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Nov 24, 2023 - Nov 28, 2023
>Festival of trees>Fri 11/24- Tue 11/28 at Fosters. There are many volunteering opportunities directly through the Festival organizers, such as selling raffle tickets during the festival, set up, cookie baking, etc. Sign-ups likely will be available some time in October - stay tuned for that info that I will pass along!
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Melanoma Education Foundation presentation
Dec 01, 2023 8:00 AM
Steve Fine, founder and president of the Melanoma Education Foundation, attended colleges in the Boston area, receiving a doctorate in chemistry from Northeastern University. He then moved to Pennsylvania, completing a year of postdoctoral research at Lehigh University. After 5 years as Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, he moved back to New England where he served in technical and management positions in high tech chemical companies.In 1989 he started a consulting practice in the technology of high purity chemical manufacturing, concurrently serving for 3 years as Vice President of Technology for ACSI, a West Coast manufacturer of semiconductor chemicals.Shortly after his son, Dan, died of melanoma in 1998 at the age of 26, he founded the non-profit Melanoma Education Foundation and, since 2000, has devoted full time to the Foundation.The primary activity of the Foundation has been educating high school and middle school wellness teachers about melanoma and providing them with free online lessons to educate their students about self-detecting melanoma while it is curable. Prior to the Covid 19 pandemic over 1700 schools in all 50 U.S. states and Canada were using the lessons, resulting in saved lives of students, teachers and their loved ones.Steve is also a member of the Peabody Massachusetts Rotary Club.
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Dec 02, 2023 4:30 PM
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