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Chamber of commerce plans annual meeting	Book drive aids group serving children at risk
Work begins on new waste recycling facility	Public speaking expert will be featured guest

Chamber of commerce plans annual meeting

The Fall River Area Chamber of Commerce and Industry will hold its annual meeting at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday at White's of Westport.
Speaker of the House Thomas M. Finneran will address the membership concerning "Current Affairs on the Hill." This year's annual meeting will include a breakfast beginning with registration at 7:30 a.m.
At 8 a.m., breakfast will be served and the business meeting will start at 8:30 a.m.
The meeting will include reports from 2001 Chairman Karl Hetzler, who is serving a second-year term. There also will be a State of the Chamber address from chamber President and Chief Executive Officer Peter F. Kortright. The morning will conclude with Mr. Finneran's address.
Tickets are $25 per person or $250 for a table of 10. Tickets can be purchased online at www.fallriverchamber.com or by calling Kimberly Coroa Moniz at the Fall River Chamber of Commerce at (508) 676-8226.

Book drive aids group serving children at risk
The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has received a donation of new and gently used children's books that were contributed by area customers of the Sovereign Bank of New England.
David Medeiros, vice president and community branch manager for Sovereign Bank in New Bedford, presented two boxes of books, to be used by the hundreds of at-risk children served by the society in SouthCoast. The 259 Sovereign Bank branches throughout New England collected thousands of books.
This second annual holiday book drive was held statewide in conjunction with the United Way of New England. All the bank branches accepted new and used books, and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was selected as the recipient. The society is a member of the United Way of Greater Fall River, Greater New Bedford and Greater Attleboro/Taunton.

Work begins on new waste recycling facility
Bufftree Building Co. has begun work on a new facility for New Bedford Waste Services at 1245 Shawmut Ave., New Bedford. The state-of-the-art solid waste recycling and transfer facility will be capable of processing on a daily basis the more than 500 tons of material originating from construction site demolition, as well as commercial, industrial and residential waste.
Beginning in 2003, new Massachusetts regulations will require the recycling of all construction debris in an environmentally safe process. "Because of these new regulations, we recognized a need to expand our operations, and we chose the best to build it for us," said Michael Camara, president of New Bedford Waste Services and vice president of ABC Disposal Service Inc.
The 44,000-square-foot facility is expected to be operational by spring 2002.
SouthCoast-based Bufftree Building Co., a member of the Associated General Contractors of America, recently completed a 30-room addition to the Hampton Inn in Fairhaven and the conversion of the former North Dartmouth post office into the offices of Dr. Robert Baarsvik, DDS, PC.

Public speaking expert will be featured guest
The Massachusetts Association of Insurance Women will meet at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 13, at the Venus De Milo restaurant, Route 6, Swansea.
Guest speaker for the evening will be Jonathan Kelch of the Dale Carnegie Institute. The topic will be public speaking. This meeting is being hosted by the Hadley Insurance Agency.

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