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Cary Medical Center receives $276,000 for cardiovascular health outreach PDF  | Print |
Wednesday, 15 February 2012 09:48

CARIBOU — Officials with the AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation program, Connections for Cardiovascular HealthSM, announced Tuesday, a grant of more than $276,000 to Cary Medical Center in support of the center’s Healthy Hearts — Healthy Community program. This is the second consecutive year that the Caribou hospital has received a grant from the Connections for Cardiovascular HealthSM.

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Displaying a check in the amount of $276,000, from the AstraZeneca Health Care Foundation in support of Cary Medical Center’s Healthy Heart — Healthy Community Program, are, from left: Peter McCorison, program director, Aroostook Mental Health Center; Kris Doody, R. N., CEO, Cary Medical Center; and Shawn Laferriere, DO, Cary Medical chief of staff.

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Agriculturally-minded individuals, local crafters invited to informal gathering at rec center PDF  | Print |
Wednesday, 15 February 2012 09:37

By Natalie Bazinet
Staff Writer

CARIBOU — Officials with Talk of the Town Farm of Connor and the Caribou Area Chamber of Commerce are looking to gather the area’s large- and small-scale farmers, crafters, growers and bakers for a highly conversational ‘meeting of the minds,’ so to speak, on Saturday, March 3rd.

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Caribou Masonic Lodge 170 elects officers PDF  | Print |
Wednesday, 15 February 2012 09:32

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Members of the Caribou Masonic Lodge 170 AF&AM recently held an installation for those members elected to serve as 2012 officers. In front, from left, are: John Irovando, Neal Haines, David Spooner, Robert Ellinwood and Ronald Thibodeau. Standing directly behind Thibodeau is Ralph Conroy. In back are: Joe Cheney, Paul Harmon, Marshall White, Troy Gagnon, Graham Warne and Erich Margeson. Absent from the photo are Jody Smith, Whitney Smith and Lou Leavitt.

 
Pines Pediatrics to host workshop to assist parents with college fund PDF  | Print |
Wednesday, 15 February 2012 09:29

By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer

CARIBOU — On Tuesday, Feb. 28, Pines Pediatrics will partner with the Finance Authority of Maine in hosting a workshop to help parents complete applications for their babies to receive a $500 Harold Alfond College Challenge Grant toward higher education. All Maine resident babies under one year of age are eligible. The workshop will be held at 11 a.m. and again at 1 p.m. in the Chan Center at Cary Medical Center.

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100th participant in Babies and Books PDF  | Print |
Wednesday, 15 February 2012 09:19
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Layla King

By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer

On Feb. 8, Layla King, three-and a-half-month-old daughter of Angel and Loren King of Mars Hill, became the 100th member of the Babies and Books Program at the Caribou Public Library.

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