Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire added four board members. Arul Mahadevan is the medical director of the radiation oncology department at the Seacoast Cancer Center at Wentworth Douglass Hospital in Dover. Kimberly Crisp is with Cardinal Point Property Management in Greenland. She put her magna cum laude from UNH – with special honors in history – to use by researching and writing extensively about the red-light district in Portsmouth at the turn of the 20th century. Rahkiya Medley is chief administrative prosecutor in the division of enforcement at the Office of Professional Licensing and Certification for the State of New Hampshire. She earned her bachelor of science in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland and worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center commanding two low earth-orbiting satellites. John Shaw is the CEO and co-founder, Itaconix plc a publicly traded world leader in safer plant-based ingredients used in everyday consumer products.
Ledyard National Bank recently donated $10,000 to New England Healing Sports Association to further support their mission to serve our community’s veterans and civilians with disabilities through adaptive, outdoor sports.
Nobis Group is excited to announce that the firm has received an Award for Outstanding Accomplishments by a Small Business Contractor from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. Awarded to businesses that exemplify the best attributes of a small business attempting to enter America’s economic mainstream, this award recognizes Nobis Group’s notable work at the Elizabeth Mine site – one of the largest and most intact historic mining sites in New England.
All-Ways Accessible, based in Concord, has been acquired by National Seating and Mobility. All-Ways Accessible was founded by 30-year industry veteran Jeff Lavoie and is a leader in residential elevators, stairlifts, patient lifts, vertical platform lifts and modular ramps. Including Lavoie, the acquisition will welcome 16 new employees to the NSM team.
H&R Block and Nextdoorare bringing to life 10 community-nominated projects to connect, improve, and uplift neighborhoods across the country. Among the selected projects are building a new youth basketball court in Gilmanton to connect families through sports as proposed by Katie Bass.
Grappone Automotive Group of Bow sold a new 15 passenger van at cost to Camp Resilience. The van will be used to transport veterans throughout their four-day retreats in the beautiful Lakes Region. Veterans attending a Camp Resilience retreat pay nothing for the experience; all costs are covered by donations and corporate grants. Camp Resilience, founded by retired and former Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine veterans, recognizes the curative, healing power of veterans helping fellow veterans coping with, among other things, PTSD.
North Branch Construction was presented with three awards at the Associated Builders and Contractors of NH/VT Safety Awards presentation June 10 at the ABC NH/VT Headquarters in Concord. The awards were first-place Construction Safety Performance – Zero Cases Resulting in Lost Workdays, Most Creative Safety Program, and the bronze-level Safety Training and Evaluation Process Award.
