s Thomas A. Chamberland, center, commander of Champeau-Vilandre American Legion Post 109 in Sturbridge, receives a $1,000 check from the Southbridge Credit Union∈s Community Champions Fund, which aids community-based activities. The money will be used to support indigent veterans in the jurisdiction of the Sturbridge Veterans Agent. With Chamberland are Paul D. Raffa, left, Southbridge Credit Union∈s business development manager, and Thomas J. Smalarz , right, president and CEO of Southbridge Credit Union.
Worcester Sharks mascot FINZ, back right, and defenseman Patrick Traverse, back left, joined 60 area children at the Ecotarium in Worcester recently. Traverse and FINZ are part of the Sharks Street Brigade, a mobile Street Hockey Clinic sponsored by the AHL hockey team that teaches area children about hockey. The Street Brigade is sponsored by Fallon Clinic.
s The National Wheeler Trust advisory committee recently toured Jason∈s Healing Garden at the Why Me organization∈s Sherry House facility in Worcester. The trust donated $16,880 to purchase plant materials for the garden, named in honor of Jason White, son of Margaret White, Why Me∈s director of family services, who passed away from leukemia in 1983. Why Me and the Sherry House serve families of children with cancer. The garden features stone paths donated by Sansoucy Stone of Worcester, a 25-foot Maple tree donated by Bigelow Nursery in Northborough and a custom-built waterfall by Warren Leach of Tranquil Lake Nursery in Rehoboth.
Bill Densmore, Worcester Polytechnic Institute trustee emeritus, class of 1945, signs the final roof beam for WPI∈s newest residence hall as part of a topping-off celebration held recently at the Boynton Street construction site. The final beam was hoisted into place along with an American flag and a potted tree seedling. Painted white, the beam was signed by all ceremony attendees. The new, 232-bed, apartment-style residence hall is scheduled to open fall, 2008.
Of Note:
A report by the Worcester Regional Research Bureau, entitled Condition Serious, Prognosis Uncertain: The Impact of Municipal Employee Health Insurance on Massachusetts Cities, won an award for outstanding policy achievement from the Governmental Research Association recently. The award, presented at the GRA’s annual meeting in Denver, credited the report with leading to “tangible improvements in public policy, management, service delivery and/or cost savings.”
Fitchburg, Gardner, Leominster, Framingham, Ashland and Worcester were among 39 communities chosen by Gov. Deval Patrick to receive Senator Charles E. Shannon Jr. Community Safety Initiative grants this year. Fitchburg, Gardner and Leominster will split $175,000. Framingham and Ashland will split $100,000, while Worcester will take in $510,000. The money is used to help combat gang violence and emerging crime problems in the communities.
AstraZeneca of Waltham is marking its fifth year as a flagship sponsor of the American Cancer Society’s 15th annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk. The 5-mile, non-competitive walk will take place Sunday, Oct. 14 at the DCR Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles River Esplanade in Boston. Other flagship sponsors for this year’s event are Aurora Imaging Technology Inc., BlueCross BlueShield of Massachusetts, H.P. Hood and WeGotSoccer.
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