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Friday, April 1, 2016
Volume 12 • Issue No. 14
Habitat for Humanity Builds Home for Retired Combat Vet KENNEBUNKPORT Construction has begun on Habitat for Humanity York County’s Veterans Build in Kennebunkport. The new home is being constructed for the Holbrook Family, composed for Waylon, a medically retired combat veteran, his wife Nicole, and their two young sons. The property for the Veterans Build was donated to HFHYC by the town on Kennebunkport, and the build’s honorary chair is President George H.W. Bush. The home will be the product of collaboration between local veterans’ groups, individual donor
support, foundations, volunteers and local businesses. HFHYC has partnered with Steadfast Homes, of York to complete the exterior framing
of the home. “We typically have volunteers complete the framing of the home,� said Executive Director Amy Nucci, “However it was important for us to move the
project along through the late winter, and the best way to get the home closed in was to work with a builder. Steadfast Homes has helped us make great progress in a short amount of time, and our volunteers are looking forward to taking over.� As future homeowners, Waylon and Nicole will be working alongside volunteers to contribute “sweat equity� to the build. All Habitat for Humanity York County home buyer complete 400 hours of “sweat equity� by working on the construction of their home and on other Habitat for Humanity projects. The
family will purchase the home through an interest free mortgage which is recycled to support HFHYC’s affordable housing initiatives. In addition to its home building program, HFHYC runs Keep York County Warm! a weatherization program which serve low income Habitat weatherization teams have completed over 70 projects throughout the county for low-income families. Volunteers build and install custom storm windows and seal cracks, holes and gaps around See HOME page 2...
Maine’s Restaurants and Chefs Celebrated at Annual Banquet STATEWIDE On Tuesday, March 29, at the Holiday Inn By the Bay, located in Portland, the Maine Restaurant Association recognized the 2016 annual award recipients at its annual banquet. The evening began with a restaurant showcase reception featuring the culinary stylings of some of Maine’s most celebrated chefs, followed by a
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seated dinner, and culminating in the presentation of awards. “It’s such an exciting occasion for our association to, once a year, pause and recognize the incredible contributions our members make to Maine’s celebrated restaurant industry,� says, Tina Hewlett-Gordon, Board Chairman of the Maine Restaurant Association. “This year’s slate of awardees is a true representation of the professionalism and perseverance exemplified in the very best of Maine’s foodservice entrepreneurs.� Award winners are selected each year by the association’s awards committee
Accepting the Chef of the Year award is James Walter, Chef of Five-O Shore Road Restaurant, Ogunquit. Presenting the award is Tina Hewett-Gordon, Chairman of the Board of the MRA.
from nominations submitted by its restaurant and allied industry members from across the state. 2016 awardees included:
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‘Light It Up Blue’ for Autism Awareness YORK Each April, The York Harbor Inn celebrates 'Light It Up Blue' along with the international autism community, in commemoration of the United Nations sanctioned World Autism Awareness Day. 'Light It Up Blue' is a unique global initiative that kicks-off Autism Awareness Month and helps raise awareness about autism. In honor of this historic day many iconic landmarks, hotels, sporting venues, concert halls, museums, bridges and retail
stores are among the hundreds of thousands of homes, businesses and communities that take part by shining blue lights on and around their buildings to 'Light It Up Blue' for Autism Awareness. The York Harbor Inn will be lit up with blue lights thanks to the generosity of Event Lighting Concepts of Eliot, and will host a fund raising event to raise money and awareness. This is the third year the Inn has hosted, and this year’s proceeds will benefit Waban’s Fra-
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Chef of the Year: James Walter, executive chef and coowner at Five-O Shore Road in Ogunquit.
Bill Zoidis� Lifetime Achievement Award: Michael Carney of Governor’s Restaurants, statewide. Restaurateurs of the Year: The Geaghan Family of Bangor’s Geaghan Pub & Craft Brewery. Rising Star Award: Krista Cole, owner of Sur Lie in Portland. Allied Member of the Year: The law firm of Norman Hanson DeTroy with offices in Portland and Lewiston. Chef of the Year, James Walter is the esteemed executive chef at Five-O Shore Road
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ser-Ford Child Development Center Autism Wing Expansion Capital Project and other local Maine Autism charities. The prevalence of autism has increased by 289 percent in the past 12 years. An astonishing 1 in 68 children is diagnosed with autism. As the effectiveness of Waban’s autism instruction has increased, so has the demand for services. While Waban has a proven clinical approach to addressSee BLUE page 6...
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Treats from Kate’s Bakery of Kittery at the ‘Light It Up Blue’ for Autism Awareness event at York Harbor Inn on April 6. (Selena Brock photo)
Pets Start the New Year with a new fuzzy family member!
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