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Newsmakers for the week of
March 19, 2006 Christopher M. Mesh, Esq., of Spencerport, is a graduate of Albany Law School. Mesh joined Connors & Ferris, LLP in 2002 and has been practicing law for six years. He is a member of the Monroe County Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, New York State Injured Workers' Bar Association, and Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Mesh is also admitted to practice Federal Law in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York. His primary areas of practice include Social Security Disability, Supplemental Security Income, and Workers' Compensation. Kelly E. Cholewa, daughter of Bertram and Nancy Cholewa of Spencerport, has been named to the Ohio Northern University dean's list for the winter quarter 2005-06. She is a junior majoring in civil engineering. The dean's list includes students who attain a grade point average of 3.5 or better on a 4.0 grading system. Roberts Wesleyan College Nursing Honor Society is being inducted as a chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, Tau Xi Chapter announced induction of the following local members: Myung Allen, Carolyn Beiter, Susan Chalupa-Breese, Kellie Danglis, J. Renee Evans, Elizabeth Faulknor, Patricia Feola, Margaret Frock, Marcey Furlow, Megan Greer, Carolyn Gremminger, Kimberly Hares, Noelle Lucas, Myles Lynch, Judith Nuber, Karen Poole, Susan Russo, Danielle Schatz, Andrea Scheel, Rosa Waldroff, Tanya Walsh, Cynthia Farella, Jan Larsen-Fendt, Katharine Mertz, Lisa Oulette, JoAnn Pellegrino, Julie Trepasso-Warren and Patricia Weigel. On April 17, Richard Lagiewski from Churchville will run in the 110th Boston Marathon to save lives through the 17th annual Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge (DFMC). By raising a minimum of $2,500 he received an invitational entry to this prestigious race, DFMC runners are funding the Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Since the DFMC's inception in 1989, the runners have raised nearly $26 million for the Barr Program. To contribute to the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge, go online to dfmarathon.kintera.org or contact the DFMC office at (617) 632-1970 or dfmc@dfci.harvard.edu. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Robert A. Millspaugh, son of Jean M. and Richard A. Millspaugh of Hamlin, and his fellow shipmates returned from a scheduled deployment while assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, homeported in Norfolk, Virginia. Millspaugh's unit launched 10,000 combat flights totaling nearly 30, 750 flight hours and provided surveillance, reconnaissance and close air support to ground forces in Iraq. The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group participated in Operation Steel Curtain and Maritime Security Operations (MSO). |