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A Dundas company that creates children’s playgrounds has been garnering provincial acclaim for its work. Bienenstock Natural Playgrounds recently won the Trillium Award from Landscape Ontario and the Ontario Parks Association Award for outstanding design of parks.
Bienenstock Natural Playgrounds creates playgrounds with a focus on natural materials, preferring to use natural or recycled materials instead of the plastic, steel and asphalt of traditional playgrounds.
“Our work has been guided by research that shows the high injury rates and low activity rates of children using traditional playgrounds can be remedied with natural playgrounds,” notes the company’s vice-president of Development, Bruce Sudds.
In addition to recently winning a contract from the City of Hamilton to develop a playground in Dundas, Bienenstock’s clients include the City of Toronto and the Town of Jasper.
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The Hamilton Club elected a new slate of members to its Board of Directors at the club’s annual general meeting earlier this week. Sandra Stephenson, a corporate lawyer with Lazier Hickey LLP, assumes the role as chair, taking over from retired vice-president of National Paper Goods, Lindsay Holton.
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The Hamilton-Halton Construction Association also recently held its annual general meeting and elected new directors. Domenic Mattina, vice-president of Sales and Estimating for Mattina Mechanical Limited, has become the association’s new president. Moving to the role of past president is Fred Stremble, controller for Dufferin Construction Company.
At the meeting, the association also presented the Health and Safety Achievement Awards for 2009 to: Aecon Industrial, John Kenyon Limited, Mattina Mechanical Limited and Aker Construction Canada Limited.
The Hamilton-Halton Construction Association is a non-profit organization serving nearly 400 members who are actively engaged in the industrial, commercial and institutional construction industry in the Hamilton and Halton areas.
Tricia Hellingman is president of Hellingman Communications, a Hamilton-based public relations and marketing agency. You can email her at thellingman@hellingman.com. BizzBuzz appears every other Friday.
