This week in a Pine Belt business scene, we have a grand opening, some-more General Dynamics Information Technology pursuit openings and a few events to demeanour brazen to.
• General Dynamics Information Technology is employing for a new division, that focuses on Medicare and Medicaid assistance.
GDIT skeleton to sinecure 160 people in Jun and an additional 160 in July.
Interested parties can put in applications from 1-3:30 p.m. Mondays-Wednesdays during a WIN Job Center, 1911 Arcadia St. in Hattiesburg.
Applications will be taken until a association reaches a employing goals.
• 350 Degrees will have a grand opening during 11 a.m. Tuesday during 521 Old Richton Road in Petal.
The bakery offers cakes, pies, pastries, cupcakes and candies. Business hours are 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday.
Details: (769) 390-2253.
• The deadline is Jun 20 to register as a participating business for this year’s Petal First Christmas campaign, that will be hold Nov. 20-22.
The registration price is $50. Upon registration, a Petal Area Chamber of Commerce will hit any business about promotion in a selling beam and compelling a event.
To register, revisit business.petalchamber.com/events. For some-more information, call 583-3306 or email info@petalchamber.com.
• Nine village leaders recently were comparison to offer on a house of directors for United Way of Southeast Mississippi. The active 47-member house of directors serves as a ruling physique for a organization.
The new house members are Samantha Andrus, Hattiesburg Clinic; Temple Bennett, village volunteer; Bernard Green, Allstate Insurance; Shawn Harris, Trustmark Bank; Cassie Hicks, a University of Southern Mississippi; Greg Hodges, Hancock Bank; Leahne Lightsey, Petal Education Foundation; Marcia Line, village volunteer; and Benny Waddle, BancorpSouth.
United Way of Southeast Mississippi is a volunteer-driven nonprofit classification that seeks to urge lives in Forrest, Lamar and Perry counties by internal partner agencies and programs.
Details: unitedwaysems.org.
• Home Instead Senior Care is charity giveaway home reserve checks to assistance seniors revoke a risk of injuries in their homes.
The reserve checks will be conducted by internal comparison caring experts via Jun and will be supposing during no cost on a time-available basis. Experts will check for dangers such as tripping hazards, bathrooms but assistive apparatus and storage that’s too high or too low.
To ask a giveaway reserve check or perspective a home reserve checklist, call Home Instead Senior Care during 261-2114.
• Camellia Home Health Hospice, a Mississippi-based health caring company, has acquired Lawley Premier Hospice Care of Rainbow City, Alabama.
Situated nearby a city of Gadsden, a hospice has operated given 2008, portion patients essentially in Etowah, Cherokee, Calhoun and St. Clair counties of Alabama.
The merger outlines Camellia’s opening into a Alabama market. Camellia, headquartered in Hattiesburg, already operates home health and hospice services in Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia and Tennessee. Camellia skeleton to keep former Lawley employees as a association continues providing hospice services to a Alabama use area.
The trickery will continue handling underneath a Lawley name, and owners Brent Lawley will sojourn as a facility’s tip administrator.
Details: (877) 999-1974 or camellia.com.
• The State of Mississippi recently returned a Vicksburg Auditorium behind to a City of Vicksburg.
The auditorium sits on approximately 0.62 acres of land and is a Vicksburg landmark.
In 1985, a City of Vicksburg deeded a land to a State of Mississippi for $10, purportedly for mercantile growth purposes. Senate Bill 2341 upheld during a 2014 Legislative Session certified a send of a land behind to a City of Vicksburg.
The auditorium is used for conventions and conferences. The city skeleton on creation improvements including refurbishing encumber entrance and updating a venue.
• Trudy Fisher, executive executive of a Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, has announced she is withdrawal a group this year.
Fisher skeleton to sojourn entirely intent during MDEQ until Gov. Phil Bryant names a inheritor and will support with a transition before seeking other practice opportunities outward of state government.
Haskel Burns is a Hattiesburg American’s business writer. Contact him during gburns@hattiesburgamerican.com.
Article source: http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/life/on-the-move/2014/05/31/business-grand-opening-job-openings/9807801/
