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26 Hartford Business Journal • December 17, 2018 • www.HartfordBusiness.com Community Would you like to see your face on the Community page? This new section will feature photos from business and community events. Please send submissions to gbordonaro@HartfordBusiness.com. MicroCare helps families have a healthy Thanksgiving MicroCare employees recently donated 211 pounds of non-perishable food items to the New Britain Food and Resource Center. To meet the needs of those who require special low-salt or low-sugar diets, MicroCare employees donated healthier versions of traditional holiday foods. Blumshapiro leads Thanks- giving food campaign Nearly 40 blumshapiro employees and their families recently spent time preparing hundreds of bags of food to help bring a Thanksgiving Day meal to more than 1,500 Connecticut families served by Christian Community Action. OF NOTE Glastonbury accounting firm MahoneySabol was recently ranked No. 328 on the Top 400 Accounting Firms list published by Inside Public Accounting. At the fall meeting of the Litigation Counsel of America, Tom Rechen, Hartford-based commercial litigation partner with McCarter & English, received the LCA's Peter Perlman Public Service Award in recognition of his professional, public, governmental and charitable involvement in and around Hartford. The Hartford Business Improvement District (HBID) received a Pinnacle Award from the International Downtown Association during the 64th annual Conference and Tradeshow, representing the most creative and inspiring innovations in urban place management. HBID also received the Award of Excellence for its free on-site Bicycle Roadside Assistance Program to acknowledge its excellent response to an industry challenge. The Connecticut Convention & Sports Bureau recently presented its 2018 Bring It Home Awards and 2018 Thomas J. Shortell Award at its fourth annual Hospitality Industry & Awards Night. The awards honor individuals for their work in helping to bring and produce meetings and events to Connecticut that have a profound impact on the state's economy. The 2018 Bring It Home Awards were presented to: John Heine, Susan Keane, Rich and Liz Parenzan and David Rocha. The Thomas J. Shortell Award was presented to Suzy Whaley, vice president of the PGA. KBE provides turkey dinners for local families KBE Building Corp. has provided 368 turkey dinners for families in Connecticut and Maryland as part of its 10th annual Gift of Gobble event. Over the last 10 years, KBE has provided Thanksgiving meals for more than 2,000 families, feeding an estimated 12,000 people. The meal boxes contained turkey, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, corn, beans, potatoes, yams, rolls, apple pie, pumpkin pie and a roasting pan.