GARDNER, MA – September 6, 2022 – Mount Wachusett Community College held an orientation for new and transfer students on September 1, 2022 in preparation for the start of its 59th academic year on September 7, 2022.
“We are looking forward to welcoming students back to our campus,” stated MWCC President James Vander Hooven. “The life that students and faculty bring to the halls and classrooms has been missed, and I personally have missed interacting with our students, faculty and staff in person.”
Highlights of the Fall Semester include:
– United Way Day of Caring on Friday, September 16. Students, staff, and faculty will be volunteering at various locations in the community as part of this annual event.
– In celebration of Constitution Day the Brewer Center for Civic Learning and Community Engagement will be hosting a voter registration table in the Student Center on September 20 from 10 am to 2 pm.
– Pregnant and Parenting Student Expo will be held on Wednesday, September 21st. Our Student Parent Support team will be meeting with pregnant and parenting students to explore the services available to assist them as they pursue their educations.
– Community College Night at the Woo Sox will be held on Thursday, September 22nd. MWCC and the Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges organized this statewide evening to watch the Woo Sox take on the Syracuse Mets
– Tea Time Speaker Series returns with “Puerto Rican Declaration of Independence” on Friday, September 23 and “Gender Identity and Understanding LGBTQIA+” on Friday October 21.
– MWCC will be at the North Central Chamber of Commerce “Work North Central” Hiring Event at the Wachusett Mountain Ski Lodge on September 27 from 10 am to 1 pm.
– The MWCC Dental Clinic, co-located with the Community Health Center in Fitchburg, will hold a ribbon cutting to celebrate a significant enhancement to the clinic facility on September 28th.
– The NEACAC College Fair will be held at Mount Fitness on Tuesday, September 27th. Representatives from nearly 100 colleges and universities from all over New England and beyond will be on hand to talk to high school students and other individuals.
– The Coffee and Career Fair returns on Wednesday October 5. MWCC welcomes businesses and recruiters to campus to meet with students and graduates.
– Horticulture students have been raising pumpkins this summer in anticipation of the first MWCC Pumpkin Fest on October 5.
– The Fall Open House will be held on Saturday, October 29. Potential students are welcome to tour and can apply and be accepted on the spot.
MWCC admissions are rolling, students can apply and register for classes up through the first week of the semester. More information on upcoming events at MWCC can be found at mwcc.edu.
Silva promoted following record-breaking commercial sales with the bank’s LifeDesign approach
(Leominster, Mass.) Fidelity Bank today announced it has promoted Joseph Silva to Chief Lending Officer. In this role, he will be responsible for all lending activities across the bank, including Commercial, Residential and Consumer, as well as Cash Management.
Silva began working at Fidelity Bank in May 2021 as Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial Banking Officer, where he led all aspects of Commercial Banking and Cash Management sales with a focus on growing the business while also embracing Fidelity Bank’s LifeDesign approach to banking.
“In his first year with Fidelity Bank, Joe has led record-breaking growth in commercial loans and makes him the perfect leader for all of our lending programs moving forward,” said Christopher W. McCarthy, President & COO. “Joe embodies our LifeDesign approach to banking in all that he does and has experienced much success in helping our business clients realize growth and success while achieving their financial goals.”
Silva received a bachelor’s degree in Interpersonal Communications from the University of Rhode Island and is also a graduate of the Bank Leadership Program from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.
United Way of North Central Massachusetts (UWNCM) is pleased to announce our newest initiative, Board Connection, which will be kicking off in October with an in-person event. This initiative is designed to help bridge the gap between non-profit organizations and professionals residing in our shared communities by helping to connect qualified individuals with openings on various boards (Board of Directors, Advisory Boards, Committees, etc.).
We invite you and your associates to attend this event free of charge on October 12, 2022, from 5:30 – 7:30 pm at Great Wolf Lodge in Fitchburg. The event will include an educational panel highlighting what it means to serve on a board, a resource fair featuring over 40 agencies with open board seats, light refreshments, and a wine/beer cash bar. Registration can be completed by emailing Lisa Normandin at . We hope you will join us in this great opportunity to learn how you can become more involved in your community.
GARDNER, MA – September 1, 2022 – Mount Wachusett Community College held a pinning for its Dental Assisting program graduates on Friday, August 26, 2022.
“I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate each of you and thank you for choosing the Mount for your education,” noted MWCC President James Vander Hooven. “Tonight is just the beginning of your next journey, as you enter this field, a caring field I ask you to stay in touch with us and with each other. We look forward to your continued success.”
Students were welcomed by Dental Education Program Director Cynthia Cadoret, and were pinned by faculty members Kristen Columbus, Nicole Galloway, Kaitlyn Geise, and Kelly Jancaitis.
The Dental Assisting Certificate is one of three dental education options at Mount Wachusett Community College. MWCC also offers a two-year Dental Hygiene Associate Degree and a new Dental Radiology Certification program.
Photo caption left to right: Christina Raisdanaee, Stephanie Constant, Xenia Rodriguez, Mary Miller, Alyssa Patnaude, Olivia Olmeda, Abigial Sarante, Sophia Wenning, Sky Hutchful
The students who earned their Dental Assisting Certificate are:
Stephanie Constant – Leominster, MA
Sky Hutchful – Fitchburg, MA
Mary Miller – Gardner, MA
Olivia Olmeda – West Townsend, MA
Alyssa Patnaude – Keene, NH
Christina Raisdanaee – Leominster, MA
Xenia Rodriguez – Fitchburg, MA
Abigail Sarante – Leominster, MA
Sophia Wenning – Leominster, MA
To learn more about the Dental Education Programs offered at Mount Wachusett Community College, please visit mwcc.edu.
Contact: Tamar Russell Brown — 978.425.6290 Susan Wadsworth — 603.801.6746 or
Painter Susan Wadsworth has created beautiful images of Mother Nature in all her glory in recent paintings of scenes witnessed and studied in Maine, Vermont, and Ontario. She travels with a sketchpad that takes in the tiny, the gigantic, and everything in between. She has employed her eye for the telling details that an insightful artist can pick out of immense expanses, as well as the majestic sweep of those big vistas. These subjects of study and celebration are “Mountains, Trees, Rocks, and Seas: Small to Mighty.”
The work is mostly very recent, and features Ms. Wadsworth’s latest interests, including the challenge of executing huge pastel murals, capturing stunning sunsets at sea, and employing a new freedom with ink in the landscapes of mountains and trees. This is the artist’s first solo show at a commercial gallery, and she is very excited to be exhibiting so much new work.
The big “show piece” in the exhibition is Quoddy I. It was inspired by the Quoddy Head State Park in downeast Maine, near the Canadian border. It is the fifth very large piece (42″ x 108″) that Ms. Wadsworth has completed since April 2020, in addition to three “smaller” pieces — each a mere six feet wide.
The medium for all of these is pastel and ink on paper. Formerly the artist always began with pencil, later going over these lines with India ink. Now she finds she can do smaller studies applying the ink directly. But with very large pieces, she still relies on some underlying graphite lines to work out the overall structure of the composition. Further on in the process, she adds pastels in multi-colored layers — as many as 20 such layers! These she rubs by hand to achieve a smooth finish. The ink is the final ingredient, contrasting very energetically and solidifying the entire work.
The Covid crisis of 2020 forced many exhibitions online. This turned out to produce a unique opportunity, as Ms. Wadsworth had much less to worry about in terms of “frame-ability” of her paintings. “I could submit works, large or small…I was free to experiment with sizes and formats,” she says. “And thanks to the visionary support of Tamar Russell Brown and Gallery Sitka, that is exactly what I will be doing with this upcoming show.”
In May of this year, the artist “escaped” to Maine for 10 days, “knowing only that I wanted to draw rocks.” She found plenty of inspiration at Bailey Island, Pemaquid, Schoodic, and Quoddy, this last location nestled beside Quoddy Head State Park. From her base in Lubec, she hiked, stopping to sketch when she found a view that was especially beautiful and inspiring. She produced 10 studies and took numerous photographs. From these, she pieced together the vistas now that appear in Quoddy I. The large pieces might appear to be from one point of view, but in fact they are meticulously constructed combinations of at least five different viewpoints. She compares these to some landscapes well known to admirers of Cubism. The difference between her own work and those cubist paintings, says the artist, is that her vision is more “organically connected.”
Ms. Wadsworth’s understanding of her own work tends to change and develop over time. This process is reflected in the relationship between different artistic schools and even across national borders. An admirer of Chinese and Japanese art, she has long studied the rocks depicted in Chinese scrolls, perhaps once imagining bearded sages strolling in the hills at a leisurely pace, surrounded by the natural beauty of the exotic rock formations looming over the river below. (Well, exotic for North Americans, perhaps. Obviously, the Chinese, accustomed to their surreal, bulging rock cliffs on the banks of the Yang-tze, may find the mesas of Monument Valley quite exotic indeed.) The rocks that she draws from life in New England and in Canada, do not exude peace of mind. “These rocks suggest trouble,” she says, “but one that is negotiable. And the light, I hope, suggests spiritual hope.” In other words, the images drawn straight from nature are often quite beyond words, but they conjure up powerful thoughts and feelings when she takes another look at one of her landscapes months or years afterward. “The inner content of my work,” she muses, “sometimes evolves with the work itself or becomes evident later on.”
The artist directs viewers to the kanji — Japanese characters — that she sometimes includes along with the images. These can be imperfectly translated as “transform…transcend…eternity…breath…true…be,” among others. The use of kanji is purposeful in terms of meaning and the graceful, decorative emphasis on planes that we see in Japanese screens. The kanji create a kind of “pictorial tension — a play of planes and flatness” — in place of traditional perspective.
This Sitka show also has small tableaux of unframed pieces, of a size (c. 10.5″ x 13.5″) that fit comfortably into the artist’s drawing backpack. She executed many of these as “walk and draws.” She hikes until she is tired — or inspired. Then she sits down and begins to draw.
Another new section for the show will be Ms. Wadsworth’s sunsets. These were completed on two different cruises — one through the Panama Canal in late 2021, and the other in March 2022 from Brazil to Barbados. The artist intensely studied these spectacular sunsets, taking as many as a hundred photos, in the process catching many subtle changes in the color and composition of the sky, the sea, and the sun in the course of one shoot. The artist created drawings from those photos. “I tried to create a focused essence of each sunset,” she observes, “without all the encircling details that are possible but often distracting.”
The last bank of drawings at Sitka will be “mountains and trees” done on walks near the Vermont border and at Lake Temagami in Ontario. Here the artist plays with color and layered lines, seeing them more as “energy lines.” She maintains: “There is always something else going on that is more than just a mechanical reproduction of reality.”
Susan Wadsworth earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree at Cranbrook Academy of the Arts near Detroit, and an MA in Art History at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. Readers who want to learn more about her work or the Gallery Sitka show can contact Ms. Wadsworth or the hostess of the exhibition, Tamar Russell Brown, at the numbers and email address listed above.
LEOMINSTER, MA – Leominster Credit Union celebró su elección anual de directores y oficiales para 2022-2023 en su reunión de abril.
Richard A. Sheppard fue nombrado Presidente del Consejo. Sheppard forma parte del Comité Ejecutivo y ha sido miembro del consejo desde 2006.
Michael J. Sauvageau, Vicepresidente. Sauvageau ha sido miembro de la Junta Directiva desde 2007. Sauvageau forma parte de los Comités Ejecutivo, de Crédito, de Inversiones y de Compensación de LCU.
Nancy L. Graves, Tesorera. Graves integra los Comités Ejecutivo, de Auditoría y de Asesoría. Forma parte de la Junta Directiva de LCU desde 2004.
Guilio G. Greco, Tesorero Asistente. Greco ocupó recientemente el cargo de Presidente. Greco forma parte de los Comités Ejecutivo, de Auditoría e de Inversión de LCU. Greco ha sido miembro del Consejo de Administración desde 1978.
Joseph V. Quintal, Secretario. Quintal forma parte de los Comités Ejecutivo, de Crédito, de Compensación y de Asesoramiento. Quintal forma parte del Consejo desde 2006.
Se unen a los directivos en la Junta Directiva 2022-2023; Robert J. DelleChiaie, Joyce G. Leger, Henry C. Kulik, Jr. y John W. Reedy.
Fidelity Bank, único banco con sede en Massachusetts central y occidental en aparecer en la lista de Forbes; reconocido en la lista Fast 50 de Banker & Tradesman
Leominster, Massachusetts –Fidelity Bank ha sido reconocido durante el verano por su compromiso con la satisfacción y el crecimiento de sus clientes. Hoy, el banco anunció que fue nombrado uno de los “Mejores Bancos de América en Cada Estado 2022” de Forbes. Forbes anunció la lista el 21 de junio. Adicionalmente, Fidelity Bank fue reconocido por Banker & Tradesman como uno de los 50 más rápidos en préstamos comerciales y residenciales de este año. Banker & Tradesman anunció la lista el 15 de agosto.
En un artículo publicado por Forbes, más de 26,000 ciudadanos estadounidenses de los 50 estados participaron en entrevistas a fondo, proporcionando una calificación general de satisfacción y respondiendo varias preguntas basadas en seis facetas de su relación bancaria. Forbes informó que solo el 2.7 por ciento de todos los bancos a nivel nacional lograron entrar en el ranking de los mejores en cada estado.
Fidelity Bank es el único banco con sede en Massachusetts central y occidental que aparece en la lista de este año.
“Parte de lo que hace único a Fidelity Bank es nuestro enfoque de banca LifeDesign, que proporciona cuidado, claridad y confianza al guiar a nuestros clientes en la toma de decisiones financieras importantes”, dijo Ed Manzi, Presidente y CEO de Fidelity Bank. “Este reconocimiento es una clara representación de nuestro enfoque LifeDesign en acción y nuestro compromiso de construir relaciones sólidas y personales con cada uno de nuestros clientes”.”
Banker & Tradesman, una publicación líder en noticias y perspectivas para las industrias bancaria, comercial, industrial y de bienes raíces de Massachusetts, nombró recientemente a Fidelity Bank como uno de sus Fast 50 para préstamos comerciales y residenciales, ubicándose en el puesto 13 por número de préstamos comerciales. Fidelity Bank experimentó un aumento del 133 por ciento en el número de préstamos comerciales, con un total de 28 préstamos comerciales en 2022 en comparación con 12 préstamos comerciales en 2021. El Fast 50 se compila a partir de datos recopilados por el módulo de participación de mercado de Banker & Tradesman, que clasifica a los 50 proveedores de préstamos de más rápido crecimiento en Massachusetts, comparando el número y el volumen de préstamos del 1 de enero al 30 de junio de 2021 con el número y el volumen del mismo período en 2022.
“Mientras nuestro equipo de préstamos comerciales trabaja arduamente para construir relaciones profundas a través de nuestro enfoque LifeDesign para la banca y nuestro proceso C.A.R.E., nuestros clientes confían en las decisiones que toman para ayudarlos a alcanzar sus objetivos”, dijo Joseph Silva, Director de Préstamos de Fidelity Bank. “Banker & Tradesman es una publicación respetada en nuestra industria y ser reconocido como uno de los Fast 50 es, sin duda, un honor”.”
Leominster, MA – Leominster Credit Union realizará un Shred-A-Thon en su sucursal ubicada en 910 West Boylston Street, Worcester, MA, el sábado 17 de septiembre de 2022, de 9:00 a. m. a mediodía.
Los miembros y no miembros pueden deshacerse de documentos viejos y sensibles triturándolos y reciclándolos en la Shred-A-Thon. Todos los artículos serán triturados en el lugar por un servicio de trituración seguro, New England Security Shredders.
Los miembros de la comunidad pueden traer hasta tres cajas de archivos tamaño legal o tres bolsas de basura de cocina de 13 galones para ser trituradas de forma gratuita. Sin embargo, aceptaremos donaciones para Hábitat para la Humanidad durante el evento. El Shred-A-Thon ayuda a crear conciencia sobre el reciclaje y, por supuesto, la importancia de triturar documentos personales para protegerse contra el robo de identidad.
Los documentos importantes para llevar al Shred-A-Thon incluyen estados de cuenta bancarios, declaraciones de impuestos, facturas médicas, estados de cuenta de tarjetas de crédito y otros documentos personales.
Para más información, contacta a Joanne Lattanzi, AVP/Marketing al 978-466-7240 o .
Con un orgulloso legado de más de 20 años, las actuales propietarias de Paula Meola Dance & Performing Arts, Mary Elizabeth Tinervin y Matthew Kooyomjian, se complacen en anunciar que a partir del 24 de agosto de 2022 hemos renovado nuestra marca como MEM Dance Theatre “Compartiendo las Artes Juntos”.”
Hemos añadido el lema “Compartiendo las Artes Juntos” para encapsular de manera concisa nuestra misión principal de ofrecer un entorno accesible e inclusivo para todos; independientemente de si disfrutas tomando una clase ocasional y actuando o si te encanta competir como miembro de nuestra Compañía de Danza. El objetivo es apoyarnos mutuamente y apreciar las diferencias y los talentos que compartimos.
Animamos a los estudiantes a participar en todas las clases y espectáculos a lo largo de su trayectoria en nuestra Escuela. Comenzando con la exposición inicial a la danza y las artes teatrales, los estudiantes continúan aprendiendo sobre las muchas diferencias culturales dentro de los Estados Unidos y en otros países; que a menudo marcan hitos históricos clave a través de la coreografía representada en las actuaciones. Las credenciales académicas, de actuación y de enseñanza de Mary Elizabeth y Matthew, tal como se describen en el sitio web de MEM Dance Theatre, www.memdancetheatre.com brindar a familias y sus hijos durante la adolescencia, y a estudiantes adultos una experiencia segura, divertida y especializada en el estudio de la danza y las artes teatrales. Al hacerlo, continuar ayudando a aprovechar y empoderar las mentes jóvenes, cultivar una amplia base de relaciones comunitarias y sostener un modelo de negocio exitoso que continuará brindando recursos amplios y enriquecedores.
¡Siempre damos la bienvenida a nuevos estudiantes a nuestra Academia y lo invitamos a unirse a nosotros en nuestra próxima Puerta Abierta el 24 de agosto, así como a nuestras otras presentaciones a lo largo del año!
Mary Elizabeth Tinervin, Propietaria, Directora Artística y Maestra de Ballet
Matthew M. Kooyomjian, Propietario y Director Ejecutivo
Fitchburg, MA — Making Opportunity Count (MOC), la agencia de acción comunitaria de la región de North Central dedicada a combatir la pobreza, ha anunciado al Dr. Paul S. MacKinnon como su nuevo Presidente de Junta. MacKinnon, quien ha sido miembro de la junta desde 2018, sucede a Oscar O’Connor, quien se retiró de la junta después de 18 años de servicio.
“Ha sido un honor servir como Presidente de la Junta Directiva de MOC”, dijo O’Connor. “Estoy orgulloso de nuestros muchos logros durante los últimos años y confío en que MOC tiene un futuro brillante bajo el liderazgo de Paul mientras continúan creciendo y expandiendo su impacto en la comunidad.”
MacKinnon es un líder ejecutivo consumado y actualmente es Vicepresidente Corporativo y Director de Operaciones/Directora de Enfermería en Health Alliance Clinton Hospital. MacKinnon obtuvo su Doctorado en la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Massachusetts – Escuela de Posgrado en Enfermería y ha ocupado puestos clave de liderazgo en Saint Vincent Hospital, UMass Memorial Medical Center y Steward Health Care. Como enfermero registrado durante más de tres décadas y enfermero familiar practicante durante más de dos, ha sido miembro de numerosas asociaciones de atención médica, juntas locales y organizaciones comunitarias. MacKinnon se desempeñó recientemente como Tesorero de la Junta de MOC durante los últimos tres años.
“La misión de MOC de empoderar a las familias para que logren la estabilidad económica es más crítica que nunca”, dijo MacKinnon. “Durante años, he sido testigo de cómo el personal y el liderazgo viven la misión de MOC en todo lo que hacen. Me siento honrado y humilde de desempeñar un papel en este inspirador trabajo, y espero liderar este esfuerzo con nuestra experimentada y dedicada junta directiva”.”
El cambio ocurre en un momento de fortaleza y crecimiento para MOC, ya que la organización ha trabajado cada vez más para integrar el acceso a la atención médica en su cartera de servicios humanos.
“Estoy profundamente agradecido con Oscar por su liderazgo, visión y dedicación a nuestra misión que nos ayudó a crecer y ampliar nuestro impacto en la comunidad durante la última década”, afirmó Kevin Reed, director ejecutivo de MOC. “También estoy muy entusiasmado con nuestro futuro bajo el liderazgo de Paul. Su gran experiencia y su defensa están perfectamente alineadas con la visión de MOC para nuestro futuro, mientras nos esforzamos por satisfacer la creciente demanda de servicios que brindan bienestar a nuestros clientes y a la comunidad.”
Sobre Hacer que la Oportunidad Cuente
Making Opportunity Count, Inc. (MOC) se estableció en 1966 con el propósito principal de promover el bienestar de las personas de bajos ingresos en las ciudades y pueblos del centro-norte de Massachusetts. El área de servicio de MOC abarca 30 ciudades y pueblos (Ashburnham, Ashby, Athol, Ayer, Barre, Berlin, Bolton, Clinton, Fitchburg, Gardner, Groton, Hardwick, Harvard, Hubbardston, Lancaster, Leominster, Littleton, Lunenburg, New Braintree, Pepperell, Petersham, Phillipston, Princeton, Royalston, Sterling, Shirley, Templeton, Townsend, Westminster y Winchendon). La misión de MOC es empoderar a las familias para que logren seguridad económica eliminando barreras y creando oportunidades. MOC trabaja para cumplir este propósito brindando servicios directos, colaborando con otras entidades públicas y privadas, y aplicando estrategias integrales que ayudan a abordar los complejos problemas de la pobreza. Los programas principales incluyen Cuidado Infantil y Head Start, North Central WIC, Centro de Recursos Familiares, Meals on Wheels, The Counseling Center at MOC, programas de atención médica y más. Para obtener una lista completa de programas y servicios, visite www.mocinc.org
