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People Around Town: December 12, 2021

Maine Attraction Water Ski Show Team has been nominated for Best Medium Team of the Year by The Ski Show Podcast. Members Lori and Pete Hegarty were also nominated for multiple individual awards. The winners will be announced in March at an event in Wisconsin. On December 10, the board members of Sanford Unitarian Universalist Church (pictured below) packed up 30 bag lunches to be distributed to unhoused folks in the community. Each member contributed food and time to this…

Sanford Teen Part of Prize-Winning Video Team

Sanford resident Renée (Reny) Morin, was part of a team that produced the first-prize winning video in a competition for kids, winning $50,000 for their school. The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), in partnership with the Maine Department of Education (DOE), announced the contest on November 3, inviting Maine youth ages 5 to 17 to submit 30-second videos that they believed would encourage other children, along with their parents, to get a COVID-19 vaccine. “I wanted to…

People Around Town: November 28, 2021

Pictured above: Sanford/Springvale Chamber of Commerce members stepped up to the plate to support the Sanford High School Peer Helpers by providing 39 turkeys to be included in Thanksgiving baskets for distribution to families in need. The Chamber also raised an additional $1200 that will go to the Peer Helpers for future projects. The following Sanford High School students were inducted into the National Honor Society on November 18: John-Paul Alexandre, Hannah Baker, Eli Coleman, Kora Eckelman, Audrey Coleman, Ana…

People Around Town: October 24

Tis the season for all things spooky! Richie Lathrop of the Paranormal Five was Rick Stanley's guest on Chamber Talk this week. Listen to it here: https://www.sanfordmainechamber.org/chamber-talk/paranormal-five. Participants in the YMCA's Adult Paint Night on October 22 sharing their masterpieces. Members of the Sanford-Springvale Rotary Club and the Sanford Kiwanis Club worked together on October 21 to build four new boardwalks over wet areas on the Hazen Carpenter Trail which circles Deering Pond in Sanford. Celebrate Community is a national…

People Around Town: October 17, 2021

Last weekend, Bentley Charette (left) and Nathan Norton, both fifth graders at St. Thomas School, were part of the 2021 U12 Championship Team at the Sanford Soccer Tournament. Congratulations boys! The Engineering Applications with Robotics program at the Sanford Regional Technical Center is now officially so named for Pratt & Whitney. Last week the Sanford Schools Legacy Foundation hosted a naming celebration for the long-time supporter of the school’s FIRST Robotics involvement. Pictured by the nameplate are Matt Nelson, Superintendent…

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