• With the recently completed renovation of its Berlin facility, which includes the company’s regional offices, a customer call center, a technician dispatch area and an equipment warehouse, Comcast has added 5,600 square feet to the more than 80,000-square-foot building. The enhanced space now houses a new state-of-the-art conference center, enabling Comcast to train its employees locally through Comcast University, the company’s internal training and leadership development program that provides employees with an array of courses from product deployment education to management leadership training. The expanded facility will also allow the company to accommodate its continuously growing work force of front-line employees attributed to the growing demand for Comcast’s products and services.
• Coach Jennifer Rizzotti and members of the University of Hartford women’s basketball team recently presented a check for $500 to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center. The team earned the money to donate to a local charity as the America East Conference winner of the 2009 NCAA “Pack the House Challenge” in recognition of the 3,217 seats that it filled for its Feb. 15 game versus Marist College. Team members decided to donate the funds to the NICU as part of its “Shots for Saint Francis” program, which supports the purchase of equipment for the unit.
• Eight individuals and organizations were honored with the 2009 Connecticut Climate Change Leadership Award for their innovative efforts to address global climate change. Those honored were: Aetna Inc., Hartford; Amity High School Global Warming Club, Bethany, Orange, Woodbridge; Connecticut College, New London; Cornwall Energy Task Force, Cornwall; Heidi Golden, West Hartford; Interreligious Eco-Justice Network, for work statewide; Roger Smith, for work statewide; and Zane’s Cycles, Branford.
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