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February 2018
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Northway Bank Names Retail Banking Manager
Northway Bank welcomes longtime New England banker Kate Burns as Senior Vice President, Retail Banking Manager.
In her role, Burns will oversee Northway Bank's network of 16 retail branches throughout New Hampshire, while also leading strategic initiatives to strengthen the bank's service culture and market position.
Burns brings 21 years of banking experience to Northway Bank. Most recently, she served on the leadership team at Citizens Financial Group, where she was a market executive supporting operations throughout greater Boston and, earlier in her career, regional sales manager in both the Manchester and Seacoast markets.
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One Commercial Real Estate Merges with Brick & Barn
Brick & Barn Real Estate Group recently announced
One Commercial Real Estate will become its commercial division, combining the companies' operations. The merger is part of the company's ongoing expansion in the residential and commercial real estate markets throughout the Seacoast and the Upper Valley region. Headquartered in Quechee, Vermont, Brick & Barn Real Estate Group has been helping people navigate the home buying and selling process for decades.
With the addition of One Commercial Real Estate and its founder, Bob Marchewka, the 2017 New Hampshire Commercial Investment Board of Realtors Realtor of the Year, Brick & Barn Real Estate Group will now bring its trademark concierge real estate services to both residential and commercial buyers, sellers and leaseholders throughout the New Hampshire.
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Cornerstone VNA Commemorates 105 Years
January 5th marked the 105th anniversary of
Cornerstone VNA, a local nonprofit home health and hospice care organization serving Strafford, Rockingham, Belknap and Carroll Counties in New Hampshire and York County in Maine.
In 1913, the Rochester Women's Club, led by president and philanthropist, Norma Snow, and the Ladies Aide of the First Church Congregational founded the VNA to provide homecare services. For more than a century, Cornerstone VNA has been committed to bringing services to people of all ages, so that families can stay together at home, even when facing the challenges of aging, surgical recovery, chronic or life-threatening illnesses or end of life care.
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CVHS Selected for Hannaford Bag Program
Cocheco Valley Humane Society has been selected as the beneficiary of the Hannaford Reusable Bag Program at the Central Avenue store for the month of March.
The Hannaford Helps Reusable Bag Program launched in October 2015 and is designed to support local nonprofits through the sale of the reusable cause bags. CVHS was selected by Hannaford store leadership as the March beneficiary of the program at the Central Avenue store. For every reusable cause bag purchased at the Dover store during March, CVHS will receive a $1 donation.
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Sweeps Sponsorships Available
The
Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce is excited to say goodbye to winter and hello to spring! "Sweeps," with 400 attendees, features a delicious dinner, cash bar, door prizes, games and activities, silent and live auctions and ten cash prizes, with one lucky attendee going home with $10,000 CASH!
Be part of Dover's premier spring community event promoted throughout the Seacoast.
The Sweepstakes & Auction is the Chamber's largest fundraiser of the year, supporting community enrichment programs such as the Cochecho Arts Festival, Apple Harvest Day and Festival of Trees.
Underwritten by Federal Savings Bank
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SOS to Expand Rochester Recovery Center
SOS Recovery Community Organization is excited to announce they will be expanding their space in the First Church Congregational to continue serving the recovery community and meet the increasing need for peer recovery support services. SOS Recovery Community Organization (SOS RCO) is partnering with First Church Congregational to expand the space at its Rochester Center from 500 to 2,000 square feet. In addition it will also expand its hours of operation.
A program of Goodwin Community Health, the mission of SOS Recovery Community Organization, is to reduce stigma and harm associated with substance misuse by providing safe space and peer based supports for people in all stages of recovery.
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WDH Nurses Honored for Excellence
Three
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital nurses have been honored as recipients of New Hampshire Magazine's inaugural Excellence in Nursing Awards.
This award recognizes nurses in a variety of specialties who go above and beyond to heal, comfort, educate, and lead the state's health care community in achieving comprehensive health care.
Kate Collopy, PhD, RN, Director of Nursing Education and Research, is the award recipient in the category of Nurse Educators and Nurse Researchers. Christine Dodier, BS, RN-BC, Professional Development Clinical Educator, is the award recipient for Ambulatory Care Nursing. Barbara Stuart, RN, CHPN, Palliative Care Coordinator, is the recipient for Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing. As key members of any health care team, our nurses' skills and contributions are crucial to providing excellent care to patients at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital.
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Wentworth Senior Living Launches Availability Website
Wentworth Senior Living, a nonprofit senior living community well known in Portsmouth for more than 100 years, launched AvailabilityNow.org, a website designed to streamline the search process when looking for available space for seacoast seniors in need of a supported residential health care environment.
When a loved one would benefit from living under supervised care, health care providers, family members and other caregivers can access
AvailabilityNow.org for an accurate listing of openings at local facilities. The provider can indicate which services are needed within the search criteria, and then specify if the senior is in need of assisted living, memory care, a nursing home, rehabilitation or independent living. Updated in real time, the website will quickly and accurately reveal which senior living facilities are accepting new admissions. Links to provider's websites with contact information are embedded in the search results.
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Dover Art Walk Celebrates First Year Anniversary
Dover Art Walk marks its first anniversary on Friday, March 2nd. Along with many venues throughout the Downtown Dover area, The Art Center will host an art opening of Phoenix Mayet's photographic project, "The Face of Feminism Now," and a book signing by a number of local authors. Upstairs at the Washington Street Mill, Wrong Brain will host a comedy Art showcase. Multiple venues continue to host and showcase the work of many local artists, and the full map, and further information about artists and venues can be found at
www.doverartwalk.com.
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(Joined February 1-February 28, 2018)
Granite State Choral Society
The Beach Plum
Johnson Creek Village
Healthcare Compliance Specialists
Loud Canvas Media
United Way of the Greater Seacoast
Janet Guen | 112 Corporate Drive, Unit 3, Portsmouth |
www.uwgs.org
Santa Randy
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We wish to thank the following organizations who renewed their Chamber membership in February.
Baystate Financial
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Members who renew their membership during their renewal month are entered to win a free dedicated e-blast to go out on their organization's behalf.
Valued at $200!
The renewal e-blast winner for February was New England Dragway!
Get your membership in on-time to win!
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