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Country Bank, WooSox Announce Community Giving Campaign
WARE Country Bank and the Worcester Red Sox have announced a community giving campaign to support nonprofit leaders throughout the region. To kick off the campaign, dubbed “WooStars,” Country Bank recognized 11 local nonprofits at Polar Park, including Springfield-based organizations Friends of the Homeless, Ronald McDonald House, Christina’s House, and Habitat for Humanity, along with Worcester-based organizations the United Way, Why Me, Sherry’s House, Provision Ministry, St. John’s Food Pantry for the Poor, the Boys and Girls Club, and Habitat for Humanity. Each nonprofit was presented with a $5,000 check from Paul Scully, president and CEO of Country Bank. Representatives of the nonprofits also participated in a television commercial to support the campaign. Country Bank and the Worcester Red Sox Foundation will select nine additional nonprofit leaders who have stepped up to the plate to serve
NORRISTOWN For a Norristown teacher, some exciting news arrived in the form of a cleverly executed hoax.Â
Earlier this year, Donald Conaway was notified that he had been chosen as the NHL (National Hockey League) Most Valuable Teacher for March, netting the Norristown Area School District a $10,000 grant, which was presented to Conaway at Eisenhower Science and Technology Leadership Academy where he teaches eighth grade.
That victory meant Conaway, who motivates his classes to learn through a high-tech game of hockey called Future Goals Hockey Scholars, was in the running for the NHL Most Valuable Teacher of the Year when votes were cast between May 3 and 7.
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North Hills Middle School teacher Anthony Burns is flanked by Superintendent Pat Mannarino and the Pittsburgh Penguins mascot as he holds a large replica of the $10,000 prize he won as the NHL’s Teacher of the Month for January. Burns faced off against two other teachers for a $20,000 prize from the NHL but fell short in the voting.
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North Hills Middle School teacher and avid Pittsburgh Penguins fan Anthony Burns already netted $10,000 in technology donations for his school from the NHL when he entered a three-way race to score triple the amount of tech for his school.
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