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V O L . X X I X N O. X V I I I A U G U S T 2 1 , 2 0 2 3 24 [ N E W H I R E S ] Community Concepts Inc., a Community Action Agency and nonprofit organiza- tion in Lewiston, hired Danielle Parent as senior director of strategic initiatives and Arin Angell as asset manager. Parent was previously chief growth officer at Sweetser and Angell has worked in the affordable housing industry since 2014. KFS Mortgage Co. LLC, the Waterville- based lending cor- poration that is a wholly owned sub- sidiary of Kennebec Savings Bank, hired Sabrina Johnson as director of mortgage production. BroGue Insurance & Financial Services in Bangor hired Elaine Allen as a per- sonal lines account manager. Verrill, a law firm in Portland, hired Erik Peters as partner in the firm's labor and employment group. The Maine Department of Health and Human Services in Augusta hired Puthiery Va as director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, effective Aug. 28. Va is currently director of the Division of Public Health in Chinle, Ariz., serving the population of the Indian Health Service Navajo Area Chinle Service Unit. Rinck Advertising in Lewiston hired Karli Wedge as social media manager. New England Cancer Specialists in Scarborough hired Elizabeth Dennis to lead its new High- Risk Cancer Genetics Program and Seth Blanchard as director of market- ing and communications. St Germain, an environmental, EHS compliance and engineering firm in Westbrook, hired Isaiah Bates as an environmental scientist. The Brunswick Downtown Association hired Lynn Mansfield as executive director. Maine Association of Nonprofits in Portland hired John Clark as program coordinator and Anna Overstrom-Coleman as membership manager. Clark was most recently with Windham Parks and Recreation and Overstrom-Coleman was a philanthropic advisor. Franklin Savings Bank hired Meg Loubier as vice president, com- mercial loan officer. Penobscot Financial Advisors in Portland hired Rebecca Schuman as an associate advisor. Sevee & Maher Engineers in Cumberland hired Stephen Dyer and Jaime Madore as engineers and Nicholas Sabatine and Aaron Martin as geologists. [ P R O M O T I O N S ] Norway Savings Bank promoted Kimberly Bean to trust asso- ciate of its asset management group. Bean was previously a customer relations representative in the Bank's Portland market branches. Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership in Augusta promoted Jim Fay to president, effective Nov. 20. Fay cur- rently serves as operations manager. Indigo Arts Alliance in Portland promoted Jordia Benjamin to executive director. Benjamin was deputy director. Rinck Advertising in Lewiston promoted Libby Belanger to assistant project manager. Belanger was a project coordinator. Kaplan Thompson Architects in Portland promoted Adrienne Stauffer to principal. Franklin Savings Bank in Farmington promoted Cortany Tinker to consumer loan officer. Opus Consulting, a business perfor- mance consulting group in Portland, promoted Nick Des Lauriers to COO. Des Lauriers was previously a senior consultant with the firm. [ A P P O I N T M E N T S ] American Council of Engineering Companies of Maine elected officers for its board of directors. Theresa Patten of Credere Associates was named president; Mark Adams, Sebago Technics, president-elect and alternate national director; Andy Blaisdell, GZA GeoEnvironmental, treasurer; Kevin Cooley, Kleinschmidt Associates, secretary; and Dan Diffin, Sevee & Maher Engineers, immediate past president and national director. Elected as state direc- tors were Andrea Dickinson, Haley Ward; Peggy Duval, Kleinfelder; Paul Godfrey, HNTB Corp,; Theresa McAuliffe, McFarland Johnson; Lauren Meek, Stantec Consulting; Mike St. Pierre, S. W. Cole; and Ryan Wingard, Wright-Pierce. Bath Housing added Roberta Jordan, Toby Gabranski and Erik Nelson to its board. Jordan was a librarian at the Patten Free Library and school manager at the K-8 Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb, Gabranski is owner and founder of Tobias Gabranski/Architects and Nelson is an associate professor of economics at Bowdoin College. The Maine Mutual Group in Presque Isle elected Donald Perkins and Jon Prescott to three-year terms on its board of directors. The National Association of Secretaries of State selected Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows as a volunteer represen- tative on the Election Infrastructure Subsector Government Coordinating Council for the 2023-2024 term. Verrill, a law firm in Portland, said that Jonathan Dunitz was one of five attorneys in the state appointed as a member of the State of Maine Supreme Judicial Court's Access to Justice Tax Credit Committee. He will serve until December 31, 2027. [ A C H I E V E M E N T S ] Trekkers, a youth mentoring organi- zation in Rockland, said it is now certified by the National Disability Mentoring Coalition, in partnership with MENTOR, to run mentoring programs, activities and events that are inclusive to youth, volunteers and staff with disabilities. Katahdin Bankshares Corp., the par- ent company of Katahdin Trust Co. in Houlton, said it was named one of American Banker's "Top 200 Community Banks in the U.S." based on financial performance for the fourth consecutive year. The Maine Film Center in Waterville named "We Are the Warriors" as its Tourmaline Prize for best feature film, "See You In April" its Tourmaline Prize for best short film and "What I Want You to Know" as its Audience Favorite Award winner at the 26th annual Maine International Film Festival. UScellular announced that, for the fourth year in a row, it received a top score of 100 on the Disability Equality Index and has been recog- nized as a "Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion." RE/MAX Shoreline in Portland said that for the second quarter agents Harper Lee Collins, Erin Finley, Dawn Marston, Tom Ranello, Nick Guerrette and Scott Sheppard were included amongst the "Top-10 RE/MAX Individual Agents for 2023 YTD." Newsworthy people and performances I N S H O R T To submit new hires, promotions, appointments, or achievements to Mainebiz, send your press release to editorial@mainebiz.biz. Items are run at the discretion of the editorial staff, and in the order in which they were received. Arin Angell Jaime Madore Stephen Dyer Aaron Martin Karli Wedge Sabrina Johnson Danielle Parent Lynn Mansfield Cortany Tinker Nicholas Sabatine Libby Belanger Elaine Allen Meg Loubier Kimberly Bean Puthiery Va Jonathan Dunitz

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