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Bangor

Financial management

Miles Greenacre of Hampden has joined Advanced Payroll Plus, Bangor Savings Bank’s payroll subsidiary, as general manager.

He brings to the job more than 20 years experience in financial management in Maine’s paper industry. His experience ranges from strategic planning and budgeting to financial analysis and risk management, and he has held regional controller and operations controller positions.

Greenacre is a member of Goodwill Riders Snowmobile Club and the Hampden Rifle and Pistol Club. He holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Maine, and he is a certified public accountant.

Advanced Payroll Plus also has announced the promotion of Tess Mairhuber of Hudson to assistant general manager. She has seven years of banking and bank operations experience. She joined Advanced Payroll Plus as production manager in March 1997, and recently served as interim general manager. Officials said her efficiencies in the payroll function have significantly contributed to the growth and successes of Advanced Payroll Plus.

Mairhuber is a volunteer for the Holy Family Parish, the American Cancer Society and Project Graduation. She attended Eastern Maine Community College.

Merger of businesses

Effective Oct. 1, BDL Employment and Rehabilitation Services Inc. and REEP Inc., a licensed mental health agency, have merged to become one organization called Allies Inc. The office is located at 21 Main St., Suite 301, Bangor.

The organization serves individuals with disabilities and those who face other barriers in several counties in Maine. It provides mental health services, job development and placement services for people with disabilities and welfare recipients. To obtain information, call 941-8727.

Addition to rehab team

Maine Center for Integrated Rehabilitation has announced the addition of Pamela Colson Power to the rehabilitation team. She will assume the position of director of marketing and community relations.

Power is a graduate of the University of Maine, and completed graduate studies at the University of Connecticut.

Her 24 years in disability case management include working as a case manager, administrator and marketer. Her community activities include serving on the boards of the Penobscot Nation Boys and Girls Club, and of Families and Children Together.

To learn more about the Maine Center for Integrated Rehabilitation, call Power at 942-1492, or (800) 942-5822.

Brewer

Cancer awareness support

The world’s largest chain of fitness and weight loss centers has announced plans to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. Curves locations across the country will participate in a promotion designed to encourage early detection.

Austin Griffin, a Curves franchisee in Brewer, said that the club will waive the initial service fee for women who join during the week of Oct. 20 and show evidence of having a recent mammogram.

“Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women aside from skin cancer,” Griffin said. “As an organization committed to improving the health of women, all of us at Curves feel strongly about helping get the word out about Breast Cancer Awareness Month.”

Women who are interested in getting more information about breast cancer and breast cancer risk should visit the official National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Web site at www.nbcam.com.

New broker in bartering

ITEX Corp. has licensed New Ideas LLC as an independent franchised broker. As an affiliate of the world’s largest retail trade and barter exchange, officials said, New Ideas brings the resources of 20,000 businesses in the United States and Canada to the Maine market.

ITEX members in Maine will be able to trade their products around the country and in Canada, helping them succeed in a slowing economy.

Businesses have been bartering for centuries but the ITEX network makes this easier and safer than ever before by acting as a third-party administrator and a facilitator for the exchange of goods and services.

ITEX brings members incremental new business as well as locating products on trade that member businesses need. By buying goods and services with trade dollars instead of cash, ITEX members conserve cash that they can use in other areas of their business or retain as profits.

Business Guru Jay Abraham has called barter the most underutilized and best way of maintaining competitive advantage left in the market today.

ITEX Corp. is the world’s largest retail trade and barter exchange. ITEX helps companies increase sales, reduce cash expenses, move idle inventories, open new markets, and build cash profits. ITEX was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Sacramento, Calif. For more information contact Bradley D. Saucier at 989-4445, or visit ITEX online at www.itex.com.

Compiled by Ardeana Hamlin