Cottage Industry: Strafford Woman Mixes Passion and Savvy Into a Home Business
After decades of working for other people, Meredith Jo Henning-Dyer was ready to make a splash of her own. But first, she waded. “Here I am, 57 years old and starting my own business,” she said in a recent interview in her Strafford kitchen. “That’s nuts.” Friends made her believe in herself, telling her not to fear her own destiny, said Henning-Dyer, an avid walker and swimmer. “They pushed me off the diving board,” she said. A year...
The Big Event: Women’s Network of the Upper Valley Honors WISE Executive Director
T he Women’s Network of the Upper Valley honored an area nonprofit and its director at an annual dinner last month. Peggy O’Neil, executive director of WISE, received the Deborah Aliber Award for Community Service. The Lebanon-based nonprofit provides advocacy and crisis intervention services to victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse and stalking. The featured speaker, O’Neil described her work at WISE and “the necessity, sadly...
