This week in BiS:
• Jack S. Levine heads the board for Park Place Outreach Youth Emergency Shelter, an agency that shelters, supports and provides care and services to runaway, homeless and in-crisis youth.
• Kole Management, with Jeff Kole as its president, is a family owned real estate investment and management company that owns and operates mostly apartment properties with a few warehouses in Savannah and Charleston.
• Accountant Brittany DeHaven reminds readers that major new requirements under the Affordable Care Act will go into effect in 2014 and says many businesses and individuals are not aware of the changes.
• Cally D’Angelo at the chamber of commerce is looking forward to the Taste of Downtown Business Connection on May 16 in Johnson Square.
• Michael Owens, at the Tourism Leadership Council, suggests you try visiting Savannah as if you were a tourist. He thinks you’ll find that service in the city will shine.
Lots of people ‘like’ Savannah’s Facebook page
Savannah’s tourism recruitment agency, Visit Savannah, surpassed 100,000 “likes” on its Facebook page on Tuesday.
“Our Visit Savannah marketing team is thrilled to hit the 100,000 mark of Facebook friends,” said Joseph Marinelli, “and it truly is quite an accomplishment.
“However, we are even more pleased with the level of engagement and interaction we have with those friends.”
Visit Savannah’s social media manager, Amy Brock, said the organization has gained a lot of momentum on all of its social media platforms.
“We didn’t know what to expect when we started using Facebook at Visit Savannah, and to see a response like this is amazing,” Brock said.
Visit Savannah began using Facebook and Twitter in 2009.
Enmark to sell ‘light the night’ balloons
All 62 Enmark retail stores in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina will sell Light The Night paper balloon icons in support of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Light The Night Walk beginning today.
The paper balloon icons will be sold through May 31.
The paper balloons, which can be personalized with the donor’s name, cost $1 and will be displayed on surfaces inside the Enmark stations. The company has set a goal of raising $60,000.
“I lost my mother to leukemia when I was 6 and my sister was 8. It is in her memory and in support of all of those currently fighting leukemia and lymphoma that Enmark is proud to support LLS’ Light The Night Walk,” said Houstoun Demere, Enmark Stations vice president.
Savannah’s Light The Night Walk will take place on Oct. 18 in Forsyth Park.
