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This Maine Library is Offering Learning Kits for Kids
One of the largest affected demographics of the coronavirus pandemic has been our young kids. From having a normal routine one day to not returning to school for months the next. We ve also seen many Maine school children begin to fall behind grade-wise because they re not performing as well with remote learning. Well, one Maine library is seeking to help.
With the assistance of Zoobean, The Anonimo Foundation, and the Rotary Club of Damariscotta, the Skidompha Library will be offering learning and literacy kits to children of different ages.
They will offer early lit kits for kids pre-K to grade 3. These kits will contain an audio CD, some workbooks, pencils, learn-to-read books and five early reader books. There will also be a kit for music literacy for pre-K to grade 3 as well.
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Damariscotta, Newcastle rotary club receives grant Gift helped staff the Lincoln County Food Initiative from July 1 to Sept. 30, 2020.
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DAMARISCOTTA Last spring the Rotary Club of Damariscotta-Newcastle applied for and recently received a COVID-19 Feeding Our Community Lincoln County Food Initiative Community Navigation District 7780, Rotary year 2020-21, grant in the amount of $4,500. The club made an additional contribution of $500 bringing the total award to $5,000, the sum that was needed to staff the backbone of the Lincoln County Food Initiative, the hot, community navigation helpline from July 1 through Sept. 30, 2020, according to a news release from the rotary club.
On Jan. 11, Kate Martin, executive director of Healthy Lincoln County, the food initiative’s fiscal agent, accepted the community service funding support checks on behalf of the food initiative from Rotary Club President Roberta McLaughlin, Marianne Pinkham, Club Foundation Chairwoman and Past
Marianne Pinkham Wed, 01/13/2021 - 7:45am
Rotary District 7780 grants are small grants awarded each year on a competitive basis to Rotary Clubs in Southern, Midcoast Maine and New Hampshire in support of a humanitarian projects either in a Rotary Club’s home community or internationally. Last spring the Rotary Club of Damariscotta-Newcastle applied for and recently received a COVID-19 Feeding Our Community - Lincoln County Food Initiative - Community Navigation District 7780, Rotary year 2020 – 2021, grant in the amount of $4,500. The club made an additional contribution of $500 bringing the total award to $5,000, the sum that was needed to staff the backbone of the Lincoln County Food Initiative (LCFI), the hot, community navigation help-line from July 1 through Sept. 30, 2020. On the 11th of January Kate Martin, executive director of Healthy Lincoln County, LCFI’s fiscal agent, accepted the funding support checks on behalf of LCFI from D/N Rotary Club President Ro