People In The News
David Conard, a real estate and construction lawyer with Langrock Sperry & Wool, LLP in Burlington, received the VBA President's Award for Outstanding Service at the 131st Annual Meeting of the Vermont Bar Association, held Friday, September 25, 2009, at the Lake Morey Resort. Conard received the award for his service on Association committees dealing with real estate specialization and the unauthorized practice of law. He served as primary draftsman for a proposed rule governing the unauthorized practice of law in Vermont.
Vermont Agency of Transportation Secretary David Dill announced today that Joseph Flynn of South Hero has been appointed Transportation Rail Director with the Vermont Agency of Transportation.
As VTrans Rail Director, Flynn will be responsible for managing the State’s Rail Program, which includes approximately 600 miles of publicly and privately owned rail. The post was previously held by Robert Ide, who left the post about two months ago to become Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles.
Flynn begins his new duties October 13.
Actor Rusty Dewees takes on a new role this morning–encouraging Vermonters to attend a free Button Up Vermont workshop to learn more about reducing their home energy use. “Keeping the warm air in and the cold air out makes a huge difference in savings and comfort,” Dewees says, “but few of us take the time to do much about our drafty homes. Going to one of these Button Up workshops is a good first step.” Dewees will be featured on radio and TV announcements as well as community flyers.
A diverse slate of Champlain College graduates will be honored for their leadership during the College’s 2009 Alumni Leadership Awards ceremony on Saturday, Oct. 24 at ECHO Lake & Science Museum.
According to Alison Johnson, director of alumni relations and annual giving at Champlain, this year’s winners range from a 1959 graduate who worked as a volunteer for the Vt. Department of Corrections for 40 years to a former Champlain College basketball head coach who was named to the New England Basketball Hall of Fame.
Daniel K. Fram, M.D. was named Radiation Oncologist at Central Vermont Medical Center’s new National Life Cancer Treatment Center. Dr. Fram is also affiliated with Department of Radiation Oncology at Fletcher Allen Health Care.
“I feel privileged to be participating in the opening of a new community cancer treatment center,” said Fram. “The most interesting and fulfilling times in my career in radiation oncology have been at community hospitals. My parents and I are all UVM Alumni, so I am pleased to be ‘back home.’”
Vermont Housing Finance Agency has announced its top mortgage loan originators for fiscal year 2009: Michelle Shambo, Chittenden Bank, Middlebury, Addison County; Debbie Corey, Chittenden Bank, Bennington, Bennington County; Susan Laferriere, Union Bank, St. Johnsbury, Caledonia, Essex and Orleans counties; Kelly DeForge, Universal Mortgage Corp., Colchester, Chittenden and Grand Isle counties; Judy Smith, Peoples Trust Co., St.
Anne P. Judson, Saint Michael's College director of graduate education, earned the top Saint Michael’s service award, the Norbert A. Kuntz Service Award, for 2009, as selected by her faculty colleagues and presented at the Academic Convocation September 25 in the Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel on the college campus. Dr. Louis Irwin, widely published neuroscientist, was the principal convocation speaker, talking on “Galileo and His Telescope: Four Centuries of Revelation.”
ARC Mechanical Contractors Inc. has announced that our service manager, Jody Perkins, a Plainfield, NH resident has successfully achieved another NATE certification. Jody, already NATE-certified in service and installation of hydronics – gas, is now NATE-certified in service and installation of light commercial refrigeration.
NATE (North American Technician Excellence) is an independent organization that certifies installation or service technicians with a knowledge-based test.
The Addison County Chamber of Commerce awarded Monument Farms Dairy, located in Weybridge its Business of the Year award which was presented at the Chamber’s Annual Meeting held on September 10th. Recipient for the Chamber’s Citizen of the Year award was also named at the dinner held at the Inn at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus.
Deadra Ashton of Tunbridge has joined Champlain College as a Senior Major Gifts Officer. She comes to Champlain College from Rider University where she served as Director of Gift Planning for both the Rider campus in Lawrenceville, NJ and the Westminster Choir College campus in Princeton. Prior to working at Rider, Ashton held several positions at Princeton Theological Seminary including Director of Planned Giving and Media Production Coordinator.
