Recycling service offers curbside pickup

Green Recycling Services, which recently began offering curbside pickup of recycling materials to residential subscribers for a small monthly fee, has now expanded to businesses.
 
Owner Pat Parker will pick up recyclable materials from businesses weekly or every other week, depending on their size, for a small charge. Materials include all metals, all paper (including shredded), carbboard and No. 1 plastics. In the coming months, Parker will expand to collecting other plastics.
 
For more information, contact Parker at 271-2729 or e-mail letsrecylcle@greenrecycling
services.com.


-Yuma Title is in the process of transitioning to a new name, a process it hopes to complete by early July, said Dan Fauth, Yuma Title Division president. The new name is Chicago Title Insurance Co. to be consistent with other offices throughout the state. The name change applies to all three Yuma-area locations: 1706 S. 4th Ave. in Yuma, 11612 S. Foothills Blvd. in the Foothills and 1910 E. Juan Sanchez Blvd., Suite 13, in San Luis, Ariz.
 
The name is the only thing that is changing, Fauth said. "It will be the same friendly faces and the same great service."


-Katie Calvet has successfully passed the real estate broker's examination - on her first try, she happily reported - and now is the associate broker for Coldwell Banker Crimson Sky Realty as part of her transition to take over the business from her father, Doug Calvet.
 
A Yuma native, Katie has been in the real estate business for seven years, the last four as a licensed Realtor. In her new position, she oversees 25 agents in three offices: the Yuma office at 1590 S. 2nd Ave., and two Foothills offices at 11274 S. Fortuna Road and 11361 Foothills Blvd., Suite 1. By the way, she is looking for more agents - for a confidential interview, call her at 217-0030.
 
When she isn't working, Katie stays busy as mom to two children. 


-Arizona Supply House is now open for business at 3101 S. Avenue 3E (in the former Highway Ceramics location). Owned by Maria Vargas, the business caters mainly to contractors. It carries stucco, drywall and roofing materials.
 
The business is open from 5:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 6 to 10 a.m. Saturdays. For more information, call 344-7809.


-Isabel Cruz, an acclaimed West Coast chef and restaurateur, will be the guest chef for dinner Thursday at Carla Renee restaurant, 265 S. Main St. in downtown Yuma. Renowned for her signature Latin/Asian fusion style, Cruz's menu promises to deliver the same simple, healthful and delicious recipes that make all of her restaurants so popular.
 
Named among "Fifty People to Watch" by San Diego Magazine and "Women Who Mean Business" by the San Diego Business Journal, Cruz is also one of the very first "Remarkable Women" recognized by California First Lady Maria Shriver.

 
To make reservations for this special dinner, contact Carla Renee Restaurant at 782-0499.


-Tropix Spa, 1929 S. Arizona Ave., Suite 3, has a new hairstylist. Suzy Biggs, who has eight years of experience, offers all hair services as well as pedicures.
 
The salon can be reached at 314-4007


-The new ARCO-AMPM at 1349 S. 4th Ave. is now open for business.


-Custom House has decided to no longer operate offices in Arizona and Florida - that includes the Yuma office that in the past has served Yuma's winter visitors from Canada, said Beverly Cabrera, U.S. sales and compliance leader. Custom House provides foreign exchange and international payments.
 
Instead of local offices, Cabrera said, the company encourages international travelers to go online to www.customhouse.com to move their money. "They'll get a better trade rate," she said.


-Some curious readers have been asking about the large building that can be seen to the north of Interstate 8 - quite a bit north, like across the canal. It's the extensively expanded Agua Viva water treatment plant for the city of Yuma located at Avenue 9E.
 
The multimillion-dollar project is expanding the plant's water generation capability to 24 million gallons a day to service the rapidly developing eastern edge of the city. It's expected to be substantially completed by November.


-La Mesa Rehabilitation and Care Center announces that Dr. Ricky Ochoa has been named the facility's new medical director.
 
A native of California, Ochoa moved to Yuma about 15 years ago to join his wife. He began his studies in premed/
biology at Arizona Western College, earned a bachelor's degree from Northern Arizona and graduated from The University of Arizona College of Medicine. He then pursued training in family medicine at Phoenix Baptist Hospital.
 
Ochoa recently opened his practice, Yuma Valley Family Medicine Center, at 2270 S. Ridgeview Drive in the ProMed Complex. His office can be reached at 782-1903.


-Integrity Insurance Services, which initially specialized in insurance products for contractors in the construction industry, has expanded its services to other business.
 
"We can sell basically to any business, such as manufacturers, real estate office, professional office and retailers," said owner Robert Tychsen, who opened the insurance office in 2000. The office offers such products as business owner policies, professional and property liability, business automobile coverage, employment practice liability and workers' compensation to businesses in Arizona, California, Utah and Colorado.
 
Located at 2450 S. 4th Ave., Suite 306, in the Crescent Center, Integrity Insurance Services has grown to four agents with the recent addition of Carl Conley and Deborah Simonton.
 
For more information, call 345-9768.


-WOW Electronics has become a licensed residential and commercial low-voltage contractor in the state of California. The business will put that license to use on several projects in California, among them the new Burgers and Beer in Rancho Mirage and the installation of audio/video/security/
phone systems for a large custom home project.
 
In another development, Jason Kukuk, son of owners Gary and Jacquie Kukuk, has taken over as sales manager for the family-owned business. A recent graduate of Northern Arizona University, Jason decided he would like to eventually take over WOW Electronics.
 
WOW also is finalizing plans for its new design center at 1881 S. 4th Ave., and hopes to start construction soon. The design center with its lifestyle showroom will target architects and new home developers in addition to consumers.


-In other WOW news, it's nearly a full house at the building it owns at 1881 S. 4th Ave.
 
International Bio Resources is in the process of making renovations in preparation for opening a plasma collection center there, said Jerome Parnell, COO for IBR. He said the hope is to open the center by late August.
 
Meanwhile, the company is starting the hiring process for about 25 employees and is looking for medical technicians, lab technicians, nurses, physicians and plebotomists. If interested, call Kati Rost at 1-337-216-6642.
 
The IBR Plasma Center will collect plasma from donors to supply Talecris Biotherapeutics to make medical products for use around the world to treat burn victims and those with bleeding disorders or immune deficiencies, Parnell said. Donors will be paid cash for the time they spend at the center to donate plasma.
 
For plasma donations, the red blood cells are returned to the body so donors can donate plasma up to twice a week, he said.


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