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Friday, December 16, 2016
Volume 12 • Issue No. 51
2016 Toys for Tots Donation Deadline Fast Approaching! YORK COUNTY Every year, the Marine Corps Reserve collects new, unwrapped toys, books and other gifts and distributes those toys at Christmastime to children from some 700 communities covering all 50 states. In the York County area, there are many toy drop-off locations inside local businesses. (Monetary donations can be made directly on the Toys for Tots website www.springvaleme.toysfortots.org for Southern York County, or www. londonderry-nh.toysfortots.org for Rockingham County, NH. Surprisingly, several collection
Toys collected at a local Toys for Tots collection center. (Photo from Amvets, Sanford Facebook)
sites are reporting that donations are down this year. Toy donations will be picked up starting
later this week so that Toys for Tots volunteers can sort, wrap and deliver these gifts, so there
is still time to donate if you can. In addition to donation sites at Cumberland Farms, the Berwick Town Hall and the North Berwick Auto Center, there is another collection site that is well worth a visit. Chuck and Pamela Bogdan have been creating large scale outdoor Christmas light displays since 1997. As you might well imagine, these displays have gotten bigger, better and brighter over the years. Utilizing thousands of lights and ornaments they have collected over the years, visitors are greeted by reindeer, penguins, peppermint canes and even a life-size animat-
ed Santa Clause! Since the their very first display nineteen years ago, the Bogdan’s have also collected hundreds of pounds of food for the Food Cupboard maintained by the First Congregational of Rochester, New Hampshire. This year marks the second year the Bogdan’s have also collected toys for the Toys for Tots campaign and they are hoping to collect as many toys this year as they did in 2015. In less than an hour of your time, you can make Christmas wishes come true, make a differSee TOYS page 4...
KHS Launches “Little Boat That Could� By Alyssa McArdle, Staff Reporter KENNEBUNK Students from the Kennebunk High School Alternative Education Class are getting ready to launch a tiny boat with giant ambitions. After working with Educational Passages, and thanks to RF Social and the
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Kennebunkport Conservation Trust, the class has prepared a four-foot boat equipped with GPS, sensors and solar panels to set sail across the world, collecting data that will be sent back to the classroom. “Even where we stand today in 2016, we know less about the ocean than we do about space,� said student Josh Ellis. “That is why it is a great opportunity that my class has discovered the boat project.�
The boat project is the brain child of Dick Baldwin, an accomplished solo-sailer who wanted to spread the passion for oceanic education to audiences and learners of all ages. He started Educational Passages in 2008 and, after more than 70 launches, he has seen his little boats travel great lengths to land in places like France, Ireland and Panama. See BOAT page 7...
Museum Launches History Hopper App KENNEBUNK The Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk has launched a new app designed to bring local history to life and make its collections more accessible to a greater number of people, according to an announcement from Cynthia Walker, executive director of the Museum. The History Hopper app, which is free to download through Apple’s App Store, allows smartphone users to digitally journey into the past of the Kennebunks. From harrowing encounters between settlers and American Indians, to shipwrecks, ghosts, U.S. Presidents and colorful characters, users
share an open door to the Museum’s rich collections through their smartphone. The app features more than 60 stories, illustrations, photos (including some rarely seen before) and videos that are tagged to specific locations within the Kennebunks so users can see where the events took place. The app was developed by Dietz Associates, a Kennebunk marketing and design firm, which created, researched, coded, and launched the app in partnership with the Brick Store Museum team during 2016. Walker notes that the Museum board chose to make the download free as a gift to the
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community. “The people of the Kennebunks have been so supportive over the years, we really wanted to give something meaningful in return,� she notes. “We
felt it was important to share our collections with a greater audience so that more people, residents and visitors alike, could enjoy the fascinating stories of the people and events that helped shape our communities.� Downloading the app is free and easy. Go to App Store on your Apple smartphone, tap the search icon on the bottom of the page, search for History Hopper, select History Hopper by tapping the name, and click install (you’ll need your Apple ID password). Afterward, you’re ready to enjoy the adventure of History Hopper. The Museum will be launching the Android version of History Hopper soon.
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The KHS Alternative Class poses proudly with their “Little Boat that Could� that will launch on December 21.
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