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Friday, February 23, 2024 Volume 20 • Issue No. 8
Give Warmth: Warm Hands, Warm Hearts ELIOT Eliot Connects encourages everyone to come out for their Second Annual “Give Warmth: Warm Hands, Warm Hearts” event on Saturday, March 2, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Once again, warm soup, baked treats, indoor games, and live music will be available inside the Eliot Fire Station. A “pay what you can” donation is suggested for the food, with 100% of proceeds going directly to the YCCAC HOPE Fund for Eliot residents. Outside, guests can enjoy a hot cocoa bar courtesy of Haven Homes & Lifestyle, outdoor competitions and activities, and a fire pit for making s’mores.
Outdoor activities will be modified according to the weather on the day of the event. Additional f undraising events include a kids’ Winter Outer Gear Swap/Drive. Participants are encouraged to donate
and/or swap kids’ winter outer gear during the event. Donated items must be clean, and in either gently worn or like new condition. Boots, snow pants, jackets, gloves, hats, etc., are all needed; any donations are greatly ap-
preciated. Leftover items not swapped or taken to new homes will be donated to Eliot Elementary School, Marshwood Great Works School, and the KidsPLAY after school program. Volunteers are needed in all areas all day long to help the day go by smoothly! Event organizers are also seeking volunteers to donate soups and baked goods to share with the community. High School volunteers are always welcome to join; time spent volunteering that day can be applied to Community Service hours. The events of the day are co-sponsored by a partnership between Eliot Connects, Eliot Community Service, and the
Police and Fire Departments. 100% of proceeds will go to benefit the York County Community Action HOPE fund for Eliot Residents. York County Community Action Corporation (YCCAC) outreach workers use the HOPE Fund for immediate client needs for at risk Eliot households to bridge a gap which, if unaddressed, could result in an emergency crisis situation, and work to create long-term stability. For more information, visit www. yccac.org/community-outreach. For more information or to volunteer, visit: www.eliotconnects.org, email elliotconnects@ gmail.com or call 207-405-3813.
Cold Water Dip Brings Community Strength to Survivors SEACOAST Hundreds of cold-water dippers from York to Mount Desert Island brought warmth to Maine domestic abuse survivors on Sunday, February 11 in a fundraising event for Finding Our Voices. More than $8,000 was raised for women and child domestic abuse survivors in the Sunday-before-Valentine’s Day event that encouraged dippers to wear yellow (Finding Our Voices’ signature color), to choose their own dipping place and time, and to devise their own way to raise money for the grassroots nonprofit.
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Participating dippers ranged from two childhood friends calling themselves the “Sorrento Selkies,” celebrating “the strength of women when they have a purpose,” to such established Maine dipping groups as Cold Tits Warm Hearts (Mount Desert Island), Wicked Nippy Dippahs (Midcoast), Salty Sisters (Miscoast), Two Maine Mermaids (Georgetown), Cold Water Queers (South Portland), and Saltwater Mountain Co.’s Dip Down to Rise Up (York). Patrisha McLean, CEO and founder of the survivor-powered nonprofit Finding Our Voices, said “I have been hearing more
and more about cold water dipping and the women who do it are always ones I would like to get to know more because they look so healthy and happy and strong, and I love the sense of community they have developed. From the minute I started reaching out to the group leaders about our event, I have been bowled over by their embrace of both it and our survivor-powered approach to domestic abuse, and also how creative and fun they are as far as incorporating the yellow. Many of the groups are already letting me know they can’t wait to dip for us again in an even louder and bigger way next February.”
Betty Boucher and Rachel Earl jumped into Big Tree Lake on Isleboro for “Freezing for Fun(d)s, and Alison Thibault’s Salty Sisters dipped at State Beach on Vinalhaven. In a local –
and clothed – version of the movie “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood,” Erja Lipponen dug a bigger-than-usual hole in a frozen Union lake, fired See DIP on page 20 . . .
Shipyard Removed from EPA Superfund List KITTERY The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is deleting the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) from the National Priorities List (NPL), commonly referred to as Superfund. While EPA has determined that site cleanup work at the PNSY site is complete, with no further site remediation activity required, ongoing operation and maintenance, land use controls, and monitoring activities will continue at the site as needed. Further, the Navy will continue to conduct comprehensive followup reviews every five years and
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submit them to EPA – even after NPL deletion – to ensure the Superfund remedies continue to protect human health and the environment. “This is a day to celebrate the combined persistence and hard work of the Navy, EPA, and
Maine. EPA deletes sites or parts of sites from the Superfund list when no further construction is required to protect human health or the environment,” said EPA New England Regional Administrator David W. Cash. “EPA is very pleased that after many
years of working with the Navy and other parties on this complex investigation and cleanup work, we’ve achieved a major milestone to get this site where it is today and remove it from the National Priorities List.” “The successful cleanup of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is the result of 30 years of collaboration between the state and federal government,” said Senator Susan Collins. “It is great news that the Shipyard is no longer considered a Superfund site, and as a longtime supporter of the Superfund See PNSY on page 15 . . .
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