Maine Seacoast Mission Welcomes Three New Board Members

Maine Seacoast Mission Welcomes Three New Board Members

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September 6, 2018

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Maine Seacoast Mission Welcomes Three New Board Members

BAR HARBOR, ME — Maine Seacoast Mission welcomes three new members to the Mission’s Board of Directors: Allison M. Ouellet (Cherryfield), Nancy B. Marshall (Augusta), and Scott R. Peasley (Machias).

Machias Savings Bank Vice President of Business Banking Scott R. Peasley is responsible for directing sales efforts of Machias Savings’s business banking sales team, training employees in sound commercial and consumer lending, and for growing and managing a $60 million commercial loan portfolio. Scott Peasley served as board member and chair of the Regional Medical Center at Lubec, and retired recently from the Families United board. Mr. Peasley earned a BS in marketing and finance at the University of Maine.

Allison M. Ouellet of Cherryfield is Assistant Attorney General at the State of Maine Attorney General’s office, Bangor. In one sense, Assistant AG Ouellet, is coming full circle. A member of the EdGE Advisory Committee since 2013, Ouellet also worked with the EdGE program (2005-2010) in several roles, including Acting Program Director. Prior to working in the Maine AG’s office, Allison owned Bold Coast Law (Machias). She earned a JD degree summa cum laude from the University of Maine School of Law, and earned two Anthropology degrees; an MA from the University of Denver, and a BA from the University of Maine.

Nancy B. Marshall is Founder/CEO of Marshall Communications in Augusta, a public relations and marketing services agency she founded 25 years ago. The agency specializes in developing strategic marketing communications and branding programs for businesses and nonprofits. Nancy recently authored the book, “PR Works!,” a real-world how-to-guide to the best in PR strategies. She is a Mainebiz columnist, a personal branding expert blogger (PRMaven.com), and a business and motivational speaker.

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MDIslander Cites Mission President in ‘Localism’ Editorial

MDIslander Cites Mission President in ‘Localism’ Editorial

Editorial: In praise of ‘localism’
August 31, 2018 on Editorials, Opinion

About a year ago, the Maine Seacoast Mission honored this newspaper, its publisher Alan Baker and its founding editor Earl Brechlin with the organization’s Sunbeam Award.

Mission director Scott Planting noted that the paper, like the Mission, works to cultivate this localist energy.

“In this difficult time of failed public expectations, when thoughtful people wonder where to look for hope, I keep returning in my own mind to the thought of the renewal of rural communities,” Planting said, quoting Wendell Berry.

“But to be authentic, a true encouragement and a true beginning, this would have to be a revival accomplished mainly by the community itself. It would have to be done not from the outside by the instruction of visiting experts, but from the inside by the ancient rule of neighborliness, by the love of precious things, and by the wish to be at home.”

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