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The Lamoine Quaterly - January 2005 |
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PATRONS Seeks Help with Playground Project
Lamoine is Charter Town in Red Sox Nation
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Seeks Help With Playground Project By Laura Parlee (Lamoine)—PATRONS is the name of the parent-teacher organization at Lamoine Consolidated School. We are a volunteer group which fundraises throughout the year to help meet school needs. Over the past few years, we have been able to add more computers and software to the classrooms, support the DARE program, purchase a new podium, fund art and science programs, sponsor dances and school parties, help host the “Meet the Candidates Night, and the yearly town meeting, as well as award the teachers funds during teacher appreciation week to purchase classroom supplies. We have also offered a small annual scholarship to a Lamoine high school senior. In addition, last year, PATRONS formed a sub-committee for playground improvements, in an effort to address safety concerns on the school’s play areas. Last spring the school board approved plans to fill, grade and resurface the practice soccer field, resurface the kickball area, and most important, relocate the playground. During the summer vacation, Richard King generously donated his time to complete work on the practice soccer field and, working with Harald Huebner, cleared a new playground site, in a safer area behind the school. We are waiting until spring to landscape, build a sand area, and to move most of the existing playground equipment (some of it is old, and safety is an issue), and add some new pieces. During the past few years, PATRONS has been able to branch out into new forms of creative fundraising, with programs such as BOX TOPS 4 EDUCATION, SCHOOLPOP, and FUNDING FACTORY. This has been a huge benefit which has allowed us to continue to support our students, while saving over $9,000 to relocate the playground. We have already purchased two new pieces of playground equipment. Through FUNDING FACTORY, where we receive credit for recycling ink and laser cartridges, as well as old cellular phones, we have earned enough points to purchase a sand-digger and hope to purchase a second this spring. We are working hard to make a little go a long way, and could use your help. Please donate your used cell phones and printer cartridges (we cannot recycle any that are already “refurbished”). If you work with a business that uses the large cartridges ask if you can donate them after they have been used. We have a drop box in the front hallway of the school. [Recycling cartridges alone has made over $2,300 for the school!] We also collect Boxtops coupons and Campbell soup labels, which can also be dropped off or mailed to the school. If you shop on-line, check out the participating merchants at the Schoolpop.com and Boxtops4education.com websites and register under Lamoine Consolidated School. Donations to the school are tax deductible and there’s still time to make your 2004 contributions. You may write a check to LAMOINE PLAYGROUND or to LAMOINE PATRONS and send it to the Lamoine Consolidated School, 53 Lamoine Beach Road Lamoine, ME 04605. |
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(Lamoine) — The stork was busy again in Lamoine for the last quarter
of the year. Welcome to: Three marriages to celebrate this quarter. Patrick Miller and
Amanda Lyons of Mill Road were married on September 25th in Ellsworth.
Richard Zackary Klyver and Bethany Savage of Mud Creek
Road were married on October 9th in Bar Harbor. Theodore Emery
and Rose Gerber were married on October 23rd in Lamoine. They
reside on Meadow Point Road in the summer while wintering in Arizona.
Congratulations! Just one death to report during the quarter. Martin P. J. Peeters
of Wolf Run died on November 24th, the night before Thanksgiving.
He leaves behind his wife Florence and son Eric. Mr. Peeters was born
in Belgium and was a retired merchant marine. He was 77 years old. |
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| Marckoon Heads Treasurers (Lamoine) - Town Treasurer Stu Marckoon is the new president of the Maine Municipal Tax Collectors and Treasurer’s Association. He takes the reins following the retirement of the association’s president. The group provides training and development for municipal tax collectors & treasurers statewide. |
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Is Charter Town in Red Sox Nation (Lamoine, Boston & St. Louis) - Only a handful of residents were alive the last time the Boston Red Sox won a World Series. (According to the voting list, less than 25!) - until now. For 176 games the die hard fans tuned in NESN or attempted to pick up the games on the radio as the Sox finally were crowned the champions of major league baseball. Though the sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals in 4-games was described as anti-climatic, the 7-game come from behind victory over the despised New York Yankees to reach the Series was sweet revenge for last season’s game 7 loss. Many residents were quite bleary-eyed during the Yankees series with games often running until the wee hours of the morning. Lots of folks have their own Sox stories. Maurice Googins, a former Selectman, is rarely seen in the summer time without his Red Sox jacket and hat. He said he quite clearly remembers the Red Sox/Cardinals series in 1946 when shortstop Enos Slaughter scored the winning run against Boston, ending hopes of the world championship. Shore Road resident Arnelle Meyer stopped by the Town Office prior to game 3 of the World Series and asked if anyone wanted souvenirs from St. Louis. She had several takers and was on the stadium as the Sox clinched in the 4th game. Her license plate says it all: SOXCESS! Another former Selectman, Tom Spruce has strong Red Sox ties thanks to his brother-in-law, author Stephen King who often shares season tickets with his brother-in-law and nephews. Tom was all smiles following the winning series and is already looking forward to next season with some new faces in the lineup. King is one of many authors who’ve written a book on the agony and ecstasy of the championship season. Lamoine native Debbie Ashmore took her children to the championship parade in Boston. A few Lamoiners ventured to Bangor in December to see the World Series Trophy. |
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| Got Their Sox
On Brothers Ben & Josh Morren of Lamoine pose with Governor John Baldacci as they view the Red Sox World Series trophy in Bangor |
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Mock Election Results Differ from Parents (Lamoine) — Student voters tended more conservative than their parents in the mock election held in October at the Lamoine School. The students heavily favored re-election of President Bush and leaned strongly in favor of the Republican State Senate candidate John Linnehan. Neither carried Lamoine in the big election. Both the students and parents, though, soundly rejected the proposed property tax cap. |
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Getting Ready Students Nick Bubel, Bill Dickey and Ryan McGreevey set up for the Mock Vote |