CHERRYFIELD, ME — With days getting colder, it’s the perfect season for a vegetable-based soup that can welcome almost everything the garden has provided.
Learn to Make Vegetable-Based Soups from Macie O’Dwyer – 11:30-1:30, Sat, Nov. 16, Weald Bethel Community Center, Maine Seacoast Mission Cherryfield campus. Hosted by the Women’s Health Resource Library. Free pre-registration required. Call 546-7677 or register online.
CHERRYFIELD, ME — Several Assabet Valley Tech students have been hard at work on the Tiny House’s Plumbing for the better part of a week. Two sinks, a shower, and toilet have been installed. Our students are ready to move on to the next phase of construction.
Read more on the Downeast Maine Tiny House Project Blog.
CHERRYFIELD, ME — More good news from the Mission’s Housing Rehabilitation Manager Scott Shaw, who sends this job site photo with a County Concrete crew, and this note: “Happy to report the concrete contractors began the four step process last week, and were pouring today appropriately on Veterans Day.”
When completed, this house will belong to a formerly homeless US Military veteran with a disability.
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BAR HARBOR, ME — Thank You, Sigma Kappa for More Than a Century of Impacting Our Communities
Since 1918, Sigma Kappa Sorority has helped Maine Seacoast Mission communities many times, in many ways. From funding scholarships, to ensuring families have Christmas presents, to hands-on volunteer work in the Mission’s Housing Rehabilitation Program.
Thank you, Sigma Kappa for showing us what it means to live with heart.
BELFAST, ME — The Front Street Shipyard photographer shared this photo today of new pipe being cut and fitted for the Sunbeam V. The yellow object at the upper right of this photo is the Sunbeam engine, recently removed to allow for sandblasting the boat engine room.
BAR HARBOR, ME — In 2017, The Council for Opportunity in Education designated November 8t h as a day to celebrate first-generation college students. By first-generation (“first gen”), we mean students who will be the first members of their families to graduate from a four-year college.
According to The Center for First Generation Student Success:
November 8 was selected as the date for the annual National First-Generation College Celebration to honor the anniversary of the signing of the Higher Education Act of 1965. The Higher Education Act (“HEA”) emerged out of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty. Much like other hallmark legislation of that era such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, HEA was intended to help level a playing field that for too long had been weighed against Americans from minority and low income backgrounds.
In addition to creating federal grants and loan programs to help students finance their educations, the legislation made key investments in institutions of higher education. Additionally, HEA ushered in programs, particularly the Federal TRIO programs, necessary for post-secondary access, retention and completion for low income, potential first-generation college graduates.
Today and every day, we honor you, your families and communities and celebrate your courage and perseverance as you journey to and through college!
Learn more about the Mission Scholarship program.