The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT)
Wellness center named outstanding business
HARWINTON — TheEconomic Development Commission has named A Healing Trail Wellness Center the recipient of the Outstanding Business Award.
The award is given biennially to a business operating in Harwinton in recognition for contributions to the community. The commission made the announcement on May 23.
A Healing Trail Wellness Center has 25 massage therapists and 13 treatment rooms and is primarily a center for medical massage therapy. The licensed therapists have advanced training in many specific therapeutic areas. Many of the therapists have been with the business for 15 to 22 years. The center also offers an acupuncturist, offers zero gravity float therapy and esthetics. The center has more than 18,000 clients.
A Healing Trail originally opened on North Main Street in Torrington in 1997 as a one room/one therapist office. Because of steady growth and expansion in Torrington, they added a second location on Route 4 in Harwinton in 2003. After several additions and renovations to the Harwinton location, they brought all of their therapists to the Harwinton location in 2003.
Every day is Veterans Day at A Healing Trail. The program is generous and without restrictions for active duty, reserve and retired veterans. Benefits include 50 percent off zero gravity float therapy and $15 off of one-hour massages and acupuncture.
The office has organized events on Harwinton Land Trust properties, including treasure hunts to popularize the passive recreation available to the public. The owner, Franci Knight, serves on the Land Trust Board of Directors.
Knight organizes, writes and publishes an e-newsletter every other Friday that goes out to about 1,200 Harwinton residents and, on occasion, to another 1,600 residents of Burlington. The e-newsletter started as a community service project to share information with the Harwinton clients of A Healing Trail about a series of Harwinton burglaries in 2013.
The free community e-news now keeps a calendar of all types of events happening in Harwinton. Harwinton organizations and businesses are allowed to place free ads in the e-news. Knight is also the administrator of the Harwinton Gazette Facebook page, as well as co-administrator for the Harwinton Lions Facebook page.
She serves on the board for the Harwinton Land Trust, on the Harwinton Democratic Town Committee and is a member of the Harwinton Lions Club. She formerly served on the Harwinton Economic Development Commission.
A Healing Trail acts as a hub to support many types of local charitable organizations to collect food, clothing and medicine several times each year. Some of its favorites are the local volunteer emergency services, Susan B. Anthony, The Harwinton Land Trust, Operation Overflow, Harwinton Historical Society, Project Graduation, The Torrington Community Soup Kitchen, IRIS, White Memorial Conservation Center, Veterans Strong Community Center (Bristol), SPLC, ACLU as well as The American Red Cross.
The center is at 500 Burlington Road, Harwinton. The website is www.Massage4CT.com, and the center can be reached at 860-485-0405.
Past recipients of the award are Harwinton Pizza, Supreme Industries, and Thomaston Savings Bank.