November 8, 2010

Photo Finish from the Nov. 8, 2010 issue

The Hanover Insurance Group Foundation Inc. has donated $15,000 to Old Sturbridge Village for educational outreach programs. The programs include History on the Road, which brings costumed educators to local elementary schools. This is the second year in a row that the foundation has awarded the grant to the organization.

Whitinsville-based UniBank has donated $2,500 each to seven food pantries in the bank's service area, for a total of $17,500. The donations were part of a celebration after the bank reached $1 billion in assets. Pictured, standing, from left to right: Patty Buma, UniBank's Douglas branch manager; Jo-Anne Griego, UniBank's loan operations manager; Lanny Remillard of the People First Food Pantry in Uxbridge; Daniel Ryan of the Blackstone-Millville Food Pantry in Blackstone; Steve Lariviere of the Northbridge Association of Churches Pantry in Whitinsville; Wendy Brown, UniBank's Whitinsville branch manager and John Byrnes, UniBank's Whitinsville Plaza branch manager. Seated from left to right: Brenda Roy of the People's Pantry in Douglas; Amy Griswold of the food pantry at the United Parish of Upton and Kelly Lariviere of the Northbridge Association of Churches Food Pantry in Whitinsville.

Staples brought the Jumpstart Read for the Record program, in which preschool children read the same book on the same day all over the world, to MetroWest and Worcester this year. The office retail giant donated $35,00 to the organization, which focuses on language, literacy and social skills for preschool children. Pictured: Paul Capelli, vice president of public and community relations at Staples, with students from Rainbow Child Development Center in Worcester, from left to right: Samuel David Mojica, Nazrin Ismail, Nayalisse Camacho, Jamilette Perez, Jeshua Maldonado, Elyna Peluyera and Tiffany Romero.

EB Carlson Marketing Inc., a West Boylston independent sales company that represents consumer goods manufacturers, has donated $10,000 to the Boys & Girls Club of North Central MA for enrichment and recreation programs. Pictured from left to right: EB Carlson General Manager Leslie McNamara and President Ed Carlson; Boys & Girls Club staff members Jon Blodgett, Rocco Spagnuolo and Donata Martin, and club board member Dan Flynn.