Our new sponsor Dime Bank has a wonderful philosophy “Commitment to Community”. Established in 1869, Dime Bank is a mutual bank with over $730 million in assets and 11 convenient branch locations throughout southeastern/shoreline Connecticut and Westerly, Rhode Island. As a full-service financial institution, Dime offers consumer and commercial banking, home mortgages, trust services and through Dime Investment Services (a subsidiary of Dime Bank) – insurance and investments – all delivered with a personal touch. BauerFinancial, Inc., a national bank rating firm, recognized Dime Bank, as one of the strongest banks in the nation. The hallmark of Dime is the personalized manner in which it serves its customers and supports its communities.

A new sponsor in Connecticut’s “Adopt a Highway Program”, you can see Dime Bank’s signs on Highway 95 northbound, near exit 86; and on Interstate-395 southbound near exit 79. Join Dime Bank in its commitment to community and have your sign seen by motorists day and night, all year long. Contact Territory Manager Joyce Urman by email or by phone (800) 551-8576 for more information about Connecticut’s Adopt a Highway Program.

Dime Bank is proud to sponsor the litter-removal and upkeep on the two highway locations in southeastern Connecticut. This endeavor is a perfect fit for our ‘commitment to community’ philosophy, because we’re able to reinvest our resources to keep our highways and community clean.

Take your business to a new level! Come see us at the 2013 Business Expo organized by the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce. Business Expo is an easy, affordable way to give your company maximum exposure in front of thousands of people, as well as learn what goods and services are available for your business. This year’s show will be at the NC State Fairgrounds Jim Graham Building which offers ample free, convenient parking and is only a short drive away no matter which part of town you’re in.

So, come out and connect with more than 200 businesses that can provide products and services your company needs. Our Territory Manager Paige Woods will be on hand to answer any questions you may have about the socially responsible and cost effective way to advertise outdoors on the highways of North Carolina. The Sponsor-a-Highway program will get your business in front of millions of motorists, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We make it easy! We remove the litter…you receive the recognition!

The 2013 Business Expo will be held on:

Click here to register for your free Diamonds Direct e-ticket. By using Diamonds Direct e-ticket for admission on May 1, you are automatically entered into a drawing for a $500 gift certificate to Diamonds Direct Crabtee. Click here for rules and regulations.

In the first quarter of 2013, AAHLRSA launched a campaign to support The Canopy Project lead by Earth Day Network. For every new sponsor in the Adopt/Sponsor-A-Highway programs, AAHLRSA committed to a donation to The Canopy Project. As first quarter came to an end, we were surprised to see so many socially responsible businesses joined in on our campaign. Our new sponsors were excited to contribute to this great project to protect natural land and preserve the environment. We want to take a moment to thank our sponsors for their support.

• Ramada Inn – Yonkers
• Snoqualmie Casino
• Delano Marketplace
• Batteries Plus
• Jefferies & Company
• Chick-fil-A Foothills Ranch
• Waterford Mobile
• Reproductive Medicine Assoc -New Jersy
• Prosperity Advisory Group
• Waterville Valley Resort
• Red Towing Inc
• Dime Bank
• Morongo Band Of Mission Indians
• Captain Lawrence Brewing Co
• Massage Envy – CT
• The Staenberg Group
• Devan Acura of Norwalk
• Rye Radiology Associates
• Don Sebastiani & Sons
• Rouge Fine Catering #3
• Green Energy lawn Care
• Ring Ring Marketing
• Pacific Marine Mammal Center
• Atlantic Shower Door
• P Morrissey Contracting
• AAA Hoosier Motor Club
• Indianapolis Concrete
• Grand Lux Realty

As part of its mission to protect natural lands and preserve the environment for all people, Earth Day Network developed The Canopy Project. Rather than focusing on large-scale forestry, The Canopy Project plants trees that help communities – especially the world’s impoverished communities – sustain themselves and their local economies. Trees reverse the impacts of land degradation and provide food, energy and income, helping communities to achieve long-­‐term economic and environmental sustainability. Trees also filter the air and help stave off the effects of climate change.

With the reality of increasingly unpredictable weather patterns and more frequent and violent storms and floods, tree cover to prevent devastating soil erosion has never been more important. That’s why, earlier this the year, Earth Day Network made a commitment to plant 10 million trees over the next five year. A select group of valued partners and sponsors have joined us to help make this commitment a reality.

Over the past three years, The Canopy Project has planted over 1.5 million trees in 18 countries. In the US, projects to restore urban canopies have been completed in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, Flint, and Chicago. In Haiti alone, where earthquakes caused landslides on deforested hillsides, leading to horrific devastation, Earth Day Network planted 500,000 trees. In three high-poverty districts in central Uganda, The Canopy Project recently planted 350,000 trees to provide local farmers with food, fuel, fencing, and soil stability.

Our tree plantings are supported by corporate sponsors and individual donors and carried out in partnership with nonprofit tree planting organizations throughout the world and in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme’s Billion Trees Campaign. Each tree planted is counted toward A Billion Acts of Green®.

Thank you to our Sponsors for Adopting/Sponsoring-A-Highway and for your support of the Canopy Project!!!

After three years with the Adopt-a-Highway Program, Subaru/KIA of Stamford continues to support clean highways in Connecticut. The team at Subaru/KIA of Stamford understands the value of social responsibility, devoting corporate budget to giving back to local communities. Their signs can be seen at Exit 8 on I 95 N and Exit 18 on I 95 S.

Located in Stamford, Connecticut, the staff at Subaru Stamford will help you find the Subaru vehicle you want. Subaru Stamford offers a searchable online inventory of new Subaru cars in Stamford, along with well-maintained used cars by today’s top manufacturers. Come on in and take a test drive! Their sales staff will help you find that new Subaru or quality used car that you have been searching for.

I truly feel that the Adopt A Highway program gives maximum exposure to my businesses on our busy highways for a fraction of the cost of billboards.  In addition, the goodwill that comes along with the program is a huge bonus and important to the local communities.

Join Subaru/KIA of Stamford and adopt a highway in Connecticut. Contact Joyce Urman at (800) 551-8576  or email her for more information.

Looking to bring green into your office space? Our new sponsor of Missouri’s Sponsor-A-Highway Program, Color Art Integrated Interiors has the answer for you. Color Art Integrated Interiors is a full service corporate interiors company.  Furniture, construction, flooring, technology, facility management, and healthcare services are all part of an ever growing list of products and services we offer to our customers.  Color Art has a long history of social responsibility and giving back to the St. Louis community.  Their Green Team is always looking for ways to improve efficiencies within the office and extend the mission to the area.  This message is delivered from the top down as CEO Gary Mindel states, “Being socially and corporately responsible for all of our actions is, in our opinion, a part of how every Company should conduct their business.  With respect to sustainability, our efforts to minimize our footprint on the environment will impact future generations, our planet, and the legacy we leave.  I have tasked our Organization to develop and measure or sustainability efforts to achieve our goals in this area.”

All of us at Color Art Integrated Interiors live and work in a way that minimizes our impact on the environment.  To lead and educate our team and our community through the examples we set and raise our voices together to encourage sustainability and reductions of our footprint for the benefit of future generations.

Color Art Integrated Interiors is sponsoring a highway in St. Louis. You can see their sign on Interstate 270 northbound near Olive Street. To join Color Art Integrated Interiors in the Sponsor-A-Highway Program in Missouri, contact Sarah Parkes at 800.540.8694 or email her.

While you are hard-hitting the gym and starting the new diet, Weight Watchers is hard at work in cleaning up the highway. In line with the company’s mission to bring you healthy living, Weight Watchers is also bringing green to your environment. Partnering up with Adopt-A-Highway Litter Removal Service of America, Inc., Weight Watchers sponsored two signs on Highway 60 and Highway 17 in Phoenix, Arizona.

Rated #1 Best Diet Plan in 2011 and 2012 by U.S. News and World Report

Weight Watchers has once again nabbed the top spot in the U.S. News & World Report rankings for #1 best weight-loss diet as well as the new Easiest Diet to Follow category in its newest Best Diets 2012 review.

The news organization cited flexibility and the fact that no foods were off limits as main perks of the Weight Watchers program.

Weight Watchers can fit into the most active of lifestyles. You don’t need to count calories or eliminate the foods you love from your diet. Every food and drink is assigned a single number (a PointsPlus® value), which gets subtracted from a PointsPlus budget when you eat it. Activity can even earn you activity PointsPlus values, which you can swap for extra foodPointsPlus values if you like.

We believe the PointsPlus program is easy to follow because it provides the balance of enough structure to produce weight loss at the recommended rate with enough flexibility to live your life, says Karen Miller-Kovach, Chief Scientific Officer of Weight Watchers International.

Support companies that care about our environment. If you are looking to get back to healthy living in 2013, look into starting a program with Weight Watchers. And know that your new year’s resolution is helping a business that cares.

To adopt a highway in Arizona, please contact Andi Robertson at (800) 499-2367 or send her an email.

As the holiday season approaches, we would like to share the story of our new Sponsor, Michael and Son Services. It is the story of an immigrant family, through perseverance and hard work, reaching success in their business. Remembering those that supported them, Michael and Son set out to give back to the community.  They have joined the Adopt a Highway program in both Maryland and North Carolina. You can see their signs in 18 locations in Maryland and five locations in North Carolina. In addition to the Adopt a Highway Program, Michael and Son established the “Michael & Son Cares Program” to help disadvantaged families with essential home repairs they can not afford. To date, the Cares Program has helped dozens of families in DC, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, Richmond, Norfolk and Philadelphia.

Your business can join Michael and Son Services in their effort to provide the residents of Maryland and North Carolina with cleaner and safer roads. Contact Paige Woods for more information on the Adopt a Highway Programs in Maryland and North Carolina. You can email or contact her at (800) 792-4452.

A big welcome to our new sponsor of the Adopt a Highway Program in Seattle, Talus Solutions Group. Talus has sponsored segments on I-5 and on State Route 520. Talus Solutions Group is a Seattle based, veteran owned business that specializes in Business and IT solutions and services. The team at Talus believes that the clients deserve the best solutions and best consultants that the service industry has to offer. The goal as a company is to bring each client the brightest minds, best practices and the highest performing solutions that are available in the world of Healthcare, Retail, Manufacturing and Utilities.

In addition to industry specific solutions, Talus also provide solutions and services that meet the needs of most business and IT departments such as:

• ERP Strategy and Solutions
• Business Intelligence Solutions
• IT Strategy and Transformation
• Accounting and Audit Services
• Infrastructure Solutions
• Enterprise Architecture Solutions
• Outsourced IT Solutions
• Nearshore and Offshore Solutions
• Development and Testing Solutions
• Microsoft Solutions
• Oracle Solutions
• SAP Solutions

Talus Solutions Group delivers a wide range of practical and cost savings business and IT solutions to a broad range of clients. Their approach harnesses a global network of delivery centers, industry expertise and deep technology and outsourcing skills to deliver cost-effective business and IT solutions.

To join force with Talus and help clean up Washington’s roadways, please contact our Territory Manager Lisa Goode for more information. You can reach Lisa by email or at (800) 665-4821.

Commercial Office Environments is committed to creating attractive, healthy, and productive environments for their community, whether that is through their many services they provide for creating work environments or through their numerous community outreach programs including the Sponsor-A-Highway Program of Indiana.

Established in March of 1987 by Sara Cook, COE is proud to be a Women Business Enterprise (WBE) and is celebrating 25 years of business, growing to a company filled with an experienced staff providing professional services for the planning, management, installation and maintenance of attractive and productive work spaces.

COE is the largest dealer in the State of Indiana to represent Haworth, the second largest office furniture manufacturer in the industry.  Haworth is an award winning leader in the development of ergonomic and environmentally sustainable office furniture. Along with Haworth, COE represents over 450 other commercial manufacturers, consisting of commercial furniture, architectural products and interior products, to create a workspace tailored for the needs of today, yet adaptable for the requirements of tomorrow.

Dedicated to their community and providing attractive environments, COE participates in the new Sponsor-A-Highway program to help keep Indianapolis streets clean with budget-friendly advertising that reaches thousands daily.

To learn more about the Sponsor-A-Highway Program in Indiana, please contact Sarah Parkes at (800) 540-8694.

A long-time sponsor of the Adopt-A-Highway Program on Highway 10 in Santa Monica, Jade Mills Estates continues to be a champion for a clean environment. As Jade and her team serve the ultra high-end real estate market of Beverly Hills, they also focus on building a relationship with the community that supports them.

For the last decade, Jade Mills has been the top-grossing real estate agent in the ultra-competitive market of Beverly Hills, California, and its adjacent neighbourhoods, such as Holmby Hills, Bel Air, Beverly Park, Beverly Hills Flats, and Trousdale Estates.

In 2009, Jade Mills was ranked No. 24 in total sales volume by the Wall Street Journal with over $79,000,000 in total sales. This is higher than any other real estate agent in Beverly Hills. In 2010 Jade ranked Number 10 in total sales for the year with over $153,000,000 in total sales. Jade has been listed Number One on the Wall Street Journal – RealTrends.com list three times in the past 10 years. Jade is consistently Number 1 or 2 in the nation in total sales volume for Coldwell Banker, along with her colleague, Chris Cortazzo in Malibu.

To join Jade Mills Estates in the Adopt-A-Highway Program in California, please contact Lisa Goode via email or call her at (800)665-4821.