Garrett Lund receives eco-broker certification
Garrett Lund of The Lund Team, a Carlsbad-based real estate company, has completed the rigorous requirements necessary to become a certified eco-broker.
The multi-course residential real estate program teaches energy efficiency, sustainable design, healthier environments, comfort and value.
With Garrett receiving the prestigious certification, The Lund Team continues to focus on being green. The company's future goal is to become even greener.
The Lund Team already turned its real estate office into an eco-friendly facility and diligently supports energy conservation. For more information, visit www.lundteam.com.
Genoptix named area's fastest growing company
Carlsbad-based Genoptix, a company that helps oncologists determine the correct treatment for people with blood cancers, recently topped a list of the region's fastest growing companies.
The list was compiled by Deloitte & Touche. The accounting firm's annual San Diego Technology Fast 50 Awards ranks technology, telecommunications, media and life-sciences companies by percentage of revenue growth over five years.
In that time, Genoptix's revenue increased from $209,000 in 2003 to $59 million in 2007, which is almost a 28,000 percent increase. Genoptix has 215 employees and went public a year ago.
For more information, visit www.genoptix.com.
Erin Koch returns to Gable PR firm
Gable PR, a San Diego-based public relations firm, announced that Erin Koch has rejoined the agency.
Koch left Gable PR in late 2007 for a position with Davies Public Affairs in Santa Barbara, but recently decided to return to the San Diego area. Previously an account manager at Gable PR, Koch was promoted to agency director.
Koch will be responsible for driving results for the agency's clients and managing and recruiting new team members. For more information, visit www.gablepr.com.
Brubaker & Associates welcomes office manager
Brubaker & Associates has hired Charmaine Ligsay as office manager.
Ligsay has 10 years in the insurance industry; most recently she held an underwriter position at Allied Insurance. She is a former member of Insurance Professionals of Sacramento and The Asian Affinity Group of Allied Insurance.
Brubaker & Associates offers a comprehensive solution for North County residents searching for insurance and investment needs. For more information, visit www.brubakerassociates.com.
Popular Mechanics honors Aptera
Aptera Motors' 300 mile-per-gallon car graced the cover of the November issue of Popular Mechanics as one of 20 inventions that will change the world.
Steve Fambro and Chris Anthony, founders of the Carlsbad-based company, have been selected as winners of the magazine's Breakthrough Awards for Aptera's line of ultrahigh-mileage eco-friendly cars, to be priced around $30,000. Popular Mechanics praised Aptera for creating a vehicle that "radically reduced weight and drag, turning to a three-wheel design to create comfortable, real-world vehicles, ones that pass standard car safety tests."
For more information, visit www.aptera.com.
Gemological Institute wins three Bernays awards
The Gemological Institute of America has received three Edward L. Bernays Awards, presented recently by the San Diego Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America, the world's largest organization for public relations professionals.
The Bernays Awards recognize the industry's finest PR campaigns, writing, tactics and professionals.
The GIA's new alumni e-newsletter, alum.connect, was honored with a Bernays Bronze Mark of Excellence Award in the Multimedia Communications Ezines/Newsletters category. Gems & Gemology was recognized with a Bronze Mark of Excellence Award in the Magazines category. The GIA's public outreach campaign, titled "Marry Christmas! 'Tis the Season to Propose!" was honored with a Bronze Mark of Merit Award for Creative Tactics.
An independent nonprofit organization, the GIA, which is located in Carlsbad, is recognized as the world's foremost authority in gemology. For more information, visit www.gia.edu.
Carlsbad Optimist Club inducts new president
The Optimist Club of Carlsbad "The Achievers" recently inducted their new officers and board of directors at a luau where John Aldrich was installed as president.
Aldrich's goal this year is to have more hands-on activities to help the youth of Carlsbad and North County. In the past, the club has helped raise money for Special Olympics, scholarships for Carlsbad High School seniors, children that have lost a parent in Iraq or Afghanistan and much more.
If you would like to see what the club is about, join them for breakfast at 8 a.m. every Saturday morning at El Camino Country Club on Vista Way in Oceanside. For more information, call John Aldrich at (760) 729-7200 or Carl Tillinghast at (760) 633-3096.
MiraCosta College's PIO wins awards
MiraCosta College's Public Information Office has been awarded 10 Medallion Awards from the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations.
The District 6 Medallion Award Competition received about 400 entries, but only three awards are given in each category.
MiraCosta College was awarded Gold for its 2008 Summer Class Schedule, Gold for its newsletter, The Mirror, Gold for its logo design for Cardiff Caf? and Gold for a folder cover. The college also received four Silver and two Bronze awards for other marketing pieces.
"These awards were the result of the hard work of a number of talented individuals representing the college's Public Information Office and the Student Services and Instructional divisions," said Marketing and Media Relations Coordinator Cheryl Kyle.
For more information, visit www.miracosta.edu.
Scripps ranks among nation's top employers
Scripps Health has been ranked No. 2 in the nation in AARP's 2008 listing of the 50 Best Employers for Workers Over 50. Working Mother magazine has named Scripps Health to its 2008 list of America's 100 Best Companies for its family-friendly policies.
The selections were published in the October issues of AARP The Magazine and Working Mother. Scripps Health is the only San Diego-based organization to be named to either of these national lists in 2008, and was AARP's highest-ranked California employer this year.
Scripps Health has been included on the AARP list for five consecutive years and the Working Mother list for four straight years.
Mature and female employees are an important part of Scripps' workforce. Approximately 47 percent of Scripps' employees are age 50 or older and 71 percent of its employees are women.
For more information, visit www.scripps.org.
TaylorMade Golf launches PreOwned equipment Web site
A new online store, www.taylormadegolfpreowned.com, gives consumers and retailers an easy way to buy TaylorMade certified pre-owned equipment, as well as trade in their used equipment.
The TaylorMade-adidas Golf Company and Global Value Commerce, a leading online merchant of golf clubs and golf equipment, teamed up to create the new e-commerce presence.
All of the clubs sold on the Web site are TaylorMade certified, subjected to a complete inspection, equipped with a new headcover and grip when needed, come with a certificate of authenticity and are covered by a 12-month limited warranty.
Tri-City becomes smoke-free campus
Tri-City Medical Center is helping to create a healthy community by being a completely smoke-free campus.
The health care district's board of directors unanimously approved the new smoking policy at its regular meeting Sept. 25. As of Nov. 20, the date of the American Cancer Society's Great American Smoke-Out, smoking was no longer permitted on the medical center campus.
Although Tri-City isn't forcing anyone to quit smoking, the hospital is working with its employees and volunteers who desire to quit smoking by offering several resources and options at little or no cost. For more information, visit www.tricitymed.org.
Humane society welcomes new board member
Lee Collins has been appointed to serve as a member of the North County Humane Society & SPCA board of directors.
Collins brings with him a broad range of management experience; his latest venture is in property management. No stranger to serving the community or his country, he fought in Danang during the Vietnam War.
Once stateside, Collins and his family continued serving their community as foster parents to 16 children. Collins said it is this dedication to service that he intends to bring to the humane society.
In addition to his duties at the humane society, he also sits on the MiraCosta College real estate advisory board. For more information, visit www.nchumane.org.
Garrett Lund of The Lund Team, a Carlsbad-based real estate company, has completed the rigorous requirements necessary to become a certified eco-broker.
The multi-course residential real estate program teaches energy efficiency, sustainable design, healthier environments, comfort and value.
With Garrett receiving the prestigious certification, The Lund Team continues to focus on being green. The company's future goal is to become even greener.
The Lund Team already turned its real estate office into an eco-friendly facility and diligently supports energy conservation. For more information, visit www.lundteam.com.
Genoptix named area's fastest growing company
Carlsbad-based Genoptix, a company that helps oncologists determine the correct treatment for people with blood cancers, recently topped a list of the region's fastest growing companies.
The list was compiled by Deloitte & Touche. The accounting firm's annual San Diego Technology Fast 50 Awards ranks technology, telecommunications, media and life-sciences companies by percentage of revenue growth over five years.
In that time, Genoptix's revenue increased from $209,000 in 2003 to $59 million in 2007, which is almost a 28,000 percent increase. Genoptix has 215 employees and went public a year ago.
For more information, visit www.genoptix.com.
Erin Koch returns to Gable PR firm
Gable PR, a San Diego-based public relations firm, announced that Erin Koch has rejoined the agency.
Koch left Gable PR in late 2007 for a position with Davies Public Affairs in Santa Barbara, but recently decided to return to the San Diego area. Previously an account manager at Gable PR, Koch was promoted to agency director.
Koch will be responsible for driving results for the agency's clients and managing and recruiting new team members. For more information, visit www.gablepr.com.
Brubaker & Associates welcomes office manager
Brubaker & Associates has hired Charmaine Ligsay as office manager.
Ligsay has 10 years in the insurance industry; most recently she held an underwriter position at Allied Insurance. She is a former member of Insurance Professionals of Sacramento and The Asian Affinity Group of Allied Insurance.
Brubaker & Associates offers a comprehensive solution for North County residents searching for insurance and investment needs. For more information, visit www.brubakerassociates.com.
Popular Mechanics honors Aptera
Aptera Motors' 300 mile-per-gallon car graced the cover of the November issue of Popular Mechanics as one of 20 inventions that will change the world.
Steve Fambro and Chris Anthony, founders of the Carlsbad-based company, have been selected as winners of the magazine's Breakthrough Awards for Aptera's line of ultrahigh-mileage eco-friendly cars, to be priced around $30,000. Popular Mechanics praised Aptera for creating a vehicle that "radically reduced weight and drag, turning to a three-wheel design to create comfortable, real-world vehicles, ones that pass standard car safety tests."
For more information, visit www.aptera.com.
Gemological Institute wins three Bernays awards
The Gemological Institute of America has received three Edward L. Bernays Awards, presented recently by the San Diego Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America, the world's largest organization for public relations professionals.
The Bernays Awards recognize the industry's finest PR campaigns, writing, tactics and professionals.
The GIA's new alumni e-newsletter, alum.connect, was honored with a Bernays Bronze Mark of Excellence Award in the Multimedia Communications Ezines/Newsletters category. Gems & Gemology was recognized with a Bronze Mark of Excellence Award in the Magazines category. The GIA's public outreach campaign, titled "Marry Christmas! 'Tis the Season to Propose!" was honored with a Bronze Mark of Merit Award for Creative Tactics.
An independent nonprofit organization, the GIA, which is located in Carlsbad, is recognized as the world's foremost authority in gemology. For more information, visit www.gia.edu.
Carlsbad Optimist Club inducts new president
The Optimist Club of Carlsbad "The Achievers" recently inducted their new officers and board of directors at a luau where John Aldrich was installed as president.
Aldrich's goal this year is to have more hands-on activities to help the youth of Carlsbad and North County. In the past, the club has helped raise money for Special Olympics, scholarships for Carlsbad High School seniors, children that have lost a parent in Iraq or Afghanistan and much more.
If you would like to see what the club is about, join them for breakfast at 8 a.m. every Saturday morning at El Camino Country Club on Vista Way in Oceanside. For more information, call John Aldrich at (760) 729-7200 or Carl Tillinghast at (760) 633-3096.
MiraCosta College's PIO wins awards
MiraCosta College's Public Information Office has been awarded 10 Medallion Awards from the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations.
The District 6 Medallion Award Competition received about 400 entries, but only three awards are given in each category.
MiraCosta College was awarded Gold for its 2008 Summer Class Schedule, Gold for its newsletter, The Mirror, Gold for its logo design for Cardiff Caf? and Gold for a folder cover. The college also received four Silver and two Bronze awards for other marketing pieces.
"These awards were the result of the hard work of a number of talented individuals representing the college's Public Information Office and the Student Services and Instructional divisions," said Marketing and Media Relations Coordinator Cheryl Kyle.
For more information, visit www.miracosta.edu.
Scripps ranks among nation's top employers
Scripps Health has been ranked No. 2 in the nation in AARP's 2008 listing of the 50 Best Employers for Workers Over 50. Working Mother magazine has named Scripps Health to its 2008 list of America's 100 Best Companies for its family-friendly policies.
The selections were published in the October issues of AARP The Magazine and Working Mother. Scripps Health is the only San Diego-based organization to be named to either of these national lists in 2008, and was AARP's highest-ranked California employer this year.
Scripps Health has been included on the AARP list for five consecutive years and the Working Mother list for four straight years.
Mature and female employees are an important part of Scripps' workforce. Approximately 47 percent of Scripps' employees are age 50 or older and 71 percent of its employees are women.
For more information, visit www.scripps.org.
TaylorMade Golf launches PreOwned equipment Web site
A new online store, www.taylormadegolfpreowned.com, gives consumers and retailers an easy way to buy TaylorMade certified pre-owned equipment, as well as trade in their used equipment.
The TaylorMade-adidas Golf Company and Global Value Commerce, a leading online merchant of golf clubs and golf equipment, teamed up to create the new e-commerce presence.
All of the clubs sold on the Web site are TaylorMade certified, subjected to a complete inspection, equipped with a new headcover and grip when needed, come with a certificate of authenticity and are covered by a 12-month limited warranty.
Tri-City becomes smoke-free campus
Tri-City Medical Center is helping to create a healthy community by being a completely smoke-free campus.
The health care district's board of directors unanimously approved the new smoking policy at its regular meeting Sept. 25. As of Nov. 20, the date of the American Cancer Society's Great American Smoke-Out, smoking was no longer permitted on the medical center campus.
Although Tri-City isn't forcing anyone to quit smoking, the hospital is working with its employees and volunteers who desire to quit smoking by offering several resources and options at little or no cost. For more information, visit www.tricitymed.org.
Humane society welcomes new board member
Lee Collins has been appointed to serve as a member of the North County Humane Society & SPCA board of directors.
Collins brings with him a broad range of management experience; his latest venture is in property management. No stranger to serving the community or his country, he fought in Danang during the Vietnam War.
Once stateside, Collins and his family continued serving their community as foster parents to 16 children. Collins said it is this dedication to service that he intends to bring to the humane society.
In addition to his duties at the humane society, he also sits on the MiraCosta College real estate advisory board. For more information, visit www.nchumane.org.