Community Bulletin and Business Briefs

Community Bulletin

Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens in Winter Park is seeking enthusiastic and extremely appreciated volunteers who would love to work in a beautiful and tranquil setting. Volunteers interested in assisting with reception, gift shop and docent positions are invited to come to the 2010-2011 Season Orientation to be held on Aug. 11. Please call 407-647-6294 for additional information and to RSVP.

Clean the World Foundation Inc. seeks $25,000 in prize winnings through the national Pepsi Refresh Everything Project to help promote its ambitious soap and shampoo recycling efforts worldwide. Orlando-based Clean the World collects and recycles soap and shampoos from a growing network of hotel partners and generous individuals and organizations to help prevent the spread of disease, promote general cleanliness, provide jobs for homeless individuals, eliminate landfill waste and, ultimately, save lives. Vote online at www.refresheverything.com/recyclesoap or vote via text message: Text 101319 to Pepsi (73774). You can vote once each day throughout August.

Orlando Bipolar Support is a support group in the Greater Orlando (Central Florida) region that exists solely to help people, like ourselves, with bipolar disorder. Our groups meet in Orange and Seminole counties days and evenings. We meet in three different locations to afford people from all over the area the opportunity to join us. If you would like further information concerning the group, please visit our website www.meetup.com/Orlando-Bipolar-Support or call 407-230-1046.

Boys Town of Central Florida youth recently received many exciting outings thanks to a partnership with the University of Central Florida. This semester, three teams held car washes, bake sales, bussed tables and reached out to businesses for non-monetary donations to give the youth fun outings. Team Bizzie Beez raised more than $800 to take Central Florida youth on a bowling outing, the Active Athletes raised more than $1,000 to provide a field day and UCF basketball outing for the shelter and residential children, and Cornerstone Enterprises earned over $1,000 in monetary donations and more than $3,000 in non-monetary donations to take long-term residents on a day trip to Universal Studios Theme Park.

The 10/11-year-old Maitland Little League All-Star team continued its winning streak at the Tournament of State Champions regional tournament in Greenville, N.C. After being selected to represent Florida in the regional tournament, the team has won four straight games and now advances to the championship game, where it will face the team from Alabama. Maitland beat North Carolina (Greenville) 6-5. In total during this tournament, the Maitland team has racked up impressive stats, scoring 45 runs on 61 hits in 22 innings, including two grand slams.

Do your first (or next) half marathon at the Rock 'n' Roll Las Vegas event with Team Challenge. Raise money for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation while reaching your own personal goals. Go to www.ccteamchallenge.org or call 646-875-2079 for more information.

The Orange County Health Department is again reminding everyone to be cautious of amoebic infections, since Central Florida has had record heat and dry conditions this summer. Everyone should take precautions while swimming in warm, freshwater lakes and ponds due to the threat posed by the amoeba Naegleria fowleri. For more information and to see a video Public Service Announcement (PSA) about the dangers of amoeba infections, go to www.orchd.com.

Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas participated in the National Night Out! Open House at the Winter Park Police Department on Aug. 3. At the event, residents received tips on preventing identity theft and businesses shared ideas on crime prevention.

After 37 years, the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation and its board of directors are proud to announce their new mission: "Creating Innovative Civic Solutions Helping People Help Themselves." In line with their renewed mission, their grant making efforts have recently focused on health and human services, particularly for the homeless and disadvantaged. For more information, please visit www.edythbush.org.

Family Services of Metro Orlando, a private nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering communities to create possibilities for children and families, will unveil the all-new 2011 Heart Gallery on Sept. 15. Since 2006, the Heart Gallery has featured touching portraits of more than 100 children awaiting adoption. Of those, more than 45 percent have found adoptive homes. For more information, visit www.fsmetroorlando.org or call 877-6-MY-KIDS.

Abigail Richbourg, a resident of Maitland and a senior at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, is included on the undergraduate honor roll for the 2009-2010 school year with distinction, which requires that a student be in the top 10 percent of their school of record.

Jonathan Hill, a resident of Maitland and a first year at SMU in Dallas, is included on the honor roll with high distinction for the 2009-2010 school year, which requires that a student be in the top 5 percent of their school of record.

Business Briefs

Erica Mailler-Savage, M.D., opened a new dermatology practice, Comprehensive Dermatology & Dermatologic Surgery, in Winter Park on July 9. She is a board-certified dermatologist and fellowship-trained Mohs surgeon who specializes in skin cancer removal. Visit www.comprehensivedermorlando.com.

NAI Realvest recently negotiated a new lease agreement for 2,600 square feet of medical/professional office space located at 411 Frederick Ave., Ste. 4 off George Engram Blvd. and N. Nova Road in Daytona Beach.

Crossman & Company, one of the largest third-party retail leasing and management firms in the Southeast, recently completed five lease transactions at Winter Park Shopping Centers.

Lamm & Company Partners was awarded an Aurora Award during the Annual Industry Gala at the 2010 Southeast Building Conference/Green Building Show in Orlando. Lamm & Company Partners won for its entry, City National Bank in Downtown Orlando.

Fannie Hillman and Associates of Winter Park averaged nearly 31 closings per month in the first six months of 2010 to finish with a total of 181 transactions for $61.3 million at an average of $338,783 per sale. That's a 30 percent increase over last year.

The special projects and low voltage divisions of Palmer Electric Company are providing electrical contracting for the tenant build-out of 18,000-square-feet of space in SouthPark Center, a commerce park in Orlando.

Mary Yoder has been named Strategic Development Specialist for the Bright House Networks Business Solutions division.

On Aug. 18, Eye Physicians of Central Florida is moving to a newly built, 16,100-square-foot office in Maitland designed specifically for ophthalmology. This new office will replace the practice's current Winter Park and Longwood offices, which will close on Aug. 13. The new, larger Maitland office is located at 790 S. Concourse Parkway, Ste. 200.

Marketplace Advisors recently negotiated two new lease agreements representing Through Thick & Thin, LLC, a NakedPizza franchisee at Jamestown Plaza in Altamonte Springs and Woodcreek Square in Winter Springs.