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Best Buy Foundation- You sure made our smarty pants teens VERY happy!

So excited that our local store, and the good deeds of Bart Gillespie, GM, helped us win a Best Buy award of $10,000!!! We will provide five to seven hours of STEM programming weekly, including: Daily STEM homework help in our 12-station Learning Technology Lab. Digital photography Computer repair Robotics activities, building robots from parts kits, each of which will provide the basis for

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Infinity FCU Shares the Love! VOTE!

Share the Love is a campaign that highlights credit unions giving back to their communities and sharing their heartfelt work on videos. These videos are being shared to inspire random acts of kindness and give back to charities that are near and dear to credit unions and members. You can make a difference by voting for your favorite credit union video. Credit union videos

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A Lotta Love from Neighbors Near and Far!

As you know, we’re gearing up for our Fund A Kid Celebration on October 1. FMI: https://www.facebook.com/events/714250748681235/ And the care from our neighbors really makes a girl weep. Thanks for making my mascara run: Bath Savings Bank – Patti, Bangor Savings Bank – Carol, Infinity Federal CU – Mary/Adam, Frog and Turtle – James, Uke’N’Smile – Dave/Keith/Monique, Captain Matt Brunner – shark fishing trip, Jen Dean

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Olympia Sports! – Homerun!

Many thanks, Olympia Sports and Anne Marie Jeffrey, for thinking of the kids’ summertime fun! That was a special surprise and we so appreciate the continual care for our kids! Thank you so much for being such a great neighbor and friend!


IDEXX showing some love and getting a tad dirty!

Our beloved IDEXX returned for another visit. This time to expend some serious elbow grease out in our gardens. They weeded, dug, pulled, trimmed, and tugged to spruce things up. In addition, they helped fulfill a three-year dream – to have a white picket fence in front of the building. Stay tuned for the rest of the installation. Many thanks, neighbor; we love your

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Let’s talk about grit, persistence, courage, curiosity, perseverance, compassion, and passion…

How to Go From ‘C’ Student to Self-Made Millionaire By Tom Corley Do you have to be naturally smart in order to strike it rich? Is intelligence a prerequisite for success? In my five-year study of the daily habits of 233 self-made millionaires and 128 individuals at or near poverty (Rich Habits Study – Background on Methodology) I uncovered the answer to these and

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TD Charitable Foundation

Many, many thanks to TD Charitable Foundation’s Michael Rayder and Larry Wold for granting us $10,000 for our summer programming initiative as articulated through our GoFundMe campaign: http://www.gofundme.com/pyh5nc. Obviously, we are so ecstatic and humbled by TD’s belief in our work and care for the kids. Amazing job, friend and neighbor, TD Charitable Foundation!


Old-fashioned goodness, a touch of sass, and a belief in kids…

Thinking of way to be nice? Do something nice? Feel nice? Here’s a way: Support the kids at MPTC – where kids are taught values, family matters, education is tantamount, and being nice is where it’s at. Thank you; start a nice revolution. Challenge yourself. Give. Please. http://www.gofundme.com/pyh5nc


Lotsa Love – FOR SALE!

Come join in the clean-spirited fun of the Hugs For Kids Debapalooza! On Saturday morning, 5/30, come to 752 Main Street to give some hugs for donations to The Blais & Shangraw gang. ALL donations will go directly to the kids at MPTC. You can hug one, all, one several times, have a company sponsor your hugs…So many ways to get hugs and donate

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Summer programming on its way…

WE ARE ECSTATIC!!!! Gargantuan thanks to the Simmons Foundation and the Narragansett Number One Foundation for their recent support of the kids!!! Simmons gifted $5,000 and the Buxton-based NNOF gifted $15,000. So, so grateful that our summer programming is on its way. http://www.gofundme.com/pyh5nc