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20 Worcester Business Journal | January 23, 2017 | wbjournal.com P H O T O F I N I S H Would you like to see your face on the Photo Finish page? Please send submissions to editorial@wbjournal.com. Holiday hosting UMass Memorial Medical Center Department of Nursing hosted the Worcester Area Department of Children and Families holiday party for more than 500 foster children and foster parents at the DCU Center, which donated the space, refreshments and a chocolate fountain. Robert Carlin Photography Inc. donated his photography services; UMass Medical School Police Department led an event where 18 cruisers were stuffed full of toys and games for the children; and Worcester Community Connections gifted the children with hundreds of books. Pictured (from left) are Erin Legier, Mary Bonner and Julie McMahon, UMass Memorial Medical Center nurse managers who volunteered for the event. Attorney honored Marvin S. Silver, a partner in the law firm of Christopher, Hays, Wojcik and Mavricos LLP – with offices in Worcester and Westborough – is included in the 2017 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, in the practice area of trusts and estates. In addition, Silver has been named Best Lawyers' 2017 Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year in Worcester. He is a resident of Westborough. Art encouragement Worcester-based Bay State Savings Bank sponsored a photography program at Worcester's Claremont Academy, to instruct junior high schoolers in the art of digital photography with a focus on Worcester neighborhoods. On display the bank's Mill Street branch, a director of the bank, Gerald Power, asked about purchasing one of the photos, unaware it was the work of Fernando Matos, 13. He hopes the money can help Matos further study photography. Pictured (from left) are Lemonia Mironidis, manager of the Mill Street branch, Country Bank; Matos; Angelica Bowman, Matos' mother; and Nastasia Lawton-Sticklor, Matos' photography instructor through the Hiatt Center for Urban Education at Clark University in Worcester. Wishes granted The Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School's Business Technologies Program matched wish lists of 98 needy children with volunteers, who donated items to the children through South Middlesex Opportunity Council. Assabet also raised money with its auto detailing services to pay for grocery and gasoline gift cards for the families. Meal makers Pete's Tire Barns of Gardner donated and delivered 100 hams and 100 bags of potatoes to the Gardner Community Action Committee Food Pantry. Pictured (from left) are Amy Sanden, Pete's Tire Barns; and Julie Meehan of the Gardner Community Action Committee.