Community Action, Inc empowers individuals, families and communities to overcome poverty through education, training, advocacy, prevention and services to meet basic human needs. We offer hope and assistance with respect and understanding.
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Community Action, Inc. is a private non-profit organization established in 1965 to address the causes and consequences of poverty in the Greater Haverhill, Amesbury and Newburyport areas. We currently employ approximately 140 employees (both full-time and part-time) throughout our service area. We have an outstanding benefit package and it is available to eligible employees.
Community Action, Inc. now offers Red Cross Certification training in the following areas. Trainings held at The Fox Center, 75 Elm Street, Haverhill, MA
Adult CPR and AED training This course trains individuals in the skills and knowledge necessary to recognize and provide basic care for breathing emergienceis, perform CPR, and use an automated external defiibrilator (AED) for victims of sudden cardiac arrest, until advanced medical personnel arrive and take over.
Dominicans gather at City Hall to remember their roots...
As Felipe Pena, father of Tampa Bay Rays star Carlos Pena, hoisted the flag of the Dominican Republic in front of City Hall, his second home — Haverhill — felt a little like the one where he grew up. Surrounded by others who have come to the United States from the Caribbean nation, he celebrated Dominican Independence Day a couple of days before the official observance of Feb. 27.
Arrests
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Blas Rojo-Arguelles, 54, of 37 Cedar St., was arrested at 11 a.m. at his home on warrants charging him with failure to register as a sex offender and failure to register as a sex offender, subsequent offense.
Complete text of 2010 State of the City Address...
Elected officials, and fellow citizens — welcome!
We have some of our excellent legislative delegation who took the time to come here this evening and I would like to introduce them: state Representative Brian Dempsey, and state Senator Steven Baddour.
Fiorentini lauds police superior officers for health-care concessions...
The Police Superior Officers Union, whom Mayor James Fiorentini hailed as "the best of the best," are the first municipal union to agree to revisions in health-care coverage that save the city money.
Fiorentini, in his state of the city address Tuesday, said that if other unions also agree to an increase in co-payments, they will help stave off layoffs by reducing an anticipated $2.5 million budget deficit.
The parking garage planned for the Ted's for Tires lot at the corner of Granite Street and Merchants Row is on track and will not suffer because the city missed $1.1 million in federal transit money e
