Day of Caring

Each year MEA-Retired members choose a service project, as they continue to help support students and schools. From their giving, students benefit. Below are highlights from their Day of Caring. Hancock County Retired Teachers Association chose Pemetic School in Southwest Harbor for its annual Day of Caring volunteer project. The group gave students school supplies and donated money to the school for the teachers, which the school used to purchase refillable water bottles for each educator. Mid-Coast Retired Educators spent their Day of Caring at Bowdoin Central School. Some broke down and emptied boxes of supplies for students, others photocopied papers and collated them into packets, and some organized a book room. Knox County Retired Educators Association delivered school supplies to teachers and students at Union Elementary School. Washington County Retired Teachers Association filled four treasure chests with school supplies for students in the Jonesport, Beals Island, Jonesboro, and Ella Lewis Elementary Schools.

Franklin County Retired Educators Association (FCREA)

Day of Caring chairperson and member, Arline Amos, delivered a variety of math materials to Strong Elementary School. There were books with stories containing math problems to solve, dry erase boards and markers, and supplies of glue sticks.

York County Retired Educators

helped spruce up LINE Elementary School. Members worked with the local associations and students from St. Joseph’s College. Together they painted the kitchen, cafeteria and a small bathroom. The group also cleaned and organized a storage closet, raked and cleaned up a playground area. Even after their work, they also found the time to collect school supply donations and books.

Piscataquis Retired Educators

gave each of the area’s five school districts-Dexter, Dover-Foxcroft, Milo, Guilford, and Greenville-$50 to purchase healthy snacks. The school nurse, Jennifer Noke, purchases the

snacks for the children in need.

Somerset Education Association Retired (SEAR)

Retirees collected supplies and money and purchased a variety of school supplies—pencils, markers, crayons, notebooks, glue sticks, scissors, and so much more. The retired educators also provided another $100 to be used for items at the Madison Elementary School library.

Kennebec Retired Educators

Association (KREA) and Winslow Elementary School educators joined together duplicating materials, tearing pages from workbooks, laminating and cutting out teaching materials, and assembling bulletin boards in preparation for the year.

Penobscot County Retired Educators Association (PCREA)

Donated school supplies and money to educators and students at the Etna-Dixmont School to help enhance classroom learning.

Waldo Education Association

retired member Linda Garson Smith presents a $277 check to Elizabeth Drury, Principal, for the East Belfast School “Sneaker Fund.”