by maineseacoast | Sep 12, 2017 | EdGE, News
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Small Animal Clinic Team
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Connie Greaves Bates with EdGE students
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Captain Liz McMullen led the Harbor Seals
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The mighty Harbor Seals
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EdGE team made it to the semi-finals
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EdGE deputy director Isaac Marnik watches a set with MSM board member Jock Williams
BAR HARBOR, ME – A team assembled by the Small Animal Clinic in Ellsworth, captained by Dr. Alan Toothaker, won the 13th Annual Maine Seacoast Mission Open Tennis Tournament on Saturday, September 9, at the Northeast Harbor Tennis Club.
The tournament proceeds benefit the Mission’s EdGE (Ed Greaves Education) youth development program. The Mission’s EdGE runs after-school, in-school, and summer programs in Washington/Hancock Counties to give kids tools and resources to succeed in school and in life.
Final figures are not yet available, but preliminary estimates indicate the tournament corporate and individual sponsorship giving will surpass last year.
In the tournament semi-finals the Small Animal Clinic won over the Harbor Seals. And R.H. Foster’s team beat the EdGE team.
In the finals, R.H. Foster lost to Small Animal Clinic.
This was Small Animal Clinic’s fourth straight Mission Open Tennis Tournament win.
by maineseacoast | Aug 31, 2017 | Downeast Campus, EdGE, News
Bangor Daily News
COMMUNITY
Volunteers to be honored by Washington County Extension Association
By Tara Wood
Posted Aug. 29, 2017, at 11:27 a.m.
Cherryfield, Maine – The Washington County Extension Association will hold its annual meeting on Tuesday, September 19, at the EdGE Center, Maine Seacoast Mission, Weald Bethel Lane, Cherryfield. The evening begins at 4:30 p.m. with tours of the Master Gardener Volunteer gardens, followed by a potluck supper at 5 p.m. ; the program and awards ceremony begin at 6 p.m. The public is invited to attend.
Attendees are asked to consider bringing a dish to share. For more information or to request a disability accommodation, contact the Extension office, 207.255.3345 or 800.287.1542 (toll-free in Maine).
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by maineseacoast | Aug 8, 2017 | EdGE, Island Outreach, Sunbeam
EdGE Summer Camp kids board Sunbeam V for a multi-day exploration of coastal Maine and island living. Then they get a good night’s sleep aboard the Sunbeam V. Learn More
by maineseacoast | Jul 24, 2017 | Downeast Campus, EdGE, News
Kids Go Carnival Crazy at Seacoast Camp
By Emily Tadlock |
Posted: Thu 6:16 PM, Jul 20, 2017
Isaac Marnik, Assistant Director of the EdGE program says, “The EdGE program has three summer camp locations. We have one in Machias, Millbridge, and Cherryfield. We give [kids] a lot of options so they have a lot of experiences. Some kids learn how to play chess that haven’t done that, learn how to computer code that haven’t done that before. It’s just a place to come together with their friends and have a positive experience over the summer.”
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by maineseacoast | Jul 24, 2017 | Downeast Campus, EdGE, News
Maine Seacoast Mission is hosting week-long camps for kids from Gouldsboro to Machias
Thursday, 20 July 2017 14:58
The camps were designed to help bridge the learning gap that takes place in the summer isn’t in session.
Director Charlie Harrington said “We think with the reading we do, the recipes we use, a lot of the opportunities around, the robots the computers, i think it really is a helpful piece of what we do for kids in the summer and for families].”
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by maineseacoast | Apr 11, 2017 | EdGE, News
LERNER FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES PARTNERS IN $7 MILLION EFFORT TO SUPPORT ASPIRATIONS OF RURAL MAINE STUDENTS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 10, 2017
PORTLAND, Maine – The Portland-based Lerner Foundation today announced that eight Maine organizations will participate as partners with the Foundation in its new $7 million Aspirations Incubator Program (AIP), a mentoring-based initiative aimed at raising and sustaining the aspirations of middle school and high school students in rural Maine communities and small cities.
The Aspirations Incubator Program partner organizations and the school districts with whom the Lerner Foundation will work [include]:
The EdGE program of Maine Seacoast Mission/SAD #37. The Maine Seacoast Mission founded the EdGE program in 2002. Through after-school, in-school, and summer programs, EdGE offers children from Gouldsboro to Machias the opportunity to challenge themselves, engage with their communities and the outdoors, and explore college and career options. SAD #37 serves the Washington County communities of Addison, Columbia, Columbia Falls, Harrington, and Milbridge.
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