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If not for the kindness and generosity of a former homeowner, lobsterman Matt Gilley and his wife, Catherine, say they wouldn’t be living in Cundy’s Harbor today. “The only reason we got the house is because we knew the guy that owned it before us, and he wanted to sell it to somebody that was […]
Harpswell resident Gayle Hays was one of just six people to win the title of New England UnitedHealthcare Champion this summer for her work helping local seniors get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Common Good Grant Program Turns Twenty, Students Give Away Record Amount Bowdoin s Common Good Grant program (CGG) is twenty years old this year. Acting much like a foundation, students in the program solicit donations and award grants to local nonprofits, learning both about philanthrophy and the greater Brunswick community in the process.
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Tom Ancona, Chanel Matthews ’21, and Ryan Telingator ’21. The 2021 Common Good Grants awards ceremony was hybrid this year, with guests and some students online and the rest of the students gathering in person in Main Lounge.
An anonymous donor from the Class of 1964 established CGG in 2001 with an original gift of $10,000. (That fund later became an endowed gift that generates at least $10,000 annually.) The donor hoped the exercise of giving would inspire students to commit to a lifetime of philanthropy, as well as teach them the ways local charities support communities, often on tight budgets.
David Treadwell: Kudos to the community for COVID response
By David TreadwellJust a Little Old
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During his Prairie Home Companion show, Garrison Keilor would talk about Powdermilk Biscuits made by Norwegian bachelor farmers. As he noted, these biscuits are made of, “the whole wheat that gives shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done.”
Well, members of the Midcoast Maine community can take a bow for doing what needs to be done during the pandemic.
Let’s start with the general public. Almost everyone has taken mask mandates seriously, wearing them in stores and restaurants and while walking along Maine Street in Brunswick. Fortunately, most storeowners haven’t had to cope with belligerent yahoos refusing to wear masks and yammering on about freedom. (Oddly, some of those same yahoos crave the freedom to carry an AR 47 into a store, never mind the understandable fear it causes in other shoppers. Go figure.)