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InTouchInTouchInTouch MONTHLY NEWSLETTER MAY 2013
50 ELM STREET, WATERVILLE, ME 04901 • TEL: (207) 873-3315 • FAX: (207) 877-0087
[email protected] • www.midmainechamber.com
Brad Fisher, Chair of the Board • Kimberly N. Lindlof, President & CEO
By Bruce Harrington, Chair of the B2B Planning Committee
MMCC Business to Business
Showcase – A Success!
So, you've joined the Chamber. Now what?
Here are a few things you can do to take full
advantage of your chamber membership.
Let's start with marketing opportunities.
Fill out your web page. Every member has
a web page where you can enter your contact
information, upload a photo or logo, provide
links to your email and web site, directions,
contact person, and a brief description of
your business in the “about us” section. The
Chamber website gets hundreds of thousands
of hits each year, so please keep your page up
to date.
There are many advertising and sponsor-
ship opportunities in such publications as the
InTouch newsletter, Living Better in Mid-
Maine Guide Book Map & Guide, and the
Community Connection. Use the People
News, Member News and Member Calendar
sections of the InTouch Newsletter to inform
fellow members of important events and
changes in your firm.
The chamber organizes many events dur-
ing the year that you can sponsor as well,
such as the Taste of Greater Waterville and
the Golf Classic. Call or email the office to
find out how. Or better yet, visit in person
and drop off some business cards and bro-
chures to display.
Continue to spread the word, and save a
few bucks too by participating in the Cham-
ber Advantage Discount Program. This free
program is available for all chamber mem-
bers; just present your Chamber Advantage
Discount Card to participating businesses to
receive the discount. Participating in the gift
certificate program is also free. Both of these
programs are great ways to encourage people
to shop locally and get word out about your
business.
How to Utilize Your Chamber Membership By Shawn Little
The new location, a great cross-section of
products and services, and hundreds of busi-
ness people made the 2013 MMCC Business
to Business Showcase the most successful
yet! The changes made to the showcase this
year helped to enhance what was already a
great event in the Mid-Maine region. The
most noticeable change was in the location
and size. The showcase was held at Colby
College in the field house for the first time,
which helped to alleviate some space and
parking issues that had been felt in the past.
The new location supported 146 booths this
year, up from 120 in 2012, with room to add
another 30 or so as the event grows.
Businesses could find everything needed to
be successful – from CPA’s, attorneys, and
bankers, to people who could design and
print marketing materials, set up and main-
tain complex computer and phone networks,
or people who could find the people needed
to staff the business. In addition, several local
colleges were represented to help train our
workforce, and a number of economic devel-
opment organizations were at the showcase
to help businesses who were interested in
expanding into or within our region.
Perhaps most important in a successful
showcase is the foot traffic. The focus of the
showcase was on business to business – busi-
ness products and services for businesses and
business people. We had hundreds of visitors
to the showcase throughout the afternoon –
almost all of whom came with a business
card and were admitted for free. This means
that almost everyone who attended the show-
case fit the target market. In fact, many of our
vendors reported doing business at the show
or setting up follow-up meetings with people
who visited their booths to discuss doing
some business. One vendor told me that
she was able to set more appointments with
potential clients that visited her booth
throughout the day than she expected –
enough to certainly justify her coming back
to the showcase as a vendor again next
year.
Feedback received from attendees was
also very positive. I spoke to the owner of a
new business that was able to make several
key connections to help grow her business.
Another attendee told me about marketing
help that he needed and was able to find at
one of our vendors’ booths. The Colby recep-
tion that followed consisted of great food and
great networking to end the night.
This was a great event for chamber mem-
bers and business people looking to do busi-
ness with our members. We have started
planning for next year’s event and are excited
about the possibilities. If you are interested in
being involved in the planning, please contact
Christian Savage at the Mid-Maine Chamber
office.
Highlights in this Issue:
P. 2: From the President’s Chair
P. 2: Network Security
P. 4: Member Events Calendar
P. 6: Small Business Tips
P. 8: Biz Spotlight: Lakewood
Continuing Care
Continued on Page 5
The 2013 B2B Showcase at Colby College.
- Kimberly
Business After Hours: Page 2
From the
President’s Chair
MacKenzie Landscaping 372 Augusta Road, Winslow
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Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and drinks.
Door prizes, 50/50 raffle & other fabulous prizes!
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Thank you to our
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As Memorial Day approaches to
kick off the summer tourism sea-
son, let me tell you about the
direct marketing dollars that the
Kennebec Valley Tourism Coun-
cil (KVTC), on which I sit, has
allocated to 4 local non-profit entities in our
region to promote their initiatives to tourists.
First let me say that you must be a member in
good standing of KVTC in order to apply for
the marketing partnership program. So these
four entities: Waterville Main Street, Water-
ville Opera House, Maine International Film
Festival (MIFF) and the Taste of Greater
Waterville (MMCC) paid a combined total of
$800 in dues and gained a gross total of
$6,325.00 in marketing funds for our region!
A recent Maine Arts Commission study esti-
mates a $750,000 economic impact over the ten
days of MIFF – extraordinary! Please be mind-
ful of the tourist entering our region and con-
tributing to our local economy. If your em-
ployees need a free, quick and easy tutorial to
hone their customer service skills, go to
www.welcomeMEtraining.com to take the
online tutorial. It’s easy and each person who
completes it can print off a certificate to post at
your workplace. I recommend taking the hour
to complete it.
As always, the greater Waterville area will be
filled with fun things to do this summer.
Please keep an eye on our Web site calendar at
www.midmainechamber.com, and if you have
any events, please feel free to add them --
they’re a member benefit!
Bowdoin Photography
Full Service Office Supplies Retail Store and Furniture Showroom
in Downtown, Skowhegan
The Paper Klip
New & Used Furniture
A Local, Independent, Family- Owned & Operated Company
www.WarrensOfficeSuppplies.com 800.924.9006
Pardon me…but your Network is
showing! By Scott MacDonald
How much would a cyber-attack cost your company? What if I were to bet you $188,000
that I could break into your network in 5 minutes, would you take that bet? Statistics show
us that I’d likely win over 70 percent of the time. In fact, according to a 2012 nationwide
study by Symantec and the National Cyber Security Alliance, 71 percent of small businesses
are dependent on the internet for daily operations. Yet almost half believe that data hacks
are ‘isolated incidents’ that won’t impact their business. But the horrific truth is that cyber-
attacks cost small and medium sized businesses an average of $188,242 and almost two-
thirds of victimized companies are forced out of business within six months of being
attacked!
We’ve all heard the horror stories and in fact probably know someone in the area that has
been hacked or works at a company that has had a breach. Let me bring this even closer to
home and ask each of you for your consideration to the following: The majority of personal
and small business routers used today are branded either Linksys or Netgear. Now, most of
us have what we feel is a secure password on our router and someone would have to crack
that code to get any kind of access. The problem is this… I DON’T NEED YOUR PASS-
WORD TO HACK YOU! Just typing the standard IP address 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1
into my browser, I now have access to your router interface. If I were to see it’s a Linksys
router, I would simply log in with NO USERNAME and the password ‘admin’. So what
could I do now? Well, I could listen in on all of your browsing sessions and see everything
you’re entering on, say, your banking site.
Continued on Page 3
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Spring Clean-Up: Universal Waste Solutions
From computer monitors
to light bulbs, nearly all
organizations use – and
therefore eventually dis-
pose of – items classified as universal waste.
While the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce
has offered a universal waste collection day in
years past, this member service has become
unnecessary as several Mid-Maine Chamber
members now offer this important service to
businesses and non-profits in our region. This
year, we will instead be providing information
on the resources available to businesses and
organizations looking to dispose of universal
waste items.
Because of the nature of universal wastes,
as well as to comply with governmental regu-
lation, it is important to understand how and
where to properly dispose of these items. Uni-
versal wastes include:
Electronic devices and appliances, includ-
ing computers and computer peripherals,
televisions, microwaves, etc.
Certain batteries, including button cells,
lithium ion, alkaline with mercury, and
others
Cathode ray tubes, or CRTs
Certain lamps, including HID and fluores-
cent bulbs, both coated and uncoated
Mercury devices, including thermometers
Ballasts, both polychlorinated biphenyl
and non-PCB, transformers, and capaci-
tors
The following Mid-Maine Chamber mem-
bers provide universal waste disposal and re-
cycling services to businesses specifically.
Check with your chosen facility beforehand
for specific guidelines on universal waste, as
well as fees associated with its disposal.
Central Maine Disposal
6 Gerald Terrace
Fairfield, ME 04937
www.centralmainedisposal.com
Contact: (207) 872-8257
Wastes accepted: Electronics such as televi-
sions and computers.
Skills, Inc. Recycling
60 Industrial Street
Waterville, ME 04901
www.skillsrecycling.com
Contact: (207) 877-0522
Wastes accepted: Computers, servers, laptops,
peripherals, monitors, and networking and
telecommunications electronics.
Home Depot
60 Waterville Commons
Drive
Waterville, ME 04901
www.homedepot.com
Contact: (207) 873-9299
Wastes accepted: Compact fluorescent bulbs,
rechargeable batteries, and cell phones.
OneSteel Maine
25 Ayer Street
Oakland, ME 04963
www.onesteelusa.com
Contact: (207) 465-2212
Wastes accepted: Metal-based appliances.
Pine Tree Waste, Inc.
3 Robert LaFleur Road
Waterville, ME 04901
www.casella.com
Contact: (800) 639-6205
Wastes accepted: Lamps, PCB ballasts, batter-
ies, CRTs, mercury thermometers, mercury
thermostats, mercury devices, and electronics.
eWaste Recycling Solutions
100 Bark Mulch Drive
Auburn, ME 04210
www.ewastemaine.com
Contact: Dean Smith at (207) 841-2025 or
Wastes accepted: Cathode ray tubes (CRTs)
and electronics.
As you tackle this year’s spring cleaning,
make use of the services provided by your
fellow Chamber members! More information
on universal waste and its disposal can be
found at www.maine.gov/dep/hazardouswaste.
I could also change the DNS servers on
the network to redirect you to identity
theft websites. Basically, once this open-
ing is found the hacker is as good as in
your company’s front door scouring eve-
rything from passwords to banking infor-
mation, etc. Still not convinced? Well,
when’s the last time that you’ve gotten an
email from a friend that looked like this:
“Your UPS package couldn’t be delivered,
Click Here to track UPS.” Or perhaps an
email from your friend that says, “you
won’t believe this, Click here to check it
out… xytefhjnxyt.” Just by opening
these emails, you could very possibly give
hackers access to your internal network.
My strong recommendation for those
of you who haven’t changed your router
password; Put down this article and
change it immediately! If you feel you
need additional information, I’d strongly
recommend you talk to a technology com-
pany with expertise in this field.
This article was written by Scott Mac-
Donald, Partner of Maine Technology
Group.
Network Continued from page 2
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4
May 1: KVCOG is hosting a FREE Work-
shop regarding “Current Use” Property Tax
Programs for Farm and Woodlot Owners and
their Communities from the Department of
Agriculture, Conservation and
Forestry. Held at KVCOG, 17
Main Street, Fairfield from
5:30-7:30PM. FMI: Joel Green-
wood at KVCOG, 453-4258 Ext – 219 or
May 3-5: In December of 2012, the Maine
Film Center, presenters of the annual Maine
International Film Festival, purchased Water-
ville’s Railroad Square Cinema with the
goal of consolidating the community’s unique
film resources and expanding film education
and exhibition programs. In order to present
its vision to the community, the Maine Film
Center will be hosting a special
Premiere Weekend at Railroad
Square Cinema. FMI:
www.mainefilmcenter.org.
May 4: Somerset Stone Center hosts its 7th
Annual Open House from 8AM-4PM at its
new location, 1078 Kennedy Memorial Drive,
Oakland. Receive 10% off any regular priced
items, huge discounts on clearance items,
food, prizes, and much more!
May 6: Small Steps. Big Rewards program
from 6-7:30PM at the Medical Arts Confer-
ence Room, Inland Hospital. Type 2 diabetes
and other related health problems can be pre-
vented or delayed through lifestyle changes
that work for you. Take the first step today
and it’ll help you develop a game plan for
better health. FMI: 861-3392.
May 7: Maine Active Communities and
Trails Conference put on by Inland Hospital
in downtown Waterville. This full day confer-
ence offers a keynote and 24 sessions provid-
ing a full spectrum of information about the
ways our communities can promote active
healthy lifestyles, increase physical activity,
improve health and benefit local economies.
Advanced registration is strongly encouraged.
FMI: click on the Calendar of Events link at
www.healthymainepartnerships.org or
May 9: Mainebiz will host a reception from
5-7PM at the Governor Hill Mansion in Au-
gusta to honor its 2013 Maine Business Lead-
ers of the Year. FMI and to register:
www.mainebiz.biz/event/bloy2013.
May 10 & 11: 119th Commencement Week-
end at Thomas College. On the 10th all gradu-
ates and their families are invited to the 2013
class reception on the Ayotte Audi-
torium lawn at 5:15PM. On the 11th
the commencement is at the Harold
Alfond Athletic Center at 1PM.
FMI: www.thomas.edu/commencement.
May 11: Pediatric Orthopedic & Burn Injury
Screening Clinic, 9AM-noon at Inland Hos-
pital. Inland is proud to partner with Kora
Shriners to offer a free pediatric screening
clinic for conditions that can be treated at a
Shriners Hospital for Children at no cost to
the family. No appointment neces-
sary; FMI: www.korashriners.org or
Paul Bacon at 465-2680.
May 15: Town of Pittsfield Annual Regional
Job Fair from 3:30-6:30PM at the Warsaw
Middle School gym and cafeteria, 167 School
Street, Pittsfield. This event is free to attend.
If you’re looking for employees, be sure to
register for a table today! FMI: Kathryn Ruth,
487-3136, [email protected], or
www.pittsfield.org.
May 17: Maine Development Foundation’s
Leadership Unplugged series, “Dangerous
Convictions: What’s Really Wrong with the
U.S. Congress,” with speaker Tom Allen,
President and CEO of the Association of
American Publishers from 7:30-9AM at
Kaplan University, Augusta. FMI:
www.mdf.org.
May 18: 2nd Annual Benton Alewife Festival
from 10AM-9PM. This is a day-long celebra-
tion of Benton’s alewife fishery with a family-
oriented fun day at various locations through-
out the town. FMI: www.bentonmaine.info.
May 18: Active Agers Talent Show, present-
ed by Spectrum Generations and the Univer-
sity of Maine at Augusta Senior College, from
2-4PM at Jewett Hall, University of Maine at
Augusta. Proceeds will benefit the Spectrum
Generations Meals on Wheels Program. FMI:
Lynda Johnson at 626-7777 or
May 21: Inaugural meeting of the Kennebec
Volunteers Managers Peer-To-Peer Network
group sponsored by Spectrum Generations
and HealthReach at the Learn-
ing Gallery, Augusta City Cen-
ter, 16 Cony Street, 9-11AM.
FMI & to RSVP: Jamie Ribisi-Braley at 620-
1677 or [email protected].
May 31: 13th Annual Downtown Conference
and Downtown Achievement Awards, a pro-
gram of the Maine Development Founda-
tion. Held at Point Lookout, Northport and
Downtown Belfast from 8AM-5PM. FMI:
www.mdf.org.
Legislation Tracker
Concerned about the workings of
state government? Want to keep
track of legislation during the 126th
Legislature’s First Regular session?
The State’s Web site let’s you do just
that. Track the progress and schedul-
ing online at:
maine.gov/legis/lio/publications.htm
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COMMUNITY PEOPLE YOU KNOW
Bangor Gas Company, LLC
498 Main Avenue
Bangor, ME 04402
941-9595
Jerry Livengood
www.bangorgas.com
Colby College Art Museum
5600 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901
859-5600
Patricia King
www.colby.edu/museum
Home Energy Answers
12 Deer Meadow Drive
Albion, ME 04910
200-1880
Keith McPherson
www.homeenergyanswers.net
MetLife Auto & Home
279 Main Street
Waterville, ME 04901
877-8750
Patty Boudreau
www.boudreau.metlife.com
Mount Merici Academy
152 Western Ave
Waterville, ME 04901
873-3773
Wendy Misuinas
www.mountmerici.org
The Indispensable Sales Coach
8 Ridge Road
Waterville, ME 04901
692-3055
Michelle Geaghan
www.indispensablesalescoach.com
Think Local! Community
Networking
P.O. Box 6628
Scarborough, ME 04074
450-8270
Jeff Ball [email protected]
ThinkLOCALCommunityNetwork-
ing.org
Simple Organizing Solutions with
Deborah
11 Pleasant Street
Waterville, ME 04901
873-4498
Deborah Schmid
Chamber Continued from Page 1
Chamber members enjoy many networking opportunities. Monthly Busi-
ness Breakfasts and Business After Hours (BAH) give you the chance to
meet and mingle with fellow business owners and professionals. While at any
BAH enjoy some good food, tell us all about your business and maybe even
win a door prize. Other good networking events include the Annual Awards
and Super Raffle Dinners, the Chamber Golf Classic and the Business to
Business Showcase.
You can continue your networking efforts and take a leadership role by
serving on one of our chamber's committees. You may have some great ideas
on how to help us improve the local business climate. Share them with us,
and help us all move forward.
For more information on the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce, call 873-
3315 or email [email protected].
A big congratulations to Maine Academy of Natural Sciences
teacher Emily Gribben for being recognized as teacher of the month
by Townsquare Media’s B98.5 radio personalities Sharon Buck
and Randy McCoy. Emily was nominated secretly by her student
Kayla McKenney.
Marilyn Geroux, who most recently served as the U.S. Small Busi-
ness Administration's deputy district director in Maine, has been
named director. Congratulations, Marilyn!
Richard D. O’Connor, Board Chairman of Kennebec Savings
Bank, recently announced the election of Mary A. Denison, Esq. to
the Bank’s board of trustees, filling a vacancy left by the late Peter
Dawson, who held the position for 35 years. Mary was also named
a director to the Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation.
For National Volunteer Month, Spectrum Generations has nomi-
nated two of its outstanding volunteers for the Governor’s Awards
for Service and Volunteerism: John Eckert and Laura Baker.
Kennebec Electric and Lighting would like to welcome Jan Burns
as the newest member of its sales staff.
Sara Burns, President and CEO of Central Maine Power Co. has
been honored by Mainebiz for the 2013 Maine Business Leaders of
the Year in the large company category. Congratulations!
From Left to Right: Russ
Drechsel, Jussi Peitonen
(both from UPM, parent
company of Madison Paper),
Peter Garrett (Kennebec
Messalonskee Trails), Kim-
berly Lindlof (MMCC) and
Ted Helberg (Acadia Hospi-
tal). Photo courtesy of Eric
Yahn Photography. This was
a walk-through of the Rotary
Centennial Trail before
Madison Paper and Hydro Kennebec generously gave land and trail
access to complete the East Kennebec Trail route.
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Upcoming Events
May 2: Business Breakfast Series
7:15-9 AM Thomas College
Getting the Attention of the
Media in the Digital Age
Getting the attention of the news media has
changed over the past 10 to 15 years with the
onset of social networking. Maine's "PR Maven,"
Nancy Marshall, will talk about how your organ-
ization can leverage the power of social networks
like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and even
YouTube to connect with the media and suggest
story ideas.
May 15: Business After Hours
5:30-7 PM MacKenzie Landscaping
372 Augusta Road, Winslow This is a great way to mix and
mingle with other business
professionals!
June 3: Chamber Golf Classic
Natanis Golf Course
11AM Shotgun Start The Mid-Maine Chamber of
Commerce invites you to
participate in the 2013 Chamber
Golf Classic, the most prize-laden
tournament in central Maine!
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27 Cool Street • Waterville, ME 04901 (207) 873-0721 • Fax (207) 877-2287
www.genesishcc.com Rehabilitation and Living Centers
May 2 Thur. Noon Information Services
Mirakuya
May 7 Tue. 8:00 AM Bus. Expansion & Retention
Chamber Boardroom
May 17 Wed. 7:30 AM Executive Board
Chamber Boardroom
May 22 Wed. 8:00 AM Membership
Chamber Boardroom
May 31 Fri. 7:30 AM Board of Directors
Chamber Boardroom
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ered some of the best free web apps available: MailChimp, EventBrite, Weebly,
Hootsuite, and Doodle.
MailChimp is a terrific application for maintaining a mailing list. MailChimp in-
cludes easy to use interfaces to: add a sign up form to your website; allow people to
unsubscribe easily; customize emails; schedule email campaigns for a particular
time; and subdivide your lists to target specific people. You can send 12,000 emails
a month to a list of up to 2,000 subscribers with MailChimp’s free plan. http://
mailchimp.com/
Eventbrite gives you all the online tools you need to bring people together for an
event and sell tickets. Eventbrite is completely free to use if you are not charging
for your tickets and they charge a percentage (which can be either deducted from
your revenue or charged through to the ticket buyer, as you prefer) on paid-for tick-
ets. http://www.eventbrite.com/
Weebly has an easy, drag & drop interface to create your own website. It's free,
powerful, and professional. Weebly has been named one of TIME's 50 Best Web-
sites. http://www.weebly.com/
HootSuite enhances your social media management. HootSuite is a web and mobile
social media dashboard that helps individuals and organizations spread messages,
monitor conversations and track results across multiple networks.
http://hootsuite.com/
Doodle radically simplifies the process of scheduling events, whether they’re board
or team meetings, dinners with friends, reunions, weekend trips, or anything else.
The key to Doodle is simplicity; it simply brings people together. Doodle is free and
doesn’t require registration by either the initiator or the participants of a meeting
poll. http://www.doodle.com/
Tammy Rabideau is Business & Career Center Coordinator at the Waterville Public
Library. FMI: 680.2611, [email protected],
http://www.facebook.com/wplbcc,
http://www.watervillelibrary.org/departments/business/.
Some of the Best Free
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ADVENTURE DAY CAMPS at L.C. Bates
Museum. Enroll your children this summer
in its hands-on, interactive day
programs. Children will learn
about fascinating topics through
active encounters that spark curi-
osity and creativity. Each program is from
9AM-noon. Sign up soon to save a spot!
Kennebec Savings Bank announced plans to
expand its electronic banking center network
to a new Augusta location on Civic Center
Drive. Andrew E. Silsby, Executive Vice
President and Chief Operating Officer of
KSB, said plans are to construct a similar
project to the community showpiece built in
Manchester in 2005, KSB anytime, which has
become a national model for tellerless bank-
ing.
Central Maine Disposal is now
offering Septic Pumping, Service,
and Repair as well as Certified
Septic Inspections and Portable
Toilet Rentals. If you or someone you know
is in need of any of these services, please
keep CMD in mind. It looks forward to ser-
vicing your septic and, as always, your trash
needs! FMI: 872-8257.
Warren’s Office Supplies has moved to a
new location at 329 Jagger Mill Road in San-
ford, 04073.
Oakhurst Dairy launched its "Keep
Your Milk in Maine" marketing cam-
paign, displaying a video profiling
two Maine dairy families on its web-
site at keepyourmilkinmaine.com.
The campaign, launched in response to Dean
Foods’ recent decision to move its bottling
operations out of state, encourages consumers
to keep their dairy dollars in-state.
The U.S. Small Business Administration
announced the 2013 SBA Award Winners.
Congratulations to this year’s honorees: Lak-
eview Restaurant of St. Agatha; Cory
LaPlante of Northern Maine Prosthetics;
Fiore, LLC, Bar Harbor & Rockland; Al-
lagash International, Inc., Portland; Fred
Lebel of Maine Heritage Weavers, Inc.,
Lewiston; Pack Baskets of Maine, Orrington;
and Dennis LaJoie of Community Concepts
Finance Corporation, Lewiston!
Business Answers, an online service designed
to make it easier to start and conduct business
in the State of Maine and provided by the
Maine DECD, has seen tremendous growth
since 2010. Updated in 2011 as part
of Governor LePage's effort to sim-
plify doing business in the state,
Business Answers helps individuals
determine the business licenses and
permits they need to start a business
David Alexander, Grand Knight of the Father
John Anderson Council #11543 of St. Mi-
chael Parish in Augusta, donated a portion of
the proceeds from the Knights of Columbus
“Tootsie Roll” fundraisers to Spectrum Gen-
erations Cohen Center Adult DayBreak Pro-
gram in Hallowell.
The Belgrade Regional Conservation Alli-
ance announced that it has been awarded a
$75,000 grant from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service’s North American Wetland Conser-
vation Act small grant program. The grant
will be used for habitat restoration in Great
Meadow Stream and the surrounding wet-
land, as well as for habitat restoration and
protection in the marsh at the southern end of
Messalonskee Lake.
Hardy Girls Healthy Women held the annu-
al Girls Rock! Weekend in April. The event
was a huge success, with over 450 partici-
pants over the weekend, including more than
200 girls in attendance at the 15th Annual
Girls Unlimited Conference.
As an IBM Premier Business Partner,
Oxford Networks recently attended
the 2013 IBM PartnerWorld confer-
ence in Las Vegas, Nevada. The
theme of the conference was Leadership on a
Smarter Planet, focusing on how to provide
solutions to and resources for customers’
changing technology needs. FMI:
www.ibm.com/smarterplanet.
The Bangor Savings Bank Foundation an-
nounced the winners of its Community Mat-
ters More grant-making initiative, which allo-
cates $100,000 to 68 different non-profit or-
ganizations. The organization from each of
eight regions receiving the most votes from
the public will receive $5,000 each, and the
Foundation will award an addition $1,000
each to 60 other organizations. Congratula-
tions to all the organizations receiving grants!
Reynolds Custom Woodworks is proud to
announce the opening of
its new showroom at 552
China Rd. in Winslow.
The showroom features kitchen displays built
in its custom cabinet shop, stock kitchens
from Medallion Cabinetry, and granite coun-
tertops. Reynolds Custom Woodworks has
kitchen cabinet packages for all budgets.
FMI: Kris, 649-3764 or
www.CustomCabinetPro.com.
Kennebec Valley Community
College is launching new pro-
grams in sustainable agriculture,
with the 120-acre farm at KVCC's
new Harold Alfond Campus in
Hinckley becoming home to a cluster of new
sustainable agriculture programs beginning
this coming fall. The college will initially
offer associate degrees in sustainable agricul-
ture and culinary arts and plans to introduce
one-year certificate options in 2014.
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L akewood Continuing Care Center is a 105
bed facility comprised of a 25 bed skilled
rehabilitation unit, a 32 bed secure Dementia/
Alzheimer's unit, and a 48 bed Long Term
Care unit. It is located on the Inland Hospital
campus on Kennedy Memorial Drive in
Waterville.
Our skilled rehabilitation unit has a 25 bed
capacity and can take care of a multitude of
acute medical needs. From total joint replace-
ments to recovery from a stroke or heart at-
tack, the rehabilitation staff at Lakewood will
get you back on your feet and back home.
One of our success stories is a woman named
Sally Millett, who went from being com-
pletely bed ridden due to a complicated leg
infection to walking and wearing shoes for
the first time in a month. Sally says, “I was
not ready to throw in the towel and Lakewood
gave me the support and encouragement I
needed to get back home and feel that I could
be successful.”
Our skilled rehabilitation unit is also home
to outpatient therapy. This is to ensure conti-
nuity of care once a person completes skilled
rehab and goes home. They will come back to
Lakewood on an outpatient basis and work
with the same therapists who worked with
them on day one of their inpatient stay.
Moonlight Bay, is our secure Dementia/
Alzheimer's Unit. This unit houses up to 32
residents and is a secure unit where residents
can wander safely at their leisure. The focus
on this unit is to reduce the usage of psycho-
tropic medications and Lakewood has recent-
ly been recognized as having the lowest use
of psychotropic medication in the state. The
reason for this is a behavior focused ap-
proach, where each resident’s individuality is
recognized and a plan is developed on the
best way to work with each resident on an
individual basis. The atmosphere on this unit
is homelike and everyone is considered fami-
ly, even our three resident chickens that have
a home outside and are cared for by both resi-
dents and staff.
Memory Lane is our Long Term Care unit
and is home to 48 residents. When a person is
no longer able to live independently at home,
Memory Lane is an excellent option. Our
dedicated staff works on an individual basis
to develop a personalized care plan to meet
each resident’s needs. Activities staff coordi-
nate activities and community outings and
focus on enriching resident’s lives. An in
house beauty salon is available, and a barber
makes his rounds as well. Lakewood has an
in house chapel for spiritual or religious
needs, as well as local chaplains that will
come and visit when requested.
Lakewood Continuing Care Center is an
affiliate of Inland Hospital and part of the
EMHS system. If you would like a tour of
Lakewood or would like more information,
call 207-873-5125 or visit our website at
www.lakewoodcare.org.
