Saturday, March 22, 2008  9 AM - 4 PM
New Hampshire Community Technical College
2020 Riverside Drive, Berlin, NH 03570
Valley Ventures Group - Vendor Profiles       (Click on business name for company website)
  Lise Grondin-Danault   * Co-Chair Person * - Osmosis
   
Osmosis provides a safe, non-invasive, comfortable and relaxing way to rid the body of built-up toxins through the use of the ionCleanse footbath detoxification system. It is intended to support herbal, homeopathic, and vitamin detoxification protocols and procedures.

Why Use Osmosis?
Your body is attacked on a daily basis by the effects of pollution, stress, poor nutrition, sleep deprivation, to name just a few. This creates a situation of imbalance in your system, one in which free radicals do damage over time. (Simply put, free radicals are excess amounts of negatively or positively charged ions that are looking for "something" to complete them. Some are of normal metabolic processes, but many are harmful.)
Cleansing the tissues and organs in your body gives them the opportunity to heal and to rest from the assault that daily living brings. It also brings your body's ph levels to normal range--7 ph.

What Can I Expect During a Session?
Millions of neutralizing ions will be introduced to your body through this therapeutic, balancing footbath. After being absorbed, the ions get to work drawing toxic wastes back out into the water. The color of the water at the end of the 20 or 30 minute session indicates which areas were specifically targeted and cleansed.

*Anyone with pacemakers, transplants, ostomies and/or are on certain types of medications, are pregnant or lactating, should not use ionCleanse.

 Jacqueline Hawkins   * Co-Chair Person * - Healthy Delights
   
 
 Eric Lang   * Treasurer * - Legal Ledgers Bookkeeping
   
Legal Ledgers is dedicated to provide accurate bookkeeping services to a wide range of small businesses in the Berlin area and surrounding communities.

We bring 16 years of electronic or manual accounting to provide financial reports and tax information.

Our goal is to assist our clients to be able to access their financial situation and devote more of their time to actually running their business.
 Derik Brasher - Accurate Inspections
   
Accurate Inspections

Performs inspections on homes and small-to-medium commercial properties. We are dedicated to the needs of our clients and are not influenced by anyone in the Real Estate or Home Repair industry. We strive to give thorough and honest evaluations of the overall condition of the properties we inspect.

Our inspections meet or exceed the nationally accepted ASHI standard of practice and code of ethics. Our comprehensive inspections include inspection of all major structural components, electrical, plumbing, heating, kitchen and bath installations, and the grounds.

The average inspection requires 3 to 4 hours to complete. The client receives an extensive 35 page, bound report with an individualized summary and pictures.

The owner, Derik Brasher, is a certified graduate of ITA (Inspection Training Associates) which is a Kaplan Professional School located in Oceanside, California.

You can have confidence with Accurate Inspections.

 Laura Lynch - North Star Web Services
   
North Star Web Services offers a wide array of services such as professional web site design, web site maintenance, web hosting, web page templates, graphics design, Macromedia Flash and other small business services such as logo and banner design. Our unique designs are coming from experienced professionals, who value your satisfaction above all else. We provide quality work at a reasonable price for all our products. We are willing to work with you to develop the perfect style or to improve on what you already have. We strive to offer our products to our customers in as quick a turn around time as possible; however, because of the craftsmanship required to produce custom websites we cannot rush our work.

North Star Web Services strives to create professional web sites that will effectively promote our clients' products or services to their target audience. Unlike your standard newspaper or phone book ad, a web site can contain an unlimited amount of information at a fraction of the price, and is accessible by millions world wide. Any aspect of your site can be updated monthly, weekly, or even daily, to have current information for your readers. This information can be accessed with a click of a button from around the entire globe, 24 hours a day. Statistics show that there are over 300 million people on the Internet today. These numbers speak for themselves. Let us speak for you.

We are looking forward to serving you.

North Star Web Services Staff
 Keith Lynch - North Star Painting
   
Some of North Star Painting's services include: all forms of oil and latex finishes, faux finishes, paper hanging, staining, urethaning and older home restoration.Through the use of only top quality products and thorough preparations, North Star Painting will beautify your home, protect it from the elements, even raise the resale value.

Keith Lynch, owner of North Star Painting, has been in business for 27 years. During this time he has accumulated a wealth of experience and knowledge about the trade. Beautiful finishes and an excellent work ethic is a reputation he has earned. Some of his clients have included The Wentworth Resort and The Stonehearst Manner. Call today for a free estimate.

 Carla Lapierre - Gateway Gallery
Broman Photography   
Gateway Gallery & Gifts offers fine art, archival framing and an eclectic selection of gifts and antiques.

The Gallery has originals and prints from several award winning N.H. artists - watercolors by K.P. Moore and J.L. Pippin, oils by M. Ferland, photographs by K. Eitel and C.M. Broman. Framing is done in house and we strive to employ archival materials to protect your treasures, feeling that your money and our time should provide lasting value. Our gifts are carefully chosen to offer you a variety of more unusual items - fused glass, blown glass, jewelry, stoneware, specialty foods, and cards. Antiques vary from ephemera to furniture as the spirit moves our dealers.

Gallery owner Carla Lapierre has been a professional photographer for 30 years, is a member of the N.H. Professional Photographers Association, a State Juried member of the League of N.H. Craftsmen, and holds a Fuji Masterpiece Award.

 Karen Bradley   - Peak Health
   
Our Services:

Peak Health offers a variety of services, from one-on-one personal training, sports medicine, or medical massage to energy therapies such as CranioSacral Therapy and Reiki.

In addition, massage parties and/or chair massage can be used for specific events or as business incentives or gifts for staff.

In many instances, worker's compensation and auto accident cases may be billed. Please feel free to call and ask how to qualify.

Gift Certificates available
 Denise Doucette   - Arts For You
   
Denise Doucette is a certified music teacher with a B.S. in education from Granite State College. She has twenty-two years of teaching experience in both parochial and public school setting grades pre-K to 8 which include general music, orffestration, show choir, chorus and bell choir. Denise has been acknowledged as a Sylvia Evans Award recipient (2000); St. Michael Teacher of the Year (2003-2004); and VFW Regional Teacher of the Year (2003). She is presently teaching music and P.E. at the Milan Village School and is also employed by NHIS as the track vocalist since 1990.

Denise invites students of all ages to experience the joy of playing the piano or guitar. Adults are encouraged to take the time to treat yourself to something you've always wanted to do. Just do it!
 Dennis Bisson   - Dennis Bisson Productions
   
Dennis makes cabinets, doors, signs and shelving. He will work with customers, to custom make any wood working projects. He does carpentry, install cabinets and no job is too small for Dennis.

Dennis also raises tropical fish to sell. He can sell at a lower price than most pet stores because they born and raised in his own hatchery. He raises many different types of fish that you normally don't see in the North Country. He also ties flies for trout, salmon, bass, and pike!
 Joyce Presby - North Country Regional Manager
   
Joyce brings a diverse set of skills with her working with small businesses in the North Country. Before working for MicroCredit-NH she was a first time WREN graduate, who started her own business, The Xchange Connection; was a member of the Board of Directors of WREN for many years; and a member of a Working Capital peer-lending group, WRENa$ense.

Before moving back to the North Country in 1994, she was employed by a Fortune 500 company, Digital Equipment Corporation in Merrimack, NH, (now Hewlett Packard), where she worked with Software Documentation and Licensing for seven years.

Joyce's previous experience includes working in temporary services for different areas including medical, dental, paper making, manufacturing and statistical analysis, with a concentration in accounting and bookkeeping.

jpresby@microcreditnh.org
 Kelly Forrest   - All Dressed Up Window Fashions
   
All Dressed Up Window Fashions is a newly opened retail curtain shop, owned and operated by Kelly Forrest. The store is located in the Yellow Mountain Marketplace on Route 16 in North Conway, along with Salvatore Michaels Framed Art Superstore, Building 16 Furniture and Cinemaesque.

Those of you familiar with the Soyfire Candle Store, may recognize Kelly as "the Candle-chick", having been the manager there since their opening day.

Owning a business of her own has been a life-long dream of Kelly's. When she recognized the need in the Mountain Washington Valley for a window treatment store specifically dealing in curtains, drapes, and other soft window treatments, she seized the moment and followed her dream.

Kelly is a member of the Window Fashions Certified Professionals (WFCP) and the Window Coverings Association of America (WCAA). (P) All Dressed Up Window Fashions is a local source for ready made and custom draperies, curtains, accessories and customer friendly design services. The products offered include a broad mix of ready made window treatments and drapery hardware ranging in price and quality from good to best. These products represent a variety of colors, styles, and value, including everything from simple valances, tiers, insulated drapes, and window quilts to high end cascades, swags, jabots, and roman shades. Kelly also offers fabric sales by the yard, and local upholstery and seamstress.

We are open Tue thru Sat, 10 to 5. Call 356-5800 or stop by and check us out today!
 Judi Calhoun   - JAC ART
  
 
Artist & Illustrator I create,Watercolor Paintings, Pen & Ink, and Pastel paintings.

My approach to both Art and Illustration is to communicate a story using images that effect our emotions.

In my ART work I attempt a painterly representation of the beauty of life as well as the mystery. I'm sensitive to the color and drama of life. It is all about capturing the heart and vividness of our existence, or more importantly the perception of what we want life to look like. In my ILLUSTRATIVE work, I strive to capture the whimisical nature of a child's adventure in life, to use a fresh new approach in illustrating stories. I am satisfied when a child studies my work and asks me, "What happens next?"

I believe that Art is without limitations or boundaries. My feeling is simple, Art is an expression of your passion, what you love, what you enjoy. All of life is filled with wonderful variety and that is the reason I constantly challenge myself to go beyond my own limitations, to solve new problems and to find that glorious hidden masterpiece that might be hidden inside of me.

Art has been a part of my life for over 40 years. I discovered I could draw at the age of 8 years old when my mother gave me an assignment to paint an Ice skater, and to her amazement, I accomplished the project with good results. Yet it was not until I was 14 years old when I sold my first painting, and began to take art a little more seriously. I love painting animals, and I enjoy children, and I feel as if I am still a child at heart.

 David Townsend   - Acclaimed Creations LLC
   
 
Acclaimed Creations LLC is a small precision machining company specializing in prototypes, mechanical assemblies, Research and Development and small run jobs.

We are conveniently located in central NH 1/2 mile from exit 24 on I-93.

We craft precision machined parts with pride, consistently!

"Your Creation is our Acclamation!"

Our Ashland Shop is now up and running. We look forward to producing your custom components through manual and automatic machining processes. We are more than willing to consider the introduction of new equipment to meet your ongoing needs.

 Robin Anderson   - Granite Matrix
   
 
Welcome to the Granite Matrix!

The Granite Matrix is the Social Network for New Hampshire. Make friends, invite friends, blog, talk it up in the forums, join groups, share photos and videos. Get Connected!

The Social Network for NH and its friends. Building Community Spirit, this is where it's happening: blogs, forums, groups, photo and video sharing, networking and the voicing of opinions.

Yes, we're new and just starting, so jump in and invite all your friends. This is a work in progress and always will be and that means changes like a Classified Section and an Events Calendar (coming soon) that you can participate in.

Much more to come down the road. So, sign in, set up your profile and start getting connected!

Thanks, Robin

 Ray Paulin   - RPCreations
We are designers, creators and fabricators of fiberglass products. We create visual business enhancements. Highly visable premium quality products. For business or residential applications. To industrial and educational levels of application. We design and produce single peices to hundreds of peices. Technical designs or decorative works.

To draw attention to your business or to enhance your location. To create tourism in your community by having us product items for art parades such as the cows in Chicago, the Lions in NY...
 Betty Gosselin   - Pathways for Thursday's Child Ltd
   
Working with body, mind ,spirit and breath, Pathways for Thursday's Child Ltd. Healing Arts Center and Gift Shop offers Reiki group or private training, private sessions and group or private individual sessions, Infant Massage training both private or group: Labyrinth walking or building.

The gift shop offers items to support the different healing therphys, many Fair Trade item from around the world,unique gift items; crystals, chimes, candels, angels,jewelry, some children's items to mention a few. Come and browse the shop and enjoy a peaceful respite in your otherwise busy day.

I service people by offering private Reiki sessions, by training people in groups in the healing arts of Reiki and Infant Massage, also private or in groups. I have a healing meditation sewven circuit Labyrinth in my back yard, that is open to the public from dawn to dusk during the possible outside walking times of year. The gift shop is open from in May through December 31 of the year. Many items are Fair Trade and most support the different healing paths.

 Sandi Byrnes   - Buck Rub Realty
   
Sandi has resided in Pittsburg New Hampshire for the past twenty-one years. She moved to the NH north country from southern NH when her two sons were very young. She found the area to be a wonderful place to raise a family.

Since then, her boys have grown and she has expanded her horizons into the real estate industry. Sandi has found that this is a career she really enjoys. She has acquired a NH Brokers™ real estate license and is working from her office at The Buck Rub Pub in Pittsburg, NH. Sandi services the Pittsburg area in the sales and purchase of any residential or commercial property. The Pittsburg area offers many homes to choose from; one family, vacation, retirement homes, camps, or multi-family residences, and many parcels of land are also available here in the North Country at very reasonable prices.

Sandi would be honored to assist anyone in the sale or purchase of their property in The Great North Woods region of New Hampshire. She will do her best to give you excellent customer/client service in the assistance of your real estate purchase or sale. Contact Sandi by telephone or email for prompt professional real estate service. Sandi offers New Hampshire real estate listings for the NH Towns of Colebrook, Columbia, Clarksville, Errol, Stewartstown, Pittsburg, and Stratford.

 Shawn Murphy   - Bobo The Clown
  
 
Bobo T. Clown has been entertaining New England families since October of 1997. He travels to homes, resorts, business locations, and many other spots around New England, to present his unique Children's Inter-Active 'Lite' Magic Show, and balloon creations like hats, animals, swords, flowers, etcetera, for all who want one. His comedy magic show consists of selected 'Lite' comical magic tricks, most of which require him to get the children in the audience involved. He claims "I kinda goof things up a little and they set me straight". If time allows, or if requested during the show, he'll lead the gang in a round of the 'Chicken Dance'. "I find that many kids do not know the moves to this dance, but that's ok, because I teach them." The kids (and the adults too) always have a great time at Bobo's shows.

"I'm often called a saint. Probably because I exhibit great patience with the children, even when they get a bit roudy. I just quiet them, sit them down, and continue with whatever trick I'm working on. Sometimes, when I don't notice the magic happening, but they do, it gets a bit loud and funny!"

Learn more about Bobo by visiting his website at:

www.bobo-t-clown.com
 Andre Belanger   - Studio Works
  
 
 James Wells   - Winnipesaukee Collection
  
 
Furniture making. specializing in Outdoor furniture,
Country Furniture, and Shaker style Furniture.
 Claudette Eames   - Classic Coverings
  
 
Custom Interior Finishes / Traditional Painting Brush & Roller / Professional Paperhanger
 Gloria Sinibaldi   - Wonderland Bookstore
  
 
 Skip Hazen   - National Safety Associates
   
The quality and simplicity of Juice Plus is a great place to begin. The latest dietary guidelines and clinical research consistently emphasize that people need to eat more fruits and vegetables to improve their chances of living longer and healthier lives.

Scientists learn more every day about the nutritional power packed into every tomato, cranberry, or piece of broccoli. Juice Plus provides nutrition from 17 different fruits, vegetables, and grains in convenient and inexpensive capsule form.

Whole Food (17 fruits and vegetables) in Capsule Form. Products are extensively researched. FDA approved as whole food. The whole food effect is prevention of all degenerative diseases. Costs range from $1.40 to $0.85/day...

 Tanya Leveille   - Sew Far So Wood
  
 
Sew Far So Wood was established in 2003. My husband and I wanted to take our love of crafting and sewing to a new level. I have been a seamstress for many years and wanted to provide a service to others in need in the area. With this in mind, there were no area businesses which carried "quality" sewing machines. This is when I took it upon myself to become a Brother sewing machine dealer.

My husband has a talent for wood. He has been a logger in the area for over 20 years. His love for wood sparked and interest in making natural wood looking crafts such as clocks, cribbage boards, and custom signs.

Together we also enjoy decorating for weddings, parties, and special events using balloons, floral arrangments, lights, etc. Not to mention singing at weddings as well.

With all this under one roof, we do all of the following:

Sewing, alterations, repairs, digitized embroidery, decorating, vocalist, custom wood crafts, and sewing machine dealer.


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