NAMES AND FACES - November 2007

Hospice of York is pleased to announce that Carolyn Weller, RN, has accepted the position of quality assurance coordinator. Weller, who has extensive experience in health care, is now a sales associate with RE/MAX Reality One, York. Dee Bickmore, the hospice's program director, said she is enthusiastic about working with Weller and is looking forward to good results from this project. Hospice of York is now the last all-volunteer hospice south of Brunswick. Service is offered in the towns of Wells, Ogunquit, York, Kittery, Eliot, all the Berwicks and Lebanon. Never charging anyone for the unique service, the organization is grateful for the support it receives from the public. Donations are always accepted. If interested, send to Hospice of York, 15 Hospital Drive., York, Maine 03909.

Jewett Construction recently completed an interior fit-up to the Digital Credit Union at 105 Daniel Webster Highway in Merrimack. Jewett renovated the interior finishes including wallcovering, paint, millwork laminates, carpet and tile of this active bank. Reconfiguration of an office wall was also performed to accommodate new millwork at the teller line. Design was provided by NES Group of Mansfield, Mass., and. Key subcontractors on the project are Glenn Brann Woodworking of Sandown,; Pitcher Associates of Derry, NH; CRP Contract Flooring of Bedford, ; Kaloutas Painting of Peabody, Mass.; Oliver Mechanical and Longchamps Electric of Manchester. Jewett Construction, 2004 Business NH magazine Business of the Year, is a Raymond-based design-build/construction management firm specializing in commercial, industrial, municipal, institutional and multi-family projects throughout New England. Additional information about the firm can be found on its web site, www.jewettconstruction.com.

Drytek, the nation's leader in flooring solutions today announced it has hired Dan O'Brien to head up sales in the New England region. Drytek, based in Portsmouth, has been expanding its sales staff over the past year due to increased demand for its floor leveling products. Part of Drytek's success has been due to the outstanding customer service that its representatives provide to architects, distributors and flooring contractors. O'Brien started out as a residential mason and shifted to commercial work in 1986, when he did extensive rigging and restoration work for Boston Chimney and Tower. Later, he worked as both an installer of epoxy, underlayment, and gypsum. Dan has worked on several large projects including Gillette Stadium, Fenway Park, MIT and numerous other school projects. O'Brien will be based in Drytek's Portsmouth and will service New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts and Northern Connecticut. More information can be found at www.drytek.com

Global Relief Technologies, LLC (GRT) has been selected by the American Red Cross to equip a cadre of its disaster relief professionals with GRT's patented Rapid Data Management System (RDMS) ® product to augment the Red Cross' disaster response communications capability. GRT and the Red Cross have signed a contract to cover an initial deployment of RDMS during the current hurricane season. Under its agreement with the Red Cross, GRT will outfit a Red Cross Quick Assessment Team with RDMS-powered equipment and services. GRT and the Red Cross hope to expand the use of RDMS within the national Red Cross disaster response system. RDMS is an innovative data collection and management system that is designed to assist disaster relief organizations to gain real-time situational awareness of field conditions. RDMS allows field users operating in austere environments with little or no communications capability to collect data on handheld devices and to transmit that data over secure satellite or cellular connections to a virtual network operation center where it is instantaneously aggregated and analyzed. Global Relief Technologies, based in Portsmouth, provides a rapid data management services to help organizations involved in disaster relief and humanitarian assistance, homeland security and health monitoring. The GRT solution allows users located anywhere in the world to collect mission-critical field data on easy-to-use handheld devices and to seamlessly transmit that data on a secure basis to a virtual network operation center (VNOC). Further information about GRT is available at www.globalrelieftech.com

Aaron Caswell of McClintock Ave., has been chosen from more than 25 Riverbend Timber Framing representatives to speak at the company's eastern region sales meeting, Oct. 21-22. Caswell, whose Portsmouth Performance Home LLC has been an authorized dealer for Riverbend for just over a year, will give a presentation on self-starting lead generation. Though he's a relatively new representative, Caswell has actively created business in his first year and is a model of successful sales practices according to Stewart Elliot, Riverbend sales manager. The meeting will immediately follow the Timber Framers Guild Eastern Conference in Montebello, Quebec Canada. Riverbend Timber Framing, Blissfield, Mich., is one of the leading timber frame design and manufacturing companies in North America, creating custom timber frame structures for homes, vacation homes and commercial buildings since 1979.

Portsmouth resident James F. Lamond has been selected for inclusion in the 25th anniversary edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty of labor and employment law. Mr. Lamond is a member of the bars of New Hampshire and Massachusetts and practices with the firm McDonald, Lamond & Canzoneri, headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts. He represents and advises labor unions and individual employees in a wide range of employment matters throughout New England.

Sheila Hayes

Sheila Hayes, the health-science librarian at Portsmouth Regional Hospital received the Medical Library Association's Hospital Library Section Technology Award. Hayes received the award for her achievement in aiding doctors, nurses and allied health staff in the use of a program called Loansome Doc and creating continuing education credits for using this program. Loansome Doc is a document retrieval program of the National Library of Medicine that allows professionals and health consumers to retrieve the latest health information. The Medical Library Association National Conference was recently held in Philadelphia. Ms. Hayes is a resident of Hampton.

Sell My Timeshare NOW LLC, an online timeshare resale and rental advertising and marketing company, reported being 33 percent ahead of last year's revenues at the end of the third quarter of business. Although it is a privately held company and as such does not release earnings reports, the Dover-based timeshare resale and timeshare rental company has issued a corporate summary of economic stability and year-end projections for the company. The report includes a synopsis of each of the following areas of the company's business: Sell My Timeshare NOW's Web site traffic, now averaging more than 1.8 million visitors per month; offers to buy timeshare or rent timeshare received for properties advertised on Sell My Timeshare NOW (such offers totaled $209 million through the third quarter and include over 53,000 offers made for purchase or rental), and revenues for Sell My Timeshare NOW, through the third quarter, which totaled $5.1 million. While many timeshares today are held through deeded ownership as real property, much like residential homes, timeshare resales are not suffering from the types of problems that have hurt the real estate market across the country, nor have sub prime mortgage issues affected them, the company indicates. Instead, timeshare vacation ownership remains one of the fastest growing segments of the vacation and tourism industry. Both the sale of new timeshare and timeshare resales continues in a growth mode with Sell My Timeshare NOW reporting a 20 percent increase in total dollar amount of offers to buy timeshare or rent timeshare over the third quarter results in 2006. The full corporate summary is available at: www.sellmytimesharenow.com/media/third_quarter_report_2007.pdf.

Web hosting provider Port City Web LLC (http://www.portcityweb.com) is a finalist in the 2007 Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) Awards. The company, a "full-service Web site and e-commerce design, development, hosting and online marketing company," was selected as a finalist for "online commerce." Port City Web was recognized for excellence in the creation of interactive technologies, particularly work on the Harbor Candy Shop (www.harborcandy.com) e-commerce Web site. Port City Web offers "full service e-marketing and e-commerce Web site development" which includes hosting Web sites. The company's past and present customers include The University of New Hampshire, Born & Bicknell, Columbia University, Service Credit Union, NAPS, K2 and Lonza Biologics.

Jewett Construction awarded three construction-field students with internships this past summer.

Kara Simard, of Raymond, attends Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, majoring in architecture. She worked with office staff to learn project backgrounds and design/construction basics. Stephen Mayer, of Hampton, majors in civil engineering at the University of New Hampshire and has spent three summers with Jewett. Josh Coderre, of Fremont, came to Jewett through the Epping High School and the Seacoast School of Technology (SST) internship program. Mayer and Coderre both spent this summer working in the field with project superintendents.

Jewett Construction, 2004 Business NH Magazine Business of the Year, is a Raymond, NH-based design-build/construction management firm specializing in commercial, industrial, municipal, institutional and multi-family projects throughout New England. Jewett's clients include such well-known organizations as Northeast Credit Union, Jackson Lumber, Team Nissan, Subaru of Claremont and Don Allen Ford. Additional information about the firm can be found on its Web site, www.jewettconstruction.com.