RUMFORD – A local doctor is shown in his whites in one picture; playing golf in another. The race car driver is pictured with his car, then in another “uniform” playing baseball in jeans, and Red Sox hat and T-shirt.
These are two of the monthly pages of working men in the River Valley for the chamber’s first calendar. For this “River Valley 2004: Men in Uniforms,” uniform is used in the broadest of terms, says chamber executive secretary Tammi Lyons.
The new calendar is available at the chamber office and will be sold during the Fourth of July festivities at the chamber booth in downtown Rumford.
The $10 calendars went on sale last Thursday. “We’ve sold quite a few. Everyone was excited to see who’s in it,” said Lyons.
“We had a very good representation,” she said. Most of the River Valley’s 10 towns are represented.
Creating the black-and-white calendar took many months and hundreds of volunteer hours. Pictures of the featured men, from December 2003 to December 2004, were sometimes submitted by the men themselves, but more often the impetus came from a wife, significant other or family member. Once the guys were selected, a volunteer photographer took pictures of each at work and at another activity they enjoy, fishing, kayaking, vacuuming.
Rumford firefighter Jeremy Volkernick (December 2004) is shown in uniform and with his son. Former Sen. Norm Ferguson (November 2004) is pictured in his legislative uniform, a suit, then in a kilt in his family’s tartan. Dean Milligan, director of operations for Med-Care Ambulance Service (September 2004) wears his EMS command uniform in one picture, then is shown hunting with his dog in another.
“We wanted to show the professional and the personal side,” said Lyons.
If this year’s sales go well – 500 were printed – the River Valley Chamber of Commerce plans to do another with a different theme for 2005. Funds from the sale of the calendars will help pay for various chamber activities.
Others featured in the calendar are: Lt. Michael Oakes, Army; William Kiley Jr., M.D., Rumford Hospital physician; Seth Guthartz, Med-Care paramedic; Doug Brown, service manager for E.J. Prescott; Andre Carrier, skidder operator/logger for Pelletier Logging; James Cormier Jr., letter carrier; Don Rajaniemi Jr., truck driver; Scott Robbins, race car driver; Jeff Doucette, forester for MeadWestvaco; and Joshua Byron, Carthage firefighter.
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