Business Briefs

Attorney Rick Webber, joined by a Zimmerman, Kiser & Sutcliffe firm team of 15 people and approximately 3,000 Central Florida volunteers, took time Sunday, Nov. 18 to prepare meals for drought-stricken West Africa. The Zimmerman folks who participated in the effort worked to provide 12,000 needy residents of Burkina Fasa with one meal a day for one year.

Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A. is pleased to announce that attorneys Drew Sorrell, Jason S. Miller, Richard S. Dellinger and Jacquelynne J. Regan have been admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. They join firm attorney Jon M. Gibbs, who was previously admitted.

Cuhaci & Peterson Architects, Engineers, Planners, based in Orlando’s Baldwin Park, completed design work to build 18 new Leslie’s Poolmart stores in nine states during 2012. Jed Downs, president of Cuhaci & Peterson, said the new Leslie’s Poolmart stores are located in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida.

The Central Florida Chapter of the American Association of Individual Investors will hold its next meeting on Jan. 16 at the University Club of Winter Park, located at 841 N. Park Ave. (at Webster Ave.) in Winter Park. Check-in begins at 6:30 p.m. and the speaker begins at 7 p.m. Price is $5-10. Call 407-644-1607 or visit aaii.com for more information on the meeting.

Wells Fargo announced in December that it is contributing $175,000 to 17 food banks across Florida to help meet the demands in local communities, especially for the holiday season. Second Harvest Food Bank, an Orlando-based food bank that serves Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia counties, will receive $20,000.