Saturday, November 21, 2009 in Lewiston, Maine
Originally established in 1992, Cassiel's underwent a major expansion of space and services in 2005. Owner Diane Dubois and her 15 employees offer full spa services, including permanent hair removal (electrology) as well as permanent cosmetics.
This Business After Hours will be catered by The Falls restaurant and will feature the outstanding musical talent of Denny and Ann Breau.
NEW YORK (AP) — Some of the world's most prominent technology companies are offering suggestions to publishers on how they can charge readers for news online.
IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and Google Inc. — a company some newspapers blame for helping dig their financial hole — responded to a request by the Newspaper Association of America for proposals on ways to easily charge for news on the Web.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter Inc. keeps it simple, even when it comes to updating the legalese in its terms of service.
As part of changes made Thursday, Twitter translated some of the jargon into plain language, to lessen the chances that its users might get the wrong idea about what was happening.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal deficit surged higher into record territory in August, hitting $1.38 trillion with one month left in the budget year.
NEW YORK (AP) — Video games sales declined in August for the sixth straight month, following what analysts called a disappointing showing from the latest "Madden" game.
Nonetheless, game makers are eyeing a stronger September, boosted by the much-hyped launch of "The Beatles: Rock Band" as well as "Guitar Hero 5."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is encouraging companies that buy failed banks with troubled home loans to extend temporary help to people who have lost their jobs and can't pay their mortgage bills.
Under the FDIC's recommendations, borrowers' monthly payments would be reduced for at least six months. The aid would apply to borrowers who have lost their jobs or those who have faced a drop in salary.
WASHINGTON (AP) — John Sweeney spent the past 14 years building the AFL-CIO into a political powerhouse for workers' rights and other progressive Democratic causes.
Yet over the same time, the ranks of union members continued to shrink, diminishing organized labor's clout in the workplace. Frustration with Sweeney's tenure and the dip in membership led seven unions to split from the AFL-CIO four years ago to form the rival Change to Win federation.
NEW YORK (AP) — Investors pulled money out of stocks Friday after a five-day rally left the market at its highest levels in nearly a year.
Stocks slipped in quiet trading Friday after the recent string of gains and a drop in oil prices. Crude slid 3.7 percent, which hurt some energy stocks like Exxon Mobil Corp. That overshadowed a rosier profit forecast from FedEx Corp. and a government report on improving sales at wholesalers.
Even with the losses, stocks still logged big gains for the week.
RUMFORD — On Sept. 4, Therapy Services staff began moving small equipment, computers and files to its new quarters on the first floor of Rumford Hospital. Over the weekend, professional movers took care of the heavy equipment. The space it now occupies was formerly most of the Med/Surg Unit and the entire Intensive Care Unit.
AUGUSTA — On Sept. 16 at 2 p.m. at the Blaine House in Augusta, the Maine Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, along with Speaker Hannah Pingree, will present the Excellence in Long-Term Care Award to 16 outstanding direct care workers. These workers are employed throughout the state in nursing homes, residential care facilities, assisted living, hospice, and home care. Gov. John Baldacci has designated Sept. 14-20 as Direct Support Professional Recognition Week.
POWNAL — lia sophia jewelery recently announced top honors for its Excellent Beginnings Program Achievers for their outstanding sales accomplishments and professionalism.
Having just joined the fashion jewelry business, Heidi Mullison has earned this prestigious accomplishment in the first 15 weeks by attaining certain sales levels and by sharing lia sophia with other new advisers.
LEWISTON — The Seasoned Workforce LLC, in conjunction with the Lewiston CareerCenter, the Western/Central Workforce Investment Board and several local businesses, will sponsor a free Seasoned Worker Forum on Sept. 17 from 12:30 to 3 p.m. at the Lewiston CareerCenter, 5 Mollison Way.
The Seasoned Workforce Web site (http://www.seasonedworkforce.com ) provides important information, news and helpful links for seasoned workers and to age-neutral employers.
For more information, or to reserve a spot for the forum, call 753-9000.
LEWISTON — The Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a seminar to teach new marketing techniques.
It will be held from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 16 in the Community Conference Room of the Business Service Center in KeyBank Plaza. A continental breakfast, networking and registration will begin at 8 a.m.
Kurk Lalemand, president of Next Level Business Coaching, and a licensed professional business coach and certified guerrilla marketing coach with 30 years of experience in business, will be the featured speaker.
RUMFORD — Owner and operator Anthony DeIulio announces the opening of River Valley Rents, a new property management business specializing in referrals for the greater Rumford and Mexico area.
DeIulio previously managed a rental agency in Western Maine for five years. He attended college in Florida, majoring in marketing and entrepreneurship, then returned to Maine to operate the agency.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers slashed their borrowing in July by the largest amount on record as job losses and uncertainty about the economic recovery prompted Americans to rein in their debt.
Economists expect consumers will continue to spend less, save more and trim debt to get household finances decimated by the recession into better shape. However, such action is a recipe for a lethargic revival, as consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of economic activity.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans would be fined up to $3,800 for failing to buy health insurance under a plan that circulated in Congress on Tuesday as President Barack Obama met Democratic leaders to search for ways to salvage his health care overhaul.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Atlantic deep-sea red crab fishermen have received certification from an international conservation organization for having a sustainable fishery.
The London-based Marine Stewardship Council says it's the first East Coast fishery to attain the certification.
AUGUSTA (AP) — The average price of heating oil in Maine has fallen another 3 cents per gallon for the second consecutive weekly decline.
The Maine Office of Energy Independence and Security said Tuesday that heating oil averaged $2.37 a gallon in its weekly survey.
As usual, there were wide swings in the price.
The highest price was found in eastern and northern Maine, where No. 2 oil reached $2.70 a gallon; the lowest price was in southwestern Maine, where a price of $2.04 was found.
AUBURN — Lynda Hebert of ERA Worden Realty is the recipient of the John Harmon Sr. Award 2008 by the ERA from the Maine Broker Council. The annual award recognizes the agent that emulates the late John Harmon Sr.'s zest for the real estate industry by being a team player and having a strong commitment to the profession and the community.
LEWISTON — The Lewiston CareerCenter and the Central/Western Maine Workforce Investment Board will host a resource fair/open house from 4 to 6 p.m. Sept. 15 at its offices at 5 Mollison Way.
For the past six months, the monthly events called Industry Information Tuesday have focused on key industry sectors that job seekers should know about and be aware of.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A day after it tries to explain its recent service-quality, financial and other troubles to regulators in three states, FairPoint Communications faces what may be an even tougher task.
The telephone company has a deadline of Thursday to tell Vermont regulators in writing why they should not revoke its license to operate in the state.
Stephen Wark, spokesman for the state Department of Public Service, says the threat to take away FairPoint's certificate of public good is not a bluff.
RUMFORD — Lisa Raheb has joined the team at Island Indulgence in downtown Rumford.
She comes to the area from Wichita, Kan., where she owned and operated her salon for nearly 20 years. She specializes in cutting and coloring hair, with a second place award from L'oreal in coloring. Her training has taken her to the Vidal Sassoon Academy in San Francisco for advanced color and cutting education twice. She also received advanced training from educators in the industry such as Toni & Guy. John Dellaria, Dwight Miller, Sebastian, Aveda and Jingles of London.
It's highly unusual — if not unprecedented — to have all three states' regulatory boards hold a joint meeting, but it speaks to the gravity of the situation for FairPoint, which has been plagued by ongoing order-fulfillment, customer service, billing and other problems in the three states.
"Almost every day I thought of it," the 54-year-old said.
The opportunity came June 2 when he was laid off from a high-tech company. Unlike the millions of people drawing an unemployment check, he enrolled in a little-known program approved by Congress that gives the jobless the weekly cash benefit but also trains them to run their own business.
RUMFORD — The River Valley Chamber of Commerce, along with the River Valley Growth Council, has invited Tony Payne, executive director of the Alliance for Maine's Future, to present The Stubborn Facts of the Maine Economy. The breakfast seminar will be held from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Sept. 23 in the upstairs meeting room at Sam's Foods of Rumford.
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