Terregena announced that balenceTM Biopesticide Bait has been approved for sale by the Environmental Protection Agency. Biopesticide is used against flies. Terregena of Raleigh is a marketing and distribution company for products for the agriculture, animal health and veterinary markets.

First Flight Federal Credit Union has opened for business at 2425 Kildaire Farm Road, Suite 301 in Cary.

Tranzyme Pharma of Durham has received notices of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for two patent applications: Macrocyclic Modulators of the Ghrelin Receptor, and Spatially-Defined Macrocyclic Compounds Useful for Drug Discovery. Tranzyme is a biopharmaceutical company that develops therapeutics for the treatment of gastrointestinal and metabolic disorders.

Donata Guerra, a Cary decoupage artist, has decorative objects available for sale at Legacy Handmade Carpets, Antiques and Gifts at 209 S. Academy St. in Cary. Guerra started her business, Old Broom Street, in October. Legacy Handmade Carpets, Antiques and Gifts has been open for three months.

Her New Beginning is a new Raleigh business that helps young girls make the transition from child to young woman. The business features a menstruation kit that includes information and supplies to assist with preparing young girls and their parents for the life change. Kits can be purchased at www.hernewbeginning.com.

Koroberi, a Chapel Hill marketing firm, has opened an office in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Expression Analysis, a Durham company that provides genomic services for clinical trials and research, is working with The Immunological Genome Project to generate a biological map of the immune system of the mouse, with the goal of better understanding immune mediated diseases and responses in human beings.

Law firm Smith Moore will join with Leatherwood Walker Todd & Mann to form Smith Moore Leatherwood. The new firm will have about 180 lawyers in six offices in the Carolinas and Georgia.

Dancing Elephants Achievement Group opened a sales training center near Walnut Street and Cary Towne Boulevard in Cary. The center will offer sales training courses in the evening.

UNC Health Care has added Triangle Radiation Oncology Associates to its Department of Radiation Oncology Physician Associates. The physicians became employees of UNC Health Care but will continue to provide services at Rex Healthcare, a UNC subsidiary. TRO has four physicians: Pete Hoffman Jr., Robert D. Ornitz, Charles W. Scarantino and Catherine Lee.

Capability Co., a Raleigh recruiting firm that serves nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher learning and hospitals, conducted an executive search that resulted in Nancy Hiatt being named executive director at Home of the Sparrow, a transitional shelter program for women and children in Crystal Lake, Ill.

Fairway Outdoor Advertising donated a billboard package worth $6,000 to promote the state's Operation: Military Kids' program, which offers opportunities and resources to children of military families.

The Carolina Ale House golf tournament raised $8,170 to benefit the Wake Forest Boys & Girls Club. The golf tournament was at the Olde Liberty Golf Course in Youngsville.

Atcom Business Telecom Solutions donated a telecommunications system equipped with wireless, desktop, voice mail and voice processing technologies to the Kraft Family YMCA in Apex. Atcom provided installation service and will offer continued support to the organization.

Elaine Dibner of Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Raleigh was recognized as an outstanding volunteer in the company's national Community Service Award program. As a result, Northwestern Mutual Foundation will present a $10,000 grant in Dibner's name to the Kramden Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Research Triangle Park that collects, refurbishes and donates computers to less advantaged children in North Carolina's public schools.

Turftenders Landscape Services of Raleigh, Bayer Environmental Science of Research Triangle Park and John Deere Worldwide Commercial & Consumer Equipment of Cary participated in "Renewal & Remembrance" at Arlington National Cemetery and Historic Congressional Cemetery. Hundreds of landscape and lawn care specialists spent the day mulching, caring for and cabling trees with lightning protection, as well as pruning, liming, planting, aerating and installing an irrigation system at Arlington National Cemetery. The gift is valued at more than $350,000 in services and work.

Mindworks Multimedia, a multimedia video production company in Durham, donated $30,000 of multimedia services to The Healing Place of Wake County, a Raleigh rehabilitiation facility for homeless, alcoholic and chemically dependent men and women.

EASTERN DIVISION

CHAPTER 7

Southern Glass & Mirror, 1214 W. 5th St., Lumberton, 28358; assets, $27,325.45; debts, $213,991.22; major creditor, Vitro America, $143,000; attorney, Ocie F. Murray Jr.; Case 08-05652-8-RDD, Aug. 21.

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