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Friday, September 18, 2020
Volume 16 • Issue No. 38
Equine-Based Retreat for Healthcare Workers helps Alleviates Trauma YORK COUNTY As the first few weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, Sarah Armentrout, co-founder of Carlisle Academy, anticipated a need. “Our frontline healthcare workers—our healers—are going to themselves need time to heal from the daily trauma they are enduring,” she said. “And you know, ours horses like to work. Like everybody else, they want a meaningful occupation.” Founded in 1998 by Sarah and her husband Nick, Carlisle Academy is a working farm and center for horse-based therapeutic techniques. For centuries, horses have been used in forms of physical and cognitive therapy and Carlisle typically offers a range of equine activities. But in light of the pandemic, their usual season of activity was cancelled. In frequent staff meetings over Zoom, which Sarah noted was a rather uncomfortable fit for their outdoorsy team, they contemplated how to get back to work in a way that would give back to their community. On August 24, Carlisle held their first half-day retreat for groups of hospital workers in York County. The retreat featured
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equine-facilitated leadership activities, herd observation, and grooming. The focus was on being present and mindful while forming a connection with the horses in a beautiful and tranquil setting. The retreats are funded by the Carlisle Charita-
ble Foundation through a grant from Kennebunk Saving. Of late the bank has focused their charitable giving on supporting existing nonprofit partners during the pandemic, and newly sup-
Church Celebrates Arrival of Pumpkins! YORK Each year, First Parish Church York enthusiastically celebrates the start of fall with the arrival of the pumpkins. Their journey begins on farms in the southwest where Hopi, Zuni and Navajo families cultivate and harvest the crops, then load them into tractor trailers that transport them to partner organizations in the far corners of the country. As a partner organization, First Parish Church is responsible for creating and managing
the Pumpkin Patch. Volunteers from the congregation and wider community join forces to make this annual fundraiser a success. While the largest portion of proceeds from the sales are returned directly to the farmers, the remainder supports First Parish’s missions and ministries in York and beyond. The needs this year are greater than ever. This year the pumpkins are scheduled to arrive on Saturday, September 26 with the pumpkin patch open for business on Sunday, September 27 at 11 a.m.
proceed with the project. Part of the procedure to gain approval is to enter into a formal agreement with the town that will define implementation and maintenance of the park. In addition to this responsibility of FOYDP, the organization is engaged in raising tax deductible donations and creating public awareness of the need for a community dog park. Research has shown that dog parks
provide an integral component to local community culture and well-being for not only dogs and their owners, but for the community at large. There is ample evidence of this when looking at the vast numbers of communities that have established dog parks as part of community life. Interested people can find out more by visiting www.friendsofyorkdogpark.org.
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No Pause For Paws, Advocates Forge Ahead YORK Friends of York Dog Park (FOYDP), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, is a group of York residents who have a vision of a community dog park for a safe and controlled environment. To build a place where dogs and their owners can meet for off leash exercise and play is their goal. Following many communities’ leads in providing such a facility, FOYDP has been working for the past 18 months to publicize their goal to build a community dog park. With on-going discussions with York town officials, FOYDP has gained the approval to locate a dog park on town-owned property as long as all costs are managed by fundraising and do not draw from tax-payer dollars. Even with this independence of funding FOYDP has had to seek state and local approvals to utilize land for a dog park. Concerns for environmental and logistical impacts have been addressed. After
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exhaustive research for a location FOYDP was given approval by the selectmen to explore the use of a portion of 17 Bog Road (current location of the Mackey Ice Rink). After DEP and local code enforcement input and Civil Consultants Engineering site work, a suitable placement for the fenced in park has been established. On Wednesday, September 9, FOYDP hosted a public opening to the site to introduce the plan. This informal event was a precursor to a formal hearing before the board of selectmen for hopefully the final approval to
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