A salute to all the wonderful Event Sponsors of the Mission’s 16th Annual EdGE Tennis Tournament.
The Maine Seacoast Mission’s EdGE Tennis tournament is three days away. We want to thank our wonderful Event Sponsors. With your generous assistance, we have been able to support educational opportunities for youth in our Downeast communities through these challenging times.
Learn more about the 16th Annual EdGE Tennis Tournament.
Saluting our 16th Annual EdGE Tennis Tournament Team Sponsors.
A salute to our wonderful Team Sponsors of the Mission’s 16th Annual EdGE Tennis Tournament.
Year after year, you make this tournament possible. Because of you the tournament is a fun, competitive and spirited fundraiser for the EdGE Program! — Learn more about the 16th Annual EdGE Tennis Tournament.
This nearly finished building in Northeast Harbor will house the offices of the Maine Seacoast Mission and Mount Desert 365 and two residential apartments. ISLANDER PHOTO BY DICK BROOM
mdislander.com
Seacoast Mission, MD365 home almost done
September 17, 2020 by Dick Broom on News
MOUNT DESERT — The new building on Old Firehouse Lane in Northeast Harbor that will house the offices of the Maine Seacoast Mission and Mount Desert 365, as well as two residential apartments, is almost finished.
“We’re hoping to complete it in September and to move in in late September or early October,” said Kathy Miller, executive director of MD365, the nonprofit organization working to boost economic development and affordable housing.
“The coronavirus delayed some of the construction,” Miller said. “Earlier in the year, some of the crews were short; they didn’t have enough people.”
Maine could benefit from more initiatives like the Downeast Tiny House Project, a collaborative effort among nonprofit organizations and a technical high school located in Massachusetts to build a 560-square foot home – fueled only with a woodstove and ductless heat pump – for a disabled veteran in Milbridge. Photo courtesy of Downeast Community Partners.
TheMaineMonitor.org
Cottage Industry: Small wood homes yield big climate benefits
Maine could get a large economic boost and provide critically needed housing by manufacturing compact, highly efficient homes.
BY MARINA SCHAUFFLER | SEPTEMBER 13, 2020
A single small home, lifted onto a foundation in Milbridge last month, could signal big housing changes ahead. Confronted with scant affordable housing and mandates to reduce carbon pollution, Maine needs to re-envision how home construction happens – from the constituent elements and the building process to the carbon emissions produced.
A draft strategy proposed by the Maine Climate Council’s buildings, infrastructure and housing working group recommends…highly efficient homes built primarily with wood that generate as much electricity as they use (for appliances, heating and cooling) through solar power – either rooftop panels or participation in a community solar farm.
The innovative spirit needed to navigate this housing transition is embodied in the “Downeast Maine Tiny House” recently transported to Milbridge from Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School in Marlborough, Mass., where students customized the building for a disabled veteran.
It’s Thank you Thursday. Today’s shout out of Mission love goes to Jaime Weir and Colleen Maynard for their extraordinary work on behalf of the Mission’s Ed Greaves Educational (EdGE) programs.
Mission Development Associate Anna Silver said of the two, “I have been working on the Maine Seacoast Mission’s EdGE Tennis Tournament with Jaime Weir and Colleen Maynard for over six years. Colleen and Jaime take time out of their busy summer schedules to help me plan the Tournament each year. The Mission would not be able to have this fundraiser without their enthusiastic and generous support,” said Anna.
The EdGE Tennis Tournament, now in its 16th year, supports the Mission’s educational program.
“Jaime and Colleen organize the teams, and plan the schedule for Tournament day. Along with Mission friend, Dan Granholm, they have run tennis clinics for the EdGE kids. It is a favorite EdGE field trip!” continued Anna.
“They are two of the nicest people I have ever had the pleasure of working with,” she said.
This is what community looks like.