Happy Drawings Outside

Happy Drawings Outside

CHERRYFIELD, ME — Happy drawings on our outside gallery wall by the first grade class at Cherryfield Elementary. Photo by EdGE Site Coordinator Jen Kearns.

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MDIslander – Sunbeam Back Home After Major Rehab

MDIslander – Sunbeam Back Home After Major Rehab

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Sunbeam back home after major rehab
October 5, 2020 by Dick Broom on News, Waterfront

MOUNT DESERT — Following an absence of nearly 18 months for repairs and renovations, Sunbeam returned to its Northeast Harbor home last Friday and will be back in action within a few weeks.

The Maine Seacoast Mission uses Sunbeam to deliver health care and other services to islands and coastal Downeast communities.

It was taken to Front Street Shipyard in Belfast in May 2019 because rust was starting to eat away at the inside of the steel hull. The furnace and two generators needed to be replaced, and the crew’s very small and rather spartan living quarters needed to be reconfigured and spruced up. The galley needed new appliances, and the floor in the salon area needed to be ripped up and replaced because of rust.

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Sunbeam serves a trio of functions.

“We take the nurse around, we take the chaplain around and we are also like a floating coffee house,” [Capt. Mike] Johnson said. “When we show up on Isle au Haut, for example, people come aboard to get coffee and play cribbage and mingle with their neighbors.”

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Mount Desert Chamber Welcomes Back Sunbeam

Mount Desert Chamber Welcomes Back Sunbeam

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Thank you for the shout out. The Sunbeam and crew are glad to be back home
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Mount Desert Chamber Fall News

WELCOME BACK SUNBEAM!

After a year-long refit at Front Street Shipyard in Belfast, the Maine Seacoast Mission’s 75-foot-long telemedicine vessel Sunbeam V returned to her home berth in Northeast Harbor on October 2nd. Welcome back Sunbeam and Captain Mike!

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BDN – Boat Connecting ME’s Islands to Telemedicine Returns for Flu Season

BDN – Boat Connecting ME’s Islands to Telemedicine Returns for Flu Season

BELFAST, Maine — 10/01/2020 — The Maine Seacoast Mission’s ship, Sunbeam V, has just finished an extensive refit at the Front Street Shipyard in Belfast. The newly spruced-up Sunbeam will get back to work visiting Maine’s island communities soon. Abigail Curtis | BDN

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Boat connecting Maine’s islands to telemedicine will return just in time for flu season
by Abigail Curtis
October 5, 2020

BELFAST, Maine — For a quarter century, Maine Seacoast Mission’s ship Sunbeam V has brought telemedicine, meals, fellowship, care and cups of coffee to the people who live in Maine’s year-round island communities.

But for the last year and a half, the steel-hulled ship with the white cross on the prow has been absent from coastal waters as it underwent a $1.5 million refit at Front Street Shipyard in Belfast.

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Front Street Shipyard crew members, who were putting the finishing touches on the Sunbeam this week, said it’s been a pleasure to work on the boat.

“It’s nice to work on a project that’s going to stay here in Maine, and go to the islands, which really need this boat,” [Front Street Shipyard project manager Graham] Fitch said.

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Spreading Christmas Cheer – An Old Mission Tradition Kicks in for 2020

Spreading Christmas Cheer – An Old Mission Tradition Kicks in for 2020

CHERRYFIELD, ME — Spreading Christmas cheer is one of the Mission’s oldest traditions, beginning over 100 years ago with Mission gifts to island residents and lighthouse keepers.

We invite you this year to help us put presents under trees for individuals and families who can’t do it alone. Covid-19’s stretched family budgets make shopping more difficult. You can give gifts online which will be shipped directly to the Mission through the Mission’s Amazon Christmas List. Or you can download and use our 2020 traditional Christmas Wish List. Those of you mailing gifts or gift cards should mail to these addresses, to the attention of the Christmas Program:

UPS Delivery: 39 Weald Bethel Lane, Cherryfield, ME 04622

US Postal Service Delivery: PO Box 428, Cherryfield, ME 04622

We welcome Christmas Program online donations or checks. Please mail checks to the attention of the Christmas Program, Maine Seacoast Mission, PO Box 600, Northeast Harbor, ME 04662. More questions? Email Ms. Christmas or call 207-598-1467.

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