Grand openings, ribbon cuttings and lending programs: Seacoast business news
The neighborhood is invited to rejoice MVSB’s Grand Opening in Rochester
ROCHESTER — MVSB (Meredith Village Savings Bank) will be internet hosting a Grand Opening Celebration at their new Rochester Branch at 21 Farmington Road (Route 11), in Rochester, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, June 27. The celebration will aspect giveaways, the giant purple Relay-for-Lifetime chair, and ice cream and cupcakes from Clyde’s Cupcakes truck. All are invited to quit in to meet the workforce, enjoy a handle and see the new business.
“We have been so warmly welcomed by the Lilac Town and we appear forward to exhibiting men and women about MVSB’s wonderful new place of work and celebrating our opening with the local community,” explained Jolene Whitehead, Department and Business enterprise Improvement Supervisor in Rochester.
MVSB has spots during the greater Lakes Location and opened its Portsmouth department in 2017, increasing its footprint to the Seacoast. The Bank’s new Rochester spot will bridge a geographic gap among its two closest areas in Alton and Portsmouth, offering included advantage for present banking shoppers who stay in and all-around the Rochester area or who travel or commute between the Lakes Area and Seacoast regions.
BFA announces $61 million in new lending packages for NH Corporations
Concord — The New Hampshire Small business Finance Authority announced that New Hampshire has been given $61 million in new funding to lend to Granite State businesses. These new money will let New Hampshire organizations higher entry to financing in get to improve in the submit-pandemic financial system.
“100% of these money will be delivered right to New Hampshire enterprises in the form of loans, assures and access to capital by way of our nearby lending partners,” mentioned James Vital-Wallace, Government Director of the New Hampshire Company Finance Authority. “These cash supply an massive option for New Hampshire and will turbo-cost the BFA’s now successful courses that aid organizations grow and produce large-top quality employment.”
“Small businesses are the backbone of our condition and supporting their means to innovate and develop is crucial to our economic climate,” said New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu. “New Hampshire is the very best state in the nation for modest companies, and these cash reveal our determination to keeping New Hampshire at the slicing edge of the country’s financial state.”
“I’m really happy to see these federal resources place to superior use by giving important aid to New Hampshire organizations,” said New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “I’m also specifically very pleased of the variety of our compact companies in search of these financial loans, which consist of veteran, minority and ladies-owned corporations, and enterprises situated in rural places in buy to support pockets of our economic climate that are often underserved. I glance ahead to looking at these corporations expand and thrive, and will continue on to advocate for federal help that invests in our small organization community.”
To deliver financing to qualified organizations, the BFA will work with community financial institution loan companies and regional improvement companies. The BFA will also be providing immediate financial loans to support high-advancement organizations as effectively as permit greater entry to begin-up financing.
Firms fascinated in implementing for a bank loan must arrive at out to their local banking establishment to see if they qualify. For much more data about BFA programs and assets, please visit www.NHBFA.com.
Portsmouth Rotary honors deserving citizens with vocational awards
PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth Rotary Club awarded 5 deserving citizens, once-a-year Portsmouth Rotary Vocational Awards. Paul Harris began Rotary centered on someone’s profession with the name “Rotary” coming from the rotating conferences held amongst members’ perform offices. The aim was to get a single human being from every single of the communities’ several professions contain in a single team so they could satisfy every single other and be part of in furnishing services to the local community – or as Rotary is known for declaring “Service previously mentioned Self.”
Vocational Provider is the next of Rotary’s avenues of provider (the other folks getting club services, group services, youth service, and international provider). Vocation is of founding great importance to Rotary. Each 12 months, Portsmouth Rotary provides 4 awards to non-Rotarian associates of the neighborhood who stroll the wander and speak the chat of assistance over self in their neighborhood devoid of any expectation of recognition. Recipients are offered with a plaque and their selection of a regional charity to which $500 is will be donated in their identify.
About the last few of months, the users of the Portsmouth Rotary had been asked to nominate non-rotarian folks in the neighborhood they thought were being deserving of this kind of an award. There was an remarkable pool of worthy nominations and there is obviously no scarcity of excellent civic-minded citizens in our local community.
The subsequent have been selected along with their charities of choice:
Community Services- Tricia Donohue (donating to Portsmouth Neighborhood Yard)
Standard- Joanne Moore (New & Yet again Thrift Store)
Education and learning- Anne Weidman & Steve Jones (donating to The Chase Property)
Wellness & Human Companies- Lenore Sciuto (donating to One Sky Group Services).
Bigger Rochester Chamber of Commerce retains ribbon slicing ceremony to rejoice new Meredith Village Personal savings Lender Department
ROCHESTER — A ribbon chopping ceremony was held to rejoice the opening of MVSB new department business located at 21 Farmington Highway in Rochester on June 21. Representatives from the Chamber, Town, Financial institution staff, and neighborhood members ended up present to celebrate.
MVSB’s Rochester workplace was developed by Warrenstreet Architects, Inc. and construction was managed by Conneston Construction, Inc. The place of work marries the warmth of a neighborhood lender with highend technologies. It is a heat and inviting site with a good deal of parking, travel up banking, a self-service coin counter and an ATM.
Mayor Paul Callaghan congratulated Meredith Village Personal savings Financial institution on their new location and welcomed them to Rochester.
Northeast Credit history Union announces 2022 scholarship recipients
PORTSMOUTH — 20-3 hardworking university student users have formally been chosen as recipients of Northeast Credit score Union’s 2022 Scholarship Awards.
Inside of the scholarship plan, $40,000 was awarded to pupil members in New Hampshire and Maine who exhibited exceptional management, compassion, and motivation to lecturers, extracurriculars, and their communities.
This 12 months, the method awarded college students from 16 distinctive educational institutions. Northeast Credit Union introduced the 2022 scholarship recipients in your spot:
Peter J. Kavalauskas Memorial Scholarship: Mason Rogers, Exeter Large Faculty
Philip W. Sullivan Memorial Scholarship: Michael Schoff, Portsmouth Superior College
Enjoy Your Group Scholarship: Tyler Sheedy, Dover Superior School Margaret Parker, Dover Regional Occupation Technological Center Shay Gillis, Exeter Higher School Maggie Fernandes, Exeter Higher School Gabrielle Madore, Newmarket Junior-Senior Superior School Elijah Tetreault, Noble Large School Molly McCafferty, Portsmouth Superior School Lydia Pease, Sanford Large School Emma Boudreau, Spaulding Substantial School DeAndre Rawls, Spaulding Significant School Isabella Cunha, Virtual Mastering Academy and Constitution School.
Dover Chamber welcomes new associates
DOVER — The Increased Dover Chamber of Commerce recently held ribbon cuttings to welcome new members to the chamber and to celebrate the relocation of a present member. Consisting of in excess of 430 present-day associates, the Increased Dover Chamber of Commerce has acquired 36 new members due to the fact the get started of 2022. The new and relocating members include things like:
CarePatrol of New Hampshire and York County is a dependable placement business for assisted living, unbiased living, memory treatment amenities, and nursing households. They provide senior living selections dependent on care requirements and good quality of lifetime for loved kinds and the services is absolutely free to neighborhood associates. CarePatrol has a three-phase method to guarantee protection, high quality, and peace of brain. By inquiring some individual issues, they match loved types with a group that greatest suits his or her demands. Then they will examine treatment solutions, existing the major a few matches, and offer private tours of each choice. To discover a lot more, visit www.carepatrol.com or connect with 603-842-4002.
Excellent Bay Yacht Club has remained real to its mission of fostering the sport of sailing in the Great Bay region considering that 1958. Customers of the GBYC manage at least 3 regattas just about every calendar year, like two laser regattas and the yearly MerryMac regatta. GBYC is a close-knit team of sailing lovers, and the club has two sailboats, Helpful Cat and MerryMac, for club members to use, along with a kayak rack. They have 11 moorings in the discipline, which are available for rental by customers, and they also offer you a mooring at the Isles of Shoals for member use. GBYC has partnered with the Gundalow Business to host a youth sailing method each yr to further their mission to encourage sailing. Upcoming calendar year, for the club’s 65th Anniversary, GBYC programs to sponsor a Gala Celebration and Regatta to coincide with the Dover 400 celebration. To learn additional about Excellent Bay Yacht Club, visit www.greatbayyachtclub.org.
Match Chamber, situated at 334 Central Ave. in Dover, is a nearby gaming and pastime retail outlet specializing in board games, tabletop miniature online games, collectible card online games, and job-taking part in online games. Operator Cory Chambers envisions Recreation Chamber as a location for Dover and region inhabitants to uncover, take a look at out, and enjoy online games. The store has open areas for shoppers to participate in online games, which permits people to attempt out and find out video games ahead of purchasing them. At Video game Chamber, there are games for small children and families, as very well as much more strategic and difficult video games for adults and their close friends. The Recreation Chamber now hosts absolutely free board game evenings every Wednesday. Sport Chamber is open each and every day apart from Monday. To study additional and to continue to be up to date on sport nights and functions, visit www.fb.com/GameChamberNH or www.gamechambernh.com.
Central Sew, located at 458 Central Ave., is intended to be a a person-prevent shop for individuals who sew. The keep has a extensive stock of fabric, thread, zippers, and other stitching materials. The retailer also functions a present store showcasing regional, one of a kind things. Proprietor Alissa Gagnon believes Dover wanted a stitching offer keep, as the closest supply retailers are in Newington or Rochester. The new place will be effortless for stitching fanatics in the Dover location. Gagnon begun sewing 10 yrs ago and she is now a longtime crafter and quilter. She’s on the lookout ahead to sharing this passion with other folks who are fascinated. Central Sew is operating towards eventually hosting stitching classes and growing functions with tailor made orders. To understand much more about Central Sew and what the retail store has to supply phone 603-343-4361.
The Groovy Witch, a girls garments boutique, has adjusted its area. They are now running at 332 Central Ave. in Dover, which is right beside fellow chamber associates Recreation Chamber and Ryder Avenue Co. The eyesight of Groovy Witch operator Jaime Szopa has generally been to creatively merge her like of style and devotion to the metaphysical into a enjoyment working experience for all. The boutique gives attire, tops, pants, skirts, sweaters, jewellery and add-ons, children’s garments, and even metaphysical things like incense sticks and dried herbs. Stop by The Groovy Witch at their new area Tuesday by Saturday from 12 to 6 p.m., or on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Discover a lot more about the objects supplied at the boutique by visiting www.groovywitch.com or calling 207-305-0097.