FLORIDA TODAY's Business Briefs: Titusville F&E Services; Liberty IT; Rockledge Kiwanis

Fire department raises funds for Parrish

The City of Titusville’s Fire & Emergency Services Department recently presented Jess Parrish Medical Foundation with $2,000 in support of cancer–care programs at Parrish Medical Center.

As part of nationwide and local efforts to raise breast–cancer awareness, Titusville’s Fire & Emergency Services Department showed their support by “going pink for the cause.” Department members sold and wore pink–themed T–shirts in October in place of their uniform shirts in observance of breast–cancer awareness month.

“Titusville Fire is thrilled to provide support for such a worthy cause, one that affects citizens within our community,” said Gregory Sutton, battalion chief. “Our personnel enjoy wearing our breast cancer awareness T–shirts and always receive great reviews from the public. “Our job is more than running emergency calls, and it’s a great feeling when we see the public still wearing these shirts years later. Knowing the sale of that shirt, in some small way, helped someone dealing with breast cancer — that is a great feeling!”

For more information on the Jess Parrish Medical Foundation, visit ParrishMedFoundation.com.

Liberty IT Solutions making hires

Liberty IT Solutions, which has an office in Melbourne, has been hiring software engineers and other high-tech specialists as it works to fulfill its part of a $22.3 billion contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs last year. Liberty was awarded 26 task orders with a total contract value of $540 million as part of the VA contract.

In the last year, the local Liberty office has hired nearly 70 this year and expects to see similar growth in in 2018. 

Liberty IT Solutions is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. For more information go to www.libertyits.com.

Kiwanis gives shoes

 Nearly 100 children at Emma Jewel Charter Academy received new shoes as part of the Rockledge Kiwanis Club’s annual shoe giveaway funded through the Nestor Hebert Shoe Fund.

Emma Jewel Charter Academy was just one of several schools selected throughout Brevard County to receive the shoes. Cocoa police officers, members of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office and volunteers from the Rockledge High School Key Club helped find the right sizes to fit each child. The Rockledge Kiwanis Club said it “will follow up with any child that did not have the right size to make sure they receive a pair of shoes.”

Nestor Hebert, a Brevard County businessman, said he saw this need, and in 1947 he began providing much needed shoes for Brevard County children. In 1978, the Rockledge Kiwanis Foundation Inc. took on the task of distributing the shoes.

Currently, this organization serves children from kindergarten through third grade. To date, the Nestor Hebert Shoe Fund and the Rockledge Kiwanis Foundation, Inc. have distributed nearly 100,000 pairs of shoes to children in Brevard County.

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