HomeGoods, a division of The TJX Cos. Inc., of Framingham, Mass., opened its 10th New Jersey location in Manalapan on Aug. 15. The store is at the Epicentre, Route 9 and Symmes Drive, and will join the already existing HomeGoods stores in Budd Lake, Gillette, Hillsborough, Marlton, Paramus, Parsippany, Pompton Plains, Union and Wayne.
With 185 stores nationwide, HomeGoods offers a selection of designer and brand name home fashions, accessories and gifts at prices 20-60 percent below finer catalog, specialty and department store regular prices, according to a press release from HomeGoods.
In celebration of its opening, HomeGoods donated $500 to 180, Turning Lives Around, a nonprofit organization in Hazlet that is dedicated to ending domestic violence and sexual assault.
Regular store hours will be Monday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Prudential New Jersey Properties will host an all-you-can-eat buffet dinner with proceeds benefiting The Sunshine Kids, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children with cancer. The event will be held Aug. 26, 5-8 p.m., at Scooters Family Restaurant, 6782 Route 9 south, Howell. For more information or advance tickets, call Prudential New Jersey Properties at (732) 367-5200. Additional information on The Sunshine Kids is available at the Internet Web site www.sunshinekids.com.
DCH Freehold Toyota has earned Toyota’s President’s Award for the 11th consecutive year. The President’s Award is the highest honor a dealership can receive from Toyota.
In order to qualify as a President’s Award winner, dealerships must demonstrate excellence in each of a series of categories, including customer sales satisfaction and customer service satisfaction.
The presentation luncheon took place at the dealership and was attended by executives from Toyota, the DCH Auto Group, parent company of DCH Freehold Toyota, and dealership personnel. General Manager Robert Fleishman opened the activities with a brief statement. Before presenting the award to the dealership, Brad Anderson, Toyota New York Region, new vehicle field sales manager, spoke to those at the event. The award was accepted by Fleishman and Shau-wai Lam, president and CEO of the DCH Auto Group,
DCH Freehold Toyota is located at Route 9 south, Freehold Township.
Sal Labarbera, sales consultant for DCH Freehold Toyota, finished first overall in Toyota’s New York Region "Walk-Around" competition for salespeople. The purpose of the "Walk-Around" is to test the knowledge and salesmanship for all of Toyota’s product line.
Labarbera earned the right to advance to the regional championship by being the best at his dealership. In the regional competition, he competed against the top salespeople from the 113 dealers in the region.
DCH has 15 factory franchised dealerships across the state, including DCH Academy Honda, Old Bridge; DCH Kay Honda, Eatontown; Saturn of Brunswick, North Brunswick; Saturn of Eatontown; DCH Brunswick Toyota, North Brunswick; and Saturn of Freehold, DCH Freehold Toyota, and DCH Freehold Nissan, all Freehold Township.
Sur La Table, a Seattle-based premier kitchenware store, e-commerce and mail-order company, will open its second location in New Jersey, in Freehold Raceway Mall, Freehold Township. The store is scheduled to open Sept. 3.
Sur La Table carries more than 12,000 products from over 1,600 vendors worldwide. Each store provides equipment for cooks and professional chefs, with thousands of gadgets, knives and tools, small appliances, and a large selection of tabletop items, kitchen linens and cookware. The stores routinely host chef/author appearances with culinary celebrities such as Alton Brown, Kathleen Daelemans and Jamie Oliver, as well as book signings and cooking demonstrations. For more information, call (800) 243-0842 or visit www.surlatable.com.
CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township, has launched an advanced pain management program and named Peter Staats, M.D., medical director of the program. Staats joined the CentraState medical staff from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, where he was chief of the pain management division.
CentraState’s new pain management service is designed for people with arthritis, bursitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic muscle spasms, cancer and a host of other medical conditions. Treatments include minimally invasive disc procedures, joint injections, nerve blocks, and numerous other therapies.
The Program for Advanced Pain Management at CentraState includes a team of physiatrists, neurologists, orthopedists,
surgeons and other physicians, as well as clinicians who specialize in headache, fitness and nutrition treatments. For more information, call (866) NJPAIN1 (657-2461) for more information.
WithumSmith&Brown, Certified Public Accountants and Consultants, announced that John King of Freehold and Justin Vogel of Howell, both certified public accountants, have been promoted from senior accountant to manager.
Vogel is based in the firm’s Red Bank office, and King is in the firm’s New Brunswick office.
Vogel received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants.
King received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Rider University, Lawrenceville. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants.
WithumSmith&Brown has offices in Princeton, Red Bank, New Brunswick, Livingston, Toms River and Flemington, and in Newtown, Pa.
Melinda Salzer, owner of Advanced Information Services Inc., Marlboro, has been named Member of the Year by the Central Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners.
The Member of the Year award recognizes the accomplishments of one outstanding chapter member who has worked to pioneer innovative and effective changes by supporting, strengthening and establishing a presence for NAWBO.
Advanced Information Services Inc. is a marketing and software consulting firm. Salzer specializes in providing customized marketing programs, including marketing plans, newsletters, annual reports, brochures and other marketing materials for small and medium-size businesses.
Salzer’s award will be formally presented at the chapter’s Platinum Star Awards event Oct. 8.
H&R Block will begin tax training classes in early September. Classes offer instruction in tax-saving strategies, recent changes in tax laws, deductions and exemptions that are often overlooked, and special rules for children and seniors, and are offered at several locations and times in both English and Spanish. For more information, visit www.hrblock.com or call (866) 899-2584.
"How to Start and Manage Your Own Business," a free workshop presented by SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives), will be held Sept. 15 at 6 p.m. at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, Manalapan. For more information, call (732) 431-7242.
Kevin Pullen of Freehold was recently hired as a manager trainee at the 84 Lumber store in Lakewood.
Pullen is a 1999 graduate of Freehold Borough High School and a 2004 graduate of Rutgers University, Livingston campus.
As a manger trainee, Pullen is responsible for sales, estimating and material takeoffs, performing in-store merchandising and maintaining store and yard appearance.
The 84 Lumber Co. operates more than 450 stores in 34 states and employs more than 6,500 associates nationwide.
Burger King has two local restaurants rated in the Top 10 for raising funds for the "A Chance for Kids" program for the Jimmy Fund. The Jimmy Fund raises funds for pediatric cancer research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston.
The Burger King located at 3267 Route 9 north, at Elton-Adelphia Road, Freehold Township, raised $4,641, the fourth-highest fund-raising restaurant in the state. The Burger King located at Route 9 south and Schanck Road, also Freehold Township, raised $1,649, the 10th-highest ranking in the state. Both restaurants are owned by Georgetown Restaurant Associates LLC.
The program raised nearly $1 million this year and has raised more than $3.5 million since its inception in 1999.
John M. Ghobrial, M.D., Marlboro, has joined the staff of Monmouth Medial Center, Long Branch, an affiliate of the St. Barnabas Health Care System. Board certified in ophthalmology, Ghobrial comes to Monmouth Medical Center from the Eye Associations of Monmouth in Colts Neck.
A graduate of the Boston University/UMD-New Jersey Medical School, seven-year BA/MD program. Ghobrialcompleted his post-graduate ophthalmology, training at Stony Brook/Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, N.Y., where he earned the title of chief resident, and Tulane University’s fellowship program in cornea.
Ghobrial is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, and the American Medical Association.
Holly Rolenc, M.D., has joined the staff of Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, as the attending physician for pediatrics and the nursery. Rolenc comes to Monmouth Medical Center from private practice at Colts Neck Pediatrics. After earning her medical degree at American University of the Caribbean in St. Maarten, Rolenc continued her post-graduate training at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune. A resident of Toms River and a graduate of Douglass College at Rutgers University, she has served as pediatric chief resident.
The Western Monmouth Chamber of Commerce has scheduled the following events:
The chamber’s annual golf outing will be held Sept. 10 at the Pine Barrens Golf Club, Jackson. The event will begin with continental breakfast and registration at 7:15 a.m., followed by an 8 a.m. shotgun start, 1 p.m. reception hour, and 2 p.m. awards luncheon. The cost is $210 per golfer and includes golfer’s gift bag with a dozen golf balls and a shirt, continental breakfast, locker, round of golf, cart, mid-round hot dog and soft drink, reception hour, hot and cold buffet luncheon, awards presentation, contests, and a chance to win $10,000 cash, a piano provided by Freehold Music Center, or a car provided by Freehold Ford. For more information, call (732) 462-3030.
Business After Hours will be hosted by Commerce Bank, 46 Route 520 and Route 9, Marlboro, Sept. 8, 5:30-7:30 p.m. The fee is $10 and includes refreshments; attendees should bring business cards.
On Sept. 30, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Business After Hours will be hosted by Brookdale Community College and Rutgers University’s Western Monmouth Higher Education Center and The Center for Business Services, 3680 Route 9 south (behind Fleet Bank), Freehold Township. The cost is $10 per person and includes refreshments; attendees should bring business cards.
The monthly general meeting will be held Sept. 29, 8:30 a.m., at the chamber office, 17 Broad St., Freehold. M. Michael Jones, M.D., chairman of the department of emergency medicine for CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold Township, will talk about the emergency care available to local businesses’ employees. The fee is $10 per person and includes continental breakfast.
For reservations and further details, call the chamber office, (732) 462-3030.
A Nursing Opportunities Open House will be held Sept. 21, 1:30-5 p.m., at the John L. Montgomery Care Center, 115 Dutch Lane Road, Freehold Township.
The event is designed to give those in the nursing profession an opportunity to explore employment with the Monmouth County Department of Health care facilities. All registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nurse’s aides, and recreational therapists are invited to attend. For more information, call Judy Richtmyer at (732) 938-5250, ext. 224.