Courtland Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is the new name of the Life Bridge Health facility once named Jewish Convalescent & Nursing Home. The new name reflects the change in the center's admission policy -- instituted in 2007 -- to include non-Jewish residents.

The following businesses and individuals were honored at the Pikesville Chamber of Commerce Business and Community Recognition Awards breakfast on April 24.

For Business Recognition Awards, those honored were:

* Marcy Gorman, Business Person of the Year, BB&T Bank at Quarry Lake;

* Mari Luna Restaurants, Business of the Year;

* JSJ Properties LLC, Fedder Award of Excellence in Architectural Design;

* Adele Kass, Robert Horn Memorial Award, aide to Councilman Kevin Kamenetz;

* Harvey Cummins, Lifetime Achievement Award, owner of Cummins Appliance, in Pikesville;

* Christina Green, Employee of the Year, Springhouse Assisted Living.

For Community Recognition Awards, those honored were:

* Officer Nicholas Starkey, Police Officer of the Year, Pikesville Precinct, Baltimore County Police Department;

* Trooper 1st Class Edwin T. Bowers, State Trooper of the Year, Golden Ring Barracks;

* Lt. Wayne Oursler, Career Fire Fighter of the Year, Station 2, Pikesville;

* Jonathan Ferber, Volunteer Fire Fighter of the Year, Pikesville Volunteer Fire Department;

* Fort Garrison Elementary School, School Program of the Year;

* Pikesville High School, Community Service Projects; and

* Christopher Pettijohn, of Pikesville High School, received a $500 student scholarship.

LifeBridge Health's partnerships of neurology, nerosurgery, orthopedics, physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists has been named the Sandra and Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute. The institute has programs at Sinai and Northwest hospitals, and offers a full range of services for brain, spine and peripheral nervous system diseases.

Sean Carr, of Friendly Neighborhood Window Cleaning, who serves the Pikesville area, was named Maryland Window Cleaner of America's Window Cleaner of the Month for April. The recognition puts him in line to compete for Window Cleaner of the Year.

Bonnie Heneson Communications, in Owings Mills, received a gold Hermes Creative Award for the marketing campaign for Monarch Academy Public Charter School in Glen Burnie. The Hermes award is a national marketing competition.

Stevenson University announces promotions and new members in the school's Office of University Advancement:

* Frances Gunshol was named director of the school's Alumni Relations department. Gunshol is a 1967 graduate of Villa Julie College, the former name of Stevenson University.

* Carol Dombrowski was promoted to director of Individual Giving.

* Rob Turner was named director of Advancement Services.

Christopher Newman, a senior institutional sales executive for the global investment service division of T. Rowe Price, in Owings Mills, was named to the McDaniel College Board of Trustees April 18. Newman has worked at T. Rowe Price since he graduated from McDaniel in 1988. Newman represents McDaniel College on the Independent Collegs of Maryland Board.

Robert "Bob" Manekin, of Owings Mills and senior vice president and director of brokerage and investment services of Manekin, LLC, was appointed to a two-year term on the Greater Baltimore Committee's Board of Directors.

David Desser was April's top producer at the Pikesville Long & Foster office. Desser had a salesvolume of $1,383,300. Marlene Pollak was the office's top lister for the month of April.

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