HRCU awards 2022 annual scholarships: Seacoast education news
HRCU awards 2022 annual scholarships
ROCHESTER – On June 8, Dana Flanders, HRCU Chairman of the Board of Directors, Brian Hughes, President and CEO, along with board and scholarship committee members awarded eleven local students with college scholarships totaling over $10,000. HRCU’s Scholarship Committee, chaired by Jeanne Grover, said the committee received over 60 applications this year.
“Every year we see a large response to our scholarship program and it’s always a very competitive process with a lot of deserving candidates,” said Hughes. “We are very proud of all our student members that applied, and we wish them all success along their college journey.”
Scholarship recipients this year include: Alexander Bostrom, attending the University of Rhode Island; Chloe Duchesneau, attending Southern New Hampshire University; Shealee Dulin, attending Sacred Heart University; Cameron Green, attending the University of New Hampshire (UNH); Alison Grosky, attending UNH; Isabelle Huggard, attending the University of Richmond; Gage Lamontagne, attending SNHU; Ashlyn Smith, attending High Point University; Shelby South, attending Liberty University and Emily Tan, attending the University of Vermont.
HRCU also awarded Nicholas Gagnon with a scholarship in recognition of his outstanding achievement in HRCU’s Banking and Financial Support Services class at Spaulding High School. Nicholas will attend Northeastern University in the Fall. The banking and finance programs have been taught by HRCU since 2006. HRCU also operates a full-service branch, open to the public at SHS, when school is in session.
A total of 251 scholarships totaling $253,950 has now been awarded by HRCU since the program began in 1996. To learn more about HRCU’s Annual Scholarship Program, please visit: www.hrcu.org/youth/annual-scholarship-program/.
Students receive $20 voucher to local Farmers’ Markets
DOVER – With the completion of the second session of Seacoast Eat Local’s crEATe program, all 320 students in the school (regardless of participation in the program) received a $20 voucher to spend on fruits and vegetables at any of Seacoast Eat Local’s Summer Farmers’ Markets (Dover, Durham, Exeter, Portsmouth).
Launched in January 2022, the crEATe program is a partnership between Seacoast Eat Local (SEL), Red’s Good Vibes, and the Mary C. Dondero Elementary School (grades K-5) in Portsmouth, N.H. The goal is simple: support families to crEATe nutritious meals together while supporting local farmers and food producers in the process by providing recipes, ingredients, and education.
As the second session came to a close, there was leftover funding thanks to the generous support of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Thomas W. Haas Fund. Founders of the crEATe program Celeste Gingras (Seacoast Eat Local) and Caitlyn McGrath-Levesque (Red’s Good Vibes), wanted to keep the connection to local food they built through the program lasting into the summer. With the vouchers, and the hashtag #donderodoings where students can share their visits, they will do just that.
“When we started the program, we had $3,000. Now, we are able to support hundreds of kids in enjoying local, seasonal food this summer,” Gingras said. “Many kids have never been to a farmers’ market before, so this will be a new experience for them. I’m excited to return to the school in the fall and hear about how it went!”
The crEATe program will run a final session at the Dondero School in the fall. Moving forward, the goal is to assist other schools in replicating the model. If you are interested in piloting a crEATe program at your child’s school, please email celeste@seacoasteatlocal.org. To learn more about Seacoast Eat Local’s other latest educational programs, check out our blog at seacoasteatlocal.org/blog.
Great Bay to offer supply chain management courses
PORTSMOUTH - Great Bay Community College will help companies exert more control over their supply chains with new courses offered through the Business and Training Center at the Rochester campus, beginning in September.
The college will partner with the Association for Supply Chain Management Northern New England to offer the Certified Production and Inventory Management exam preparation program. The CPIM certification demonstrates proficiency in supply chain fundamentals and inventory management.
Great Bay will offer CPIM-1, a seven-week course, from Sept. 22 to Nov. 3. Participants will learn an overview of supply chain management, including the fundamentals of demand and inventory, plan supply, and continuous improvement and quality-control techniques. Coursework will cover the manufacture of goods, their procurement, distribution, and sale from perspectives of suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and customers.
CPIM-2 will follow in mid-January and offer a more strategic overview of supply chains, with focus on sales and operations planning, inventory, and distribution.
Paul Moriarty, who has more than 25 years of experience in supply chain operations, will teach the courses. He is an independent consultant and contractor with clients in New England and Canada and is a certified Association for Supply Chain Management instructor with a range of industry and higher education experience.
“Having a long interest in supply chain functionality, I bring in-depth experience, ranging from seeing customer wants, needs, and demands through engineering and operation, to delivery of goods and services,” he said. “I relish in the ‘ah-ha’ moment when I am explaining a concept, and it is understood by those I am teaching.”
The coursework is targeted for people entering and working in production and inventory management, operations, supply chain management, procurement, materials management, purchasing, and planning.
Supply chain interruptions, caused by a myriad of factors, contribute to inflation and economic instability, Moriarty said. Companies that are in control of their supply chains and able to manage them effectively have a competitive edge. “Supply chain issues are having a profound impact in New England,” he said. “And a big issue is having a trained, flexible, workforce that can adapt to changing technologies and processes.”
For more information and to register, visit our website at: www.greatbay.edu/business-community/schedule/.
OLLI at Granite State College announces class preview event
DOVER - OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) at Granite State College will present a Fall Class Preview on Thursday, July 21, at St. John’s United Methodist Church, 28 Cataract Ave., Dover. The program gets underway at 1 p.m.
The Fall Class Preview will provide the opportunity for attendees to meet many class presenters and listen to highlights from their course content. Twenty courses will be offered for the Fall Term in the Seacoast area and there will be over 170 in-person, outdoor adventures, and Zoom courses throughout all four New Hampshire OLLI learning sites.
Everyone is welcome. Attendees who are not yet OLLI members will be able to apply for an annual $40 membership payable by check onsite, if interested. Online and mail registration begins at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, August 2.
For more information about classes, events, membership, and the OLLI organization, visit olli.granite.edu or call 603-513-1377 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
This article originally appeared on Portsmouth Herald: HRCU awards 2022 Annual Scholarships: Seacoast education news
