SOUTH PORTLAND

Volunteer docents needed

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Winners of the Lions Club Regional Speak-Out Contest pose with their plaques and certificates. Pictured from left are: Honorable Mention winners August Mendoza, Elise Piet, and Matthew Gile, third place winner Olivia Bradley, second place winner Mariah Arral and first place winner Sequoia Booth. Piet is from Sanford High School, all others are Massabesic High School students. Photo courtesy Betty Morrison

The Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse on the Southern Maine Community College campus is seeking volunteers and docents for the 2012 season, which starts June 23.

Volunteers and docents work to sell tickets and give information about the lighthouse by narrating its history and construction and assuring the safety of the visitors.

To become a volunteer, go to www.springpointledgelight.com.

SACO

Call for participants

The Saco Sesquibicentennial Celebration Parade Committee is seeking groups from Saco, Biddeford and Old Orchard Beach to participate in a city parade at 10 a.m. June 9.

Marching bands, police and firemen, veterans, church groups, civic organizations and businesses are invited to build a float for inclusion in the procession to celebrate the city’s 250th anniversary

For more details, call 282-4191 or go to www.sacomaine.org.

FALMOUTH

Citizen of Year nominations

The Town of Falmouth is accepting nominations for the 2011 Citizen of the Year Award.

The award acknowledges exceptional contribution to the community and positive examples of citizenship.

Nominations can be submitted by an individual or group and must be 500 words or less. People can submit a nomination in writing to mtryon@town.falmouth.me.us. Nominations can be mailed to the Town Manager’s office, 271 Falmouth Road, Falmouth 04105, Attn: Melissa Tryon.

FALMOUTH

Spring leaf pickup

The town of Falmouth is conducting its spring leaf pickup this month.

Pickups are scheduled for Friday and April 27. Bags should be placed by the curb by 7 a.m. Leaf bags are available at the Parks & Public Works facility at 101 Woods Rd.

There will be no brush pickup. Brush will be accepted at the transfer station

BRUNSWICK

Gelato fundraiser for teens

A benefit scoop-a-thon, sponsored by Gelato Fiasco, has raised $3,500 for the Brunswick Teen Center.

Volunteers scooped more than 900 bowls of ice cream during the daylong event.

STANDISH

‘Life’ lesson for high school

Nearly 300 Bonny Eagle High School seniors recently participated in a Financial Literacy Fitness Fair designed to educate them about making sound financial investments.

The half-day Financial Fitness Money Management Experience played out like the board game “Life,” with each student receiving a mock scenario packet of their life at age 22. Armed with an occupation, income and credit history, participating students were then presented with opportunities to create a spending plan and make investment decisions based on a number of variables and life circumstances – including purchasing a car and associated fees such as insurance and maintenance.

Coaches were available throughout the day to advise students on strategies and how choices affect their financial security.

Staffers from several Maine credit unions were involved in overseeing the event.

KENNEBUNK

Citizenship awards

Kennebunk High School seniors Robert Eckland and Alivia Gould are recipients of the Southwestern Maine Activities Association Citizenship Awards for distinguishing themselves among their peers for outstanding qualities of citizenship, leadership and academic effort. 

Eckland and Gould will be honored with the awards May 1 at a ceremony for all Southwestern Maine recipients in South Portland.

STANDISH

Good behavior theater lesson

George E. Jack School Grade 4 students recently made a big production about good behavior.

The pupils performed “If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me!” a musical promoting making positive choices in daily life.

Educator Paul Schnell created the program based on the school’s PBIS (Positive Behavior Intervention System).

Students sang and acted their way through the school’s model six pillars of character, that includes trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship.
Each class had a small singing skit part and all classes sang all songs.

SANFORD

Fundraising for United Way

The Goodall Hospital United Way Committee has raised nearly $1,700 for its fundraising campaign.
In March, Jeweler’s Outlet in Sanford held a jewelry sale at the hospital, donating 10 percent of the sales proceeds ($989.70) to Goodall. On April 5, the committee held a bake sale and auction, raising an additional $693.20 for the campaign.

CUMBERLAND-YORK COUNTIES

Service agencies join forces

The Portland-based Serenity House and York County Shelter Programs, Inc. have merged in an effort to reduce individual operating costs and expand services to provide care for the substance abuse, mental health and homeless clients they serve in Cumberland and York counties. 

The combined agency’s name is York County Shelter Programs, Inc. (YCSPI). Serenity House will remain intact and continue to serve persons suffering from alcoholism and drug abuse, most of who are also homeless. 

No immediate changes are planned for the veteran substance abuse agency. Both agencies are developing plans in anticipation of dramatic changes in future traditional state and federal funding programs. 

Serenity House provides Half-Way House services to about 16 men per day and supported housing for 13 graduates of the Half-Way House treatment program.

The York County Shelter Programs brings to the partnership mental health and substance abuse residential and out-patient treatment programs, some 200 agency-owned and operated transitional and permanent housing units in York County, vocational training programs in both Food Services and Housing Maintenance, Community Case Management services for agency housing residents, consumer advocacy and client-centered entrepreneurial businesses.

The YCSPI is also one of three pilot sites developing Resource Center Models for the Maine State Housing Authority, to demonstrate the effectiveness of surrounding homeless mental health and substance abuse clients with advocacy and support services in their own home, rather than housing them overnight in emergency shelters.

Both Executive Directors remain employed by the combined agency, with Bob Dawber, the former Serenity House executive director, serving as a senior administrator, and Don Gean continuing as the executive director of YCSPI.

The Board of Directors is now a blended board. 

For more details, call Donald Gean or Bob Dawber at 324-1137.

WATERBORO

Speak-Out Essay Contest

Sequoia Booth, sponsored by the Massabesic Lions Club, was the champion of Regional Lions Club Speak-Out Essay Contest.

Mariah Arral, sponsored by the Limerick-Newfield Lions Club, and Olivia Bradley, sponsored by the Lyman-Dayton Lions Club, placed second and third, respectively, in the contest. August Mendoza, sponsored by the Acton-Shapleigh Lions Club, Elise Piet, sponsored by the Sanford Lions Club, and Matthew Gile, sponsored by the Massabesic Lions Club, all received honorable mention for their submissions. Those students each read their winning essays before a crowd of 75 at the Lion’s Den April 5.

Piet is a Sanford High School student. All others are from Massabesic High school.

Booth now advances to the Maine Lions Convention in Auburn April 28.

WELLS

‘Champions’ make changes at high school

Wells High School recently honored 23 students and three staffers for their positive contributions benefiting the learning and social environment at the school community.  

All were recognized during a “Breakfast of Champions” event, where they received a certificate and a t-shirt. Honored were staffers Joshua Adams, Erin Bartlett and Jason Brown along with students Chandler Bridge, Madeline Andrews, Brandon Cox, Rachael Crothers, Alison Duplisea, Julianna Fischer, Zoe Gatzogiannis, Kyle Genereaux, Colin Harrington, Laura Kirol, Abigail Lord, Alex McCormack-Kuhman, Kyle O’Brien, Zoe Onion, Matt Petrella-Woodward, Jeffrey Skeats, Tiffany Smith, Kelsey Tessier, Elizabeth Thompson, Stephanie Towne, Steven Valentino, Jacob Wilson and Emilee Wooldridge.

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