People in the news

Chris Saylor has been promoted to the position of Ski + Ride School Director at Okemo Mountain Resort. He previously held the position of Okemo’s Children’s Programs Director since 2001. Saylor is a level III Professional Ski Instructors of America Instructor and a member of PSIA’s education staff as an Advanced Children’s Educator (ACE).

Hannah Zajac, PT, DPT, NCS is a member of Central Vermont Medical Center’s Rehabilitation Services Department at 1311 Barre Montpelier Road.

The Brattleboro Rotary Club recently inducted Newfane resident Martin Cohn as its 63rd club president for the 2012-2013 year. Cohn is president of Cohn Public Relations, a full-service public relations firm based in Brattleboro.

Toastmasters of Greater Burlington announces the election of the following members as new officers in the club’s executive committee:

President – Terrance Collins of South Burlington is a Strategic Project Manager at Dealer.com in Burlington.

With the new fiscal year at NERC comes a new leadership team. The Board of Directors has elected the following Board members as the Executive Committee for fiscal year 2013:

Attorney General William Sorrell publicly recognized St. Johnsbury Price Chopper Associate Carol Goehring for her efforts to intercede in a wire transfer scam that would have cost a Vermonter over $1,000. When a local senior approached the counter where Ms. Goehring was working to request a wire transfer, Ms.

Emily Byrne, DNP, FNP-BC, a member of the medical staff at Montpelier Integrative Family Health (MIFH), recently received the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. The curriculum concentrates on direct care, specifically research utilization for improved delivery of care, patient outcomes and clinical systems management.

Last year North Country Hospital entered a new era in medicine and patient care when the hospitalist program was adopted to care for patients during their stay in the hospital. “Hospitalists” are physicians who specialize in hospital medicine and devote their time exclusively to caring for patients while they are hospitalized.

Mayor Miro Weinberger has announced in City Hall Park the appointment of Eileen Blackwood, Esq., as the new City Attorney for the City of Burlington.

HowardCenter is proud to welcome Sally Fox to its Board of Trustees.

Having spent her career in public service as a policy advocate and a lawyer, Fox became a Senator from Chittenden County in 2010 and serves on the Senate Health and Welfare and Finance Committees.

American Nuclear Society (ANS) President Eric Loewen, PhD, presented ANS members Meredith J. Angwin and Howard C. Shaffer, III with Presidential Citations in recognition of their successful public information efforts in Vermont and elsewhere.

At the podium to accept a bronze medal for political writing in this year’s recent 16th annual Independent Publisher Book Awards in New York City was former ABC News foreign correspondent, Barrie Dunsmore.