[nfbmi-talk] FYI, Lansing State Journal,

[Larry Posont]

Commissioners, FYI, this article ran Saturday in the Lansing State
Journal.  Lisa Powells received an MCB Consumer Achievement Honor Roll
Award on October 21.  The link and complete text are pasted below.
Lisa Powells is in the fourth item in the Honors section.



Susan Turney

Communications & Outreach Coordinator, Michigan Commission for the Blind

Michigan Department Licensing and Regulatory Affairs

desk:  517-241-8631; cell: 517-243-3858; fax:  517-335-5140

MCB toll-free: 1-800-292-4200

201 N. Washington Square, Second Floor,

P.O. Box 30652; Lansing, MI 48909

www.michigan.gov/mcb





http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20111106/BUSINESS/111060462/People-business

People in Business

Lansing State Journal

November 4, 2011



Arrivals

·     Sarina Gleason has joined Okemos-based Delta Dental of Michigan,
Ohio and Indiana as senior public relations officer.

·     Grand Ledge resident Kristine Latchaw has joined Lansing-based
accounting firm Maner Costerisan as director of administration.



Honors

·     Karl Gotting, an attorney at Lansing-based law firm Loomis,
Ewert, Parsley, Davis & Gotting PC, has been named "Lansing Best
Lawyers Real Estate Law Lawyer of the Year" for 2012 by "Best Lawyers
in America," an Aiken, S.C.-based Woodward/White Inc. peer review
publication.

·     The following attorneys with the Lansing office of Lansing-based
law firm Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC have been included in the
2012 edition of "Best Lawyers in America," an Aiken, S.C.-based
Woodward/White Inc. peer review publication: Charles Barbieri, Scott
Chernich, Allan Claypool, Eric Doster, Brian Goodenough, Michael
Harrison, Matt Hrebec, Melissa Jackson, Charles Janssen, James Jensen
Jr., Stephen Jurmu, Richard Kraus, David Lick, Iris Linder, Stephen
Lowney, Donald Martin, Gary McRay, Douglas Mielock, Steven Owen, Frank
Reynolds, Michael Sanders, Jean Schtokal, Webb Smith, Sherry Stein,
Scott Storey, Deanna Swisher and Brent Titus.

·     The Michigan Athletic Club in East Lansing, a division of
Sparrow Health System, has been named Best Children's Program and Best
Community-based Program by Overland Park, Kan.-based Club Industry
Magazine.

·     Lisa Powells, of Lansing, has received an Honor Roll Award from
the Michigan Commission for the Blind for achieving goals for
employment or independent living after vision loss.

·     Public Policy Associates Inc. in Lansing and the Michigan
Occupational Safety and Health Administration have received 2011
Alfred P. Sloan awards for Business Excellence in Workplace
Flexibility from New York-based Families and Work Institute.

·     Lansing resident George Silva, of the Michigan State University
Extension, has been named senior Extension educator, or Step III.