Michael Hewitt, President and CEO of bankHometown, announced that bankHometown has made a donation of $1,000 for the Woodstock playground.
Viktor Toth, Superintendent, along with Wendy Durand, WMS Principal and Crystal Adams, Woodstock Playground Committee Chair, recently received a check for $1,000 from bankHometown’s Woodstock Branch Manager George Dimopoulos.
With this donation, the Woodstock Playground Committee is now over half of the way to their $100,000 goal. The playground will be located behind the Woodstock Middle School and is well designed for older children. It will also be available for area families and children to enjoy when classes are not in session. In addition, families at the adjacent sports fields will be able to use the playground during practices and games.
“We are very grateful for the support and trust bankHometown has shown us,” said Adams. “They have also generously allowed us to use their coin-counting machine during our recent Pennies for Playground’s fundraiser. We look forward to inviting them next year to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the playground.”
Michael Hewitt, President and CEO of bankHometown, is pleased to announce the hiring of Karla Christiansen as the Branch Manager, AVP of the office in Sturbridge, MA.
Karla worked for bankHometown for two years as the Oxford Branch Manager, beginning in 2013 before leaving to work as a VP Relationship Manager for a bank in the Eastern, MA area.
CEO Hewitt stated “We are pleased to welcome her back as one of our bankHometown team members and we are proud of her performance and accomplishments.” He added, “bankHometown is a community bank truly caring about the communities we serve with a focus on providing the best customer service. With over 33 years of banking experience of which 25 of those years include management positions Karla has earned the recognition for the execution of that charge and we look forward to many more years of her exemplary service.”
Karla grew up in Brookfield and graduated from Tantasqua Regional High School in Sturbridge. She is a member of the local Chamber of Commerce and is Treasurer for the Central New England Equine Rescue. She also owns the Cardinal Ridge Equestrian Center in Barre.
The Board of Directors of Leominster Credit Union recently voted to appoint Joyce G. Leger as a Director. Leger’s appointment results from the vacancy on the Board due to the retirement of former Chairman Anthony Gasbarro.
“We are delighted to have Joyce join the LCU Board of Directors. She and her family have a long history in the local community, and as the daughter of one of LCU’s founders, she has a very personal tie to the Credit Union,” said Michael J. Sauvageau, Chairman of the Board. “We will look to Joyce to offer a fresh perspective on what today’s consumers want from their financial institution.”
Prior to her appointment to the Board, Leger served on the LCU Advisory Committee. She also volunteers her time with several organizations. Her previous activities include working with the Montachusett Interfaith Hospitality Network, and she co-chaired the Summer Experience of Greater Lowell. She currently serves on the board of the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Lowell.
“Three generations of my family were born and raised in Leominster. I am very excited about the opportunity to be more involved in my home town,” Leger commented. “My father, Nick Gorgoglione, was a founder of LCU. I feel that joining the LCU Board offers me a way to both carry on his legacy, and to give back to the local community.”
Leger is the Director of Human Resources at Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. in Billerica, MA. She holds a BA from the College of the Holy Cross and an MA from the University of Baltimore.
Founded in 1954, Leominster Credit Union (LCU) is a member-owned, not-for-profit financial cooperative with a full range of deposit, lending and other financial services. Headquartered in Leominster, Massachusetts, LCU is proud to claim nearly 50,000 members and more than $600 million in assets. LCU has seven branch locations in Leominster, Worcester, Clinton, Holden, Sterling and North Leominster with ATM services at all branch locations. LCU also provides 24 hour banking via Mobile and Online services. Visit leominstercu.com or call 800-649-4646.
2017 is over… We did our best this year to bring you great art from local artists, a few from NYC and some international artists. We have worked very hard to make our Gallery Sitka, in Fitchburg, a success. We will continue to work hard in this endeavor in 2018. However, we cannot do it without your help.
In Central Mass. there are more artists than you can even imagine, all types, talented professional artists and beginners, musicians, printmakers, painters, photographers, encaustic artists, ceramic artists, jewelers and more! Most of them work full-time day jobs — all of them dreaming to be full-time artists.
Our Gallery is also a dream. The gallery model does not work like it once did and we know that many of you would prefer to buy directly from the artists, which we understand. However, if would like to support what we have been doing, we encourage you to drop by our Shirley location on Sunday (or to Memories on Main in Fitchburg on Saturday) and support us and the artists we represent by spending your dollars locally on local art, made by local hands (all work in Shirley on Sunday will be under $200). Your support in this way will go far towards our gallery remaining “local.”
We want to thank all of you for sharing our posts, forwarding our emails, coming to our shows, buying the work we carry, for your notes, cards, letters, and emails. We especially thank both our landlords: The Lexvest Group and Shacks, INC. for your support and willingness to work with us. We thank the City of Fitchburg and their team: Mayor DiNatale, MaryJo Bohart, AJ and Tom (HUGS), NewVue and ReImagine North of Main as well for their support, the North Central Chamber of Commerce for bringing guests by, the projects you’ve given us, the clients you’ve sent us, the press, your presence (THANK YOU!), and finally Lorraine at Expressive Print in Ashburnham for so much support on framing, hiring us to run an art auction and more! Lastly, we thank all of our artists (their names can be found on our website) and I thank my team. Thank you all for 2017!
The goal of this workshop is to introduce performers to the art of stage combat. We have all seen plays and movies with amazing fistfights and sword fights. This workshop will begin to pull back the curtain on how these awesome fights are created and done safely. In this workshop, students will start with hand-to-hand combat. This will cover fighting stance, punches, slaps, chokes, fainting, and falling. The second part of the workshop will cover single sword fighting. Students should expect to learn proper footwork, attacks, parries, and safe handling of a sword for stage combat. It will be a fun and challenging workshop that will prepare actors for roles that will require stage combat knowledge.
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MLK Day of Service
January, 14, 2018
10am—2pm
YMCA
55 Wallace Avenue
Fitchburg, MA
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the MLK Day of Service, youth peer leaders from LUK, Inc., Montachusett Opportunity Council (MOC), and the YMCA of Fitchburg are collecting warm clothing for those in need, from infants to adults.
The collection period will run from November 1, 2017 to January 14, 2018.
The items will be distributed on Sunday, January 14, 2018 as part of the youths’ service project.
For more information, contact Najid Figueroa at or 800-579-0000.
LUK, Inc.
545 Westminster Street
Fitchburg, MA 01420
800-579-0000
www.LUK.org
Items Needed Coats Gloves Hats Scarves New Socks
Drop-off Locations
LUK, Inc.—545 Westminster St.
LUK, Inc.—99 Day St.
MOC—356 B Broad St. 4th Floor
YMCA—55 Wallace Ave.
Virtual Worst Plant Tour: Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Roundtable
Friday, December 1, 2017, 8:00 – 9:30 am Join Corey Briggs from Ramboll Environ for an energetic, audience participation-focused virtual EHS tour of “the worst plant in the world” using digital renderings of real-world EHS issues. The overall goal of this session is to educate participants about hazard and risk assessment techniques, and various compliance audit scenarios. This is a great opportunity to learn to better recognize workplace EHS hazards and compliance issues. The meeting will be held at: 33 Andrews Parkway, Devens. Please RSVP
