Palomar College to offer safety training

SAN MARCOS -- Palomar College offers an electrical safety training program for supervisors and managers. Call (760) 744-1150 ext. 2826 or visit www.palomar.edu for more information.

Longs Drugs opens Lake Elsinore store

LAKE ELSINORE -- Longs Drugs has announced that its store at 29985 Canyon Hills Road in Lake Elsinore has opened.

Small Business Development Center opens satellite location

VISTA -- Small Business Development Center has opened a new satellite location for conducting interviews in downtown Vista at Washington Mutual located at 985 E.Vista Way. For an appointment call (760) 795-8740. Free business consulting services will be offered to start-up, as well as, to existing businesses.

Risk management firm releases study

POWAY -- Poway-based risk management firm Quality Built released a study that says homes constructed in the West outranked all other parts of the U.S. in construction quality. They study looked at more than 31,000 new homes completed in 2005 in 27 states by 900 different builders.

Poway company retained by bio-tech

SAN DIEGO -- Tulip BioMed Inc. says it has retained Poway-based Quality System Consulting Specialists to help Tulip BioMed design programs meet regulatory requirements of countries in which they are targeting their medical devices.

Fallbrook marketing firm gets UK client

FALLBROOK -- Marketing communications agency Leavitt Communications says it has been retained by United Kingdom-based Imagination Technologies to handle public relations duties in the U.S.

Bank offers online check imaging

SAN DIEGO -- Security Business Bank of San Diego announced that it will offer customers remote deposit processing, a web-based check image system. The bank has branches in Carmel Valley and Carlsbad.

Poway company finishes landscape installation

CHULA VISTA -- Poway-based Benchmark Landscape Inc. announced that it has finished landscape installation for McMillin Homes' Rolling Hills Ranch Recreation Center in Chula Vista. Benchmark Landscape also operates out of a facility in San Marcos.

Daylight Solutions closes financing round

POWAY -- Poway-based Daylight Solutions announced the closing of $7.5 million in Series A financing. The round was led by San Diego-based HamiltonTech Capital Partners, and included investments from Masters Capital Nanotechnology and strategic partner Magnecomp International Limited. Daylight Solutions is a manufacturer of miniaturized, molecular detection and imaging devices.

Kids in Touch established

SAN DIEGO - Kids in Touch is a nonprofit service that collects new and used computers donated for the purpose of distributing them to military families with children who need a computer to stay in touch with a parent deployed overseas or elsewhere in the U.S. Go to www.kitcommunications.org.

Poway company achieves TSP status

POWAY - San Diego Digital Solutions, a provider of digital imaging devices, has achieved Total Solution Provider status for Copystar products and solutions. Copystar is a division of Kyocera Mita America.