Community Bulletin and Business Briefs

Community Bulletin

Matthew Rosenthal, a seventh-grader at The Hebrew Day School in Maitland, will compete in the National Geographic Society's 2010 Florida Geographic Bee on Friday, April 9, in Jacksonville. Matthew has competed against thousands of students from around the state, of which he was one of the 100 chosen to compete at this event. Visit www.hds-orlando.org for more details.

Ummarid Eitharong of Orlando won the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival's Morse Museum Award for Mixed Media for "Two Minutes Warning."

On Saturday, March 6, An Evening at the Palace event, UCP's 17th annual gala, raised more than $410,000. This will help fund therapy scholarships for financially challenged families, purchase supplies and equipment for UCP's 53 classrooms and help UCP staff its six campuses.

Representative Sandy Adams (R-Oviedo) last week lauded the passage of House Bill (PCS/HB) 131, legislation that addresses changes in Florida law needed to conform to the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act. The measure helps encourage the optimum participation of our absent uniformed military and overseas voters in Florida elections. The bill now moves to the Senate for a vote.

Two Rollins sororities— Sigma Gamma Rho (Rollins' only historically black sorority) and Alpha Omicron Pi— teamed up with Jones High School to provide free prom dresses for female students attending Jones' prom on Saturday, April 24.

The 2010 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Food & Wine Festival was attended by more than 800 people on Saturday, March 6 in Baldwin Park. The event raised more than $63,000, which will help fund vital research to find a cure.

The Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority (LYNX) has finalized service changes that will become effective Sunday, April 25. Link 23 (Winter Park/Springs Village, Orange County) will offer two additional weekday evening trips from Springs Village to the Rosemont SuperStop. For more information, visit www.golynx.com.

Valencia Community College's chorus groups are looking for new members for the summer term. Participants must enroll at Valencia and will receive one hour of college credit for each group/course joined. Cost is $87.36. Dual-enrollment students and seniors older than 59 can join for free. For more information, visit www.valenciacc.edu.

Orange County Public School Food & Nutrition Services hosted its Fourth Annual Student Food Tasting Show this year. Dommerich Elementary students participated with more than 300 students from elementary and secondary grades. Eighty-five percent of the district's new menu items for the upcoming year are identified at the food show.

Business Briefs

NAI Realvest recently negotiated three lease agreements for a total of 12,890 square feet of industrial space at the Poinciana CommerCenter in Kissimmee, the Airport Industrial Center and the 33rd Street Industrial Center in Orlando.

Ashton Woods Homes recently appointed Victoria Jackson their internet sales counselor.

Emerson International negotiated five new lease agreements totaling 4,918 square feet of office space in two locations in Altamonte Springs and one in Winter Park.

Ride Green Scooters on Fairbanks Avenue in Winter Park has the perfect commuter alternative for unlicensed drivers — the TNT-E Model 182, all-electric scooter. For more information, visit www.ridegreenscooters.com.

Moore Stephens Lovelace P.A., one of the largest Certified Public Accounting and Management Consulting firms in the Southeastern United States, has appointed Kurt Alter the Tax Team Leader for the Firm.

The brand new, state-of-the-art, 26,000-square-foot Orlando Orthopaedic Center's main downtown office is now open and accepting patients in the South of Downtown Orlando (SoDo) district.

On Saturday, March 13, the American Institute of Architects Orlando Chapter announced that RLF, a leading architecture, engineering and interior design firm, won the Firm of the Year Award at AIA Orlando's 2010 Awards Gala.

Crossman & Company, one of the largest third-party retail leasing and management firms in the Southeast, recently completed two lease agreements for a total of 4,068 square feet in the shopping center on Lee Road at the corner of Adanson Street in Winter Park.

SecurAmerica, a privately held, premium contract security services firm based in Atlanta, Ga. is pleased to announce that Rick Corley has been appointed the Regional Director for the Central Florida area.

Despite the turbulent economy, Coastal Reconstruction Group has expanded its presence in Central Florida, with a new 13,600-square-foot warehouse in Longwood and a remodeled sales office in Winter Park. The company also recently hired Kevin Freeman as an estimator.