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The Indigo Room, a bar in downtown Fort Myers, won the 2008 Southwest Florida Blue Chip Community Business Award.

Habitat For Humanity raised the walls in November on its 300,000th house, which was in east Naples.

The YMCA of Lee County Board appointed Andrew Bokan as a board member.

Florida Super Lawyers magazine named Laird A. Lile as one of the top 100 attorneys in the state.

The International Council of Interior Architects and Designers inducted Kira Krümm as a professional member.

Rick Palmon, M.D., and two staff members of Southwest Florida Eye Care traveled to Haiti to provide free surgery and eye care to impoverished Haitians.

Cody Vaughan-Birch, an attorney at Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, was named to the Special Equestrians board of directors.

The Florida Press Association named Pason Gaddis, publisher of Florida Weekly, to its board of directors.

American Cancer Society, Greater Marco Island Unit, appointed B.J. King, editor of Marco Magazine, to its board of directors.

HSA Engineers & Scientists was named a top firm to work for by CE News Magazine. Carl Barraco Jr. earned certification as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional.

Thomas Clark, John Noland, David Platt and Bruce Stanley, attorneys at Henderson Franklin, were included in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

Ken Buschle, head of quality control and specifications for Gora/McGahey Associates in Architecture, spoke at the Restaurant Facilities Forum at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa in Estero.

Denny Grimes, president of Denny Grimes & Co., was a speaker at the Star Power Real Estate Success Summit in Minneapolis.

Craig Econopouly, plumbing manager at B&I Contractors, received the Medical Gas Instructor Certification from the National Inspection Testing & Certification in Charlotte, N.C.