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BACKBONE: Shaun Cournoyer, administrator of nursing and long-term care facility The Friendly Home in Woonsocket, said certified nursing assistants are the “backbone” of the facility. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

HELPING HANDS: Online classes, grants speed training of desperately needed CNAs

Anyone who has spent even a little time in a nursing home or hospital has seen whose hands do the essential feeding, dressing, cleaning...
SOURCES OF COMFORT: Marisa Head, center, has built her North Attleborough business Marisa’s Skin Care LLC in nine years with the help of her two daughters, Stephanie Howard, left, and Rachel Howard. 
COURTESY JESSIE WYMAN PHOTOGRAPHY

Head’s customer service goes beyond skin deep

PBN 2023 Business Women Awards ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE: Marisa Head | Marisa’s Skin Care LLC owner and founder ACNE, SUN SPOTS, scars and pockmarks, wrinkles. People...
FAMILY JEWELS: Haverhill Leach, founder, owner and designer at Haverhill Leach Inc. in Warren, says the company designs using birth month gemstones make a great gift idea for women who want to remember and honor family members. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Haverhill Leach’s jewelry bears extra emotional significance

PBN 2023 Business Women Awards ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE: Haverhill Leach | Haverhill Leach LLC founder, owner and designer HAVERHILL LEACH WORKS with her husband in her...
HELPING OUT: Shirley Moore, left, owner of Be Moore Interpreting LLC in Pawtucket, provides interpreting services for the attendees at the Latino Financial Summit at Farm Fresh in Providence. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Moore’s interpreting skills are in high demand

PBN 2023 Business Women Awards ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE: Shirley Moore | Be Moore Interpreting LLC owner IT WASN’T UNTIL she took a Bootstrap Bootcamp course for...
ON TARGET: Natalia ­Pelletier, Poyant Signs Inc.’s senior project manager, and Bill Furey, the company’s channel letter production lead, stand over a sign made for Target. 
COURTESY POYANT SIGNS INC.

Poyant thrives by employing old family values and new efficiency methods

PBN Manufacturing Awards 2022 OVERALL EXCELLENCE AT A MIDSIZE MANUFACTURER: Poyant Signs Inc. Poyant Signs Inc., a family-owned sign-making business, was founded during the Great Depression....
SOURCES OF COMFORT: Marisa Head, center, has built her North Attleborough business Marisa’s Skin Care LLC in nine years with the help of her two daughters, Stephanie Howard, left, and Rachel Howard.
COURTESY JESSIE WYMAN PHOTOGRAPHY

Her customer service goes beyond skin deep

Acne, sun spots, scars and pockmarks, wrinkles. People find many reasons to feel bad about their skin. But often that bad feeling goes much...
HELPING OUT: Shirley Moore, left, owner of Be Moore Interpreting LLC in Pawtucket, provides interpreting services for the attendees at the Latino Financial Summit at Farm Fresh in Providence.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Moore’s interpreting skills are in high demand

It wasn’t until she took a Bootstrap Bootcamp course for entrepreneurs that Shirley Moore, 40, fully realized the idea for her business, something that...

Haverhill Leach’s jewelry bears extra emotional significance

Haverhill Leach works with her husband in her second self-made business from a waterfront maker space in Warren, creating goods for an appreciative, growing...
PLAYS TO WIN: Since becoming director of the North Kingstown Recreation Department in 2019, Chelsey Dumas Gibbs has won grants to push forward park and playground improvement projects, pulling in $571,000 for facilities and programming. / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

Dumas Gibbs energized to keep community members active

Business Women Awards 2022 Woman to Watch Government/Quasi-Government Chelsey Dumas Gibbs, Town of North Kingstown A blizzard of improvements in recent years at public places...
BEING COMPASSIONATE: Bob Selle, chief human resources officer for Ocean State Job Lot, prioritizes the importance of treating workers as whole persons with families and communities. / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

Selle aligns Job Lot’s purpose with employees’ needs

2022 C-Suite Awards: Enterprise company | Bob Selle, Ocean State Job Lot chief human resources officer The job rewards for part-time workers are typically not...
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