Visions Kitchens and Design shows support for the Komen Race for the Cure

By Megan | May 8, 2013 | 

On Saturday, May 11, the 31st annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5k will be held at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH. The race is held each year in honor of the millions women and families affected by breast cancer in order to spread awareness of the disease while raising significant funds to help in the fight against it.

This event holds significant meaning for the family of Nathan Johnson, owner of GA business Visions Kitchens and Design, a Hampton-based kitchen and design company.

Danielle Johnson, Nathan’s wife, is running the race this year to show support for her mother and cancer survivor Donna Canney-Marcotte.

“I'm doing this because I love my mom,” says Danielle on her involvement. “I'm so proud of her for what she has done and how she can keep her spirits up even when things are down. She truly is an amazing woman, mother, role model, and friend.”

Visions also donated money to the race in support of the cause—a decision that Nathan describes as a no-brainer.

“Visions was started so I could put family first, and a simple donation is the least I can do” he says. “I will be there with Donna and our sons waiting at the finish line cheering their Mom on together! We are a family, so we help each other out and cheer each other on in all aspects of life.”

Green Alliance is also supporting the event by forming its very own team to race. To join the Green Alliance team, visit www.komenvtnh.org, go to registration and search “The Green Alliance” as your team! If you have any problems, please contact team captain Megan McCann atmegan@greenalliance.biz.

To learn more about Visions Kitchens, visit www.visionskitchens.com.

Use your Green Card to save 10% on all products and services at Visions, and it will give a portion of the proceeds to The Blue Ocean Society!

Healing Hands Community Chiropractic

VKD owner Nathan Johnson was asked to be a guest blogger for Healing Hands Community Chiropratic.

by Guest Blogger, Nathan Johnson of Visions Kitchens

“It’s been a lot of learning and fun since the day we’ve started this company, it keeps getting better thanks to the people we keep working with. I love being able to do the good things that we do. Saving lots of waste from going to landfills, giving back to local non-profits, donating time and money to local groups making positive change in our communities. It’s great, I love it and am thankful that this is how I can live my life. I’m thankful I am able to always act and be a person I want my children to be. I couldn’t do that when I worked for other design center companies; it was all about get the money and move on.” – Nathan Johnson

read the full story here..http://healinghandscc.org/community/nathans-blog/

Beach Clean Up April 20th

Apr 20 - Seacoast Science Center's Earth Day Beach Clean-Up

Seacoast Science Center, Rye NH

10:00 am to 2:00 pm

To celebrate Earth Day the right way, Visions Kitchens, Green Maids and Hillary Gaynor, Realtor with Bean Group is hosting a beach clean up at the Seacoast Science Center in Rye NH!  As part of their "Earth Day Every Day" week long event, these Green Alliance business partners are going to help make our beaches cleaner than ever.  This goes along with Seacoast Science Center's Earth Day Celebration which includes kid's crafts and games, special eco programs, and vendors!  These fantastic events are a great way to learn about appreciating our mother earth and reducing our environmental impact everyday.

Seacoast Science Center's Earth Day Celebration and beach cleanup follows it's Whale of a 5K Fun Run being held at that morning at 9:00am. For more information on the 5K Fun Run check outhttp://www.seacoastsciencecenter.org/events/. So, come spend your Earth Day outside with the Seacoast Science Center and our amazing Green Alliance businesses giving back to the seacoast, keeping our beaches as beatiful as ever, and having a fantastic day!

For more information on the Earth Day beach clean-up and other Seacoast Science Center events, visitwww.seacoastsciencecenter.org

For more information on Visions Kitchens, visit www.visionskitchen.com.

For more information on Green Maids, visit www.greenmaidscleaning.com.

For more information on Hillary Gaynor and the Bean Group, visit www.hillarygaynor.com.

Please call 603-601-7459 (Visions Kitchens office) for more information about how you can help!

Seacoast Home Show

Stop by our booth at the Seacoast Home Show this weekend and learn what makes us different than the "normal" design centers.

Local Green Kitchen Designer Needs Help Getting Her Champion Dogsled Team to Alaska

After passionately giving back to the Seacoast community since its 2010 founding, supporting Lakota organizations, the Blue Ocean Society, and area veterans, Hampton-based Visions Kitchens needs help supporting the passions of one of its town. One of their kitchen designers, Lis Bailey of Strafford, needs help raising money for the traveling expenses to send her K-Teris dog sled team, one of the world’s fastest, to Alaska for the North American and World dogsledding championships.

If you didn’t realize a world-class dogsledding team called the Seacoast home, you’d be forgiven; while the dogsledding scene in New England is a quiet community compared with those in Alaska and Scandinavia, Bailey’s passion for dogs and racing, which began when she convinced her parents to let her get her first dogsled pup at ten years old, has turned into a family affair that has stood up to teams around the world and now breeds top-shelf racing dogs. Since showing an early talent for the sport at 11, when she went undefeated in local races in the three-dog category, Lis’ homeschooling schedule and self-imposed discipline afforded her the chance to train “like a full time job” - going on six-mile training runs in the summer, having the dogs gain strength in the fall by hauling an ATV around local trails, and then transferring to light, nimble carbon fiber sleds for the winter race season.

But after 15 years training dogs, Lis’ focus has had to shift to motherhood after giving birth to her first child last year. So her younger sister Grace, who started racing dogs in 100-yard sprint races at the tender age of 5, will be taking the K-Teris Kennel team to Alaska herself as a captain of Team USA, starting with a cross-country drive to the Rockies to get some warm-up races in. They’re currently looking for $3,000 in donations to cover part of the $7,000 overall budget for the trip, and have started an online campaign on FundRazr to do so.

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