Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Works for Women (VWW) is celebrating 20 years of its Rosie’s Girls camps for middle school girls and gender non-conforming youth. Rosie’s Girls is a series of one week carpentry and welding summer day camps that use math, science, and power tools to transform girls’ ideas of what they are capable of and inspire them to dream big and thrive in all aspects of their lives. Press is invited to make arrangements to attend Rosie’s Girls Weld August 19-23 at Burlington Technical Center, and/or Rosie’s Girls Build August 12-16 at Northfield Middle High School.

Vermont Business Magazine The Bennington Regional Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with Hopridge Farms presented the fifth annual Southern Vermont Summer Homebrew Festival this past weekend. The festival was held at 802 Restroom’s new complex on Shields Drive in Bennington from noon to 4 pm with patrons enjoying unlimited samples of home-brewed beer, wine, mead, cider and more, plus entertainment and eats from Hound Dogs food truck.

Vermont Business Magazine Veterans Administration Medical Center in White River Junction, as part of the VA system, has implemented the MISSION Act on June 6. But one of the lesser known provisions of the law established a new urgent care benefit that allows eligible veterans access to urgent and walk-in care at participating clinics in their communities. This is a giant step forward in terms of convenience for patients in Vermont and New Hampshire, as eligible veterans do not need to get prior authorization from VA to visit an urgent care provider in VA’s network.

Vermont Business Magazine Former Vermont Agency of Human Services Secretary Al Gobeille has been named Executive Vice President for Operations (EVP) at the University of Vermont Health Network following a national search. He will begin his new role on September 1. This is a newly-created role designed to lead integration efforts to improve efficiencies and quality of care provided by its eight affiliated organizations.

Vermont Business Magazine The US Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $440,000 grant to the Town of Brattleboro to make critical water infrastructure improvements needed to support commercial development. The project, to be located in a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act designated Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $320,000 in local funds and is expected to help create nearly 200 jobs and generate $27.5 million in private investment.