1. Meredith Village Savings Bank recently donated $5,000 to The Community School in Tamworth to provide financial support for their 2021 summer camp program. The program, which also receives grant money from the Tamworth Foundation, is free to Tamworth residents, and children from surroundings towns can also enroll at a cost. MVSB’s donation will help offset that cost for local campers.
2. Tamara Roberge, White Mountains Community College’s Coordinator of Workforce Development and Community Education, accepts a $500 donation from Walmart for next year’s 4th Annual Golfing the Gap Tournament at WMCC. The donation will assist the college with educational technology needs and student support scholarships. This year’s Golfing the Gap Tournament raised a record $28,000.
3. Bank of New Hampshire is sponsoring the 2021 season for Farmsteads of New England, Inc., a farmbased program for adults with autism and other developmental disabilities that helps them to produce farm products as micro-businesses. The sponsorship is enabling Farmsteads’ Mobile Food Pantry Program to achieve its goal of doubling the number of households reached by serving 200 households per week.
4. Ledyard National Bank recently donated to the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund and Making Matters New Hampshire, a shared maker and workspace in the greater Concord area. Each organization received $10,000 in support. Pictured here: Monique Brown, Ledyard senior financial advisor; Jared Reynolds, Making Matters NH; Karen Crump, Ledyard senior portfolio manager; and Ledyard’s Concord Branch Manager Christos Hatzidakis.
5. Wentworth-Douglass Charity Classic raised more than $256,000 to support important programs and services for Seacoast families at the Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Women & Children’s Center. Pictured here is the winning foursome: Brett Wilson, Oracle; Tim Loch, Cochecho Country Club; Stephen Delaney, Sodexo (2021 Green Jacket Sponsor); Chad Kageleiry, Summit Land Development; and Larry Raiche, Raiche & Company, CPAs.
6. Rotobec USA’s Littleton facility employees David White and Shane Gray pose with their Train the Trainer completion certificate from White Mountains Community College. WMCC partnered with Rotobec USA, a Canadian-based designer, manufacturer and marketer of material handling equipment, to provide workforce development training to its Littleton and Groveton employees.
7. Bangor Savings Bank has made a $5,000 contribution to NeighborWorks Southern New Hampshire in support of the organization’s HOMEteam program, which provides homeownership and financial wellness education and counseling services. Pictured here: Robert Tourigny, executive director, Neighbor-Works Southern New Hampshire; Paul McLaughlin, HomeOwnership director, NeighborWorks; Jim Donnelly, executive VP and chief commercial officer, Bruce Ocko, senior VP and director of mortgage and consumer lending, and Donald Sutherland, mortgage loan officer, all from Bangor Savings Bank.
8. In recognition of their leadership in community service, Emma Service (pictured), a rising senior at Trinity High School in Manchester, and Kathryn Kieley, a rising 7th grader at St. Christopher Academy in Nashua, were presented the CMC Heart & Hands Scholarship by Tim Soucy (pictured), MPH, senior executive director of support services & mission at Catholic Medical Center.
