Photo courtesy of Mount Desert Chamber.
Thank you for the shout out. The Sunbeam and crew are glad to be back home.
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!
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
bangordailynews.com
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.
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.
The Mission’s October 2020 Newsletter.
Now available to read or download online:
* Sunbeam Homecoming
* Christmas Program 2020
* President’s Scholarship Celebration
* Mission People & Places: Suzy James
* EdGE Tennis Tournament a Great Success
* EdGE Afterschool 2020 – Moving Parts
It’s Thank you Thursday. Today’s shout out of Mission love goes to Gena Norgaard.
Gena began her work with the Mission as a volunteer in the Recycle Shop and the Food Pantry in 1983. In 1997, she was named the Food Pantry Coordinator and continued in that position until 2020. Gena created a food pantry that was inviting and friendly with the atmosphere of an old-fashioned general store.
Thank you, Gena, for decades of service to Maine Seacoast Mission. We honor your life of generous support to the community and our neighbors.
This is what community looks like.
On the web: https://www.seacoastmission.org/what-we-do/food/food-pantry/
The plaque is mounted on a pink granite rock from Kenarden, the Colket’s home. PHOTO COURTESY OF BH FIRE DEPT
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Colket: firefighter and benefactor honored with plaque
September 23, 2020 by Anne Kozak on News
BAR HARBOR—In recognition of Tris Colket’s many contributions to the fire department as a volunteer firefighter and benefactor, firefighters on Wednesday placed a plaque at the base of the flagpole in front of the fire station honoring Colket, who died in July.
In September 1974, Colket joined the department as a “call firefighter” and kept a plectron (an emergency alerting radio receiver) in the front hall of Kenarden, his home on Lower Main Street. Earl Brechlin, who worked for the Colkets, recalled that Colket kept his boots and helmet in his Jeep so that he could always respond quickly to a fire.
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In 1972, the Colkets donated LaRochelle, his childhood summer home, to the Maine Seacoast Mission and in 2005 established a $2 million endowment to support its maintenance. With the blessing of the Colkets, the Mission sold LaRochelle to the Bar Harbor Historical Society in 2019 in order to use funding from the sale to enhance its many programs….