Support meetings focus on home-based workers
The Home-Based Workers' Network has started a series of monthly "team support" meetings to help people who work at home.
The meetings will be held at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at 201 E. Main St. in Westminster; at 9:30 a.m. the second Monday of each month at 4011 York Road, No. 1, in Millers, Carroll County, the headquarters of the network; and at 7 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at 817 Cedarcroft Road in Baltimore.
The HBWN, started in 1993, is also creating a registry of home-based workers, categorizing them by type of business or service provided.
For more information, call (410) 239-2255.
Image Dynamics gets Golden Bell award
Image Dynamics Inc. has won a Golden Bell Award from Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International for work done for the Stouffer Renaissance Harborplace Hotel during 1993's All-Star Week in Baltimore.
Image Dynamics, based in Baltimore, received feature coverage on "CBS This Morning" and in "USA Today" for a story about food superstitions of All-Star players staying at the hotel.
Facility Data to provide graphic design services
Barbara Portnoy and Nancy Foreman have formed Facility Data, which will design signs for businesses in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The company will also provide graphic design services for clients such as health care facilities, schools and office buildings.
Ms. Foreman, president of Nancy Foreman Design, will serve as vice president of the new company.
She will continue in her role as president of Nancy Foreman Design, a commercial interior design firm she founded in 1978.
Ms. Portnoy, who will serve as president of the new company, will continue in her role as vice president of Nancy Foreman Design.
Both companies will share office space on Greenmeadow Drive in Timonium.
Baltimore company gets N.C. contract
Classic Communications, a Baltimore-based marketing communications firm, has been awarded a contract with Container Graphics Corp.
Classic will develop advertising, direct mail and public relations campaigns for the company's mid-Atlantic region.
Founded in 1986, Classic Communications specializes in services for manufacturing and health care clients.
Container Graphics, based in North Carolina, makes products for the packaging industry. It has 15 plants in the United States and two abroad.
Jessup firm expands into industrial supply
Corporate Express, a national stationery supply company with headquarters in Jessup, is adding an industrial supply division, providing janitorial and cleaning products.
Donald Quinn, vice president of sales and marketing for the Mid-Atlantic division, will head the new division.
Corporate Express employs 300 people in its Mid-Atlantic region, from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, with 200 employees in Jessup.
Globe ScreenPrint wins 15 industry awards
Baltimore-based Globe ScreenPrint has won four Best of Category and eight Awards of Excellence at the 1995 Annual Print Quality Awards Banquet, sponsored by the Printing Industries of Maryland and Southern Pennsylvania.
The company also won three awards at the 15th Annual International Golden Squeegee Awards Competition, which featured more than 2,000 entries from 189 companies worldwide.
Globe ScreenPrint is a screen-printing business serving the Baltimore and Washington areas.
'Bringing Back the Bay' wins for Whitmore
Whitmore Printing, based in Annapolis, has won nine awards at the 1995 Annual Print Quality Awards Banquet, seven of which were Best of Category awards.
Three of Whitmore's awards were for "Bringing Back the Bay," a book featuring black and white photographs by Marion Warren printed for Johns Hopkins University Press.
The Print Quality Awards Banquet is sponsored by the Printing Industries of Maryland and Southern Pennsylvania.
Lawyers will provide free tax advice
Low-income earners can receive free income tax advice from the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service and the Tax Section of the Maryland State Bar Association.
The service, to be offered Feb. 11, 18 and 25 and March 4, is designed for individuals who qualify for the earned-income credit.
Single or married workers with children in their homes who earned less than $25,296 would qualify.
Single or married workers, ages 25 to 65, without children who earned less than $9,000 also would qualify.
The service will be provided at the St. Ambrose Housing Aid office, 321 E. 25th St.
Call (410) 547-6537 for an appointment.