Community Bulletin and Business Briefs

Community Bulletin

Tickets are now on sale for the fourth annual Harriett’s Park Avenue Fashion Week, which brings the experience of high fashion to downtown Winter Park from Oct. 18-23. General Admission seats are $40 and VIP tickets are $100 through Sept. 10. Visit www.ParkAvenueFashionWeek.com for more information.

Harriett’s Park Avenue Fashion Week has extended the due date for its third annual Emerging Designer Contest. Contestants must submit photos or sketches of their designs and at least two looks from a 10-piece collection by Sept. 13. Visit www.ParkAvenueFashionWeek.com to learn more.

Rollins College Assistant Professor of Biology Kathryn Patterson Sutherland has been selected to receive one of nine awards from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Ecology of Infectious Diseases program for her research on the transmission of a human pathogen to elkhorn coral in the Florida Keys. Her award is for $188,469.

On Aug. 27, the Winter Park YMCA Family Center broke ground on a $2.5 million multiphase renovation project. Plans for the 3,115-square-foot expansion call for new men’s and women’s locker rooms, new family changing rooms, a new spinning and youth center, an in-house laundry facility and renovated administrative offices. Construction is scheduled to be completed by May 2011.

As part of a Labor Day crackdown, and as an on-going effort to save lives, members of the Winter Park Police Department will be aggressively looking for all impaired drivers and will arrest anyone they find driving while impaired — regardless of age, vehicle type, or time of day. For more information, visit www.StopImpairedDriving.org.

Phil Kean Designs, the Winter Park Wedding Chapel and Keke’s Breakfast Café were honored with City Beautification Awards from Keep Winter Park Beautiful at the Aug. 23 City Commission Meeting. Phil Kean Designs Inc. was acknowledged for the renovation and fresh landscape of its new office building located on Designer Row at 963 Orange Ave. The owners of the Winter Park Wedding Chapel won for renovations to the old chapel at 301 W. New England Ave. as well as intricate landscaping.

Calls for entries are officially open for the 20th annual Florida Film Festival from April 8-17. Find submission forms and eligibility requirements for American independent and international films at www.FloridaFilmFestival.com.

An upswing in boating traffic is expected throughout the long Labor Day weekend, and Maitland-based Save the Manatee Club is urging the boating community to be extra vigilant. Last year’s all-time record for total mortality has already been shattered this year. Since Jan. 1, more than 600 manatees have died, nearly half as a result of an unprecedented cold winter. Visit the Club’s website at www.savethemanatee.org for details.

O,R&L Facility Services and its affiliated real estate brokerage company Owens Realty Network will be hiring more than 10 full-time positions and more than 250 permanent part-time positions in the remainder of 2010. Jobs will be posted this week with positions starting by mid-September in the Janitorial Division, Commercial & Residential Real Estate Brokerage Division, Owens Realty Network and Property & Facility Management Division. To apply, contact Annie Resto at 407-388-9839.

Business Briefs

NAI Realvest recently negotiated two renewal leases for industrial space totaling 33,858 square feet at commerce centers in Orlando and Lake Mary.

BDG Construction Services in Winter Springs was recently awarded a contract to build out the interior space for a new Panera Bread franchise in Fort Lauderdale.

The Multi-Family & Residential division of Tri-City Electrical Contractors, Inc. is under way on more than $600,000 of work at the new 106-unit Beach Village Apartments in Palm Coast for CPG Construction in Winter Park.

Insight Credit Union’s Board of Directors has selected George R. Davis to serve as the credit union’s president/CEO. Davis started his new role with Insight Credit Union on July 1.

On Aug. 21, Full Sail University graduate Daryl Fontenault won a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Award for his work as a Sound Editor on the hit Fox series, “24”. Four additional Full Sail grads were nominated for Creative Arts Emmys this year.

Jill Davis, an attorney with Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A., was recently appointed to serve on the Mustard Seed of Central Florida Board of Directors for a three-year term.

Old Florida National Bank and Mercantile Capital Corporation have entered into a merger agreement. Old Florida National Bank (Old Florida) is headquartered in downtown Orlando.

The Central Florida office of SIKON Construction announced the company completed the new $1.5 million, two-story, 25,695-square-foot KAM Specialties headquarters building in Pompano Beach.

O,R&L Facility Services was awarded the janitorial maintenance contract by the city of Orlando for its venues, including the new Amway Center, Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre and the Citrus Bowl. As a result, the company plans to hire more than 250 permanent part-time employees by the end of the year. See the community bulletin for more information on these jobs.