Thank you Thursday for the Maine Center for Disease Control

Thank you Thursday for the Maine Center for Disease Control

It’s Thank you Thursday. Today’s short and sweet shout out of Mission love goes out to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Mission is so grateful to Director Nirav Shah, our Downeast Liaison Al May, and the Maine CDC for their partnership and leadership through the pandemic.

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Maine CDC and Prevention on Facebook.

Free Flu Shots for Uninsured, Under-Insured – Mission DE Campus – Nov 18th

FREE FLU SHOTS
Date: Wednesday, Nov. 18, 9:00am-3:00pm
Location: 6 Weald Bethel Ln, Cherryfield

Maine Center for Disease Control (CDC) Public Health Nurses will be onsite to provide free flu shots to adults who are uninsured or under-insured. No appointment necessary.

Requirements: Wear a mask covering nose and mouth. The nurse will check your temperature and provide a COVID-19 symptoms screening. If you do not have a mask, the nurse can provide one for you.

Curtis and Patricia Blake Foundation Final Gifts Include Maine Seacoast Mission

NOTE: This is an edited version of the Curtis and Patricia Blake Foundation’s full press release.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Susan Blake 
Email: sbphoebe1090@gmail.com — Tel.: (415) 250-2129

Curtis and Patricia Blake Foundation makes final gifts to five organizations in Maine and Florida. The late Friendly Ice Cream founder’s posthumous generosity is extended to groups in communities he loved.

(Northeast Harbor, ME and Hobe Sound, FL, November 16, 2020) – Trustees of the Curtis and Patricia Blake Foundation have announced that four Mount Desert Island (Maine) nonprofits, and one Florida-based organization, are the five recipients of the family foundation’s final gifts, as part of the Blake’s estate plan, in recognition of those groups’ contributions to communities that mattered deeply to the family. Lifelong New Englander Curtis Blake was the legendary co-founder, with his brother Prestley, of Friendly Ice Cream 85 years ago this year.

The Land and Garden Preserve (Mount Desert Island); the Maine Seacoast Mission; the Mount Desert Nursing Association; the Northeast Harbor (ME) Neighborhood House; and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Martin County (FL) are the beneficiaries of gifts totaling $575,000.

Explained Curtis’s daughter and gift administrator Susan Blake, “The Blake family had many happy times on the Island of Mount Desert in the summertime and in Hobe Sound, Florida during the winter months. These final gifts represent an opportunity to give back once more to those communities, and to the year-round residents and groups who make those communities such special places.

Leaders of the organizations expressed their gratitude.

John Zavodny, President of Maine Seacoast Mission, noted that the timing of the gift, just as the organization’s social-outreach vessel, Sunbeam, is heading back into service to the islands of downeast Maine, is meaningful; the Blakes were honorary chairs of the 2018 campaign that supported the ship’s extensive refit. This gift was given in honor of longtime Blake family friend Scott McFarland.

Curtis Blake died in 2019 at the age of 102. His wife Patricia had predeceased him in 2018.

Summed up Susan Blake, “Although my father achieved great wealth during his life, his family was of modest means. He and his brother started Friendly Ice Cream in the middle of the Great Depression, another devastating time for our country. Dad’s success truly was built one five-cent ice cream cone at a time. Just as the people of Springfield, Massachusetts helped the Blake brothers to build their business, these gifts are intended to assist those doing much-needed work for the betterment of all.”

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It’s Thank you Thursday for Neighbors Meg and Bob

It’s Thank you Thursday for Neighbors Meg and Bob

It’s Thank you Thursday. Today’s shout out of Mission love goes to DETOP participants Meg and Bob.

Sunbeam steward Jillian is eager to thank Downeast neighbors Meg and Bob for, over the years, always wanting to share produce with her, and at the Mission Downeast Table of Plenty (DETOP) community supper.

Before Covid-19, every Sunday afternoon, the Weald Bethel Community Center was alive with great food and great company of people of all walks of life, of all ages. Each Sunday meal was hosted by volunteers such Meg and Bob. We look forward to the post-Covid-19 world when we can resume our celebratory DETOP suppers.

“On my recent Sunday visit to their little homestead on the edge of the beautiful blueberry barrens,” said Jillian, “Meg sent me off with deliciously aromatic freshly dried sweet marjoram and summer savory from her garden for cooking in the Sunbeam Galley.”

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Pathways Pumpkin Carving Contest Winners

Pathways Pumpkin Carving Contest Winners

Rubye Alley

NORTHEAST HARBOR, ME — This year, the Student Pathways Team hosted its First Ever and Very Awesome Student Pathways Virtual Pumpkin Carving Contest! From Frenchboro to Machias, our middle school, high school and college students entered photos of their skillfully carved and fantastically creative pumpkins.

We are excited to announce the winners here!

1.Best Technically Carved Pumpkin: Gaby Teague (Isle au Haut, Island Middle School Student)

2.Most ‘Grosest’: Kariah Sumner (Great Cranberry, Island Middle School Student)

3.Island (Seasick!) Inspired: Melanie Sanborn (Great Cranberry, Island Middle School Student)

4. Most (Harry Potter inspired) Hopeful: Brianna Lunt (Frenchboro, Island Middle School Student)

5. Sweetest: Skylar James (Cherryfield, Journey)

6. Scariest: Autumn Peterson (Cherryfield, Journey)

7. Most Mysterious Ashlyn Cashman (Cherryfield, Journey)

8. Funniest: Emilee Hutchins (Winter Harbor, College Exploration and Engagement Program)

9.Most Out of The Ordinary: Mia Richardson (Franklin, College Exploration and Engagement Program)

10. Most Expressive: Makayla Sadler (Machias, Mission Scholar)

11. Best Overall Middle School: Rubye Alley (Islesford, Island Middle School Student)

12. Best Overall High School: DeVae Reynolds (Harrington, Journey)

13. Best Overall College Student: Eden Salzig (Ellsworth, Mission Scholar)

Students will receive gift cards and a bit of Mission swag next week!

Congratulations and Happy Halloween!

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