News from our members

A&E Environmental Deep Cleaning

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A&E Environmental wants to extend well wishes to our customers during this difficult pandemic our country and world is facing. A&E, with other purposes intended, had purchase Electrostatic sprayers to help eliminate mold in the air of a home or business after remediation to ensure a deeper clean. During this pandemic it was brought to our knowledge that our electrostatic cleaners are also highly used and valued to clean and sanitize surfaces better than traditional cleaning methods. Delta Airlines, Tufts Medical, and Schools are using our electrostatic machines to name a few.  We want to provide this information to our valued customers below to inform each and every one of you that we can come to your home or business to help with a deeper clean/ sanitization. We are working right now with larger commercial cleaning companies who do not have access to this equipment. If you are interested please give us a call so we can make your home or business that much healthier.

 

As always, A&E is making your environment our #1 concern.

 

Please stay safe and WE ALL WILL get through this difficult time together.

 

*****Please see these links below for more information about our products*****

 

Pure Tabs-

https://evaclean.com/products/evacleans-purtabs

 

Electro Static vs Traditional Sprayer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sznn2bQJe-o

Gardner Ale House Specialty Takeout

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Tuesday, March 17th, begins three weeks of the Gardner Ale House & Moon Hill Brewing Co. providing takeout, catering and beer store (cans and growlers to go) only, with our Parking Lot Pickup Option available. Open Monday thru Thursday, 11:00 AM till 7:00 PM and Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 11:00 AM till 8:00 PM.  On premise dining should begin again on Tuesday, April 7th. Check out our Food, Beer and Specials Menus. Visit our website at gardnerale.com for our Menu, Specials and Beer List. Call us to place your order at 978-669-0122.

 

Check out our Food, Beer and Specials Menus at gardnerale.com.

Enterprise Bank Gifts Chamber Membership to Kylee’s Kare Kits for Kidz

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Regional Leader member, Enterprise Bank, has gifted a chamber membership to Kylee’s Kare Kits for Kidz of Leominster, MA. In celebration of Women’s History Month all March long, for any new checking accounts opened at Enterprise Bank’s Leominster and Fitchburg branches, they will donate $10 to Kylee’s Kare Kits for Kidz.

For more information on Enterprise Bank celebrating Women’s History Month, please click here.
Regional Leaders within the Chamber have the opportunity to identify a local non-profit, charity or start-up business within North Central Massachusetts and provide them a gifted membership on their behalf.

Wachusett Business Incubator Presents Pennies from Heaven: Financing Your Business

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The Wachusett Business Incubator is pleased to announce our upcoming panel discussion in partnership with the Center for Women and Enterprise entitled Pennies from Heaven: Financing Your Business

Come join panelists from the Center for Women & Enterprise, Wachusett Business Incubator, North Central Massachusetts Development Corporation and Image Identity LTD. for this not so average discussion on financing your business. Our panel of experts will speak to the different types of financing available. We will discuss how to pick the right type of lending institution and how best to prepare for that conversation. You will learn about resources available to help you plan or grow. We will answer topical questions that get to the heart of why you would consider outside financing in the first place.

The discussion is taking place at 9:00AM-11:00AM Friday, March 13, 2020 at the presentation room of the Wachusett Business Incubator, 35 Sanborn St. Gardner, MA 01440. Registration is $10.00. Parking is free. Register at http://wachusettincubator.com/ event/395/

Our Panelists
The Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) https://www.cweonline.org/
CWE will be represented by Michelle Miller, CWE Central MA Director. Michelle has managed economic development and rehabilitation programs in Massachusetts as well as in Colombia, Peru, and Nicaragua.

ImageIdentity, LTD: Brain for Rent https://imageidentity.com/
For twenty-five years, David Lubelczyk has provided creative and consulting services to large corporations, non-profit organizations, and small start-up companies. He is a core member of the mentor team at the Wachusett Business Incubator where he assisted in the development of WBI’s Leadership Candidate Program and is developing a unique business planning tool, the Playbook.

North Central MA Development Corporation https://www.choosenorthcentral.com
Sandie Cataldo is the Manager of Economic Development for North Central MA development Corporation. Sandie works with non-profits, state agencies, banks and credit unions as well as small business community to strengthen economic development on a regional level by encouraging job creation and retention.

Wachusett Business Incubator http://wachusettincubator.com/
WBI will be proudly represented by Scott M. Graves. He is currently the Executive Director of the Wachusett Business Incubator. He directs the organization’s economic development programs while developing new programming and funding sources to tackle the most critical economic issues for North Central Massachusetts. He is a business owner in his own right, founder of the Arts Innovation Center and the New England Playhouse.

All Inquiries for interviews and information

Scott M. Graves Wachusett Business Incubator 35 Sanborn St. Gardner, MA 01440 sgraves@wachusettincubator.org

Fitchburg Art Museum Presents A Night at the Museum: Steampunk Masquerade

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Saturday, March 14, 2020
6pm-9pm

Guests will enjoy Neo Victorian food, cocktails, and music. Steampunk attire encouraged. 21+

Tickets are $50 per person. Sponsorship and ticket packages are also available.  Learn more and purchase online or at the FAM front desk. Fitchburg Art Museum, 185 Elm Street. 

This annual FAM event provides support for the Museum’s education initiatives, exhibitions, and special programs. This year’s theme is inspired by the spring exhibition After Spiritualism: Loss and Transcendence in Contemporary Art. 

For more information, RSVP to the Facebook event or email: events@fitchburgartmuseum.org. 

WACHUSETT BREWING COMPANY AND THE DUBLINER IRISH WHISKEY ANNOUNCE TRANSATLATIC COLLABORATION

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Partnership kicks off in 2020 with launch of Quinn’s Barrel Aged Amber Ale in the US

The Dubliner Irish Whiskey has announced its first collaboration on US soil partnering with Massachusetts craft brewer, Wachusett Brewing Company for the 1st edition of its Beer Cask Series. The Dubliner shipped casks of its award-winning, Bourbon Cask Aged Irish Whiskey to the brewers at Wachusett in 2019 who then filled them with their Quinn’s Amber Ale. The beer was aged in the Kentucky bourbon oak casks for several months and the freshly disgorged casks are on their way back to Dublin to be used for a special release coming later in the year.

“This is a truly exciting collaboration for Dubliner Irish Whiskey”, says Darryl McNally, Master Distiller at the Dublin Liberties Distillery and home of the best-selling whiskey. “Not only do we choose breweries whose beer casks add a unique taste to our whiskey, but partners like Wachusett Brewing, that have the same independent spirit as Dubliner, with a straight-up attitude and down to earth appreciation of great tasting brands. Dubliner seeks to inject fun and excitement into whiskey and we are creating new whiskey flavours that drive wider appeal for Irish whiskey. The end result is Just Good Whiskey.”

“It is an honor to partner with The Dubliner for this exciting project” said Christian McMahan, President of Wachusett Brewing Company. “There is no shortage of Irish whiskey lovers in this part of the country and we think our Barrel Aged Quinn’s Amber is going to be the perfect way to celebrate the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day holiday. We are equally proud to see those casks go back to Ireland and look forward to seeing the essence of Wachusett used to make a spectacular Irish Whiskey”

Quinn’s Barrel Aged will be released on tap and in 16oz cans in late February in Boston and across Massachusetts in bars and restaurants as well as retail stores.

For more information about Wachusett Brewing Company, visit www.wachusettbrew.com For more information about The Dubliner Irish Whiskey, visit https://www.dublinerwhiskey.com

Fidelity Bank Awards $10,000 Grant to Fitchburg Nonprofit NewVue Communities

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(L-R) Fidelity Bank President and COO Christopher McCarthy, NewVue Communities Executive Director Marc Dohan, Fidelity Bank Chairman and CEO Edward F. Manzi, Jr., and CEO of Family Federal Savings Dave Brassard

(LEOMINSTER, Mass.) –, NewVue Communities received a $10,000 investment from Fidelity Bank through their Community Investment Tax Credit Program. NewVue Communities is a Fitchburg based nonprofit dedicated to strengthening communities through home ownership, housing development and small business counseling. “This grant reflects our continuing strong commitment to Fitchburg, which at one time was home to the bank’s only location,” says Fidelity Bank President and COO Christopher McCarthy. “We are proud to support the work of NewVue Communities. Their work aligns perfectly with Fidelity Bank’s LifeDesign promise of being a team of caring people, who take a caring approach, to provide caring solutions for our community, clients and colleagues.” The grant is part of Fidelity Bank’s LifeDesign Community Dividend, which last year paid out more than $330,000 to support more than 250 organizations, causes and events in communities the bank serves, including Fitchburg.

“Fidelity Bank’s support will help us provide services and programs that help create stable and strong communities by investing in both people and places,” says Marc Dohan, Executive Director of NewVue Communities.  Fidelity Bank has provided $40,000 in financial support to NewVue Communities over the past four years.

Fidelity Bank recently finalized its merger with Family Federal Savings. The merger brings together two banks with a long history and commitment to the Fitchburg community. The two mutually owned financial institutions were founded in Fitchburg and have been serving clients, employees, and the community for a combined total of 270 years. The merger adds Family Federal Savings full-service offices in Fitchburg, Stow and Needham, giving the bank a total of 14 full- service offices. Fidelity Bank’s 675 Main Street location in Fitchburg has been relocated to Fidelity Bank’s new full-service banking office at the converted Family Federal Savings’ Fitchburg location at 130 Whalon Street in the Twin City Plaza.