BIZ BUZZ: Cut Up and Sew gains new class instructor


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Cut Up and Sew instructor Gloria Brathwaite opened her own shop in Trinidad at age 23 and later sewed for the New York Metropolitan Opera. (Courtesy photo.)
Cut Up and Sew instructor Gloria Brathwaite opened her own shop in Trinidad at age 23 and later sewed for the New York Metropolitan Opera. (Courtesy photo.)
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Cut Up and Sew gains new class instructor

Cut Up and Sew has hired a new sewing instructor who opened her own shop in Trinidad at age 23 and later sewed for the New York Metropolitan Opera.

“I am very excited to be working at Cut Up and Sew and teaching a sewing class called Sewing with Gloria,” teacher Gloria Brathwaite said in a Cut Up and Sew press release. “Sewing is a skill that stays with you for life, and I want to help people sharpen their skills in any way I can.”

Brathwaite owned her own dressmaking shop in Trinidad when she was just 23, then moved to New York City in 1969, where she designed and sewed for the New York Metropolitan Opera, according to the release.

That gave her experience in designing and sewing formal wear.

She moved to Palm Coast in 1995, branching out into home decoration by working with interior designer Beth MacKinnon while also doing alterations for Bealls, according to the press release.

She taught at Flagler Adult Education for almost nine years and opened the “Sew Glo” sewing shop on Old Kings Road in 2000.

Brathwaite’s class is held 5-9 p.m. Mondays and on Tuesday afternoons.

Cut Up and Sew is located at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Unit D116.

For more information, call 447-1103 or visit cutupandsew.com or facebook.com/pages/Cut-Up-and-Sew.

Hammock Gardens Nursery & Landscaping adds floral division

Hammock Gardens Nursery & Landscaping has added a full-service floral division.

“We have received so many inquiries for fresh bouquets over the years, we are happy to be providing our customers with this additional service,” co-owner Janine Regina-Fonseca said in a press release. “We are blessed to be able to invest resources to keep up with our customer’s growing needs,” she added.

The floral division offers large arrangements for events like weddings and funerals and also smaller bouquets and single flowers.

It is headed by florist Ellen Schleicher, who has more than 30 years of experience growing, harvesting and selling flowers, according to the release.

Hammock Gardens Nursery & Landscaping opened in 2006. Owners Regina-Fonseca and Mike Fonseca offer landscaping design and lawn maintenance, and classes and advice tailored for the local environment.

The Hammock Gardens Nursery & Landscaping garden center and gift shop is located at 5208 North Oceanshore Blvd.

For more information, call 446-9154 or go to hammockgardens.com or facebook.com/HammockGardens.

Florida Hospital Volusia/Flagler names new cancer registry manager

Florida Hospital Volusia/Flagler has named Clarissa Moholick as cancer registry manager for the five regional hospitals, including Florida Hospital Flagler, according to a Florida Hospital press release. 

Moholick, who most recently most recently served as the oncology accreditation and data services regional manager and associate director for oncology administrative services and Institutional Review Board for Adventist Midwest Health, is based at the Cancer Institute at Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center.

She is responsible for planning and organizing cancer committees, cancer conferences and cancer registry operations at all of the Florida Hospital facilities with Volusia and Flagler counties.

Moholick, a Clermont resident, is a certified tumor registrar and a certified clinical research professional.

RE/MAX Oceanside hires new agent

RE/MAX Oceanside has hired Bob Vamos, a real estate agent who specializes in new construction and was CEO of “a major plastic supplier to the auto industry” before entering the real estate industry two years ago, according to a press release.

“Bob’s business knowledge will well serve his real estate customers” RE/MAX Oceanside Owner/Broker Donna Tofal said in the release. “His construction experience will be a great benefit to his home buying customers.”

Vamos will work from both the RE/MAX office on State Road 100 and the model in Toscana on Old Kings Road.

For more information on RE/MAX Oceanside, or to list or purchase a new home, call 439-1620 or visit rmoceanside.com or facebook.com/remaxoceanside.

Paychex sales team hits annual goal, sales manager celebrates 12 years

The Jacksonville sales team of payroll and human resources company Paychex, Inc. — which serves the Palm Coast area — hit its revenue goals for this year, according to a press release.

Its sales manager, Kristin Sero, is also celebrating twelve years with the company.

“It’s our goal to help businesses streamline their payroll, HR, insurance and benefit needs, which leads to business growth,” Sero said in the release, “and I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to assist with these goals for the past twelve years.

The sales team more than doubled over the past 12 years. It was six when
Sero started in 2002 and is now 14, according to the release.

The team had $1.9 million in sales this past year, a number 105% over its goal,
according to the release.

Paychex is headquartered in Rochester, New York and has 150 offices nationwide. The Jacksonville office serves St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra, and parts of Georgia, Tallahassee, and the Panhandle as well as Palm Coast.

For more information, contact Sero at 904-228-8681, or [email protected], or visit paychex.com.

 

 

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