{"id":8567,"date":"2009-11-30T21:50:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T02:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=8567"},"modified":"2009-11-30T23:23:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T04:23:38","slug":"small-employer-of-the-year-deaf-inc-from-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2009\/11\/30\/small-employer-of-the-year-deaf-inc-from-fort-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Employer of the Year, Deaf Inc. from Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People<\/p>\n<p>November 30, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Millington joins Jones<\/p>\n<p>Lang LaSalle in Fort Worth<\/p>\n<p>His new job: Gary Millington joined Jones Lang LaSalle as a vice president<br \/>\nof property management. Millington will lead property management in Fort<br \/>\nWorth and will work closely with Greg Grainger to grow the firm\u2019s property<br \/>\nmanagement capabilities in the region.  The firm currently manages and\/or<br \/>\nleases about 14.5 million square feet in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrating  immediate  traction,  Millington will lead the property<br \/>\nmanagement efforts at the firm\u2019s newest leasing and management assignment,<br \/>\n550  N.  Bailey Ave. in West Fort Worth, a seven-floor, Class A office<br \/>\nbuilding owned by Goff Capital.<\/p>\n<p>His background: Millington has been in the commercial real estate industry<br \/>\nspecializing in property management for more than 20 years. He comes to<br \/>\nJones  Lang  LaSalle  from CB Richard Ellis, where he was an associate<br \/>\ndirector. Prior to that, Millington worked for Regis Property Management and<br \/>\nBrandywine Realty Trust (formerly Prentiss Properties LTD). He is on the<br \/>\nBoard of Directors of Fort Worth BOMA and participates on many committees.<br \/>\nHe also is involved in Big Brothers and Sisters of America and is a Red<br \/>\nCross volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Staff reports<\/p>\n<p>Boards &amp; Organizations<\/p>\n<p>Arlington City Council member Kathryn Wilemon was appointed chairperson of<br \/>\nthe Tarrant Regional Transportation Coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Allyson Baumeister, partner at Sanford, Baumeister &amp; Frazier PLLC, was<br \/>\nelected to the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Certified<br \/>\nPublic Accountants.<\/p>\n<p>Education<\/p>\n<p>Westlake Academy named Shelly Myers as the new executive director of the<br \/>\nWestlake Academy Foundation, where she is responsible for fund raising and<br \/>\ncoordination of fund raising-related events for Westlake Academy, a public<br \/>\ncharter school that offer the International Baccalaureate curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>Health Care<\/p>\n<p>Evan Evans joined Huguley Memorial Medical Center as its medical director of<br \/>\nradiology.<\/p>\n<p>Board-certified ophthalmologists and retina specialists Lee S. Anderson and<br \/>\nCliff  H. Beasley Jr. joined Texas Retina Associates in the Fort Worth<br \/>\noffice.<\/p>\n<p>Honored<\/p>\n<p>Ross and Matthews P.C. of Fort Worth won the Quality Award by Pre-Paid Legal<br \/>\nServices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Easter Seals North Texas honored companies and individuals at its annual<br \/>\nemployment symposium. The honorees are:\u00a0 Small Employer of the Year, Deaf<br \/>\nInc. at Westchester Plaza; Medium Employer of the Year, Elite Laundry;<br \/>\nLarge  employer of the Year, Hyatt Regency DFW; Distinguished Service,<br \/>\nCandace Owens of AAFES; and Employee of the Year, Mary (Cathy) Martin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brandon  Trull,  owner  of Perry Aslyn Photography, was honored by the<br \/>\nSouthwest Professional Photographers of America in their annual competition.<br \/>\nThe accolades include: Two Distinguished Prints and One Judge\u2019s Choice<br \/>\naward.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth residents Laurie Kelfer and Paulette Crumley were awarded the<br \/>\nGraduate Realtor Institute designation.<\/p>\n<p>GCG Marketing received Best Corporate Advertisement\/Campaign at the 2009<br \/>\nMedical Marketing &amp; Media Awards honoring the agency\u2019s development of an<br \/>\nawareness campaign for the Children\u2019s Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>UT Arlington Engineering Professor Yaling Liu received a National Science<br \/>\nFoundation Early Career Development Award. The award provides Dr. Liu with<br \/>\n$404,000 over five years to develop a method for predicting the efficacy of<br \/>\ndrug-carrying nanoparticles to a targeted area in a vascular environment.<\/p>\n<p>Valleau  Wilkie Jr., executive vice president of the Sid W. Richardson<br \/>\nFoundation, was awarded the Spirit of Giving Lifetime Achievement Award and<br \/>\nXTO received the fifth annual Spirit of Giving Award by Meals of Wheels of<br \/>\nTarrant County.<\/p>\n<p>Law<\/p>\n<p>Kit Addleman, a former SEC regional director, joined Haynes and Boone LLP.<\/p>\n<p>Nonprofit<\/p>\n<p>Ramona Briggans joined Easter Seals North Texas as a child care inclusion<br \/>\nspecialist.<\/p>\n<p>Therolyn J. Brown is the new properties manager at The Salvation Army\u2019s<br \/>\nCatherine Booth Friendship House and Evangeline Booth Friendship House<br \/>\napartment buildings for low-income senior citizens in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>Real Estate<\/p>\n<p>Paula Hardin joined Century 21 Lynch &amp; Associates in its Willow Park office.<\/p>\n<p>Send People items to cforester@bizpress.net<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fwbusinesspress.com\/display.php?id=11477\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.fwbusinesspress.com\/display.php?id=11477<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People November 30, 2009 Millington joins Jones Lang LaSalle in Fort Worth His new job: Gary Millington joined Jones Lang LaSalle as a vice president of property management. Millington will lead property management in Fort Worth and will work closely&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2009\/11\/30\/small-employer-of-the-year-deaf-inc-from-fort-worth\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[2222,524,2226,2237,2221,2219,2224,121,2238,2229,2225,2231,2227,2235,2233,2220,2236,2232,17,2228,2223,2230,2234],"class_list":["post-8567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deaf-news","tag-annual-employment-symposium","tag-awards","tag-candace-owens-of-aafes","tag-childrens-neuroblastoma-cancer-foundation","tag-deaf-inc","tag-easter-seals-north-texas","tag-elite-laundry","tag-fort-worth","tag-gcg-marketing","tag-huguley-memorial-medical-center","tag-hyatt-regency-dfw","tag-international-baccalaureate","tag-mary-cathy-martin","tag-perry-aslyn-photography","tag-prentiss-properties-ltd","tag-small-employer-of-the-year","tag-southwest-professional-photographers-of-america","tag-tarrant-regional-transportation-coalition","tag-texas","tag-texas-retina-associates","tag-westchester-plaza","tag-westlake-academy","tag-westlake-academy-foundation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p752R-2eb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12287,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/11\/09\/crime-prevention-safety-fair-community-forum-111310\/","url_meta":{"origin":8567,"position":0},"title":"Crime Prevention, Safety Fair &#038; Community Forum 11\/13\/10","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"November 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Crime Prevention, Safety Fair & Community Forum Saturday, November 13, 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM in Fort Worth, Texas Thank you for saving the date! 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