As part of the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) Safety Week, Bromley turned to local JISP (Junior Instructional Ski Program) groups, passing out NSAA Kids’ Safety Poster Contest sheets. The JISPers are all local school kids that ski & ride at Bromley one afternoon each week, all season long. The contest is part of NSAA’s Safety Week, held each February.
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After a thorough job search, the Board of Directors of the Burlington-Williston Church of the Nazarene is thrilled to announce that the Church District has approved the appointment of Andrew Magnuson as the church’s next pastor.
The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) will honor former Vermont State Colleges Chancellor Tim Donovan with its 2015 Eleanor M. McMahon Award for Lifetime Achievement, when the regional organization holds its 13th annual New England Higher Education Excellence Awards ceremony at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel on Friday, March 13, 2015.
ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, is happy to introduce the newest members of its staff.
SymQuest Group, Inc. has announced the addition of Ashley Slater and Adam DeRuzza to the company’s South Burlington headquarters. Slater is SymQuest’s newest Client Support Representative and DeRuzza joins as a Network Engineer, supporting SymQuest’s SafetyNet network solutions.
Vermont businessman, Jeff Nicholson, has authored a new marketing book, “Stick This! Using Promotional Stickers to Build Identity, Create Word-of-Mouth and Grow Sales”, the first ever book written about stickers as a valuable marketing tool.
During the month of February, City Market, Onion River Co-op celebrated their love of local with their annual “We ♥ Local Food Recipe Contest”. This year, the featured ingredient was local dried beans from Morningstar Farm in Glover, VT.
The team at Integrative Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine held a Chinese New Year dinner at University of Vermont Health Network – Central Vermont Medical Center and raised $2,000 to benefit UVM Health Network – CVMC’s National Life Cancer Center's acupuncture services. Acupuncture has been a valuable and popular service provided at no cost to patients in the cancer center for four years.
The UVM Board of Trustees welcomed five new members this month: three legislative trustees, an undergraduate political science major and a gubernatorial appointee. Together, their backgrounds span the fields of federal politics, the culinary arts, accounting, electrical contracting and environmental consulting.
SunCommon in Waterbury Center has hired Devin Cowan as solar supply chain coordinator, Shane Mispel as residential solar sales manager and Laura Schieb and Ellen Gershun as solar organizers.
On February 18th the Vermont Council on Rural Development presented the Vermont Community Leadership Award to the community leader who have led the renaissance of downtown St. Albans over the last few years. The award was presented at the Summit on Creating Prosperity and Opportunity Confronting Climate Change at Vermont Technical College in Randolph.
Locally owned and family-run Gordon’s Window Décor is pleased to announce the appointment of Kelly Conklin as President of the company, effective February 10, 2015. She succeeds her father, Gordon Clements, who is retiring after founding the company in 1986.