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Friday, July 27, 2012
Volume 8 • Issue No. 30
17th Annual Eliot Antique Tractor & Engine Show
One of the many antique engines on display at the Raitt Homestead Museum, which hosts its 17th annual Antique Tractor & Engine Show, July 27-29. (courtesy photo)
ELIOT – This weekend (July 27-29), the 17th Annual Eliot Antique Tractor & Engine Show will be held at the Raitt Homestead Farm Museum at 2077 State Rd, RT 103, in Eliot. This is a fun-filled weekend for the entire family. This year they are featuring Oliver Tractors & Gilson engines. “It’s a labor of love,” said Lisa Raitt when describing the weekend. “It’s an all-volunteer board. No one gets a dime.” Visitors can enjoy antique tractor and engine displays, working demonstrations including a shingle mill, a 1920’s Hildreth wood splitter, pumps and
engine displays. Ladies are invited to try their hand at the Ladies’ Skillet Toss. There will be tractor parades, kids pedal tractor pulls, garden tractor pulling, antique stone boat pulling, and transfer sled pulling all during the weekend. Folks can visit the Colonial Encampment and take a spin on the barrel tractor ride. On Friday night, there will be a benefit auction, and throughout the weekend there are raffles, entertainment, great food, homemade desserts and an artisans’ alley. The show is sponsored by the Raitt Homestead Museum, a non-profit formed in 1996. Raitt said it takes months of preparation for such a large
show. “There have been thirty to forty people on site for a few weeks now, some camping. We have to hay the fields. Now that we have the car show in June, we hay them early. But now we have to mow the eighteen acres every five days until the tractors show,” she said. “We have to haul out all the antiques. And we have hundreds of exhibitors. There’ll be quite a few people here this weekend,” she said. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the event goes directly to the preservation, restoration, and maintenance of the See TRACTORS page 4...
Center for Wildlife to Create Program “Lawns for Lobsters” for Challenged Youth and Seniors Grows as Result of Two One of Nine Nonprofits Awarded York County Fund Grants Towns’ Collaboration YORK COUNTY – The Maine Community Foundation’s Community Building Grant Program recently awarded $37,095 in grants to nine York County nonprofits, including the
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Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick, which will use the funds to create a “Wildlife as Teachers and Healers” program for disabled or at-risk youth and seniors. Other grant awards went to: Across the River Collaborative, Hiram, for an afterschool program to prevent youth substance abuse and
reduce school dropouts and juvenile crime. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine, Portland, to expand site-based mentoring program to RSU 23, or Saco, Dayton, and Old Orchard Beach. Child Abuse Prevention Council of York County, KenSee NONPROFIT page 8...
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Hunter and Sawyer LaChance plant a Lawns for Lobsters sign to let others know that their yard is maintained in a way that’s good for the environment. (courtesy photo)
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Wells Beach Parking Lot Attendant Remembered at Dedication Ceremony Ed Sarcione, who passed away May 1, 2011, was remembered Wednesday, July 18 by many who knew and loved him. In attendance at the dedication of a plaque in his memory were Town Manager Jonathan Carter, Town Treasurer Leo Ouellette, Ed’s wife, Rike, and many friends. (courtesy photo)
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THE KENNEBUNKS – In an unprecedented alliance, volunteers at the Kennebunkport Conservation Commission are teaming up with members of the Kennebunk Conservation and Open Space Planning Commission to boost area-wide awareness about the impact of pesticides in the two
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towns. Kennebunkport’s successful Lawns For Lobsters program presently addresses public awareness about pesticide runoff from lawns into local waterways. “Most of Kennebunkport’s streams begin in KenSee LAWNS page 6...
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