Salem News
Going pink not about the green
October 24, 2012
Local businesses mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month
The pink hangers and giant pink ribbons on the bags at Beverly Cleaners are not for decoration.
They are there for Breast Cancer Awareness Month and are one way that owner Hoang “Ritchie” Phan, 37, is connecting to the local community through his dry-cleaning store.
“This is not about business,” Phan said, “it’s about smiling. It’s about helping someone who has breast cancer look nice and feel good. That’s normal.”
Phan is one of a few local business owners who, during the month of October, purchase unique “pink” products from their regular suppliers to sell or display to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For small businesses like Beverly Cleaners, the reasons have little to do with making money.
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Salem News
(Op Ed) Running: A cultural education
September 25, 2012
I’ve discovered that you can learn quite a bit about a country’s culture when you’re a runner. For example, I’ve recently been struck by two extremes of dog care: the non-interference, leave-them-alone, sometimes-leave-out-scraps-of-food attitude of people in Thailand, and the take-them-to-doggie-day-care, wrap-up-their-poop-in-little-blue-plastic-bags, hire-a-dog-sitter-when-you-go-anywhere protectiveness of people in America.
If you’re a morning runner — like me — you see all sorts of things that late risers don’t. Such as the people who walk their dogs on West Beach in Beverly, despite the “Absolutely No Dogs Year Round” sign at the entrance. In fact, I’ve become nodding-hello-as-we-pass friends with a brown-haired woman who walks her highly energetic collie on the beach every morning. The collie’s name is Max.
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Dallas Business Journal
Arpey discusses decision to leave American
March 12, 2012
Four months after retiring as CEO ofAmerican Airlines parent AMR Corp.,Gerard Arpey said Friday that he still believes he made the right decision to step down and hand the reins to current CEO Thomas Horton.
“I really believed then, as I do now, that he was a better man for the job,” Arpey said in an on-stage interview hosted by a Massachusetts college.
Arpey made what were likely his most extensive remarks since stepping down as chairman and CEO of American.
AMR (AAMRQ: PK) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Nov. 29, 2011.
Arpey told approximately 275 guests at the Boston breakfast that he had hoped to avoid filing for bankruptcy and tried to win employee concessions to cut costs.
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Boston Globe North
Endicott College’s December grads hunt jobs in the offseason
December 15, 2011
BEVERLY – This Christmas, Rebecca Haile, 22, will be bringing home a degree in business administration, a minor in English, and a slew of internship experiences. Having attended Beverly Middle and High schools, Haile is now a dean’s list student graduating from her hometown’s local college.
Haile will join approximately 30 other Endicott undergraduates receiving degrees in December instead of with most of their classmates in May, and will enter the job market in the middle of the holiday season. Some of these December graduates are adult learners earning their degree at an accelerated pace, and others like Haile, are graduating a semester early.
Rebecca Haile and Christopher Durocher
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Salem News
(Op Ed) My View: Missing Zimbabwe, but still feeling at ‘home’ for Christmas
December 13, 2011
I learned who Bing Crosby was in 2005 during my first Christmas in America. Crosby’s bright smile and rich, deep voice floated out from my grandparents’ television as he sang “I’ll be Home for Christmas.”
My family had come from Zimbabwe to live in New Jersey for 10 months and I’d seen my first snow 30 days earlier on Thanksgiving morning. It was quite a change from the sunny, 70-degree December weather I was used to.
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Boston.com
Young Salem artists create Guatemalan kite for community service
November 1, 2011
SALEM, Mass. — Last year the Torch Club, a group of 10-12 year-olds at the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Salem, learnted about Haitian art, Guatemalan textiles and Japanese Manga in an art culture course. This fall their most recent project has been to make a large, Guatemalan-style kite to benefit ArtCorps, a nonprofit group based in Ipswich, Mass, which uses art for community development in Central America.
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Salem News
College student treat local food pantries
October 28, 2011
BEVERLY — The Halloween schedule at Endicott College has the usual pumpkin painting, costume parties, haunted castle tour and ghost stories. But it also includes a weeklong food drive called Halloween for the Hungry.
“We don’t get a pouring-out of food,” said Lauri Rawls, 44, director of community service at Endicott. “But we received a good amount last year.”
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Lauri Rawls discusses service options with an Endicott student
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Salem News
Crafts fair, bake sale to benefit babies with heart defect
October 20, 2011
DANVERS — When Anna-mary Geist was pregnant with her second child, she visited a funeral home. Doctors had warned that her unborn son would have only a few hours to live, and she thought she had better prepare.
But Sam, who was born Sept. 1, 2010, with a congenital heart defect, is healthy and strong today, following two surgeries. His mother is grateful and hopeful for his future.
Isabelle Ouimette with Andre (left) and Anna-mary Geist with Sam (right).
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Boston.com and Salem News
African drums beat new rhythms for Endicott students
October 4, 2011
BEVERLY, Mass – Even as a student at Harvard Business School and a business consultant after graduation, Greg Coles’ first love has always been singing, drumming and dancing. “I can’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t dancing,” he said.
On Saturday, Oct 8th the 50-year-old dance instructor will be teaching an African Dance workshop at Endicott College and is bringing his drums. The workshop is part of a test run for introducing an African dance course at Endicott in the near future. “It’s still in the works,” said Nicole Sao Pedro, 28, Coordinator of Dance and Head coach of the Dance Team at Endicott. “But this workshop is for students to be introduced to African dance, to more cultural dance.
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Boston.com and Salem News
Salem State to host immigrant film and its creator
September 29, 2011
SALEM — Born in Santander, Spain, Jesus Nebot came to America in 1996 to expand his acting career. Fifteen years later, the 47-year-old has acted in, written and directed a variety of projects and now is using his success in the entertainment industry to raise awareness about issues such as immigration.
“I am committed to films that have something to say, to socially relevant films,” he said.
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Salem News
Beverly mom earns Women to Watch award from CPA group
September 28, 2011
BEVERLY — Roberta Chirco, 31, a certified public accountant and tax manager at Carin, Charron & Rosen, has just had a baby girl.
With four years’ experience as a mother, Chirco also has 10 years’ experience as an accountant. Recently, she was honored as an emerging leader in the 2011 Women to Watch Awards by the Massachusetts Society for Certified Public Accountants, who recognized her as a woman making significant contributions in her profession and her community.
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Roberta Chirco
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Salem News
Peabody High Class of ’46 gathers, remembers
September 26, 2011
DANVERS — Members of the Peabody High School Class of 1946 did not have to learn about World War II in their history classes — they lived through it as teenagers.
“The school let us leave three months early for training,” said Charles Lawrence, 83, whose yearbook ambition — “to be in the U.S. Navy” — was fulfilled as a senior in high school.
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Salem News
Beverly art studios celebrate opening
September 21, 2011
BEVERLY — After facing bankruptcy and foreclosure at the end of 2008, the old mill building that once housed the Redbrick Arts Center has been empty for a year and a half.
On Saturday, however, with a new name and a renovated look, the Open Studios at Porter Mill will celebrate its grand opening and introduce its 25 artists to the public.
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Bea Modisett stands in her Beverly studio
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Salem News
Beverly Cultural Council calls for creative grant applications
September 12, 2011
Beverly, MA—When Lucas Spivey, 27, left Seattle eleven months ago, it was to become the new exhibitions manager at Montserrat College of Art. Arriving in Beverly, however, he found a thriving arts community, jumped in and as a result, recently began a three-year term on the Beverly Cultural Council (BCC).
“I joined (the BCC) as an independent gallery owner,” he said, “to add youth and a different line of experience to the committee.”
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Lucas Spivey
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