The 21st Annual Carol Dyer Memorial Luminaria Evening, sponsored by YWCA Mount Desert Island, will take place from 7-9:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, with a rain date of Aug. 20.
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In memory: Archie Allen Dyer 02 Feb, 2021
Al Dyer, born August 30, 1938 – died January 20. With a heart as big as a mountain he is hero to a very large family. He is survived by his wife Carol Dyer; four children Terri Schaeffer, Tracy Bordewyk, Trisha Morris and Mike Dyer; 21 grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren.
He and Carol were high school sweethearts married right after Carol graduated from high school and remained married for 62 years. He played football in high school and passed his passion for that sport on to his son and grandsons.He started college and a family right out of high school family. He and Carol worked very hard in those early years putting him through school all the while raising four children. He started his career in 1971 as a professor at Colorado State University in the then Forestry College. Soon after he became Department Head, rising to become the Dean of the Forestry College (now called College of Natural Resources). He served as interim for t