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WB2B held their annual summer social on August 18.
WRWA announces the appointment of new Executive Director.
Artist Anne Leone at Dedee Shattuck Gallery.
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WB2B held their Annual Summer Social
on August 18. EverythingWestport.com Saturday, September 03, 2011 Photos/EverythingWestport.com
The social networking group has grown
considerable since its inception two decades ago. "Our Annual
Summer Social is fast becoming the event for all who work, live and play in
our community," said WB2B President Michael Sullivan. Westport Business to Business
on Facebook. http://westportb2b.com Left: LePage's
Seafood & Grill provided the raw bar and buffet; the Westport River
provided the ambiance. The WBTB
is a not-for-profit association of companies and individuals joined
together to promote the interests of businesses located in Westport and
surrounding communities. Their members work together for the mutual benefit
of their business and their relationship with other companies and the general
public. The WBTB offers, at their
business meetings, guest speakers who address various subjects that keep their
members informed of political issues and business subjects that concern small
business. If you are not a member, consider
investing in your future and join Westport Business to Business. Let’s
work together to make Westport a better community to live, work, and play. Click
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Left: Former WB2B president Attorney John Patrick Long (left) with
State Senator Michael Rodrigues and Mrs. Rodrigues. Right: Westport State Representative Paul
Schmid (left) with John Long, and Jack
and Beverley Baughan.
Left: Beverley Baughan (left) of Westport Harbor
with Westport Historical Society's board member Betty Slade of Westport Point. Right: Elaine Ostroff with Mary Pasquariello.
Left: WB2B President Michael Sullivan (left) with Toby Stapleton. Right: Sticks, Stones & Stars' Charlie McConnell
with master potter Wayne Fuerst.
Left: Carlos Costa of Financial Alternatives with friend. Right: Enjoying the outside deck of the
Westport Yacht Club.
From the left: Jay Tripp, Mrs. Tony Vieira, Westport Selectman Antone "Tony" Vieira, and Paul Hebert. Click
here to view the hi-resolution photo album. Need Adobe
Flash to view album? Click here! WRWA announces the appointment of
new Executive Director. EverythingWestport.com Tuesday, August 30, 2011
On September 1st Mr. Patrick will assume responsibility for WRWA
operations, succeeding Gay Gillespie, who served in that role for 27
years. The WRWA is a nonprofit environmental education and advocacy
group formed in 1976 to conserve the natural resources of the Westport River
and its 100-square mile watershed located in southeastern Massachusetts, home
to 27,000 citizens at the entrance to Buzzards Bay. “We are excited that Matt Patrick has agreed to become our executive
director,” said Sally Ann Ledbetter, President of the WRWA Board of
Directors. “We look forward to Matt’s leadership and expertise in
environmental and sustainable energy policies, both in the private sector and
public.” Mr. Patrick has a long history of leading and actively participating
in organizations dedicated to environmental preservation and
improvement. He was a Peace Corp volunteer in Ghana where he taught
masonry and successfully fabricated commercially viable burned bricks.
On Cape Cod, Mr. Patrick served as volunteer chair of a non-profit
organization that preserved 380 acres of the Quashnet
River Valley in Mashpee; co-chair of an ad-hoc coalition to create the Cape
Cod Commission—a comprehensive land-use regulatory authority; and Selectman
in Falmouth, MA from 1995 until 2001. From 1985 to 2000, Mr. Patrick
was executive director of the Cape and Islands Self Reliance Corporation, a
nonprofit association that helped over 3,000 families and organizations save
an estimated $2 million per year in energy costs through a variety of
programs and initiatives. He was also the owner and operator of Seven
Suns Solar, a company that marketed, sold, designed, and installed more than
100 solar domestic hot water systems. From 2001 to 2011 Mr. Patrick served as Representative to the Massachusetts
House of Representatives from the 3rd Barnstable District.
His committee appointments included: telecommunications, health care finance,
global warming and climate change, and veterans affairs. He wrote and
moved legislation to enable property assessed clean energy (PACE) programs in
Massachusetts. He was the only federal or state legislator from the
Cape Cod region in support of the controversial Cape Wind project. Mr. Patrick’s recognitions include the Trout Unlimited Silver Trout
Award (1988 and 1990), the Lewis Gurwitz Spirit
Award from the Wampanoag Tribal Council (March 2002), the Dedicated Service
Award from the Service Employees International Union Local 767 (April 2003),
the Mariners Union Award (2004), the Buzzards Bay Guardian Award from the
Coalition for Buzzards Bay (2005), the Massachusetts Veterans Service
Officers Association Legislator of the Year (June 2007), Excellence in Public
Sector Leadership Award from the Mass. Energy Consumers Alliance (2007), the
Association to Preserve Cape Cod Environmental Leadership Award (2008), The
Housing Assistance Corporation Presbrey Public
Service Award (May 2010), and Mass Care Honors (April 2011). For more information please contact Tom Schmitt at 508.636.3932. Artist Anne Leone
at Dedee Shattuck Gallery. EverythingWestport.com Saturday, August 13, 2011 Photos/EverythingWestport.com
Click here for a virtual
tour of the opening reception. Since 1993, Anne Leone's paintings of figures suspended in water have
been featured in many exhibitions in the US and abroad. Anne's Cenote Series is based on recent
experiences in natural limestone pools, or cenotes,
in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Water is a central character of Anne Leone's
paintings, reflecting and refracting light while keeping swimmers afloat.
Leone captures the ethereal moment in which swimmers, unbound from gravity,
experience the co-mingling of trepidation and pleasure. Since 1993, Leone has explored this environment,
in which crystalline light pierces murky depths. The Cenote
Series is based on recent experiences in natural limestone pools in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Inconspicuous from above, the cenote is a portal to an aquatic cave system, vast and
deep. The sunlight, streaming through water clear as air, has engendered a
subtly expressive paint handling. The muffled silence of being
underwater is palpable, as we are permitted a slower, more meditative entry into
each image. Anne Leone’s paintings have been featured in many
exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. An art professor at UMass Dartmouth
for 20 years, she now devotes her time to her own work and lives with her
husband, Daniel Ludwig, in both Southeastern Massachusetts and Brooklyn, N.Y.
Click here for a virtual
tour of the opening reception. The DeeDee Shattuck Gallery,
1 Partners Lane, will be showing the work of artist Anne Leone from Friday,
August 12, to September 25. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays 12 p.m. to 6 p.m..
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