LATHAM (Sept. 5, 2002)

WELCOMING RECEPTION - Sizzling barbecued chicken halves were served to 600 employees from 10 Capital Region companies Wednesday, Sept. 4 when First Columbia held a lunch hour welcoming cookout at Latham's Century Hill Plaza,
the Capital Region's fastest growing office park. The event, attended by
officials from the Town of Colonie, was held in the parking lot and was
catered by the Brooks' House of Bar-B-Que.