Business Briefs
Re/Max associates
donate funds to CMN

Victor Picazio and Karleen Keiser, sales associates at Re/Max Across Town Realty, Spotswood, recently joined the national Re/Max Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) Home Program. Under the program, the associates will donate a specified amount of money per sales transaction to CMN.

The associates will display the colorful "Miracle Home" riders on top of their Re/Max yard signs.

Re/Max is the exclusive real estate sponsor for CMN, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to raising funds for children’s hospitals. This year Re/Max associates made a record $7 million contribution to CMN.

The proceeds generated by the Spotswood office will benefit Children’s Specialized Hospital, an affiliate of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, with locations in Mountainside, Fanwood, the Toms River section of Dover, Newark, Union and Elizabeth; and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.

The CMN-associated hospitals, which treat children with all types of afflictions including cancer, heart and muscular diseases, birth defects, AIDS and injuries resulting from accidents, pride themselves on treating the whole child and rendering service based on need, not on the ability to pay.

Commissioner to speak

at state chamber event

The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce will hold an Issues Breakfast featuring Holly C. Bakke, state Banking and Insurance Department commissioner, from 8:30-10 a.m. on Oct. 15 at Forsgate Country Club, Monroe.

The commissioner will speak on implementing auto insurance reform, the high cost of health insurance, the impact of banking mergers and acquisitions and other department priorities.

Cost is $55 for state chamber members, $95 for nonmembers.

For more information, call Salina Torres at (609) 989-7888. To register, log on to www.njchamber.com.

Cosmetic firm celebrates 15th anniversary

Merle Norman Cosmetic Studios, 4095 Route 1, South Brunswick, will celebrate its 15th anniversary Oct. 10 and 11 at its newly renovated store in the South Brunswick Square shopping center. The studio is owned by Roberta Stein. Prizes and gifts will be available, and refreshments will be served.For more information, call Roberta at (732) 329-9299.

Celebration of National Yoga Month Oct. 25

Inner Light Yoga Center, North Brunswick, will celebrate National Yoga Month during October with three free sample classes. Classes in yoga and tai chi chuan will be given Oct. 25. "Introduction to Yoga" will be at 12:15 p.m., "Beginner-Level Tai Chi Chuan" will be at 1:30 p.m., and "Multi-Level Yoga" at 2:45 p.m. All classes last one hour.

Inner Light is at Lion’s Plaza, 1626 Route 130. For more information, call the center at (732) 951-1100.