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WELLS
College district observes Instructor Appreciation Week
Wells-Ogunquit Group College District (WOCSD) acknowledged its instructing employees in varied methods final week throughout Instructor Appreciation Week.
At Wells Elementary College, the Father or mother-Instructor Pupil Affiliation (PTSA) noticed a weeklong schedule of offering treats equivalent to lunch, espresso, cupcakes, doughnuts, and cookies, donated from native companies. College students had been inspired to personally thank their academics.
At Wells Junior Excessive College, the appreciation continued through the week, with choices of baskets crammed with wholesome snacks obtainable to every grade degree’s instructing workforce; a employees luncheon supplied by For the Love of Meals and Drink, with the varsity kitchen employees and a father or mother group offering particular desserts to academics every day.
At Wells Excessive College, academics had been handled to a lunch on Monday and a present bag together with doughnuts and low on Friday.

SANFORD
St. Thomas College units up scholarship fund
The Donna Jacques’ Legacy of Love Scholarship Fund has been established at St. Thomas College. Jacques spent 41 years serving the varsity in a wide range of roles and methods, most not too long ago as principal previous to her retirement in 2020. Her capability for caring is limitless, and her repute for setting younger folks on the trail to being good residents and lifelong learners is unmatched.
“Donations made to this account will likely be restricted to direct scholarships to certified faculty households,” mentioned Fr. Wilfred Labbe, pastor of St. Thérèse of Lisieux Parish. “In a lot of our conversations, Donna and I spoke about ensuring a Catholic schooling was obtainable to any and all who search it. Generosity to this program will go a great distance in making this dream a actuality. I’m making a month-to-month donation to this program and encourage all those that can to do the identical.”
Donations could be made in a one-time providing or in installments. The donations could be despatched on to: St. Thomas College, c/o Donna Jacques Scholarship Fund, 69 North Avenue, Sanford, ME 04073. For extra data or to arrange one other strategy to supply assist, name the varsity at 324-5832.

GORHAM
Church buildings search donations for Mom Seton Home
St. Anne Church at 299 Essential St. in Gorham and St. Hyacinth Church at 268 Brown St. in Westbrook are taking over particular collections now by means of June to learn Mom Seton Home in Fryeburg. All are invited to take an empty child bottle or bottles house from the church buildings and return them by June 19. Members are requested to position change, {dollars}, or checks made out to Mom Seton Home within the bottles.
All proceeds will likely be donated to Mom Seton Home, which is a nonprofit house for pregnant ladies in tough circumstances. The group affords schooling, counseling, and assist to all ladies in want no matter race or faith. In addition they are taught about cooking, diet, child care, little one growth, budgeting, and housekeeping.
For extra details about the initiative, name Ed at 797-8746 or Mom Seton Home at 935-1066 or e mail [email protected]

PORTLAND
MWPA proclaims Dibner Fellows for spring 2022
The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance (MWPA) introduced that Anna Drzewiecki of Newcastle, Liz Iversen of South Portland, and Ev Waugh of Portland all are recipients of the Winter and Spring 2022 Martin Dibner Memorial Fellowship for Maine Writers. A partnership between the Maine Group Basis and the MWPA; the Maine Group Basis gives funding and the MWPA administers the fellowships. Fellows obtain full funding to attend the MWPA’s Black Fly Writers Retreat in spring, the Harvest Writers Retreat in autumn, or a long-term workshop in both season.
Waugh, a fiction author, was awarded the fellowship to attend Ron Currie Jr.’s 10-week fiction writing workshop. Her writing has appeared in Passengers Journal, Goat’s Milk Journal, and different publications.
Drzewiecki and Iversen attended an all-expenses paid MWPA’s 2022 Black Fly Writers Retreat final week on the Ferry Seaside Convention & Retreat Middle in Saco, the place they studied with award successful writers Éireann Lorsung and Susan Conley.
Drzewiecki works as a reporter on the Lincoln County Information and edits youth writing at The Telling Room and interprets narrative journalism from the French for a small press in Casablanca, Morocco.
Iversen, the daughter of a former U.S. Navy non-public and a Filipina immigrant, was born within the Philippines and grew up in South Dakota. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Artistic Nonfiction, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Passages North, Room, and elsewhere.
For extra particulars, contact the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance’s government director Gibson Fay-LeBlanc at [email protected] or name 228-8264.

CASTINE
Maritime Academy scholar Rookie of the 12 months
Maine Maritime’s Hazel Stoddard of Outdated Orchard Seaside has been named the North Atlantic Convention (NAC) Ladies’s Lacrosse Rookie of the 12 months. Olivia Alejandro (Houston) and Charlotte Rose (Newark, Del.) be part of Stoddard on the NAC First Staff, whereas teammates Olivia Harriman of Orrington, Kirra Magaña, of Miami, Fla., and Beth Labbe of Brunswickall earned a spot of the NAC Second Staff.
Stoddard, a 2021 graduate of Thornton Academy, was a four-year varsity soccer and lacrosse participant. She now performs soccer and lacrosse at MMA.
Stoddard, an influence engineering expertise main had a document breaking 12 months for the Mariners, incomes a spot on the All-Match workforce within the NAC. The primary-year attacker led the workforce with 87 objectives and 9 assists, for a complete of 96 factors this season, breaking the varsity’s single-season document for factors and objectives. She additionally gained 97 draw controls, picked up 65 floor balls, and prompted 27 turnovers, resetting the varsity’s single-season data for draw controls and floor balls. In convention play, she led the NAC with 43 objectives and 6 assists, in addition to 42 draw controls, 33 floor balls, and 15 prompted turnovers.

RANGELEY LAKES
Belief hosts forest stewards tour
The Rangeley Lakes Heritage Belief (RLHT) not too long ago hosted a Forest Stewards Guild area tour. The Forest Stewards Guild practices, advocates, and promotes accountable forest administration to maintain the integrity of forest ecosystems and the human communities dependent upon them. Regional foresters, wildlife biologists, landowners, and stewardship professionals gathered on the RLHT’s Forest Legacy property to look at and talk about northern hardwood administration. The outing supplied a chance for specialists to collaborate and share concepts to handle the complicated points in forestry. Managers attempt to advertise ecological range, forest stand well being, construction, and resiliency within the face of a altering local weather through the use of distinctive forest administration strategies. Maine’s Acadian forests even have the potential to sequester important portions of carbon to offset world emissions.

ROCKPORT
Maine Media meets objective forward of schedule
Maine Media Workshops + Faculty has raised greater than $1 million for its Keystone Fund forward of its scheduled deadline because it approaches its fiftieth anniversary and is finishing the method for full accreditation with the New England Fee for Increased Training.
Managing a $1 million reserve fund additional ensures the monetary safety for the faculty.
“I’m delighted that the funding objective for the Keystone Fund at Maine Media has been met,” mentioned Nils Tcheyan, chair of Maine Media’s Board of Administrators. “The Keystone Fund will assist guarantee a vibrant and thrilling future for Maine Media throughout a interval of speedy transition in academic fashions and visible storytelling.”
The Keystone Fund was established in 2018 by Meg Weston, then president of Maine Media. Michael Mansfield, present president and CEO, continued the trouble when he took the reins in 2020.
Mansfield and Weston teamed up in 2021 to boost the ultimate quantity wanted to finish the objective, that was met by means of a grassroots marketing campaign and demonstrates neighborhood and alumni assist for Maine Media.
For extra particulars, name 236-8581, e mail [email protected] or go to mainemedia.edu.

FALMOUTH
Mackworth Island assembly rescheduled
The Mackworth Island Facility Evaluation and Planning Informational Assembly, initially scheduled for Wednesday, has been rescheduled to June 29, from 6 to eight p.m.
The Maine Division of Administrative and Monetary Companies, the Maine Academic Middle for the Deaf and Onerous of Listening to/Governor Baxter College for the Deaf, the Maine Division of Training, and the Maine Division of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry will maintain an informational assembly about facility evaluation and planning work going down on Mackworth Island. In early 2022, Harriman Associates, an structure, engineering, and planning agency, started work on the Mackworth Island Idea Utilization plan. Their work included assessing all amenities, utilities, parking, circulation, transportation; contemplating environmental impacts; exploring potential future makes use of or crucial renovations of amenities and buildings; and creating a web site plan with price estimates. On this informational assembly, Harriman Associates will current the scope of labor and their findings to this point. A possibility for public enter and a query/reply interval will conclude the assembly.
The assembly will likely be held at Falmouth City Corridor Council Chambers utilizing a hybrid format. A hyperlink to affix by Zoom could be discovered on the Falmouth City web site at falmouthme.org/home/events/130636.

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