People & Business: May 12
Celebrating 75 years
Southern Maine Community College held a spring planting ceremony to celebrate its 75th anniversary this year. Shown at the South Portland Campus are, from left, Professor Brian Tarbox, foundation donor Eleanor Redmond, foundation board member and donor John Boyne, former longtime professor David Pratt, Maine Community College System President David Daigler, students Sarah Metcalf and Natalie Potter, and SMCC Professor Norma Willis.
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Alexander
Topsham-based Maine Coast Heritage Trust named
Susan Alexander as the recipient of the 2021 Espy Land Heritage Award. The award is given every year to an individual, organization or coalition for exemplary conservation efforts in Maine.
By Nancy Charlebois
Throughout my 25 years as a physical therapist, I have cared for more than 50,000 human beings. I have treated mothers after traumatic birthing experiences, rehabilitated injured professional athletes and veterans who’ve been hurt in combat.
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COURTESY / NANCY CHARLEBOIS
Nancy Charlebois is a physical therapist and co-owner of Jade Integrated Health, with her husband, John.
The reward has been equally valuable to me as it has to them. Fortunately, I learned early in my career that my gift as a therapist was tied closely to my ability to listen.
When a patient comes into my office the most important information I can get is what their goals are. When a patient sets a desired outcome, we both know what we’re working towards and when we’ve been successful. When I opened Jade Integrated Health in 2001 with my husband, John, I really didn’t know how to run an actual business. So I put trust in myself and tested my guiding principl
By Diana Nelson, Black Fly Media
As a journalist-turned-publicist, the weight of my words has always been the centerpiece of what being “good” at my job means. In my 16-year career in Maine, I have been fortunate to meet Maine’s strongest, most influential women and on their behalf, I’ve helped tell their stories with purpose.
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Diana Nelson is a principal and director of communication at Black Fly Media in South Portland.
I’ve had the unique responsibility of creating national platforms for female leaders to share business accomplishments, advice, industry knowledge and personal stories.
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Your Land: A Mere Brook runs through us
By Sandy StottYour Land
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Note: This is the 3rd in a series of columns about Mere Brook (aka, Mare, Mair Creek). The brook is central to Brunswick, and it is federally-listed as “urban-impaired”; as such, it is in need of improved water quality, and our town has just entered year two of a Maine DEP planning grant for that improvement. As part of that grant’s work, the town hired fluvial geomorphologist John Field to conduct an assessment, which he based on a walk of the stream from source to near head of tide last June.