Price Chopper award

SCHENECTADY -- At the Certified Angus Beef's annual conference, held Sept. 13-15 in Savannah, Ga., Price Chopper was presented with the Retail Marketer of the Year award for outstanding support of the brand.

Accepting the award for Price Chopper were Jerry Golub, senior vice president of sales and merchandising, Jerry Wallace, vice president of meat merchandising, and Tim Toussaint, category manager.

Price Chopper has been one of the CAB brand's top 10 retailers across the nation. The chain offers traditional CAB brand, CAB brand natural and CAB brand prime, as well as dry-aged CAB items.

Their strategic merchandising and marketing resulted in a double-digit increase in sales. Product demonstrations, cooking classes and its multi-media "We Know Meat" campaign has led customers to the brand. The We Know Meat brochure is a very useful consumer guide to buying, preparing and cooking a variety of meats including CAB. These brochures are available in-store at the meat department.

Based in Schenectady, the Golub Corp. owns and operates more than 115 Price Chopper grocery stores in New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Deadline extended

ALBANY -- Based on the response in public workshops and a request from local governments, New York state will extend the deadline for submitting proposals to the $1 million Adirondack Park Community Smart Growth Program, Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis has announced.

The application deadline has been extended to Friday, Dec. 28.

The program is geared at helping Adirondack Park communities develop plans that foster sustainable development, environmental protection and community livability. DEC will be assisted by the Department of State and the Adirondack Park Agency in the implementation of the program. An official Request for Application (RFA) has been mailed to more than 100 units of local governments in the park and has been posted on the DEC website (www.dec.ny.gov/pubs/37874.html).

DEC has now finalized the application process and guidelines, including the following grant categories:

Village, Hamlet and Town Center Revitalization

Sustainable Economic Development

Cultural, Environmental and Natural Adirondack Resources.

Municipal governments can apply for local, regional or park-wide planning grants geared at addressing the special conditions of the Adirondack Park. Awards, covering 100 percent of project costs, will be made on a competitive basis.