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Summer job market chilly to county’s youths BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

any youths are seeking jobs but not enough companies are offering them through state and county employment programs at the start of this summer. In its third year, Westchester County’s Private Sector Summer Jobs Initiative, a joint effort of the public and private sectors, “is going a little bit slower in comparison to last year,” said Ebony White, the program’s coordinator at The Business Council of Westchester. As of June 19, 30 companies had signed up for

the program with slightly more than 100 jobs to be filled. “We are looking to push forward and make our goal of employing 200 kids in the county,” White said. The jobs program, an initiative of the Business Council and the Westchester-Putnam Workforce Investment Board, last summer hired 184 youths through 55 businesses, generating about $60,000 in salaries. Of those hired, 25 young workers stayed on in permanent jobs. The program was started in 2010 to reduce unemployment among county residents ages 18 to 24 as jobs-creating federal stimulus funding programs were about to expire after two years in the wake of the recession. The program this year offers no government subsidies for participating

Envisioning the next Tappan Zee

businesses. In the program’s first year, “When the companies were getting paid, there were more placements,” said Marsha Gordon, the Business Council president and CEO and a workforce investment board director. “When there was a financial incentive, it obviously made a difference.” Looking to encourage companies to train and hire disadvantaged youths in 12 cities and towns hardest hit by unemployment, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers this year created the New York Youth Works Program. Administered by the state Labor Department, it offers employer tax credits of up to $4,000 for eligible full-time workers between the ages of 16 and Summer job market, page 6

County meets tourism rebound with ad campaign BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

Page 2 Ted Zoli, with a model of the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge in Boston.

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acked by $300,000 in hotel occupancy tax revenue, Westchester County officials this summer will launch an advertising campaign that targets potential visitors within a 100-mile radius of the county. The promotional campaign, “Meet Me in Westchester County,” follows a state-sponsored economic impact study that found visitor spending in the county grew by about 8 percent in 2011 to nearly $1.66 billion. That level was only $6 million less than visitor spending here in 2007, before the recession curbed both business and leisure travel and the hotel industry’s meetings and events trade. Visitor spending in the county reached a five-year low in 2009, when it dropped to $1.39 billion. Westchester visitors last year accounted for 54 percent of all visitor spending in the Hudson Valley region, according to the report by Tourism Economics in Philadelphia. Their spending either directly or indirectly supported nearly 24,000 jobs, or 6 percent of all jobs in the county. Those jobs are in the food and beverage sector – which accounted for the County meets tourism rebound, page 6

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Designer weighs in on Tappan Zee BY PATRICK GALLAGHER pgallagher@westfairinc.com

fter pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into maintenance and repairs to the deteriorating Tappan Zee Bridge over the past decade, Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he wants a bridge that will stand on its own for a century. Bridge designer extraordinaire Ted Zoli said there’s no reason to think the governor can’t get his wish – and then some. Designing a bridge whose various elements can be replaced without significantly affecting traffic or the environment is “the challenge of our time, as engineers,” said Zoli, vice president and national bridge chief engineer for HNTB, a civil engineering, architecture, planning and construction management firm based in Kansas City. “If the elements – especially the elements that will wear out – are replaceable, that represents a good bridge because it’s a bridge where you maintain your large capital investment, and then your ability to fix it and maintain it will extend its life,” said Zoli, whose portfolio includes the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge in Boston, the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge in Omaha, Neb., and most recently, the Lake Champlain Bridge between New York and Vermont. Accounting for wear and tear and enabling the future addition of some form of mass transit are among the biggest issues facing the four design-build teams competing for the contract to build the new Tappan Zee, and will likely be the biggest source of variation between the four teams, Zoli said. HNTB is a member of the Hudson River Bridge Constructors team, one of the four finalists, whose principal contractors include Dragados USA Inc., Flatiron Constructors Inc., Samsung C&T, E&C Americas Inc. and Yonkers Contracting Co. Inc. While bridge-building has come a long way since the original Tappan Zee opened, Zoli said much of the new bridge’s design will be dictated by the amount of work crews will be required to perform over water, poor soil conditions, the prospect of building next to a heavily trafficked bridge and other environmental uncertainties that the builder won’t be able to

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assess until they arrive on the scene in the fall. The new bridge must also account for future mass transit, which could not have been added onto the current bridge due to its trussbased design, Zoli said. The state has studied both cable-stay systems, such as the Bunker Hill Bridge in Boston, and arch systems, such as the Lake Champlain Bridge, but Zoli suggested the former is more likely. “With this sort of environment, where you have poor soils on either side, getting horizontal forces into the ground if it were a true arch or if it were a suspension bridge is not ideal,” he said. Truss systems are lighter and simpler than cable-stay or arch systems, but the latter two are more cost-efficient from a labor standpoint, Zoli said. Cable-stay systems “are not the most efficient systems but they’re easiest to build, so we’ve started to realize that the buildability of a system is much more influential in terms of decision-making for what’s cost-efficient and what’s not.” The ultimate cost of the bridge will be based on how each contracting team accounts for the various environmental uncertainties and on how each team proposes to expand the bridge. “I think what you’ll find in the designbuild submittals is there will be a range of what teams imagine as being generous enough about future expansion,” Zoli said. “Part of that is the cleverness of the design-build teams to come up with ideas that are synergistic, that maximize the opportunity for widening, for creating transit and yet integrating that well into the base design so that the cost difference is small.”

THRUWAY, UNIONS FINALIZE LABOR TERMS Union leaders and the New York State Thruway Authority agreed to a Project Labor Agreement for the Tappan Zee Bridge project that officials estimate will save more than $450 million. Fourteen labor organizations signed onto the PLA, which will serve as a contract between union workers, the eventual contractor and the

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Thruway Authority, which owns the Tappan Zee, for the duration of the new bridge’s construction. “Replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge represents one of the largest public infrastructure projects in the nation, and the agreement reached today will allow thousands of New York’s working men and women to secure good jobs building a new, safer bridge,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a June 18 statement. While a PLA is not standard or required for all capital projects, state transportation officials deemed it a significant step toward preventing labor disputes on what will be the most expensive contract ever awarded by the state. Key provisions include a standard 40-hour work week for all trades, a higher ratio of apprentices to journeymen than typically allowed in collective bargaining agreements, and a provision under which workers who arrive one hour prior to their shift will be paid $25 a day rather than an hour of overtime, among other items. The PLA also guarantees payments of fringe benefits, acts as a mechanism to settle disputes through a documented grievance process and prohibits lockouts or other work disruptions. Under the agreement, a memorandum of understanding will be signed between the Building Trades Council of Westchester and Putnam, the Rockland County Building Trades Council, the New York State Buildings Trade Council, and the Thruway Authority. The PLA is subject to final approval from the Federal Highway Administration and the Thruway Authority board of directors. Ross J. Pepe, president of the Construction Industry Council of Westchester and Hudson Valley Inc., applauded the agreement. “The PLA provides for continuity of the workforce, cost efficiencies, flexibility and productivities saving millions of dollars while at the same time assuring local workers the opportunity to participate in public works,” Pepe said in a statement.

STANDARD & POOR’S PREDICTS “AGGRESSIVE” TOLL HIKES Amid speculation that the construction of a new Tappan Zee Bridge will require major

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toll hikes across the state, Thruway Authority officials last week said nothing would be determined until the finalists for the bridge contract submit their respective proposals. Under the design-build process by which the new Tappan Zee will be built, the cost of construction will likely vary from bid to bid. The final cost of the project and the state’s financing options won’t be determined until the Thruway Authority and the state Department of Transportation select a winning bid, which is expected to be by October. Proposals are due to the state by July 27. The credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s said earlier this month that financing a new bridge would likely require the Thruway Authority to institute “aggressive” toll hikes. S & P earlier in June affirmed its A-plus rating for the Thruway Authority’s general revenue bonds, but lowered its outlook to negative, warning that travelers could be facing higher tolls as the state seeks to finance a new Tappan Zee Bridge. “The negative outlook reflects our concern that the timing and magnitude of revenue enhancement and operational streamlining initiatives might not be enough to offset (the authority’s) significant additional debt needs,” S & P said in its report. The Thruway Authority is a tolling agency, meaning that it receives very little state or federal funding and instead relies on revenue from tolls to support its annual budget. In all, the authority is responsible for managing more than 500 miles of highways stretching from Buffalo to New York City. Thruway Authority Chairman Howard P. Milstein said in a statement that recent actions have set “a sound fiscal foundation” and “confirm that we are ready, willing and able to make the major investments needed in the future.” Milstein added, “Our financial advisor is actively engaged in development of a comprehensive plan to finance the new Tappan Zee Bridge.” S & P said that if the Thruway Authority institutes an “aggressive tolling regime” to offset the cost of the new bridge, expected to be $5.2 billion, the negative outlook could be upgraded to stable within two years.

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Raymour & Flanigan to expand in Rockland BY JENNIFER BISSELL jbissell@westfairinc.com

aymour & Flanigan Furniture is opening a $46 million regional distribution center in Rockland County, that will create 300 local jobs. The company has agreed to purchase and renovate an 800,000-square-foot facility in the village of Montebello. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced the expansion, saying that over 10 years the move will result in $135 million in wages for local employees. “Raymour & Flanigan has been a part of New York’s family of businesses for 65 years,” Cuomo said in a statement. “We are proud to help them add to their family and ours.” Raymour & Flanigan, the nation’s fifthlargest furniture retailer, is based in Liverpool, near Syracuse in Onondaga County. It has stores in Middletown, White Plains and Yonkers and clearance centers in Nanuet and Poughkeepsie. As part of the deal to open a facility in Rockland, Raymour & Flanigan will receive $2.3 million in Excelsior tax credits from Empire State Development Corp. and a package of financial incentives from the county’s industrial development agency. The Excelsior

credits are extended to businesses that pledge to create jobs and make significant capital investments in New York state. “Under Governor Cuomo’s leadership, we are seeing more and more home-grown companies decide to stay and expand their business in New York,” Kenneth Adams, CEO of Empire State Development, said in a statement. “Which means more jobs for New Yorkers.” Located at 30 Dunnigan Drive, the 839,000 square-foot facility purchased by Raymour had been a Dress Barn warehouse and distribution center. The new facility will serve the tristate region. Par Pharmaceuticals Co. currently leases roughly a quarter of the facility and plans to retain its lease. “The announcement that Raymour is relocating to Rockland County is welcome news as we experience very challenging economic times,” Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef said in the statement. “The Rockland IDA continues to attract the quality corporations that we need to enhance our economic base.” Founded in 1947 in Syracuse, Raymour & Flanigan owns 95 stores across the Northeast and employs more than 2,000 workers across New York.

Hudson Valley unemployment rose to 7.6 percent in May BY PATRICK GALLAGHER pgallagher@westfairinc.com

nemployment in the Hudson Valley rose to a seasonally unadjusted 7.6 percent in May, up from 7.2 percent in April and 6.9 percent in May 2011. May represented the fourth consecutive month for which the region’s unemployment rate was higher than it had been 12 months before. The year-over-year employment gap expanded in May, with 86,200 unemployed Hudson Valley residents compared to 76,700 in May 2011. New York State Department of Labor analysts attributed the increase in unemployment to a swelling of the state’s labor force, which includes all employed residents and those actively seeking employment. Between May 2011 and May 2012, the Hudson Valley labor force expanded by nearly 10,000, or 0.9 percent, while the state’s labor force increased by 0.7 percent. “As the economy continues to improve, more people tend to enter the labor force,” said Bohdan M. Wynnyk, deputy director of the Labor Department’s division of research and statistics. “As a result, the

increase in the number of job seekers pushed up the state’s jobless rate in May.” In May, the New York state jobless rate increased to a seasonally adjusted 8.6 percent, up from 8.5 percent in April. Likewise, the national unemployment rate climbed to 8.2 percent in May from 8.1 percent the previous month. The private sector added 10,100 jobs in the Hudson Valley for the 12-month period ending in May. Most of the year-over-year growth was in five industry clusters. The trade, transportation and utilities sector added 3,900 jobs, up 2.2 percent; the financial activities sector added 1,200 jobs, up 2.6 percent; the professional and business services sector added 2,500 jobs, a gain of 2.5 percent; the private education and health services sector – the region’s biggest employer – added 5,000 jobs, growing 2.7 percent; and the leisure and hospitality sector added 2,100 jobs, also up 2.7 percent. Net gains were blunted by cuts in the natural resources, mining and construction sector and in the manufacturing sector of 4,400 jobs and 2,900 jobs, respectively.

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Health care news in brief

State gives $35.6M to five health facilities BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

ive hospitals and nursing homes in the mid-Hudson Valley region will receive a total of $35.6 million in state grants to improve primary and community-based care and wean the state’s health care system from overreliance on costly hospitalizations and nursing home stays for patients. The grants, announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, were awarded through the state’s Health Care Efficiency and Affordability Law, HEAL NY. Statewide, 40 hospitals and nursing homes will receive a total of $301.1 million in HEAL NY grants. Cuomo in a press release said the grants “will help our health care facilities deliver better quality care in a more efficient and

cost-effective manner so all New Yorkers have access to the best care possible when it is needed.” The grants are part of nearly $3 billion invested in health care reform through HEAL NY over the last seven years. The governor’s office said they will be used to implement recommendations from the governor’s Medicaid Redesign Team on operational changes at health facilities, to develop collaborative projects among health care providers and for capital projects that support conversion of hospital and nursing home space from inpatient to outpatient services. Grant winners in the mid-Hudson region are: • Sound Shore Medical Center of Westchester, New Rochelle, $11.9 million.

• Field Home-Holy Comforter, Cortlandt Manor, $8 million. • Catskill Regional Medical Center, Harris, $12.6 million. • St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers, Poughkeepsie, $ 2,053,042. • Sullivan County Adult Care Center, Liberty, $1.13 million.

Mount Sinai opens pediatric office Four pediatric specialists from Mount Sinai Medical Center’s Kravis Children’s Hospital have opened a Mamaroneck office for weekly appointments. Officials at the Manhattan hospital and medical school said the Mount Sinai Pediatric

Subspecialty Practice will offer pediatric specialists in cardiology, orthopedics, gastroenterology and endocrinology. The practice is at PM Pediatrics, 620 E. Boston Post Road, where Mount Sinai doctors will hold office hours every Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. An after-hours urgent care facility, PM Pediatrics has as its medical director a former pediatric emergency department chief at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Karin Sadow. The new Westchester practice includes Ira Parness, a New Rochelle resident and chief of Mount Sinai’s division of pediatric cardiology; Keith Breglio, assistant professor in Mount Sinai’s pediatric gastroenterology division; Abigail Allen, assistant professor in the pediatric orthopedics division, and Molly Regelmann, a pediatric endocrinology specialist. Kravis Children’s Hospital this month was ranked as one of the country’s best children’s hospitals in six pediatric specialties by U.S. News & World Report. Mount Sinai is ranked among the top 20 academic medical centers in the nation. Lisa Satlin, a White Plains native who chairs the pediatric department at Mount Sinai, oversees the subspecialty practice. “We are excited to open the new practice to provide local families with access to expert subspecialists closer to home,” she said in a statement.

Clinics developer acquired IntegraMed America Inc., a developer, marketer and manager of fertility and vein care outpatient clinics headquartered in Purchase, will be acquired by a Greenwich, Conn., investment fund that is an IntegraMed shareholder. Sagard Capital Partners L.P. has agreed to pay $169.5 million, or $14.05 per share in cash, for the specialty health care company. The price amounts to a 24 percent premium to IntegraMed’s closing stock price on June 8 and a 46 percent premium to IntegraMed’s average daily closing price over the past year. Jay Higham, chairman, CEO and president of IntegraMed, in a press release said the deal delivers two key objectives of the company – to secure a premium to IntegraMed’s share price and a long-term partnership with a respected investor. “With Sagard, we will have the additional financial flexibility to continue investing in the growth of our business,” he said. Sagard Capital currently owns 3.7 percent of IntegraMed’s outstanding shares. Dan Friedberg, managing partner of Sagard Capital, said IntegraMed “has built a powerful business model anchored by a

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strong and experienced team of medical, clinical and administrative personnel and by its management and support services. They have consistently provided the highest levels of patient care and treatment innovation, while also delivering strong financial performance at above-industry growth rates.” The deal is not subject to financing and is expected to close no later than mid-November. The agreement is subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals. Jefferies & Co. Inc. in New York serves as financial adviser to IntegraMed and Dorsey & Whitney L.L.P. in New York is the company’s legal adviser. Finn Dixon & Herling L.L.P. in Stamford, Conn., is legal counsel to Sagard Capital, a long-term investor in public and private small and mid-sized companies. IntegraMed operates Attain Fertility Centers, the nation’s largest fertility center network, with more than 130 locations in 34 states and the District of Columbia. Vein Clinics of America, another IntegraMed specialty network, operates 48 centers in 15 states, principally in the Midwest and Southeast.

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Summer job market — From page 1

Charles Barringer, left, and Joshua Schaeffer have mutually benefited from the county summer jobs program for youths.

County meets tourism rebound — From page 1

largest share, 26 percent, of visitor spending in the county – and in retail, lodging, transportation, recreation and second-home construction. Speaking at a campaign unveiling at Lyndhurst, the riverfront estate and mansion in Tarrytown, County Executive Robert P. Astorino said 70 percent of visitors to the

“We don’t have a bad image to overcome, that’s the good thing.” Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino

county are here for business purposes. “We want them to come back with their families too and enjoy this,” he said. “There’s no reason that Westchester in and of itself can’t be a destination for people to come to for two or three days, or longer.” Astorino and Natasha Caputo, director of the county tourism and film division of the Office of Economic Development, said the campaign initially will target couples traveling on weekends, especially those in their 30s

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and older. Caputo’s tourism and film office in July will begin rolling out print and digital ads for the Meet Me in Westchester campaign. The tourism office also will use its visitwestchesterny.com website, accompanied by social media, to inform visitors of deals and travel packages at hotels, restaurants, retail stores and destinations in the county. Astorino said the county also will arrange package deals for tourists with Metro-North Railroad and seek out tourism industry partners in crosspromotions. He stressed that the county is not embarking on a solo venture. Rather, the campaign is “a collaborative effort” of county government and the travel and tourism industry. “Everybody’s got skin in the game,” he said. The Meet Me in Westchester branding campaign was created by the county tourism and film office in partnership with Thompson & Bender L.L.C., the Briarcliff Manor public relations and marketing agency. Its creators were guided by the county’s commissioned study of how Westchester is perceived as a travel destination, which was conducted by Phoenix Marketing International in Rhinebeck. The firm surveyed 1,000 Westchester residents and nonresidents within a 250-mile radius of the county. The survey found that Westchester is viewed as a generally affordable and accessible destination for short getaways. Visitors are aware of its many business venues and fine dining choices. Visitors also wanted to learn more about the county’s offerings.

24 and up to $2,000 for part-time workers hired. If the credit exceeds a company’s tax liability, the state will refund the excess amount to the employer. In Westchester, the tax credits can be claimed for hired youths who reside in Mount Vernon, New Rochelle and Yonkers. But at the end of May, only about 20 businesses in those cities had signed up for the incentive program, while about 400 disadvantaged youths in the three cities were looking for jobs, according to a Labor Department official. A Labor Department official in Westchester said more youths and more businesses in the three cities have since signed up for the program. Program figures requested by the Business Journal were not made available by the Labor Department. The official said businesses only must be within a one-hour commuting distance from Mount Vernon, Yonkers and New Rochelle to qualify for the program. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Greenburgh, the The county’s key challenges, according to its survey consultant, include building “a compelling destination image almost from the ground up” with limited resources, raising awareness of its tourism offerings and

County Executive Robert Astorino and Natasha Caputo.

encouraging visitors to return to Westchester and to recommend it to others as a tourism destination. Astorino said the ad campaign is an opportunity to create for outsiders an image of Westchester, which has not had a distinctive one other than as a suburban enclave. “We have clay and we can mold it to fit,” he said. “We don’t have a bad image to overcome, that’s the good thing.”

state’s largest biotechnology employer, has joined the New York Youth Works program, according to the official. At the Business Council, Gordon said summer job-seeking youths are competing with the county’s unemployed residents. “I would say it’s a very competitive environment,” she said. A 19-year-old college student from White Plains, Joshua A. Schaeffer recently landed a job in Yorktown Heights after being referred to the Business Council and the private sector program. It took a lot of time and work on his part. “I’ve been trying to get a job since December,” he said from his job at United Processing Corp., a five-employee company that sets up businesses for credit card processing. “It was just nonstop. I applied to so many places, I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count.” An electrical engineering major at SUNY Binghamton, Schaeffer was too inexperienced in his field to land an internship at Westchester engineering firms. He contacted law firms and other professional offices without success. He sent more emails to engineering companies “to see if I could shadow them, just to get any sort of experience.” His summer employer, United Processing, is using the private sector jobs program for the first time, said senior vice president Charles A. Barringer. Schaeffer’s was the first resume the company received from the Business Council, which screens applicants referred by local youth bureaus and agencies. The Yorktown Heights business expects to hire one more student this summer. “In the past we’ve run a simple Pennysaver ad and have gotten a flood of resumes, and weeding through them has taken some time,” said Barringer. “The Business Council tries to narrow down the choices.” Schaeffer is a welcomed addition to the office. “Right now he’s not doing the most glamorous thing – digitizing files – but it’s extremely important for us,” said Barringer. “If you’re looking to work in the private sector, you need that experience of what a private office looks like,” said the student’s employer. “We’re a small, entrepreneurial company that could afford to give them that experience.”

To join the Summer Private Sector Jobs Program, businesses should contact Ebony White at the Business Council at (914) 9482110. Jobs will be listed at www. westchestersummerjobs.com.

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Positive “stereotypes” to be lived up to included clean facilities, a friendly atmosphere and fun for everyone. Disney constantly exceeds guest expectations. What emotions do your customers experience during their full cycle of using your products or services? At Disney, emotions run from unbounded excitement on entering the park to tired feet at the end of the day. From the adrenalin rush of Space Mountain to the heart-warming tenderness of a character hugging a child. What does your customer experience? Disney knows that 47 percent of its visitors fly and

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Small brewers exempted from state fee BY PATRICK GALLAGHER pgallagher@westfairinc.com

ov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders announced an agreement to exempt small breweries from paying the annual state Liquor Authority fee and to allow farm breweries to more easily expand operations. Craft brewers such as Elmsford’s Captain Lawrence Brewing Co. have grown exponentially over the past several years in New York state, but were hurt by a March

court ruling that disallowed a state tax exemption for in-state brewers on the first 6.2 million gallons of beer sold in New York in a given year. The new legislation, announced June 14 by state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver along with Cuomo, is designed to support the state’s breweries and wineries and to create economic development opportunities. “New York’s craft breweries are not just

creating great beer that is consumed across the world, they are creating jobs, supporting farmers and our hops growers, and bringing in tourism dollars all across the state,” Cuomo said in a statement. “This is a big victory for our craft brewers and will help New York’s already vibrant beer industry continue to grow.” Under the agreement, any brewery that produces 60 million or fewer gallons of beer in New York would be eligible for a refundable tax credit applied to their state

personal income and business taxes. The credit amounts would be $0.14 per gallon for the first half-million gallons brewed in New York, and $0.045 per gallon for the next 15 million. The legislation will also exempt breweries that produce brands of 1,500 barrels or less annually from the $150 annual brand label fee. The exemption will be eligible to brewers in and outside the state. The bill also authorizes the creation of a “farm brewery” license that would allow craft brewers that use products grown in New York state to increase retail outlets for products produced in-state, open res-

taurants, increase tastings and sell related beer-making equipment and supplies and other products. In order for a brewer to qualify for a farm brewery license, between now and the end of 2017, at least 20 percent of the hops and 20 percent of all other ingredients used must be grown or produced in New York. Those percentages rise to 60 percent for beer produced between Jan. 1, 2018, and Dec. 31, 2023, and to 90 percent after Jan. 1, 2024.

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Bringing reality to the sales team I need help with my sales team. One team member sees his accomplishments as way bigger than they are. He wastes time telling stories about what he’s done instead of working on getting more leads. Another person is overly enthusiastic in her estimates of what she can realistically close. She keeps pounding away, but when she misses her targets she gets down in the dumps. Help!

Thoughts of the day: Sales individuals and teams take time to mature. The trick is figuring out if you’re building something or wasting your time hoping that people will become solid performers when they’re likely not to. It’s important to pay attention to what people do, not what they say. What are your salespeople doing to improve? How hard are they trying? Are they defensive? Are they making excuses? Or are they actively stretching beyond their comfort zone, doing whatever it takes to get better at selling? Sales can be a frustrating game. Lots of activities are outside the salespersons’ control. Roadblocks can pop up out of nowhere.

No matter how focused a salesperson is on having things go the way they planned, they have to be flexible enough and smart enough to know it takes volume to master the variables that are out of their control. Meet weekly with new salespeople. Pay attention to progress markers. Ask them to describe their prospect list. Who have they talked to this week? What’s their plan to get in front of more key targets? Who are they enrolling as referral sources and territory influencers – people who can introduce them around. Talk is cheap. Actions are indicators of what the person is capable of. Take a close look at results. Are they meeting lots of

people every day? Can they gather facts about prospects’ buying cycles and budgets? Can they identify and connect with additional players who will be involved in the decision? Make sure they can name who’s in the territory, who’s going to buy, who’s never going to buy, who’s ready now, who’s going to be ready later, and why. If they’re making enough sales calls, great. Keep going. If anyone on the sales team is undershooting the mark, make sure they know it. Discuss with them what has to happen to step things up. Assess the degree of self-drive. They may behave as if they’re here to please you. That’s not enough. Will to succeed has to come from inside each salesperson. When the big wins happen, be sure to acknowledge them. In the meantime, set mini-goals. Build confidence by recognizing intermediate progress: making contacts and opening doors; building relationships with prospects that fit the company’s targets and moving potential buyers through the sales cycle. My guess would be that the salesperson who’s busy telling stories is getting himself into real trouble. He’s using stories as a defense to cover the reality that he’s not making enough sales calls. The salesperson who’s overly enthusiastic needs help with realistic goal-setting. Help her to plot out exactly how many activities she needs at each stage of the sales funnel. Encourage her to focus on the wins and forget the losses. What to do if you think that one or the other isn’t going to cut it? Don’t get sold by a person who is doing a better job pitching you on why they should keep their job than they are on hitting their overall sales goals. Talk about whether this job is a fit and what else they might consider doing. Set a deadline for achieving mini-goals for the intermediate steps of the sales process. Stick to your guns about moving on if the goals aren’t met. Looking for a good book? Try “The Accidental Sales Manager: How to Take Control and Lead Your Sales Team to Record Profits” by Chris Lytle. Andi Gray is president of Strategy Leaders Inc., strategyleaders.com, a business-consulting firm that specializes in helping entrepreneurial firms grow. She can be reached by phone at (877) 238-3535. Do you have a question for Andi? Please send it to her, via email at AskAndi@StrategyLeaders.com or by mail to Andi Gray, Strategy Leaders Inc., 5 Crossways, Chappaqua, NY 10514.

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CH Energy shareholders OK purchase by Canadian utility BY JANICE KIRKEL jkirkel@westfairinc.com

hareholders of CH Energy Group Inc. have voted overwhelmingly to approve the purchase of CH by Fortis Inc., Canada’s largest investor-owned distribution utility. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2013 after regulatory approvals. CH shareholders will get $65 a share (U.S. dollars) in the all-cash transaction. CH is the parent company of Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. in Poughkeepsie. Central Hudson will operate as a standalone company with little change in dayto-day operations. Fortis has committed to retain all employees and to continue Central Hudson’s longstanding support of local community organizations. “Furthermore, Fortis has committed to provide more than $20 million in customer benefits over five years once the transaction is approved, including $2 million in avoided costs per year; establishment of a $5 million benefit fund to support customer and com-

that’s not the way this will happen. The headquarters will remain in Poughkeepsie, a lot of corporate citizen initiatives will remain.” Winter said that CH Energy will get the scale Fortis will bring. As for whether CH Energy was actively looking for a buyer, “they were not necessarily on the auction block but they did an analysis, the board did, to see if there would be a better buyer or offer and they came to conclusion there would not be.” He did note that the price was at the

“This is just another chapter in the ongoing consolidation of utilities this is just another chapter in the ongoing consolidation of utilities.” — Tim Winter, utility analyst, Gabelli & Co.

munity outreach programs; an additional $5 million to absorb costs that would normally be recovered in rates from customers; and a one-year rate freeze through July 2014,” said Steven Lant, president and CEO of CH Energy. Lant also noted that Fortis has access to capital that could allow Central Hudson to make improvements in its electric and gas system. In addition, shareholders approved executive compensation related to the merger. Tim Winter, a utility analyst at Gabelli & Co. in St. Louis, said that as is usually the case in a Fortis takeover, CH Energy will retain its independence. “Utilities, often when they merge, the headquarters are in the buying company’s city, employees are reduced, you lose the provincial pride you had in your local utility;

higher end of typical earnings multiples, seven to 11 times over EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization). The price of this deal, he said, was 10 times over earnings. Taking a look at the big picture, Winter said this is just another chapter in the ongoing consolidation of utilities that stretches back about 20 years. “This will continue,” he said, “and Canadian buying of U.S. utilities is becoming more commonplace. Emera (of Nova Scotia) bought Maine and Maritimes Corp.

(parent of Maine Public Service Co.) in 2010, Central Vermont was bought by Gaz Metro of Montreal in 2011. So this is the third Canadian acquisition of a Northeast utility in recent years.” In addition, he said, Edmonton Power in 2011 bought water utilities in Arizona and New Mexico and energy distribution properties in the southwestern U.S. Winter speculated that perhaps Fortis wanted a way to get shale gas or power into New York City, “and maybe they needed to go through Poughkeepsie.”

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“We need to stay alive,” Newman said. “We’re on their radar now, so in order to alad dressing makers, it turns out, survive with the bigger brands, we need to benefited in the recession as diners grow.” restocked their refrigerators rather With Newman’s Own revenue now than going out to eat. well in excess of $250 million, company With the biggest companies in the indus- President Tom Indoe notes the company is try scouting acquisitions, according to one looming very large on the radar. market research firm, Paul Newman’s hand“We always feel like we’re the … little picked man has this message: Newman’s company on the Post Road East, and we Own is not for sale. are competing with Nestle and Unilever,” Given the Westport, Conn. company’s Indoe said. “And they all notice us because motto – “Shameless exploitation in the we actually see some of their presentations pursuit of common good” – Newman’s to the retailer (industry), and they’re talking about Newman’s Own in there. “We think its kind of fun to be this little guy,” Indoe said. “It’s nice not to be selling just another truckload of shampoo or cereal – you are working for a company that after the day is done the money is going to causes that are close to us.” The memories of Newman, a certifiable foodie who kept a jug of homemade salad dressing ever at the ready, remains palpable four years after the icon’s death. Indoe recalls vividly the first time he met Newman on his way to interview for the job. “I pull in the parking lot here in Westport, and Paul gets out of his car … with a canning jar with coffee he’s drinking out of, and I go, ‘What the heck?’” Indoe recalled. “I introduced myself and the topic quickly led to, ‘What kind of car do you drive,’ and ‘How many horses it has’ – and that was the beginning, in the parking lot.” Résumés continue to pour in today, but with a staff of just Tom Indoe samples some of Newman’s Own skillet meals at the commore than 30 people, Indoe pany’s Westport offices during a taste test. said the focus is on staying lean. Own occupies its own unique niche in the He also said the company intends to stay American consumer-product landscape as put as well. If Westport suffered the exodus it readies to give out $30 million to charita- of one iconic brand in Martha Stewart, he ble causes in its 30th year of operation. But says he cannot imagine Newman’s Own it bears reminding that Unilever scooped being situated elsewhere, certainly not outup Ben & Jerry’s, which itself had a singular side Connecticut. And he cannot stomach it corporate do-good ethic. becoming a side course to a food-industry Only in 1999, the year before the giant via an acquisition. Unilever-Ben & Jerry’s deal, Newman had “We get (offers) all the time,” Indoe voiced concern about the increased compe- said. “It’s been Paul’s wish that the company tition from bigger competitors such as Kraft never get sold … so we don’t entertain it … and Heinz, in a talk with Harvard University I would hate to see this company ever leave students. Westport.”

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New limo service County finds most contractors meet licensing regs at Doral Arrowwood BY PATRICK GALLAGHER pgallagher@westfairinc.com

imousine Service of Westchester, a 34-year-old business in White Plains, will provide chauffeured transport services for guests and corporate conference attendees at Doral Arrowwood Hotel and Conference Center in Rye Brook. Under a new contract with the hotel, LSW will operate a booking and information kiosk in the Doral Arrowwood lobby to be staffed seven days a week. Shuttle services also will be available to companies within a five-mile radius of Doral Arrowwood for guests attending conferences and meetings there. Steve Mabus, Doral Arrowwood’s general manager, said the partnership with LSW “adds a new world-class service for our guests.” Led by CEO Melissa Thornton, Limousine Service of Westchester is one of the first certified minority- and womanowned limousine services in the county. – John Golden

ore than 90 percent of home improvement contractors inspected by the Westchester County Department of Consumer Protection in April and May were in compliance with all licensing requirements. Of the 430 work sites throughout the county that were inspected as a part of the department’s annual spring spot check, 395 had proper licensing, county officials announced June 18.

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he two owners of the Dutchess School of Driving beamed proudly upon learning that the most elderly client in their history passed her driving test with flying colors. “She was an 82-year-old woman who had never driven before,” Isa Marinaro says. “She was newly widowed and needed to drive to the grocery store, church and cemetery.” Marinaro and her sister, Maria Dominijanni, run a large operation involving passenger cars, school buses, trucks and tractor-trailers. They also conduct five-hour prelicensing and defensive driving classes and evaluate the elderly and incapacitated for driving. The sisters have one vehicle with special controls for the disabled who have perhaps suffered a stroke or lost a limb. Two instructors specialize in that training. In regard to senior drivers, the sisters have observed that skills depend on ability, not age. ”A 25-year-old might have poor reaction time, and a 90-year-old could be perfectly capable,” Marinaro says. Teen drivers present instructors with spe-

cial challenges. “Teens are involved in so many things,” Dominijanni says. “It’s difficult to keep them focused. They are always in a rush. We warn them they cannot drive with music so loud that they can’t hear an emergency vehicle’s siren.” The sisters’ worst mishap happened early in the partnership. Marinaro was riding as a passenger behind a motorcycle student. “I instructed him to change lanes,” she recalls. “We teach the students to be aware of what is in front of them before turning their heads for a split second to check the blind spot in the next lane not picked up by the mirror. He turned without checking first in front and panicked when he turned back and saw the light change to red. We both fell and suffered bruises. It’s hard for a new driver to judge time and distance.” Right now the business is kept busy with aspiring bus and tractor-trailer drivers seeking work in the current economy. Twelve to 15 full and part-time instructors and five office personnel are employed at the facility on Route 82 in Hopewell

Junction, where its 10th anniversary is being marked. The sisters have been in business much longer, however. The two were born in Italy and came with their parents from Matera, south of Bari, in 1980, when Maria was 18 and Isa 12. Maria was attending Mount Vernon High School when she landed a parttime job at a local driving school. “I loved it. I kept working in the office when I went to Westchester Community College.” Marriage and a baby changed that. “The boss trained my sister to take my place while I was home with the baby,” she recounts. “My sister came up with the idea of opening our own school.” Formula One Driving was born in Mamaroneck in l988, Marinaro says. “Maria tended the office and baby, and I was in the car,” she says. They started with one car having dual controls and one motorcycle and also offered a five-hour defensive driving course. “We continued in that business until two years ago. My nephew, Daniel Dominijanni, the little baby when we went into business, grew up to join us in the opera-

tion. He and I continued to run the school while Maria established the new Dutchess school. We sold the Mamaroneck operation two years ago. Now all three of us are at Hopewell Junction.”

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SCARSDALE PO, NY Stunning Edgemont Colonial with Contemporary flair offers 6,200 sq.ft., 6 bedrooms, custom kitchen with center island, patio and pool. Greenburgh. $2,875,000. MLS: 3210506. Scarsdale Brokerage. Nancy Steinberg, 914.725.3305

SCARSDALE, NY Breathtaking waterfront property on 1.27 acres overlooks a 4-acre pond with golf course views. The 4,044 sq.ft., home offers 5 bedrooms, 3½ baths. $1,849,999. MLS: 3215505. Scarsdale Brokerage. Anne Moretti, 914.725.3305

SCARSDALE, NY Mint condition classic Colonial with easy walk to train has 3,800 sq.ft., 6 bedrooms, 4½ baths, designer Rutt kitchen and easy access to lovely backyard. $1,597,000. MLS: 3213924. Scarsdale Brokerage. Simone Englander, 914.725.3305

BRONXVILLE PO, TUCKAHOE, NY Elegant center hall Colonial offers classic lines and curb appeal with 6 bedrooms, formal dining room, butler’s pantry, living room with fireplace. $1,475,000. MLS: 3210140. Bronxville Brokerage. William Dowling, 914.620.8682

NEW ROCHELLE, NY Classic center hall Colonial with beautiful flow, 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, screened porch and serene backyard in desirable Beechmont Estates. $939,500. MLS: 3210639. Larchmont Brokerage. The Rosenblum Team, 914.834.0270

LARCHMONT, NY Quintessential Larchmont Village 4-bedroom Arts & Crafts Colonial with many original details is just blocks from train, town, schools and parks. $869,000. MLS: 3212449. Larchmont Brokerage. Linda Filby, 914.834.0270

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Audit derails MTA’s on-board services unit BY PATRICK GALLAGHER pgallagher@westfairinc.com

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has disbanded Metro-North Railroad’s On-Board Services Unit following an audit that revealed repeated lapses in monitoring and employees who were no-shows. The audit, performed by Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office, concluded that between Jan. 1, 2009, and June 20, 2011, the six-employee unit tasked with monitoring train conditions and crew performance frequently failed to complete assignments and was often off-task while at work. “The public got taken for a ride,” DiNapoli said in a statement. “When workers in this unit did bother to show up for their jobs, they did shoddy work or personal tasks when they should have been ensuring that trains were operating safely and smoothly.” The audit examined 300 rides that were expected to be taken and documented, of which 29 percent had no logs to support that any work was done. In 14 percent of the 300 rides, no On-Board Services employees were present. Auditors and investigators also found

that staffers were distracted while working, spending hours on various Internet sites. Of the 211 rides reviewed by the compRO which Golf Ad-Westch Jnl:Layout troller’s office for logs did Bus exist, there 1 were no significant performance or safety issues raised by On-Board Services employees. The unit, which included five employees and one supervisor as of July, 2011, earned a total annual compensation of $832,676. The audit also raised concerns that an assistant vice president who supervised the unit referred a relative to work under her supervision, despite the fact that the person in question received a lower rating than two other applicants for the position. The relative who was hired was paid $84,700. The position had a posted starting salary of $57,226. The hiring was investigated by counsel for Metro-North Railroad, with the railroad subsequently issuing three separate reprimands to the assistant vice president. The matter was referred by the comptroller’s office to the Office of the MTA Inspector General for further investigation. The MTA said it would cooperate fully with the inquiry.

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THELIST: NONPROFITS Listed alphabetically.

Westchester County Next list: July 2 Bank Presidents

Nonprofit Organizations

westchester county

Listed alphabetically. Organization Address Telephone number: area code 914 (unless otherwise noted) Website

Abbott House 100 N. Broadway, Irvington 10533 591-7300 • abbotthouse.net

Academy of Management Inc. P.O. Box 3020, Briarcliff Manor 10510 923-2607 • aomonline.org

Alcott School 27 Crane Road, Scarsdale 10583 472-4404 • alcottschool.org

Association For Mentally Ill Children of Westchester Inc. 480 Albany Post Road, Briarcliff Manor 10510 941-1815

Cardinal McCloskey School and Home for Children Inc. 115 Stevens Ave., Valhalla 10595 997-8000 • cardinalmccloskeyservices.org

Cerebral Palsy Association of Westchester County Inc. 1186 King St., Rye Brook 10573 937-3800 • cpwestchester.org

Children's Village Inc. 1 Dassern Drive, Dobbs Ferry 10522 693-0600 • childrensvillage.org

Community Based Services Inc. 3 Fields Lane, North Salem 10560 277-4771 • commbasedservices.org

Community Choice Health Plan of Westchester Inc.

Description

Provides care for abandoned, neglected and abused children

Provides research and assistance to scholars

Provides education and facilities for learning disabled, handicapped and nonhandicapped students Provides mental retardation and mentally handicapped services to children

Residential services for the developmentally, emotionally and physically disabled

Provides education for children in grades 1-13

Family Service of Westchester Inc.

Private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian agency dedicated to strengthening and supporting families and individuals at every stage of the life cycle with a broad range of social and mental health services

2 Great Oak Lane, Pleasantville 10570 747-3080 • girlscoutshh.org

Girl Scout services

Grace Church Community Center Inc.

Community-oriented organization offering a complement of caring services for the poor, homeless, youth, disadvantaged, elderly and infirmed, as well as others who need support and guidance

Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc. 611 Granite Springs Road, Yorktown Heights 10598 (800) 942-0149 • guiding-eyes.org

Habitat for Humanity Westchester Inc. 524 Main St., New Rochelle 10801 636-8335 • habitatwc.org

Hawthorne Foundation Inc. 5 Bradhurst Ave., Hawthorne 10532 592-8526 • hawthornecountryday.org

Historic Hudson Valley 150 White Plains Road, Tarrytown 10591 631-8200 • hudsonvalley.org

Hudson Health Plan Inc. 303 S. Broadway, Suite 321, Tarrytown 10591 (800) 339-4557 • hudsonhealthplan.org

Hudson River Healthcare Inc. 1037 Main St., Peekskill 10566 734-8800 • hrhcare.org

Human Development Services of Westchester 930 Mamaroneck Ave., Mamaroneck 10543 835-8906 • hdsw.org

Jacob Burns Film Center Inc. 364 Manville Road, Pleasantville 10570 747-5555 • burnsfilmcenter.org

Programs and services for people with disabilities

Breeds, raises and trains guide dogs and trains qualified visually handicapped individuals in the use of the dogs Organizes volunteers who seek to eliminate poverty, housing and homelessness throughout Westchester County by constructing and rehabilitating homes Serves disabled individuals Provides educational and public history programs at the landmark sites it preserves

1311 Mamaroneck Ave., Suite 310, White Plains 10605 (800) 955-4572 • lls.org

1275 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains 10605 997-4488 • marchofdimes.com

Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful Inc. 40 Somerstown Road, Ossining 10562 P.O. Box 307, Maryknoll 10545 762-6364 • mklaymissioners.org

Mental Health Association of Westchester Inc. 2269 Saw Mill River Road, Elmsford 10523 345-5900 • mhawestchester.org

Mid-Hudson Valley AIDS Task Force Inc. 40 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne 10532 345-8888

New York School for the Deaf

Offers mental health education, suicide prevention and crisis intervention, community residences, clinic outpatient services and child-abuse prevention Fosters prevention and reduces the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and insures access, equity and justice for people who are affected by HIV in order to maximize their quality of life

Open Door Family Medical Center Inc.

Operates freestanding diagnostic and treatment centers, licensed under Article 28 of the New York State Public Health Law and provides a broad range of health services to a largely medically underserved population

165 Main St., Ossining 10562 941-1263 • opendoormedical.org

Opengate Inc. 28 Warren St., Somers 10589 277-5350 • opengateinc.org

Planned Parenthood 4 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne 10532 467-7300 • pphp.org

Renaissance Project Inc.

Provides residential and educational services to developmentally disabled adults

A family-planning health and welfare organization

250 Clearbrook Road, Elmsford 10523 345-1312 • renaissance-project.org

Provides substance-abuse services

St. Christopher's Inc.

Operates and maintains small-group care facilities for the treatment and education of emotionally disturbed children as well as an Article 28 clinic and day-care program

71 S. Broadway, Dobbs Ferry 10522 693-3030 • sc1881.com

Search For Change Inc. 115 E. Stevens Ave., Suite 203, Valhalla 10595 428-5600 • searchforchange.com

Student Assistant Services Corp. 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown 10591 332-1300 • sascorp.org

United Way of Westchester and Putnam Inc. 336 Central Park Ave., White Plains 10606 997-6700 • uwwp.org

Universal Peace Federation 200 White Plains Road, Tarrytown 10591 631-1331 • upf.org

USTA National Tennis Center Inc. 70 W. Red Oak Lane, White Plains 10604 696-7000 • www.usta.com

Westchester ARC Inc.

Westchester Community Opportunity Program Inc.

Operates a cultural arts film center in Westchester

Pastoral ministries include advocacy for justice and peace, community formation, education, health, mission education and parish work

Provides education to deaf children

Provision of prepaid comprehensive health care and insurance coverage for Westchester, Rockland, Orange and Sullivan counties' indigent residents

Community residences for the mentally ill

Promotes the cure of leukemia, lymphoma and other blood cancers

555 Knollwood Road, White Plains 10603 949-7310

265 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne 10532 949-9300 • westchesterarc.org 2269 Saw Mill River Road, Building 3, Elmsford 10523 592-5600 • westcop.org

Westchester Institute for Human Development Cedarwood Hall, Valhalla 10595 493-8150 • wihd.org

Westchester Jewish Community Services 845 N. Broadway, White Plains 10603 761-0600 • wjcs.com

Questions or comments, call 694-3600, ext. 3005. Note: This list has been shortened due to space limitation. The complete list will be available through our website westfaironline.com. Source: Data was gathered by verifying information on organization websites as well as using GuideStar (website: guidestar.org). GuideStar, the national database of nonprofit information, offers information about the programs and finances of more than one million IRS-recognized charitable organizations.

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Legal services

Improving the health of babies by preventing birth defects and infant mortality through programs of research, community services, education and advocacy to save babies' lives

50 Partridge Road, White Plains 10605 948-6513 • dsny.org

70 Grand St., New Rochelle 10801 636-4440 • theguidancecenter.org

90 Maple Ave., White Plains 10601 949-1305 • lshv.org

March of Dimes

Independent, nonreligious organization that works with international volunteers to empower local communities, fosters cultural sensitivity and understanding and contributes grassroots solutions to global challenges

The Guidance Center Inc.

Legal Services of the Hudson Valley

Provides legal services

Provides, operates and maintains an institution for the treatment and education of emotionally disturbed children

Cross-Cultural Solutions

35 Orchard St., White Plains 10603 949-3098 • gracecommunitycenter.org

1 N. Broadway, Ninth floor, White Plains 10601 286-3400

Treatment of alcoholism

Consumer education and information

Girl Scouts of Westchester and Putnam Inc.

Legal Aid Society of Westchester County

Operates child, family care and community-based programs

116 Radio Circle, Suite 307-309, Mount Kisco 10549 666-0191 • lexingtonctr.org

101 Truman Ave., Yonkers 10703 (800) 757-7052 • consumerreports.org

1 Gateway Plaza, Port Chester 10573 937-2320 • fsw.org

463 Hawthorne Ave., Yonkers 10705 375-8880 • leakeandwatts.org

Lexington Center for Recovery

Establishes, maintains and operates transitional housing and develops permanent housing for homeless and low-income individuals and families

Deutsche Schule/New York German School

Leake and Watts Services Inc.

Japanese language school

Advances the independence, productivity and full citizenship of people with celebral palsy and other disabilities

Community Housing Innovations Inc.

2 Clinton Place, New Rochelle 10801 632-0022 • crossculturalsolutions.org

150 Purchase St., Rye 10580 921-0350

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Inc.

Health service provider

Consumer Reports Foundation

Japanese Educational Institute of New York

Description

A nonsectarian social service agency, which serves abused and neglected children, at-risk families and adults with mental and developmental disabiltiies

30 S. Broadway, Fourth floor, Yonkers 10701 709-8400 190 E. Post Road, Suite 401, White Plains 10601 683-1010 •chigrants.org

Organization Address Telephone number: area code 914 (unless otherwise noted) Website

Helps emotionally disabled individuals re-enter society and provide housing and support as well as vocational training Education and intervention programs for drug and alcohol abuse Addresses human-care issues such as lack of affordable child care, family violence, services for at-risk youth and the frail elderly Promotes the realization of a peaceful world family, transcending religion race and nationalities and assists in the resolution of conflicts Provides recreational and civic facilities for the general public Provides residential, day treatment, vocational and other services to mentally retarded and developmentally disabled citizens Mobilizes and effectively manages resources that will help the low-income and at-risk populations in Westchester and Putnam counties become more self-sufficient

Provides health and human services to adults and children with developmental disabilities and their families Provides comprehensive care for people with developmental disabilities in a group-home setting

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The importance of outstanding content

n this era of copious amounts of written text on websites, blogs, white papers, press releases, industry studies and social media sites, it is difficult to stand out and be noticed. It is even more difficult to get people to regularly follow or subscribe to an author or company. People act very impulsively – particularly when online – and are likely to leave a website or presentation for any reason including a slow download. This puts a premium on the quality of the content. High-quality content will enhance brand awareness, generate a following and usually include some aspect of search engine optimization (SEO). It helps establish a company or individual as an industry leader and can generate considerable interest and attention. Our wwWebevents.com newsletter, for example, has grown to more than 10,000 optin subscribers due to the strong adherence to our core belief that content-is-king. Here are key rules you should adhere to when writing your content. It must be well-written: It’s amazing how often this seemingly obvious rule is violated. Grammatically incorrect sentences and incoherent thoughts are immediate reader- and follower-killers and yet they are very prevalent. Studies have shown that they are the most common reason behind lost followers. Another all-too-common problem concerns the content itself; it’s not new and original. Instead, it is merely rewritten and reformatted content that can be found on numerous other online sites. What does stand out is great writing and content. It’s why everyone follows certain writers and blogs – because they are well-written and provide great content. It is targeted and provides great value: Several months ago, I attended a webinar in which the presenter discussed how she landed several accounting clients because she had a background in accounting and could speak their language. The same was true for a technical company I used to run. Having a technical background, I could answer all of the technical questions on the spot while most of my competitors had to call in a technician. The same holds true for your writing. The better you understand your target audience, the better your content can be directed toward their needs. Remember that it’s their needs and not your products that they are most interested in. If you can provide them with new and interesting content that addresses their needs and interests, they will follow you. They will also comment and discuss your content. Listen closely to them and be willing to discuss all aspects of your content with them.

It will enhance your ability to communicate with them and to better understand and address their needs. You will also gain additional insight concerning which keywords are particularly effective in generating traffic. It is clear and concise: For most articles, the optimal length is 450 to 700 words or roughly, one single-spaced page. Most people will not read an article longer than 700 words, with the exception of studies and white papers. Keep the articles short. Many top online writers place their most captivating (and important) information in the first two paragraphs of an article because they realize they will gradually lose attention and readers Four Years of Success throughout the course of the article. 7.5” w x 7.25” h 6/5/12 Since the attention span of readers is very

short, it is also critical that the content be very concise. A writer does not have much space – and readers have less tolerance – for meandering or confusing text. Being clear and easily understood is the goal of any writer – particularly those that are online. Spend time on your headlines: It’s sad to admit that headlines are extremely important. You can write the greatest articles in the world, but with bland headlines you will not generate the attention and buzz that your articles deserve (unless you are an industry leader and people will automatically follow you). Be cautioned however, that even with a great headline, if you have substandard or even mediocre content, you will still have a limited number of followers.

Great content that you consistently promote to your audience will help brand you as an industry leader and differentiate you from your competition. It will drive traffic to you and generate significant buzz. In a future article, I will discuss how you can take advantage of some of the online writing, content and distribution services that are currently available to help build your audience. Bruce Newman is the vice president at The Productivity Institute L.L.C. in Carmel. He is also a social media strategist and the designer of a new service, wwWebevents.com. Follow him on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and the Productivity Institute blog. He can be reached at bnewman@prodinst.com.

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FACES& PLACES Raising funds for Greyston Greyston Foundation, a nonprofit in Yonkers that works to create opportunities for families and individuals to become self-sufficient, recently held its annual benefit at X2O Xaviars on the Hudson in Yonkers. The evening honored president and CEO of Yonkers Contracting, Carl E. Petrillo, for his dedication to the Greyston Foundation. The event raised $300,000, which will support the foundation’s community development. 1. Carl E. Petrillo, Steven Brown, Bernie Glassman and Alfred DelBello. 2. Janet DiFiore and Edward Falkenberg. 3. Greyston Bakery founder Bernie Glassman awarded Christopher Davis with the foundation’s first Bernie Glassman Award. 4. Michelle Friedman, Glenn Binday, Kelly Binday and Darren Friedman.

NoMa Social opens NoMa Social, a new restaurant featuring a Mediterranean menu, recently held its grand opening celebration at Radisson Hotel New Rochelle. New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson joined the owners and executive chef in a ribbon-cutting ceremony that was followed by a reception. 1. NoMa Social executive chef Bill Rosenberg with one of the Mediterranean dishes served at the party. 2. Bartender John Falchicco mixing a specialty cocktail. 3. George Oros, chief of staff to Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino; Natasha Caputo, director of Westchester County Tourism and Film; Rhonda Hausman, general manager, Radisson Hotel New Rochelle; Colby Brock, NoMa Social food and beverage director and interior designer; New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson; and “Chuck” Strome, city manager, New Rochelle. 4. Natalie Ferrara and Judie Phillips, store manager and design associate respectively, of Calico Corners, Mamaroneck. 5. Eli Gordon, executive director of the New Rochelle Chamber of Commerce. 6. NoMa Social’s John Deggaglia holding tray of one of numerous Mediterranean-style small plates served at the VIP party. (All photograph identifications are from left unless otherwise noted.)

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WCA’s ANNUAL SUMMER NETWORKING RECEPTION SET FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 18 Last year’s summer networking event was the talk of Westchester County. More than 300 enthusiastic WCA members and guests gathered to network and enjoy each other’s company.

ound familiar? Raised and educated in Westchester, college grads dash off to live in cramped, expensive New York City studios, but they really want to be here—closer to work and friends and the good life, living in great housing. And companies expanding or relocating in Westchester want that too, not witness a brain drain out of the county. What do we do? Create “professional housing” that’s affordable for young professionals, and a lifestyle that includes good nightlife, sports, culture, great restaurants. What will it take? Repurposing and transforming certain areas in the county. WCA’s Young Professionals Group in conjunction with The Blueprint for Westchester (our major economic development initiative) have joined forces with Project for Public Spaces (pps.org) to present Work. Live. Play. WESTCHESTER! on July 31. PPS believes in “Place-making,” a unique approach to the planning, design and management of public spaces. The forum, held at the Pepsico World Headquarters will identify solutions—and an action plan—to transform Westchester’s cities, transportation hubs, and dormant office parks into cool, modern “professional housing” and entertainment complexes. Be a part of Westchester’s extreme makeover.

Join us for Work. Live. Play. WESTCHESTER! A special shout out to PepsiCo in Purchase for hosting this terrific event. Wednesday, July 31 5:30 to 8 pm Sponsored by Houlihan Lawrence, Inc. For more information, contact Marissa Brett or Julia Salem at 914.948.6444 or by visiting www.westchester.org

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This year, we have even more to celebrate as WCA’s BLUEPRINT for Westchester initiative marks its first year of accomplishments! We hope you will make time to join us for the BLUEPRINT’s first birthday party and WCA’s annual summer networking reception: Wednesday, July 18, 5:30 to 8 pm at Tappan Hill Mansion in Tarrytown. Food and drink will be provided by Abigail Kirsch Catering Relationships. We’ll also have a delicious birthday cake from LuLu’s Cake Boutique, Balloons by Uptown Balloons, and an amazing silent auction fundraiser. This event is sponsored by: Abigail Kirsch Catering Relationships, Berkeley College, Chubb & Sons, Citrin Cooperman & Co., Con Edison, Entergy, Harrison Edwards PR & Marketing, KeyBank, LuLu’s Cake Boutique, M&T Bank, Mahopac National Bank, Mercy College, NY Medical Center, Uptown Balloons, PepsiCo, Reckson, a Division of SL Green, The Journal News and The Rollins Agency.

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THE ROOM WAS FILLED WITH…ENERGY!

ost and reliability are key when it comes to the future of energy in New York State. But what will the mix of energy resources in the plan look like and who will pay for it? There are new dynamics that the business community must be prepared to confront, according to a panel of five energy experts, who spoke to more than 60 concerned business people during “Meeting Demand: the Policy and Politics Behind New York’s Energy Outlook,” a forum on energy, presented by the Westchester County Association, BOMA Westchester and NY AREA on June 14. The governor’s Energy Highway Task Force is expected to explore ways to meet our state’s future electric power needs while protecting the environment and creating jobs. But what will the mix of energy resources in the plan look like and who will pay for it? And what about these other issues that panelists said we’re facing:

FACT: More than 40% of the electric generation in New York State is transmitted on infrastructure more than 40 years old. We will need to replace more than 5,000 miles of transmission lines in the next 30 years at a cost of billions of dollars. FACT: Indian Point cannot be shut down unless there’s a replacement facility. At present, Indian Point produces 25% of all the electricity in New York City and Westchester. Numerous studies conducted over the years have shown the detrimental economic and environmental impact of shutting down Indian Point, including a report commissioned by the City of New York that found an increase of up to 15% in electricity prices if Indian Point were to close. FACT: Protest groups opposed to most forms of energy production, transmission, and licensing projects, are now being heavily funded by non-profit foundations, whose core missions may not have anything to do with energy. Read more at www.westchester.org/article.php?a=225 (or click “energy” on our homepage’s topic section)

COMING UP Exclusively for Young Professionals LEADERSHIP FOR A SMARTER PLANET Inside IBM with Linda Sanford, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Transformation Tuesday, June 26, 5:30 to 7 pm IBM Solutions Lab, Hawthorne Members: $40; future members: $50 Success in today’s business world means embracing change and turning challenges into opportunities. *Advanced registration required for admission. Names will be checked by Security upon arrival. WCA’s ANNUAL SUMMER EVENT & BLUEPRINT BIRTHDAY PARTY A networking extravaganza! Wednesday, July 18, 5:30 to 8 pm Tappan Hill Mansion, Tarrytown $100 per person; sponsor listing at Westchester.org WORK. LIVE. PLAY. WESTCHESTER! Making Westchester cool, affordable, and viable. Tuesday, July 31, 5:30 to 8 pm PepsiCo World Headquarters, Purchase

Above: Sandra Miller, Con Edison; and Deborah Patterson, Con Edison Above right: Richard Thomas, director, NYAREA

The energetic panel: Roger Curtis (Moderator), CB Richard Ellis; Dr. Matthew Cordaro, Suffolk County Legislature LIPA Oversight Committee; Jerry Kremer, NYAREA; Joe Oates, Con Edison; Michael N. Romita, Castle Oil Corporation; Marc L. Spitzer (Keynote Speaker), Steptoe & Johnson LLP Above: Tom Ronig, and Martin Ball, Customers Bank; Jim Killoran, Habitat 4 Humanity Above right: Joanne Fernandez, Entergy

Above: Patricia Smith, Con Edison; Jane Solnick, Con Edison; Jacqueline Rossow, Sisters of the Divine Compassion Above right: Jay Black, Reckson, a Division of SL Green Above: Bill Mooney, WCA president with Michael N. Romita, Castle Oil Corporation Above right: John Tuller, NYAREA, with Amy Allen, WCA Managing Director of Advocacy & International Business

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Habitat thrives with an assist from Wall Street BY PATRICK GALLAGHER pgallagher@westfairinc.com

im Killoran, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Westchester Inc., has a Rolodex that would make the most seasoned businessman jealous. Last week, Killoran and the Habitat staff were joined by a group volunteers from MasterCard Inc. at a site in lower Westchester. The week before, it was Goldman Sachs Group Inc. President and COO Gary Cohn and a group of his employees. Two weeks prior, it was a group of more than 100 volunteers from the likes of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Cisco. Later this summer, Killoran is expecting a team of volunteers from Citigroup Inc. And Heineken USA Inc. has pledged a group of employees for the fall. “We’re teaching people to build again,” Killoran said with a chuckle. “We need to bring victory gardens back, and whether you’re a GED or a PhD, everyone should learn how to build.” Of course, that is only a side effect, an added benefit, of what Killoran has dubbed “habititis.” The real goal, he said, is to “end the face of poverty in this county in a way that’s unprecedented.” Helped in large part by the generosity of Habitat’s corporate partners and volunteers, Killoran has presided over the revitalization of down-and-out neighborhoods across Westchester – something government, with tax revenue down and budgets at a breaking point, has been largely unable to do. “To me, the crisis is the opportunity,” he said. From Yonkers and Mount Vernon to White Plains to Peekskill, Habitat has rebuilt and renovated homes, cleared cluttered and overgrown lots, painted buildings, pruned parks and even formed a community marching band to give kids an after-school activity. Just last month, Habitat celebrated the completion of a zero-energy home on Orchard Avenue in Yonkers. “My goal is to have 500 people a week in this county volunteering,” Killoran said. “Some Habitat (branches) won’t take more than 10 a day on one house. I’m waiting for a company to call me and say, ‘We want 400 on this day,’ because with that I can change the whole face of a neighborhood in one day.”

Many Westchester and New York City companies have muscles up where sitting at your desk you don’t get that – longstanding relationships with Killoran’s group. they were glowing.” Habitat for Humanity of Westchester was one of the Simkins said it was a win-win for Habitat, his employoriginal nonprofits Goldman Sachs partnered with when ees and his company’s productivity. the financial giant launched its Community TeamWorks “To force people to go to work in crummy condiprogram in 1997. In the time since, 26,500 Goldman tions and physically exert themselves and to come back employees have contributed more than 150,000 volunteer and thank Jim and thank Lucy and I for allowing them hours to various causes worldwide. Cisco has partnered with Habitat since 1998, working with 100 of the nonprofit’s U.S. affiliates and 50 international branches. The company matches all of its employees’ donations to Habitat, up to $1,000 a year per employee, and will donate $10 for each hour an employee volunteers with Habitat. Over the past 12 years, that has amounted to more than $9 million in financial support. And it’s not only the big names who are getting involved. In May, Habitat for Humanity of Westchester completed construction on a zero-energy home in Yonkers. Courtesy For the past 15 years, of Habitat for Humanity. HyperLink Inc., a cell phone provider based in Mount Vernon, has asked each employee to volunteer to do these things, that’s a win,” Simkins said. “It really one day a year, on company time, at the charity of their does come back to the bottom line. If our staff are more choice. engaged, they’re going to come back and do better work.” This year, HyperLink owner and President David Killoran says he hopes to be able to take advantage Simkins said the company instead divided its 40 employ- of Habitat’s partners’ “human capital in addition to their ees into three groups, entrusting each of the groups to physical capital.” Killoran and his staff for a day. “What we’re beginning to do is … to encourage them “The residual for (my wife and co-owner) Lucy and I to think with me on how to use their educational capital was these people came back sparked up the next day and to say, ‘Okay, how could you be a mentor to our friend,’ the next week and the next month,” Simkins said. “To or ‘Could you help consider how I could finance a larger actually endure a little bit of physical pain – to wake some project?’” Killoran said.

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Giving back is part of the PepsiCo playbook BY MARY SHUSTACK mshustack@westfairinc.com

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undreds of PepsiCo employees are preparing to fan out to do volunteer work throughout Westchester and Fairfield counties July 18. This fifth edition of the Pepsi Gives Back Days program will find PepsiCo employees working with all ages at nonprofit organizations that serve a variety of community needs. Christine Mugno, manager of global citizenship and sustainability for the PepsiCo Foundation in Purchase, said the company employs some 3,500 people in Purchase,

Somers and Valhalla – and this year’s target is to have 600 of those doing volunteer work that day. “We try to find organizations that work within sort of our focus areas,” she said. These include health, the environment and education. Some will be organizations that PepsiCo has had longstanding relationships and others will be new. The Volunteer Center of United Way in Tarrytown has been working with PepsiCo to help organize the efforts. Jeanette Gisbert, senior director of volunteer and corporate engagement for The Volunteer Center, said it’s rewarding to be working with PepsiCo again. “Volunteerism is a part of their culture,” Gisbert said, noting the company strives

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to continue “harnessing employees interests and passions” into this daylong effort. Already, she said, “We have over 25 projects identified.” PepsiCo volunteers are set to work with organizations including Green Chimneys in Brewster, Children’s Village in Dobbs Ferry, the Sharing Shelf of Family Services of Westchester, the Food Bank for Westchester and Somers Manor, a rehabilitation and skilled-nursing facility, among others. “The menu of opportunities is very diverse,” Gisbert said, adding that is intentional to help employees find an opportunity that will match up with their own interests and talents. The Westchester center has teamed up with its Connecticut counterpart to offer aid in efforts that cross state lines. PepsiCo volunteers, for example, will help rebuild a washed-out bridge at Audubon Greenwich. The rewards of days such as these extend far beyond the actual work that is accomplished, says Alisa Kesten, the executive director of the Volunteer Center in Westchester. Working side-by-side with co-workers on projects unrelated to work often builds a bond that continues back on the job. “Now they’ll recognize each other as they see each other and have that connection,” Kesten says. And the days can have a lasting impact on the nonprofits, as well. In these challenging economic times, Kesten adds, “nonprofits have to figure out ways to do much more” with less resources. She encourages nonprofits to think about what they’d do if they suddenly learned they would have 25 volunteers for a day. “One of the things we do year-round is talk to nonprofits about their ‘blue-sky projects,’ what would they do if they got that call,” she said. Mugno says these a program like Gives Back Days can also be a learning experience for employees. “Even though Westchester and Fairfield counties, they tend to be well-off counties, there’s a lot that’s hidden there.” Some employees, she adds, are so affected that they go on to volunteer on their own time. “They get hooked,” Mugno said. “They get bitten by the work of the organization. It’s been wonderful to see that.” While Gives Back Days is a major mobilization for PepsiCo, the company’s efforts go far beyond this annual event. In May, for example, the company sponsored a Bowlathon fundraiser for Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Family Services of Westchester. “PepsiCo Bowl for Kids’ Sake” was held May 18 at AMF White Plains Bowl. And earlier this month, Guiding Eyes for the Blind, the acclaimed guide-dog school in Yorktown Heights, announced that it

received a $3 million commitment from the PepsiCo Foundation that will go toward the renovation and expansion of the Canine Development Center in Patterson. In a statement announcing the grant, Guiding Eyes for the Blind CEO and President William D. Badger said, “For years Guiding Eyes has benefitted from PepsiCo’s generosity of expertise and volunteer spirit.” The Volunteer Center of United Way welcomes contact from corporations looking to find projects for their employees. For more details, call the Volunteer Center at (914) 948-4452. PepsiCo associates volunteer at the Boys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester.

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Patricia Lanza: Helping those who really need it BY JANICE KIRKEL jkirkel@westfairinc.com

atricia Lanza said this one was nothing like what she used to call “the old folks home.” They were always so depressing, Lanza said. “I never went into one where I said, ‘I want to go there when the time comes.’ But this one was different.” The one she is referring to is My Second Home in Mount Kisco, an intergenerational center that includes youth programs as well as a day program for older adults. “On one side there were the seniors, on the other side were the children, but they got together. Like one had grandparents and the other had grandchildren,” she said. “It was so great, they had seniors helping kids with reading. Everyone was happy. The seniors said they looked forward to

coming. I said to myself, ‘I’d like to see one like that in the White Plains area.’” The award-winning program is the work of Family Services of Westchester in Port Chester and it inspired her to give Family Services a $1 million, one-year Challenge Grant to develop a Center for All Ages in White Plains. Lanza will match whatever Family Services raises toward the project in one year, up to $1 million. Lanza’s foundation was started with the personal funds of her late husband, Frank Lanza, who died in 2006. He was the founder and chairman of L-3 Communications Corp., a New York City-based defense company that makes everything from smart bombs to airport scanners to airplane black boxes and satellites. The 79-year-old Lanza, who lives in Eastchester, calls herself a born-again

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Christian, and says religious organizations are another focus of her giving. Lanza is working on or has just completed a number of projects. “I just did one with the Food Bank of Westchester. They were trying to get a new warehouse. I gave them a $75,000 challenge grant and they matched it in three months. They just opened it in the last month or so.” Another project involves El Centro Hispano of White Plains. “They do all sorts of things, computer classes, English as a second Language, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, a mentoring and tutoring program.” Lanza said this is the third year of the program with female mentors tutoring girls, and she wants to start one with male mentors tutoring boys. “I think a lot of the boys need a male figure in their lives,” she said. The mentors are college

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kids, said Lanza, from Manhattanville and Westchester Community College, tutoring seventh- and eighth-graders. She figures it will take $30,000 to $40,000 to start the boys’ program. “We also give scholarships to the mentors to help with college costs.” Another of Lanza’s favorites is Habitat for Humanity, in Westchester. “They have a program called Brush With Patricia Lanza Kindness. When they go into a neighborhood to rebuild a home, they look around and if there are homes that are in need of repair they volunteer to do this. I fund it, $100,000 a year on a continuing basis whenever they come to a point where they need more money. I’ve been Involved with that for 12 or 13 years. Lanza’s giving is not confined to Westchester, though. “There’s a place in Worcester, Massachusetts called the New England Dream Center. It’s run by a pastor and it’s one-stop-shopping for people.” She singled out one aspect of the center, care for babies and children who are dropped off at hospital or are in foster homes. “They supply whatever kinds of things kids would need and give it to foster parents. Local merchants supply a lot of the things.” The center offers everything from dance classes to alcohol and drug programs for teenagers and programs for people to get into the building trades and a day program for people with Alzheimer’s disease. And at Christmas, there are presents for children in need. Lanza has also moved into rewarding entrepreneurship through the Lanza Enterprise Awards Program, a joint effort of her foundation as well as the Women’s Research and Education Fund and the Women’s Enterprise Development Center. Women take a 15-week course in how to start a business and they can apply for microloans. Lanza said the foundation looks through the applications and donates something worth about $5,000 to the ones they deem most in need. “I think we need to spend on the necessary things in life for other people,” Lanza said. “When I read in the Chronicle of Philanthropy about what major corporations donate to, I’m always so disappointed. They give to colleges and the art world. If they would give to the poor – food, clothing, housing – it would help so much. They just don’t do it.”

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ITT’s commitment to the Watermark program and pledged $10.5 million over three years. With its nonprofit partners, Xylem has completed school projects in Honduras and Guatemala and currently manages community water projects in India, China and Peru. Its water-related disaster risk reduction programs operate in Colombia, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Nepal, China and Tajikistan. Xylem Watermark also has provided emergency relief in countries that include Honduras, Haiti, Nepal, Niger, Liberia, Libya, Kenya, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Pakistan and Japan. Later this year, Xylem plans to expand its strategic global partnerships to reach

ylem Inc., the water technology company headquartered in White Plains and ITT Corp. spinoff business, this month was recognized by an international corporate philanthropy group for its social investment program to provide and protect clean, safe water and sanitation systems in communities worldwide. At an annual corporate philanthropy summit in New York City, Xylem received the President’s Award for Excellence from the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, a group of more than 180 business CEOs and chairpersons whose mission is to raise the level and quality of corporate philanthropy. Committee members represent companies that account for more than 40 percent of reported corporate giving in the U.S The president’s award is given to a company with annual revenues of $20 billion or less. An external committee of judges based their decision on evidence of strong CEO leadership, commitment to innovation, dedication to measurement and cultivation of strategic A Xylem volunteer helps Asian villagers install an emergency water tank. partnerships, according to a Xylem spokesman. “To have achieved this recognition in what company officials described as some our first year as an independent company of the world’s most vulnerable communiis a true accomplishment and a testament ties in South America and Asia. Xylem will to our employees everywhere who take very provide funding and employee volunteer seriously our tagline – ‘Let’s solve water,’” hours to Fundacion AVINA and Planet Water Xylem President and CEO Gretchen McClain Foundation to provide access to clean water said in the company’s award announcement. to more than 40,000 people in Brazil, China, “These three words capture what we aim to India and the Philippines. In addition to its work with partners in do through our products, our applications solutions, our research and development and the field, Xylem Watermark sponsors the our initiatives in sustainability and corporate annual Stockholm Junior Water Prize, an international award that recognizes the most social responsibility.” Launched in 2008 by ITT as Watermark, innovative water projects of young student the philanthropic program initially pledged scientists. According to Xylem researchers, 884 mil$4 million over three years to three nonprofit partners in India and China – Water lion people worldwide lack access to safe for People, China Women’s Development water supplies and about 2.5 billion people Foundation and Mercy Corps. The com- lack access to improved sanitation. Diseases pany in that time surpassed its goal to reach associated with unclean water and inadequate sanitation and hygiene account for 50 500,000 people with its clean-water efforts. In 2010, the ITT program committed to percent of hospitalizations worldwide. The world’s largest provider of pumps reaching an additional 1 million people by 2013 through school and community water and water treatment and transport equipprojects, disaster risk reduction for water ment, Xylem Inc. in 2011 reported revenue supplies and disaster relief efforts. In 2011, of $3.8 billion. The publicly traded company after ITT’s spinoff of its water businesses, has 12,500 employees, 100 of whom are based the newly formed Xylem said it would fulfill at its 1133 Westchester Ave. headquarters.

Volunteerism a longtime byproduct of Dannon’s corporate culture BY MARY SHUSTACK mshustack@westfairinc.com

he Dannon Co. may employ only 225 people in its national headquarters in Greenburgh, but in any given year, 75 percent of them volunteer their time and talent to local nonprofit organizations. It is, simply, a part of the Dannon philosophy, said Gayle Binney, the company’s manager of corporate responsibility. “We have a strong volunteer culture,” she said. “I like to think of us as small but mighty, but we really do have a very engaged employee base.” The company’s four values, she said, include health, nature, people and “for all,” or product affordability. “We live that very much through what we do in the community, as well,” she said. The spirit of volunteerism, which extends to those who work at the company’s factory facilities in Ohio, Texas and Utah, is not something new and trendy. It was back in 1972 that Dannon’s then-CEO Antoine Riboud, made a key speech in Paris during which, Binney says,

Dannon legal department employees volunteer at a food pantry.

“He said ‘A corporation has a responsibility bigger than just the economic performance of its products.’” In fact, another Riboud’s quote – “Corporate responsibility does not end at the factory gate or at office doors” – is prominent in Dannon’s philanthropic materials. “We have a nice heritage, a nice foundation to draw from,” Binney said. A prime example of those efforts is the annual Dannon Next Generation Nutrition Grants of $30,000 each, which often provide very concrete results. Binney said the 2010 local grant winner, Open Door Family Medical Centers, not only reported that students in its school-based health clinic in Port Chester learned more about healthy behavior but

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more than half showed a reduction in Body Mass Index as the program went on. Employees who themselves go out into the communities also get a sense of accomplishment. Departments who would like to incorporate a volunteer element to their meeting days often contact Binney. A team, for example, might have four hours of business meetings but follow it with an afternoon of donating their time to a local nonprofit agency. Binney, often with the help of The Volunteer Center of United Way in Tarrytown, helps identify options. “There are literally hundreds of choices,” Binney said.

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Dannon employee activities in the past have included everything from planting trees for Earth Day to beautifying a local preschool, from serving up smoothies at a charity event to clearing beach debris. One day might find Dannon employees involved with health-related projects at the Thomas H. Slater Center in White Plains, answering phones during a radio fundraiser for Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla or on nature-related efforts at the Beczak Environmental Education Center in Yonkers. In addition, Binney notes, “We’re very loyal to doing product donations throughout the year,” especially when these are tied to nutritional education events for children. No matter the effort and its tangible rewards, the outreach efforts often bring something back to the workplace, as well. “It’s a way for people who may not interact together on a daily basis to find a way to work together,” Binney said. “It’s definitely been a help when we’ve done events that are across the departments.” And that volunteer effort is one that will continue, Binney said, reaching everyone from the top executives to the newest batch of summer interns. “It really is something we do at all levels of the company.”

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EMM Group Holdings L.L.C. Filed by Bridget McKevitt. Action: claim filed under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Attorney for plaintiff: Daniel Kirschenbaum. Filed June 19. Case no. 12-04709. Facebook Inc., et al. Filed by Howard Savitt. Action: claim filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Attorneys for plaintiff: Jeffrey Block, Warren T. Burns, Daniel H. Charest, Jason Leviton, Terrell Oxford and Arun Subramanian. Filed June 13. Case no. 12-04648.

PerkstreetFinancial Inc. Filed by Anita Kunz. Action: copyright infringement claim. Attorneys for plaintiff: Edward Greenberg and Tamara Lannin. Filed June 13. Case no. 12-04642. Pinnacle Credit Services L.L.C. Filed by Todd A. Fishlin. Action: claim filed under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act of 1978. Attorney for plaintiff: Abel Pierre. Filed June 13. Case no. 12-04613.

Renuen Corp., et al. Filed by Below $1 million MASQ Marketing Inc. Action: diversity-breach of contract claim. Attorney for plaintiff: 551-553 Willet Avenue Realty Andrew Ayers. Filed June 15. L.L.C., New Rochelle. Seller: SR Holdings L.L.C., Greenwich, Case no. 12-04717. Conn. Property: 551-553 Willett Ave., Rye. Amount: $325,000. RosenblumAssociates Inc. Filed Filed June 14. by Anita Kunz. Action: copyright infringement claim. Attorneys for plaintiff: Edward Greenberg and Cartus Financial Corp., DanTamara Lannin. Filed June 13. bury, Conn. Seller: Andrew L. Taylor Jr., et al, Buchanan. PropCase no. 12-04643. erty: 182 Fourth St., Cortlandt. Amount: $502,500. Filed June 15. SIMSWyeth & Company Inc. Filed by Anita Kunz. Action: copyright infringement Delta Building L.L.C., Bedford. claim. Attorneys for plaintiff: Seller: Alex G. Malloy, Harpers Edward Charles, Greenberg and Ferry, Va. Property: 17 KingTamara Lannin. Filed June 13. swood Way, Lewisboro. Amount: $185,000. Filed June 15. Case no. 12-04644. W.W. Grainger Inc. Filed by Mechanical Plastics Corp. Action: trademark infringement claim. Attorneys for plaintiff: Mark A. Angelov and Marylee Jenkins. Filed June 14. Case no. 12-04688. Yak Farmers Inc. Filed by Acolyte Technologies Corp. Action: patent infringement claim. Attorneys for plaintiff: Joshua Matthews, Richard Schurin and Steven Stern. Filed June 14. Case no. 12-04683.

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Elk Homes Partners L.P., Rye. Seller: Ihn S. Lar, et al, Scarsdale. Property: 24 Ridgedale Road, Scarsdale. Amount: $850,800. Filed June 14. Fannie Mae. Seller: Evelyn Appel, White Plains. Property: 17 N. High St., Mount Vernon 10550. Amount: $648,450. Filed June 13. Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Veronica Chin, Mount Vernon. Property: 109 S. Fulton Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $427,640. Filed June 14.

Granite Hill Construction Corp., Melville. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 219 Hudson St., Pelham. Amount: $585,199. Filed PK Tarrytown L.L.C., West June 13. Nyack. Seller: 400 T Town L.L.C., Bronxville. Property: J2 Boniello Builders Inc., 400 Tarrytown Road, Green- Goldens Bridge. Seller: Aproburgh. Amount: $1.6 million. pos Housing Opportunities and Filed June 18. Management Enterprises Inc., Pleasantville. Property: WaccaR. Fisher Properties L.L.C., buc Road, Lewisboro. Amount: New Rochelle. Seller: Leon- $60,000. Filed June 14. ard S. Schaer, Sherman, Conn. Property: 10 Potter Ave., New New York Self Leveling Inc., Rochelle. Amount: $1.2 million. Yonkers. Seller: Blauvelt Realty Filed June 18. L.L.C., Yonkers. Property: 7-9 Central Park Ave., 7D, Yonkers. Amount: $230,000. Filed June 15.

Q and O Construction Corp., Yonkers. Seller: Robin Kutner, aka Robin Kunter, San Diego, Calif. Property: 209 Rockne Road, Yonkers. Amount: $25,000. Filed June 15. Retained Realty Inc., New York. Seller: Francis D. Terrell, White Plains. Property: 317 S. Sixth Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Amount: $274,508. Filed June 19. Ridge Forest Realty Corp., Ridgewood. Seller: Robert Anesi, New York City. Property: 10 City Place, PH5F, White Plains. Amount: $690,000. Filed June 13.

foreclosures IRVINGTON, 2 Stearns Ridge, 3 Stearns Ridge, 23 Dearman Close, 25 Dearman Close, 33 Dearman Close. Vacant land; Lot size: Not available. Plaintiff: Normandy Corp. Plaintiff’s Attorney: Schuman, Sall & Geist, 1 N. Lexington Ave., White Plains. Defendant: O’Neill Rowan LTD. Referee: Jeffrey Shumejda. Sale: June 28, 9:30 a.m., Westchester County Courthouse, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., White Plains. Approximate lien: $1,140,035.11 plus $719,830.51 second mortgage. MAMARONECK, 625 Waverly Ave. Manufacturing; 120 x 100. Plaintiff: Joel Friedberg. Plaintiff’s attorney: Barry Nesson (914)7254050; 700 White Plains Road, Scarsdale. Defendant: Metaglo Inc. Referee: Bruce Bozeman. Sale: June 27, 11:30 a.m., Westchester County Courthouse, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., White Plains. Approximate lien: $13,327.95.

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FACTS&FIGURES NEW ROCHELLE, 107 Sickles Ave. Three-family dwelling; .09 acre. Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s Attorney: Gross, Polowy & Orlans, P.O. Box 540, Getzville. Defendant: Maire Carmel Poinvil. Referee: John Crane. Sale: June 26, 10 a.m., Westchester County Courthouse, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., White Plains. Approximate lien: $627,067.21. NEW ROCHELLE, 36 Crosby Place. Apartment. Lot size; .16 acre. Plaintiff: Olympia Mortgage Corp Plaintiff’s attorney: Berkman, Henoch, Peterson & Peddy (516) 222-6200; 100 Garden City Plaza, Garden City. Defendant: Rudolph Hamilton. Referee: Edward Loughman. Sale: June 26, 9:30 a.m., Westchester County Courthouse, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., White Plains. Approximate lien: Not available. RYE, 179 Forest Ave. Single-family residence; 1.3 acres. Plaintiff: WEXA1 HVB L.L.C. Plaintiff’s attorney: Benanti & Associates (203) 324-9559; 350 Bedford St., Stamford, CT 06901. Defendant: Forest Ave. Development L.L.C. Referee: Joan Iacono. Sale: June 27, 9 a.m., Westchester County Courthouse, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., White Plains. Approximate lien: $2,775,524.48. WHITE PLAINS, 146 S. Broadway.Two-family dwelling; 50 x 125. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Fein, Such & Crane (585) 232-7400; 28 E. Main St., Suite 1800, Rochester. Defendant: Rosamma Kalathara. Referee: Brian Farrell. Sale: June 25, 10:15 a.m., Westchester County Courthouse, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., White Plains. Approximate lien: $627,231.23 . WHITE PLAINS, 22 Maple St. Two-family dwelling; .15 acre. Plaintiff: CitiMortgage Inc. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates (845) 897-1600; 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill. Defendant: Peter Marzziotti. Referee: Kevin Wright. Sale: July 6, 1 p.m., Westchester County Courthouse, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., White Plains. Approximate lien: $409,774.58.

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WHITE PLAINS, 55 Riverdale Ave. Single-family residence; .17 acre. Plaintiff: US Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates (845) 897-1600; 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill. Defendant: Ronald Fowler. Referee: Kenneth Bunting. Sale: June 28, 9:30 a.m., Westchester County Courthouse, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., White Plains. Approximate lien: $136,367.14. YORKTOWN, 3010 Farm Walk Road. Single-family residence; .46 acre. Plaintiff: Ameriquest Mortgage Co. Plaintiff’s Attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates (845) 897-1600; 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill. Defendant: Hal Marks. Referee: Robert Rafferty. Sale: June 26, 9:30 a.m., Westchester County Courthouse, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., White Plains. Approximate lien: $210,029.16.

Judgments D and T Grocery and Deli Inc., Mount Vernon. $1,385 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed Oct. 18.

David’s Gentlemen’s Custom Clothiers Ltd., Mount Kisco. $1,487 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed Oct. 18.

El –Hag Group Ltd., Bedford. $1,820 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed Oct. 18.

El Refujio Inc., New Rochelle. Davinci Medical Supplies Inc., $1,463 in favor of the New York New Rochelle. $1,550 in favor of State Tax Commission, Albany. the New York State Tax Commis- Filed Oct. 18. sion, Albany. Filed Oct. 18. Elephant Sport Bar Inc., Mount Deeanij Biz Corp., Mount Ver- Vernon. $185 in favor of the New non. $439 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, AlYork State Tax Commission, Al- bany. Filed Oct. 18. bany. Filed Oct. 18. Elite Capital Management Inc., Demonrose Productions Inc., Dobbs Ferry. $1,395 in favor of Yonkers. $440 in favor of the New the New York State Tax CommisYork State Tax Commission, Al- sion, Albany. Filed Oct. 18. bany. Filed Oct. 18. Elite Licensing Inc., Mount Design and Light Inc., Somers. Kisco. $1,894 in favor of the New $1,395 in favor of the New York York State Tax Commission, AlState Tax Commission, Albany. bany. Filed Oct. 18. Filed Oct. 18. Emerald LP Holdings Inc., Dilemas Fashion Corp., Yon- White Plains. $35,195 in favor of kers. $1,472 in favor of the New the New York State Tax CommisYork State Tax Commission, Al- sion, Albany. Filed Oct. 18. bany. Filed Oct. 18. Essential Barber Shop BeauDKRP Beverage Inc., Yorktown ty Salon Inc., Elmsford. $1,445 Heights. $474 in favor of the New in favor of the New York State York State Tax Commission, Al- Tax Commission, Albany. Filed bany. Filed Oct. 18. Oct. 18.

D. Dennis Anderson Inc., Bedford Hills. $19,081 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Dreamquest Inc., Briarcliff Albany. Filed Oct. 18. Manor. $1,389 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, D.M. Auto Repair Inc., Yonkers. Albany. Filed Oct. 18. $1,509 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. E and R Plumbing Inc., HawFiled Oct. 18. thorne. $474 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, AlDaily Pita Retail Store Inc., bany. Filed Oct. 18. Yonkers. $1,745 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Eamonn Mulligan Drywall Albany. Filed Oct. 18. Inc., Yonkers. $1,745 in favor of the New York State Tax CommisDaisy Brown’s Chicken Shack sion, Albany. Filed Oct. 18. Inc., Yonkers. $1,534 in favor of the New York State Tax Commis- East Lane Productions Inc., Arsion, Albany. Filed Oct. 18. monk. $219 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, AlDankat Consulting Inc., Yon- bany. Filed Oct. 18. kers. $3,389 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Al- Eastern Consortium Combany. Filed Oct. 18. pany Inc., Bedford Hills. $3,642 in favor of the New York State Data Mind Solutions Inc., Tax Commission, Albany. Filed White Plains. $1,344 in favor of Oct. 18. the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed Oct. 18. E-Hudson Tech Inc., Ardsley. $1,733 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed Oct. 18.

First Pellet Boiler Inc., Yonkers. $1,472 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed Oct. 18. Fitness For All Inc., Cortlandt Manor. $473 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed Oct. 18.

Fowler Realty Inc., Tarrytown. $1,389 in favor of the New York Lis Pendens State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed Oct. 18. The following filings indicated a legal action has been initiated, the From Now-Own Inc., Mount outcome of which may affect the Vernon. $1,708 in favor of the title to the property listed. New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed Oct. 18. Anderson-Slater, Marline, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Funshine Inc., New Rochelle. Action: seeks to foreclose on a $2,959 in favor of the New York mortgage to secure $315,000 afState Tax Commission, Albany. fecting property located at 144 Hawthorne Ave., Yonkers 10701. Filed Oct. 18. Filed May 18. Furniture Restoration of White Plains Inc., Mount Ver- Barbosa, Jose Luis, et al. Filed non. $3,822 in favor of the New by SABR Mortgage Loan 2008-1 York State Tax Commission, Al- REO Subsidiary-1 L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortbany. Filed Oct. 18. gage to secure $417,000 affecting G and L Deli Inc., Mamaroneck. property located at 8 Cook Lane, $376 in favor of the New York Croton-on-Hudson 10520. Filed State Tax Commission, Albany. May 17. Filed Oct. 18. Bulfamante, Anne Marie, et G.A.G. Restaurant Inc., Yonkers. al. Filed by Everbank. Action: $1,431 in favor of the New York seeks to foreclose on a mortgage State Tax Commission, Albany. to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at Filed Oct. 18. 548 Webster Ave., New Rochelle 10801. Filed May 16. Global Export of NY Inc., Peekskill. $706 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Al- Cabrera, Jaime O., et al. Filed by Aurora Loan Services L.L.C. bany. Filed Oct. 18. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $456,000 afGood Diamonds Inc., Yonkers. fecting property located at 32 Ter$1,894 in favor of the New York race Place, Tuckahoe 10707. Filed State Tax Commission, Albany. May 18. Filed Oct. 18. GR Pest Management Construction Company Inc., Mount Vernon. $1,550 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed Oct. 18.

Fitzgerald’s Tavern Inc., Yonkers. $1,732 in favor of the New Gravitas Communications Inc., York State Tax Commission, Al- Irvington. $637 in favor of the bany. Filed Oct. 18. New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed Oct. 18. FM2 Capital Ventures Ltd., White Plains. $563 in favor of the Great Date Now Inc., Purchase. New York State Tax Commission, $1,881 in favor of the New York Albany. Filed Oct. 18. State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed Oct. 18. Formal Impressions Inc., New Rochelle. $134 in favor of the Greenwich Flower Corp., South New York State Tax Commission, Salem. $1,696 in favor of the New Albany. Filed Oct. 18. York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed Oct. 18. Fortune Seven Real Estate Group Inc., Mount Vernon. The Good Table Inc., Purchase. $1,882 in favor of the New York $1,500 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed Oct. 18. Filed Oct. 18.

Caruso, Vincent A. Jr., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $298,750 affecting property located at 52 Townsend Road, Crompond 10517. Filed May 16. Castillo, Felix, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $325,000 affecting property located at 37 Lake St., White Plains 10603. Filed May 16. Damiano, Ann Marie, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $389,000 affecting property located at 321 Locust St., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed May 14. Erick, Dawn, aka Dawn Doll, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $293,040 affecting property located at 2842 Brookfield Drive, Yorktown Heights 10598. Filed May 15.

Credits, Clients and Awards ENT and Allergy Associates L.L.P. has received two gold and one silver Big W award, as bestowed by the Advertising Club of Westchester. Awarded annually, the ad club’s Big W awards recognize outstanding advertising, marketing and public relations campaigns throughout Westchester County. Sound Shore Medical Center in New Rochelle recently received a $2,000 donation for its Cappelli Diabetes Center from the Rotary Club of New Rochelle. The funds will help in the ongoing efforts to education individuals about this chronic disease.

From left, Everet Owens, of Sound Shore Medical Center Outpatient Diabetes Education Program; David Blum, Sound Shore Medical Center chief of endocrinology and director of the Cappelli Diabetes Center; Ray Benenato, New Rochelle Rotary president elect; and John R. Spicer, president and CEO of Sound Shore Medical Center.

Jeff Croiter, a 1993 alumnus of the Purchase College School of the Arts, was honored recently with a lighting design Tony Award for “Peter and the Starcatcher,” a play about the origins of Peter Pan. Croiter has been the lighting designer for numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions in recent years.

Molham Solomon has joined Sound Shore Medical Center in New Rochelle as an obstetrician/gynecologist and family medicine physician. Solomon holds an academic appointment as assisOpen Door Family Medical Center, with four centers tant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Mt. Sinai School of in Ossining, Port Chester, Mount Kisco and Sleepy Hollow, has Medicine. Solomon is director of Women’s Health at Saint Joseph’s announced the following individuals have joined its foundation Medical Center. board. Marlene G. Canapi of Pleasantville. Barry S. Stopler of Pleasantville. On the Go: Business, Etc.

Newsmakers

Lesli Hammerschmidt of Armonk has joined the residential real estate brokerage office of Houlihan Lawrence as a salesperson in the Armonk office. For the past 17 years, she has worked as an international relocation consultant. Hammerschmidt holds a bachelor’s degree in international business.

Scott D. Locke, partner and intellectual property attorney a the law firm of Dorf & Nelson L.L.P. in Rye, has been selected to head the firm’s new “Life Sciences” practice area. Locke has provided legal services to clients in the life science industry that were and are innovative with respect to RNA synthesis, DNA synthesis, and RNA interference.

Thursday June 28 “Are All Your Customers Profitable?” business development workshop, 8 to 9:30 a.m., Hudson Valley Gateway Chamber of Commerce, 1 S. Division St., Peekskill. For information, visit hvgatewaychamber.com.

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Snapshot

Maria Colucci, Merrill Lynch managing director – investments and senior financial advisor, was recently recognized on the “America’s Top 100 Women Advisors” list, which was published in the June 4 edition of Barron’s magazine. SAMANTHA DURANTE of Medley Media Associates has been honored as one of Westchester County’s outstanding up-and-coming professionals with a “40 Under 40” Rising Stars Award from The Business Council of Westchester. Samantha directs the marketing efforts for Select Telecom Inc., a Valhalla-based provider of telecommunications solutions. Marcum Cronus Partners L.L.C. was named the Boutique Investment Banking Firm of the Year at the recent ACG New York Champion’s Awards. A member of the Marcum Group, the firm is an affiliate of Marcum L.L.P., an independent public accounting and advisory services firm with 23 offices and more than 1,100 professionals. Verizon Foundation recently presented $75,000 to the College of New Rochelle’s School of New Resources’ (CNR) classrooms to benefit from new technology.

Kevin Service, Northeast area president, Verizon Communications and CNR trustee; Judith Huntington, CNR president; and Patrick Lespinasse, director of government affairs, Verizon Communications.

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FACTS&FIGURES Gallo, Patrick John Sr., et al. Filed by Citibank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 54 Wallace St., Tuckahoe 10707. Filed May 15. Hamilton, Arthur, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $468,000 affecting property located at 106 N. Lawn Ave., Elmsford 10523. Filed May 14.

Montague, Clara M., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $316,000 affecting property located at 2094 Maple Ave., Cortlandt Manor 10567. Filed May 18.

Tellone, Michele, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $455,000 affecting property located at 6 Hadden Ave., White Plains 10601. Filed May 16.

Newsome, Jacqueline, et al. Filed by Emigrant Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,000 affecting property located at 20 Cambridge Ave., Tuckahoe. Filed May 16.

Tirpan, Ani, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $417,000 affecting property located at 175 Huguenot St., New Rochelle 10801. Filed May 17.

Oceguera, Raul, et al. Filed by PHH Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $488,000 affecting property located at 142 Crescent Place, Yonkers 10704. Filed May 18.

Tortelli, Joseph, et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks This paper is not responsible for to foreclose on a mortgage to se- typographical errors contained in cure $359,650 affecting property the original filings. located at 19 High St., Valhalla. Filed May 15. Chi-Square International, 7 Boway Road, South Salem 10590. Vancio, G. Suzanne, et al. Filed Filed Dec. 29. by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $270,000 affecting prop- Clean Life, 206 Woodworth, erty located at 355 B Heritage Yonkers 10701. Filed Dec. 28. Hill, Somers 10589. Filed May 17. Early Expressions, 90 Concord Vigil, Cleotilde I., et al. Filed Ave., White Plains 10606. Filed by Central Mortgage Co. Action: Dec. 30. seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $316,000 affecting Fetchers and Fighters, 150 Croproperty located at 114 Buena ton Ave., Cortlandt Manor 10567. Vista Ave., Yonkers 10701. Filed Filed Dec. 29. May 16. Glamorous Girlz, 455 N. Broadway, Yonkers 10701. Filed Dec. 29.

Jagdeo, Gladys, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $152,622 affecting property located at 12 Laurie Road, Cortlandt Manor 10566. Filed May 14. Osorio, Martha, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: Joseph, Philous, et al. Filed by seeks to foreclose on a mortCitimortgage Inc. Action: seeks gage to secure $207,000 affectto foreclose on a mortgage to se- ing property located at 312 Main cure $304,000 affecting property St., Apt. 6E, White Plains 10601. located at 338 N. High St., aka Filed May 14. 339 High Street North, Mount Vernon. Filed May 15. Palmiotto, Anthony, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Kaiser, Christopher, et al. Filed Action: seeks to foreclose on a by Hudson City Savings Bank. mortgage to secure an unspeciAction: seeks to foreclose on a fied amount affecting property mortgage to secure $700,000 located at 140 Condit St., Harriaffecting property located at 3 son 10528. Filed May 17. Long Pond Road, Armonk. Filed May 18. Pantel, Marc N., aka Mark Pantel, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank Kassomenakis, Maria A., et al. USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreFiled by Citibank N.A. Action: close on a mortgage to secure seeks to foreclose on a mort- $540,000 affecting property locatgage to secure $551,900 affecting ed at 32 Hoyt Road, Pound Ridge property located at 5 Jean Lane, 10576. Filed May 18. Hartsdale 10530. Filed May 16. Pepe, Raffaele, et al. Filed by Kim, Yang Sook, et al. Filed Bank of America N.A. Action: by Aurora Loan Services L.L.C. seeks to foreclose on a mortgage Action: seeks to foreclose on a to secure an unspecified amount mortgage to secure $650,000 af- affecting property located at 209 fecting property located at 101 E. Sidney Ave., Mount Vernon Huntley Drive, Ardsley 10502. 10550. Filed May 17. Filed May 14. Sullivan, Marilee, et al. Filed by Matthews, Ronald M., et al. Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to Filed by Aurora Bank F.S.B. Ac- foreclose on a mortgage to secure tion: seeks to foreclose on a mort- $417,000 affecting property locatgage to secure $363,247 affecting ed at 3 Mark Mead Road, Cross property located at 242 S. First River. Filed May 15. Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed May 17. Sverdlin, James E., et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks McKenzie, Ryan, et al. Filed by to foreclose on a mortgage to seU.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to cure $620,000 affecting property foreclose on a mortgage to secure located at 72 Chatsworth Ave., $489,500 affecting property lo- Larchmont. Filed May 15. cated at 51 Vernon Ave., Yonkers 10704. Filed May 15.

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Mechanic’s Liens

Consolidated Edison Company of New York, as owner. $35,503 as claimed by United Rentals Inc., Charlotte, N.C. Property: in New Rochelle. Filed June 13.

Salik, Bruce S., et al, as owner. $1,185 as claimed by John J. Barile Landscaping Inc., Purchase. Property: in Mount Pleasant. Filed June 11. Win Ridge Shopping Centers L.L.C., as owner. $1,408 as claimed by D and S Fire Protection Corp., New Windsor. Property: in Rye. Filed June 12.

New Businesses

Hudson Valley Transportation, 1075 Washington St., Peekskill 10566. Filed Dec. 29.

Le Salon, 156 Mamaroneck Determining a high-contrast Ave., Mamaroneck 10543. Filed display setting on a client device to process a web docuDec. 28. ment. Patent no. 8,205,156 issued MJS Sounds, 291 Marietta to Becky J. Gibson, Westford, Ave., Hawthorne 10532. Filed Mass.; and Douglas E. Hays, Nicholasville, Ky. Assigned to InDec. 28. ternational Business Machines Corp., Armonk. MRF Ventures, 300 S. Central Ave., Hartsdale 10530. Filed Fault tolerant encoding of diDec. 29. rectory states for stuck bits. Patent no. 8,205,136 issued to Soundview Car Service, 1075 Robert H. Bell Jr., Austin, Texas; Washington St., Peekskill 10566. Guy L. Guthrie, Austin, Texas; Filed Dec. 29. and William J. Starke, Round Rock, Texas. Assigned to InternaThere’s A Place For Everything tional Business Machines Corp., Organizing, 49 Hickory Hill Armonk. Drive, Dobbs Ferry 10522. Filed Dec. 30. File fragment pricing in a segmented file-sharing network. TT Trans, 1075 Washington St., Patent no. 8,204,791 issued to Timothy R. Chavez, Austin, TexPeekskill 10566. Filed Dec. 29. as; Lisa S. DeLuca, San Francisco, Calif.; Christina K. Lauridsen, Vector Ecology Consulting MP, Austin, Texas; Sushma B. Patel, 126 Oak Ridge Road, Pleasant- Austin, Texas; Robert R. Peterville 10570. Filed Dec. 29. son, Austin, Texas; and Loulwa F. Salem, Austin, Texas. Assigned to Vilas Carpentry, 236 S. Regent International Business Machines St., Port Chester 10573. Filed Corp., Armonk. Dec. 30. Generating query predicates for processing multidimensional data. Patent no. 8,204,901 Patents issued to Mandar S. Pimpale, San Jose, Calif.; and David G. Wilhite The following patents were issued Jr., Saratoga, Calif. Assigned to by the U.S. Patent and Trademark International Business Machines Office in Washington, D.C. Corp., Armonk. Abstraction-based audit and security log model for increased role and security enforcement. Patent no. 8,204,906 issued to Richard Dettinger, Rochester, Minn.; Daniel Kolz, Rochester, Minn.; Frederick Kulack, Rochester, Minn.; and Erik Voldal, Rochester, Minn. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Handling files containing confidential or sensitive information. Patent no. 8,205,078 issued to Kulvir Bhogal, Fort Worth, Texas; Hung Dinh, Round Rock, Texas; Teng Hu, Austin, Texas; Nizamudeen Ishmael Jr., Austin, Texas; and Mandeep Sidhu, Pflugerville, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Context switching and synchronization. Patent no. 8,205,067 issued to Jon K. Kriegel, Rochester, Minn.; and Eric Mejdrich, Rochester, Minn. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Hiding sensitive information. Patent no. 8,204,929 issued to Allen Roginsky, Durham, N.C.; and Nevenko Zunic, Hopewell Junction. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Data sharing between applications where only one application knows the business Mt. Vernon Hospital, as owner. purpose of the data. Patent no. $4,995 as claimed by Stonhard. Lake Chandakim Chalet, 300 8,205,216 issued to Charles BerProperty: in Mount Vernon. Filed Broadway A-6, Dobbs Ferry ry, Apalachin; Glenn C. Godoy, 10522. Filed Dec. 28. June 11. Endwell; and Amy Snavely, Binghamton. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Memory controller for reducing time to initialize main memory. Patent no. 8,205,138 issued to Herman L. Blackmon, Moline, Ill.; Joseph A. Kirscht, Rochester, Minn.; and Elizabeth A. McGlone, Rochester, Minn. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Human Resources School Services-HRSS, 645 N. Broadway, No. 32, Hastings-on-Hudson FC Yonkers Commercial 10706. Filed Dec. 28. L.L.C., as owner. $11,749 as claimed by Simplexgrinnell L.P., JK Contracting, 105 Harding Yonkers. Property: in Yonkers. Ave., White Plains 10606. Filed Filed June 12. Dec. 28. Fr William A. Dunphy Council John’s Taxi Service, 165 Inc., as owner. $8,312 as claimed Third St., Buchanan 10511. by Benfield Electric Supply Corp., Filed Dec. 29. North White Plains. Property: in White Plains. Filed June 11. KWF-ESCO Consulting Services, P.O. Box 375, Hastings-onJack-Saw L.L.C., as owner. Hudson 10706. Filed Dec. 29. $14,036 as claimed by Northern Contracting Inc., Sparta, N.J. Property: in Greenburgh. Filed La Fiore Designs, 18 Bent Ave., Apt. 2, Port Chester 10573. Filed June 11. Dec. 30.

Why do Method of automated resource management in a partition migration capable environment. Patent no. 8,205,207 issued to Marcos A. Villarreal, Austin, Texas; and Dean J. Burdick, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp. Armonk.

Protecting ownership transfer with nonuniform protection windows. Patent no. 8,205,024 issued to Leo J. Clark, Georgetown, Texas; James S. Fields Jr., Austin, Texas; Guy L. Guthrie, Austin, Texas; William J. Starke, Round Rock, Texas; and Derek E. Williams, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business MaMicrocontroller for logic built- chines Corp., Armonk. in self-test (LBIST). Patent no. 8,205,124 issued to Gary D. Grise, Resource management for Colchester, Vt.; David E. Lackey, data-storage services. Patent Jericho, Vt.; Steven F. Oakland, no. 8,205,058 issued to HowColchester, Vt.; and Donald L. ard Martin, Vail, Ariz.; and Rosa Wheater, Hinesburg, Vt. Assigned Plaza, Tucson, Ariz. Assigned to to International Business Ma- International Business Machines chines Corp., Armonk. Corp., Armonk. Network management with platform-independent protocol interface for discovery and monitoring processes. Patent no. 8,205,000 issued to Ching-Jye Chang, Austin, Texas; and Lorin Ullman, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Scheduling grid jobs using dynamic grid scheduling policy. Patent no. 8,205,208 issued to Jeffry Mausolf, Austin, Texas; and Kimberly Stephens, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Selecting a number of processing resources to run an application effectively while saving power. Patent no. 8,205,209 issued to Peter Wong, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Software component selfscrubbing. Patent no. 8,205,118 issued to Michael E. Lyons, Austin, Texas; Bruce Mealey, Austin, Texas; and Basu Vaidyanathan, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. System for controlling write access to an LDAP directory. Patent no. 8,205,254 issued to Sean E. Aschen, Torrington, Conn.; Bahri B. Bali, Cary, N.C.; Catherine Y. Barnes, Mansfield, Pa.; and Gordan G. Greenlee, Endicott. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

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LEGAL NOTICES

SUMMONS Index No. 53135/2011 D/O/F: July 26, 2011 Premises Address: 52 HOLLAND AVE., SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY 10591 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER CITIMORTGAGE, INC Plaintiff, -againstANTONIO TEIXEIRA; MARIA TEIXEIRA; LEDBETTER TRUCKING & SALVAGE CO; ‘’JOHN DOES’’ AND ‘’JANE DOES’’, SAID NAMES BEING FICTITIOUS, PARTIES INTENDED BEING POSSIBLE TENANTS OR OCCUPANTS OF PREMISES, AND CORPORATIONS, OTHER ENTITIES OR PERSONS WHO CLAIM, OR MAY CLAIM, A LIEN AGAINST THE PREMISES, Defendant(s), TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. The following notice is intended only for those defendants who are owners of the premises sought to be foreclosed or who are liable upon the debt for which the mortgage stands as security. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. The amount of the Debt: $210,128.20 consisting of principal balance of $184,539.18 plus interest of $11,513.80, escrow/impound shortages or credits of $12,654.16, late charges of $306.06; Broker`s Price Opinion, inspection and miscellaneous charges of $108.00; attorney fee $840.00 and title search $275.00. Because of interest and other charges that may vary from day to day, the amount due on the day you pay may be greater. Hence, if you pay the amount shown above, an adjustment may be necessary after we receive the check, in which event we will inform you. The name of the creditor to whom the debt is owed: CITIMORTGAGE, INC. Unless you dispute the validity of the debt, or any portion thereof, within thirty (30) days after receipt hereof, the debt will be assumed to be valid by the herein debt collector. If you notify the herein debt collector in writing within thirty (30) days after your receipt hereof that the debt, or any portion thereof, is disputed, we will obtain verification of the debt or a copy of any judgment against you representing the debt and a copy of such verification or judgment will be mailed to you by the herein debt collector. Upon your written request within 30 days after receipt of this notice, the herein debt collector will provide you with the name and address of the original creditor if different from the current creditor. Note: Your time to respond to the summons and complaint differs from your time to dispute the validity of the debt or to request the name and address of the original creditor. Although you have as few as 20 days to respond to the summons and complaint, depending on the manner of service, you still have 30 days from receipt of this summons to dispute the validity of the debt and to request the name and address of the original creditor. TO THE DEFENDANTS, except ANTONIO TEIXEIRA MARIA TEIXEIRA : The Plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. TO THE DEFENDANTS: ANTONIO TEIXEIRA MARIA TEIXEIRA : If you have obtained an order of discharge from the Bankruptcy court, which includes this debt, and you have not reaffirmed your liability for this debt, this law firm is not alleging that you have any personal liability for this debt and does not seek a money judgment against you. Even if a discharge has been obtained, this lawsuit to foreclose the mortgage will continue and we will seek a judgment authorizing the sale of the mortgaged premises. Dated: July 22, 2011 Susan West, Esq. ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff Main Office 51 E Bethpage Road Plainview, NY 11803 516-741-2585 #57945

Big Boy Enterprises, LLC, Art. Of Org. filed with NY Secy. Of State on 2/8/12 Office located in Westchester Co. Secy. Of State designated as agent upon which process may be served. Secy. Of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him/her to: 8 No. Aqueduct La., Irvington, NY 10533 (the LLCís primary business location). LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #57841 Notice of Formation of Catamount Partners LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with Secy. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 4/23/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 550 Mamaroneck Ave., Ste. 404, Harrison, NY 10528. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57842 Notice of Formation of 356 West 56th Street, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with Secy. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 4/19/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 287 Bowman Ave., Purchase, NY 10577. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57843

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Gotham Acupuncture Chiropractic and Massage Therapy PLLC Arts. of Org. filed w/Secy of State of NY on 4/20/12, Office loc: Westchester Cty, SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Lyons McGovern LLP, 399 Knollwood Rd, Ste 216, White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: Any lawful activity #57844 E.Z. MEDIA PICTURES LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/12/2012. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 485 East Lincoln Ave Ste 405, Mt. Vernon, NY 10552. Reg Agent: Edmond Z Mensahadji, 485 East Lincoln Ave Ste 405, Mt. Vernon, NY 10552. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #57845 Name of LLC: Dopeness Magazine L.L.C. Arts. of Org. filed NY Sec. of State FEB 27, 2012. Princ. off. loc.: Westchester Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o Dopeness Magazine, 42 E. Grand St., Mount Vernon, NY 10552. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57846

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of GMC Physician Management Services LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 5/9/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Gina Cappelli, 115 Stevens Avenue, Box 104, Valhalla, NY 10595. Purpose: any lawful activities. #57847 Notice of Formation of HILDA DEMIRJIAN FRANCHISING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 4/19/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Pitegoff Law Office PLLC, 445 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 1102, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57848

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: CANE MEDX SOLUTIONS LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/13/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 334 Eastern Close, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #57849 Notice of Formation of JB AUTO TECH, LLC. Arts. of Org. was filed with SSNY on 5/9/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 700 Scarsdale Ave. #3M, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: all lawful activities. #57850 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Biscardi Hillside, LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 5/10/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Mary Ann Crouse, 3 Albro Lane, White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: any lawful activities. #57851 Name of LLC: David DAmico LLC. Arts. of Org. filed NY Sec. of State 4/4/2012. Off. Loc.: Westchester Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to the LLC: 19 Inverness Ct, White Plains, NY, 10605. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57852 Notice of Formation of 919 West LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/5/12. Office location: Westchester County. Principal business addr.: 2950 E. Broad St., Columbus, OH 43209. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: all lawful purposes. #57853 Notice of Formation of BroadwayGPS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/18/12. Office location: Westchester County. Principal business address: 729 Seventh Ave., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10019. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 333 W. 56th St., Apt. 11H, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57854 NOTICE OF FORMATION HAVILAND FARM, LLC.

Articles of Organization of Haviland Farm, LLC were filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on May 3, 2012. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served. Address to which SSNY shall mail copy of process against LLC is the principal address of the LLC of: 1120 Knollwood Road, White Plains, New York 10603. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57856 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: RED ROSE EXECUTIVE SECURITY SOLUTIONS, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/20/06. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 200 Harrison Avenue, Harrison, New York 10528, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #57857

Notice of Formation of NYRE 12 Centre Street LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/10/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 20 W. 20th St., Ste. 703, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57858 STYLECYCLE, LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/08/2012. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 30 Algonquin Dr., Chappaqua, NY 10514. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #57859

Notice of Formation of Sweet Finds Candy, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 04/25/2012. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 120 Crow Hill Path, Mount Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: sale and purchase of candy. #57861 Notice of Formation of AUTOMATED CAPITAL SOLUTIONS LLC. Arts. of Org. was filed with SSNY on 5/14/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 386 Sherman Ave., Hawthorne, NY 10532. Purpose: all lawful activities. #57862 PLEASANTVILLE PRODUCTIONS LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/14/2012. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 6 Christie Court, Pleasantville, NY 10570. Reg Agent: Matthew Browne, 6 Christie Court, Pleasantville, NY 10570. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #57863 Notice of formation of MBG Partners LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Secíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/09/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 99 Greenridge Ave., White Plains NY, 10605. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #57864 KAM DESIGN, LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/14/2012. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 22 Villa Road, Larchmont, NY 10538. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #57865 Notice of Formation of 14 STORE ROAD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/13/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 78 North State Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #57867 Notice of formation of REDCLIFFE GROVE LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/11/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 11 Donellan Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #57869 LBI SCARSDALE LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/04/2012. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 303 Central Park Ave., Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #57870 JKM 510 S. FULTON AVE. REALTY LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/17/2012. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Jacob Morris, 150 East First Street, Mt. Vernon, NY 10550. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #57871

NOTICE OF FORMATION of PRO YO LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 5/17/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Alfred E. Donnellan, One North Lexington Avenue, White Plains, New York 10601. Purpose: any lawful activities. #57872 Name of LLC: Precision Motor Works LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 5/4/12. Office loc.: Westchester Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. #57873 Notice of Qualification of NAUTICAL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC. Authority filed with Secy. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 2/28/12. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/6/09. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 2900 Westchester Ave. #406, Purchase, NY 10577. DE address of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd. #400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. Of Org. filed with the DE Secy. Of State, 401 Federal St. #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57874 Notice of Formation of Bear Hill Body Care LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/16/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 3 Barker Ave., Ste. 290, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57876 Notice of Formation of Howard Stern LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/15/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 3 Barker Ave., Ste. 290, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57877 Notice of Formation of Hudson 47 Realty LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/4/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 11 Hudson St., Ossining, NY 10562. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57878 Notice of Formation of 279 E 204TH LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/7/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 444 South Fulton Ave., Mt. Vernon, NY 10553. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #57879 Notice of Formation of 8 Sunset Road, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/19/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Greenlight Capital, Inc., 2 Grand Central Tower, 140 E. 45th St., 24 Fl., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57880 Notice of Formation of 2244 Broad Street Realty LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/15/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 84 Whippoorwill Road East, Armonk, NY 10504. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57881 THE NOLET LAW FIRM LLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/18/2012. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Charles A. Nolet, Esq., 247 Tillou Road, South Orange, NJ 07079. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Law. #57882 Corbett-Doyle Properties, LLC; Articles of Organization filed 5/23/12; SSNY; Westchester County, New York; SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. Address for mailing copy of process: 25 Milton Rd, Rye NY 10580; Purpose: any lawful purpose; Perpetuity. #57883

Notice of formation of MTR Consulting Group, LLC. Arts of Org filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 05/11/2012. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 189 High Street, Hastingson-Hudson, NY 10706. Purpose: Any lawful activity. #57885 Notice of Formation of Sage Ally LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/24/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Sage Ally LLC 27 Barker Avenue #307 White Plains, New York 10601. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #57887 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: EdgeUP Website Design, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/24/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: EdgeUP Website Design, 10 Miller Circle, Armonk, NY, 10504, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #57888 Notice of formation of Monica Nolan, Licensed Speech Language Pathologist, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/13/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Monica Nolan, 90 Franklin Ave., Valhalla, NY 10595. Purpose: practice the profession of speech language pathology. #57889 Notice of Formation of Essential Recognition Resources, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/23/12. Office location: Westchester County. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business address: 116 Larchmont Acres, Larchmont, NY 10538. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57890 Ballison LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/16/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Brian Allison, 49 Archer Dr., Bronxville, ny 10708. Purpose: General. #57891 Cadillac Hash, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/2/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 90 Bryant Ave. Dorset 5C, White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: General. #57892 Keen Vibrance Associates LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/11/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Yvonne Marcie Braham, 158 Hillcrest Rd., Mt. Vernon, NY 10552. Purpose: General. #57893 Forever Girly Spa, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/1/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 151 E. Prospect Ave Apt 2F, Mount Vernon, NY 10550. Purpose: General. #57894 15 Cartway LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/16/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Susan Carlson, 620 Guard Hill Rd., Bedford, NY 10506. Purpose: General. #57895 Broken Bow Brewery LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/4/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 190 Davids Hill Rd, Bedford Hills, NY 10507. Purpose: General. #57896 Hardpan LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/7/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 12 Barry Rd, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: General. #57897

Thever I, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/21/06. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 145 Manor Ln., Pelham, NY 10803. Purpose: General. #57898 Thever II, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/21/06. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 145 Manor Ln., Pelham Manor, NY 10803. Purpose: General. #57899 Hudson Financial Associates, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/3/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 24 North Greeley Ave, Chappaqua, NY 10514. Purpose: General. #57900 Notice of Qual. of MC Solar Development LLC. filed with Sec of State NY (SSNY): 4/24/12. Office in Westchester County. Formed in DE: 5/23/11. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to: 417 Center Ave, Mamaroneck, NY 10543. Foreign add: One Commerce Center, 1201 Orange St Ste 600 PO Box 511, Wilmington, DE 19899-0511. Arts. of Org. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Sec Of State, Division Of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg, Duke Of York St, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: General. #57901 STEINVURZEL DESIGN LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/24/2012. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: David Steinvurzel C/O Steinvurzel Law Group P.C., 34 South Broadway Ste 401, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #57902 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: K CECILIA LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/21/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 207 Davis Avenue, White Plains, New York 10605, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #57903 NOTICE OF FORMATION of LRC Maintenance, LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 5/30/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Alfred E. Donnellan, One North Lexington Avenue, White Plains, New York 10601. Purpose: any lawful activities. #57904 JAMAICAS DIVAZ, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 06/01/12. Office located in Westchester Co. Secy. of State designated as agent upon which process may be served. Secy. Of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him/her to: 97 Forster Ave, Mount Vernon NY 10552 (the LLCís primary business location). LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #57905 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Biscardi Holland, LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 5/31/12 Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Mary Ann Crouse, 3 Albro Lane, White Plains, NY 00603. Purpose: any lawful activities. #57907 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Biscardi Rockledge, LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 5/31/12 Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Mary Ann Crouse, 3 Albro Lane, White Plains, NY 00603. Purpose: any lawful activities. #57908 Name of LLC: 1250 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/25/2001. Office location: Westchester County. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 8 Depot Place, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: any lawful act. #57910

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LEGAL NOTICES Continued from previous page Notice of Formation of Sprain Brook Manor Rehab, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/27/12. Office location: Westchester County. Princ. bus. addr.: 77 Jackson Ave., Scarsdale, NY 10583. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Duane Morris LLP, 1540 Broadway, NY, NY 10036-4086, Attn: Jerome T. Levy, Esq. Purpose: as specifically set forth in the Arts. of Org. #57911 Daisy Natural LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/9/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Jean Marie Pizzariella, 20 N Broadway Apt N365, White Plains, NY 10601-2164. Purpose: General. #57912 Notice of formation of Genevie LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/22/2012. Office Location: Westchester County. The street address is: PO Box 915, White Plains, NY 10602. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process served to: Genevie LLC, PO Box 915, White Plains, NY 10602. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57913 FOUR M FOOD SERVICE OF WESTBURY, LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/16/2012. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 115 Stevens Ave., Ste 105, Valhalla, NY 10595. Reg Agent: James Bitzonis, 115 Stevens Ave., Ste 105, Valhalla, NY 10595. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #57914 DESIGNER ATTACHE LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/17/2012. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1 Jane St., Apt. 4D, NY, NY 10014. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #57915

Notice is hereby given that an on premises license, #TBA has been applied for by Rosso Operating LLC d/b/a Italian Kitchen to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 698 Saw Mill River Road Ardsley NY 10502. #57916 Notice of Formation of HLP NETWORK LLC. Arts. of Org. was filed with SSNY on 4/6/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 3110 Radcliffe Ave., Yorktown, NY 10598. Purpose: all lawful activities. #57917 91 MARBLE AVENUE LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/04/2012. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Antonio Forgione, 95 Marble Avenue, Pleasantville, NY 10570. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #57918 Notice of Qualification of Paramount Management Group, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/26/12. Fictitious Name in NY State: Paramount MGP, LLC. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Pennsylvania (PA) on 10/19/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the PA address of LLC: 415 N Prince St., Ste. 202, Lancaster, PA 17603. Arts. of Org. filed with PA Secy. of State, North Office Bldg., Harrisburg, PA 17120. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57919 Notice is hereby given that an on premises license, #TBA has been applied for by Nikki’s Darling Inc. to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 43 Palisade Ave. Yonkers NY 10701. #57920 DV8 APPLICATIONS, LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/27/2012. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 50 Bayview Ave., New Rochelle, NY 10805. Reg Agent: Jason Costa, 50 Bayview Ave., New Rochelle, NY 10805. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #57921

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Jack Munson Burton LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/10/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Nancy Williams Carlson, 250 E. Houston St. #9J, NY, NY 10002. Purpose: General. #57933

Notice of Formation of York International Life Brokerage Agency, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/29/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Kestenbaum, Dannenberg & Klein, LLP, 104 W. 40th St., 20th Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57927

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: Metro Futures Development LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on June 5, 2012. NY office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Metro Futures Development LLC, 111 North Central Avenue, Suite 425, Hartsdale, NY 10530. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #57922

Vinicole The Americas LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/6/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Robert C. Macdonald, 97 Osborn Rd., Rye, NY 10580. Purpose: General. #57934

Notice of Formation of Momentum Event Group LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/31/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 50 Dimond Ave., Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57928

Notice of Formation of 159 LEXINGTON AVENUE, LLC. Arts. of Org. was filed with SSNY on 6/6/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 16 Lawrence St., Mt. Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: all lawful activities. #57923

Bag Sarang New York, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/24/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Richard Eric Skiera, 100 Palmer Ln., Thornwood, NY 10594. Purpose: General. #57935

Notice of Application for Authority of SPRING WIND GROUP, LLC, a foreign limited liability company (LLC) filed with the Secy of State of New York (SSNY) on 4/17/12. LLC organized in Delaware on 3/30/05. NY office location: Westchester Co. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him to: 1 Renaissance Square, #V2C, White Plains, NY 10601. Office address in jurisdiction of organization: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Dr., Suite 101, Dover, DE 19904. Copy of Cft. of Org. on file with SSDE. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #57929

Notice of Formation of Clementyne Design LLC. Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State (SSNY) 6/1/12. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 702 Half Moon Bay Drive, Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520. Purpose: Any lawful activity. #57924 Notice of Formation of HHW WORLD RESOURCES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/20/11. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 341 Whippoorwill Rd., Chappaqua, NY 10514. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #57925

NOTICE OF FORMATION of RADOW LAW PLLC. Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) June 7, 2012 Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 17 N. Chatsworth Avenue, Larchmont, New York 10538. Purpose: Law. #57940

Woodland Court LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/30/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Maya Kadar Kovalsky, 233 Glen Ave., Glen Rock, NJ 07452. Purpose: General. #57936

Notice of Formation of AUTOBAHN GRAPHICS LLC. Arts. of Org. was filed with SSNY on 6/13/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 114 Green Lane, Bedford Hills, NY 10507. Purpose: all lawful activities. #57941

Notice of application for authority of FindawayWorld LLC. Initial DOS filing with the Secretary of State of NY (Westchester Co) on 3/30/12. Jurisdiction and date of org: Ohio 7/19/04. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to registered agent: A.G.C. Co., 3200 PNC Center,1900 E 9th St, Cleveland, OH 44114. Office address: 31999 Aurora Rd, Solon, OH 44139. Authorized officer where copy of articles of org are filed: Jon Husted, Ohio Secretary of State, 189 E Broad St, 16th Floor, Columbus, OH 43215. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #57937

Notice of Formation of A Kidís World Preschool & Daycare LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/03/2011. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served and SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 198 Park Ave., West Harrison, NY 10604. Purpose: Any lawful activity. #57931

Notice of Formation of EUROAMERICAN FUNDING GROUP, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/25/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 341 Whippoorwill Road, Chappaqua, NY 10514. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #57926

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF The Chief Trunk Company LLC. Application for Authority filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/07/2012. Office location: WESTCHESTER County. LLC formed in Delaware on 08/18/2010. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: 29 Cedar Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706. Address to be maintained in DE: 1815 W. 13th Street, Ste 5, Wilmington DE 19806. Certificate of LLC filed with Secretary of State of Delaware located at: 401 Federal Street Ste 4, Dover DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #57939

Hero Recording Studio, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/2/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: General. #57932

Notice of Formation of ZoobeatZ LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/14/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Denise M. Tormey, SNR Denton US LLP, 1221 Ave. of the Americas, NY, NY 10020. Purpose: any lawful activity. #57942

Notice of Formation of NECB Financial Services Group LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/13/12. Office location: Westchester County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business address of the LLC: c/o NorthEast Community Bank, 325 Hamilton Ave., White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: all lawful purposes. #57944 Name of LLC: B-Tree, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed NY Sec. of State 4/2/12. Princ. off. loc.: Westchester Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 130 Virginia Rd Apt. D, White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: any lawful activity. # 57930

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Notice of Qualification of Swan Advisors LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/24/12. Office location: Westchester County. Princ. bus. addr.: 21 Brown Ave., Rye, NY 10580. LLC formed in DE on 5/10/11. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. #57943

SAUCE IS SCIENCE LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/12/2012. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Ronald Steinvurzel, Esq., Steinvurzel Law Group P.C. , 34 South Broadway - Ste 401, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #57938

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hris Tella made it through the October nor’easter and Tropical Storm Irene relatively intact – but not in the nor’easter of March 2010 when a 65-foot tree toppled onto his Greenwich house. Through it all, the roof never caved in on his cloud-services provider UFlexData and parent company Mandragore, with Tella able to access all his company’s critical data and software from mobile devices. As small businesses get increasingly comfortable with the idea of running their information technology out of the cloud – housing applications and data on remote servers run by others – a building formation of relatively small cloud service providers like UFlexData is selling those services locally. A functional cloud system for many small-business needs comes in at half the cost of many mobile phone plans, according to Tella, CEO of UFlexData. Yet many businesses still associate the cloud with a sky-high bill up front and going forward.

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Comics. The company last summer asked a state judge to prevent Silberkleit from working at the company’s offices at 325 Fayette Ave. in Mamaroneck and to bar her from contacting company employees and vendors. In January, Jonathan Goldwater, who shares the co-CEO title and company director duties with Silberkleit and is the brother of Michael Silberkleit’s late business partner and co-publisher, filed a second lawsuit in Manhattan seeking her removal as company director and officer. If she stays, Goldwater said, the “iconic American company” is in danger of failing and being liquidated. Silberkleit, a Rye resident, that same Infighting and lawsuits between co-CEOs have shaken week went to state Supreme Court in White Archie Comics since the death of its former publisher

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January with IBM Corp. managers, without specifying the purpose of that meeting to include whether any deal is in the works to get the Armonk, N.Y.-based company to expand in Connecticut. In one fell swoop initially engineered by Malloy aide Kip Bergstrom, Stamford finds itself with what it thinks will be a vibrant entrepreneur “hotel,” while

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In a stealth operation worthy of its newest secret helicopters, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. swooped in to embed a high-tech incubator at the new Stamford Innovation Center, with the Stamford iCenter itself launching with a half-dozen startups in house, while hosting a Stamford Startup Weekend March 30 and April 1. At the same time, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy confirmed he met in late

A day before the U.S. Commerce Department revealed that the economy added 243,000 jobs in January, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli warned that hiring in New York and the Hudson Valley has lagged over the past six months. Between December 2009 and December 2011, the state’s private sector regained 183,600 – or 58 percent – of the jobs that were lost during the recession. During that same period the state as a whole saw the return of 46 percent of all jobs that were lost, well above the national average of 34 percent, DiNapoli noted in his

Feb. 2 report. However, the state’s private-sector employers posted a net loss of 11,200 jobs since last July, triggering what DiNapoli described as a noticeable slowdown. “After a strong first half of 2011, job growth in New York was markedly weaker during the second half of the year, raising concerns about the pace of the recovery in 2012,” DiNapoli wrote. The region that includes Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties ranked among the lowest of the state’s metropolitan areas in the proportion of jobs recovered since the recession. After losing 28,800 jobs between July 2008 and December 2009, the lower Hudson

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percent and 51.6 percent, respectively. In the three-county region, “Gains in education, health services and tourism have been partially offset by sizable losses in government, construction and manufacturing,” DiNapoli wrote. Unemployment in the region fell to 6.4 percent last December from 7.2 percent in December 2009; however, the report noted that much of that decline was due to a drop in the state’s labor force rather than employment increases. Compounding the slow recovery, the financial securities industry, which DiNapoli called “the state’s economic engine” and which accounts for a third of the state’s gross

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Ulster Savings enriches education The Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation recently awarded nearly $40,000 to 15 area students and 13 educators at their Scholarship and Learning Initiatives For Educators (L.I.F.E.) Grant Awards Reception held at Ulster Savings Bank’s Kingston headquarters. Initiated in 2001 in honor of the bank’s 150th anniversary, the foundation scholarships were awarded to recognize outstanding academic and personal achievement. The L.I.F.E. grant program, created by the Foundation in 2008, assists teachers throughout Ulster County with funding for specific purchases or programs that are outside of their regular budget. It provides funding for teachers and schools to further educational opportunities for students, enhance the professional development of teachers and involve students in community-service activities. For more information regarding the scholarship and L.I.F.E. grant programs or the Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation, call Michael Kelley at (845) 338-6322, ext. 3245.

Nancy Aronzon has worked for the past 19 years at Marist College, the last nine years as assistant director of the Center for Advising. She has served on the boards of Poughkeepsie Ballet Theater and Dutchess Outreach, where she remains active on the agency’s fundraising committee. William Davenport, a lifelong resident of Stone Ridge, joined the family home-heating business in 1959 and later became president and CEO of Walter Davenport and Sons Inc. He is co-owner and board chairman of Heritagenergy, a petroleum business based in the Hudson Valley. Upon his retirement, he became a founding member of Empire State Bank, NA, serving on the board of directors. Matilda Cordts Davenport was born in Kingston. She graduated from Dumbarton College of Holy Cross and did post-graduate work at George Washington University. She has also taken continuing education courses at SUNY Ulster, SUNY New Paltz, the University of Virginia and Harvard Business School. She and William were married in 1963, and are the parents of sons Kenneth, Andrew and Jonathan Davenport and “honorary” son Anthony Davis. They have seven grandchildren. For more than 40 years, Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley has been a driving force of philanthropy in the region, distributing funds from thousands of donors. For more information or to obtain a copy of the annual report, call (845) 452-3077 or visit cfhvny.org.

Double dynamic duo Two couples, Nancy and Daniel Aronzon and Matilda and William Davenport, with long and distinguished records of community service will be honored this fall at the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley’s annual Garden Party. The Sept. 30 event will be held on the picturesque grounds of the Bruderhof’s Mount Community in Esopus. Daniel Aronzon was president and CEO of Vassar Brothers Medical Center (VBMC) in Poughkeepsie for eight years until his retirement in 2011. In 1979, Aronzon began a pediatric practice in Dutchess County that became Children’s Medical Group, one of the largest practices for children in the Northeast. He has served on the boards of the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association, among others.

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residents to share their input through a new survey to create an opportunity for residents to get a better understanding of how the county budget works. “Our budget survey initiative lets county residents share their thoughts and opinions about the county programs and services that are important to them,” said Michael Ellison, assistant to Molinaro. The goal of the budget survey is to give county residents a tool to weigh in on the budget development and educate the public about the budget process. It is designed to help county officials learn what services residents want and need and importantly, what their expectations are. The 16-page survey takes approximately 20 minutes to complete online. The budget survey is available at dutchessny.gov. The survey will be available online until July 31. Survey results will be reviewed and utilized as final budget decisions are being made in the fall before the Nov. 1 release of the executive budget. For those who do not have Internet access, copies of the survey will be available by request at the Dutchess County Budget Office in the County Office Building at 22 Market St. in Poughkeepsie or at Dutchess County Department of Motor Vehicle offices in Poughkeepsie, Beacon, Millbrook and Wappingers Falls.

What’s that humming? The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum will be hosting “Hummingbirds!” June 30, at 10 a.m. Come join environmental educator Pam Golben at the Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, entrance on Muser Drive, across from 174 Angola Road, Cornwall, to learn about those little “flying jewels,” the hummingbirds. Participants can assemble a small hummingbird feeder to take home. Limit one per family; additional kits will be available for purchase. After the program, take a walk through the Outdoor Discovery Center to observe hummingbirds and learn what plants attract these fascinating birds. Recommended for adults with or without children ages 5 and up. Admission: $7 for adults and $5 for children ages 5-12. Museum Members: $5 for adults and $3 for children ages 5-12. For more information, visit hhnaturemuseum.org or call (845) 534-5506, ext. 204.

Dutchess residents weigh in on budget Dutchess County government continues to face daunting fiscal challenges; crafting the 2013 county budget is certain to be a difficult process. Input from residents will be vital to the process, so county government is launching a new way for residents to get involved in the 2013 county budget development. County Executive Marcus J. Molinaro encourages

Learn a nectar recipe and a list of plants that will attract hummingbirds at the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum Saturday, June 30 at 10 a.m.

Happy Fourth along the Hudson The Independence Day celebration in Kingston will take place on the historic Rondout waterfront July 4 from 6 to 10 p.m., with fireworks sponsored by Mainetti, Mainetti & O’Connor, P.C. taking place at 9:30 p.m. Visitors and residents alike are encouraged to bring family, friends, lawn chairs and flags and enjoy all that the Rondout waterfront has to offer. Kingston Mayor Shayne Gallo encourages people to “spend the day enjoying all the historic Rondout district has to offer. You can take a stroll on our waterfront promenade, explore the trolley and maritime museums or simply shop and dine while you wait for the fantastic fireworks display to start.” In honor of the holiday, the Hudson River Maritime Museum will have extended hours and discounted admission. For more information, visit UlsterCountyAlive.com.

Applefest sponsorships available The 24th annual Warwick Applefest 2012 will be held Oct. 14 and is seeking sponsors. In 2003, the event was rated, “One of the Top 100” events in the nation by the American Bus Association. Although Applefest has a consistent attendance flow ranging from 35,000 to 40,000, sponsorship levels fill up quickly. The deadline for sponsorship confirmation is no later than Aug. 6. Sponsorship packages start at Bronze, entry level, with no booth space for $500; Silver with a booth at $1,500; Gold $3,500 and Platinum with two booth spaces at $6,000. Your company name with various levels of recognition, including banners, print, TV and radio advertising prior to and during the festival are offered. The Applefest Planning Committee is committed to adding significant value to your sponsorship dollars. The festival is co-sponsored by the Warwick Valley Community Center and the Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce. For more information, call (845) 986-2720.

county amateur champions. Finishing in third place in the Gross Division were Peter Lynch, Peter Boucher, Bill Proal and Mike DiRienzo. Third place in the Net Division were Dan Hickey, Dan Hickey, Jr., Bob Finn and Bill Komisar. Second place in the gross division went to the team of Scott Ciferri, Bryan Pruner, Bernie Kistner and Gary Stauderman. Second place in the Net Division went to Fran Pomarico, Eric Hartman, Tom Hartman and Chris Hagar. The first-place team winners in the Gross Division were Robert Shoemaker, Dan Gil, David Gil and Ed VanNostrand. Finishing first in the Net Division were Bruce Chipkin, Jim Meliti, Doug Hart and Bob Demaria.

Summer business mixer Step inside the historic 1810 House, the home of Bertolini & Co., for The Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce afterhours Summer Business Mixer’ Thursday June 28 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 80 Main St. in the village of Warwick.

Meet and greet with other executives and professionals from the chamber in an elegant country setting with a slice of Hudson Valley charm. Admire the formal gardens while enjoying complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres. The festivities will continue with a stroll to nearby restaurant Trattoria Viviano where mixer attendees, their spouses and guests can take advantage of a $25 per person dinner special (includes appetizer, glass of wine and entrée). Reservations are suggested. Bertolini & Co. is a full-range interior decorating and antique center for the home and garden. The shop is situated on the green vista adjacent to the Old School Baptist Meeting House. Trattoria Viviano specializes in rustic Italian cuisine. They serve prix-fixe lunches and full-course dinners Monday through Saturday. Join Chamber members for this summer social event. General admission to the event is $15. For members of the chamber, the cost is only $5. For more information or to make a reservation, call the chamber at: (845) 986-2720 or e-mail info@warwickcc.org.

Hospice Foundation tees off to 20 years Rain did not compromise the enthusiasm or competitive nature of 112 golfers as they teed-off in support of Hospice Foundation’s 20th anniversary Golf Tournament June 4 at the Dutchess Golf and Country Club in Poughkeepsie. The four-person/two-best ball event featured a number of the mid-hudson region’s best golfers, among them several

Gathered on the terrace at Bertolini & Co. to finalize plans for The Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce Summer Mixer June 28 are, from left, event Chairperson Janine Dethmers, Bertolini & Co. Vice President Jane Glazman, and Trattoria Viviano proprietor Rose Viviano; and (standing, from left) Bertolini & Co. President Michael Bertolini, Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce President Cedric Glasper, and Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Michael Johndrow.

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THELIST: NONPROFITS Listed alphabetically.

Nonprofit Organizations

Hudson Valley Next list: July 2 Bank presidents

HUDSON VALLEY

Listed alphabetically. Organization Address Telephone number: area code 845 (unless otherwise noted) Website

Aish Hatorah - Voices from Jerusalem Inc. 30 Park, Monsey 10952

American Cancer Society 95 Schwenk Drive, Kingston 12401 331-8300 • cancer.org

Anderson School 4885 Route 9, P.O. Box 367, Staatsburg 12580 889-4034 • andersonschool.org

ARC of Rockland 25 Hemlock Drive, Congers 10920 267-2500 • rocklandarc.org

Archcare at Ferncliff Nursing Home 21 Ferncliff Drive, Rhinebeck 12572 876-2011 • archcare.org

Astor Home For Children 6339 Mill St., Rhinebeck 12572 871-1000 • astorservices.org

Camp Venture Inc. 25 Smith St., Suite 510, Nanuet 10954 624-3860 • campventure.org

Cardinal Hayes Home for Children P.O. Box CH, St. Joseph Drive, Millbrook 12545 677-6363 • cardinalhayeshome.org

Center for Spectrum Services 70 Kukuk Lane, Kingston 12401 336-2616 • sphcc.org

Children's Home of Poughkeepsie 10 Children's Way, Poughkeepsie 12601 452-1420 • childrenshome.us

Crystal Run Village Inc. 601 Stony Ford Road, Middletown 10941 692-4444 • crvi.org

Ezras Choilim Health Center Inc. 49 Forest Road, Monroe 10950 782-3242

Family Empowerment Council

Description

Provides seminars and courses in Jewish history and the Torah and sponsors educational trips Provides assistance to cancer patients and their families Offers children a safe, nurturing environment that promotes consistent implementation of service delivery year round; on-campus housing with peers of the same chronological age range and compatibility

Provides training and shelter to the developmentally disabled Skilled nursing facility

Provides instruction for the handicapped Provides training and residential services to persons with developmental disabilities Catholic children's charity

Provides educational services to people with autism

Home for children

Focuses on the principles of endowment, opportunity, dignity and independence for people with disabilities Freestanding diagnostic and treatment corporation licensed under Article 28 of the New York State Public Health Law and provides a broad range of health services to a largely underserved population

225 Dolson Ave., Suite 403, Middletown 10940 343-8100 • familyempowerment.org

Provides services for individuals with disabilities

Family Services Inc.

Provides counseling to persons of all ages and collaborates with other agencies to facilitate delivery of services to individuals and families in need

29 N. Hamilton St., Poughkeepsie 12601 452-1110 • familyservicesny.org

Family of Woodstock Inc. P.O. Box 3516, 39 John St., Kingston 12402 331-7080 • familyofwoodstockinc.org

Frost Valley YMCA 2000 Frost Valley Road, Claryville 12725 985-2291 • frostvalley.org

Gateway Community Industries Inc . 1 Amy Kay Parkway, Kingston 12401 331-1261 • gatewayindustries.org

The Greater Hudson Valley Family Health Center Inc. 147 Lake St., Newburgh 12550 563-8000 • ghvfhc.org

Green Chimneys Children's Services Inc. 400 Doansburg Road, Box 719, Brewster 10509 279-2995 • greenchimneys.org

Green Chimneys School for Little Folk 400 Doansburg Road, Brewster 10509 279-2995 • greenchimneys.org

Greystone Programs Inc. 36 Violet Ave., Poughkeepsie 12601 452-5772 • greystoneprograms.org

Haskins Laboratories Inc. P.O. Box 930, Pearl River 10965 (203) 865-6163

Head Start of Rockland Inc. 85 Depew Ave., Box 107, Nyack 10960 358-2234 • headstartofrockland.org

Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds Inc. 667 Blauvelt Road, Pearl River 10965 735-2718 • camphkc.org

Hospice Inc. 374 Violet Ave., Poughkeepsie 12601 485-2273 • hospiceinc.org

Provides food and shelter to those in need Provides outdoor, experiential and opportunities to children and families Provides vocational rehabilitation and training services to disabled individuals

Organization Address Telephone number: area code 845 (unless otherwise noted) Website

Lutheran Care Center 965 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie 12603 486-9494 • wartburg.org

McQuade Foundation 623 Blooming Grove Turnpike, New Windsor 12553 561-0436 • mcquade.org

Mental Health America of Dutchess County Inc. 253 Mansion St., Suite 201, Poughkeepsie 12601 473-2500 • mhadc.com

Mental Health Association in Ulster County Inc. P.O. Box 2304, Kingston 12402 339-9090 • mhainulster.com

Mental Health Association of Rockland County Inc. 706 Executive Blvd., Suite F, Valley Cottage 10989 267-2172 • mharockland.org

Middletown Community Health Center P.O. Box 987, 10 Benton Ave., Middletown 10940 343-7614 • mchccares.org

Mid-Hudson Family Health Institute Inc. 279 Main St., Suite 201, New Paltz 12561 255-2930

New Horizons Resources Inc. 123 West Road, Pleasant Valley 12569 473-3000 • nhrny.org

NYSARC Inc., Putnam County 31 International Blvd., Brewster 10509 278-7272 • putnamarc.org

NYSARC Inc., Ulster-Greene County Chapter 471 Albany Ave., Kingston 12401 338-1234 • ugarc.org

Occupations Inc. Amy Bullcrist Rehabilitation Center 15 Fortune Road West, Middletown 10941 692-4454 • occupations.org

Orange County Chapter AHRC 249 Broadway, Newburgh 12550 561-0670 • orangeahrc.org

Outward Bound Inc. 100 Mystery Point Road, Garrison 10524 424-4000 • outwardbound.org

Planned Parenthood of the Mid-Hudson Valley Inc. 178 Church St., Poughkeepsie 12601 (800) 230-PLAN • ppmhv.org

Refuah Health Center Inc. 728 N. Main St., Spring Valley 10977 354-9300 • refuahhealthcenter.com

Regional Economic Community Action Program Inc.

P.O. Box 614,149A Main St., Nanuet 10954 627-8613 • rocklandparamamedics.org

Saint Francis Hospital Preschool Program 2649 South Road, Poughkeepsie 12601 431-8803 • sfhhc.org

Scenic Hudson Inc. 1 Civic Center Plaza, Suite 200, Poughkeepsie 12601 473 4440 • scenichudson.org 1 Civic Center Plaza, Suite 200, Poughkeepsie 12601 473-4440 • scenichudson.org

Summit Children's Residence Center Inc. 339 N. Broadway, Nyack 10960 358-7772 • summitnyack.org

Threefold Educational Foundation and School 307 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge 10977 352-5020 • threefold.org

Tolstoy Foundation Nursing Home Company Inc.

Promotes mental health and provides related services Community-based health care services

Provides health care services

Provides services to the developmentally disabled Serves developmentally disabled citizens through various programs Focuses on intervention strategies against potential developmental disabilities and provides direct and supportive services to enhance the lives of developmentally disabled people

Provides rehabilitation services to persons with developmental disabilities Provides services to mentally challenged individuals through various programs Engages young people to realize their potential and offers programs for high-risk youth Provides information and services to individuals about sex, sexuality and parenthood Provides community with all-encompassing health care, regardless of ability to pay

Paramedic services and ambulance transportation

Provides day care and health care for preschool-aged children with disabilities Works to protect and restore the Hudson River and its majestic landscape as an irreplaceable national treasure Dedicated to protecting and restoring the Hudson River, its waterfronts and landscapes as a vital resource for residents and visitors Provides clinical services to children Provides funds for the exempt purposes of the school to the attendants

100 Lake Road, Valley Cottage 10989 268-6813 • tolstoyfoundation.org

Helps the elderly

United Cerebral Palsy Association of Putnam & Southern Dutchess

Provides therapeutic services and programs to persons afflicted with cerebral palsy and other diseases, by operating clinics, day programs, training centers and diagnostic treatment facilities

40 Jon Barrett Road, Patterson 12563 878-9078

Questions or comments, call (914) 694-3600, ext. 3005. Note: This list has been shortened due to space limitation. The complete list will be available through our website westfaironline.com. Source: Data was gathered by verifying information on organization websites as well as using GuideStar (website: guidestar.org). GuideStar, the national database of nonprofit information, offers information about the programs and finances of more than one million IRS-recognized charitable organizations.

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Provides services to disabled individuals

Provides comprehensive, educational, vocational, residential and medical rehabilitation services throughout Dutchess County, primarily to persons with emotional, developmental, and/or physical disabilities

70 Overocker Road, Poughkeepsie 12603 485-9803 • rehabprograms.org

Scenic Hudson Land Trust Inc.

Hospice services

Provides affordable mental health services

Rehab Programs Inc.

Provides services and programs to individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities and their families

Operates three campgrounds for charitable agencies

Provides residential care, special education, community group homes, emergency shelter services and other programs for special-needs children and families

Provides community services to the disadvantaged

Rockland Paramedic Services Inc.

Low-income preschool program

Provides skilled nursing care and health-related facility care

P.O. Box 886, 40 Smith St., Middletown 10940 342-3978 • recap.org

Freestanding diagnostic and treatment corporation licensed under Article 28 of the New York State Public Health Law and provides a broad range of health services to a largely underserved population Restores possibilities and creates futures for children with emotional, behavioral, social and learning challenges; develops specialized programs that foster individual competencies and self-reliance Facility for the delivery of special education and other services to children with special needs; operates programs for the general public, including a day care facility and summer camp

Research laboratory

Description

FACTS& FIGURES on the record Moore, Corey T., et al, Goshen, as owner. Lender: First Federal Savings Bank of Boston. Property: Lot 3, Gibson Road, Goshen 10924. Amount: $300,000. Filed June 18.

JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Seller: Jesus Morales, Branchville, N.J. Property: 815 Highway 12, New Hampton 10958. Amount: $145,000. Filed June 13.

Taconic Site Development Corp., Hyde Park. Seller: Timothy Novak, et al, Hyde Park. Property: 294 Browning Road, Hyde Park. Amount: $90,000. Filed June 14.

Primax Properties L.L.C., Charlotte, N.C., as owner. LendPleasant Valley Properties er: TD Bank N.A. Property: in L.L.C., as owner. Lender: M&T Plattekill. Amount: $900,000. Bank. Property: in Pleasant Val- Filed June 13. ley. Amount: $8.8 million. Filed June 15.

M&T Bank, Williamsville. Seller: Gregory R. Becker, Apollo Beach, Fla. Property: 901 Route 199, Red Hook 12571. Amount: $85,000. Filed June 8.

The Old Kings Self Storage L.L.C., Saugerties. Seller: Nimble Enterprises Inc., Judgments Saugerties. Property: in Saugerties. Amount: $112,000. 100 William Enterprise Inc., Filed June 11. Highland Mills. $1,520 in favor of the New York State DepartThe United States of America, ment of Taxation and Finance, Hadley, Mass. Seller: Francis P. Albany. Filed Feb. 14. Maglio, Bridgehampton. Property: in Shawangunk. Amount: 155 Orange L.L.C., Goshen. $62,500. Filed June 13. $547 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation Trapani Farms L.L.C., Mil- and Finance, Albany. Filed ton. Seller: Crystal Joy, High- Feb. 2. land. Property: in Marlborough. Amount: $185,000. 2 Durant Dr Corp., Monroe. Filed June 12. $1,395 in favor of the New York State Department of Two Hoffman Avenue L.L.C., Taxation and Finance, Albany. Poughkeepsie. Seller: 341 East Filed Feb. 14. L.L.C., Pleasantville. Property: 2 Hoffman Ave., Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $25,000. Filed 2 Taitch 301 Corp., Monroe. $1,409 in favor of the New June 12. York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Ulster Savings Bank, Kings- Filed Feb. 14. ton. Seller: Clement S. Patti Jr., White Plains. Property: 358 Main St., Poughkeepsie 31 IZ Corp., Monroe. $1,456 12601. Amount: $476,500. in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Filed May 11. Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

HUDSON VALLEY Building Loans Above $1 million

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Below $1 million Dangelewicz, Nancy A., et al, Accord, as owner. Lender: Ulster Savings Bank, Kingston. Property: 20 Fawn Lane, Rochester 12404. Amount: $168,000. Filed June 15. Franz, Daniel J., Gardiner, as owner. Lender: Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, Poughkeepsie. Property: 585 Sand Hill Road, Gardiner 12525. Amount: $200,000. Filed June 18. Lindenbaum, Stanley, et al, as owner. Lender: The First National Bank of Jeffersonville. Property: 400 Hufcut Road, Middletown. Amount: $250,000. Filed June 13.

Below $1 million 1702 Tanager Road L.L.C., Monroe. Seller: Warren Odze, Monroe. Property: in Blooming Grove. Amount: $65,000. Filed June 15.

National Transfer Services L.L.C. Seller: Ronald E. Swanson Jr., et al, Pine Bush. Property: 3439 Route 52, Pine Bush 12566. Amount: $276,000. Filed June 14.

NND Poughkeepsie L.L.C., Wappingers Falls. Seller: Cornelius Property Corp., Monticello. Property: in Hyde Park. Amount: 37 North Group, New York. $110,000. Filed June 12. Seller: Thomas G. Farrell Jr., Middletown. Property: Orange County Trust Co., 37 North St., Middletown. Middletown. Seller: James S. Amount: $50,000. Filed June 14. Brooks, Chester. Property: in Plattekill. Amount: $227,938. 84 Financial L.P. Seller: Mi- Filed June 15. chael Catania, Newburgh. Property: 22 Lower Hillman Primax Properties L.L.C., Road, Lot 2, Warwick. Amount: Charlotte, N.C. Seller: Bornab Modena L.L.C., Westport, $398,500. Filed June 15. Conn. Property: 1985 Route 32, Federal National Mortgage Plattekill. Amount: $180,000. Association. Seller: David Filed June 13. L. Russell, Newburgh. Property: 5 Secore Lane, Cornwall Primax Properties L.L.C., 12518. Amount: $218,946. Charlotte, N.C. Seller: Lawrence M. Cavazza, et al, Highland. Filed June 19. Property: in Plattekill. Amount: Homestead Building Corp., $175,000. Filed June 13. Middletown. Seller: Loraine K. Cipriani, Murrells Inlet, S.C. SJ of KJ L.L.C., Monroe. SellProperty: in Mount Hope. er: Prag Hill L.L.C., Monroe. Amount: $29,000. Filed June 15. Property: in Monroe. Amount: $155,000. Filed June 19. J.A.A.T. Real Estate Development L.L.C., Saugerties. Seller: Somerset Tire Service Inc., Amy Givens, Brooklyn. Prop- Bridgewater, N.J. Seller: Ireerty: in Saugerties. Amount: land Corners Properties L.L.C., Kerhonkson. Property: in Gar$188,700. Filed June 13. diner. Amount: $900,000. Filed JLEVI L.L.C., Wappingers Falls. June 12. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 37 E. Green Road, Rock Tavern 12575. Amount: $63,199. Filed June 18.

WAGS Realty Associates L.L.C., Newburgh. Seller: Nicholas J. Galella, New Windsor. Property: 243-245 Frozen Ridge Road, Marlboro. Amount: $275,000. Filed June 18. Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Ralph Beisner, Hyde Park. Property: 5 Reno Road, Poughkeepsie 12603. Amount: $233,500. Filed June 12. Will-Proto Realty Inc., Sherman, Conn. Seller: Tocci Realty L.L.C., Yorktown Heights. Property: 76 Route 22, Pawling 12564. Amount: $575,000. Filed June 8.

Yoamar International Inc., New York City. Seller: Nancy Brens, Newburgh. Property: 250 Grand St. and 250 Grand Street Rear, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $275,000. Filed June 18.

A Bair Mechanical Inc., Middletown. $1,425 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15. Academy Green Residence Inc., Woodstock. $18,732 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed June 11. AKV Auto Transport Inc., Marlboro. $549 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed June 11. Al’s Seafood Bar Inc., Phoenicia. $4,052 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 15. Allied Inspectors Inc., Highland Mills. $1,325 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15. Allied Wine Corp., Ellenville. $937 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed June 15.

Aquarius Water Conditioning, Greenwood Lake. $983 in favor of the New York State 50 North Front Street Inc., Department of Taxation and Fid.b.a. Snapper Magee’s, Kings- nance, Albany. Filed Feb. 2. ton. $36,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Alba- Asbestos and Lead Inc., Warwick. $12,519 in favor of the ny. Filed June 12. New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insur562 Bedford 2B Corp., Mon- ance Division, Albany. Filed roe. $1,409 in favor of the New Feb. 1. York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Beef and Bourbon L.L.C., Feb. 14. Newburgh. $5,761 in favor of the New York State DepartA and A Automotive Works, ment of Labor Unemployment Saugerties. $1,130 in favor of Insurance Division, Albany. the New York State Department Filed Feb. 1. of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 15.

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FACTS&FIGURES Bella’s Flowers, Kingston. $4,501 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 15.

Chris Don Inc., Middletown. $1,425 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

Dynamic Automotive, Kingston. $529 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 15.

Flanagan Design and Display Inc., Middletown. $1,402 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

HCA Genesis Inc., d.b.a. Mercy of Northern New York, Lake Katrine. $795 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 15.

Black Velvet Management Inc., Middletown. $1,395 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

Cilandro Inc., Washingtonville. $1,629 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

El Mariachi Monroe Inc., d.b.a. Jaripeo Monroe, Monroe. $10,819 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Feb. 1.

Game Time Sports Café Inc., Newburgh. $782 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Feb. 1.

Hi-Range Boiler Cleaning Corp., Newburgh. $1,520 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

Briassa Enterprise Inc., Kingston. $22,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed June 12.

Circle Point B and E Inc., Westtown. $1,252 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Feb. 1.

Erichsen’s Auto Inc., Highland. $1,656 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 15.

Garden State Shavings Inc., Warwick. $1,402 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

Holly Green Farm Corp., Middletown. $1,402 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

Color Board Media Corp., Monroe. $1,453 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

Excel Auto Glass Corp., Lake Katrine. $129 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 15.

Gentile Venture Inc., Saugerties. $953 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 15.

Hudson Valley Dry Goods Company Inc., Newburgh. $150 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 2.

Color Craft Painting Inc., Kingston. $271 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Caribbean Queen Inc., Gosh- June 11. en. $21,061 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxa- Community Maintenance tion and Finance, Albany. Filed Corp., New Windsor. $1,395 Feb. 2. in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Cassas Brothers Construc- Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15. tion Inc., Harriman. $264 in favor of the New York State Custom Car Care Inc., MidDepartment of Taxation and dletown. $364 in favor of the Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15. New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Catskills Heimishe Bakery Filed Feb. 15. Inc., Monroe. $1,535 in favor of the New York State Depart- Cyber Café Inc., Tuxedo Park. ment of Taxation and Finance, $504 in favor of the New York Albany. Filed Feb. 15. State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance DiviCheapscapes Inc., Monroe. sion, Albany. Filed Feb. 1. $1,421 in favor of the New York State Department of Diamondstoreusa Inc., New Taxation and Finance, Albany. Windsor. $1,325 in favor of the Filed Feb. 15. New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Cherso Realty Inc., Green- Filed Feb. 15. wood Lake. $976 in favor of the New York State Depart- Dicci 2 Inc., Monroe. $1,402 ment of Labor Unemploy- in favor of the New York State ment Insurance Division, Al- Department of Taxation and bany. Filed Feb. 1. Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

FAAF Freight Systems Inc., Monroe. $1,395 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

Gina’s Real Deals, Newburgh. $100 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

Fair Oaks Deli Inc., Middletown. $466 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

Glensan Excavating Inc., d.b.a. Glensan Trucking, Warwick. $555 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Feb. 1.

Fairgrounds Water Transportation Company Inc., Mountainville. $1,425 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

Good Stuff Café and Country Store, West Shokan. $94,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed June 12.

Broadway Billiards Inc., Newburgh. $1,372 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 2. Cannick Enterprises Inc, Chester. $2,106 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

Chester Valley Inc., Goshen. $1,491 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

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Fallsy Inc., d.b.a. Bistro Mountain Store, Gardiner. $7,425 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 15. Fashion Jewelry Inc., Newburgh. $1,001 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

Five Star Landscaping, Ellenville. $212 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dolly Waste System Inc., June 15. Newburgh. $1,925 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

Green Lawn and Tree Service Inc., Warwick. $1,409 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15. Hall Builders Inc., Campbell Hall. $4,141 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15. Harry’s Small Engine Repair Inc., Warwick. $11,713 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 2.

International Book Distributors Corp., Monroe. $1,551 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15. J and P Drywall Inc., Middletown. $1,428 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15. J and R Flowers Inc., Woodstock. $1,447 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 15. Jakob and Jakob Realty Corp., Monroe. $1,535 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

JD Carpentry, New Windsor. $195 in favor of the New York Hudson Valley Ink L.L.C., State Department of Taxation d.b.a. Hudson Valley Caboo- and Finance, Albany. Filed dle, Chester. $1,429 in favor of Feb. 2. the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Alba- JKS Management Services ny. Filed Feb. 15. L.L.C., d.b.a. Vineyard Commons, Highland. $235 in favor Hudson Valley Tent Rental of the New York State DepartCompany Inc., Montgomery. ment of Labor Unemployment $4,233 in favor of the New York Insurance Division, Albany. State Department of Labor Un- Filed June 11. employment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Feb. 1. JMD Inc., d.b.a. Mobil Wally Mart, Harriman. $207 in favor Humble Confidence Inc., Pine of the New York State DepartBush. $1,414 in favor of the New ment of Taxation and Finance, York State Department of Taxa- Albany. Filed Feb. 15. tion and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15. Kiryas Joel Safe Delivery Corp., Monroe. $2,541 in favor Iazzetti Trucking Excavating of the New York State Departand Landscaping Inc., Tux- ment of Labor Unemployment edo. $11,764 in favor of the New Insurance Division, Albany. York State Department of Labor Filed Feb. 1. Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Feb. 1. KJ Combs Inc., New Paltz. $4,830 in favor of the Workers’ Iframes Corp., Monroe. $1,395 Compensation Board of the in favor of the New York State State of New York, Albany. Filed Department of Taxation and June 12. Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15. Lopiccolo Inc., Montgomery. Independent Insurance Bro- $397 in favor of the New York kerage Resources Inc., New State Department of Taxation Windsor. $1,482 in favor of the and Finance, Albany. Filed New York State Department of Feb. 2. Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15.

Credits, Clients and Awards Andrei C. Adams, from the accounting and business-consulting firm of Judelson, Giordano & Siegel CPA P.C., in Middletown, has received his certified public accountant (CPA) license. Adams holds a master’s degree in accounting, with honors, from the University of Southern Maine and also graduated, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Southern Maine with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. Raena Korenman of Newburgh has received the 2012 Kipnis-Wilson Friedland Award from the Jewish Federation of Greater Orange County. The award recognizes an extraordinary woman who has set a high standard for philanthropy and volunteerism in her community.

Newsmakers Ramapo Anesthesia in Suffern has announced the following anesthesiologists have joined its staff at Bon Secours Community Hospital in Port Jervis. James D. Levinsohn recently served as director of anesthesia at Murray Hill Medical Center in New York City. Sinha Monsur previously served as an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook and before that was an attending anesthesiologist at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens.

Kristian Diaz has joined Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union as a branch manager for the Newburgh location. Most recently, Diaz was with TD Bank where he served as branch manager for the past nine years. Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union is a member-owned, credit union serving individuals and businesses throughout Ulster, Dutchess and Orange counties.

Lisa Summers-Gibson has been promoted to director of education at Crystal Run Healthcare in Middletown. In her new role as director of education, Summers-Gibson will be responsible for staff development, including education and training for both clinical and nonclinical staff throughout the practice. Summers-Gibson joined Crystal Run in 2010 serving as a nurse educator.

Michael L. Fox, litigation managing attorney and associate at Jacobowitz & Gubit On the Go: Business, Etc. L.L.P. in Walden, has been named the new chairman of the Young Lawyers Section of Wednesday June 27 the New York State Bar Association, one of the association’s largest sections. Fox has also Dutchess County Regional Chamber’s “Business After Hours,” just been appointed as a member of the as- 6 to 9 p.m., Spirit on Hudson departing from Victor C. Waryas sociation’s committee on resolutions. Park(Shadows Marina), 176 Rinaldi Blvd., Poughkeepsie. For information, call 454-1700, ext. 1000. Vincent H. Frankel, director of ethics and business standards at Orange and Rockland Utilities Inc., (O&R) has been named executive director of the Palisades Institute of Dominican College in Orangeburg. His employment at O&R will remain unaffected by his appointment to the executive director post, a volunteer position.

Thursday June 28 “Small Business Seminars,” 7:30 to 9 a.m., Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce, 1 Civic Center Plaza, Suite 400, Poughkeepsie. For information, visit dutchesscountyregionalchamber.org.

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Riverside Bank has announced the following individuals have joined its commercial lending team. Anthony Casillo of Newburgh was appointed vice president/commercial loan officer, based at the bank’s Newburgh branch. Most recently, he was a commercial loan officer at Hometown Bank.

Cathy Ann Nicholson of Fishkill was appointed assistant treasurer/loan administration manager, based at the bank’s Poughkeepsie corporate headquarters. Most recently, she was a mortgage officer with the Community Preservation Corp. Walden Savings Bank in Goshen recently showed its community spirit and support for Inspire, a nonprofit organization officially known as Orange County Cerebral Palsy Association Inc., by hosting a “Casual for a Cause” day at all its bank branches in the Hudson Valley. Staff members were asked to wear blue for this day, which is the Inspire’s color. Staff at the bank also asked their customers to donate $1 to purchase a star in support of Inspire throughout the month of April.

From left, Kevin Rembisz, Walden Savings Bank loan servicing manager; Susan Bennett, vice president and branch administrator; Rita Frey, Inspire vice president organizational support; Derrik Wynkoop, president and CEO; and Joann Menendez, vice president marketing.

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FACTS&FIGURES M.M.J. Inc., Middletown. $1,867 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 2.

Pinnacle Telecom Services L.L.C., Newburgh. $2,227 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 2.

RMS Professional Services Inc., Middletown. $1,402 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

Sustainable Hudson Valley Inc., Kingston. $90,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed June 12.

Top Notch Cleaning Services Inc., Middletown. $1,001 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

Vekman Inc., Greenwood Lake. $1,425 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

Manny’s Bus Service Inc., Walden. $485 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 2.

Playtogs Plaza Nail Inc., Middletown. $128 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

Top Woods Realty Inc., Newburgh. $305 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

Versatile Development Corp., Middletown. $444 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

Marlin Pools and Spas L.L.C., Newburgh. $4,015 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 2.

Post Time Farms Inc., Goshen. $1,051 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

Tortured Souls Inc., Highland. $1,511 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 15.

VGMA Corp., Goshen. $1,055 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

MH Building Corp., Middletown. $231 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Feb. 1.

Premiere Physical Therapy P.C., Warwick. $1,425 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

Michael Edison Productions Inc., d.b.a. Salsa on 211 Restaurant, Middletown. $3,331 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Feb. 1.

Prestige Cleaning of OC Inc., Middletown. $1,030 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

TCB Restaurant Management Inc., d.b.a. The Copper Bottom, Florida. $675 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Royal Painting of America Filed Feb. 1. Inc., Monroe. $372 in favor of the New York State Depart- Ten 63 Restaurant Corp., Harment of Labor Unemployment riman. $1,639 in favor of the Insurance Division, Albany. New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 1. Filed Feb. 14. Sarah Faiga Lictenstein Corp., Monroe. $432 in favor The Chocolate Décor Inc., of the New York State Depart- Monroe. $1,456 in favor of the ment of Taxation and Finance, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Albany. Filed Feb. 14. Filed Feb. 15. Shandaken Blackbear Restaurant Group Inc., d.b.a. The Corner Grocery Store, Russ’s Country Kitchen, Highland Falls. $914 in favor Mount Temper. $11,866 in favor of the New York State Departof the New York State Depart- ment of Taxation and Finance, ment of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14. Albany. Filed June 15. The Garrison House Gift Shawngunk River Innkeep- Shoppe Ltd., Fort Montgomers Inc., d.b.a. Tuthillhouse ery. $696 in favor of the New at the Mill, Gardiner. $3,098 York State Department of Taxain favor of the New York State tion and Finance, Albany. Filed Department of Labor Unem- Feb. 15. ployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed June 15. The Main Street Solar Store Inc., Highland. $305 in favor Sherman Metropolitan of the New York State DepartGroup L.L.C., New Windsor. ment of Taxation and Finance, $209 in favor of the New York Albany. Filed June 15. State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed The Shelby Group L.L.C., Feb. 2. Cornwall. $830 in favor of the New York State Department of Solomon’s Rose, Newburgh. Taxation and Finance, Albany. $1,387 in favor of the New Filed Feb. 14. York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. TLC Grooming Inc., Chester. Filed Feb. 2. $280 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor UnStar Deli and Food Mart Inc., employment Insurance DiviNew Windsor. $286 in favor of sion, Albany. Filed Feb. 1. the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Alba- Tonto Enterprises Inc., Monny. Filed Feb. 14. roe. $307 in favor of the New York State Department of TaxaSuper Snacks Inc., New Paltz. tion and Finance, Albany. Filed $320 in favor of the New York Feb. 14. State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 15.

Prime Imaging Inc., Monroe. $1,395 in favor of the New York Pastrami Com- New York State Department of pany Ltd., Olivebridge. $1,756 Taxation and Finance, Albany. in favor of the New York State Filed Feb. 14. Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 15. Prisms Promotions Inc., Highland Mills. $3,854 in favor Northeast Wholesale Supply of the New York State DepartInc., New Hampton. $3,500 ment of Taxation and Finance, in favor of the New York State Albany. Filed Feb. 14. Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Quality Dry Cleaners and Albany. Filed Feb. 1. Laundry, Highland. $1,002 in favor of the New York State O’Barnett Group L.L.C., Department of Labor UnemHighland. $2,000 in favor of the ployment Insurance Division, Workers’ Compensation Board Albany. Filed June 15. of the State of New York, Albany. Filed June 12. Ralph DiBart Planning and Development Services, WarOrnamental Installation Spe- wick. $550 in favor of the New cialists Inc., Warwick. $4,466 York State Department of Taxain favor of the New York State tion and Finance, Albany. Filed Department of Labor Unem- Feb. 14. ployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Feb. 1. Rival Industries Inc., Highland Mills. $1,409 in favor of the Pata Family Delicatessen Inc., New York State Department of Pine Bush. $2,000 in favor of the Taxation and Finance, Albany. New York State Department of Filed Feb. 14. Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14. RJH Inc., d.b.a. Village Fitness Center, Washingtonville. Pencak Realty Inc., Port Jer- $1,733 in favor of the New vis. $262 in favor of the New York State Department of York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14. Filed Feb. 14.

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Rocco Management Inc., Monroe. $2,145 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 2.

Town and Country Mart Inc., Port Jervis. $1,575 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14. Tres Amigos Restaurant Group Inc., Middletown. $1,557 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14. Tri State Environmental Cleaning Services L.L.C., Johnson. $50,447 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

Wasabi Chinese and Japanese Sushi, Cornwall. $1,356 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 15. Wellness Center of the Hudson Valley Inc., Saugerties. $729 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 15. West Park Union Free School District, West Park. $10,414 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed June 11.

Tri-State Equipment Corp., Rock Tavern. $1,051 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

West Point Cleaners and Uniforms Inc., Highland Falls. $234 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Feb. 1.

V.L. LV Construction Corp., Monroe. $1,520 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

What Is It Entertainment Inc., Middletown. $1,395 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

Vail’s Gate What’s Hot Inc., Vails Gate. $440 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Feb. 1.

Who’s Next Barbershop Inc., Middletown. $1,520 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

Valecor Services Inc., Olivebridge. $157 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed June 15.

Yarosz Excavating Inc., Pine Bush. $1,825 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14. Zera Yisroel Inc., Monroe. $1,409 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 14.

Dutchess Golf and County Club, et al. Filed by Rhinebeck Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose The following filings indicated a on a mortgage to secure $4.7 legal action has been initiated, million affecting property locatthe outcome of which may affect ed at 2628 South Road, Poughkeepsie. Filed April 26. the title to the property listed.

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Arroy, Paul, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $245,000 affecting property located at 23 Ellen Drive, Beacon 12508. Filed April 17.

Ferren, William W., et al. Filed by Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $116,000 affecting property located at 216-218 Elmendorf St., Kingston 12401. Filed June 18.

Boughton, Christopher, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $213,275 affecting property located at 324 First Ave., Kingston 12401. Filed June 14.

Foundation For the Pine Plains Community Center and Library Inc., et al. Filed by Bank of Millbrook. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $1.5 million affecting property located at 7775 S. Main St., Pine Plains. Filed April 30.

Cercone, Perry, aka Perry Cerone, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $167,819 affecting property located in Ulster. Filed June 13.

Gallo, Richard M., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 165 Railroad Ave., Closi, Christine, et al. Filed Kingston 12401. Filed June 14. by Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $144,000 affecting Hamil, Sheik B., et al. Filed property located at 8 Angelo by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: Road, Lake Katrine 12449. Filed seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $314,570 affectJune 18. ing property located at 1100 Route 216, Poughquag 12570. Colwell, William R., et al. Filed Filed April 17. by Hudson Heritage Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to se- Hill, Douglas C., et al. Filed by cure an unspecified amount af- U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks fecting property located in New to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $336,000 affecting Paltz. Filed June 14. property located at 38 Van Scoy Road, Poughquag 12570. Filed Cowan, Everett, et al. Filed by April 30. Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $87,300 affect- Holliday, David, et al. Filed ing property located at 8490 by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. AcRoute 28, Shandaken 12410. tion: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspeciFiled June 18. fied amount affecting property located at 19 Wendover Drive, Doremus, Lynn M., et al. Filed Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Ac- April 30. tion: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $130,000 affecting property located at 136 Wilbur Blvd., Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed April 18.

Iqbal, Naveed, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 194 Cedar Valley Road, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed April 27. Jellema, James R., et al. Filed by RBS Citizens N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $214,051 affecting property located at 96 Plattekill Road, Marlborough 12542. Filed June 15. Joseph, Henry, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $203,392 affecting property located at 218 Old Route 22, Wassaic 12592. Filed April 30. Ladenheim, Bruce C., et al. Filed by GMAC Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 1380 Route 28, West Hurley 12491. Filed June 13. Lepore, Joseph, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $314,950 affecting property located at 45 Circle Drive, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed April 17. Lopez, Anthony, aka Anthony Lopez Cordero, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $311,263 affecting property located at 16 White Oak Circle, Wingdale 12594. Filed April 26.

Magnaud, Roberta, et al. Filed by Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $191,000 affecting property located at 38 Sandy Court, West Hurley 12491. Filed June 18.

Reitman, Barry, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $148,000 affecting property located at 52 Farmingdale Road, Blooming Grove 10914. Filed June 6.

Marchese, Anthony M., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $346,500 affecting property located at 38-40 Mahoney Road, Milton 12547. Filed June 12.

Rickard, Mary A., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 5 Spratt Ave., Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed April 30.

Maurice, Salvatore, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $384,000 affecting property located at 422 Rossway Road, LaGrangeville 12540. Filed April 26. Nicolosi, Robert F., et al. Filed by BAC Home Loans Servicing L.P. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $276,000 affecting property located at 92 Orange St., Marlboro 12542. Filed June 14. Norman, Carl W. Sr., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property located at 55 Galley Hill Road, Cuddebackville 12729. Filed June 6. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, Keith, et al. Filed by PHH Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $150,600 affecting property located at 23 Dean Place, Poughkeepsie 12602. Filed April 26. Price, Christopher, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $64,600 affecting property located at 220 Albany Ave., Kingston 12401. Filed June 12.

Lyrintzis, Melinda, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $212,500 affecting property located at 5 Charlotte Mews, Wallkill 10940. Filed June 6. Ragaglia, Anthony, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $205,216 affecting property located at 88 Albany St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed April 26.

St. Louis, Gregory, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 18G Alpine Drive, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed April 26.

Steinhilber, Lonnie R., et al. Filed by Hometown Bank of the Hudson Valley. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $165,480 affecting property located at 476 Awosting Road, Pine Bush 12566. Filed Rios, Jose, et al. Filed by Ci- June 18. timortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to Stepanek, Bruce Joseph, as secure $194,000 affecting prop- executor of the estate of Marilyn erty located at 86 Decker Road, D. Epstein, et al. Filed by JPMPlattekill. Filed June 14. organ Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortRodriguez, Maria, et al. gage to secure an unspecified Filed by The Bank of New amount affecting property loYork Mellon. Action: seeks to cated at 618 Fitzsimmons Road, foreclose on a mortgage to se- Red Hook 12571. Filed April 17. cure $244,520 affecting property located at 41 Krystal Lane, Strand, Joseph, et al. Filed by Wallkill. Filed June 15. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on Ruiz, Jose A., et al. Filed by a mortgage to secure $301,500 Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Ac- affecting property located at 44 tion: seeks to foreclose on a Beechwood Ave., Poughkeepsie mortgage to secure $262,707 12603. Filed April 26. affecting property located at 1 Orfeo Road, Wallkill 12589. Surdykowski, David E., et Filed June 15. al. Filed by GMAC Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreSassos, Panagiotis T., et al. close on a mortgage to secure Filed by Rhinebeck Bank. Ac- $275,750 affecting property tion: seeks to foreclose on a located at 9 Kosteczko Drive, mortgage to secure $477,500 af- Wallkill 12589. Filed June 12. fecting property located at 4200 and 4202 Albany Post Road and Tucker, Attie, et al. Filed by 3 VanDam Road, Hyde Park. Bank of America N.A. Action: Filed April 26. seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $417,000 affecting Simons, James M., et al. Filed property located at 30 Shamby Springleaf Home Equity Inc. rock Hills Road, Wappingers Action: seeks to foreclose on a Falls 12590. Filed April 17. mortgage to secure $147,795 affecting property located at Vega, Stephen, et al. Filed by 606 South St., Highland 12528. Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: Filed June 14. seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $184,000 affecting Sinisi, Dawnmarie, et al. Filed property located at 128 Cedar by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Cliff Road, Monroe 10950. Filed Action: seeks to foreclose on a June 6. mortgage to secure $230,000 affecting property located at 144 Lookout Pass, Stormville 12582. Filed April 26.

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FACTS&FIGURES Viano, Ann, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $131,200 affecting property located at 24 Wilson Blvd., Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed April 27.

Zambrano, Gary, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $256,000 affecting property located at 28 Wood St., Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed April 17.

Washburn, John A., et al. Filed by OneWest Bank F.S.B. Action: Mechanic’s Liens seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $203,289 affecting CSI Developers Holdings 9G property located at 70 Lavoletta L.L.C., as owner. $20,997 as St., Wallkill 12589. Filed June 12. claimed by LRC Engineering and Surveying PC, PoughkeepWeissman, Alisha J., et al. sie. Property: in Rhinebeck. Filed by Ulster Savings Bank. Filed June 12. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $244,000 Luisi, Charles, New Windsor, affecting property located at as owner. $4,700 as claimed by 50 McKinstry Road, Gardiner Affordable Backhoe Service, 12525. Filed June 18. Monroe. Property: 13 E. Main St., Washingtonville. Filed Wercberger, Juda, et al. Filed June 15. by GMAC Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a Middletown I Resources L.P., mortgage to secure an unspeci- as owner. $2,172 as claimed by fied amount affecting property Great Neck Signs Inc., Mineola. located at 15 Lemberg Court, Property: 12 Orange Plaza Lane, Unit 102, Monroe 10950. Filed Middletown. Filed June 18. June 6. Yager, Lisa K., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $153,000 affecting property located at 7 Washington Ave., Highland 12528. Filed June 12. Youngclaus, Colleen, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $80,600 affecting property located at 64 Sholam Road, Wawarsing 12458. Filed June 15.

Mountain Glory Homes Inc., as owner. $7,631 as claimed by Probuild Company L.L.C., Middletown. Property: 264 Augusta Drive, East Fishkill. Filed June 12.

Wright, Denise, et al, as owner. Sole Proprietorships $3,682 as claimed by Ellzey Balanovici L.L.C. Property: 1571 Route 376, Wappingers. Filed Anything Artistic, 19 North St., Washingtonville 10992, c/o June 15. Brent De Joseph. Filed June 29.

Explorations Travel, P.O. Box Outback Kennels, 520 Route 215, Slate Hill, c/o Nicole L. 211 W., Middletown 10940, Klein. Filed June 29. c/o Margaret Morrisey. Filed Balloon Couture By Veronica, June 30. 77 Cornell St., Suite 112, KingsNew Businesses Hudson Valley Post Setters, ton 12401, c/o Veronica C. Kel1050 Morton Blvd., No. 2, Peacock Woodcraft, 131 Pine This paper is not responsible for ley. Filed June 14. Kingston 12401, c/o Nancy Jor- Grove Ave., Kingston 12401, c/o typographical errors contained dan. Filed June 14. John Peacock. Filed June 18. Banfield Service Coordinain the original filings. tion, P.O. Box 4126, Middletown, c/o Althea Banfield. Filed Lador Vador, 26 Dornswood Russo Sanitation, 335 PerkinsRoad, Woodstock 12498, c/o ville Road, Highland 12528, c/o June 30. Doing Business As Jody J. Soltanoff. Filed June 15. Marie L. Russo. Filed June 13. One More Thing Inc., Beginnings Preschool, 4135 d.b.a. Sparkle, 21 Mill Hill Route 28, Boiceville 12412, c/o Road, Woodstock 12498. Michelle Warren. Filed June 15. Filed June 18. Cabrera’s “One Swipe” Ventures of J.J.J. Inc., d.b.a. Ice Housekeeping, 525 Route 42, Cream Castle, 5 Powells Lane, Sparrowbush, c/o Wendy CaKingston 12401. Filed June 18. brera. Filed June 29.

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Little Owls Preschool, 89 Em- Sky Variety Vendor, P.O. Box erson St., Kingston 12401, c/o 259, Plattekill 12568, c/o Maria Jana A. Conti. Filed June 14. C. Malone. Filed June 15. Lovelybugs Daycare, 3 Gar- Star Bright, 64 N. Fostertown roghan Drive, Apt. 5202, Kings- Road, Newburgh 12550, c/o ton 12401, c/o Latesha J. Bull- Alisa Lanzetta. Filed June 29. ock. Filed June 15. Strategic Resources RecruitM.J.B. Newburgh Reunion ing, 2 Pella Court, Wallkill Scholarship Fundraiser, 138 12589, c/o Nikita S. Davis. Filed Johnston St., Apt. 3, Newburgh June 29. 12550, c/o Mack Boykin. Filed June 30. The Headlight Guy, 93 Woods Road, Port Jervis 12771, c/o Master of the House, 20 Robert J. Pratti. Filed June 29. Woodfield Drive, Washingtonville 10992, c/o April Lee. Filed Top Image Salon, 15 Chevron June 30. Road, Unit 201, Monroe 10950, c/o Tziporah Silberstein. Filed Mickey’s Taxi, 367 Pulaski June 30. Highway, Goshen 10924, c/o Michael Sniderman. Filed Ulster County Powersports, June 29. 55 N. Main St., Ellenville 12428, c/o Lori A. Johnson. Mid Hudson Home Inspec- Filed June 14. tions, 70 Baker Road, Kerhonkson 12446, c/o Kerri Ann Miszko. Filed June 14.

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Parks maestro has Playland on his mind BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

n Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan, we play a variant of musical chairs with Dan Biederman amid the Friday lunch-hour crowds. That’s Daniel A. Biederman, Scarsdale-bred, Chappaqua-residing, Playland-eyeing president of Biederman Redevelopment Ventures Corp., the private Manhattan consulting firm he founded in 1998. Bryant Park – the green, inviting seven-acre space behind the New York Public Library that draws tourists, office workers, lovers and idlers, people watchers and bird watchers alike – is his exemplary handiwork, a public park that for 20 years has been privately managed and privately funded. Biederman manages it as president of the nonprofit Bryant Park Corp., which employs about 50 park workers on a $7.2 million annual operating budget. That’s about the size of the budget that a revived, privately operated Playland in Rye would need, he estimates. Biederman would very much like his BRV Corp. to manage the wondrous and perennially money-losing park on the Sound Shore for Sustainable Playland, the group of Rye residents whose proposal to create and operate a more diversified and aesthetically appealing park – picture a Great Lawn like Central Park’s, a sculpture garden – is vying with two amusement park companies’ proposals for approval by the Westchester County administration of Robert P. Astorino. “I was originally going to bid on it myself,” he says over the French cabaret melodies of the Bryant Park carousel behind us. “I do want to be involved and be the acting manager of the (Sustainable Playland) team. It’s a very good team to be associated with.” “It’s been a very long trail,” he says of the Playland project and the county’s protracted review and decisionmaking process. Still he speaks highly of Astorino and his executive staff and the “excellent” request for proposals they issued to turn over the county’s public amusement park to a private operator. “Rob Astorino is kind of a more conservative version of Bloomberg,” says Bierderman, who gets along well with New York’s run-it-like-a-business mayor. With Rudy Giuliani, he did not. Giuliani thought the redeveloper had grown too big for his public breeches, so to speak, and forced him out as president of the Grand Central Partnership that Biederman had created in 1989. “I know privatization,” says the Scarsdale High School alumnus, who now is consulting in 23 cities. He is guiding the redevelopment of parks in Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and Dallas and leading improvements to a section of the Boston Common and an overhaul of historic Military Park in downtown Newark. His turnaround expertise, applied to neighborhoods and business districts as well as public parks and plazas, have brought him consulting work overseas on projects in London, Dublin, Helsinki, Jerusalem and Singapore. “My whole career is to take

things from government and run them privately.” That career has been built on a string of highly visible successes in other private redevelopment ventures in Manhattan’s public spaces: the Grand Central Terminal area, Chelsea Triangle, Greeley Square and Herald Square in the 34th Street commercial district, where Biederman is president and co-founder of the private 34th Street Partnership. “Playland is a natural progression for us,” he says. And turning around an amusement park would be a novel venture to add to his portfolio. “There are very few privatizations of amusement parks going on at any time,” he says. “This is unusual.” “Excuse me, Mr. Biederman,” a park worker politely interrupts, “could you move to another table? We have to set up here for a birthday party at 2.” We grab a table near the statue of William Cullen Bryant on the rear library terrace. A ragtime piano player entertains the lounging terrace crowd. Despite the growing demand for his services, “I’ve never been able to do a Westchester project,” Biederman says rather plaintively. “What’s the expression, you’re always a prophet without honor in your hometown?” His hometown, New Castle, like other smaller Westchester communities, couldn’t afford his consulting services these days, he concedes, though he has freely advised his town officials. “At this point, I’m expensive,” he says. “I’ve always been really interested in working in Yonkers,” where large-scale downtown redevelopment has stalled since the recession. He sees Larkin Square – where the city is completing its riverwalk park on the newly uncovered Saw Mill River – as “a potential nucleus” for redeveloped public space stretching from the waterfront to Getty Square. “If you piece them together, I think you can do it.” “I would almost want czarlike powers,” he adds, in order to get things done amid the city’s fractious politics. It’s hard to be heard above the ragtime player’s singing and music. We pack up and move off to another table. No one recognizes the guy who led the revival of this park they enjoy. “I walk through three times a day,” he says. “I have a tougher eye than most of the staff.” At times he poses as a patron at its open-air restaurants and lounges. “We get 10 percent of the gross from every drink, every meal bought in Bryant Park,” he notes. “This was a huge turnaround and a risk. Playland is a turnaround too.” He’d like to have a crack at it. “It’s the best amusement park site I’ve ever seen.” “The setting is exquisite, but it hasn’t been maintained as a scenic park for some time. It’s been an amusement park. As a general park, it lacks a lot.” Vigilant duty interrupts his talk. “Let me make a note to the staff that Henry’s got the piano cranked up too loud.”

Dan Biederman presides at Bryant Park.

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