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Middle and High School Students Can Apply for Downeast Exploration Fund
Starting on April 1, young adults living in Washington and Hancock counties, and on Maine’s outer islands, can apply for the Downeast Exploration Fund. The fund, started by Gigi Georges, author of Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America, and...
Planting Seeds of Hope from the Sunbeam
In 1949, Edith Drury traveled up and down the Maine coast visiting 40 schools with a small notebook in hand. As part of her job as a staff member of the Maine Seacoast Mission, Edith was tasked with teaching children about creating gardens and growing vegetables. In...
Journey Offers Office Hours for Seniors
Every Wednesday from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., Mission Journey Coordinator Briana West’s office door is open for seniors in the Journey program. This fall, Briana began offering this two-hour block as a time to drop in for help with college applications, learn about...
Ace Barrera Takes the Helm of the Davis Maine Scholarship
Ace (center) with Mission Downeast Director Jenny Jones (left) and EdGE Secondary and Post-Secondary Dakin Helwett (right) at the University of New England The Mission welcomed Silverio (Ace) Barrera as the new Davis Maine Scholarship program Director earlier this...
Increased Need Drives Repeat Pantry Visits
Last month, 21 new families signed up to use the Mission’s food pantry. That is almost twice as many as had signed up in January and four times as many new households that signed up in December. The number of new families accessing the pantry has not been this high...
Sunbeam Nurse Comes Aboard!
Simone Babineaux has worked in public health in Los Angeles, was a staff nurse at a medical clinic in Moscow, Russia, and was a first responder during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Now, she has joined the Mission as the Sunbeam nurse to provide care on Maine’s...