Merchants Fleet, a fleet management company in Hooksett, hired Kirk Hoffman as its new senior VP and CFO, replacing Jerry Pavelich, who is retiring. Hoffman most recently served as managing director and head of capital goods and fleet coverage at BNP Paribas.
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Laconia Elks Club, NH Lodge 876, donated $7,000 to support dental services for the residents of Harbor Care’s Boulder Point Veterans Housing facility in Plymouth. The Club also donated an additional $1,500 in new towels and pillows. Boulder Point offers apartments to veterans experiencing homelessness and provides mentoring, case management, and other supportive services to residents. Harbor Care operates the facility in partnership with the White River Junction Veterans Affair Medical Center.
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Step Up Parents in Portsmouth received a $15,000 grant from the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund of the NH Charitable Foundation to support its work with families in the North Country. Step Up Parents helps grandparents and other relatives who step up to raise children whose parents struggle with substance misuse.
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Ryan Bishop was hired as senior VP and managing director of Mascoma Community Development, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mascoma Bank in Lebanon and a registered community development entity. Bishop will lead the community lending team in originating and managing projects funded through various forms of tax credit financing, including New Markets Tax Credits, Historic Tax Credits, and Low- Income Housing Tax Credits. He brings over 20 years’ commercial banking and real estate experience.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded $499,277 to Lamprey Health Care in Newmarket and Raymond to support their Southern NH Area Health Education Center (AHEC) program. This funding will be allocated towards AHEC’s programming around children and caregivers that have been exposed to adverse childhood experiences, as well as expand access to interventions and trauma-informed care.
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PROCON, an integrated design and construction firm in Hooksett, completed a 139-kilowatt solar array that sits atop the company’s headquarters. The array will generate an estimated 154,377-kilowatt (kW) hours of renewable energy each year, offsetting nearly 50% of the company’s electric load and over 151,000 pounds of annual carbon emissions.
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