New Hampshire Business Review - July 15 2011

NHBR About Town: Walk NH

Dr. Susan Lynch, left, New Hampshire's First Lady and chairwoman of Walk NH, joined more than 40 Service Credit Union employees in the two-mile walk to promote active living. After the walk, Service Credit Union CEO Gordon Simmons, right, presented…

NHBR About Town: Big Green Bus

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen stops at the Big Green Bus to greet some of the 13 Dartmouth College students behind the project, who will travel more than 12,000 miles this summer in a converted bus powered by waste vegetable oil…

NHBR About Town: Share Our Strength

Through its third-annual charity golf tournament, Associated Grocers of New England raised $28,000 for Share Our Strength, a not-for-profit that supports more than 1,000 groups in the fight against childhood hunger in the U.S. Presenting the check to Alicia McCabe…

NHBR About Town: WomensTrust

Dean LeBaron, center, hosted a cocktail party in his Lake Sunapee home in honor of Dana Dakin, center, founder of WomensTrust, which empowers women in Ghana, West Africa through microenterprise, education and health care. Pictured at right is Doug Whelan,…

Q&A with SBA's Hugh Curley

Hugh Curley, a business development specialist with the New Hampshire office of the U.S. Small Business Administration, can counsel entrepreneurs with good authority - he spent six years as a Franciscan friar. Even more intriguing, prior to his years in…

Alison Krauss to star at 4th Greenerpalooza

Grammy-winners Alison Krauss and Union Station will headline Greenerpalooza, the fourth annual celebration of energy efficiency and green efforts in New Hampshire.The concert and green business showcase, set for Friday, Aug. 5, at Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion in Gilford, is…