October 8, 2009
Contact: Amy Landers, Executive Director
(603) 286-8008
alanders@lakesregion.org
Lakes Region Association hosts
73rd Annual
Business Meeting
 On Wednesday, October 7, 2009, business owners, managers,
and State Representatives attended the Lakes Region Association's 73rd
Annual Business Meeting, dockside on the MS Mount Washington in Weirs Beach.
President Fred Clausen of Proctor's Lakehouse Cottages
opened the meeting with high praise of the Lakes Region Association's accomplishments
over the past year and the amazing growth the organization has seen in recent
years and as the oldest regional tourism marketing organization in the
state. The following officers were
elected: Brad Lipe, the Laker, as President; Frederic Clausen, Proctor's
Lakehouse Cottages, as Immediate Past President; Gail Batstone, Inns and Spa at
Mill Falls, as 1st Vice President; Greg Goddard, Gunstock Mountain
Resort, as 2nd Vice President; Mel Borrin, Preferred Vacation
Rentals as Treasurer and the Secretary seat remained vacant for the time being.
The following Directors were elected by the full
membership: Sean Brown, Common Man
Family of Restaurants; Pam Patoine, Courtyard by Marriott & Grappone
Conference Center; Dyan Driscoll, Cozy Inn & Cottages / Lakeview House
& Cottages; Mary Ellen Dutton, Kellerhaus; Mary Lamprey Bare, Lamprey &
Lamprey; Jim Morash, M/S Mount Washington Cruises; Deb Irwin, Manor on Golden
Pond; Patricia Poore, Member at Large; Doug Cutillo, Steele Hill Resorts; David
Doyle, Sun Valley Cottages; Thomas Boucher, T-Bones Great American Eatery /
Cactus Jack's Grill & Watering Hole; Karen Beranger, Wolfeboro Inn.
Lifetime Director, Mildred Beach.
Amy Landers, Executive Director for the Association,
provided an overview of the organization's extensive marketing plan to promote
the Lakes Region in state, out-of- state and internationally to bring more
visitors to the area.
The Mildred A. Beach Hospitality Scholarship is awarded
annually at the Association's Business Meeting to a student attending a
college, university or technical college in the Lakes Region and pursing a
degree in tourism/hospitality/culinary.
Lakes Region Association board member and Treasurer Mel
Borrin was honored to introduce this year's recipient, Benjamin Cartier.
Cartier is a student at the Lakes Region Community College and is pursuing a
culinary arts degree and currently works at O'Steaks and Seafood as a line
cook. Cartier grew up in the Belmont / Laconia area, played football for the
Laconia High School, and is on the National Honors Society at the Lakes Region
Community College.
A very special thanks to our Annual Business Meeting host
and sponsor, M/S Mount Washington and AIM Mutual, Comp-Sigma Ltd, Public
Service of New Hampshire, Franklin Savings Bank and Meredith Village Savings Bank.
The Lakes Region Association is a non-profit organization
established in 1936 to promote the region in-state, out-of-state and
internationally to attract more visitors to the area. The Association publishes
the "Where to Guide" and the Official Lakes Region Map &
Guide" and maintains an award-winning web site www.lakesregion.org . To
request a free vacation package, call 1-800-60-LAKES.
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