Making wishes come true

The eighth annual Bid for Wishes auction held by The Fontaine Family – The Real Estate Leader in Scarborough, shown here, and Auburn collected 316 items, had over 400 attendees and raised $26,486 – the best turnout to date. Half of the funds raised this year went to Lewiston teen Johnathan Morin and half to Make-A-Wish Maine. Contributed / The Fontaine Family

Granted

Bangor Savings Bank Foundation has awarded more than $600,000 to organizations in Maine and New Hampshire. Local gifts include $5,500 each to Full Plates Full Potential in Brunswick, Portland Museum of Art and Westbrook-based Common Threads of Maine. The bank also awarded $250,000 each to Maine Public and Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters.

Maine Cancer Foundation has awarded the largest sum of money dedicated to cancer screening resources in its 46-year history to address the high number of Mainers who missed lifesaving cancer screenings during the pandemic. Included in the $508,000 total were Greater Portland Health, $90,000, and MaineHealth – Maine Medical Center in Portland, $96,823.

The University of Southern Maine Foundation has received a gift of $850,000 from L.L. Bean, including $750,000 to support a new Career & Student Success Center and green campus quad, to be named the “Bean Green,” now under construction on USM’s Portland campus.

Extraordinary work

Avesta Housing President and CEO Dana Totman, right, presented the Mike Yandell Award June 22 to Pete Brown, associate director of STRIVE U of South Portland, for extraordinary work in the field of affordable housing during Avesta’s grand opening of Deering Place in Portland. Contributed / Avesta Housing

Hire, promotions, appointments

Maine Historical Society announced a new slate of officers at its 200th annual meeting June 4: Eileen F. Skinner, Falmouth, chair; Michael J. Cianchette, Portland, 1st vice chair; Laura F. Sprague, Portland, 2nd vice chair; Bob Greene, Minot, secretary; and Drew Swenson, Portland, treasurer.

Conant

Sebago Technics announced the following promotions and achievements within its Transportation Team: Bradley Lyon, promoted to vice president of transportation engineering; Curtis Thompson, elevated to senior traffic operations engineer/project manager; Nikki Conant, elevated to senior transportation engineer/project manager; and Shane Kelly, elevated to senior transportation engineer/project manager.

Anderson

Longtime partner Scott Anderson is the new managing partner at Verrill, replacing Keith Jones, who is stepping down after 13 years in the role. In related news, Verrill partner Robert Ruesch was recently elected to American Bar Association’s Forum on Construction Law’s Governing Committee.

Rebecca Hatfield, senior vice president of real estate at Avesta Housing, has been chosen to succeed Dana Totman as president and CEO upon Totman’s retirement in September.

Veteran broadcaster Tim Moore is the new president/CEO of Maine Association of Broadcasters.

Jeff Schools was recently hired at the new director of communications at Southern Maine Community College.

McGorrill

Christopher McGorrill, chief marketing officer, will assume the role of chief experience officer at Atlantic Federal Credit Union and oversee the retail branches, contact center and marketing.

Fritzsche

Tom Fritzsche will be executive director of Pine Tree Legal Assistance Board of Directors starting in September.

Jennifer Small has been promoted to partner at Malone Commercial Brokers.