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Vermont Business Magazine MENTOR Vermont, in partnership with Comcast, is excited to announce the mentor and youth mentee honorees of the 2020 Vermont Ambassadors of Mentoring Awards. Each of this year’s 10 Ambassador mentor matches will be honored together at MENTOR Vermont’s annual Youth Mentoring Celebration at the Vermont Statehouse on Wednesday, January 22, 2020. Members of the public can read the full nominations for each of the 10 mentor and mentee matches who were chosen as Ambassadors this year, and enter a free raffle for prizes by visiting www.mentorvt.org/Ambassadors-Of-Mentoring.

Vermont Busienss Magazine Hunger Free Vermont is excited to receive a $28,586.12 grant from Shaw’s Foundation from their Hunger Is initiative to eradicate childhood hunger. The funds power Hunger Free Vermont’s work to help schools and communities throughout Vermont feed more kids a nutritious breakfast. They accomplish this by helping schools and communities understand and make the best use of the federal nutrition programs that provide opportunities for low income kids and food insecure families to gain access to healthy breakfasts in schools and summer meals programs. The funding will also help Hunger Free Vermont to develop and grow breakfast programs that incorporate proven best practices, high quality nutrition, and as much fresh, locally produced food as possible.

Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Works for Women (VWW) is actively recruiting participants for its Trailblazers: Women in the Construction Trades program, designed to prepare women for jobs and apprenticeships in high-demand, high-paying sectors, including construction, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and others. Along with technical skills, the program exposes participants to the range of employers and jobs available with these skills, as well as provides mentoring and networking opportunities with women working in these sectors.

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After 40 years, NVRH Corner Medical transitions care over to new medical director

Vermont Business Magazine As of January 1, 2020, the position of medical director at the Pines Rehab and Health has transitioned from Corner Medical-based providers Joyce Dobbertin, MD, DC; Tom Broderick, MD; Mitchel Sullivan, MD and John Scott, MD to Delores Burroughs-Biron, MSN, MD and Kate Guilmain GNP- BC. Burroughs-Biron and Guilmain will be on-site every week, offering residents and their families more availability and scheduling flexibility.

Vermont Business Magazine Greensea Systems, an industry-leading marine robotics company headquartered in Richmond, today announced plans to open an office on the waterfront in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The new location, at Cordage Park Circle, will be the company's first office outside of Vermont and will become home to a growing team of software developers and robotics engineers.

Vermont Business Magazine Berlin City Auto Group has announced its January grant donation of $83,845 awarded on behalf of its “Drive for Education” (DFE) program. The program, in its tenth year, uses proceeds from area car sales to fund grants awarded to neighboring schools. This year 46 schools in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont will be receiving grants.

Vermont Business Magazine Mayor Miro Weinberger today announced the appointment of Katherine Schad as Chief Administrative Officer for the City of Burlington. Katherine is currently serving as the Vice President of Project Support Services at Tetra Tech in Burlington, and will bring over 20 years of experience in operations, regulatory compliance, and financial and project management with global mission-driven organizations to the position. Mayor Weinberger will ask the City Council to confirm Katherine’s appointment at its meeting on January 21.

Vermont Business Magazine The State’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is encouraging Vermonters to start the new decade with a commitment to trim “waste-lines.” Currently, the average Vermonter disposes over 1,300 pounds of trash per year. Over the next 5-years, the State and municipalities will help Vermonters bring the amount down to about 1,000 pounds each year. Small steps can make a difference in reaching this goal - like composting food scraps.

Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General Donovan today announced his office will take the lead in the prosecution of Leonard Forte of LaBelle, Florida. Forte is accused of felony sexual assault, and his trial has been delayed for more than 25 years. Assistant Attorney General Linda Purdy of the Office’s Criminal Division will lead the litigation team comprised of former Vermont Attorney General and Vermont Supreme Court Chief Justice Jeff Amestoy and Former Vermont Deputy Attorney General and Vermont Supreme Court Associate Justice Brian Burgess, who Attorney General Donovan has appointed as Special Assistant Attorneys General.

Vermont Business Magazine A winter storm approaching Vermont will bring ice accumulations that will likely pull down trees and snap branches over the weekend, causing power outages across VEC territory. GMP is also positioning crews to respond as quickly and safely as possible to potential outages. The icing is expected to begin in the early hours of Sunday. While icing is likely throughout northern Vermont, the greatest threat for heavier and more damaging accumulations will be in Chittenden, Grand Isle, and Franklin counties. Flooding could also occur.

In preparation for this and any storm, VEC urges members keep the following in mind:

· Plan for medical needs/devices. If someone in your home is dependent on electric-powered medical equipment, make sure you have a battery backup or make alternative arrangements to ensure their needs are met.

Vermont Business Magazine As expected, the manic nature of weekly unemployment claims continued last week. Claims fell by nearly a thousand last week. While this is typical for the post-holiday period, claims this year have been even more up-and-down than last year. Initial claims for the week of January 4, 2020, were 680, which is a more typical weekly number. They were down 967 from last week and 19 fewer than they were at this time last year.

Vermont Business Magazine GenNx360 Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, announced Thursday that its portfolio company, Miller Environmental Group Inc, a leading provider of environmental and emergency response services in the Eastern United States, has acquired Environmental Products & Services of Vermont, Inc. Headquartered in Syracuse, NY, EP&S is a leading provider of emergency response, remediation, and environmental services and operates across 17 service locations along the eastern seaboard from Vermont to Florida. MEG is majority-owned by New York-based GenNx360 Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm investing in industrial and business services companies, which invested in MEG in March 2019. The transaction closed on December 27, 2019. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.