Sigma Financial Corporation

a2_chamberSigma Financial Corporation partners with professional financial advisors committed to growing their practices in an ethical manner. We provide comprehensive financial planning tools, products, and services supporting our representatives’ efforts in helping their clients achieve financial success. Sigma Financial stands out as one of the last independent, mid-sized, Midwest broker-dealers.

Cottage Inn

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Our story begins with the first Cottage Inn Restaurant, when our founder Nick Michos opened its doors in 1948. This restaurant carries the unique distinction of being the first restaurant in Ann Arbor to serve pizza, and that pizza can now be found in over 50 different stores stretching across Michigan and Ohio. Serving up quality ingredients and a gourmet experience from our family to yours has always been an important part of what we do here at Cottage Inn. So please, join us in our tradition of happiness and great food. We can’t wait to meet you!

 

Please visit www.cottageinn.com to find a location near you.

GDI Infotech

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GDI Infotech provides Talent Matchmaking Services, Managed Workforce Solutions, and Executive Placement Services. In business since 1993, we employ technology to improve people connections. We put sophisticated tools and many years of experience to use to match candidates to open positions and vice-versa.  By offering flexible delivery models, from onsite staffing to offsite software development, GDI can meet your specific requirements.

GDI offers a broad range of experience and skills in using industry leading software to deliver customer solutions.  We have also partnered with InfoReady Corporation to deliver leading edge, easy-to-use information discovery and collaboration solutions using the innovative InfoReady Platform™.  These solutions can be delivered quickly and will meet a broad range of information driven challenges for your company. Follow the GDI blog to stay on pulse with the latest news in IT and workplace management.

Learn more about how GDI can help your organization.

Click here to view our open positions.

 

 

Thomson Reuters

 

 

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(Left) Thomson Reuters sponsored a house in Ypsilanti through Habitat for Humanity last summer. (Right) the Thomson Reuter team at a golf outing for SafeHouse.

We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world’s businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization.  With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world.

 

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has approximately 1,100 employees in the Ann Arbor area and is growing, including an ongoing initiative to consolidate staff from several locations to the Avis Farms South location at State and Textile Roads.  The majority of the local employees provide accounting, tax, and practice management software and technology infrastructure to the tax and accounting profession in the U.S. as well as internationally.

 

For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

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Washtenaw Educational Options Consortium (WEOC) Programs

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The Washtenaw Educational Options Consortium (WEOC) is an organization comprised of the nine local school districts in Washtenaw County. These districts collaborate to provide a range of cost-effective educational options to their students. The WEOC is governed by the WEOC Joint Steering Committee comprised of the superintendents of each local district.

WEOC programs focus on preparing students to be successful and productive in the 21st century, whether they are academically talented or challenged. WEOC offers three programs:

  • The Washtenaw International High School, a certified International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma program with a rigorous curriculum that adheres to a set of rigorous international standards.
  • The Early College Alliance at Eastern Michigan University (ECA@EMU), an early college program that allows high school students to earn up to 60 transferable college credits before graduation from high school at no cost to student or family.
  • The Washtenaw Alliance for Virtual Education (WAVE), a highly individualized, hybrid classroom- online program that tailors the academic curriculum to each student’s educational needs.

Each program emphasizes customized, skill based, technology infused, goal oriented education that is tailored to the aspirations and talents of the students. Each program’s operation is collaborative and sensitive to both equity issues and community talent demands.

Call Your Help Desk

CYHDlogo250x85Born in 2007 in Saline to fill a need for competent, affordable tech support, Call Your Help Desk has grown to serve all of Washtenaw County. Jeff Morris, owner and principle, has a BSCS from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and has been in IT since 1991.JeffMorris

We specialize in making your technology work for you. From productivity issues to security to workflow
optimization, Call Your Help Desk today to get started working smarter with the technology you already have.

2|42 Community Church

242Logo2|42 Community Church is one church in two locations (Brighton & Ann Arbor). The Ann Arbor Campus is a diverse, growing Christian community here in Washtenaw County. Our community is built around one simple goal, to “help people take next steps with God.” We believe, wherever you are in life, there’s a next step that you can take. It could be to apologize to that co-worker, come back to church again or move to Africa to start a mission. We encourage the people we come in contact with to Celebrate in a weekly service, Connect in a small group and Contribute to the work of God in our community and around the world. We call those our three Cs. We have ranked as one of the top 10 fasting growing churches in America the last two years and would love for you to stop by at one of our four services: Saturdays at 5pm or on Sundays at 9am, 1030am or Noon. We located at 410 S. Maple on the West Side of Ann Arbor (behind Kroger). Hope to see you soon.

Paul Davis Restoration & Remodeling

PD_cmyk_descriptor_FA_01Paul Davis Restoration of Ann Arbor provides services to cleanup and repair damage to residential and commercial properties due to water, fire, mold, storm or other disasters. Founded in 1966, Paul Davis is a rapidly growing network of 370+  offices  in the United States and Canada.  Paul Davis puts people and property FIRST throughout the recovery process.  Our 50 year heritage is one of innovation, resourcefulness, empathy, and outstanding customer service.

Paul Davis is known for its innovation and pioneered many processes and services that have helped shape the property damage restoration industry, including the following.

  • Collaborated with the insurance industry to more efficiently service policyholders in cleaning up and restoring property damage
  • Introduced the use of computerized estimating and line item pricing when estimating jobs
  • Created the Paul Davis Dry.in.3 guarantee for water losses, utilizing the latest in technology and scientific methods
  • Developed an upfront, guaranteed pricing model, Predict-A-DrySM, to estimate water mitigation jobs
  • Built a computerized system to measure, monitor and verify water losses
  • Introduced a performance warranty to insurance companies

Our passion for quality drives everything we do.  Call Paul – 24 hours a day! 800-550-4042

The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra

A2_MG_0359Arie and orch take bow from ZarathustraThe Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra has been independently and favorably compared to musical giants such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Boston Symphony and the Detroit Symphony Orchestras.  All of these orchestras play regularly here, and our quality-conscious audience equates us to them with their discretionary entertainment dollars. This past season the A2SO announced its second-largest subscriber base in its 87-year history, underscoring the quality of the musical experience delivered to our growing audience.

The A2SO is a versatile orchestra, performing the gamut of musical styles: from Beethoven to Pärt, and from the revered Russian Masters to new and contemporary music by Ann Arbor’s own Bill Bolcom, Evan Chambers, Michael Daugherty, and Bright Sheng.

A2_MG_2859 Arie cues big entranceA2SO concerts frequently feature world-class guest soloists including opening this season with Garrick Ohlsson in Hill Auditorium.   Our Symphony is most privileged to be part of a community already enriched with musical talent including Concertmaster Aaron Berofsky and Principal Oboist Tim Michling.   We are proud to play concerts in all venues – from area farmers markets to school classroom, and from libraries to day care centers and senior centers.

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Whether on the ipod or radio, in the concert hall or the classroom, the A2SO is passionately committed to lead and enrich the culture of the region.  We attract, inspire and educate the most diverse audience possible, fosters a growing appreciation for orchestral music and regional talent, and provide imaginative programming through community involvement.