TPW's CEO, Paul T. Carroccio, has earned the Community Associates Institute (CAI) highest professional credential, PCAM —Professional Community Association Manager - The pinnacle of community association management. CAI provides education, tools and resources to people who govern and manage homeowners associations, condominiums and other planned communities. CAI’s mission is to help their members make the communities they manage a better—even preferred—place to call home.

Zoe Breiner has joined the staff of Home Instead Senior Care as Office Adminstrator/Receptionist. Breiner is a graduate of Champlain College and Burlington College and recently retired from IBM. Home Instead Senior Care, office located in South Burlington provides non-medical companionship and home care for senior citizens.

Samuel (Sandy) McDowell, Ph.D., of South Burlington has joined Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL), as the organization’s director of program implementation, VITL President and CEO David Cochran, MD, announced today.

VITL is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is facilitating the adoption and implementation of electronic medical records and other health information technology by Vermont health care organizations.

Dr. Anthony Quintiliani, Clinical Director of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services at HowardCenter, delivered the keynote address at the Seventh Annual Vermont Collaboration Conference on Children, Youth & Families in October at the Killington Grand Hotel, Killington, VT. The presentation focused on the positive effects of mindfulness-based training on our interaction with others and our capacity to collaborate.

HowardCenter is pleased to announce the election in November of three new Board of Trustees: Dan Balón, Michael Lipson, and Gail Stevenson.



Dan Balón, Ph.D., is the Director of Diversity & Equity for the Burlington Schools. Michael Lipson, JD, LLM, serves as an administrative law officer for the Vermont Office of Professional Regulation. Gail Stevenson, Ph.D., is Executive Director for the Vermont Council on World Affairs. Since 2002, she has served on HowardCenter's Child, Youth and Family Advisory Council as a member and Vice-Chair.

Union Bank is pleased to announce the appointment of two important community members to its Boards; Neil Van Dyke of Stowe and Daniel J. Luneau of St. Albans.

Robert Clark has joined Phelps Engineering, Inc. as a Staff Engineer. Robert earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Maine at Orono. Robert enjoys hunting and fishing, and volunteers as a referee for local football games. Robert and his fiancée, Diana, live in Bridport. Phelps Engineering provides civil and environmental engineering services to public and private clients throughout Vermont.

North Ferrisburgh, Vt. (December 4, 2009)- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (VHB) announces Adam Crary, PWS, PWD, has joined the firm as Senior Wetland Scientist. Mr. Crary is a natural resource and ecology professional with more than 12 years of experience working on large- and small-scale public and private projects throughout the eastern U.S. He joins VHB’s growing team of scientists, planners, designers, and engineers in the firm’s North Ferrisburgh, Vermont office.

Experienced hospitalist Dr. Jay Stearns has joined Gifford Medical Center’s inpatient care team.

Dr. Stearns previously worked as a hospitalist at Central Vermont Medical Center for two years and spent the prior seven years at hospitals in New Zealand and Australia, also as a hospitalist.

Before that, he was an internal medicine provider in Anchorage, Alaska, for six years.