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Joan Hatem-Roy, chief executive officer of Elder Services of the Merrimack

Shore, received the Excellence in Leadership Award this summer from the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging. The award is given Joan Hatem-Roy to Area Agency on Aging and Title VI directors who have shown exceptional leadership at the local, state or national level in advancing the mission of the Older Americans Act and preparing communities for the nation’s rapidly aging population.

As CEO, Hatem-Roy leads the largest Area Agency on Aging in New England, serving more than 40,000 individuals annually.

In 2019, she successfully joined the North Shore and Merrimack Valley agencies in 2019, expanding the

Harborlight Community Partners, the Beverly-based nonprofit developer of affordable and inclusive properties, broke ground in June on Anchor Point, a 77-unit community at Tozer and Sohier roads in Beverly.

More than 125 local and regional leaders, along with area business professionals and donors, attended the groundbreaking.

Anchor Point will include two affordable housing apartment buildings. The first phase, consisting of 38 units, is scheduled to open in 2022. The total cost of the two residential buildings is about $39 million. At its heart will be The Lighthouse Center, a community building constructed with philanthropic support and offering myriad programming,

organization’s reach to 28 communities, increasing the staff to nearly 500 employees and growing the operating including child care, classes, counseling and recreational opportunities, The project has 14 funders, including the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development and the city of Beverly. Early investors in The Lighthouse Center include Monarch North Shore Fund LLC, Institution for Savings, Beverly Hospital, Cummings Properties, and members of the Harborlight Board of Directors. For more on Harborlight Community Partners, visit harborlightcp.org

budget to almost $100 million.

She has worked at Elder Services for more than 38 years, beginning as one of

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the first elder protective service workers in Massachusetts. In more than 20 years of executive leadership, the last four as CEO, she has made the private, nonprofit agency a leader in the aging field.

Hatem-Roy sits on the North Shore Chamber’s Board of Directors.

Johnson O’Connor, a certified public accounting firm based in Wakefield, has announced several key promotions to its team.

Three certified public accountants — Alex Aparo, Bradley Dumais and Jeff Zhao — have been promoted to managers. Chad Sher and Kimberly Stewart have been made senior associates with the firm.

In making the promotions, company leaders say the five employees have demonstrated the firm’s core values of respect, integrity, teamwork and excellence in their personal and professional growth.

Ping Yin Chai, president and CEO of Salem Five Cents Savings Bank, has

55 Ferncroft Road, a 85,924-squarefoot office building in Danvers professionally managed by CBRE, recently completed Phase II of a major capital improvements project featuring interior design renovations and ventilation and air quality upgrades.

Christine Boncore, asset manager, oversaw the renovation project, which included new paint, art and furniture throughout the first- and second-floor lobbies and the creation of a new lobby on the fourth floor.

In addition to the design updates, substantial upgrades were made to all HVAC filters, upgrading to MERV13 filters to help provide the cleanest air flow in the building. Live plants and vegetation were added throughout

been named to the 20-member Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Bankers Association.

The association is a multifaceted banking trade group that represents about 125 banks throughout Massachusetts and New England, helping them to compete effectively in a rapidly the building to further create a more clean and safe environment.

Located off Routes 1 and 95, 55 Ferncroft Road is marketed by Colliers International, and is actively leasing office suites ranging in size from 2,000 to 40,000 square feet. Visit 55ferncroft.com to learn more.

evolving financial-services industry.

Chai is also a member of the NECC Foundation board at Northern Essex Community College.

Essex Tech has received an $84,000 state grant to improve access to career

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technical education programs. The funds will be used to support expansion and recruitment efforts by hiring an English Learners recruitment specialist and by holding recruitment events throughout the year.

Essex Tech will develop a Middle School Outreach plan, where they will work with middle school counselors in member districts to reach interested English learner students and their families and also help them through the school’s application and interview process.

Three accomplished individuals have joined the staff at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly in key leadership roles. Lynne Cooney, Ph.D., has been appointed director of exhibitions and galleries. She recently earned her doctorate from Boston University, where she taught in the graduate curatorial studies program and was the artistic director and chief curator of its art Elisabeth Reickert Lisa Shawney Lynne Cooney galleries. Elisabeth Reickert is joining the college’s Student Affairs Department as a full-time, 12-month Director of Counseling. A licensed mental health counselor, she has spent the last decade as a school adjustment Joseph C. Correnti, Esquire counselor at Salem Academy Charter School. She will allow Montserrat to increase counseling services for stu-

CORRENTI & DARLING LLP dents and expand the services of the Counseling Office. Attorneys at Law Lisa Shawney is joining Montserrat as the dean of finance and adminis63 FEDERAL STREET SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 01970 (978) 744-0212 CDLawyers.com tration. She brings 25 years of experience in higher education to the role, most recently as vice president for finance and administration at Granite State College in New Hampshire. I