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“Buried in Treasures” Virtual Support Group Begins September 2nd

Old Colony Elder Services (OCES), the non-profit agency proudly serving older adults and individuals with disabilities throughout Plymouth County and surrounding area including Easton, Stoughton, and Avon is offering an online version of their “Buried in Treasures” facilitated support group for individuals with hoarding issues. There is no cost to attend.

For anyone struggling with clutter, compulsive acquiring, saving and hoarding, OCES’ virtual “Buried in Treasures” confidential support group begins Wednesday, September 2, 2020 and meets once a week for 15 weeks. There is no class on November 11th.

“Buried in Treasures” is an educational, judgment-free, self-help group facilitated by OCES that meets virtually from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

“We’ve received very positive feedback about our Buried in Treasures workshops,” said Teresa Kourtz, OCES’ Protective Services Director. “Past participants shared that the workshop was enlightening, supportive and exceeded their expectations. Others expressed that the classroom and homework combination was a great balance to help them conquer their clutter issues.” 

“Buried in Treasures” is available to people of all ages throughout greater Plymouth County and surrounding communities. All attendees will receive a complimentary workbook. Space is limited and pre-registration is required.

For more information or to be screened and registered for the virtual support group, contact Deana Andrade at OCES, 508-584-1561 extension 232.

What is Hoarding?

Hoarding is when individuals continue to accumulate items, such as clothing, newspapers and food, and then have persistent difficulty discarding possessions. Individuals with hoarding behaviors often face health issues related to falls, as well as run the risk of losing their homes.

“Buried in Treasures” session is facilitated by OCES and sponsored by the Greater Brockton Area Task Force (GBAH), Mass Housing and OCES. 

About OCES

Founded in 1974, OCES proudly serves greater Plymouth County and surrounding communities. OCES is a private, non-profit organization headquartered in Brockton with a second office in Plymouth. OCES is designated as one of 25 Aging Services Access Points (ASAPs) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. OCES’ mission is to support the independence and dignity of older adults and individuals with disabilities by providing essential information and services that promote healthy and safe living. The agency offers a number of programs to serve older adults, individuals with disabilities, their families and caregivers. For more information call 508-584-1561 or visit www.ocesma.org.

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Thirty-Eighth Avenue Photography opens doors of new commercial studio in Plymouth

Historic Plymouth provides the perfect land and seascape for Thirty-Eighth Avenue Photography, a commercial and fine art photography studio which has recently opened its doors at 27 Danforth Lane in Plymouth, MA 02360.

Thirty-Eighth Avenue Photography’s new 700 sq.ft. dedicated studio space for shooting images includes a client lounge for viewing photos. There is an additional 154 sq.ft. of dedicated office space for editing, administrative and client meetings. The agency’s primary focus is commercial photography, event and corporate brand photography – from marketing materials, websites and product pages to headshots.

Debi Ettinger Cramer, founder and principle photographer at Thirty-Eighth Avenue Photography, has spent many years photographing people, places and things all over the world.

With a background in fine arts, textile and graphic design, Cramer shoots with a designer’s eye, which produces stunning images that are highly marketable. Her international travels, study abroad experience in Edinburgh, Scotland as well as living in Singapore span more than two decades. Cramer’s cross-cultural awareness and adaptability allow for successful collaborative assignments. 

Thirty-Eighth Avenue Photography serves a diverse array of clients in wide variety of industries, including real estate, restaurant, floral, retail and others. Local commercial clients include Plymouth Bay Orthopedic Associates and 3 Daughters Jewelry of Plymouth, Wellspring Chiropractic Center in Duxbury, MA and nonprofit organizations such as The Great Blizzards of Massachusetts Special Ice Hockey of Kingston, MA, Healthy Plymouth and the Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce.

“The mind can process an image in as little as thirteen milliseconds, and having the right images to tell your business’ story, and connect with your customers, can help your business stand out in the marketplace,” explained Cramer. “Plymouth’s history, culture and commerce make it an ideal location for Thirty-Eighth Avenue Photography. We’re truly delighted to be a part of this vibrant community.”

From the Big Apple to the Bay State

The studio’s name, Thirty-Eighth Avenue Photography, is attributed to Cramer’s early years living in the Bayside area of Queens on 38th Avenue, where the rich art culture of New York City ignited her passion for color and design.  After attending the Art Students League in NYC, Cramer received her undergraduate degree in Surface Pattern Design from Syracuse University followed by a Master of Science in Arts Administration from Le Moyne College, School of Visual and Performing Arts in Syracuse, NY.

From commercial to fine art and portrait photography, Thirty-Eighth Avenue Photography enables clients to bring beauty and peace into their home or office, as well as promote their business. Along with the new studio address, Thirty-Eighth Avenue Photography has updated their website and offers site visitors the ability to view portfolio images online as well as purchase or license images. View the portfolio and gallery at www.38thavenuephotography.com.

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Looking for a fitness challenge that also supports a good cause? Renegade Virtual Run & 20-20 Obstacle Challenge

Calling all runners, fitness enthusiasts and walkers looking for a unique fitness challenge! Registration is now open for the Renegade Virtual Run, a four-mile race with a special 20-20 obstacle challenge.

Over the last eight years, Type One has held the popular Renegade Run Obstacle Course Race in Hingham’s Wompatuck State Park and Bare Cove Park to support diabetes research and a cure. This year, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing, a four-mile Renegade Virtual Run, which includes 20 challenging “obstacles,” will be held September 12-27, 2020. 

Anytime, Anyplace – How It Works

Participants complete a four-mile run, jog or walk, along with the series of 20 challenging exercises or “obstacles” on their own. Participants can map their own outdoor four-mile route or run/walk the route indoors on a treadmill. For local runners, Type One offers the option of charted four-mile routes through local parks – which is the closest thing to Renegade Run’s traditional race. Simply choose the starting time and Type One will send a trail map to run.

20 Challenging “Obstacles” 

In previous years, the traditional Renegade Run Obstacle Course Race featured four miles of paved trails and wooded terrain with more than 30 obstacles such as monkey bars to cross, walls and cargo nets to climb, and tunnels to crawl through. With this year’s Renegade Virtual Run, a 

20-20 challenge is presented: 20 obstacles with 20 reps each. These obstacles can be done at any time throughout the course. The obstacles are all bodyweight exercises that use an individual’s own weight to provide resistance against gravity, such as pushing, pulling, squatting, bending, twisting and balancing. The list of exercises is provided to registrants via their confirmation email.

Participants use any tracking method (GPS device/watch, tracking website or app, or treadmill reading), to track their run and record proof for submission. Once the race and obstacles are completed, participants share their time, photos and videos with Type One on social media or by email.

Type One’s Paul Foti commented, “We’re not going to sugarcoat it, so to speak. The 20 ‘obstacles’ with 20 reps may be quite challenging for many participants. The obstacles are part of the attraction of our traditional Renegade Run and what really sets it apart and makes it so popular.”

Renegade Virtual Run supports the Type One Cares campaign, a charity that is making significant strides to support individuals living with type 1 diabetes, while continuing to fund

research at the Faustman Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). To date, the Renegade Run has over one hundred thousand dollars to support the Faustman Lab which is focused on discovering and developing new treatments for type 1 diabetes, a vaccine for the reversal of long-term type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases.

Foti continued, “We invite runners and walkers from New England and beyond to participate. The purpose of our Renegade Virtual Run is to have fun, stay motivated and to connect with each other as we continue to raise awareness and funds toward a cure for type 1 diabetes.”

Friends, families and co-workers have the option to form Virtual Teams as they complete the online registration process. There will be free tech t-shirts and finisher medals for those who complete the race, a commemorative bib, as well as opportunities to win prizes.

To learn more about Renegade Virtual Run and register, visit https://typeonerenegaderun.com/register/

Type One Cares Campaign

“Type One Cares” is a campaign dedicated to building a community to assist those affected by type 1 diabetes with support, education and endowment, so they can live a powerful life beyond the diagnosis. To learn more about the campaign, visit https://typeonerenegaderun.com/send-a-kid-to-t1d-camp/

About Type One

Type One, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, recognizes a world free of type 1 diabetes (T1D) and is dedicated to that future by raising public awareness and funds toward a cure through research. Type One was founded in 2012 by a group of South Shore residents to support their friend Tyson Sunnerberg, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which a person’s pancreas stops producing insulin, when he was 21 years old. On November 25, 2012, the first ever Renegade Run Obstacle Course Race was held raising awareness and funds toward a cure.

In addition to supporting the Faustman Lab at MGH, Type One donation and fundraising platforms help provide scholarships to local children with type 1 diabetes to attend type 1 diabetes camp, as well as providing qualifying recipients with assistance for diabetes management and treatment. For more information on the Faustman Lab at MGH and type 1 diabetes, visit www.faustmanlab.org

Type One is headquartered in Hingham, MA. Visit https://typeonerenegaderun.com

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Bernadette Boas

Bernadette Boas is a ball of fire and is an author, leadership coach, business consultant and keynote speaker. Her book “Shedding the Corporate Bitch, Shifting from Bitch to Rich in Life and Business” is her blunt and honest take on the issues facing professionals today. In this “Business Way Outside the Box” podcast segment, Bernadette offers tips and insights on productivity, success and work/life balance. For contact Bernadette, visit her LinkedIn profile – https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernadett….

If you know of or own a “Business Way Outside the Box”, contact us at PRWorkZone.com and we may have you or them on an episode soon.

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Mike McKenna, Adaptable

On this episode of “Business Way Outside the Box”, Mike McKenna of Adaptable breaks down ADA website compliance and digital accessibility – an emerging concern for companies. Compliance is critical to avoid legal liability (and fines can range from the 5 – 6 figures) and to make sure you are reaching your full potential audience. Also, companies with websites that are not accessible, could be missing out on the opportunity to serve 20% of the population. For more on Adaptable, visit https://www.adaptablelab.com/.

Do you have a business that’s way outside the box? Drop a line to Steve Dubin at sdubin@prworkzone.com or call 781-582-1061. You may find yourself on the next episode Business Way Outside the Box.SHOW LESS

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Leverage Podcast Guest Appearances to Boost your Business

What does it take to claim the “expert” roll and boost your business?  “Leverage Podcast Guest Appearances to Boost your Business” takes the audience through the process step by step.

PR Works, a full service public relations and advertising firm based in America’s Hometown of Plymouth, MA, is leading the complimentary webinar that prepares you to be part of the boom as a podcast host. The free online event is set for Wednesday, August 19, 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.  To RSVP, copy and paste https://conta.cc/39q78is into your browser to Internet browser.  

Sponsors of the webinar include My Pinnacle Network, South Shore Networking Professionals and Rockland Trust. The webinar will be led by experienced podcasters Steve Dubin and Joe D’Eramo of PR Works.

The webinar prepares you to determine how to tap into the more than 1-million podcast show opportunities that appear regularly on a wide range of channels including Podcast portals such as Itunes, IHeartRadio, Google Play, YouTube, Stitcher and more.

Podcast appearances establish credibility, create visibility, activate lead generation, create speaking opportunities, stimulate search engine optimization, expand cultural authority, and increase value proposition.

The webinar gets you into the game and on the air.

Learn how to –

  • Test the waters and determine your ability and aptitude
  • Define your topic niche.
  • Leverage the pre-existing audience of the podcast
  • Research podcast show options
  • Tell stories vs. selling
  • Draft standard questions.
  • Create 1-page pitch
  • Appeal to the host’s currency
  • Find portals listing podcast shows
  • Steps to booking a guest spot
  • Choose the right equipment at a reasonable pricing.
  • Lighting like a pro for less
  • Taping protocols worth knowing
  • Coming up with an Evergreen offer
  • Promote each episode via podcast portals, social media, e-newsletters, publicity and leveraging the marketing channels of each guest.
  • Following up and obtaining repeat guesting opportunities

Please RSVP for this complimentary webinar by pasting https://conta.cc/39q78is nto your browser.

For more information about the podcast event or podcasting services, contact PR Works at www.PRWorkZone.com, (781) 582-1061, 18 Main Street Extension, Suite 409, Plymouth, MA.

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Popular Obstacle Course Race Supporting Type 1 Diabetes Research Pivots to Virtual 4-Mile Run/Walk

Raise awareness and funds for research and a cure for type 1 diabetes from anywhere in the world! Type One of Hingham, MA announces “Renegade Virtual Run” will be held September 12-27, 2020.

For the past eight years, Type One has held their annual Renegade Run Obstacle Course Race to support diabetes research and a cure at Hingham’s Wompatuck State Park and Bare Cove Park. But this year, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Type One has pivoted to a virtual four-mile run/walk – the Renegade Virtual Run – which can be completed anytime, anywhere over the 16-day period.

Renegade Virtual Run supports the Type One Cares campaign, a charity that is making significant strides to support individuals living with type 1 diabetes, while continuing to fund research at the Faustman Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). To date, the Renegade Run has generated over one hundred thousand dollars to support the Faustman Lab which is focused on discovering and developing new treatments for type 1 diabetes, a vaccine for the reversal of long-term type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases.

“Type 1 diabetes doesn’t just involve the person living with the disease, it involves their entire family and support system,” explained Type One’s Paul Foti, “We are proud to create an event that provides our community with hope, with an outlet to come together virtually to raise awareness and funds toward a cure for type 1 diabetes and to assist those living with the disease.”

How It Works

Individuals complete a four-mile run, jog or walk, along with a series of 20 challenging bodyweight exercises or “obstacles”. Since the race is virtual, participants can participate from anywhere in the world and map their own outdoor course or choose to run/walk the four-miles indoors on a treadmill. For local runners, Type One offers the option of charted four-mile routes through local parks – and the closest thing to Renegade Run’s traditional race. Simply choose the starting time and Type One will send the trail map to run.

Use any tracking method (GPS device/watch, tracking website or app, or treadmill reading), to track your run and record proof for submission. Once the race (including obstacles) is completed, participants share their time, photos and videos with Type One on social media or by email.

Virtual Teams

Friends, families and co-workers have the option to form Virtual Teams, which provides additional motivation to register and complete the obstacle race. To do so, begin the online registration process and you will be given an option to either form a team or join one that is already created.

T-shirts, Medals & Bibs

There will be free tech t-shirts and finisher medals shipped directly to those who complete the race along with a commemorative bib (to be printed out by registrant).

Prizes

Participants post their time with a photo or a video sharing their Renegade Virtual Run experience on social media. The runner with the most likes to their post will win $100! Must be verified.

Registration is now open and various registration levels are available. To register as a Renegade Virtual Runner ($40) and to view other levels and additional information, visit: https://typeonerenegaderun.com/register/

Type One Cares Campaign

“Type One Cares” is a campaign dedicated to building a community to assist those affected by type 1 diabetes with support, education and endowment, so they can live a powerful life beyond the diagnosis. To learn more about the campaign, visit https://typeonerenegaderun.com/send-a-kid-to-t1d-camp/

About Type One

Type One, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, recognizes a world free of type 1 diabetes (T1D) and is dedicated to that future by raising public awareness and funds toward a cure through research. Type One was founded in 2012 by a group of South Shore residents to support their friend Tyson Sunnerberg, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which a person’s pancreas stops producing insulin, when he was 21 years old. On November 25, 2012, the first ever Renegade Run Obstacle Course Race was held raising awareness and funds toward a cure.

In addition to supporting the Faustman Lab at MGH, Type One donation and fundraising platforms help provide scholarships to local children with type 1 diabetes to attend type 1 diabetes camp, as well as providing qualifying recipients with assistance for diabetes management and treatment. For more information on the Faustman Lab at MGH and type 1 diabetes, visit www.faustmanlab.org

Type One is headquartered in Hingham, MA. Visit https://typeonerenegaderun.com

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What are those divider shields made of?

Steve Wilson

You have seen them at the supermarket, the drug store and many other retail outlets. The clear divider/shield. You will probably see them in your office as part of the new normal—along with our old friend the cubicle. But did you know these shields, depending on the make, could be far more lethal than Covid?

That’s not to say these shields carry a virus. But if it’s made of a combustible material, acrylic as an example, it may not be up to the fire code with your local municipalities. And that’s something you better check out before making a purchase or installing.

That little tidbit was courtesy of Steve Wilson of Office Furniture Consulting. He will be one of the two featured presenters on the upcoming complimentary webinar, “Returning to the new workplace. What to expect. How to stay safe.” on Wednesday, July 29 at 12 noon EDT. Jay Nuss Realty Group is the other presenter. Steve Dubin of PR Works will moderate the panel.

Wilson founded Office Furniture Consulting in 1990. It is a multi-featured company providing space planning, quote specification development, ergonomic research, relocation services, and office furniture procurement.

Nuss has more than 30 years of experience in all facets of commercial real estate brokerage with special emphasis on the selling and leasing of office, industrial, and mixed-use properties in the Greater Boston Area.

Wilson founded Office Furniture Consulting in 1990. It is a multi-featured company providing space planning, quote specification development, ergonomic research, relocation services, and office furniture procurement.

If you’re interested in learning more about what you can expect for the new normal workplace—including the most Covid-safe material for your office keys to be made of, sign up for this free webinar today.

To RSVP, please click here.

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Margo Crawford, Wave Productivity

You are not alone in feeling unfocused, overextended, and unproductive. Many people live in a sea of conflict while haphazardly trying to fill all the roles in their lives. Margo Crawford of Wave Productivity, based in Greater Providence and with clients throughout the U.S. and Spain, outlines how you can be more productive. Whether you are an entrepreneur, small business owner, working in a home office or telecommuter we can help you gain control of your work-your papers, email, time, and focus. For more information on Margo, visit: o Website www.waveproductivity.com o LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/margocrawford10 o Twitter @waveproductivit o Facebook https://www.facebook.com/waveproducti… o Instagram https://www.instagram.com/waveproduct..

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