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30 Worcester Business Journal • May 9, 2016 www.wbjournal.com PHOTO FINISH Unum insurance company, with an office in Worcester, donated $15,000 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Massachusetts/MetroWest in April. MutualOne Bank donated $2,000 to the MetroWest Worker Center, to help the Framingham nonprofit develop a medical advocacy volunteer program to help injured immigrant workers. Niche Hospitality Group staffers built playhouses for families of veterans outside Mezcal Tequila Cantina recently, in support of the mission of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Worcester. OF NOTE Would you like to see your face on the PhotoFinish page? Please send submissions to editorial@wbjournal.com. YOUTH BOOST Colonial Cooperative Bank, with offices in Gardner and Winchendon, donated $5,000 to the Wendell P. Clark Memorial YMCA capital campaign. Pictured (from left) are Ernest P. Fletcher, Walden Whitham and Cindy Landanno of the YMCA Board of Directors; Joseph Guercio, president and CEO, Colonial Cooperative Bank; Michael Quinn, executive director, YMCA; and Y board members David Connor and Tom Kane. STEPPING UP FOR WPI Country Bank sponsored The Next Step Financial Literacy Fair at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Pictured (from left) are Andrew B. Palumbo, Shelley Regin and Rosemarie A. Alicea of WPI; Elizabeth Desjardins, a WPI student; Deborah B. Goldberg, Massachusetts State Treasurer; Jodie M. Gerulaitis of Country Bank; Monica M. Blondin of WPI; bank CEO Paul F. Scully; Jennifer Sheehy of WPI; and Senator Michael O. Moore. MUSIC TO THEIR EARS Fitchburg-based Workers' Credit Union gave $2,500 to Indian Hill Music School's Performathon, a fundraising event. Pictured (from left) are Pete Robbins, director of education, and Susan Randazzo, executive director, Indian Hill Music; and Jeff Turcotte of Workers' Credit Union. GREEN FOR GROWTH Hudson-based Avidia Bank donated $1,000 to the Community Harvest Project in Worcester, to support its Volunteering Farming Program. Pictured (from left) are Danielle Gaudette of Avidia Bank; David Small, Claudia Frazer and Jodi Koeman with Community Harvest Project; and the bank's Rhiannon Hernandez. GENEROSITY RUNS WARM North Brookfield Savings Bank donated $1,500, matching customer donations, to the town's chapter of Hearts for Heat, which provides heating fuel for those on fixed incomes. Pictured (from left) are Tonya Laird, branch manager, North Brookfield Savings Bank, along with Hearts for Heat members Tina Buzzell, Ellen Smith, and Sue and Tom Lewandowski.