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W W W. M A I N E B I Z . B I Z 7 J U N E 2 4 , 2 0 1 9 infrastructure project at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery. e contract, announced June 15 by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, calls for Cianbro to expand an outdated warehouse facility that will help the shipyard receive, inspect and distribute submarine components for worldwide fleet support. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has an annual economic impact of $882 million, according to the latest annual report from the Seacoast Shipyard Association. e shipyard employed a total of 6,972 civilians in 2018, of which 3,894 are from Maine. N O T E W O R T H Y S O U T H E R N Maine Academy of Modern Music in Portland announced that a grant through the Maine Community Foundation allowed it to expand its programming in Bangor this summer, in partnership with Launchpad and the Bangor Arts Exchange. Evergreen Home Performance LLC, a Portland-based contractor specializing in residential energy efficiency retro- fits, said it was approved by Marvin to become an authorized replace- ment contractor for window and door replacement services. Southern Maine Health Care announced its Sports Performance Center and Maine Medical Partners Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Program will pro- vide Certified Athletic Training Services for Global Premier Soccer Maine. Maine Women's Fund in Falmouth awarded $132,550 in grants to 14 nonprofit organizations in Maine dedicated to transforming the lives of women and girls. Full Plates Full Potential, a state- wide childhood hunger organization in Portland, awarded a total of $77,540 in grants to 35 sites to help more chil- dren eat during the summertime. Southern Maine Community College in South Portland, in partnership with MaineHealth, launched the NorDx Phlebotomy School to train people to become phlebotomists to provide MaineHealth with the workers needed for future growth while improving ca- reer opportunities for Maine residents. The college also said its foundation raised $70,000 at its A Light on the Point fundraiser to benefit students and its public safety programs. Hospice of Southern Maine in Scarborough announced the public An MBA with an understanding of real-life business situations In the May 2, 2005, issue of Mainebiz, one story that jumps out is a profile of Ramat Oyetunji, who earned an MBA and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Maine. While in the MBA program, she worked full-time as project engineer at Georgia Pacific. "Because I've done quite a number of internships and because I'm working, I can understand some of the real-life situations that the textbooks are talking about," she said in a first-person piece. A 2016 profile in the UMaine alumni publication incidcated that she went on to work at Procter & Gamble before leaving to start a financial advisory and to write a book, "Fifty Shades of Green: A Stock Market Guide for the Financially Independent-minded Woman." Alas, as much as Maine needs people with her training and leadership, she is now based in Pennsylvania. SP ONSORED BY FUN FACT Amid the blitz of flip phones advertising in a 2005 issue of Mainebiz, there was a report on a failed plan to tax kayaks in Maine. On one hand, there are a lot of them, so the state Legislature might have been onto something. But, as Mainebiz reported in its April 4 "Credits & Debits" column, it was "good to see common sense prevailing in Augusta."

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