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ERIC RITCHIE Sargent Corporation the vote Secretary-Treasurer he fall election is coming up, MICHELLE IBARGUEN Cross Insurance and even though there’s not a Immediate Past President transportation bond on my absentee PAUL BRADBURY ballot, transportation will not be far Portland International Jetport ‘The new from my thoughts, thanks to MBTA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Tmembers Patrick Brady and Orion Breen. CHRIS ABBOUD MBTA video USI Insurance Service You may know Patrick, as I do, from those WAYNE BERRY great Transportation on Tap gatherings MBTA Northeast Paving Co. series, Maine PARKER BROWN launched last year, until this spring when the Shaw Brothers Construction, Inc. coronavirus made casual meet-you-at-the- GEORGE CAMPBELL, JR. better, is a Sewall pub gatherings like that unwise. Patrick is TONY CARUSO chair of MBTA’s Young Professionals group, Bangor International Airport good DOUGLAS DAVIDSON and has been great about encouraging more Maine Turnpike Authority of our young members to get involved with GREGORY DORE opportunity Maine Chapter APWA MBTA and take advantage of the networking DEBORAH DUNLAP AVASTHI opportunities MBTA offers. Androscoggin Bank to hear TIMOTHY FOLSTER Orion is one of our newest MBTA members. Old Town He works with Global Partners in South ALAN GOULD Portland and he has agreed to be the new chair candidates HD Supply/A.H. Harris JASON GRIFFITHS of the MBTA Communications Committee. Pike Industries Orion and Patrick have teamed up to on the issues, BRENT HARTLEY Brent K. Hartley, CPA interview as many Maine candidates as they LARRY HUTCHINS can before the November election about like transport- Bitumar, Inc. JEREMY JORDAN transportation and other relevant issues. 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