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Vermont Business Magazine Bar Harbor Bank & Trust’s employee giving program, Casual for a Cause, recently surpassed the $100,000 mark of total donations made to nonprofit organizations since the program launched in 2018. More than 53 organizations across Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont have received donations through the program.
Casual for a Cause gives Bank employees the opportunity to dress casually on Fridays in exchange for a bi-weekly payroll deduction made to a pool of funds collected during each quarter. The employees then vote on the nonprofits to receive their contributions. The program is entirely voluntary, and each employee sets his/her own level of giving. Approximately 2/3 of the Bank’s employees participate in Casual for a Cause.
COVID-relief program on track to deliver 400,000 restaurant-prepared meals. Photos by Jennifer Sensenich
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Vermont Everyone Eats organizers and partners gathered at one of the program’s weekly distribution points to highlight the impact the COVID-relief program has made in the eight weeks since its launch. In August, the Vermont Legislature provided $5 million in CARES Act funding to create this program that engages restaurants to prepare meals for Vermonters hit by the pandemic.
“Just three months since funding was granted,
VT Everyone Eats “Hubs” have launched in all 14 counties, engaging more than 100 Vermont restaurants and distributing meals at over 130 distribution sites,” said Steve Geller, Executive Director of Southeastern Vermont Community Action (SEVCA), the agency overseeing the statewide effort. “The COVID pandemic has inspired many of us to step up and take action. With
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MONTPELIER â When it comes to the tales of central Vermontâs Twin Cities, it is mercifully time for some 2020 hindsight.
The dominant story line â the COVID-19 crisis â was the same in Barre as it was in Montpelier for much of the year thatâs about to end.
If nothing else, the pandemic was the great equalizer â forcing communities to confront common problems in the context of a global public health crisis the likes of which the world hadnât seen in more than 100 years.
And yet, while there were plenty of predictable similarities, the Granite Cityâs version of 2020 was distinctly different from the Capital City edition in ways that were jarring if you were paying attention to both.
Dec 30, 2020
NORTHFIELD â Short of decertification as a law enforcement officer, the public may never be told what the outcome is of the Criminal Justice Councilâs review of the allegations levied against Northfield Police Chief John Helfant.
The town has sent Gov. Phil Scott a letter asking him to intervene after Washington County Stateâs Attorney Rory Thibault told the Select Board he would not prosecute most cases involving Helfant because of the chiefâs credibility issues.
In 2019, Thibaultâs office dismissed two drug cases involving Helfant, who was working as an officer in Berlin when the arrests were made. In one of the cases, Helfant said in his affidavit he got consent to search a backpack where drugs were found. But the stateâs attorney said the body camera footage didnât show him getting that consent.