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Bangor

Level 1 certification

Rachel McLeod, a pet care technician at Green Acres Kennel Shop, has earned Level 1 certification through the American Boarding Kennel Association.

To be certified by the association, a pet care technician must pass a comprehensive exam that covers breed recognition, small animal anatomy and physiology, boarding care, emergency care and first aid, geriatric and degenerative disease care, contagious disease, parasites, zoonotic diseases, pesticides and customer relations.

McLeod passed the certification test with a perfect score.

Top truck drivers

Roger Scott of Hermon, a FedEx truck driver based in Bangor, took first-place honors in the Straight Truck class in the 2004 Maine-Vermont Cooperative State Truck Driving Championship in Bangor on May 15. He also received the Rookie of the Year award.

Raymond Rogers, also a FedEx truck driver based in Bangor, placed third in the Twins class.

Old Town

Insurance award

Richard May of Old Town recently received the President’s Award for Outstanding Dedication from the Maine State National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors at its recent convention in Augusta. May served this past year as the association’s immediate past president. He is the local representative for New England Financial.

J.M. Huber Corp.

OLD TOWN – The J.M. Huber Corp., with local operations based in Old Town, is featured in the new book “This Isn’t the Company I Joined: How to Lead in a Business Turned Upside Down,” by Carol Kinsey Goman, KCS Publishing. The book takes readers inside today’s often-tumultuous business environment to discover the strategies that leaders use to convert change to a company’s advantage.

Huber’s After Action Review process, discussed in the book, brings employees together after a project to discuss what worked and what did not so knowledge can be shared throughout the company. Employees share lessons learned and apply the data to the work process to help avoid past mistakes and to repeat successes. The United States Army originally developed the idea in the 1970s.

For information about the J.M. Huber Corp, visit www.huber.com.

“This Isn’t the Company I Joined” is available in bookstores and online.