Business digest

More eateries join Buck for Conservation campaign Middletown — Two additional restaurants in Orange County will join the Orange County Land Trust in their Buck for Conservation campaign to provide much needed funds for open space and farmland protection projects throughout Orange County. Gus’s Restaurant and Tavern in New Windsor and Warwick Valley Winery & Distillery’s Pane Café in Warwick will join nine other participating restaurants in Orange County, where diners have the option of adding an extra dollar to their bill to support land conservation efforts and the protection of Orange County farmland. Other participating restaurants are Loughran’s Restaurant and Irish Pub in Salisbury Mills, Catherine’s in Goshen, Cosimo’s Restaurant in Middletown, Cosimo’s on Union in Newburgh and Cosimo’s Brick Oven in Woodbury, John’s Harvest Inn in Middletown, Landmark Inn in Warwick, Nina’s in Middletown, and Taco Hombre in Warwick. Diners at Schlesingers’s Steak House in New Windsor will soon have the opportunity to make a donation through a donation box at the entrance to the restaurant. For more information, and for volunteer opportunities and ways of giving to the Orange County Land Trust, visit www.oclt.org or call 343-0840. Orange Regional Medical Center offers free mammograms Middletown - Orange Regional Medical Center will offer free mammograms on Saturday, July 9, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Ray W. Moody, M.D. Breast Center located at the Orange Regional Medical Pavilion, 75 Crystal Run Rd. in Middletown. Appointments are limited and must be made by Wednesday, July 6. Pre-registration is required. Besides a clinical breast exam and mammography, the appointment will also include breast health education and training. Open to women without health insurance, participants must be over 40 years of age and have not had a mammogram within a year’s time or under 40 at high risk (patient will be contacted to determine if at high risk). For more information and to register, call the Orange Regional Health Connection at 1-888-321-ORMC (6762). Golf outing to support families in need Monroe — The Ed Wallace Memorial Foundation will sponsor its second annual golf outing on Friday, July 15, at Falkirk Estate and Country Club. The event will benefit two families in the Monroe-Woodbury School District who have met financial hardship due to serious illness in their families. The outing will include 18 holes of golf, a buffet dinner with DJ and dancing, and tricky tray raffles. Entry fees are $150 for golfers (including dinner) and $55 for non-golfers. For more information call Dan Wallace at 421-1220, Kelly Wallace at 494-2571, Kate Wallace at 325-6121 or Matt DiGiovanni at 914-850-4784. Questions may also be e-mailed to edwallacememorialfoundation@yahoo.com. Register for the event online at www.edwallacememorial.org. Vendors sought for upcoming YMCA health/wellness fair MONROE — The South Orange Family YMCA in Monroe is seeking vendors for its first, upcoming health and wellness fair. The fair will be held Saturday, Sept. 17, from 1 to 4 p.m., but planners are recruiting vendors now. The cost per vendor table is $40, with all of the table fees benefitting the Y’s $625,000 capital campaign fund. In addition to health and wellness information, Zumba entertainment will be offered as well as other activities in the planning stages. To sign-up or learn more, call Michele Bernieri, the Y’s wellness director, at 782- 9622 or e-mail to: mbernieri@middletownymca.org. MTA launches new Web site New York — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently relaunched its Web site, mta.info, streamlining access to key travel information and introducing a number of new features, including an improved Trip Planner and an App Center. The Web site’s design is cleaner, better organized and geared toward enabling customers to quickly identify the information they need. It also includes these new features: Trip Planner Plus: creates a regional trip planner for the first time on mta.info, allowing users to receive interactive travel directions for Metro-North Railroad, Long Island Rail Road and Long Island Bus in addition to subways, New York City buses and the Staten Island Railway as in the past. An App Center: gallery of apps for iPhone, Android, and other platforms that have been created by third-party developers who use data that the MTA has shared electronically. Ways to Save: a new section that includes direct links to pages promoting travel savings. Disengage from electronic devices, have a 'Quiet Commute’ to work New York — Last year, NJ TRANSIT launched the Quiet Commute program in certain cars, to test its feasibility with commuters on the railways. After receiving overwhelmingly positive feedback from customers, NJ TRANSIT expanded the program at the beginning of this year to include all peak-period, peak-direction trains that begin or end their trips at New York Penn Station or Newark Penn Station. Quiet Commute cars offer an environment for customers who wish to refrain from using cell phones and are willing to disable the sound feature on pagers, games, computers and other electronic devices. Conversations are to be conducted in subdued voices, and headphones at a volume that cannot be heard by other passengers. Conductors inform customers with business cards, an idea acquired from SEPTA, of the quiet rule without disturbing other commuters in the car.