Anne Shybunko Moore was our speaker Friday morning.  Shybunko is president of GSE Industries. GSE has a long history on Long Island but had purchased land in Georgia a few years ago and built a manufacturing facility.  It all seemed so attractive but a trained workforce was less available. And retention of those who were…

At LIMBA we like to vary our programs. This week I reached out to Gary Richard of PC Richard & Son fame. Although I met Gary almost 30 years ago it never occurred to me to ask him to speak at LIMBA. The story of a family owned business remaining in the family for 104…

  Our speaker this morning was Long Island Railroad President Helena Williams. Helena has been our guest speaker at LIMBA each year for the last few years. Her mission today was to inform us of the various projects the railroad is working on.   The principal effort of today's discussion was the second track on…

James Graseck will be playing for us again. We call Jim the "Victor Borge" of the violin. We will also have comedian Harry Freedman. Harry has worked our room before in 2002 and was a big hit. He also brought us the ventriloquist Vince Dantona, and comedian John LaRocchia. This is always a well attended…

Today's program took us to the Edward Miliken Training Center in Oakdale. The facility houses the technical training program that Eastern Suffolk BOCES uses to impart numerous practical skills ranging from solar electric installations, nursing, diesel mechanics, and auto repair to audio-visual training, and various other important skills needed in industry. The unit is now…

St Joseph's  College Veterans Programs Panel We started the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance and the then Bill Miller introduced the speaker This Friday’s meeting was an in depth discussion on educational opportunities that are available to veterans.   Dir. Vitters brought several fellow staff people from St Josephs’ College. Dr. Vitters is a retired…

The Caithness Company is no stranger to LIMBA. This morning Caithness President, Ross Ain, discussed the new 350 megawatt plant that has been proposed. The original plant that Caithness completed in 2009 was the most efficient power plant that was ever built on Long Island. The new plant will use techniques that will further improve…

Friday’s meeting was a good overview of modern communication in business. The meeting was dubbed Business Bootcamp and it was the first of several that we will be hosting. Our visiting experts were the principals of Fishbat. Fishbat prides itself with being attuned to effective ways to communicate services and products of its clients to…