BL honored for its work on Hartford’s Hooker School
BL Companies, an integrated architecture, engineering and environmental firm based in Meriden, received the Connecticut Building Congress’ Project Team Award, Award of Merit in the major renovations and expansions category, for its work on the Mary M. Hooker Environmental Sciences Magnet School in Hartford.
BL Companies served as lead designer on the project, providing architecture, civil engineering, landscape architecture, transportation engineering and land surveying services.
The Connecticut Building Congress recognizes project team members who adopt this close collaboration as an industry standard for improving a project’s quality. The winning project teams were recognized for their achievement in project quality excellence through close collaboration.
BL Companies, an employee-owned firm, has a second Connecticut office in Hartford and five other offices in New York, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
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LEWIS TO LEAD MISSION BOARD
Tobias Lewis of South Windsor has been named president of the board of Hartford Rescue Mission. Lewis is senior account executive for PDS Tech, a national IT firm.
Hartford Rescue Mission is a Christian human service organization serving area individuals and families in need since 2005. The nonprofit agency recently moved to its new home at 710 Windsor St., Hartford.
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WRICE RECEIVES NATIONAL AWARD
Patricia Wrice, executive director of Operation Fuel, recently was honored by The National Fuel Funds Network with the Sister Pat Kelly Achievement Award.
The award, the group’s highest honor, recognizes personal achievement in furthering an organization’s goals, increasing public awareness of low-income energy problems, advancing energy assistance policy and promoting charitable energy assistance.
Wrice has been executive director of the Bloomfield-based nonprofit for the past 14 years.
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GRAZIANO RE-ELECTED TO MDA POST
Richard Graziano, publisher of the Hartford Courant and is vice president and general manager of Fox affiliate WTIC-TV in Hartford, has been re-elected to a one-year term as a Muscular Dystrophy Association national vice president. In this role, he provides volunteer assistance and counsel to support the association’s research and services programs.
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PANJIAN RECEIVES AWARD
Greg Panjian of Suffield has been honored with the Winner’s Circle Award as one of the top financial advisors with Edward Jones for his outstanding service efforts.
Panjian was one of only 853 of the firm’s more than 12,000 financial advisors to receive the Winner’s Circle award. Edward Jones was honored this year as among the Hartford Business Journal’s ‘Best Places to Work in CT.’
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ATTORNEY’S STORY IN BOOK
Attorney Katherine Fong, principal in the Hartford-area personal injury law office Fong and Associates LLC, is the subject of a chapter in a new book, “The Road to Independence: 101 Women’s Journeys to Starting Their Own Law Firms.” The book, published by the American Bar Association, is a collection of 101 letters and essays from women who have created a law firm of their own, either solo or with others. Fong recently opened her law office with her husband, Corey, in West Hartford.
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