Downeast Table of Plenty, Sunday, May 14th – Everyone Welcome

Downeast Table of Plenty, Sunday, May 14th – Everyone Welcome

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Please join us, May 14th, for this Sunday’s Downeast Table of Plenty. Are you or your group interested in providing a meal in 2017? Please email Downeast Campus Director Wendy Harrington.

Cherryfield, ME — Sunday afternoons, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. at our Downeast Table of Plenty, everyone is welcome to share satisfying, home-cooked meals.

People age two to ninety, from every segment of the community attend. Music, conversation, and laughter preside. Hunger and loneliness are nowhere in sight.

The Table of Plenty takes place in the EdGE building on our Downeast Campus every Sunday, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Meals are provided by volunteers.

Are you or your group interested in providing a meal in 2017? Please email Downeast Campus Director Wendy Harrington.

Birthday Gifts? Seven-Year Old Gavin Asks Friends to Help Feed the Hungry

Birthday Gifts? Seven-Year Old Gavin Asks Friends to Help Feed the Hungry

Cherryfield, ME — Photo and note from the Mission Downeast Campus Caretaker Scott Shaw:

This is Gavin Beal For his 7th birthday Gavin wanted to have his friends bring food to his party, instead of gifts, for people who did not have anything to eat! This very cool young man and his mom, Christen Beal of Cherryfield, ME came in to donate to the Mission’s Downeast Campus food pantry.

Scholarship Recipient Ellie Reidy Sends Photos from Studying Abroad

Scholarship Recipient Ellie Reidy Sends Photos from Studying Abroad

Bar Harbor, ME — Mission Scholarship Manager Terri W. Rodick keeps in close touch with the students she’s come to know through our Scholarship Program. Recently, Terri invited student scholarship recipients to share with Mission friends, their success stories and photos.

Scholarship recipient Ellie Reidy sent Terri several interesting photos of her time studying abroad. Each photo is named by county or city: Austria, Budapest, Florence, Germany, London, Marseiille, Paris, Prague, Rome, Sweden, Tuscany, Versailles.

We’ve selected some of Ellie’s photos to share with you. Thank you, Ellie.

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Sunbeam V Presents ‘Lobstering Safety and Occupation Health’ at Maine Islands

Sunbeam V Presents ‘Lobstering Safety and Occupation Health’ at Maine Islands

Bar Harbor, ME — Sharon Daley, the Mission Director of Island Health, sent this poster and photo from the Lobstering Safety and Occupational Health Presentations aboard the Sunbeam V on April 27, 2017.

Thank you, Ann Backus of Harvard-T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Leilani Carlson of FishAbility.

The presentations were given at Isle Au Haut and Frenchboro. High winds forced cancellation of a third presentation at Matinicus.

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