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Absolutely Tickled Turquoise
Turquoise, A Medical Day Spa played host to a capacity crowd for the Mar. 21 Business After Hours. More than 80 people were there to do some high-density networking, some of them spilling out onto the sidewalk.
There was food upstairs, there was food downstairs, and all of it -- provided by Trattoria Carl Anthony of Monroe -- was excellent, including the tray that got knocked on the floor. (If anyone went diving for the errant hors d'oeuvres, we couldn't tell with so many people mobbing the place.) Despite the mishap, there was plenty of food to go around.
The doctors and staff of Turquoise were all on hand to show off their cozy establishment -- and as promised, it was very, very turquoise. Greg Beno's slideshow is all the proof you need.
With folks still lingering well past 7:30, we'd have to call this one an unqualified success. Meanwhile, we're doing our best not to drool as we look forward to next month's gathering, Apr. 25 at The Field Restaurant & Bar in Black Rock, Bridgeport. We hope you'll attend -- and we can safely say that you'll have plenty of company.
Fashion Show to Benefit MS Society in May
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society's Western Connecticut Chapter will hold a "March Into Spring" Fashion Show and Luncheon May 4 at the Stamford Marriott Hotel. Running from 11 am to 2 pm, the event will raise funds to fight Multiple Sclerosis and to serve people with MS in our community.
Tickets are $125. Call 203-838-1033, and select option 2 to make reservations. For more information, visit www.msswct.org.
Horse Show for Charity in Westport
The Fairfield County Hunt Club would like our readers to know that their June benefit show, rated as one of the top horse shows in the country, will take place June 26-30. Free to the public, the show benefits the Equus Foundation. For more information, visit www.huntclubonline.org.
Expositioning and Networking in Norwalk
Six chambers of commerce, 104 sold-out tables, more daylight, more people and no snow. What better conditions would you ever find for a regional business-to-business expo?
Well, there was no wine. But ample amounts of coffee were available to fuel the schmoozing.
It was the umpteenth annual Regional Business Networking Expo, Mar. 13 at Norwalk Community College. Alongside the Bridgeport Regional Business Council and the Stamford, Westport, Darien and Norwalk chambers, we threw a big business-to-business party and everybody came.
The weather was decent for mid-March and we had an extra hour of daylight to enjoy, which surely contributed to the gratifyingly large number of folks wandering the aisles, chatting with the exhibitors, exchanging business cards with one another and enjoying the food. Well past closing time, the event staff were literally pulling tablecloths out from under people trying to get in some last-minute business.
This tabletop expo has always been a big hit with our members, many of them finding it easier to fit into their budgets than the larger shows. This year it was bigger (but not too big) and better than ever.
Update! For the first time ever, we present the show in a series of 360° interactive panoramas created by Evergreen Studios. See what you were missing -- or if you were there, maybe you'll catch a glimpse of yourself.
(You'll need the QuickTime plugin to view the panoramas. If you don't have it already, download the latest version from www.apple.com.)
Two Organizations That Need Your Support
Leadership Greater Bridgeport is holding a toiletries drive for the Center for Women and Families of Eastern Fairfield County. A drop box for donated items is available at the Connecticut Mortgage Center, 501 Kings Highway East, Suite 13 in Fairfield.
Desperately needed items include soap, toothpaste, cleaning products, light bulbs, plastic ware and other basic necessities.
Information about the Center for Women and Families and its programs can be found online at www.cwfefc.org.
In June, the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life returns to Fairfield, hoping to build on the success of last year fundraiser. The Relay For Life is an overnight event that celebrates survivorship and raises money to fight cancer.
Teams will gather June 9-10 at Fairfield Ludlowe High School to take turns walking or running laps, trying to keep at least one team member on the track throughout the night. The track is illuminated with luminaria, glowing bags that each bear the name of someone who has been affected by cancer.
To learn more and register a team, visit the Relay website at www.acsevents.org/relay/ctfairfield.
A Networking Cruise Without Leaving Home
While not quite as jam-packed as other recent Business After Hours events (school vacation time may have had something to do with it), our latest networking event drew a good 50-60 people to Cruise Resort & World Travel Feb. 20, including a few new faces.
Nancy Yale was a gracious hostess, ably assisted by her husband Abe who has an office next door. Despite some early moments of panic, the hors d'oeuvres proved plentiful enough to satisfy even the largest of appetites (and there were some big ones in attendance). The space upstairs was relegated to coat-room status because no one wanted to miss out on the fun on the first floor, and people lingered long past closing time. All in all, another successful BAH.
Of course Greg Beno was there with his camera to capture everything for posterity. His slide show says it all.
Next up is the March 13 multi-chamber expo/networking thingy at Norwalk Community College, and then our own March Business After Hours at Turquoise, A Medical Day Spa on the 21st. We'll see you there.
Fairfield University to Hold Info Session For Graduate Programs
Fairfield University will host a public information session about the university's graduate programs for working adults. It will be held on campus Wednesday, Apr. 4 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm at The Aloysius P. Kelley Center. Prospective students will have an opportunity to meet deans and faculty of the 32 graduate programs in the subject areas of American Studies, business, education and allied professions, engineering, mathematics and nursing.
This free Information Session will provide academic and admission details about convenient, flexible full and part-time graduate programs. There will also be a representative from the financial aid office available to provide information about financing graduate education.
To RSVP online, visit www.fairfield.edu/grad.html. For more information please call 203-254-4184 or toll-free 866-333-8648.Small Business in a Pretty Pickle
According to Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, small businesses are faced with 192,000 federal regulations, and more than 500,000 guidance documents. Small businesses have seen the number of regulations increasing by approximately 4,000 annually. Total annual paperwork compliance time: 10 billion hours. Total annual price tag for compliance: $1 trillion.
On the bright side of things, the Small Business Administration (www.business.gov) has a searchable online database of all those gazillion regulations and guides. A search for "pickle," for instance, yields 56 documents. The query can then be narrowed down by selecting a particular agency from the menu, and we find that the Environmental Protection Agency has 20 things to say on the subject. (Who knew?)
It's a bit of a mixed bag -- the site makes no distinction between Kosher dills and pickled steel -- so you may have better luck with the Dept. of Agriculture, which is just a menu click away. In the end, some old-fashioned human search technology (aka eyeballs) may be required to find just what you're looking for.
Government in action: Keeping our pickles safe.
