June 21, 2010

Photo Finish From June 21, 2010 Issue Of The WBJ

Photo/Courtesy Bank of America recently held a barbecue at the Boys & Girls Club of MetroWest to kick off its new Summer Job Corps for Teens program. The Boys & Girls Clubs of MetroWest and Hudson, along with other nonprofits around the state, will hire teen employees through a grant from the program. Pictured, from left to right, are: George Ellis, Boys & Girls Club Board chair; Bob Gallery, Bank of America Massachusetts market president; Will Daniel, a Hudson resident who will work at the Boys & Girls Club of Hudson thanks to the program; Francis Hurley, president of the Boys & Girls Club of MetroWest.

Photo/Courtesy Framingham Co-operative Bank Charitable Foundation has awarded $5,000 to the MetroWest Outreach Connection's Homelessness Prevention Program. The money will help low-income residents find and keep permanent housing. Pictured, from left to right, are: Clement Lambert, Framingham Co-operative Bank Charitable Foundation trustee; Rachel Stewart, administrative director of the foundation; Leonard Dalton, president, MetroWest Outreach Connection; Robert Lamprey, chairman of the foundation; and Michael Bilinsky, assistant vice president and business development officer, Framingham Co-operative Bank.

Photo/Courtesy Moynagh's Tavern was recently inducted into the Special Olympics Massachusetts Hall of Fame. The group, which started at Worcester's oldest pub 10 years ago, dresses in costumes and jumps into the Atlantic Ocean at the Nantasket Plunge to raise money for the cause. Pictured, from left to right, are: Barry Sloane, Century Bank co-chair; Tim Moynagh; Marshall Sloane, Century Bank co-chair; and Robert Johnson, SOMA president and CEO.ˆ

Photo/Courtesy Gardner-based nonprofit RCAP Solutions recently held a graduation ceremony at Worcester State College for five people who had completed its Moving To Work and Family Self-Sufficiency programs. Participants in the programs set goals for employment, education and savings. The five recent graduates received checks totaling more than $42,000 from RCAP escrow accounts. Pictured, from left to right, are: Joanne McKenna, special programs coordinator for the Department of Housing and Community Development; Elizabeth Curtis, executive director of Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness and Karen A. Koller, president and CEO of RCAP Solutions.

Photo/Courtesy The Worcester-based YMCA of Central Massachusetts recently held its annual meeting at the Greendale Family Branch YMCA. Pictured from left to right, are: Eisha Bailey, recipient of the 2010 YMCA Evan Page Scholarship Award; Kathryn Zingg Hunter, president and CEO of the YMCA; and Marketa Lucas, a student in the YMCA Minority Achievers Program.