1. The Southern New Hampshire Chamber of Commerce celebrated the 10-year anniversary of Hampstead-based home contractor Haseltine Builders LLC, founded in 2014 by Nick and Ashley Haseltine, to offer custom kitchen and bath renovations. The Chamber held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the occasion with the Haseltine team’s families and friends. Haseltine now provides kitchen, bath and deck renovations, full-service additions and new construction.
2. Elliot Health System recently honored longtime employee and volunteer Eva Martel for its William S. Green Award for Excellence. Martel, an Elliot employee from 1971 to 2021, finished her career as director of managed care contracting for Elliot Health System. Before retirement, she joined the Elliot Hospital Associates, continues to chair its Finance Committee, and has served as its president for the past two years.
3. Merrimack County Savings Bank has supported this year’s 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey Championship, held in Hooksett’s Tri-Town Ice Arena the weekend of March 22 – 24. The tournament, typically held at Concord’s White Park, was moved indoors. The nonprofit 1883 Black Ice Hockey Association was founded in 2010 to promote and support pond hockey, ice skating and various causes in the Concord area.
4. The University of New Hampshire’s ECenter hosted the 14th edition of its i2 Passport Program on Feb. 4. The program aims to encourage UNH students to engage in ideas and entrepreneurship activities and has received national recognition for its approach toward this goal. $25,000 in cash prizes is available to students this semester, which can be used to pay off student loans and tuition fees. The ECenter has given more than $175,000 to undergraduate and graduate students over the past seven years.
5. Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, headquartered in Bar Harbor, Maine, presented more than $21,000 in donations to eight Northern New England nonprofits, including PathWays of the River Valley and YMCA Camp Coniston in New Hampshire. The donations were collected through the bank’s employee-driven charitable giving program, Casual for a Cause. The program has distributed more than $292,000 in donations since its launch in 2018.
6. Portsmouth-based organization Gather, which provides free food to residents in 59 communities in southern NH, received the Nonprofit Impact Award from the NH Center for Nonprofits earlier this month. Gather reported January as the busiest month of its 200-year history, founded in 1816. The organization and others receiving the award will be honored April 16 during the Nonprofit Impact Celebration at the Bank of NH Stage in Concord.
7. Twelve Plymouth State University students traveled to Petersfield and Galloway in Jamaica to participate in community service projects and learn about Jamaican history and culture. The students stayed with local families, savored authentic, home-cooked meals and participated in activities with the Petersfield Galloway Benevolent Society — the villages’ tourism program.
