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05/24/2012 12:00 AMBusiness and Organization Updates
• Big Y Foods, Inc., has launched the Big Y Marketplace, an online shopping mall, as part of its new website, www.bigy.com.
• LifeTime Solutions, LLC, of Guilford, Old Saybrook, and North Haven, the private home care affiliate of VNA Community Healthcare, has partnered with Critical Signal Technologies to introduce a line of advanced personal safety devices to help older adults remain safe and independent at home. The company is also changing its name to LIFETIME Care at Home.
• Marcum, LLP, a national, independent public accounting and advisory firm, merges with North Haven-based accounting, tax, and consulting firm Konowitz, Kahn & Company, P.C. Konowitz, Kahn & Company's 30 employees will join Marcum's New Haven office.
• Ridge Road Elementary School Parent Teacher Association hosted Shred Day on Nov. 5. More than 9,000 pounds of paper was shredded at the event, which grossed more than $1,800 and netted a profit of $1,200. The school is also the winner of the 2011 Exxon Mobil Educational Alliance Grant.
• Terry Wooding of Wallingford, executive vice president of Petra Construction Corporation of North Haven, was elected to the position of chairman of the Building Division of the Associated General Contractors of America at its annual convention in Honolulu, Hawaii.
• UIL Holdings Corporation has purchased $2 million in 2011 tax credits through the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority's Housing Tax Credit Contributions program and the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services' Neighborhood Assistance Act (NAA) tax credit program.
• As part of an agreement between the University of New Haven (UNH) and healthcare product provider Covidien Surgical Solutions, three UNH engineering students began working full-time at Covidien's North Haven facility, where they will remain until August.
• The Mayflower Society of North Haven met for its 117th Annual Banquet at the Country House in East Haven.
Awards, Grants, and Recognitions
• U.S. News & World Report's 2013 Best Graduate Schools guidebook has ranked Quinnipiac University's physician assistant program 11th among universities offering physician assistant master's degrees.
Charitable Contributions
• Be Some Body Fitness & Pilates, LLC, of North Haven raised a total of $6,140 during the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk on Oct. 23.
• Big Y's 75th anniversary was marked by its first annual Employee Community Service Day, during which 612 employees from Massachusetts and Connecticut volunteered in their respective communities.
• Connex Credit Union raised $248 in a campaign to sign members to paperless e-statements, donating $1 to The Connecticut Food Bank for each person who signed up and adding an additional $242 for an even $500 donation.
• Dr. Grant Thomson, a surgeon at Yale-New Haven Hospital, spoke to the North Haven Rotary Club about Hand Help, Inc., a medical mission to Honduras, and was presented with a $600 donation.
• Donations to the Connecticut Food Bank from Big Y's Sack Hunger campaign totalled 15,576 bags of food.
• Hamden ophthalmologist Dr. Jeffrey Gold fought tooth decay last Halloween by exchanging dollars for candy, offering children $1 for every pound of trick-or-treat candy they brought to his office.
• The North Haven Rotary Club's Japanese Relief Fund raised $7,296 to help purchase trucks and forklifts for Minami Sanriku, Japan, a town similar in size to North Haven, after the town was destroyed in last October's earthquake and tsunami. The Rotary also made several holiday donations last December of $1,000 to the North Haven Rotary Foundation; $1,000 to Holy Joe's Café; $500 to Bikes for Babes; and $200 to The Animal Haven.
• On Feb. 25, approximately 30 undergraduate occupational therapy students from Quinnipiac University made 75 pillowcases for the Ronald McDonald House of Connecticut.
• Quinnipiac University physical therapy students Traci Underhill and Meredith Wolanin created the university's first student-run, pro-bono healthcare service, VISION (Volunteers in Service Impacting Our Neighborhoods) Rehabilitation, which launched March 6 and is open Tuesday evenings on the North Haven Campus.