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VERMONT CONVENTION BUREAU TO HOST TELEPHONE SALES BLITZ
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Three new trustees have joined the Vermont Law
School Board of Trustees. They are Edwin I. Colodny, Of Counsel to the
law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Washington, DC; Perez
Ehrich, principal, Hemmings Market & Tech Guides, Bennington, VT; and
Thomas Jorling, vice president for environmental affairs, International
Paper Corporation, Stamford, CT.
Dean L. Kinvin Wroth comments, "The board of trustees has been
strengthened by the addition of these highly competent and experienced
individuals."
Edwin Colodny has recently been appointed interim chief executive
officer of Fletcher Allen Health Care, after having served for a year as
interim president of the University of Vermont. Previously, he served
as chairman of the board of Comsat Corporation, a leading provider of
global satellite and digital networking services, and as president,
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Barbara Snelling has been selected as the Vermont Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year. Mark and Senator Diane Snelling will present the prestigious award at the 2002 Citizen of the Year Banquet, which will take place Wednesday, October 23 at the Radisson Hotel in Burlington. Vermont Chamber President Chris Barbieri will lead a lively evening of roasts and toasts, with speakers Helen Riehle, Fred Hackett, Sheldon Prentice, Charlie Kittredge, and Rabbi Max Wall.
In the crowded field of awards given to Vermont community members, the Vermont Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year award has become one of the most prestigious. Presented annually for nearly four decades, the Citizen of the Year Award honors the person who contributes to Vermont communities through service, self sacrifice, and volunteerism.
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IDX Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:IDXC) announced that effective January 1, 2003, James H. Crook, Jr will become Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Crook joined IDX in 1981and has been President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company since 1999. He will retain the title of President.
Current Chief Executive Officer Richard E. Tarrant will be named Chairman of the Board and Robert H. Hoehl, current Chairman, will become Vice Chairman. Mr. Tarrant and Mr. Hoehl founded IDX in 1969.
As CEO, Mr. Crook will work closely with Mr. Tarrant on strategy development and will assume full management responsibility for the company, including delivering on the IDX core values of customer success, employee opportunity, growth, and profitability.
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Calling all Vermont businesses! The annual Vermont Chamber of Commerce Business and Industry Exposition (EXPO) is now accepting proposals for seminars, workshops, or panel presentations. The nineteenth annual EXPO is slated for May 21 and 22 2003, once again at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center.
In response to business community requests, the EXPO Special Events Committee is pleased to offer Vermont businesses the opportunity to design a seminar or workshop, sharing their expertise with business professionals throughout the region. Businesses may propose a single topic presentation, or propose to organize and moderate a panel discussion on a particular topic. Presentations are to be one hour in length.
Proposals must fall into the following broad theme categories:
●Excellence: May include quality, best practices, workforce development and training programs, and corporate responsibility.
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Jim Fitzpatrick, Educational Consultant from So. Burlington, will deliver keynotes on “Developing Responsible Behavior” to international school faculties on Nov. 28 in Yokohama, Japan; Jan. 27 in Budapest, Hungary; Jan 31 in Paris, France and on March 14.
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Green Mountain Power, in an effort to stimulate more use of technology by the private sector to spur economic growth, has contributed $30,000 toward Champlain College’s capital campaign to help fund three new facilities at the college.
“We chose to make a significant contribution to Champlain College because of its importance to Vermont’s economic success and to Green Mountain Power. Champlain College has done an incredible job of preparing its students for the marketplace. Since an impressive two-thirds of its graduates remain in the Vermont workplace, our contribution will have a powerful influence on the educational achievement of Vermont’s future workforce,” said Christopher L. Dutton, President and Chief Executive Officer of Green Mountain Power.
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The Vermont Captive Insurance Association (VCIA) has announced new appointments to the Board of Directors for a three year term. The new board members are: John S. Alberici, President, Contractors Casualty Company; Tina Truax McCuin,Vice President and Captive Insurance Consultant, Banknorth Investment Management Group, N.A.; and Michael K. Smith, Executive Vice President, Yankee Captive Management, Inc. They join continuing directors Richard McCarthy (Chair), Title Industry Assurance Company RRG; Jon Harkavy, Risk Services, LLC; Brian Donovan, Steel Tank Insurance Company; Robert L. Sweezey, Gencon Insurance Company of Vermont; and Andrew Sargeant, Vermont Insurance Management, Inc.
“With more than 340 members, VCIA is a widely respected voice for the captive insurance industry” stated VCIA Board Chair Richard McCarthy.
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Lang Associates, Vermont’s premiere Real Estate firm, takes
great pleasure in welcoming the addition of Geri M. Barrows to its sales team. Barrows
brings 13 years of legal and real estate experience to her new position.
A native Vermonter, Barrows resides in Colchester with her husband Corey and their three
children--Danny, Brittany & Brooke.
Prior to joining Lang, Barrows worked for
Kolok Development at Marble Island. She can be reached at (802) 846-7834; email
[email protected], or by visiting her at Lang’s South Burlington office,
located at 550 Hinesburg Road.
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The Vermont Tax Practitioners Association (VTPA) will hold its next regular meeting on Tuesday, October 15th from 9:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. at the Best Western Hotel (formerly the Holiday Inn) just off Exit 10 of I-89 in Waterbury, Vt.
The morning session will be on “Retirement Planning” and will be presented a representative of the Internal Revenue Service in the Taxpayer Education & Communication Division. The presentation will examine the issue from the perspective of both sole proprietors and plan trustees.
The afternoon session will be on “Tax Planning for Education” and will be given by Laurence Beinert of Mansfield Tax Services. He will discuss tax related methods of funding education as well as the various education tax credits and related issues.
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"If you build it, they will come," was a plea baseball's "Shoeless Joe" Jackson whispered to Kevin Costner in the movie, "Field of Dreams".
The phrase is being dusted off by Brattleboro, Vermont area natives David and Chris McCauley, who are merging the Raymond S. Roberts auto
dealership with Auto Mall on Putney Road to create a General Motors facility housing all five GM franchises.
It is apt in the historic sense and draws parallels with the movie
because it beckons customers of the age-old R.S. Roberts dealership to
join the new company in a modern age of auto retailing.
On October 18th The New Auto Mall will include Chevrolet, Pontiac,
Buick, GMC, Cadillac, and Chevy Medium Duty Trucks, along with the
beginnings of a new, stand-alone service facility, boasted to be the
largest and most modern in the region. This merger creates one of only a
few full product GM dealerships in the United States, according to William
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As federal agencies across the government begin operations today under
a short-term continuing budget resolution, the U.S. Small Business Administration implemented a $500,000 limit on most guaranteed loans – a step that will leave the vast majority of its small business credit customers unaffected.
“This is not a step that we take lightly, but after weighing the facts, this is the best solution to the strict limits placed on our total loan authority by the continuing resolution,” said SBA Administrator Hector V. Barreto. “Fully 87 percent of 7(a) loans made to small businesses in 2002 are under $500,000. The alternatives are frequent program shutdowns within days of the passage of each continuing resolution until our 2003 budget is passed.”
Previous Administrators have capped 7(a) loans at $500,000 for limited periods, once in 1995 and again in 1997.