Being Mobile Smart
Whether wanting to develop an app or mobile website for your business, or trying to be smart about purchasing your next smartphone, it’s important to compare and contrast two of the platforms available – iPhone and Android. Knowing how they work and what their capabilities are is second nature to BCA’s mobile team. But check out a simple comparison for the mobile “power user” like yourself.
From War to Peace is the perfect name of a most amazing new company in SLO. Paul Ogren and son Sam purchase copper previously used in cables connecting nuclear missile systems. They blend it with bronze to make “Peace Bronze,” a beautiful alloy that becomes a line of peace symbol jewelry designed by Jason Main (second generation Kevin Main talent). Available online and at retail locations, with a portion of profits funding Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders and other causes …Good news, bummer news: Andre, Morris & Buttery was pleased that firm client Santa Maria Pacific prospered to the point of adding an in-house counsel position to its staff, but bummed that the best candidate for the job was the attorney who helped the company grow – AMB’s Beth Marino. Beth is now a full timer at Santa Maria Pacific, an oil exploration company … Another great sign of the times – Collaboration, LLC has taken its management and sales development talents to a second office location in Charlotte North Carolina … Round Table Pizza of Atascadero is the first business to open in the newly renovated Atascadero Colony Square that houses the new Galaxy Theatres.
We’ve written previously about Myraline Whitaker’s Sister Soldier company that provides beauty projects to African American female soldiers deployed abroad. Now both Essence and Ebony magazines have also told the story. Sister Soldiers was covered by the two prestigious publications … SLO Children’s Museum made it into Travel and Leisure for Best Family Spring Break Trips … And another local favorite and 2009 Guggenheim fellow, Jeff Wheelwright, will see his nonfiction book “Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess,” published next January. The deal made Publishers Weekly … Find out how to go green at the Five Cities Green Living Event coming up Tuesday, March 8. Sponsored by Green Goods of SLO, the 6-8 p.m. event at the Ramona Gardens brings together experts on everything from eco-friendly floors, countertops and cabinetry to energy and water-efficient appliances; home solar power systems to landscape solutions. BCA pals from Idler’s say a great evening lies ahead … One hundred lucky ticket buyers have a chance to win a Robert Reynolds original painting, “Rite of Spring,” a spectacular (all of his are) landscape watercolor. Tickets are $100 and will benefit the SLO Museum of Art … Cal Poly’s Entrepreneurship Forum is slated for 5 p.m. on March 10 at the campus Tech Park, with speakers including BCA’s own Dave and Maggie Cox … Olympic Gold Medalist Jennie Finch shares her amazing softball story at a fab fundraiser benefitting Cuesta College Athletics, Friday, March 11.
All of us at BCA share the community’s excitement over the about-to-open Galaxy Theatres in Atascadero. We’ve been having fun promoting the theatres and we’re doubly pleased to brag that Galaxy has stepped up to be a major venue for the SLO International Film Festival. Some amazing events are slated, including a sneak preview screening of Na Nai’a, Legend of the Dolphins (starring Rainn Wilson), and a Mama Mia movie sing-along … Hang out at the alleys for a good cause – form a team and have some fun with the Bowlathon that benefits Hotline/Transitions Mental Health Association and rolls over three weekends in March. You can also just go online and donate. E-mail events@t-mha.org or visit www.t-mha.org … And high rhythm drum roll, please, to the SLO County Zumba Fitness Class that recently raised $1,343 for the American Heart Association.
