The 40th birthday of Christine Heenan, major domo at the Clarendon Group public affairs and P.R. shop, brought a bevy of lobbyists, health-care executives and pols to Local 121, on Washington Street, in Providence on Thursday.

Heenan, who in September is marrying Mike Mello, former chief of staff to Providence Mayor David Cicilline, was feted by her Clarendon colleagues and a crowd that included Cicilline; Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts; Joseph Amaral, outgoing president of Rhode Island Hospital; Marisa Quinn, assistant to Brown University President Ruth Simmons; State House lobbyists Frank McMahon and Matt Lopes; Susannah Rhodes, a fundraiser for Roberts; and Julie Andrews, a Democratic consultant now harvesting cash for Jack Reed’s 2008 reelection campaign.

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