MEDIA ADVISORY: Junior Achievement "Groundhog Job Shadow Day" Sponsored by Peoples Heritage Bank

Day/Time:
Friday, January 31, 2003 - 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
(Best time to come would be either at 9:30, or at noon)

Place:
Bates Mill, Lewiston (directions attached)

Event:
About 20 students from Leeds Middle School will be assigned to employees at Peoples Heritage Bank's loan operations center at the Bates Mill in Lewiston to job shadow.

Speaker:
12:10 p.m.: Charlie Roux, Sr., senior vice president in the bank's Loan Operations Department, will address the students.

Contact:
Call Jason Wolfe, 775-5115, or Julie McQuillan at 828-7558

Program Description:
Held each year on or around Groundhog Day to allow young people to see what a real job is like, Job Shadow Day is organized by Junior Achievement and sponsored by Peoples Heritage Bank as part of the bank's "Peoples Promise" program created to help young people in the state. This marks the fifth year that Peoples Heritage Bank has sponsored Job Shadow Day.

"It's a great program that really helps kids understand what the workplace environment is like," said Michael W. McNamara, president and CEO of Peoples Heritage Bank. "We're glad to be a part of it."

Directions to Bates Mill, Lewiston

•Take Exit 13 from the Maine Turnpike.
•Take a left at the end of the exit.
•Follow signs to Lewiston, which brings you onto Lisbon Street.
•Go through several lights on Lisbon Street, toward downtown.
•Go down large hill; road turns into a one-way street.
•At first light, take a left onto Chestnut Street.
•Proceed straight through one light.
•At next light, take a right (Markott Furniture is on right).
•Take the second right into the Bates Mill parking lot to visitor parking.
•Enter at the second level door. The receptionist will let you in.

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