OSSIPEE: Horizons Engineering Inc. — a civil and structural engineering, land surveying and environmental consulting firm — has acquired Land Technical Service Corp. (Land Tech). Under the ownership of Bryan Berlind, Land Tech has been servicing the Ossipee area since 1990 with land survey and septic design needs, further growing the companies’ service footprints in the state.
MASON: Volunteers from the St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry in Greenville picked over 200 apples at Birchwood Orchard in Mason to donate to the pantry. The apples will be used both as fresh fruit and for ingredients in upcoming Thanksgiving pies made by the New Ipswich Congregational Church.
CONCORD: Merrimack County Savings Bank is hosting a peanut butter and cereal drive throughout the month of October in partnership with #NHBanksGiveBack, a volunteer celebration organized by the New Hampshire Bankers Association, to ensure children struggling with food insecurity have access to healthy and nutritious meals. Donated food items will be distributed to Friendly Kitchen (Concord), Twin Rivers Food Pantry (Franklin), Bow Food Pantry, Hopkinton Food Pantry, Hooksett Food Pantry, Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter, and the Upper Room Food Pantry (Derry).
PLYMOUTH: Plymouth State University student Corinne Cloutier of Goffstown has been named the 2023 College Student of the Year by Stay Work Play in its 14th Annual Rising Stars Awards. Cloutier serves the community in various capacities, and has been integral to planning and implementing community events such as “Out of the Darkness,” which has raised nearly $20,000 for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention,” among other community-wide events.
CLAREMONT: The Claremont Soup Kitchen Fall Fundraiser, held Sept. 23, was a wellattended event where funds raised benefited the Children’s Summer Reading Program, which serves 500 meals daily, to enhance their programming and help with regular operational expenses. The Claremont Soup Kitchen, founded in 1983, serves breakfast, lunch and dinner Monday through Friday, and dinner on weekends. The soup kitchen also offers food pantry services, Monday through Friday.
EXETER: Unitil, a local provider of natural gas and electricity, announced earlier this summer that their Seacoast Operations Center has become the first building in New Hampshire to achieve WELL Certified designation. The 54,000-square-foot regional facility was designed and constructed by PROCON to meet the rigorous standards of the WELL Building, which focuses on the health and well-being of building occupants and the environment. The new facility is also LEED certified and is located on Energy Way, just off Exit 9 on Route 101, a location selected specifically to help facilitate swift response to outages throughout Unitil’s Seacoast service region.
