Park Auto Group

Monday, October 25, 2010

Park Gets An Impact Award!!!

By Tammy Proctor


The Suburbanite

Posted Oct 25, 2010 @ 08:09 AM





Green, Ohio — Innovative Autocare, FirstMerit Bank, Kovatch Castings and Blake's Café and Cupcakery were presented awards Oct. 20 by the Green Chamber of Commerce.



The Vision Award, which recognizes businesses for putting vision into action, was presented to Innovative Autocare.A full-service automotive repair and preventative maintenance center, Innovative Autocare is owned by Jeff Goodwin. His business philosophy is highest quality service at an intermediate price. Goodwin recently remodeled and expanded the business at 4901 South Main St. For more information about the business call 330-245-0865.



Honorable mentions for the Vision Award included Gerri's Closet and Shields-Blice & Co., CPAs, Inc.



The Community Award, recognizing businesses which enrich the community with the completion of short-term projects or long range initiatives, was presented to FirstMerit Bank. The Green branch, located at the corner of Massillon and Boettler Roads, focuses on being a community bank with local decision-making boards. The staff is very active in Green Relay For Life, Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, United Way and the American Heart Association. They are active in the Rotary Club of Lake-Green and Green Good Neighbors Back to School Program.



Park Auto Group and Gallery 143 were honorable mentions for the Community Award.

The Environmental Award recognizes businesses bettering the environment either with the completion of short-term project or long-term initiatives. This award was presented by Kovatch Casting. Founded in 1976, Kovatch Castings employs 190 people and recently received the largest Ohio Targeting Energy Efficiency Grant of $1 million, which they will match.



City Cleaners was named an honorable mention for the Environmental Award.

The Impact Award is the pinnacle award that recognizes outstanding achievements which impact the community and business community. Blake's Café and Cupcakery, located at Town Park Plaza, was presented the Impact Award. The company specializes in healthy selections of the highest quality.



The honorable mentions for the Impact Award were the Akron-Canton Airport, Park Auto Group, The Karcher Group and the Area Agency on Aging.



City Cleaners Dry Cleaning and Laundry sponsored the Oct. 20 Green Chamber Impact Awards at Raintree Country Club. Greg Byrer of 30daygifts.com, Paul Doerr of Quick Clean Car and Pet Wash, Matry Ruegg of Community Care Givers of Green, Lee Lewis of AkroSteam Carpet Cleaning, Dave Manderine of Window Genie, Margie Toombs of Maid Brigade, Susan and Skip Summerville of the Office Place, Luke Messner of TKM Printing and Dallas Wallace of Paramount Photo contributed to the success of the event.



The 2010 Impact Awards committee was chaired by Jim Corra of Park Auto Group and assisted by Shon Christy of City Cleaners and Denise Dennewitz of Copeco, Inc.



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