Habitat of Dutchess names new board
Habitat for Humanity of Dutchess County”™s 2015-16 officers and board of directors include:
Pete Carr, vice president of Marshall and Sterling will continue to serve as president. Christopher Brown: principal of PVE Sheffler will begin a two-year term as vice president.
Anne Constantinople, professor emeritus at Vassar College will continue to serve as treasurer.
Pastor Deborah DeWinter, First Evangelical Lutheran Church Poughkeepsie will continue to serve on the executive committee.
David Mack, senior vice president GE Capital, ended his tenure as board chairman.
The following individuals were reappointed to the board:
William Grey, New York State Police, third term.
J. Tracy Hermann, principal, Swing Communications; second term.
Patrick Gartland, an attorney at Corbally, Gartland and Rappleyea LLP, second term.
Carolyn Haines, a branch manager with Rhinebeck Bank, will serve in the capacity of secretary.
Peter Gisolfi promotes Tramutola
Chris Tramutola has been named associate at Peter Gisolfi Associates, Architects, Landscape Architects LLP, in Hastings-on-Hudson, and New Haven, Conn. The appointment was announced by Peter Gisolfi, senior partner of the firm.
A licensed landscape architect, a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a LEED professional, Tramutola, who joined the firm in 2008, earned his Bachelor of Science degree in landscape architecture and his master”™s degree in landscape architecture at City College of New York. His articles have been featured in “Planning” magazine and “Landscape Architecture” magazine.
Kurtz graduates Leadership Orange
Ashley Kurtz of Port Jervis, business development supervisor for Access Physical Therapy & Wellness in Campbell Hall, graduated June 11 from Leadership Orange, a 10-month training program for emerging community leaders in Orange County. The graduation was held at West Hills Golf & Country Club in Middletown.
As Access”™ director of business development, Kurtz is responsible for identifying new business opportunities. She works closely with the Access sales and marketing team to maintain and increase existing relationships and helps develop company-wide policies and procedures.
She also personally trains all new Access customer service specialists.
“We”™re very proud of Ashley,” said Stephen Albanese, who started the company 12 years ago in Montgomery with his brother, Christopher Albanese, and their respective spouses, Shannon Albanese and Janet Albanese. The company now has 19 locations in three states.
Kurtz joined Access in 2008 as a customer service specialist in the Port Jervis office. “Ashley quickly learned our systems ”” and helped to revise and improve them,” Albanese said. In time, Kurtz was promoted to internal business development coordinator and then to director of business development. She joined the corporate team in 2011.
Muller joins The Westchester Bank
The Westchester Bank has appointed Ryan Muller to the position of assistant vice president, commercial lending at the bank”™s headquarters in White Plains.
Muller is responsible for organizing new commercial loan activity while managing an existing loan portfolio in excess of $30 million.
Muller, a resident of Dobbs Ferry, brings more than five years of experience specific to the commercial banking industry.
Prior to joining The Westchester Bank, Muller spent 4½ years in the commercial banking division at Hudson Valley Bank. He began his banking career in 2010 as a business and professional management trainee. Muller then advanced to commercial loan portfolio manager and was promoted again to relationship manager.
Poughkeepsie Farm Project adds education manager
Elizabeth Limpert, a former New York City nutritionist, has been named education manager at the Poughkeepsie Farm Project, a member-supported farm that provides organically grown food to its members and low-income families throughout the mid-Hudson Valley.
Limpert, of Syracuse, is in charge of managing the farm”™s education garden and planning programs on sustainable agriculture and other related topics. She recently helped launch a new program that teaches small-scale food production and seed saving to at-risk Dutchess County teens.
Limpert graduated from Cornell University in 2012 with a degree in biology and a concentration in nutrition and sustainable development. After serving an internship at the New York City Department Health and Mental Hygiene, she worked full time for the agency, leading nutrition workshops targeted at low-income families in the city. She also worked part time as an education specialist at the Edible Schoolyard, an agency in New York City that focuses on garden-based learning. Before accepting the job at the Poughkeepsie Farm Project, Limpert worked as a buyer for Field Goods LLC, an organic food distribution firm based in Athens, Greene County. She also worked as an apprentice on the Poughkeepsie Farm Project”™s farm crew.
Marcus & Millichap adds to its firm
Marcus & Millichap, a leading commercial real estate investment services firm with offices throughout the U.S. and Canada, has hired James Evans and Victoria Fisher. The two will be joining the company”™s White Plains office. Their primary focus will be trading multifamily properties located throughout the entire New York Metropolitan area, with a concentration on the North Bronx, Westchester County and Southern Connecticut.
Evans and Fisher previously worked with Friedland Realty Advisors in Harrison, where they were involved in brokering a wide range of properties.
Evans had been at Friedland for the past three years and previously ran his own real estate and finance companies for nearly two decades. He spearheaded the sale of office properties, development sites, shopping centers and residential buildings.
Fisher spent a year at Friedland after working for 23 years at Debrah Lee Charatan Realty. She has brokered the sale of residential, office and industrial properties. Collectively, Evans and Fisher have traded property exceeding $3 billion over the past 20 years.
A New Rochelle resident, Fisher is a member of the board of trustees of the Beth El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle. Evans, who lives in Pound Ridge, is on the board of directors of the Pound Ridge Land Conservancy.
OCLT fundraiser upcoming
The Warwick Valley Winery & Distillery will host a benefit cocktail reception for the Orange County Land Trust on Aug. 27 from 6 to 9 p.m. Proceeds from the event will help the land trust continue pursuing new farmland protection and land conservation projects.
The evening includes hard ciders, wines and a specialty cocktail served on the winery”™s outdoor patio. The winery”™s Pane CafeÌ will prepare farm-fresh cuisine, including foods from Lowland Farm, Kirbytown Farms, Edgwick Farm, 5 Spoke Creamery, Windfall Farms, Dagele Brothers Produce and Bellvale Farms Creamery.
This year, the Land Trust will be recognizing Orange County”™s artists and vibrant arts community for their support of land preservation. The Jeremy Baum Trio will also perform at the benefit as part of opening night of the Hudson Valley Jazz Festival.
The event”™s main sponsor is Better Homes & Gardens Rand Realty. Other business sponsors include: Satin Fine Foods, Valuation Consultants, Bellvale Farms Creamery, Fabco Power, Bruce & Judy Lott, Marlena Lange, and Ryan O”™Leary- Edward Jones.
Tickets are $50 per person and include all food and beverages. Tickets can be ordered online at oclt.org, wvwinery.com or by calling Orange County Land Trust at 845-469-0951, ext.12. Seating is limited and tickets may not be available the day of the event.
Art, on the farm
Collaborative Concepts @ Saunders Farm, a Hudson Valley art event that traditionally draws some 800 visitors a day, will mark its 10th anniversary this year.
Collaborative Concepts, a not-for-profit, non-membership organization of professional artists, brings together sculpture and installations by more than 70 participants on the rolling fields of the 140-acre, 18th-century farm in Garrison.
Artists are given the chance to experiment on a large scale, creating work that will be displayed throughout farm with the public welcome to wander through the fields, alongside the cows and horses, to view the art.
Many of the artists are from Westchester and Putnam counties, as well as Connecticut, though the reach extends to Dutchess and Rockland counties, across the country and even internationally.
The exhibition is open daily, from 10 a.m. to dusk, from Aug. 31 to Oct. 31.
An opening reception will be held Sept. 5 and feature a program of performance art from 2 to 6 p.m. and music from 3:30 to 6 p.m. Participants are invited to bring a picnic and blanket. (The rain date is Sept. 6).
A mid-run reception is scheduled from 2 to 5 p.m. Oct. 3 (rain date Oct. 4) and will include a program of dance, opera and theater.
The farm is at 853 Old Albany Post Road in Garrison. Admission and parking are free.
For more, visit collaborativeconcepts.org.
Lecturer awarded NEH grant
Purchase College-SUNY announced that Judith Dupré, a lecturer in the School of Liberal Studies and Continuing Education, has been awarded a Public Scholar grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is among 36 scholars chosen for this inaugural program, which supports the creation of well-researched books in the humanities that are intended to appeal to a wide readership.
Dupré”™s project, “One World Trade Center: The Biography of the Building,” was awarded $37,800. Her book will look at the design, planning, engineering and history surrounding One World Trade Center through text, illustrations and an interactive website. Authorized by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Dupré is the only author to be given unfettered access to the site, suppliers and archives of the Trade Center. The book will be published by Little, Brown & Co. in 2016.
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