Happy Drawings Outside
CHERRYFIELD, ME — Happy drawings on our outside gallery wall by the first grade class at Cherryfield Elementary. Photo by EdGE Site Coordinator Jen Kearns.
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An Update on EdGE Fall Afterschool Program Registration
With Covid-19 in play, we want to measure family interest before finalizing our EdGE afterschool programming for this year. With enough family interest, we plan to launch the EdGE afterschool program around October 12th. Exact date to be announced as soon as possible.
For schools able to offer a modified EdGE program this Fall, we will closely align EdGE with each school’s protocols and procedures.
At this point, the EdGE afterschool program is open to students attending schools during the day in person. We are unable right now to provide programming to home schooled and remote learning students.
Here is the timeline of EdGE applications and possible start dates:
EdGE afterschool program registration started this week of September 14th. The registration deadline is October 1, 2020. This year it is more important than ever for applications to be turned in by the October 1st deadline so we can determine how and whether to offer EdGE programs in our schools.”
NOTE: We strongly urge families who can, to please register using our online application. Here’s the application page link.
Please direct questions to Isaac Marnik, Interim Director of EdGE at [email protected] or 546-4466.
Artist-Volunteer Cynthia Huntington Donates ‘Schoodic Prince’ to Weald Bethel
CHERRYFIELD, ME — Downeast Campus Facilities Manager Scott Shaw sends this photo of a painting newly displayed in the Weald Bethel Community Center.
Scott writes the, “Schoodic Prince donated to the Community Center by artist and volunteer Cynthia Huntington” of Tunk Mountain Arts & Crafts in Cherryfield. Cynthia’s painting, writes Scott, is the “perfect size and ambiance in our Community Center.”
Learn more about our Weald Bethel Community Center.
EdGE Building Floors Transformed
EdGE Building floor before and after the transformation. (Photos courtesy Coastal Concrete Coating)
CHERRYFIELD, ME — From the Mission’s Downeast Campus comes a happy note, with a link to photos, about “the company that transformed the EdGE building flooring last week.” Looking good.
According to their website, “Coastal Concrete Coating is a local community based company that operates out of Bucksport Maine. [W]e are best known for our Polyaspartic coatings…designed to take…floors to a whole new level of durability, beauty, and ease of maintenance.., backed by a 15 yr warranty.”
Thank you Thursday to Mano en Mano
It’s Thank you Thursday. Today’s shout out of Mission Love goes to Milbridge, ME based Mano en Mano (Hand in Hand).
Founded in 2005, Mano en Mano works with farm-workers and immigrants to help them thrive in Maine. The organization’s work includes partnerships with Maine Seacoast Mission.
Mission Service Program Director Wendy Harrington said, “We began working with Mano en Mano in the early days of the Mission’s EdGE program when they helped us support the English language learner students in the after-school program.”
This year, starting with a $10K Good Shepherd Food Bank grant to support distributing culturally-specific boxes of food for local families and for migrant workers, Mano en Mano partnered with the Mission, Vazquez Mexican Takeout Restaurant, and Downeast Community Partners. Using the Mission Downeast Campus Food Pantry as a central location the team distributed 165 boxes of food to 347 people.
“It..was so helpful having this partnership [and] great to provide food for families. Now they feel comfortable picking up food there,” said Mano en Mano migrant education director Juana Rodriguez-Vazquez.
Mission Service Program Director Wendy Harrington added, “This year our work with Mano en Mano has become more integrated around food security, financial support for people in the community, and the new housing initiative.”
This is what community looks like.
On the web: https://www.manomaine.org
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manomaine/
EdGE Summer Camp Kids Explore Art, Stories
CHERRYFIELD, ME — Thank you to EdGE Site Coordinator Don Parker for these photos of kids at this year’s EdGE Summer Art/Literacy Summer Camp. As EdGE Interim Director Isaac Marnik writes in his Summer Camp reflection:
An Evelyn S. and K.E. Barrett Foundation grant provided books to all campers and students in the summer meals program. Students selected a few books to read. We bought those specific books for them.
Finally, thank you to EdGE Site Coordinator Jen Kearns for helping put this photo collage together.