June 8, 2009

Photo Finish for the June 8, 2009 issue

Photo/Courtesy As part of the American Cancer Society's annual â€œDaffodil Daysâ€ campaign, all eight UniBank branches recently handed out daffodils to customers over the course of a week. Bank employees purchased the flowers to raise awareness for the cause and also made personal donations, which allowed the American Cancer Society to distribute bouquets of daffodils to cancer patients. Unibank has participated in â€œDaffodil Daysâ€ for more than 11 years and has raised $13,700 for the charity. Pictured, from left to right, are UniBank Whitinsville branch tellers Lisa Davignon, Kate Moore, Pat Kilcoyne and Leah Proctor.

Photo/Courtesy Commerce Bank of Worcester recently donated $5,000 to the NeighborWorks HomeOwnership Center of Worcester, which offers classes, workshops, one-on-one counseling, financial literacy training and down payment assistance to first-time homebuyers. The bank's donation will support these programs as well as the center's programs that help homeowners protect and keep their homes. Pictured, from left to right, are: Frank Paquette, director of the NeighborWorks HomeOwnership Center; Michael Roy, senior vice president and senior compliance officer of Commerce Bank and Duarte Silva, vice president of consumer lending at Commerce Bank.

Photo/Courtesy The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden of Harvard, with funding from The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts in Worcester, recently dedicated a new work of art at HealthAlliance Hospital's Simonds-Sinon Regional Cancer Center in Leominster. The piece of art, which incorporates the words of 23 staff members, was a product of the Healing Garden Collaborative, a partnership between the cancer center and the Harvard-based nonprofit. Pictured, from left to right, are: Elaine Cinelli, vice president for programs at The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts; Julie Seavy, associate director at the Virginia Thurston Healing Garden; Candace Anderson, the project's artist from Petersham; Mary Jane Ruth, director of the Simonds-Sinon Regional Cancer Center and Patrick Muldoon, president and CEO of HealthAlliance Hospital.

Photo/Courtesy U.S. Rep. James McGovern, D-Worcester, recently presented the Molly Bish Center for the Protection of Children and the Elderly at Anna Maria College in Paxton with a $300,000 check. Pictured, from left to right, are: Liam Lowney, chief of victim witness services in the Attorney General's office; David Tuttle, director of the Molly Bish Center; McGovern; John Bish of Warren and Jack P. Calareso, president of Anna Maria College.

Photo/Courtesy Local kids from the Rainbow Childhood Development Center in Worcester recently caught a Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park, thanks to Dunkin' Donuts and its Dunkin' Dugout section. The special seating area, which is designated for local youth and charitable organizations, hosts about 20 children at every Red Sox h