Community service acknowledged at Hancock selectmenâs meeting
HANCOCK â Members of the Hancock Board of Selectmen took time at their Dec. 16 meeting to recognize and listen to reports of community service efforts in the town, including work with the Hancock Volunteer Fire Department and efforts to combat food insecurity at Hancock Grammar School (HGS).
Board Chairman George Colwell presented Chief Chris Holmes with a certificate from the town that acknowledged all the hard work the department does and for being a 2020 recipient of the Spirit of America Award.Â
The Spirit of America Award, issued by the Spirit of America Foundation, an organization out of Augusta, honors volunteerism.Â
Maine teen sells coronavirus masks to help fund a female veteran housing unit
The transitional housing unit for a homeless female veteran in need is 17-year-old Kasey Jordan s Gold Award Girl Scout project. Author: Hannah Yechivi (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 7:45 PM CST December 14, 2020 Updated: 5:06 AM CST December 15, 2020
LAMOINE, Maine Kasey Jordan has been busy sewing masks since March when the coronavirus pandemic started. The 17-year-old is a junior at Mount Desert Island High School, and when she is not focused on schoolwork, Kasey is sewing masks with her mother and troop leader, Lori Jordan. Lori taught Kasey how to make a face mask from scratch. With her help, they have made almost 6,000 masks.
Mask sales to support veteran housing, Pride
LAMOINE Kasey Jordan has been helping her community for years. And she is only a junior in high school.
The Lamoine resident, Mount Desert Island High School and Hancock County Technical Center student and Girl Scout is often found working on initiatives that benefit her neighbors.
Currently, Kasey is busy sewing masks that she can sell to raise money to fund her project to earn her Gold Award for Girl Scouts. Her work is having a ripple effect, reaching the Ellsworth High School Gender/Sexuality Diversity Alliance (GSDA) and even local businesses.
The Gold Award is the most prestigious a Girl Scout can earn, according to the organization’s website. Achieving the award requires identifying an issue in the community, thoroughly researching it and acting on a plan to combat it.
tire of it aexpecting him to pul something else. he has nothing else to offer at this point. correct me. were you in new york or at his house, at the bender in his house? no, no, no. the plaza was a different situation i think back in october or november. i was there before he did his last overdose and lost it the last time. the last time okay. well, we hope he gets it together. kasey jordan, thank you so much. we have a picture from his twitter feed that shows the crowd in detroit at the fox theater. kasey jordan joins us by phone. apparently charlie sheen s show not so winning. as a matter of fact, people are going pound or hash tag bombing tone on charlie sheen. thanks again. if the tour goes off as planned. people in 18 cities will need to prepare themselves for sheen s arrival over the next month or so. call it what you will, real or fake, wrasle organize wresting. during it height of the
so, let the administration take care of that. but, yeah, there were some laws broken. on now from that to charlie sheen. he knows a little something about encounters with the law. charlie! all right. so that s him on the road tonight in detroit, kicking off his self-described torpedo of truth tour. apparently it has been a rough night though. and this is our surprise guest. casey jordan joins me by phone. you might recognize her name. she was with charlie sheen that night in january when he had the incident in a new york hotel where he apparently went on a rampage. kasey, thank you for joining us. from the reports we re getting, not a good night for charlie sheen. no. we all had expectations high. it was really sad to see him get booed off the stage the second part of the night. why did you show up? i showed up for support. i thought the tour was going to be a great thing for him.