BrevardBrevard BusinessBusiness BBNBBN NewsNews Vol.Vol. 3720 No. 131 AugustJanuary 5, 2019 7, 2002 $1.00 A Weekly Space$1.00 Coast Business Magazine with PublishingA Weekly Roots Space in Coast America Publication since 1839 Brevard Job Link key resource connecting firms and job seekers access to America’s Job Bank and other By Ken Datzman employment Web sites, videos, career guidebooks and an in–depth collection of The visibility of the Brevard Job Link periodicals, including “The Wall Street got a big boost in 2001. Journal.” The continuing contraction in the The centers also have computers economy, although a rebound is expected equipped with word–processing software, in 2002, focused a much brighter light on fax machines, copiers, laser printers, and the importance of the organization and telephones with long–distance access. A 1.2 inches x .35 inches its mission in the county. videoconference system is available, 6.5 picas x 2.7 picas The four full–service, one–stop career which may be used for conducting centers in Brevard — from Palm Bay to interviews. Titusville — handled significantly Employers, said South, can provide The pictures looked much better this past week. increased traffic, even catering to people the Job Link with its openings free of who have never had a need to tap this charge either online, by fax or phone, remember the midtones resource before. visit one of the centers “or they can ask “It’s been a great year in that we have for a representative to come and see Thanks! been able to get services out to people them at their place of business. We quicker and more efficiently than ever would like to see every single job order in before,” said Linda South, executive Brevard County to be in the Job Link director of the organization. She added, “I system, so that we can rapidly match think a lot more people have come to skill sets. And if we don’t have the match understand the value of the rich re- we’ll use the information to create sources that are available in the Brevard education and training opportunities that Job Link centers, not only from a job– are responsive to the need.” seeker’s standpoint but also from the Brevard Job Link is funded through employer’s standpoint.” the Brevard Development Workforce BBN photo — Adrienne B. Roth These information–packed centers Board Inc. in Rockledge. It also has been The four full–service one–stop career centers of Brevard Job Link are seeing increased traffic. Linda South, offer a variety of services to job seekers, successful in winning competitive grants executive director, said her organization is a rich resource for both the job seekerBBN photoas well — as Adrienne the employer. B. Roth businesses and the unemployed. For Michael Anderson is associate director. They are at the Melbourne site in Perimeter Center. instance,The Ullian tRealtyhere areCorp. job in referrals,Melbourne, Internet a full–service commercialPlease realsee estateBrevard firm, Job is on Link, track pageto post 18 one of its best years in the business. The demand for warehouse space, multifamily properties, and income– producing properties continues to grow. Investors are pouring new money into commercial real estate projects. From left, the commercial team includes: Adam Rathbun, Michael Ullian, Bryan Ridgley, Lyn Brown, Rob Solito, and Zach Ullian. What the Social Security plan would mean to you Realtors remain positiveNothing willon happen commercial immediately The market; 16–member panel Ullian unanimously Realty expands team By Mary Deibel since President Bush isn’t expected to approved these options three weeks ago Scripps Howard Service make any recommendationsRathbun, who to has Congress 25 years’ experienceto carry out in commercialBush’s campaign real pledgeare now to ready to build and are using U.S. Small Business By Ken Datzman until 2003, afterestate. the 2002 congressional let younger workers divert someAdministration of the loans.” Here’s what to expect if Social elections. “Aside from one shopping center6.2 percent that is payroll currently tax being they owe onBecause of the strong economy, many businesses are SecurityCommercial is changed real soestate that youngermarkets have long beenBasic a good Social Securityredeveloped checks — and would I’m benot marketingwages to it individual at this time accounts — the thatflush own with cash. They are investing in their enterprises and workersindicator can for ithenvest overall some economy. of their payroll smaller than calledproperties for in currentare 90 percent law. full. stocksThe portfolio and bonds. is a mix of they are hiring people. And the U.S. economic expansion is on the verge of office space, industrial space, and retail space. So the “When employment ranks grow, that usually means tax money in private accounts, as Depending on market performance, total Workers who opted to take part would setting a record. The 10–year expansion from June 2009 to market is pretty strong right now.” demand for space grows — more space is being BREVARD consumed. President Bush’s Social Security Com- benefits from Social Security plus your choose from the five low–risk funds, one June 2019 has now tied the record from March 1991 to Rathbun said he has “two deals under contract with mission proposed a few weeks ago. personal account could be higher or each for government bonds, corporate PRESORTED March 2001. July marks the longest expansion in history small businesses that have been renting property. They Please see The Ullian Realty Corp., page 23 sinceCurrent the mid–1850s, retirees and according those nearing to the Nationallower. Bureau of bonds and a stocks–and–bonds mix, plus BUSINESS BUSINESS retirementEconomic Research. — anyone 55 or older today The commission plans call for extra two stock–index funds that track the US — would get Society Security benefits as tax money of up to $71 billion32904 a year and broader market. 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Congressman Bill Social Security currently collectsPOSTAGE US workers put 2 percentage points of their Frenzel“I manage calls the about Bush 650,000 Commission’ square feets of propertyenough in payrollthe tax to pay 100 percentSTANDARD of 6.2 percent payroll tax into a personal three–accountlocal market,” said alternatives The Ullian the Realty Free Corp.’s Adambenefits through 2038 and 73 percentPRESORTED of account. Nothing else changes, and INC. Lunch, the Blue–Plate Special and the benefits thereafter if the system isn’t Subsidized Lunch. changed. Please see Social Security, page 16 BBN BREVARD BUSINESS NEWS online at BrevardBusinessNews.com No Dogs Left Behind organization leads way in fight to rescue dogs from ‘dog–meat’ trade; the ‘Five Pillars’ takes place every year in June in China, the kidnapping took Beri and his team months and months of constant By Bonnie S. Klapper, Esq. and murder of dogs takes place every day, all year long. treatment and rehabilitation for these dogs to get well [email protected] Our founder and the Chinese activists we work with and learn to love and trust humans. Legal Counsel, NDLB are continually searching for the slaughterhouses and After the 2016 rescue, Beri went back to China and meat trucks, trying to save as many lives as possible. stayed. He opened the No Dogs Left Behind shelter in No Dogs Left Behind is an organization dedicated to The shocking thing is that the majority of the dogs Beijing. And he founded NDLB. ending the “dog–meat” trade by shutting down slaugh- being tortured and eaten were once someone’s house NDLB has two missions of equal importance: end terhouses, exposing the butchers, educating the general pet, stolen from their homes or sold to the butchers by the dog–meat trade completely and permanently; and, public about the humane treatment of dogs and their owners. until we accomplish that goal, rescue as many dogs as working with government officials throughout the world Currently, we have many dogs in our shelter in possible, rehabilitating them and finding them forever to put laws into place to stop the brutal and barbaric Beijing — all rescued from dog meat trucks and homes. treatment of dogs by humans. slaughterhouses. But we need to make room for more of Our entire organization operates on the “Five Pillars Much of the dog–meat trade takes place in countries the dogs that we have rescued and that are now being of Rescue” which Beri developed: in Asia. We believe that there are no borders in the medically treated all over China before being brought to l Emergency Response. fight to end the dog–meat trade. We have chosen to our shelter. Brave activists track and then intercept dog meat focus on fighting to end the dog–meat trade in China OUR STORY trucks and stop the drivers from taking the dogs to the because that is where the greatest number of dogs in Back in 2016, our founder Jeffrey Beri had just come slaughterhouse. NDLB and its team members provide the world are being brutalized. off a historic rescue mission in China. Beri had been a emergency medical treatment to the dogs, all of which Every year, between 10 and 20 million dogs are high–end jewelry designer and had run his own are sick, beaten or starving (or all three).