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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RICHMOND (January 19, 2016) – A recreation center filled with people coming and going and in the middle of it all…a dental chair?
That’s right. On Friday, January 29 from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., the Virginia Dental Association (VDA) will bring a portable dental chair to the Audrey Moore RECenter in Annandale (8100 Braddock Road) and the Spring Hill RECenter in McLean (1239 Spring Hill Road). At each location, VDA member dentists will provide screenings for oral cancer. ***The media is invited to either location for photos, videos and interviews with dentists and people who receive the screenings.*** (more…)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Virginia Beach, Va. – Pender & Coward is pleased to announce the addition of Mancha Stanton as the director of marketing and client services. Stanton brings nearly 20 years of marketing experience to the firm, where she is responsible for enhancing the firm’s marketing, public relations and brand awareness and implementing business development and client service initiatives. (more…)

Wall Einhorn and Chernitzer (WEC) is well known in Virginia as one of the “best places to work.”
Both Inside Business and Virginia Business magazines have honored the Norfolk accounting firm many times.
For this year’s contest, WEC, for whom we have provided a host of creative public relations services, asked us to produce a video describing why it is such a fine employer.
RCG President Joel Rubin suggested putting the reasons into a poem and have the employees each read a line. Joel quickly knocked out a script. A couple days later, videographer Bobby Cullipher, WEC marketing coordinator Chelsea Moody and Joel were roaming the floor at 150 West Main, grabbing staffers to recite their verses. Even the shy ones had fun. (more…)

OUTLET: Virginian-Pilot
It doesn’t matter that a baby born to a same-sex married couple has only one of the women’s DNA, says the Circuit Court judge who decided what he called a “unique” issue Friday:
Both women should be considered equal parents.
Divorce and custody battles have been cropping up since shortly after same-sex marriage became legal, but attorneys for Lauren and Karen Poole say they’ve never heard of another case exactly like this one – at least not in Virginia. (more…)

OUTLET: The Health Journal
By Susan Smigielski Acker
The death of a spouse is painful. For the surviving spouse, life goes on and, in time, this may include dating.
Sadie Shefe, Ph.D, LSW and board-certified clinical sexologist with DQS Communications Healthcare Group in Hampton, says most widows and widowers date after the death of a spouse for companionship and fulfillment.
Shefe says there is no specific time to grieve before dating again. (more…)

Outlet: Southside Daily
Ben Landis spent 15 years in “corporate America” as a business analyst. But away from work, fitness held a special place in his heart, especially after meeting his wife, Jeannie, though it.
One day, a thought struck him as he walked down the stairs of a fitness center. He saw all those people on cardio machines. (more…)

They share more than a first name.
Within the past year, Dan Luhring, 25, and Danny Kline, 35, took over the businesses their fathers founded – IssueTrak and Payday Payroll – at an age when most people haven’t climbed above middle management.
They operate on different turfs: IssueTrak, run by Luhring, is a software development company based in Town Center, with 41 employees and annual revenue topping $6 million. Payday Payroll, located in College Park Square, handles payroll processing or human resources for 1,400 clients and has a staff of 23. (more…)

Outlet: The Virginian Pilot
By Phil Walzer
For nearly a decade, the brothers have worked together – and separately – at the business their father built.
Eric Kline joined Payday Payroll, which provides payroll processing and human resources services, in 2002. He started in sales. For the past four years he’s been director of business development, cultivating clients locally and beyond.
His younger brother Danny came on in 2006 as a payroll processor. He rose to become president last year, taking over Payday from their father, Andy.
Eric and Danny Kline will part ways – amicably – next year. (more…)