by maineseacoast | Aug 6, 2018 | Island Health, Island Outreach, Maine Seacoast Mission, News, Sunbeam
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Maine Boat & Home Show comes to Rockland
Aug 05, 2018
Rockland — Whether it’s to look at boats, or to look for a boat to buy, the Maine Boat & Home Show on the Rockland waterfront Aug. 10 through 12 is the place to be. The show will feature more than 100 craft, displayed both on land and in the water.
Icon Boats, Dock F, will feature a different iconic boat each day:
On Friday, The 72-foot-long Maine Seacoast Mission Ship Sunbeam V will be on the Icon Dock. Built by Washburn & Doughty and launched in 1995, the boat is equipped with state-of-the-art telemedicine equipment and has a salon that serves as a meeting place for fellowship, meals, and meetings. The Sunbeam also sometimes hosts weddings and funerals and serves as an icebreaker. [The Mission] is launching a refit campaign for the vessel.
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by maineseacoast | Jul 24, 2018 | EdGE, Island Health, Island Outreach, Maine Seacoast Mission, News, Sunbeam
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Photo courtesy Sharon Daley
NORTHEAST HARBOR, ME — The Sunbeam bow is loaded with backpacks from a dozen EdGE summer camp kids for a few days trip experiencing Maine islands. Island Outreach Director Douglas Cornman said U.S. Park Rangers on Isle au Haut are “really excited” about the EdGE kids’ visit, and the Rangers put together “a whole program” for them.
Matinicus Island, said Director Cornman, is looking forward to help with island clean up at designated areas.
Also, the Sunbeam trip gives EdGE kids a chance to get to know the entire Sunbeam crew — Captain Michael Johnson, Engineer Storey King, Island Health Director Sharon Daley, and Steward Jillian — and to watch the crew in action.
Learn more about EdGE Summer Camps
Learn more about the Sunbeam Island Services
by maineseacoast | Jul 22, 2018 | Island Health, Island Outreach, Maine Seacoast Mission, News, Scott Planting, Sunbeam
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Maine Mission Boat In Need of Repairs
By A.J. Higgins • Jul 21, 2018
“In boat years, the Sunbeam is 23 and that makes her middle-aged,” says Maine Seacoast Mission president, Scott Planting.
“So we were making a decision at this place in her life. Do we refit the boat or do we replace the boat? And after a pretty extensive survey of the boat, we made the decision to do a major overhaul.”
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by maineseacoast | Jul 16, 2018 | Island Health, Island Outreach, Maine Seacoast Mission, News, Sunbeam
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MATINICUS, ME — Thank you, Island Health Director Sharon Daley for this photo taken aboard the Sunbeam while leaving Matinicus island 7/11/18. Matinicus is one island included in the Sunbeam’s travels working visits by Director Daley and Island Outreach Director Douglas Cornman.
Learn more about the Mission’s Island Services
by maineseacoast | Jul 13, 2018 | Island Health, Maine Seacoast Mission, News, Sunbeam, Uncategorized
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Southern Harbor House, Elder Care home, North Haven, ME
BAR HARBOR, ME — Southern Harbor House on North Haven is a new assisted living facility among a network of eleven Maine island communities. Elder care workers from these communities meet each year to discuss challenges, resources, and to make action plans at an Elder Care Conference hosted by the Mission’s Island Health Director Sharon Daley, RN.
Director Sharon Daley attended Southern Harbor House’s “Opening Event,” Saturday, July 7. In a later phone conversation, Daley said Southern Harbor House “makes four islands with these small, wonderful elder care homes.” Daley’s home island, Islesboro, has an elder care home. So do Vinalhaven and Chebeague.
“It’s really the way care should be given,” Daley said, who also credits The Genesis Community Loan Fund, Brunswick, ME for its “huge help.”
Southern Harbor House Administrator Lindsey Beverage is a member of the Elder Care Conference network. She was a community Outreach Worker “with a dream of building [an elder care facility] on North Haven,” said Daley.
At the “Opening Event,” “Lindsey recognized the Mission’s Elder Care Conference and the connections she made there. The knowledge and support of other Conference administrators was such a help in navigating Southern Harbor House through to completion,” Daley said.
“The North Haven community pulled together to make this home possible. Somebody donated the building and land; raised the money. Lindsey pointed out that some people gave $25.00; some gave $250,000 — and all of it was important,” said Daley.
“But really,” Daley added, “the islands pulled together and helped with all of this. That’s a story in itself.”
Sharon said Islesboro’s elder care home, Boardman Cottage, developed much the same as Southern Harbor House, with ”all the volunteerism. People landscaping, cleaning-up, painting — all of that.”
Sharon remembers first reading about Vinalhaven’s Ivan Calderwood Homestead assisted living home around 2001.
“The Sunbeam was on Vinalhaven. I walked to the home, asked if I could look around. They said, ‘Somebody else from Islesboro just asked us for information about how we started, our policy books and all. We copied everything. Could you take it to them?’”
That “somebody else from Islesboro” and Sharon “had our first meeting, got others involved, formed a Board, and that’s how [Boardman Cottage] got started,” Daley said.
Today the network of elder care home administrators is quite effective. Sharon said, between Elder Care Conferences they “have monthly phone calls. Two or three times a year we meet in Augusta with State people involved in licensing and regulations. Island elder care homes got a 15-percent MaineCare increase when we proved it costs more to run an elder care home on an island,” she said.
“There’s just so much good about the island elder care homes,” Daley continued. “You get a great feeling when you walk into them. They are homes.
“Staff are often taking care of their own grandmothers,” said Daley. “They’re trained and licensed to give medications, diabetic care, oxygen therapy — the training they need. It makes great year-round employment for staff, and it’s rewarding care.
“Sometimes it’s really hard. We lost three residents in a short period of time. Staff and residents — they’re like family,” said Sharon.
Our conversation ending, Sharon added, “It’s wonderful for people not to have to leave the islands. It’s not only good for them, but also their family members. One visitor comes to visit somebody, they end up visiting everybody — because they know everybody.”
“I think the islands are ahead of their time in providing this kind of care,” Sharon finished.
Learn more about the Mission’s Island Health activities.
by maineseacoast | May 7, 2018 | Island Health, Island Outreach, Maine Seacoast Mission, News, Sunbeam
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BAR HARBOR, Me — When the Sunbeam is in dry dock for it’s annual upkeep, Mission Island Outreach director Douglas Cornman, and Island Health director Sharon Daley, RN rely on alternate transportation to continue their work on unbridged islands. Beal & Bunker Mail Boat & Ferry “Sea Queen,” photographed by director Cornman, is one much appreciated alternate ways of moving among the islands and mainlands.