December 22, 2008

Photo Finish from the Dec. 22, 2008 issue of the WBJ

Photo/Courtesy Clinton Savings Bank recently gave a boost to Calliope Productions, a theater company in Boylston. The money, donated by the bank's charitable foundation, will help the theater group upgrade its facilities. Pictured, from left to right, are: Brendan Gallagher, manager of the Boylston branch of Clinton Savings; Janice Fuller, Calliope board member and treasurer and Bank President Robert Paulhus Jr.

Photo/Courtesy Marc Freedman (center), founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, was the keynote speaker at â€œRe:Generation at 50+; Lives Re-Defined, Communities Re-Imagined,â€ a conference hosted by the Colleges of Worcester Consortium's Gerontology Studies Program at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on October 30. Pictured with Marc are Charlene L. Martin (left), owner of Pathfinders Retirement Innovations, and Dr. Kelly Niles-Yokum (right), Gerontology Studies Program Director. ˆ

Photo/Courtesy The Worcester Disability and Long Term Care office of Illinois-based Trustmark Mutual Holding Company has donated $10,000 to Community Harvest Project Inc. of North Grafton. The gift was coordinated by the Trustmark Foundation, which gives to programs in communities where the company's employees work and live. Pictured, from left to right, are: J.R. Ronfeld, Community Harvest board member; Joseph E. Tancrell, Community Harvest board president; Nancy Sullivan, vice president at Trustmark Worcester; and Alan Greenwald, Community Harvest board member.

Photo/Courtesy Jim Adams from Rollstone Bank and Trust in Fitchburg and Unitil's George Gantz accept a check from John Zarrella of Research Results Inc. The contribution helped underwrite the cost of the downtown Fitchburg office space of the Fitchburg Longsjo Classic, an annual bike racing event held this summer.

Photo/Courtesy More than 130 business and community leaders attended a forum entitled, â€œEarly Childhood Education: An Economic Development Strategy with High Public Return,â€ held Oct. 31 at Mechanics Hall. Pictured at the event, from left to right, are: John Bassett, president of Clark University and chair of the Edward Street Child Services Early Learning Leadership Advisory Council; Paul Reville, secretary of education for the state of Massachusetts; Dianne Bruce, executive director of Edward Street Child Services; Margaret Blood, president of Strategies for Children; and Rob Grunewald, associate economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.