Milestones

Irene C. Thorndike, a 30-year clerk at Belfast City Hall, was honored this week for her long service in behalf of the city.

Thorndike began working behind the counter at City Hall at a time when Belfast was the gritty poultry processing and shoe manufacturing hub of Waldo County. She has seen the city evolve into a telecommunications financial center for MBNA New England, with a bustling downtown that has become a popular tourist attraction.

She was honored at a party hosted by fellow employees and friends Tuesday. Before cutting her cake, the usually reticent Thorndike noted, “I’ve enjoyed working here for the last 30 years, though it doesn’t seem that long.”

Harold and Jane Nealey of Northport were recent participants at the National Guild of Hypnotists’ international convention at Nashua, N.H.

During the convention, more than 170 professionals presented 249 seminars on topics such as the guild’s clients’ bill of rights, practice management, addictions, geriatrics, past-life therapies, pediatrics, smoking cessation, weight management and developments in hypnotherapy. The Nealeys presented a workshop on pain control with hypnotic techniques.

Waldo County YMCA official Cyndi Dalton in Belfast has been appointed coordinator of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s Miracle Mile Fitness Walk to be held on Oct. 20.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis Tenn., founded by entertainer Danny Thomas, focuses on catastrophic diseases that afflict children. The hospital is nonsectarian and nondiscriminatory and covers all costs of care beyond those reimbursed by insurance.

St. Jude scientists and physicians work together to find cures for childhood leukemia, Hodgkin’s disease, sickle-cell anemia, and other child-killing diseases. Thousands of people have benefited from the research findings that have developed better and more successful treatment methods.

For information about the walk, contact Dalton at 338-4598.