McHenry County Business Journal

McHENRY – Porte Brown Wealth Management, a Chicagoland CPA firm with an office in McHenry, was recognized as a 3 Diamond Eagle at 1st Global’s 20th annual National Conference at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Symposium on genetic link to cancer

• Rosati’s Pizza, 360 S. Division St., Harvard, 60033. 815-943-8100; www.myrosatispizza.com. Newly remodeled restaurant features pizza, pasta, chicken and ribs. Dine in, delivery and pick-up. Kamal and Jig Patel, owners.

Ferris new chamber chief

Tuesday, April 3

The following information was provided by Record Information Services (www.public-record.com) of Kaneville., a company that compiles public record information from Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will counties. This list contains business-to-business filings and does not represent the entire public record. The Business Journal and Record Information Services are not responsible for business-to-business decisions that are made from reading this list, as the complete public record must be obtained and understood to make well-informed choices.

WOODSTOCK – It is hard to find a company more environmentally aware than Other World Computing in Woodstock.

Henry C. Meier operated a general store at 122 Main St. in Crystal Lake in the early 1900s.

Five years ago, when Philip Baggio told a customer that he or she needed a new transmission, the response was easy to predict.

WOODSTOCK – New owners are working hard to make Bull Valley Golf Club more than one of the most challenging golfing venues in the country. They want to make it a destination ... worldwide.

With higher education becoming more important – and more expensive – McHenry County’s colleges are adapting to the changing needs of students and the marketplace.

According to CareerBuilder, 36 percent of companies will hire contract or temporary workers in 2012. This is up from 34 percent for 2011, 30 percent for 2010, and 28 percent for 2009.

CRYSTAL LAKE – After six years at Faith in Action of McHenry County, its former director was looking forward to taking a break and recharging her batteries.

Marum to Harvard State

60 years

Promote healthier

Bruedigam Blacksmith Shop

LEADERSHIP GREATER MCHENRY COUNTY: The Class of 2012 attended Health Care Day Feb. 9 – its final Program Day – at McHenry County Mental Health Board’s new facility in Crystal Lake.

McHENRY – The McHenry County College Shah Center offers instructor led, hands-on training at its facility at 4100 W. Shamrock Lane, McHenry. Other locations are indicated. To register, call 815-455-8588 or visit www.mchenry.edu. For more information and course outlines call 815-455-8593 or e-mail shahcenter@mchenry.edu. Many courses qualify for an Employer Training Investment Program grant reimbursement up to 50 percent for eligible companies and can be delivered on-site.

HARVARD – Jim Clingingsmith’s business has come a long way, literally and figuratively, from his home in McHenry.

What makes a good chamber of commerce member? The same things that make a good community servant.

Good times are not necessarily the best times for all businesses.