Buffalo News (New York), November 15, 2006, Wednesday

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Buffalo News (New York)

November 15, 2006 Wednesday
CENTRAL EDITION

SECTION: BUSINESS; Pg. B9

HEADLINE: On the Record / November 15, 2006

BODY:
>Hires/Promotions/Honors
Kaleida Health, a Western New York health care provider, named Stephanie Williams Torres director of medical affairs; Mickey Mariacher director of facility planning and construction; Chris O'Mara director of patient management services for Buffalo General Hospital; and Brian Anderson director of human resources at Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital. Previously, Williams Torres served as a defense litigation attorney for Hiscock and Barclay and did legal work for National Fuel Gas Distribution and Hodgson Russ. Mariacher has more than 25 years of related field experience including serving most recently as a project manager with Cannon O'Mara, with the health care provider since 2003, previously worked as the director of medical management at HealthNow. Anderson recently served as the human resource manager for Tops Markets in Buffalo.
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Westfield Memorial Hospital Foundation named Carol Sheldon, The Waters of Westfield and Rose Van Volkenburg, Panama Central School Board of Education to its board of directors.
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Chiampou Travis Besaw and Kershner, an Amherst accounting firm, named Kay Hashimoto, a staff accountant. Hashimoto was previously associated with Jackson Hewitt Tax Service and Xerox Corp.
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Jaeckle Fleischmann and Mugel partner Randall M. Odza served as a commentator at a special program discussing the National Labor Relations Board's recent ruling in Oakwood Healthcare and companion cases, Golden Crest and Croft Metal, clarifying who is a supervisor within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act. The program was hosted by the Cornell University Industrial and Labor Relations School.
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>Company items
Construction has began on the new Hamburg Tractor Supply Co. store, 4484 Southwestern Blvd., Hamburg. The facility, with 24,727 square feet including sales floor and support service space, is scheduled for completion in late March 2007. This is 39th store in New York.
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Ace Energy Co., a Buffalo-based lighting organization with lighting customers in Western New York, New York City and Long Island, received multiple awards for light projects by the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority under the Small Commercial Lighting Program. The company received an award for having the most completed projects in the third-quarter of 2006 and by submitting six projects on a single day this September. An additional award was received for having the highest square footage of upgraded space in the quarter.
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The Interactive Department at Eric Mower and Associates, a marketing communications agency, was honored by the Web Marketing Association's 2006 International WebAwards Competition. The agency received the Outstanding Web Site award for the Maid of the Mist site and Standard of Excellence, Technology Category for the Motorola Web site designs.
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