OUTLET: Triangle Business Journal
Judy Fourie, a recently-retired Towne Insurance of Raleigh executive, is poised to reinvent herself in the insurance industry.
In what she calls her senior years, she’s heading out with her own practice for the second time in her career. She’s founded Fourie Group, a private consulting agency with a focus one Medicare Supplement plans, Prescription Drug plans, Life Insurance plans and Long Term Care insurance. (more…)
OUTLET: Inside Business
Students lined up in front of Seatack Elementary in Virginia Beach early on July 21, eager to shake hands with teachers and administrators. Shaking hands with teachers, administrators and military personnel from NAS Oceana will be a part of students’ new daily routine.
These handshakes marked the beginning of a two-week intersession, designed to prevent summer learning loss and acclimate students to their new classrooms and teachers. (more…)
VIRGINIA BEACH
Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay, 2:30 p.m.
Coal colliers bob in gentle green swells on a gray afternoon, but it’s bright and sunny 11 stories up.
The walls and carpets of Ty and Penny Brown’s apartment are pristine white, and a shaggy round orange rug fills the living room with sun. Windows provide a glimpse of the scenes below: condominium rooftops, a sandy shoreline and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel disappearing into low-hanging clouds. (more…)
OUTLET: Calgary Sun
The Calgary Zoo’s African-themed loo is in the running for a privy prize.
A visitor nominated the luxurious lavatory nestled in the attraction’s Destination Africa exhibit for the Cintas Canada Best Restroom contest and it has made the cut to be among the nation’s top five finalists.
In its fifth year, the online contest combs the country for the best bathroom experience, ranking its cleanliness alongside user experience. (more…)
OUTLET: Calgary Herald
Among all the attractions at the Calgary Zoo, the facility is being lauded for one of its more underrated features – the bathrooms. The Herald’s Manisha Krishnan reports the zoo is one of five finalists in the fifth annual Canada’s Best Restroom contest hosted by Cintas, a company that supplies businesses across North America with restroom cleaning services. Last year’s winner was the Valleyview Shell Super Station, a truck stop in northern Alberta. Voting is open at www.bestrestroom.com/canada until Sept. 30. (more…)
Recently, the woman known worldwide as the Spice Goddess perched on a dining room chair, a panorama of the Chesapeake Bay at her back, and said something seemingly blasphemous.
Bal Arneson – the author of three Indian cookbooks, the James Beard award finalist whose television shows air in 40 countries worldwide, the woman who dishes accessible recipes for zucchini paneer and samosas to the masses – believes that the highest use of spice is not for flavor.
Rather, it’s for health. (more…)
OUTLET: Inside Business
Jerry Miller, center, CEO of Fairlead Integrated in Portsmouth, which specializes in metal fabrication, stands with Portsmouth Mayor Kenny Wright and Councilwoman Elizabeth Psimas as the three celebrate the announcement of the company’s new name. Fairlead is smaller and more focused than its predecessor company, Earl Industries, which Miller helped found 30 years ago. Two years ago Miller sold the ship repair operations to General Dynamics and now focuses on technology and manufacturing at Fairlead.
VIRGINIA BEACH
Second-grader Diamond Godfrey beamed as she slid into the chair her classmate had pulled out for her. She thanked him, sat up straight and scooted toward the table.
Around her, words like “please” and “manners” dotted the walls. (more…)
OUTLET: Richmond BizSense
By: Michael Schwartz
Another big Virginia bank is zeroing in on Richmond.
Suffolk-based TowneBank, one of the three largest community banks headquartered in the state, has a plan in the works to make its first move into Richmond with a veteran local banker leading the charge. It marks the $4.8 billion bank’s first major step west outside the Hampton Roads market, where it has grown to more than two dozen branches since its founding in 1999. (more…)
OUTLET: The Virginian-Pilot
© June 22, 2014
As told to Pilot writer Sarah Kleiner Varble
I have definitely one of the coolest jobs at TowneBank. I’m not the guy that handles
all the money, but I do handle our members’ confidential information and the
protection of that confidential information, so that definitely means a lot to me.
A big part of my job is really educating myself on the new technologies that are
available to our customers, to our employees and making myself aware of what the
threats are surrounding those technologies. I don’t just keep all that knowledge. The
other part of my job is to allow our employees to know about the technology and to
help them to understand what the potential threats are.
