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Mainstreet Flemington
October 16, 2003

Hunterdon Businesses Strut Their Stuff

Flemington, NJ – More than 115 businesses exhibited their wares and explained about their services at HealthQuest on Route 31 at Bartles Corner Road in Raritan Township on Thursday October 16.

"We have a tremendous number of new vendors this year," said Suzanne Lagay, president of the Hunterdon Chamber of Commerce, the Expo sponsor. Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce.

"This is our first year participating," said Kent Frazier. "This is an opportunity for us to network with other businesses and the public."
Frazier is a vice president of Support Systers, a Clinton Township company founded almost four years ago. The firm assists people deal with the health care system, which has become maddeningly complex and fragmented.

"We provide registered nurses, helping families navigate through the health care systems, demystifying what the doctors are saying and relieving the stress and anxiety of the process," he explained.

"We are not providing skilled nursing in the home," Frazier cautioned. "We deal with the interface." That interface includes maintaining records, taking care of insurance matters, and even transportation.

If you visited the Expo, you could have gotten your hair and make-up done. "I always wanted to do hair since I was little," said Crystal Friedrich, owner of Crystal & Co. in Flemington's Turntable Junction. "And I think Expo is really a nice thing."

"We did make-up applications at Expo," Friedrich pointed out. "And we did an up-do or braids or twists right there."

Friedrich does precision cutting and coloring, color corrections and waxing, and provides top-of-the-line products for hair, make-up and skin. She employs six stylists.

A new business exhibiting at Expo will be AeroChampion Gymnastics & Sports.

"We've just opened in Clinton Township," said owner Darren Pieper. "I took a booth here to hand out information and tell people what we do."

Pieper provides sports training for kids. Soccer, basketball, gymnastics for both boys and girls, dance and baton are the specialties. He offers private lessons and there are scheduled classes and special nights with open gyms.

Pieper was on Hunterdon Central's gymnastics team and graduated in 1993. He's planning a "Spooktastics Night in the Lights, a Haunted Maze for Kids" with a Harry Potter theme, set for the end of this month. It will be held at his place.

Susan Lagay and her staff at the chamber have been busy for most of this year putting this year's Expo together.

There were no runners on the HealthQuest track because there was a job fair up there. Companies with employment opportunities conducted interviews with prospective employees during the event. Nick Dawes and John Solo of David Rago Auctions of Lambertville appraised antiques. To accommodate the expected crowd, the LINK ran complimentary shuttle buses from Stop & Shop parking lot to the Expo after 3 p.m. The day was capped off with a Chamber "Card Club" networking session from 5 to 7p.m.

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