Barbara Parent: Countdown to Aroostook County
Barbara Parent: Countdown to Aroostook County
June 02, 2021 12:43PM By Barbara Parent
We have run into a lot of last minute interruptions in the 24 years weâve packed ourselves up for a summer stay at Cross Lake, Maine. Despite the few we have encountered these last days in anticipation of our pending ride north, we find ourselves facing another on Memorial Day.
âI donât think those eggs are going to make it,â Ron says, carrying Monday morningâs Record-Journal into the house after passing the robinâs nest by the back steps. Readers were introduced in last Sundayâs column to her unique nest building.
Aroostook County FFA Help Alleviate Homelessness, Food Insecurity
Aroostook County members of the Maine FFA Association (formerly known as “Future Farmers of America”) pitched in enthusiastically to help alleviate homelessness and food insecurity in their communities.
Under a “State Day of Service” grant from the National FFA Organization, and with an additional $2,000 community grant awarded by Walmart Presque Isle, along with in kind donations from some local retailers, Maine FFA student members and their Chapter FFA Advisors worked to organize, pick-up and deliver support to a number of different local community service agencies.
Community service participants included the Sister Mary O’Donnell Emergency Homeless Shelter in Presque Isle, the Dalgren-Skidgel Farm of Hope, Perham Food Cupboard, Washburn Food Pantry and the Presque Isle office of the Aroostook County Action Program (ACAP), which contributed an educational outreach component to the project. Furt