Device Workshops
AREA — U.S. Cellular will offer free Device Workshops 9-10 a.m. Saturday, June 20, at 403 Wilson St. in Brewer; and 9-10 a.m. Saturday, June 27, at 33 Mid Mall Blvd. in Bangor where current or potential smartphone users can ask questions and learn about any device they are interested in. The workshop is open to everyone, and don’t have to be a U.S. Cellular customer to attend.
For information, call the U.S. Cellular store in Brewer at 989-3291 or Bangor at 942-5218 to RSVP to workshop.
MOT on the Road
BANGOR — The Maine Office of Tourism will host an informational session 10 a.m.-noon Tuesday, June 30, at the Richard E. Dyke Center for Family Business at Husson University.
The MOT on the Road presentations will cover the Office of Tourism’s report from the 2015 Governor’s Conference on Tourism held in March in Augusta, including highlights of the 2014 annual report, the findings of a recent Market Segmentation Study, and an overview of the 2015 marketing plan with additional creative and marketing updates.
Staff from the Office of Tourism will offer instruction on how to post free business listings and events on the state’s tourism website, VisitMaine.com, and other promotional opportunities for the tourism industry.
Tourism focused businesses and organizations are encouraged to attend the free informational sessions to learn what visitor segments may offer the most potential value to their businesses, what the Maine Office of Tourism is doing to build visitation to Maine, and how businesses might align with the state’s tourism marketing campaign in order to benefit from strength in numbers in their own marketing efforts. No registration is required to attend.
Steering committee
BANGOR — The Bangor Region Leadership Institute announced that Lee Anne Boutaugh, Machias Savings Bank; Jason Clay, Governor’s Restaurant and Bakery); Mike Elliott, Lighthouse Solutions; Andrea Littlefield, Maine EPSCoR, University of Maine; Kelly Pearson, EMHS Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals; Joanna Rousey, N.H. Bragg; and Terry White, Beal College, have joined its alumni steering committee.
The volunteer committee works with institute’s program coordinator to develop the curriculum, plan events, maintain finances and drive forward institute’s mission to provide an intensive, regionally-oriented leadership development program that gives potential and emerging leaders the skills, knowledge and on-going support they need to succeed in the greater Bangor community.
The institute is now accepting applications for the Class of 2016, which begins in October and meets monthly until May 2016. For information and an application, go to brliexperience.org.
New vice president
BANGOR — TD Bank announced recently that it has promoted Jeffrey Plourde of Old Town to the position of regional vice president in commercial lending for northern Maine.
Plourde, who received a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1991 and a master’s degree in 2002 from the University of Maine, is a member of the Bangor Area Breakfast Rotary Club, where he will serve as president beginning this summer. He is the incoming president of Katahdin Corporation Inc., a nonprofit organization that supports the local Boy Scout Council. He was nominated recently to serve on the board of directors for the Action Committee of 50 and also is the board chairman for the Old Town Recreation, Education and Community Center.
For information, visit td.com
Business expansion
HAMPDEN — In business since 1978, Schacht’s Hardware and Gift Shop, 13 Main Road North, has added another Maine company to list its of vendors. Shoppers now can find Maine-based Gifford’s ice cream served in a nostalgic ice cream parlor style eatery called Sundaes at Schacht’s.
Located adjacent to the hardware store and gift shop, Sundaes at Schacht’s provides the community a place to meet friends, have a treat or just satisfy a sweet tooth, owner Harry Schacht said.
Sundaes at Schacht’s is open 11 a.m.- 8 p.m. Monday through Sunday.
Planning grant
ORLAND — The Maine Community Foundation recently awarded WERU community radio with a $6,000 grant to be used for strategic planning, particularly around programming, community engagement and development. Comprehensive audience research will be the cornerstone of the strategic planning
For more information, visit weru.org, e-mail info@weru.org or call 469-6600.