Low tide at sunset in moody March — Holmes Bay, Cutler/Whiting Happy International Women’s Day! New this week: Substance Use & its Impacts The CCC is excited to announce a free, in-person training on April 12th: Substance Use and its Impacts, presented by Abby Frutchey, LMSW, LADC, CCS. This training will explore substance use related stigma […]
Today is Share a Smile Day, a delightful holiday that “encourages us to be a little bit more joyful. Created in 1997, this day has inspired people to share a smile with everyone they encounter.” Read more about Share a Smile Day here. Happy Wednesday! New this week: An Update on Washington County’s Economy Sunrise County Economic […]
Today is Ash Wednesday — perhaps not the “happiest” Wednesday in the Christian calendar — but a significant holy day marking the first day of Lent, a 40-day period of “preparing” for Easter Sunday, the celebration of the resurrection. During this season of preparation, Christians may practice certain restrictions and disciplines, such as fasting from […]
Although Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12th, we celebrate his birthday, along with the birthday of our country’s first president, George Washington, on the 3rd Monday of February. Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president, may best be remembered as “the Great Emancipator” for his insistence on abolishing the practice of slavery, which he put ahead […]
Get ready to celebrate Chocolate Day on February 9th! No kidding, it’s a thing, and you can read all about the origins of Chocolate Day (part of Valentine’s week in India) here. And if you’re looking for a good excuse to enjoy chocolate every other day of the year, read the Cleveland Clinic’s list of benefits from dark chocolate. […]
Today, February 1st, starts an important Celtic holiday known as “Imbolc” (literally “in the belly”), celebrated from sunrise on February 1st through sunset February 2nd. This “cross-quarter” day falls between the winter solstice and the spring equinox and was generally marked as a time of the first stirrings in the ground harboring spring’s approach. In […]
George Townsend & Kelsey LaCoote utilized The Joy Fund to purchase their new home in Calais). Learn more about this CCC program to help first time homebuyers pay for home inspections. (Photo courtesy of Georgie Kendall) Happy Wednesday! New this week: Save the Date – Finding Our Way Wayfinder Schools is excited to announce the return of Finding […]
Sunday was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday — January 15, 1929, Atlanta, GA. From his bio on the Nobel Prize website: “In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from […]
January in Maine Happy Wednesday! New this week: Impacts of Poverty Training The CCC is excited to welcome all staff from partner organizations to a free, 3-hour Zoom training: “Understanding the Impacts of Poverty,” on February 8th from 9 am to 12 pm, presented by Charley Martin-Berry and Julie Redding. This training will cover the definitions […]
It’s the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese Calendar. We hope 2023 is off to a running start for you! Happy Wednesday! New this week: Warming Center Open Healthy Acadia’s warming center at 24 Church Street in Ellsworth, the INSPIRE Recovery Center, is open from 7 am to 7 pm. Please share this flyer. To check […]