On the Record / October 14, 2009
Published: October 14, 2009, 12:30 am
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Greater Buffalo Building Owners and Managers Association presented its annual Faces of BOMA Awards during a celebration luncheon in Harry’s Harbour Place Grille. The award recipients include: real estate development of the year, Avant, Uniland Development Co.; property manager of the year, A. Jack Osler, Ciminelli Real Estate Corp.; residential property manager of the year, Sam Reeder, Calamar Inc.; engineer of the year, David Deck, National Fuel Gas; vendor member of the year, Karl Krug, Schindler Elevator Co.; vendor member of the year, Frank Grandinetti Jr., Grand Jude Plumbing; member of the year, Tina Coppins, AppleTree Business Park/AmCap; exceptional tenant service award, Lafayette Court Building Management Team, Ciminelli Real Estate Corp.; project coordinator of the year, Susan Heimiller, CB Richard Ellis/Buffalo; building mechanic of the year, Fred Frier, Seneca One Realty; janitorial firm of the year, William Held Jr., Held’s Janitorial Services.
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Try-It Distributing Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Eugene P. Vukelic received the 2009 National Beer Wholesalers Association Life Service Award. The award is the NBWA’s highest honor and is given to beer distributors who have dedicated a lifetime of service to the industry, community and fellow distributors.
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Damon Morey senior partners Thomas J. Drury and William F. Savino were named among the top 50 attorneys who received the highest point totals in the 2009 New York Super Lawyers Upstate Edition.
Company items
Mentholatum Co., a leading over-the- counter health care products company based in Orchard Park, announced its sponsorship of 11-time Ironman triathlon winner Belinda Granger for its ROHTO Eye Drop line. Granger will be the face of the eye drops. Granger will wear the ROHTO logo on her jersey as she competes in triathlons through 2011. Granger has won three Ironman Koreas, two Ironman Malaysias and Ironman Canadas, and single triumphs at Ironman China, Ironman Lake Placid, Quelle Challenge Roth and the Honu Ironman 70.3 in Hawaii.
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Pfannenberg, a maker of commercial temperature control systems, introduced the new DTT Series top mount cooling units. The units feature patented condensate technology that protects electronics housed in enclosures.
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Seventeen attorneys from Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
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The Thai House restaurant, specializing in authentic Thai cuisine, recently celebrated its grand opening at 2800 Grand Island Blvd. The restaurant, owned by Tim and Mickey Suphankomut, is open Monday through Saturday from 11:30 a. m. to 9:30 p. m.
Contributing
The Preservation League of New York State awarded a $6,000 grant to the Chautauqua Home Rehabilitation& Improvement Corp. to be used toward a cultural resources survey of the Village of Sherman. CHRIC, one of 235 organizations of the national NeighborWorks network, is assisting Sherman with its downtown rehabilitation projects. The survey will provide documentation on the village’s early 19th to mid- 20 century commercial blocks, homes, churches and the Yorker Museum complex. Clinton Brown Company Architecture of Buffalo will complete the project.
Patents
Title: “Low voltage cutoff circuit for an electrochemical cell” No.: 7,586,292 Inventors: Wakefield, Wesley (Lockport); Mast, Roy (East Amherst); Dayton, Troy (Syracuse, Utah); Stawitzky; James (North Tonawanda) Assignee: Electrochem Solutions, (Clarence) Date issued: Sept. 8, 2009
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Title: “Simultaneously cycled NMR spectroscopy” No.: 7,586,306 Inventors: Szyperski, Thomas (Amherst); Parish, David (Buffalo) Assignee: Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst)
Date issued: Sept. 8, 2009
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