May 11, 2008 02:07 am Arthur Cloutier, Lisa Paley and Chris Malvers recently opened of their new, full-service flooring store under the banner of Carpet One Floor & Home, located at 32 Lowell Road in Salem, N.H. The 3,000-square-foot store boasts state-of-the-art new display fixtures and features in their showroom that make it easier for a customer to find the perfect flooring for their home and to visualize the impact a particular style or pattern will have in a room. Instock Carpet One Floor & Home joins more than 1,000 Carpet One Floor & Home locations worldwide to bring Salem an exceptional selection of carpet, area rugs, laminates, hardwood, vinyl, bamboo, cork and ceramic tile at every price level. Professional flooring services such as sanding and finishing of unfinished hardwood.and custom tile showers.are also available. nnn Dutton & Garfield Inc., a general contracting company located in Hampstead, N.H., has been awarded the 2007 High Performance Builder Award by Butler Manufacturing Company, the world leader in the development and manufacture of metal building systems. Tom Gilligan, general manager, Northern Region for Butler Buildings North America, presented the award to Steven Webster, president, Keith A. Wentworth, vice president, and Timothy Hurtack, project engineer, of Dutton & Garfield Inc. at Butler's 2008 National Meeting. Pictured from left are Timothy Hurtack, Keith Wentworth, Tom Gilligan and Steven Webster. Dutton & Garfield Inc. has been professionally building pre-engineered metal buildings for 38 years. nnn Wright-Pierce, a New England provider of water, wastewater, building design and infrastructure engineering services, has added dam safety expert Patricia McIlvaine to the firm's Civil Engineering Practice Group. McIlvaine has more than 30 years of environmental, health and safety-related experience including regulatory compliance, dam failure emergency planning and project management. Her specialties include emergency plan development and training for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure Plans, Integrated Contingency Plans and OSHA Emergency Action Plans. McIlvaine will work closely with the Andover office on dam and other related civil infrastructure work. nnn ACR Limousine is a new company serving the greater Salem, N.H., area with a fleet of luxury cars and an impressive 10-passenger limousine. The drivers at ACR specialize in weddings, nights out, proms and airport transport. ACR Limousine is located at 40 Lowell Road, Unit No. 8, Salem, N.H. They operate 24 hours a day and are open 365 days a year. For more information or to book transportation, call 603-685-6221 or toll-free at 866-724-4420. From left, Donna Morris, executive director of the chamber, John York, Allegra Print & Imaging, Ryan Hanlon and Chris McBride, owners, ACR Limousine, Dave Anderson, Dingo Creative, Leo Monfet, Stateline Review and Everett McBride, N.H., state representative. nnn Dona Marie Kwolyk, Prudential Howe & Doherty Realtors has successfully completed the Loss Mitigation Certification Course of the Massachusetts Association of Realtors® held recently in Boston. Due to the challenges facing many Realtors® today in representing a buyer or seller who is working in a transaction involving foreclosure, short sales, properties at auction or bank owned; this comprehensive one-day course was developed to educate Realtors on all the issues surrounding properties facing these complicated transactions. nnn Big Bull Creative, of Plaistow, N.H., is the recipient of a prestigious Summit International Creative Award. The winning entry was for the redesign of the Salem, N.H., Chamber of Commerce logo. For marketing, design, or logo development, please visit Big Bull Creative on the Web at www.bigbullcreative.com. nnn Robin Young of Windham, N.H., acquired the remaining 50 percent of shares from Sam Hull to become sole owner of Northstar Financial Planning Inc. located in Londonderry, N.H. Hull and Young have been equal partners in Northstar for more than four years, and they have built Northstar into one of the premier financial life planning and wealth management firms in New England. Northstar was named one of the top 300 Wealth Managers in the country by Bloomberg's Wealth Manager Magazine's latest Top Dog report. nnn Seven employees at UniFirst Corporation in Wilmington officially marked Earth Day on April 22 by helping to plant a red maple tree near the company's corporate offices at 68 Jonspin Road. Armed with shovels, from left, are Denise Valentin-Diaz of Dracut, Maryellen Mulligan of Haverhill, Sandy Bloom of Wakefield, Cate O'Hara of Haverhill, Karen Parevoliotis of Tewksbury, Tracy Hatch of Haverhill and Dee Iovanni of Stoneham. As part of its Earth Day celebration, UniFirst also gave 300 employees tree seedlings to take home for planting. Studies have shown that a single mature tree can remove about 50 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year — enough to support two human beings. nnnSend us your business news. We want to publish news about your business — new contracts, new hires, promotions and events that are open to the public — on the pages of BizNorth. Just send a brief notice with the basics. Please be clear about the person's connection to the region. Include the name and phone number of someone we can call if we have questions. Send your news by mail to BizNorth, 100 Turnpike St., North Andover, MA, 01845. By fax: 978-687-6045 or by e-mail to bcurry@eagletribune.com. Direct questions to Bill Kirk at 978-946-2228.
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