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Tree Street Youth celebrates 10 years of community, safety and hope
The inner city summer camp founded by two Bates College grads continues to impact Lewiston children and the city.
By Ellie WolfeSun Journal
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Ilyassa Katou, left, and Bakar Ibrahim race to the ball during a game of dodgeball Friday at Tree Street Youth in Lewiston. Katou, 11, and Ibrahim, 13, are squad leaders at the center.
Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
The building where Tree Street Youth started in 2011 had been a paint shop. After that, it was a preschool. Then it was a big, empty building.
Now, 10 years later, the outside is adorned with blue and green painted scales, the basketball court is buzzing with energy, and kids of all ages flow in and out of its doors with ease. The vibe: A more promising future.
Documenting a Pandemic
Few of us will forget the experience of living through a pandemic, but as time progresses we may lose track of key details about what transpired in our daily lives and communities during this momentous period in history. A coalition of Maine libraries is rising to the challenge of documenting the ways COVID-19 has impacted our state. Supported by funding from the CARES Act and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, librarians around Maine are working with the public to collect materials ranging from poems and photographs to oral histories and films that will preserve stories of the pandemic for future generations.
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Ian Khama Ellansante, a Bates college professor, picks up litter at the PUG pop up garden on Saturday in Lewiston during the city’s first Public Works-hosted litter pickup event.
Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
LEWISTON Despite cold, rainy weather Saturday morning, Lewiston’s first citywide litter cleanup went off without a hitch as about 50 people from Boy Scouts, to college students to credit union employees scoured the city for trash.
Volunteers targeted pedestrian-heavy streets and public parks in downtown Lewiston, such as Kennedy Park, Paradis Park and Lisbon Street.
Mary Ann Brenchick, director of Lewiston Public Works, said one of her main goals since she was hired last fall has been to improve the city’s image.
A College Store coordinator helps students safely purchase what they require to succeed on campus.
Specialists in the Registrar’s Office manage a torrent of academic records that help track a student’s career through Bates.
And a member of the Campus Safety staff ferries students to places in Lewiston-Auburn in his role as a shuttle driver.
Whether students are feeling down, or need help getting their feet back on the ground, they get the support they need from Bates staff, whose work helps position students for success in their work with the equally devoted Bates faculty.
Each week for the next three weeks, we’ll continue to share portraits of Bates staff members as well as stories in their own words about how they have responded to the needs of our students during a time of crisis. Totaling 21 staffers, from 19 different college offices, these Bates people rise to the challenge when students need somebody not just anybody.