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January 30, 2006
Progress 2006
The Citizen, Auburn, New York
The Citizen, Auburn, New York
Progress 2006
January 30, 2006
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SHAW & BOEHLER
Florists
142 Dunning Ave., Auburn
252-7231
Your hometown family owned
florist since 1921
www.shawandboehlerflorists.com
Core Values
Currier Plastics strives to create a culture of integrity and
mutual respect for our co-workers, our customers and our
community. We exist to provide value and outstanding service to
our customers. We pursue ever-higher goals by embracing change
and fostering an environment that values passion,
creativity and individual dreams.
Currier Plastics Inc. · 101 Columbus Street · Auburn, NY 13021
www.currierplastics.com
Core Values
Currier Plastics strives to create a culture of
integrity and mutual respect for our co-workers,
our customers and our community. We exist to
provide value and outstanding service to our
customers. We pursue ever-higher goals by
embracing change and fostering an
environment that values passion, creativity and
individual dreams.
Core Values
Currier Plastics strives to create a culture of
integrity and mutual respect for our co-workers,
our customers and our community. We exist to
provide value and outstanding service to our
customers. We pursue ever-higher goals by
embracing change and fostering an
environment that values passion, creativity and
individual dreams.
Currier Plastics currently operates
two molding divisions; Custom Injec-
tion Molding and Custom Extrusion
Blow Molding. Our Injection Molding
Division services a diverse customer
base requiring precision plastics com-
ponents for use in electronics, medical
and consumer products. Our Blow
Molding Division supplies containers
for use in packaging applications includ-
ing health and beauty products and
consumables. Currier Plastic has also
tripled the size of it's secondary oper-
ations department. Offering our cus-
tomers sub-component assembly.
Currier Plastics
Business Name: Currier Plastics, Inc.
Address: 101 Columbus Street, Auburn, NY
13021
Phone: 315-255-1779
Web: www.currierplastics.com
Owners/Officers: John F. Currier, President
Established: 1982 by Raymond J. Currier
Facility: 65,000 sq.ft.
Shaw & Boehler Florists are celebrating their
85th year in business in Auburn in 2006. Orig-
inally started by Earl Shaw and Winfield H.
Boehler in 1921, they purchased a business in
Cortland in 1926, and Earl Shaw moved there
to manage it. The partnership continued until
1957 when Earl Shaw retired and sold his share.
At that time Winfield C. Boehler, employed
there since graduation from Cornell Universi-
ty in 1950, became a partner with his father
until his fathers death in 1969. He then became
proprietor.
Shaw And Boehler has seen many changes
through the years from a large wholesale and
smaller retail business at the start, to a total
retail business at the present time. A large por-
tion of their greenhouse range was dismantled
due to inefficiency of the older style buildings,
and increased cost of maintenance and fuel.
They now buy flowers of numerous varieties
from all over the world, making available to
their customers a far greater choice than before.
In 1970 they added a new showroom to
the front of the existing building, giving their cus-
tomers a more inviting area to browse. One
third of their existing green house structure has
been converted to a permanent showroom for
holidays: A Christmas Wonderland becomes an
array of spring blossoms for Easter and Moth-
er's Day.
1983 Marked a milestone in Shaw and
Boehlers history, when, W. C. Boehler married
Carolyn Dahl Siracusa, who had been an employ-
ee for twenty years. Carolyn oversees the Bridal
work and general day to day work. The fact
that they have second and third generation
brides, and several from the same families speaks
for her caring and expertise.
Flowers can express your feeling for all occa-
sions, better even, than words. For 85 years
Shaw & Boehler has strived for customer satis-
faction above all else, and Win and Carolyn
hope to continue to fill the needs of the com-
munity for years to come.
Shaw & Boehler Florists-85 Years
Business Name: Shaw & Boehler Florists
Address: 142 Dunning Ave., Auburn, NY
13021
Phone: 252-7231
Owners/Officer: Winfield C. Boehler
Number of Employees: 3
Year started: 1921
Type of business: Florists
Website: www.shawandboehlerflorists.com
"What exists here are two things:
support and opportunity," stated Dr.
Carl Weiss III, a surgeon who has recent-
ly joined the Medical Staff of Auburn
Memorial Hospital. Although 2005
has been a challenging year financially
for AMH, the hospital is moving forward
in many ways to reconfigure itself as
the healthcare facility our community
needs and wants in 2006 and beyond.
The ongoing support that AMH has
received from its friends and neighbors
allows the hospital to take advantage
of opportunities to provide new services
in new ways.
Dr. Weiss looks forward to the hos-
pital updating its operating room facil-
ities and establishing itself as an --
academic center of excellence -- with
a focus on minimally invasive surgery
and bariatric surgery. Bariatric surgery
-- employing laparoscopic, minimally
invasive techniques -- can help obese
patients lose 100 pounds, with 85%
keeping the weight off, he said. He
speaks from experience, having com-
pleted Fellowship training in minimally
invasive surgery and having performed
250 bariatric surgery cases. Two other
surgeons, Dr. Matthew J. Zadrowski
and Dr. Deborah Geer, have been
appointed to the Medical Staff to fur-
ther enhance AMH's surgical capacity.
Brendan McGrath, who became the
hospitals Administrator upon the retire-
ment of Christopher Rogers in July,
stated: "Attracting top-notch surgeons
will encourage area residents to select
AMH for their medical care. We need
to deserve their selection by being high
quality."
Another important step forward has
been the creation and growth of a Hos-
pitalist Program at AMH. A Hospi-
talist is a physician who specializes in inpa-
tient medicine and whose primary
responsibility is caring for inpatients
within the hospital. This program was
started in late 2004 with one Hospi-
talist, Dr. Todd Lentz. Since then, in con-
junction with Internal Medicine Asso-
ciates of Auburn, AMH added Dr. James
W. Leyhane as Director of the Hospi-
talist Program; Dinah Guarino, ANP,
MSN as Hospitalist Nurse Practition-
er; and Dr. Michelle Belgard as an addi-
tional Hospitalist. The future plan is to
expand to five physicians and possibly
a second nurse practitioner. The hospitalist
movement has exploded across the coun-
try because it offers many benefits to
patients, who have more immediate
access to physicians, and to primary
care providers, who are better able to focus
on their outpatients, with fewer dis-
ruptions in their offices.
Auburn Memorial Hospital also con-
tinues to serve its community by offer-
ing major annual educational events
such as Heart Expo in September, which
attracts about 300 people each year,
and the Women's Health Institute, held
at the Holiday Inn in October, which
always fills to its 200+ capacity. The
free, public Medically Speaking Lec-
ture Series will continue to provide a
variety of talks by AMH physicians,
and additional outreach activities are
planned for 2006. For more information,
visit the hospital website at
http://www.auburnhospital.org.
Auburn Memorial Hospital Progresses Toward Healthy New Vision
Business Name: Auburn Memorial Hospital
Address: 17 Lansing, Auburn, NY 13021
Phone: 255-7011
Year started: 1878
Type of business: Hospital
