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Kay Brown, C.M.S.C., C.P.C.S., manager of the Medical Staff Office at
Fletcher Allen Health Care, has been chosen to serve on the National
Certification Board of the National Association of Medical Staff Services
(NAMSS). In this position, Brown will be the Northeast representative and
will help draft and evaluate certification requirements for medical staff
services personnel throughout the country. She will be working with
hospitals of all sizes -- from large urban academic medical centers to
one-person Medical Staff Offices at small community hospitals. The
appointment is a three-year commitment.
"The challenge that has been
placed before me is an honor but also a formidable one. We will be
setting the standards for the future of medical staff professionals across
the nation," Brown said. "I look forward to representing the Northeast
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Marlboro College named Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, a leader
in the arts, education and public policy in Washington D.C. and Vermont,
to be its eighth president. A 1969 graduate of Bennington College,
McCulloch-Lovell served as executive director of the Vermont Council on
the Arts from 1975 to 1983, during which time she co-created the Governors
Institutes, a program that gives high school students the opportunity to
work with artists, scientists and international experts in summer
institutes.
For the past 20 years, McCulloch-Lovell has worked in
Washington, first as chief of staff to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT),
followed by seven years in the Clinton Administration. She was first
appointed by the President to be executive director of the President's
Committee on the Arts and Humanities, then became deputy chief of staff to
the First Lady and ultimately deputy assistant to the President and
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Vermont artist, Mike Biegel, announces his new website offering Vermont holiday greeting cards online at www.vermontholidaycards.com. The website features unique and distinctive seasonal cards illustrated by Mike Biegel from his Woodstock, Vermont studio.
The entire original holiday card renderings seen on www.vermontholidaycards.com are elaborately hand drawn using an old-fashioned crow-quill pen dipped in an ink-well. Every image is designed and illustrated at his Woodstock studio. Mike has been illustrating since 1984 after attending Syracuse University. Inevitably his journeys lead him to settle in Vermont where the lay of the land and the change of the seasons matched many of his favorite subjects to illustrate. His line of holiday cards reflect these themes and the fiction that accompanies them.
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Vermont travel industry expert Sue Kruthers was named the 2003 Travel Person of the Year at the 21st Annual Vermont Travel Industry Conference (VTIC) November 19, 2003 in Stowe.
The VTIC is an independent non-profit organization comprised of a coalition of state, private, non-profit, and business organizations. Each year, a special committee selects the Travel Person of the Year based on the following criteria:
* Encourages travelers to visit the state
* Helps position Vermont as a friendly and fun place to visit
* Represents to Vermonters and visitors why Vermont is a desirable destination
* Promotes the value of tourism to the state’s economy
* Preserves, protects and promotes the good qualities of Vermont
* Works for cooperation with the travel industry among other appropriate industries in the state
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The American Brewers Guild Brewing School will be hosting it’s professional brewing class, at Otter Creek Brewing, in Middlebury Vermont, from December 1st to 6th, 2003. The American Brewers Guild, one of only three professional brewing schools in the country, is now headquartered in Salisbury, Vermont. The residential week of the Intensive Brewing Science and Engineering and Craftbrewer’s Apprenticeship Programs will host 20 students and four instructors and is a culmination of 21 weeks of learning. It will include hands on brewing, laboratory analysis and sensory evaluation, ending with a rigorous final examination. The graduation will be held December 6th at 1:00 pm at the Waybury Inn in East Middlebury. Students and brewing instructors will be coming to Middlebury from all over the country, some from as far away as California.
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General Manager Gary Thulander announced
that The Equinox Resort and Spa has been ranked as the
number 36th Ski Resort in North America by Conde Nast Traveler Magazine.
The ranking appears in the December 2003 issue. "This is a great
accomplishment for The Equinox and our staff," commented Thulander. "To be
the only Resort in Vermont and one of only 2 in the Eastern United States
to make this list is a tremendous honor. It's a testament to our staff's
commitment to provide the ultimate in customer service. This is yet
another step
toward our goal of being the number one resort in the Northeast."
For the past eight years the magazine has asked readers to evaluate 187
ski resorts in North America using six criteria: Terrain and Conditions,
Town/Ambience/Amenities, Lifts and Lines, Food and Service. Being ranked
36th overall is an amazing accomplishment given the fact that The
Equinox is
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Green Mountain Power Corporation (NYSE: GMP)announced consolidated earnings of $0.59 per share of common stock, diluted, for the third quarter of 2003 compared with earnings of $0.52 per share for the same period in 2002. Year to date earnings for 2003 are $1.60 per share, diluted, compared with earnings of $1.41 per share for the first nine months of 2002.
Earnings improved in the third quarter of 2003 as a result of lower power supply costs as well as increased sales of electricity to residential customers arising from warmer than normal summer temperatures. The improvement in operating results was tempered by decreased earnings from our equity investment in Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation and increased administrative and general expenses.
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The U.S. Small Business Administration has increased its revenue-based size standard for small businesses in the facilities support services industry from $6 million in average annual receipts to $30 million.
The new size standard will allow more companies to qualify for small business assistance and compete as a small business for federal contracts. It was published as a final rule in the Federal Register on October 15, 2003, and is effective on November 14, 2003. Under the new rule, the sub-category of base maintenance will also increase from $23 million to $30 million.
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Main Wellness Works, L.L.C., is a new business based in South Burlington to help improve health in the workplace. Main Wellness Works provides health promotion presentations on behavioral health issues such as workplace stress management, exercise motivation, weight management, and smoking cessation.
Presentations put research at the heart of practice and are designed to motivate better self-care, as well as help build practical skills to make, and maintain positive changes in lifestyle. These changes translate into noticeable improvements in quality of life and work, fewer sick days, reductions in health care dollars spent, and improved morale.
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M. Hunter Ulf, AIA, recently chaired a jury of six architects in Washington, D.C. to select the recipients for the two highest honors bestowed by the national American Institute of Architects (AIA) Board of Directors – the Gold Medal Award and the Architecture Firm Award. The Gold Medal Award is given to an individual in recognition of significant work with lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. The Architecture Firm Award is conferred upon an architecture firm for consistently producing distinguished architecture. In the past 96 years, the Gold Medal Award has been granted to only 60 individuals, and since 1962, the Architecture Firm Award has been awarded on an annual basis (with the exception of two years when no awards were made).
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Educators at VINS (Vermont Institute of Natural Science)
recently won two of the three annual awards given by the New England
Environmental Education Alliance.
Jenna Guarino, director of VINS's Environmental Citizenship program, was
recognized with the 2003 Non-formal Environmental Educator Award and
VINS's Community Mapping Program received the Maria Pirie Environmental
Program Award.
Guarino was cited as the education professional working outside the formal
classroom setting who has made "continuous and enduring contributions to
environmental education." Guarino's Environmental Citizenship (EC) program
helps secondary students learn to balance the needs of humans and wildlife
through hands-on classroom activities, outdoor fieldwork, and community
projects.
Nearly 100 teachers have participated in EC workshops, enabling the
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Dr. Timothy Fitzgerald and the staff of Champlain Valley Urgent Care announce the opening of their second location at 620 Hinesburg Road in South Burlington.
Champlain Valley Urgent Care provides occupational medical services such as physicals, drug and alcohol testing, and work-related injury treatment to area businesses, as well as urgent care services to area residents and travelers.
Champlain Valley Urgent Care is the areas only locally owned and operated Urgent Care/Occupational Health Clinic. Their services are offered 7 days a week at their Fayette Road location and will offer services Monday-Friday at their new Hinesburg Road office.