Community Bulletin and Business Briefs

Community Bulletin

Effective Jan. 3, Bagi Jana, MD, will no longer be practicing with Cancer Institute of Florida. In order to facilitate your transition to a new physician within that group and to ensure continuity of care, please call the office at 407-303-2024. Copies of your medical records will continue to be stored at the practice.

The city of Maitland seeks Maitland residents to serve on the Lakes Advisory Board. Please contact the city clerk at 407-539-6219 or at [email protected]

Top high school computer science students from across Florida tested their skills and competed against their peers at the Computer Science Programming Contest at Stetson University on Nov. 20. Winning second place was Trinity Preparatory School’s Sam Savitz and Travis Frederick. Twenty-seven teams participated, representing 14 high schools from around the state.

Two Florida Hospital campuses are partnering with Orange County Public Schools and Quest, Inc. to host Project SEARCH. Project SEARCH is a first-of-its-kind program in the Greater Orlando area for highly functional special needs students ages 18-22 to develop job skills to prepare them for a variety of careers upon graduation. Twenty students, eight at Florida Hospital East Orlando and 12 at Winter Park Memorial Hospital, are participating in this program.

In the last six months, Christian HELP (who serve all people regardless of their religious beliefs) has connected about 3,000 people to jobs through job fairs, employment counseling and job skills classes, resume help and networking. The organization’s director challenges anyone to come and see what they do — “You will be amazed at the amount of work and results that are coming out of this humble abode in Casselberry,” Jackie Normand said. Visit www.christianhelp.org for more info.

Winter Park resident Betty Schnur recently graduated from two weeks of training and received an assistance dog from Canine Companions for Independence (CCI), a non-profit organization that breeds, trains, and places assistance dogs for people with disabilities. Schnur was matched with a Successor Service Dog named Eston, a 2-year-old yellow Golden/Labrador Retriever mix, who responds to more than 50 commands. CCI assistance dogs are provided free of charge, though costs to CCI exceed $45,000 to breed, raise, train, and provide ongoing support. For more information, call 800-572-BARK, or visit www.cci.org.

Dr. Isaac Hernandez is pleased to announce the opening of his health and wellness center in the Town Center of Baldwin Park, Thrive: A Family Health Center. Through gentle, yet immensely powerful Chiropractic corrective care of the human nervous system, Thrive provides a drugless and surgery-free approach to the restoration and maintenance of health and well-being. Thrive is located at 1814 Jake St. For more information, call 407-736-9738.

Ongoing holiday donation drives

During December, Whole Foods Market, 1989 Aloma Ave., will be accepting food donations for HOPE and their Sonshine Food Pantry near Customer Service.

Seniors First’s Holiday Shoebox Drive collects gifts for senior citizens. To donate, or for more information, call Michelle Lowe at 407-615-8962 or e-mail [email protected].

Visit the Habitat for Humanity ReStores to not only get great deals, but also support a great cause. The stores have gifts for the pet lover in your life and stocking suffers for all ages. Not to mention items to build, furnish and decorate your home. Proceeds from sales at the ReStores goes to further Habitat Orlando’s mission of building affordable homes for families in need. Visit Habitat-orlando.org/Orlando-ReStore for holiday hours and directions to both stores.

Business Briefs

Data Transfer Solutions, LLC (DTS) based in downtown Avalon Park in east Orlando, has appointed Daniel Behnke senior GIS analyst.

Stirling Sotheby’s World Marketing Center at 121 S. Orange Ave. in downtown Orlando and Stirling Sotheby’s Lake Mary/Heathrow office at 115 International Parkway will serve as CLEAR membership enrollment centers Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) will recognize Anson-Stoner with three Gold, two Silver, and four Bronze Adrian Awards for advertising and public relations excellence for their winning entries in the 54th annual Adrian Awards Competition.

Valencia professor Dr. James May has been honored by the Florida Association of Community Colleges as their 2010 Professor of the Year.

Award winning Florida law firm, Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A., is proud to announce that five of their attorneys have been recognized by Orlando Home and Leisure’s Top Lawyers in Central Florida listings in the following categories:

Copyrights: Ava K. Doppelt; Intellectual Property: Herbert L. Allen, Stephen D. Milbrath, Brian R. Gilchrist; Retail Securities: Robert Dyer

Altamonte Springs-based Tri-City Electrical Contractors Inc. and its affiliate Tri-Green Energy, LLC, are prominently featured in a cover story on rising commercial usage of solar energy published in the national ABC Construction Executive magazine (November 2010) titled “Here Comes the Sun.”

Facility maintenance company, D&A Building Services Inc. has secured a new contract with Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) for janitorial services for eight water stations throughout Central Florida.

The Winter Park firm of Fannie Hillman + Associates expanded its operations by launching a new commercial division. Focusing primarily on sale and acquisition of industrial, retail and office properties, the commercial division is headed by licensed realtors Jeffrey Friedman and Jeff Hall who have a combined 53 years of real estate sales, acquisition and leasing experience. For more information, call 407-644-1234, or log on to www.FannieHillman.com.