the 2010 fall semester: Kimberly Schauder of Winter Park (32792), daughter of Dr. Ellis H. Schauder and Helene B. Schauder; Emily Brennan of Maitland, (32751), daughter of Robert Brennan and Wendy Brennan.

Tibby’s New Orleans Kitchen, 2203 Aloma Ave., opened Monday, Feb. 21, featuring Cajun-inspired cuisine. Visit TibbysNewOrleansKitchen.com

Patrice Clarke, seventh grader at Glenridge Middle School, presented her project “How High or Low Can Your Go?” at the Dr. Nelson Ying Orange County Science Exposition. Her project was inspired by her love for music and involvement in the school band. Eighth grade student Joseph Torgler from St. Margaret Mary presented his project in the botany category on the effectiveness of compost from wooden vs. plastic bins. Lauren Rostkowski, seventh grader from St. Margaret Mary, discovered that peppermint improves reaction time in her project, which she presented at the Orange County Science Fair.

Marcia Herring will be starting a monthly series of events, titled “An Evening with the Artist.” Herring will be painting inside Dexter’s Winter Park, 558 W. New England Ave., answering questions about art and teaching her unique style of painting – using her fingers and hands as the brushes. The event will be the third Monday of every month, starting Feb. 21. Painting will be live from 6-8 p.m. Visit MarciaHerring.com

On Friday, Feb.11, representatives from Florida Hospital Foundation met at the Cystic Fibrosis Pharmacy on East Colonial Drive to receive a donation from the Pharmacy and the Kevin A. Przybyl Breathe Easy Foundation, Inc. The $6,000 donation will be used to remodel two patient rooms at Winter Park Memorial Hospital.

Chick-fil-A and the Orlando Magic collected one ton of food for Second Harvest Food Bank. Former players Bo Outlaw and Nick Anderson, Stuff the Magic Dragon, Magic dancers, and the Chick-fil-A Cows helped load all the food onto a Second Harvest truck.

The Institute of International Education recently announced that Rollins College Hamilton Holt School student Kari Smith (class of 2012) has been selected to receive a 2011 David L. Boren Scholarship for international study.

Volunteer opportunities

Habitat for Humanity Orlando is seeking women to create fundraising teams to volunteer during its 2011 Women Build Week, May 2-7. Contact Lynn Ivanek at [email protected] or 407-648-4567 extension 404.

Seniors First is seeking drivers to deliver Meals on Wheels to elderly clients in Orange County. Contact Lorraine Shumaker at 407-615-8982.

Junior Achievement of Central Florida’s annual Bowl-A-Thon fundraiser will take place throughout the spring across Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Volusia and Lake counties. Contact 407-898-2121, extension 19 or [email protected]

Business Briefs

The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art’s new 12,000-square-foot wing was designed by RLF, a leading Winter Park-based architecture, engineering and interior design firm. Retired RLF President Jack Rogers, FAIA, said, “My father, James Gamble Rogers II, and Hugh McKean were contemporaries and shared a common passion for art and architecture. The two men went to Laurelton Hall after the fire in 1957 to help oversee the removal of treasurers from the ruins, for shipment to Winter Park. It seems particularly appropriate that the successor firm of RLF would work with the Museum to provide a new home for the Daffodil Terrace, together with associated art works and furnishings from Laurelton Hall.”

RLF, a leading Winter Park-based architecture, engineering and interior design firm, has announced the addition of three new employees to its team. David Fishel, PE, joins RLF’s mechanical engineering team as an energy modeler. Erin Kreusch, IIDA, LEED AP, joins RLF as a licensed interior designer. Angel Wells joins RLF as a construction administration assistant.

Palmer Electric Company has completed its contract with the Central Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens in partnership with Get Ready Central Florida for the installation of the first networked electric vehicle charging stations at a U.S. zoo.

Robert Blackwell, SIOR, principal at NAI Realvest, has achieved the coveted Elite Status with NAI Global. The award is given to NAI brokers who have closed a high level of commercial real estate transactions assigned among the 325 offices in the NAI Global worldwide system.

Winter Park Construction, one of Orlando’s leading locally owned construction companies, has broken ground on University House Central Florida, an off-campus student housing project located one half-mile from Orlando’s University of Central Florida campus. The 416-unit project is expected to be completed in August 2012 and will create 400 jobs.