Hartford Business Journal

26 Hartford Business Journal • May 11, 2015 www.HartfordBusiness.com OF NOTE SMULDERS NAMED SBA'S SMALL BUSINESS PERSON OF THE YEAR Michael Smulders, president of Bakery on Main, has been named the Small Business Administration's Small Business Person of the Year for 2015. He will be honored at the SBA's Small Business Week event this month. Smulders has a history of running small businesses in Greater Hartford. In 1992, he founded Garden of Light Natural Foods Market in Glastonbury and sub- sequently opened a second store in Avon. Garden of Light became a center for vegetarian and gluten- free food. In 2004, he created Bakery on Main to produce gluten-free foods for people across the country. SBA also announced several other awards: Carmen Romeo of the Fascia Family, and their family owned company, Fascia's Chocolates of Waterbury, won the Jeffrey Butland Family Owned Business of the Year award; Katie Hughes, owner of Perk on Main LLC in Durham and Perk on Church in Guilford, won the Woman-Owned Small Business award; Evan Schermer of The SEED Center in Stamford, won the Entrepreneurial Success award; Kim Wawrzynowicz, owner of Premier Business Services in East Lyme, has been selected to receive the Financial Champion of the Year award; and Natasha Grove-Roggi of Bikram Yoga in Hartford won the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. • • • HUGHES HEALTH NURSE NAMED LEADER OF TOMORROW BY LONG-TERM LIVING MAGAZINE Amy LaCilento, a nursing supervisor at Hughes Health & Rehabilitation in West Hartford, has been selected as a recipient of the 2015 Leaders of Tomorrow award from Long-Term Living Magazine. LaCilento was recognized for her lead- ership role in the design and imple- mentation of Hughes' Heart Health Program, a nationally-acclaimed initia- tive that aims to reduce hospital read- missions for patients with congestive heart failure, as well as for her participation in programs that improve employee morale and wellness • • • SIMSBURY FINANCIAL PLANNER HONORED Simsbury financial planner Nancy Fellinger, of PlanningWise with Coburn & Meredith, has received the 2015 Women's Choice Award for Financial Advisors from WomenCertified Inc. The award is based on a review of 17 objective criteria associated with providing quality ser- vice to women clients including credentials, experience, business prac- tices and a favorable regulatory history. ACCOLADES & MORE S&S WORLDWIDE CLEANS UP COLCHESTER UNITED BANK FOUNDATION DONATES TO HARTFORD SCHOLARS ▶ ▶ S&S Worldwide recently held its 7th annual Clean to the Green event, where 40 employees picked up litter around Colchester. They filled 10 garbage bags of litter during the event in honor of both Earth and Arbor days. The annual tradition earned S&S consecutive GreenCircle awards from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection in 2011 and 2012. ▶ ▶ The United Bank Foundation Connecticut recently made a $1,000 donation to the Hartford Youth Scholars Foundation (HYSF) in support of their Senior Send Off gala and fundraiser. HYSF places students at four- year colleges with the preparation to be successful in their post-secondary education. Their goal is to increase the number of Hartford students that graduate from high school, attend college and find career success. In the photo: Tymina Follins of United Bank presents a check to Damaris Estrada, student participant (center) and Anthony Byers, HYSF co-director & chief program officer (right). ▶ ▶ Volunteers from KNOX, The Hartford and the city of Hartford planted more than 50 trees in Hartford's Asylum Hill neighborhood in celebration of Arbor Day. The trees were planted on Sargeant and Atwood streets as part of a citywide urban reforestation initiative to plant 20,000 trees in 20 years in Hartford to create a greener, healthier Capital City. The Hartford has invested more than $100,000 in the past five years to reforest Asylum Hill. Pictured are a group of volunteers from The Hartford planting trees with KNOX. THE HARTFORD, KNOX JOIN FORCES IN URBAN REFORESTATION INITIATIVE P.O. Box 2468, New Britain, CT 06050 800.969.3837 nteriors.com Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring Keep your exterior colorful and festive year round with our exterior seasonal program! indoor / outdoor plantscapes • holiday decor Michael Smulders Amy LaCilento From Central Connecticut's trusted business news source. It's the up-to-date information you need to do better business! Get local breaking business news daily! Sign up today at HartfordBusiness.com: Click on the 'subscribe' button HBJToday and

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