NAMES AND FACES - November 2006

ALL WIRELESS in Portsmouth has hired SEAN COMARDY and TYLER HEON to its staff of wireless professionals. Carmody is the newest edition to the Service and Repair Center. Heon joins All Wireless from Cingular Wireless, where he spent the past two years in retail sales and customer service support. All Wireless is a provider of Sprint and Nextel phones and service for consumers and businesses in the Seacoast area, with locations in Portsmouth and Stratham.

BEALS ASSOCIATES, PLLC announces that CHRISTIAN O. SMITH, P.E. has become a partner and principal in the firm. Smith joined the firm in January 2003 as the director of engineering and has become an integral part of the company. He joins Lawrence M. Beals and Kenneth A. Berry in the ownership team. Beals began providing civil engineering and land surveying services from the Exeter office in March 2001.

JOHN TABOR, 2006 Campaign Chair for United Way of the Greater Seacoast, is setting out to raise $5 million dollars through the annual fundraising campaign this year. Tabor, president and publisher of Seacoast Media Group, which includes Seacoast Ventures, has served on the board of directors for the local United Way since 2001. The 2006 campaign cabinet members are: Paul Bergamo; Greg Burdwood, HUB Family Resource Center; Cindy Carroll, UNITIL Corp.; Susan DeRoy, Action Title Services; David DuBois, Rochester chief of police; Kelly Glennon, Federal Savings Bank; Jim Hastings, Federal Savings Bank; Col. Richard Martell, N.H. Air National Guard; Joseph Mullen, Bottomline Technologies; Dan Morrison; Vaughan Sanborn; and Jackie Valley, Community Diversion Program.

CITIZENS BANK NEW HAMPSHIRE has announced that commercial lender TARA F. TRAFTON has been promoted to senior vice president. Trafton is responsible for business development and managing clients in the bank’s Seacoast Region. Trafton joined Citizens in 1991 and has held numerous roles, including vice president positions in credit administration, asset-based lending and commercial lending. Before joining Citizens, she was a commercial loan officer at Fleet Bank in Nashua. An active member of the Portsmouth community, she is a vice president and director for the Seacoast Hospice, and was appointed to the board of the Portsmouth Economic Development Loan Program. She lives in Portsmouth.

RANDY POTTER has joined CITIZENS MORTGAGE OF NH, as a loan officer. Potter, a Dover resident, works out of the Citizens Bank branch in Portsmouth. He has been in the mortgage banking business for 15 years, the last five in New Hampshire.

Portsmouth resident FRANCES (FRANNIE) WALDRON, acting executive director of the SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION since May, has been appointed chief executive officer by the foundation’s board of directors. Waldron has worked at the foundation since 2004, primarily in a development capacity, and has 20 years experience in non-profits. Most recently, she also served as the foundation’s director of development and communications.

PROVIDENT BANK employees NINA CUTTS and ANNE LAPOINTE have been named to the boards of Portsmouth area organizations. Cutts, vice president, commercial lending, has joined the board of OdysseyNH, a nonprofit organization that helps at-risk youth, mothers and families in the Seacoast to reclaim their lives through individually tailored programs. Lapointe, Portsmouth branch manager, was named to the board of The Krempels Brain Injury Foundation. The Krempels Foundation, founded in 1995 by David Krempels, has helped over 2,000 survivors and their families living with brain injury.

BENTLEY PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. of Exeter, a specialty pharmaceutical company, announced the appointment of RICHARD P. LINDSAY as the company’s vice president and chief financial officer. He succeeds MICHAEL PRICE, who resigned to pursue other opportunities closer to his new home and family in Florida.

AMY BROWN has joined PORT CITY WEB of Portsmouth as a Senior Web Developer. Brown has experience in Web site development and working with Microsoft’s SQL Server and ASP development. Brown worked at local design studios including, Velecom, Harbour Light Productions and, for the past three years, Hatchling Studios. She is a 2001 graduate of the University of New Hampshire with a English/journalism major and a minor in computer sciences.

TIMOTHY S. URBAN has joined BANCNORTH INVESTMENT GROUP, Inc. as a registered representative. He will provide investment, retirement and insurance services to customers throughout southern Maine, including Kittery, York, Kennebunk, Biddeford and Saco. Urban, who has more than eight years of experience in investment and finance, is based in the TD Banknorth Maine branch in York. A resident of Kennebunk, Urban is a graduate of Susquehanna University and Brunswick High School.

BETTE O’REILLY has joined THE INN AT SPRUCE WOOD in Durham as activities director. O’Reilly, a licensed beautician for 42 year, has worked previously at Edgewood Manor in Portsmouth and had more than six years of experience as an activities director with Langdon Place of Portsmouth.

NOLA CADY has joined RE/MAX REALTY ONE AND TEAM WUNDER as its newest associate. Cady brings 22 years of real estate experience to RE/MAX Realty One and will serve clients and customers in both Maine and New Hampshire. Cady is a long-time resident of Maine and an avid contributor to the community. She is a member of the York Historical Society, the York Land Trust, and is a mentor at York High School.

DAVID A. DURLING has been promoted to assistant vice president in the eCommerce Department at TD BANKNORTH INC. Durling, a Kittery resident, is a research and development analyst and will continue to be responsible for conducting research to enhance TD Banknorth’s online banking products. He is retired from the military after 20 years of service with the N.H. Army National Guard and is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire.

Lisa Hamel of Cape Neddick, Maine, recently became a consultant for TASTEFULLY SIMPLE, Inc., a national direct sales company based in Alexandria, Minn. As a consultant and independent business owner, Hamel conducts in-home presentations and markets Tastefully Simple’s line of gourmet foods and gifts at home taste-testing parties. At the parties, guests receive samples, easy meal ideas, recipes and serving suggestions.

PORTSMOUTH — PIERCE ATWOOD LLP attorneys MARK BELIVEAU, DANA BISBEE AND SETH SHORTLIDGE are listed in the 13th edition of “The Best Lawyers in America 2007.” Beliveau, a resident of Lee, and Bisbee were recognized for their work in environmental law. Shortlidge was recognized for his work in energy law. The published version of the 13th edition will be released in November, while the listings appear currently online at www.BestLawyers.com. In total, lawyers from all 50 states in 80 specialties are included.

WILLIAM R. DAVIS has joined the board of directors at SEACOAST MENTAL HEALTH CENTER, Inc., a nonprofit provider of comprehensive psychiatry, counseling, and psychological services. Davis is the comptroller for the 157th Air Refueling Wing of the N.H. Air National Guard. Davis has served as moderator for the Town of Newfields since 1998. He is also a current member of the Rockingham Economic Development Corporation.

At the EXETER AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE annual meeting. members elecected the BOARD OF DIRECTORS for 2006-2007. Officers are chairman, Brian Campbell, Exeter Hospital; vice chairman, Van Ballantyne, Fiducial; treasurer, Jonathan Ring, Jones & Beach Engineers; past chairman, Cindy Carroll, Unitil; and president, Tracey McGrail. Directors are Roy Aboody, Staffing Sense; Electra Alessio, Carriage Towne News; Jim Proulx, Proulx Oil & Propane; Lori Breard-Weeden, ERA Masiello; Dan Jackson, Arjay Ace Hardware; Rob Ortins, Edward Jones; David Picha, Ocean National Bank; Michael Donahue, Donahue, Tucker & Ciandella; Craig Jewett, Jewett Construction and Retail Chairman, Linda Simard, Coventry Cottage.