Business Briefs

The New Jersey State Bar Foundation, 1 Constitution Square, New Brunswick, will offer conflict resolution training sessions for teachers beginning Jan. 26 with one-day training on the elementary level. Training on the middle/high school level will be Feb. 10. Two-day training on the elementary level will be March 3 and 4, and on the middle-high school level March 24 and 25. Training is free, and teachers attending the entire training will receive professional development hours for one-day and two-day sessions. An advanced training session on the elementary level will be March 25, and middle/high school level March 4. All sessions are 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. A $100 refundable security deposit ($25 per person, must attend in groups of four) is required for the two-day sessions, and $20 deposit for one-day sessions.

Peer mediation for teachers, administrators or counselors will be Jan. 28 for grades six through 12, and Feb. 16 for grades three through five, with sessions from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Teachers attending the entire training will receive professional development hours. A refundable $20 security deposit is required. A free public seminar on estate and federal income tax will be Feb. 15 from 7-9 p.m. Speakers will include attorney Brian Reynolds, Mantell & Prince, Murray Hill, and Richard Greenberg, a partner at Greenberg & Schulman, Woodbridge. Registration is required for all the above, which will be at the foundation’s office. To register, call 1-800-373-3529.

Prudential Fox & Roach, Realtors, North Brunswick, recently recognized sales associates for the month of December. Scott Daly, Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick, has been recognized for listings. North Brunswick resident Maria Reynolds, broker, relocation specialist, has been recognized for volume and units. Reynolds has been a recipient of the President’s Circle and the New Jersey Association of Realtors Circle of Excellence Awards since 1987.

Assemblyman Upendra Chivu-kula (D-17) will serve as

chairman of the Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee for the 2006-07 legislative session. Chivukula was chosen for his tenure on the committee, past support for legislation protecting New Jersey’s utility consumers, and his background as an engineer. The committee monitors all segments of the telecommunications and utilities industry in New Jersey. Chivukula has served on the committee since his first term in the Assembly in 2002. Born in India, Chivukula is the first person of Asian-Indian descent to serve in the General Assembly. He holds degrees from Vivekanda College and the College of Engineering in Guindy, Madras, India, and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from City College in New York City.

UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 125 Paterson St., New Brunswick, will welcome behavioral neurologist Bruce L. Miller, M.D., discussing dementia Jan. 25 at 10 a.m. Miller is a professor of neurology at the University of California at San Francisco. He will hold an open discussion with the community about the signs, symptoms and treatment of dementia at the free seminar. Light refreshments will be served. For more information or to R.S.V.P., call (732) 235-6356.

Baja Fresh Mexican Grill, Middletown, announced that Arlene Etzkorn, Middletown, is the winner of the first “Fill Up on Fresh Sweepstakes,” and received 100 gallons of gasoline valued at approximately $300. The company received more than 3,000 entries from Nov. 1-Dec. 15 at its five participating New Jersey locations in East Brunswick, Edison, Ocean Township, Watchung and Middletown.