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Bipartisan legislation will direct calculation of job creation and consumer spending

Vermont Business Magazine - The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved bipartisan legislation authored by Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) that would direct the Department of Commerce to assess and quantify the contributions to job creation and consumer spending of the outdoor and recreation industry. The Outdoor Recreation’s Economic Contributions (REC) Act would ensure that outdoor recreation jobs are counted by the federal government and would be measured as part of the overall GDP, for the first time ever.

Welch introduced the REC Act in March with Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA), Dave Reichert (R-WA), and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA). 

Vermont Business Magazine - “Voting is at the very basis of our democracy and every vote counts,” stated Secretary of State Jim Condos.

Secretary Condos chaired the statewide canvassing committee for the General Election at 128 State Street, Montpelier this morning at 10 a.m. This Canvass is to certify the votes for the November 8 General Election as reported to the Secretary of State.  The statewide canvassing committee is set by state law and is composed of the Secretary of State and the chair of the state committee of each major political party or his/her designee. Although the Canvass only requires statewide results, the committee is provided town by town vote counts as well as county and statewide total vote counts.

Vermont Business Magazine - During a ceremonial groundbreaking for a new, world-class community waterfront campus and sailing education center, the Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center (CSC), a nonprofit with a mission to provide community access to Lake Champlain, today announced two anchor gifts, each for $1 million, in their $5.75 million Love Your Lake Capital Campaign. The gifts, one from the Pomerleau Family Foundation, and the second from family and friends in honor of Raymond P. Sullivan, will help to support the construction of The Pomerleau Community Waterfront Campus and Raymond P. Sullivan Sailing Education Center.

Vermont Business Magazine - Usherwood Office Technology, a leading regional provider of Information Technology solutions and services throughout the Northeast, has been officially named a Xerox Authorized Solution Provider. Usherwood will offer Xerox’s line of industry leading technology solutions across a five state region. Usherwood presently has nine offices and projects to open many more in the next five years. The company is committed to offering best in class solutions.
“We are excited to have Usherwood representing Xerox products and solutions. They represent best in class solutions backed by a 40 year legacy of service. This makes us ideal partners,” says Darren Cassidy, President of Xerox US Solutions Group.
Usherwood recently earned recognition for the fourth consecutive year by being named one of Central New York’s Best Places to work as well as named an Elite Dealer by ENX Magazine for the second year in a row.

Vermont Business Magazine - #Giving Tuesday is a national movement created to inspire people to take collaborative action to give back to the charities and causes they support, and takes place on the Tuesday after Black Friday and Cyber Monday. This year #Giving Tuesday falls on November 29.  Please join Rutland Regional Medical Center in this giving initiative, as we are raising money to purchase 25 new advanced technology defibrillators.

More than 500,000 children and adults in the United States die each year due to cardiac arrest. According to the American Heart Association, “A victim’s chance of surviving drops by seven to ten percent for every minute a normal heartbeat isn’t restored. The most effective therapies during resuscitation are technically proficient CPR and rapid defibrillation.” A Defibrillator can stop sudden cardiac arrest.

Vermont Business Magazine Southwestern Vermont Medical Center and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Physicians have expanded their orthopedic practice, located at 332 Dewey Street in Bennington, with the addition of three outstanding orthopedists. Beginning January 1, 2017, patients with painful joints, complex fractures, and sports-related injuries will find greater access to an exceptional physician group, enhanced services, and a renovated office environment at SVMC Orthopedics.

The new orthopedic physicians include: Jonathan Cluett, MD; Suk Namkoong, MD; and James R. Whittum, MD. Together, they were in practice at Orthopedic Associates of Northern Berkshire, in North Adams, Massachusetts. They join Matthew Nofziger, MD, who has been on the medical staff at SVMC since 2004. All four physicians are certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery.

Vermont Business Magazine This week is National Hunger and Homelessness week and Vermonters across the state are participating in the 3SquaresVT Challenge to help raise awareness about the challenges of eating healthfully on a limited food budget and the importance of protecting 3SquaresVT (formerly known as Food Stamps and known nationally as SNAP). Participants can take the Challenge for the whole week, a day, or a meal — approximately $37 for the week for one person, $5.29 for a day, or $1.76 per meal. The purpose of the Challenge is not to emulate the reality of food insecurity for Vermonters — many of whom may rely on a variety of programs and resources to meet their families’ needs — but to instead draw attention to the experience of living on a strict food budget and how that may or may not change your daily life both physically and psychologically as a participant. 

Vermont Business Magazine The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is celebrating the American Cancer Society’s 41^st annual Great American Smokeout Thursday, November 17, a day when smokers are encouraged to put down all tobacco products and formulate a plan to quit tobacco for good, by calling on the legislature to protect the health of Vermont residents by increasing the sale age of tobacco to 21. 

Vermont Business Magazine Mt Ascutney Hospital and Health Center (MAHHC) recently recognized 38 employees who have collectively served the Hospital for more than 550 years. Staff members were honored at a special Employee Service Awards dinner in the Hospital’s café, where MAHHC Interim President Gay Landstrom personally thanked them for their contributions and commitment to the Hospital, its patients and the community.

Vermont Business Magazine Vermont’s Building Communities Program Bristol, Vermont – November 7, 2016 – Living Well Group has received a grant of $20,000 from the State of Vermont’s Building Communities Program. The grant criteria consists of five grant programs established and funded by the Vermont Legislature to help communities preserve important historic buildings and enhance community facilities. The grant requires that the applicant be a non-profit organization, regional economic development organization, or municipality.  Selections are made by individual boards through an established selection process and must have matching funds supplied by the nonprofit’s fundraising efforts. The money will help support Living Well Group’s renovations at their Living Well Residence in Bristol. 

Vermont Business Magazine The Public Service Department today issued its request for proposals under the second round of the 2016 Connectivity Initiative. The RFP invites internet service providers to submit proposals to serve eligible locations identified by the Department as needing improved access to broadband Internet service. The Department will award grants to organizations willing to serve these areas. In the second grant round of 2016, the Department will utilize $550,550 in available funding to support the extension of broadband facilities in underserved communities.