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Connie Coutu has joined Whittaker Cooper Financial Group as a Client Service Associate. With 28 years of financial service industry experience, Ms. Coutu is responsible for directly assisting the office's Financial Advisors with day-to-day client service activities and is a designated contact for clients.  She is also responsible for monitoring client investments and transactions and for answering applicable client questions. The New England College of Business graduate was a Finance major and holds an Associate of Science degree in Business Administration. Whittaker Cooper Financial Group is located at 1692 West Hibiscus Boulevard in Melbourne, 32901. For more information, call 321-723-3352 or visit the website at http://raymondjames.com/whittakercooper/.

Axiom Bank, N.A. (“Axiom”), a leading community bank headquartered in Central Florida, recently acquired Dallas-based Allied Affiliated Funding, L.P. (“Allied”). This acquisition adds a lender finance line of business, scalable factoring and an asset-based lending platform to Axiom. In addition, bringing together two companies with complementary strengths and cultures will provide a platform to extend Axiom’s business banking solutions across a larger market area.

The acquisition will also bring expanded product capabilities to each entity’s clients. Allied’s proficiency in factoring will result in new opportunities to Axiom Bank’s clients and prospects, while Axiom’s business capabilities in cash management services will provide meaningful opportunities for Allied’s current commercial clients.

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The ancient Japanese art of bonsai is returning to Brevard Zoo. Bonsai Weekend, organized by the Bonsai Society of Brevard, is slated to run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on August 11 and 12 in the Zoo’s Nyami Nyami River Lodge.

The event, which is included with Zoo admission, will feature more than 50 miniature trees, vendors selling bonsai plants and accessories, and a bonsai care demonstration at 1 p.m. on both days.

A workshop for children ages 10–17 is scheduled for 1 to 3 p.m. on August 11. A $35 registration fee, which includes a tree to take home, is required; registration is open at https://www.brevardzoo.org/events/bonsai-weekend/.

The commercial construction industry in Brevard County and in Florida is booming! Welsh Construction of Melbourne is building new facilities for clients in some of the fastest growing business sectors such as urgent care, self-storage and daycare/early learning schools.
 
Welsh Construction was founded by Ken Welsh in 2003 as a general commercial contractor providing all construction services in the medical, educational, self-storage, multi-family, religious, retail, office and restaurant sectors. This year, Welsh was chosen by MedExpress, Extra Space Storage and Creative World Schools to construct their facilities.
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Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of Space Coast Ballet Company’s 16th Anniversary of the Nutcracker at the King Center for the Arts. We are the Premiere Ballet Company on the Space Coast giving children from our community the opportunity to be on stage and taught by world class professionals. We are not associated with a local dance studio and welcome all dancers and artistically inclined to audition!
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Siddarth Ranganath, better known to fellow students as “Sid” is not your typical teenager.  This rising junior at Viera High School is a problem solver, and passionate about finding ways to help other kids excel in school.

This summer, Sid decided he wanted to raise money to provide school supplies for children in Brevard County who may not have access to them otherwise. He had an ambitious goal and ended up raising $1,500 and collected four boxes of physical supplies and presented both to The Supply Zone, a service of Brevard Schools Foundation which puts school supplies directly into the hands of children in need. 
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