Hospital set to break ground

By Kathy McCabe | September 10, 2006

Beverly Hospital on Thursday will break ground on a new $30 million medical-surgery center planned for 7 acres on the lower portion of the old Danvers State Hospital property on Route 62. The ceremony, scheduled for 5 p.m., will include Steven Laverty , president of Beverly Hospital, and Wayne P. Marquis , the Danvers town manager.

Work crews started clearing the land about a month ago. Concrete will soon be poured on the foundation of the outpatient center.

``This is more of a ceremonial groundbreaking," said Heather Jones, a hospital spokeswoman. ``We want the public to know we are ready to go"

The 80,000-square-foot center is expected to open early next fall. Day surgery, women's breast health, weight management, and other programs now based at the Beverly Hospital Hunt Center, across town on Lindall Street, will relocate to the new center. Most geriatric health programs, such as the Center for Healthy Aging, will remain at the Hunt facility, Jones said.

Beverly Hospital is owned by Northeast Health System Corp., which also owns Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester, CAB Health & Recovery Services in Peabody, and BayRidge Hospital, a mental health-substance abuse facility in Lynn.

N.H. bank rolls out

First Hampshire Bank , a start-up in Manchester, N.H., is gearing up for an initial public stock offering in the fall. The bank must raise enough money to satisfy equity capital requirements it submitted in its application for approval to the New Hampshire Board of Bank Incorporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission.

Organizers include Meridian Interstate Bancorp., parent of East Boston Savings Bank, which will acquire a 40 percent stake in the new bank. Others include 10 people chosen as directors of the First Hampshire Bank.

The bank already has filled several key administrative jobs. John F. ``Jay" Dinkel Jr. has been named director of community banking and lending. He most recently was a senior vice president for government banking at Ocean National Bank in Manchester, N.H. Katherine C. Meyer has been named vice president of operations. She's a 10-year banking veteran, with stints at Ocean National Bank and Granite Bank.

Red Sox trainee

He didn't meet Big Papi. He doesn't know what caused the August swoon. But Ben Vainer of Melrose knows a whole lot more about the Red Sox' marketing machine than the average high school student.

Vainer was ``drafted" as a Red Sox summer intern. He was one of five winners of the ``Break Into the Business of Baseball Challenge," a national essay contest for high school students sponsored by Bentley College and MLB.com. More than 1,000 high school students submitted 100 -word essays explaining why they should intern with one of five big-league teams -- the Red Sox, Mets, Cubs, Phillies, and Nationals.

``I wrote about how the Red Sox are such a great organization and team, because of how they bring so many different kinds of people together," said Vainer, 18, a senior at Melrose High School. He is the son of Elizabeth and Gadi Vainer.

Vainer, the only New England winner, spent five weeks volunteering for the Sox. He spent three weeks working for Fenway Sports Group , a sports marketing subsidiary of the Red Sox. He researched companies considering sponsorships with NASCAR, Boston College team sports, even other pro baseball teams.

``I did a lot of research and spread sheets on Fortune 500 companies," said Vainer, whose usual summer job is at Mount Hood Golf Course in Melrose. ``A lot of research goes into sponsorships. For a Nascar sponsorship, you literally count the number of times a car goes around the track, the number of viewers, . . . and the camera angle. It was pretty interesting."

Vainer spent his final two weeks following around two reporters for MLB, Ian Browne and Howard Kussoy. He watched games from the press box, visited the clubhouse, and sat in on postgame press conferences. But his best memory of Fenway? ``I stood up on the Monster seats a lot," said Vainer, whose employee badge was like a free pass to every game. ``I saw a bunch of walkoffs."

Datebook

Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday will hold ``Back to Work & School," a networking mixer, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Bill DeLuca Chevrolet Cadillac at 112 Bank Road in Haverhill. The cost is $10 for members, $20 nonmembers. For information, call 978-686-0900 or visit www.merrimackvalleychamber.com .

The Homebased Business Women's Network will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Village Green Restaurant on Route 1 North in Danvers. Pat Shea, owner of Total Harmony in Georgetown, will speak on ``The Synergy of Personal Image." Free for members, $10 for guests. For more information, visit www.h-b-n.org.

Kathy McCabe can be reached at kmccabe@globe.com.

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