The Kennebec Valley YMCA of Augusta welcomed 5 new members to its board of administrators. The brand new administrators embody Alex Serra, Alexander “Alex” Willette, Tyler Gaudette, Tom Warren, Stacey Morrison and Jen Weatherbie, all inducted as of June. All new inductees include spectacular backgrounds and years of expertise so as to add to the KV YMCA board of administrators, based on a information launch from the YMCA.
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Serra is the proprietor and operator of Serra Public Affairs, based in 2014. She holds levels from each Smith School, in addition to the College of Maine Faculty of Regulation. She has expertise serving in company and nonprofit sectors. As well as, she brings to the KV YMCA a depth of information in media engagement, growth of distinctive public affairs methods, in addition to expertise working with leaders on the Maine Capitol. She works diligently to handcraft an applicable path to success for every of her purchasers.
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Willette serves as choose advocate for the Maine Nationwide Guard. He holds a Bachelor of Arts diploma in political science from the College of Maine at Farmington, and a level from the College of Maine Faculty of Regulation. He served two phrases within the Maine Home of Representatives, first because the youngest member of the Home in his first time period, after which elected as assistant Republican chief in his second. He beforehand served within the White Home as particular assistant to the president and deputy director of Political Affairs for Outreach from 2019 to 2021. Moreover, he served as assistant DA for Prosecutorial District 6 of Maine, and in addition served within the Gov. Paul LePage Administration as director of Legislative Affairs and Communications.
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Gaudet is a gross sales agent and co-owner of Sprague & Curtis Actual Property. He’s an Augusta native, graduate of Kents Hill Faculty, and holds a level in biology from St. Michaels School. Earlier than beginning a profession in actual property, he owned and operated Fluid Farms in Southern Maine, a cutting-edge, environmentally pleasant greenhouse, specializing in rising connoisseur greens, herbs and hybrid striped bass on a big business scale. In 2016, he joined Sprague & Curtis as a gross sales agent, and by 2021, he had bought the company with fellow agent, Lori Dube after 60 years within the Sprague household.
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Warren served because the CEO of the Kennebec Valley YMCA from 2013 to 2020, with greater than 33 years of expertise of progressive management inside 4 profitable multi-branch YMCA associations. He was senior government of the Taunton, Massachusetts, Previous Colony YMCA; senior government on the Brockton, Massachusetts, Previous Colony YMCA; and serving on the East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, YMCA. Warren accomplished the final seven years of his YMCA profession on the KV YMCA in April 2020. He holds a Bachelor of Arts diploma in enterprise administration from the College of Maine, in addition to a Grasp of Science diploma in bodily training and train science from Bridgewater State School.
Morrison is the CEO and proprietor of Ganneston Development Corp. Previous to this, she had spent a lot of her profession in administrative and monetary positions, managing different folks’s companies, thus inspiring her to buy Ganneston in 2001, rising the corporate efficiently ever since. A number of years in the past, she and her brothers-in-law bought CPM Constructors, one in all Maine’s high three bridge builders. She is devoted to her trade and group, serving on a number of boards within the Kennebec Valley area.
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Weatherbie is the gross sales director of Pink Bull and nonalcoholic drinks at Pine State, serving the corporate for greater than 11 years. Previous to Pine State, she gained a few years of expertise in customer support and communications with positions at each Aldelphia and T-Cell. She is obsessed with offering excellent customer support, group, efficient enterprise planning, and he or she instills her love for the Kennebec Valley group in all that she does.
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College of Maine at Farmington names new athletics director
The College of Maine at Farmington has introduced that after a nationwide search, Jamie Beaudoin, very long time UMF coach, has been named the subsequent UMF athletics director. He began the place on June 3 and succeeds very long time athletics director Julie Davis, based on a information launch from the college.
The athletics director place at UMF offers management and administration of Farmington’s complete athletics program and helps scholar athletes, athletics division employees, the UMF campus and the better group in keeping with the College’s mission.
The director manages and develops applicable human sources, amenities, tools, companies and funding to conduct packages utilizing present finest practices. Duties embody creating management growth alternatives for scholar athletes and a optimistic expertise for scholar staff. As director, Beaudoin will oversee teaching, sports activities drugs, sports activities data, compliance and tutorial employees to assist 21 varsity packages, 15 NCAA and 6 USCSA.
He can even lead the creation and internet hosting of greater than 100 convention and non-conference aggressive occasions schedules and guarantee apply, coaching and sports activities drugs amenities for all varsity packages.
“Throughout the nationwide search, Jamie illustrated what he has offered our scholar athletes by way of professional teaching, devoted mentoring {and professional} management throughout his lengthy profession at UMF. He additionally demonstrated insightful and inventive concepts for constructing on UMF’s sturdy historical past of athletic success and campus and group impression. We’re lucky that he will likely be serving on this key position at UMF as we proceed our dedication to campus wellness and Division III athletics and work to implement our new strategic plan,” stated Christine Wilson, vp for scholar affairs and enrollment administration.
Beaudoin has had a protracted profession as a coach and athletics administrator. His profession at Farmington began in 1998 when he first labored because the assistant males’s basketball coach and affiliate males’s soccer coach.
He served as Farmington’s head ladies’s basketball coach from 1999 to 2021 and was named affiliate athletics director in 2010. Throughout his time main UMF ladies’s hoops, Beaudoin guided the staff to convention championships in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007. Beaudoin was the North Atlantic Convention and State of Maine Coach of the 12 months in 2003 and 2007.
Over his 22 seasons (1999-2000 to 2020-21) on the helm of UMF ladies’s basketball, Beaudoin posted an general report of 294-261.
Beaudoin additionally coached males’s soccer for the Beavers from 2001 to 2007. Farmington loved back-to-back convention titles in 2001 and 2002 underneath Beaudoin’s tutelage, and he was named the NAC Males’s Soccer Coach of the 12 months in 2003 and 2006.
Beaudoin is a graduate of the UMF class of 1997, when he earned a bachelor’s diploma in elementary training. He earned a grasp’s diploma in instructional management from the College of Maine.
“Throughout my time with the UMF Athletics division, I’ve had the chance to attach and construct belief with scholar athletes, recruits and their households, division employees, alumni and members of the campus and Farmington communities. I take nice satisfaction in my time at Farmington and stay up for persevering with to construct on our successes and supply a first-class, scholar athletic expertise for our college students,” stated Beaudoin.
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Maine Dental Affiliation hires government director
The Maine Dental Affiliation board of administrators has introduced Therese Cahill has been employed because the affiliation’s new government director.
Cahill brings a breadth of expertise to the place, beforehand serving because the director of the Workplace of Little one and Household Providers on the Maine Division of Well being and Human Providers, the director of constituent companies on the Workplace of the Secretary of State, a grants and contracts administrator at Maine High quality Counts, an investigator for the Maine Board of Dental Apply, and as a college counselor and a speech therapist at school techniques in coastal, western and central Maine. She has additionally taught as an adjunct lecturer on the College of Maine at Augusta, based on a information launch from the affiliation.
“I’m extremely excited to be part of the employees of the Maine Dental Affiliation and assist the work of its members. Thanks to the board for offering me this chance to assist strengthen the collaboration and partnership between the members of the MDA and its group and enterprise companions,” Cahill stated. “Over the subsequent a number of months, I hope to fulfill as many members and companions as I can and listen to how the affiliation can proceed to enhance its efforts in supporting dentists and dentistry all through Maine.”
Cahill acquired her bachelor’s diploma in speech correction from the College of Maine at Farmington and her grasp’s diploma at school counseling from the College of Southern Maine. She has been concerned in a number of group organizations and teams, together with the Maine Faculty Counselors Affiliation, the Maine Affiliation for Play Remedy, the Maine Coronary heart Affiliation, OHI Maine and Large Brothers/Large Sisters of Kennebec Valley.
Cahill was born and grew up in Maine. She has lived in 9 of Maine’s 16 counties and has household ties from the northern to the southern components of the state.
Cahill started working full time as MDA government director June 27.
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Thomas School pronounces it employed new vp for development
WATERVILLE — Nicely-known philanthropy skilled Chelsea Moeller joined Thomas School as the brand new vp for development this month.
Moeller is extremely regarded within the Kennebec Valley area for her management and success on multimillion-dollar fundraising campaigns, based on a information launch from the faculty.
Moeller most not too long ago served because the director of Donor Engagement and Capital Initiatives for the Kids’s Middle, an early intervention and household assist companies group for kids with particular wants based mostly in Augusta, the place she efficiently accomplished a $5.3 million capital marketing campaign.
Moeller has additionally served as of director of Donor Engagement at Kennebec Valley Humane Society, and he or she has held many positions inside the Philanthropy Workplace of MaineGeneral Well being, the place she helped increase $12 million for MaineGeneral’s new regional hospital.
In 2018, Moeller was chosen as one of many Affiliation of Healthcare Philanthropy’s 40 underneath 40, an award recognizing future leaders inside the well being care growth group.
Moeller holds a twin Bachelor of Arts diploma in English and sociology/anthropology from Truman State College in Kirksville, Missouri.
“We’re extremely proud and excited for Chelsea to affix the staff at Thomas School,” stated Thomas School President Laurie G. Lachance. “Her power, expertise, and keenness are contagious and will likely be such an unbelievable asset to supporting the expansion and success of our college students and our faculty.”
At Thomas School, Moeller will give attention to strategic oversight of development targets to assist guarantee monetary entry to Thomas School training by way of scholarship assist in addition to institutional sustainability by way of endowment progress that may present long-term stability for the faculty.
Maine Credit score Unions’ Marketing campaign for Ending Starvation raises $121,036 in June
Maine Credit score Unions’ Marketing campaign for Ending Starvation has introduced it raised $121,036 as a part of its 30-day, $100,000 Problem fundraiser. That is the third 12 months in a row that the marketing campaign has performed this monthlong fundraiser to profit Good Shepherd Meals Financial institution and native meals pantries throughout the state, based on a information launch from the Westbrook-based monetary establishment.
“To coincide with Nationwide Starvation Consciousness Month, Maine credit score unions inspired their members, native companies and others of their communities to make a donation to feed a hungry neighbor in want,” shared Todd Mason, president and CEO of the Maine Credit score Union League. “And as soon as once more, Mainers stepped as much as the problem. We exceeded our fundraising aim and raised extra {dollars} throughout this 12 months’s Problem than we did in 2021. I’m grateful for the outpouring of assist for this vital initiative and wish to thank everybody who made a contribution.”
The $100,000 problem kicked off June 1 and ended June 30. Donations had been accepted on-line and in credit score union branches all through the month. Seventy-five p.c of the funds raised by Maine credit score unions on-line or at native branches will likely be used to assist meals pantries and meal websites. Twenty-five p.c of the proceeds raised on-line will profit Good Shepherd Meals Financial institution.
“Maine folks by no means draw back from serving to others in want, so whereas I’m thrilled with the fundraising outcomes, I’m actually not stunned we reached our aim to lift $100,000 in 30 days,” stated Cheryl Lancaster, chief technique officer on the Maine Credit score Union League. “Starvation is a major downside in our state, but when Mainers proceed to come back collectively by way of efforts like these, I’m hopeful we’ll eradicate starvation sooner or later. Within the meantime, Maine credit score unions will do their half to extend entry to wholesome and nutritious meals for folks of all ages, in all corners of the state.”
An entire listing of contributors to the $100,000 Ending Starvation Problem might be discovered on-line on the marketing campaign’s web site at campaignforendinghunger.org. Contributions to the Marketing campaign for Ending Starvation might be made on-line all year long.
Since 1990, the Maine Credit score Unions’ Marketing campaign for Ending Starvation has raised over $11.3 million, together with over $930,000 in meals and money contributions in 2021.
UScellular donates $33,780 in wi-fi hotspots, service to Boys & Women Membership Augusta Teen Middle
To assist present equitable studying entry and alternatives and maintain native youth linked, UScellular has donated 30 wi-fi hotspots and two years of service to Boys & Women Membership Augusta Teen Middle as a part of UScellular’s After Faculty Entry Challenge. Presently, greater than 40 million folks in america lack dependable entry to high-speed web. This results in a difficulty generally known as the “homework hole” amongst youth who lack correct web entry. The After Faculty Entry Challenge offers free cellular hotspots and repair to nonprofits that assist youth after the college day has ended and offers secure web entry for homework and training.
“The success of scholars within the communities we serve is essential to us at UScellular. Connecting folks and communities is our mission and the After Faculty Entry Challenge is only one method that we’re serving to guarantee college students have the dependable entry they should develop and pursue their goals,” stated Tabatha McKay, space vp/basic supervisor for UScellular in New England, based on a information launch from the corporate.
By the After Faculty Entry Challenge, the corporate has pledged to donate as much as $13 million in hotspots and repair to assist as much as 50,000 youth connect with dependable web in its markets. So far, the corporate has donated greater than 3,800 hotspots, a worth of $3.7 million, to its communities by way of this initiative. Eligible nonprofit organizations are inspired to use by going to AfterSchoolAccessProject.com.
Boys & Women Membership Augusta Teen Middle will likely be providing college students a summer time studying program to assist curve the training loss due to COVID-19. The hotspots will maintain youngsters linked over the summer time break to proceed their studying.
“These hotspots will tackle ongoing fairness issues round maintain college students linked outdoors of the classroom and throughout the summer time break,” stated Ashley Healey, assistant director of Boys & Women Membership Augusta Teen Middle. “We intend to make the most of the hotspots to supply our youth a summer time studying program to assist curve the training loss resulting from COVID and we hope to enhance youth engagement for many who want it most. Thanks, UScellular for supporting these efforts.”
Hotspots are stand-alone Wi-Fi networks that may join a number of units directly wirelessly and have confirmed to be an important instrument for youth to entry the web, research and full homework. The hotspots offered by way of After Faculty Entry Challenge connect with UScellular’s community to offer high-speed connectivity for youth all through August on the Boys & Women Membership Augusta Teen Middle.
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