National Association of Women Business Owners Central Jersey Chapter will celebrate its first anniversary, honor its Chapter Award recipients and board members, and install its new chapter board June 15, 6-9 p.m. at Branches, West Long Branch.
The Chapter Award recipients are: Donna Cardillo, NAWBO Central Jersey Business Woman of Year; Melinda Salzer, NAWBO Central Jersey Member of the Year; Catherine Tansey, NAWBO Central Jersey Unsung Hero; Donna Domenicali, NAWBO Central Jersey Team Builder and National Team Builder; and Diahann W. Lassus, NAWBO Central Jersey Gillian Rudd Award.
The event will include a complete dinner, including choice of entree, salad and birthday cake. The cost is $30 for members and nonmembers, if reserved by June 8, and $35 thereafter. For reservations, call Barbara Chick at (732) 295-3846.
New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners Monmouth/Ocean Chapter will hold its monthly dinner-meeting June 24, 6 p.m., at the Jumping Brook Country Club, Neptune. Sue Fitzpatrick, president of Fitzpatrick Printing & Design, Colts Neck, and incoming NJAWBO president, will be the guest speaker. In addition to installing the chapter board, Fitzpatrick will share the experience she gained from serving in several NJAWBO positions and how they helped her personally and professionally.
The cost is $35 for members, $40 for nonmembers and guests. Reservations are required by June 18. Call Chrissy Reinhard at (732) 528-1172.
Beautiful Interiors By Sandy, Freehold Township, a full-service design firm, has recently been named an authorized dealer of Yorktowne Cabinetry. Sandy Levin, owner and interior designer, specializes in providing Toll Brothers homeowners with additional Yorktowne cabinetry for their kitchens, family rooms and offices.
North Fork Bank has completed the acquisition of The Trust Company of New Jersey, and North Fork is now operating all 75 of the former Trust Company Bank branches in New Jersey, including the retail banking offices at 146 South St., in Freehold, and Poets Square in Freehold Township, routes 33 and 79.
Stuart Sussman, assistant vice president and manager in Freehold, and his staff will continue to serve local consumers and businesses. The acquisition is valued at $726 million, according to a press release.
North Fork has placed new signs on its six branches in Monmouth County, and is planning to enhance its retail and commercial banking operations. North Fork expects to increase hiring for a variety of positions at many of its branches, including two locations in Marlboro, as well as in Middletown and Sea Girt.
North Fork is headquartered in Melville, N.Y., and operates branches throughout New York City, Long Island, Westchester and Rockland counties in New York, as well as in New Jersey and Connecticut. North Fork’s Web site is www.nfb.com.
David and Eric Salkin of The Jewel Case Diamond Center in Freehold recently returned from a buying trip to Antwerp, Belgium, where more than two-thirds of the world’s diamonds are traded, according to a press release from The Jewel Case.
While in Antwerp, the Salkins graded and hand-picked all of the diamonds they purchased. The Jewel Case is an authorized importer of the new "Spirit of Flanders" diamond, an 80-facet (compared to a normal 58-facet) round diamond.
Monmouth Center for Vocational Rehabilitation (MCVR), Eatontown, is asking area businesses for donations of old laser and ink-jet printer cartridges for recycling.
MCVR is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting maximum vocational potential and social independence for New Jersey’s disabled through counseling, training, support services and job placement.
MCVR can receive anywhere from $1 to $22 per cartridge by collecting and returning them to a recycler, according to Peter Scoles, MCVR founder and president.
Businesses may call MCVR toll-free at (888) 647-7697 to arrange for regularly scheduled pickup of cartridges, or can place the cartridges in a shipping bag and send them to MCVR, 15 Meridian Way, Eatontown 07724.
Century 21 Mack-Morris Iris Lurie, Marlboro, announced the agency’s top 10 sales associates/teams for the first quarter of 2004. They are: Harry Zarembsky, Martin and Ruth Cole, Florence and Steven Cataneo, Gloria Bernstein, Jeffrey Ozinitsky, Marcy Leder, Robyn Henderson, Sheryl Goldberg, Garry A. Klein and Frank Como.
Schoor DePalma, a Manalapan-based engineering and consulting firm, announced that the company has donated more than 2,500 books and magazines to soldiers stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq through the Books for Soldiers program. Each of the company’s 12 offices participated in the program during the months of April and May.
Books for Soldiers is a soldier-support network that ships books, magazines and other supplies to soldiers deployed worldwide through a volunteer network. For the program, Schoor DePalma supported the Army’s 214th Aviation Regiment and Alpha 110th Mechanized Infantry Battalion, both stationed in Afghanistan; and the 1st Marine Division, the Army’s B Company 112th Military Police Battalion, and the Army’s 120th Engineer Battalion, all stationed in Iraq.
Schoor DePalma also was able to obtain book donations from three New Jersey libraries — the Riverdale Borough, Wall Township and Randolph Township libraries — which totaled more than 1,000 of the 2,500 books and magazines donated.
John E. Wade of Colts Neck has been nominated by Gov. James E. McGreevey for appointment to the Rutgers University Board of Trustees. The nomination is subject to the advice and consent of the state Senate.
The Sandler Sales Institute, Freehold Township, is offering a summer school program for sales professionals, beginning June 22, at the company headquarters, 440 Route 9 south. The program will consist of group learning, self-study and individual coaching. For more information, call (800) 814-5333.
Susan Davis, co-owner of Marlboro Physical Therapy for 18 years, has been named "Business Woman of the Year" by the Monmouth/Ocean Chapter of the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners (NJAWBO). The award was presented to Davis at the March membership meeting.
The award honors a woman business owner who is a member of NJAWBO and has distinguished herself in her business, in NJAWBO and in her community.
Davis has volunteered to serve at both the chapter and state levels on a variety of committees, including the state’s annual conference. She also volunteers for local organizations and events, including the Church World Service/CROP Walk of Red Bank, Presbyterian Women of Tower Hill Church, 180 Turning Lives Around, and Love INC Connect, a program for families in need.
Davis is a graduate of Northwestern University Medical School, Illinois, and has been a licensed physical therapist for more than 25 years. She also is a certified weight trainer and is taking courses through the University of Tennessee for canine rehabilitation to promote physical therapy for dogs. She resides with her husband in Middletown. Marlboro Physical Therapy has locations in the Morganville section of Marlboro and in Old Bridge.
Monmouth Legal Secretaries will sponsor its annual Day at the Races at Monmouth Park, Oceanport, July 10. The cost is $33 and includes admission to the clubhouse, program and pen, and buffet lunch including dessert and iced tea. Spouses, families and friends are welcome; reservations are required by June 15. For reservations and details, call Marjorie Mershon at (732) 473-1038.
New Jersey Economic Development Authority announced that the application deadline is June 30 for $40 million in 2004 funding available to high-technology and biotechnology businesses through New Jersey’s Technology Business Tax Certificate Transfer program. Now in its sixth year, the program enables qualified technology companies to raise cash to finance their growth and operations by selling tax losses or research and development credits to other profitable New Jersey corporations for at least 75 percent of their value. It is administered by the state Economic Development Authority (EDA) in conjunction with the state Division of Taxation and the state Commission on Science and Technology.
To be eligible for the program, a company must be a new or expanding technology or biotechnology business with a maximum of 225 employees that bases at least 75 percent of its workforce in New Jersey. Businesses selling unused net operating losses (NOLs) or research and development tax credits are able to use the money they receive to finance business expenses including the purchase of equipment, facility expansions or working capital. Companies purchasing NOLs or tax credits must do a portion of their business in New Jersey.
To download an application, visit www.njeda.com and look for "Helpful Tools" along the left side of the home page. Click on "Online Applications," then scroll down and click again on "Tax Certificate Transfer Program, New Applicants Selling Business Application." For more information on this or other lending programs, visit www.njeda.com, call the EDA’s Business Lending Division at (609) 292-0181, or e-mail [email protected].