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		Person of the week Jeff Walewski Job: Owner, Sharp Edge Beer Emporium and Sharp Edge Creekhouse Age: 38 Ambitions: To have Sharp Edge Restaurants and Beer Pubs in all major cities in the Northeastern United States. First Job: Cleaning cars at a Buick distributorship in Carnegie. Biggest work challenge ever: Working with International Interbrew Brewery as an unofficial area ambassador in making the public aware of differences in European and Belgian beers contrasted to American-made beers. Favorite stock/mutual fund: I wish I had a favorite one ... haven't found it yet! Away from work: Wish I was at work. Favorite book: Michael Jackson's "Best Brews in the World" and Petit Fute Cuide to Belgium Beer. If I won the lottery: Sharp Edge Restaurants and Beer Pubs would be in all major cities in the Northeastern United States immediately.

Alpern Rosenthal promoted in the business valuation/litigation support department Amy E. Batina-Mattie to manager and Kaylyn R. Talton to senior accountant.

Schneider Downs & Co. Inc. hired?Mark Sullivan, Laura Baker, Marisa Banaszewski, Christopher Bluemle, Kevin DeJuliis, Maureen Doyle, Beth Friday, Julie Kirkton, Mike Mackey, Dean Pappaterra, Nicole Pierce, Andy Romesberg, Nick Kral and Dan Vo.

Parente Randolph said Georgine Dyrwal joined as an accountant.

Hill Barth & King LLC said Kelly Kathleen Domenick joined as a senior accountant and Robert Frenz as a staff accountant. Rose A. Depinet-Foss was promoted to information technology supervisor.

Architecture

Perkins Eastman said Natasha Cunningham joined as an intern architect.

Indovina Associates Architects LLC promoted Brian P. Roth to principal.

Associations/Organizations

Kenneth E. Smith, president of H.B. Maynard & Co. Inc., was appointed to the University of Pittsburgh Industrial Engineering Department Visiting Committee and the Grove City College Entrepreneurship Advisory Council.?

Jack Exler, chief of administration for the Community Development Block Grant program, Allegheny County Department of Economic Development, has been elected to serve on the board of the National Association for County Community Economic Development.

Frank J. Clements, founding shareholder and chairman of the business services group Babst, Calland Clements & Zomnir, has been named to the Holy Family Foundation board.

Three Rivers Advertising Specialty Association named its board president, Gloria Roman Andreozzi, Adona Services; vice presidents, Kippie Helzel, Custom Plastic Specialities; secretary and co-chair of the annual Expo, Mary Beach, Leed; and treasurer, Dan Weisberg, Precision Screenprinting & Embroidery.

Susan Mondik Key of Peacock Keller & Ecker has joined the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Inc.

Banking/Finance

Howard W. Hanna III, president and CEO of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, has joined the Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania board.

Citizens Bank said Sally Proto was named senior vice president and retail director for In-Store Banking at the Mid-Atlantic region. John Ivory was promoted to vice president, investments, Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc.

Communication

Jack Horner Communications Inc. hired Darla Seifried as an account executive.

Labwerks said Greg Brickl joined as vice president of sales and marketing.

Education

Duquesne University's speech-language pathology department said Susan E. Snyder joined the faculty of the John G. Rangos Sr. School of Health Sciences, where she will have academic and clinical teaching responsibilities in the department of speech-language pathology.

Manuel C. Vallejo Jr. was promoted to associate professor in the department of anesthesiology of the University of Pittsburgh schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine and Nursing.

Energy

Allegheny Energy Inc. named Thomas R. Gardner vice president, controller and chief accounting officer.

Health/Medicine

The Children's Institute named Ann McGuinn chairman of the board.

Karen Tabacchi was promoted to senior vice president of St. Barnabas Health System.

Law

Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis said Amy Elizabeth McCall joined the business services department and as a member of the corporate practice group.

Cohen & Grigsby said lawyers Aubrey H. Glover and Alana A. Zerbe joined -- Glover, in the business group and estates and trusts group as an associate, and Zerbe, in the business group and international business group as an associate.

Thorp Reed & Armstrong hired Patrick W. Carothers as an associate in the Pittsburgh office. He will practice in the firm's bankruptcy group.

Heather S. Heidelbaugh joined Babst Calland Clements & Zomnir as a shareholder. Her practice focuses on commercial litigation, product liability, employment litigation and e-commerce.

Marketing

Jamie Ayers joined Brady Communications as business development director.

Nonprofit

The Society for Contemporary Craft said Ed Barbour joined as education outreach coordinator, and?Rob Latta has been promoted to events and group sales coordinator.

Real Estate

Continental Building Systems promoted, in the Pittsburgh office, Traci McGavitt Yates to director of business development and Don Thornton to senior estimator; and Jack Berthold joined as a project manager.

Business notes

ComponentOne LLC announced the availability of the Q4 2003 version of ComponentOne Studio Enterprise. This new subscription release includes ComponentOne Studio for Mobile Devices, a set of sophisticated components for the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework and ComponentOne WebSpell IDE for ASP.NET, a new product to quickly and easily spell-check WebForms, string constants and HTML code.

Travelers Property Casualty Corp. will commemorate the 100th anniversary of its Pittsburgh office at 9 a.m. Friday, with an open house celebration for about 500 staff members, independent insurance agents and brokers and invited guests at its offices at Two Chatham Center.

New Business/ New Offices

Dogs! Barkery the national franchise of Just Dogs! Barkery Inc., opened its newest franchise store (custom built kiosk) in the Monroeville Mall.

John P. Abriola, founder and principal of Select Financial Group LLC, and Wayne Russo, president of Pittsburgh Financial Consultants, have formed Pension Investment Advisors LLC to plan and manage 401(k) and other pension plans for small to midsize businesses. In announcing the formation of the company, both executives indicated that it would be "business as usual" at Select Financial and Pittsburgh Financial.

Bose, a maker of quality engineered sound systems, opened a store at Pittsburgh International Airport's Airmall. Located in the core of the airside terminal, the new 160-square-foot Bose outlet, open from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily, will specialize in products catering to air travelers.

Contracts

CarneyFireman was awarded a contract to redesign the Seven Springs Mountain Resort Web site. The new site will be launched in November, just in time for the coming winter season.

CommuniTech was selected to develop and implement a comprehensive marketing campaign for Curetteblade Inc., a Pittsburgh-based medical device company that has invented a disposable surgical curette blade for use in a wide range of dermatological and other surgical procedures. The campaign will involve a variety of services, including regional and national marketing initiatives, the development of corporate collateral, Web site design, and related projects. Orin Goldblum, M.D., a practicing dermatologist, is the developer of the new single-use curette blade.

Synergy Real Estate Corp. in cooperation with Deloitte & Touche Fantus have teamed up to provide the city of Colorado Springs and Colorado Springs Airport with real estate and economic development services for the creation and implementation of a 427-acre business park.

Graciano Corp. won three restoration contracts in the New York metro area, and has completed two other large-scale assignments.?Newly awarded projects include The Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Waldorf-Astoria and the Ward's Island Wastewater Treatment Buildings.

Group 2 Design Inc. has been selected by Quantapoint Inc. for brand identity development and Web site design.

Carnegie Learning enlisted the services of Ripple Effects Interactive to launch a redesigned Web site, www.carnegielearning.com.

Olson Industries received an order from Anyang Iron & Steel Co. in mainland China for two Steckel Mill Coiling Furnaces. The scope of the project includes the complete design and supply of certain equipment as well as supervisory and commissioning services. The project is scheduled for installation in June.

Larson O'Brien Advertising and Public Relations was named agency of record for Stone Software.

Groundbreaking

Alstom Transmission & Distribution (T&D) High Voltage Switchgear Manufacturing Plant, One Alstom Way, Charleroi, held a grand opening ceremony Oct. 21. Alstom T&D has doubled the size of its factory in order to respond to increasing demand of high voltage switchgear equipment in the United States. The expansion will allow for manufacture of new equipment (345kV and 550kV dead tank circuit breakers).

Dividends

Laurel Capital Group Inc. declared a cash dividend of 20 cents per share on its common stock, payable Nov. 14 to stockholders of record Oct. 31.

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