Mission Program Manager for Scholarships and Outreach Terri Rodick asked some Maine Seacoast Mission scholarship recipients if they would please make a short video telling viewers what Mission scholarships meant to them. Here’s Sarah Doucette’s video.
BAR HARBOR, ME — Maine Seacoast Mission’s five scholarships applications and re-applications are now available for downloading online. Program Manager for Scholarships and Outreach Terri Rodick the 2019 scholarships include “big changes,” increases in scholarship amounts.
“We have added the Patsy Elliot Fogarty scholarship, awarded to a student enrolled and attending a full-time nursing program. The Fogarty scholarship recipient is awarded annually $2,000 plus a one-time $500 check, made payable to the scholarship recipient, for other unforeseen costs,” said Terri Rodick.
In addition, the Mission’s Sunbeam Scholarship’s renewable total is increased up to $8,000 from $6,500. The EdGE Scholarship renewable total is raised up to $10,000 from $8,000. And the Theodosia Gray Scholarship annual award increase is up to $2,000 from $1,500.
Rodick reminds current Mission Scholars to reapply. “The deadline,” said Rodick, “is May 1, 2019.”
Download the 2019 Scholarship Application
Download the 2019 Scholarship Re-Application
For more information, contact Scholarship Administrator Terri Rodick.
Thank you to everyone who took part in the Mission’s Christmas Open House and Silent Auction. At least 350 guests visited the Colket Center during the event — an increase from last year.
Here are a few random photos courtesy of Chad Mitchell. We welcome photos to include here from others who have them and are willing to share them. Email them to the Mission Communications and Marketing Director Scott K Fish: sfish@seacoastmission.org
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BAR HARBOR, ME — Let the Holidays begin! The Maine Seacoast Mission’s Open House and Silent Wreath Auction is Friday, December 7, 2018, 5:30 – 7:30 pm at the Colket Center, 127 West Street, Bar Harbor, ME.
Please join us for an evening of refreshments, music, the chance to take home a beautiful holiday wreath, and see the historic Colket Center beautifully decorated by your neighbors for the holidays.
The Mission’s Christmas Program provides gifts for island and coastal children and the elderly. The signature white paper bundles with red string have brightened Christmas mornings for over 100 years.
Thank you to our generous community for contributing to this event and auction. Your donation and winning bids support the Mission’s Christmas Program. Victor Stanley’s “Christmas 1968” in the December 2018 Down East magazine shares his personal perspective on what Maine Seacoast Mission’s Christmas Program meant to his family fifty years ago, with a reminder that, “[The] Mission still…help[s] families through long and cold Maine winters.”
For more information call the Mission at 207-288-5097 or visit us on the web at seacoastmission.org
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Historical society in talks to buy Mission building
September 28, 2018 — by Dick Broom on News
BAR HARBOR — The Bar Harbor Historical Society announced late Friday that is has signed a purchase and sale agreement with the Maine Seacoast Mission to buy its headquarters on West Street, which was built in 1867 as a 14,000-square-foot summer “cottage.”
The Historical Society would use it as its headquarters and a museum.
Seacoast Mission President Scott Planting said he is pleased that the two organizations have been able to sign a purchase and sale agreement.
“The future of La Rochelle as a museum and repository of Bar Harbor’s history is a great role for this beautiful building,” he said. “The Historical Society news is welcome and promising. This is still a work in progress. We remain optimistic.”
Bangor Daily News
Historical society seeks to buy 116-year-old Bar Harbor mansion
By Bill Trotter, BDN Staff • September 28, 2018 6:49 pm
Mission President Scott Planting said in the statement that having the historical society acquire the mansion for use as a museum and to house its collection would be a “great role” for the mansion.
“The historical society news is welcome and promising,” Planting said. “This is still a work in progress. We remain optimistic.”
BAR HARBOR, ME — Mount Desert High School student volunteers are a great help moving boxes between floors in preparation for sale of the Mission headquarters at the Colket Center, and the eventual relocation to a new headquarters. These photos are sent by Mission Program Manager for Scholarships and Outreach Terri Rodick.
