• Harrington Engineering Inc. in Rocky Hill will receive financing support from the state of Connecticut. The Connecticut Development Authority, in cooperation with People’s United Bank, is providing a business loan of $1 million to Harrington Engineering for additional working capital for job growth. Incorporated in 1991, Harrington Engineering is a privately held professional engineering and service provider with locations in Connecticut and Rhode Island.
• Hartford Hospital’s Chest Pain Center has received an expanded reaccreditation through the Society of Chest Pain Centers. Accreditation confirms Hartford Hospital meets the society’s rigorous criteria and standards in delivering quality cardiac care. Hartford Hospital is the first in Connecticut to receive this accreditation. The award, “Accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI,” indicates that in addition to meeting the established chest pain care standards, the hospital’s Chest Pain Center meets national criteria for performing angioplasty.
• The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection will receive $1.73 million in federal stimulus money for three initiatives to reduce the amount of harmful emissions from diesel engines in Connecticut. The three initiatives are: a program to retrofit emission systems on state-owned diesel vehicles; a truck-stop electrification project to reduce diesel truck idling; and a project to replace a high-emitting diesel locomotive engine with a low-emission power system. The truck stop and locomotive projects will be undertaken in New Haven. The other initiative is a statewide program to retrofit diesel vehicles operated by the Department of Transportation.
• Barbara Randolph, a West Hartford financial advisor for the financial-services firm Edward Jones, recently met with legislators in Washington, D.C. to seek legislation to increase savings and enhance retirement security. This is the 25th year financial advisors traveled to Capitol Hill to lobby on behalf of individual investors, making it one of the longest running nationwide grassroots outreach efforts to Congress in existence. Randolph was one of 57 financial advisors chosen from among the firm’s more than 10,000 advisors. She is a member of the firm’s Grassroots Task Force, which is dedicated to voicing investment concerns of individual investors to local, state and national lawmakers.
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