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FOOD SERVICE Lisa DiMartino has rejoined Harrison's Wine Grill & Catering as the catering sales manager. DiMartino has a degree from Johnson and Wales Culinary School and one from Penn State's Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management School. She has been in restaurant management previously at Maggiano's Little Italy in King of Prussia and Cleveland and Starbucks in Seattle. BANKING Donita Koval, president and CEO of Omega Bank, was recently named one of the top 100 people for 2006 by Pennsylvania Business Central, a business newspaper covering central and western Pennsylvania. Koval, who took over as CEO of Omega Financial Corp. last year, started at Omega Bank in 1987 as a credit analyst. U.S. Banker, a financial industry publication, named the Centre County resident to its 25 Women to Watch list, a national ranking, and she was one of eight female CEOs featured in the March 2007 issue of Community Banker magazine.
School of Medicine wins $5.2 million in grants
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has given two University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers cooperative agreement grants totaling $5.2 million. Dr. Eric Houpt, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, is using his half of the grant to develop a test to identify more than 20 food and waterborne pathogens like E. coli. Houpt will lead a team of researchers from the private sector, Michigan State University, the Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Tanzania. Dr. Paul Hoffman, professor of medicine at UVa, is using his half of the grant to create a single treatment to protect people from becoming infected with dangerous pathogens. Hoffman will work with pharmaceutical companies and UVa professor of chemistry Timothy Macdonald to stretch the abilities of drugs currently available to treat more conditions.
Mixing up martial arts
"You take a mortal man, and put him in control," screeches our blood-curdling, death metal workout soundtrack. I am running laps sucking stale gym air, doing firefighter lifts at high speeds, handstands and what seems like a lifetime's worth of crunches. We're going over "simple" holds that will allow you to instantly and devastatingly overpower any assailant. All in the first five minutes – and I'm hooked. For the texting masses, kids too young to remember Mike Tyson for anything beyond cannibalism or how fearsome George Foreman was before he became an aproned pitchman for a cooking utensil, mixed martial arts is the combat sport of choice. Like its cousin boxing, it's a seedy blood sport in which toothless goons with let the fluids fly. Or so you'd think.
Garden Clippings
Free movie As part of the Wayne County Parks and Recreation "Movies In The Park" Program, Garden City Parks and Recreation will host the movie, "Monster House," Friday, at Diamond #5 in City Park. The park is located at the corner of Merriman and Cherry Hill. Bring your chairs, blankets, and picnic baskets or purchase your dinner from the concession stand, then settle in to enjoy a free family movie in the park with a giant video projection system. .
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