Business Briefs

Business Briefs

Xtreme Fitness-Total Athletic Club, 191 Talmadge Road, Edison, will sponsor a health fair and blood drive on May 22 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

The event will offer complementary health evaluations by the Edison Health and Sports Rehab.

For further information, call (732) 287-0605.

The Building Contractors Association of New Jersey presented its highest safety awards to 22 member firms at its luncheon April 7.

Members were awarded for completing the previous year without losing a single workday due to an accident and for finishing last year with "lost workday incident rates" below the national average. Local business recipients who received awards for zero lost time incidents were: Conover & Brems Inc., Edison, and Willard Dunham Construction Co., Woodbridge.

Ellen Clarkson, of Metuchen, has been installed as the new president of Jewish Family & Vocational Service of Middlesex County, Edison. She will serve a two-year term. She succeeds Linda Erdreich.

The 24th annual JFVS board meeting and volunteer staff recognition evening was held recently at Temple Emanu-El, Edison. Dozens of volunteers were honored for their time and service.

In 2003, JFVS served 13,500 clients from Central Jersey. The agency is funded in part by the United Way of Central Jersey.