Maine
Mid Maine Chamber of Commerce hosts 61st awards ceremony
WATERVILLE, Maine (WABI) – The Mid-Maine Chamber hosted their 61 annual awards ceremony Thursday night.
The event sold out as people came out to celebrate one another.
This year nine businesses and individuals received awards in various categories.
Each award winner was nominated by the community and was voted on by the board.
The owners of the Central Maine Motors Auto Group won the Distinguished Community Service award which is the biggest award.
“Its pretty humbling I mean you never really realize just the amount of support that you have with people until they say thank you, and really tonight’s thanks is to them more than it is to us because they are the ones that allow us to do these things and make it possible,” said Chris Gaunce, Owner of Central Maine Motors Auto Group.
The full list of winners:
Distinguished Community Service- Linanne and Chris Gaunce, Central Maine Motors Auto Group
Small Business of the Year: Sunrise Bagels
Large Business of the Year: Shyft Group/Duramag
Municipal Employee of the Year: Paul Castonguay-City of Waterville
Exceptional Volunteer of the Year: Carla Caron, Waterville Soup Kitchen
Outstanding Professional: Michael Phillips O’Donnell, Lee P.A.
Rising Star: Emalee Hall Dirigo Labs
Customer Service Stardom: Karen Kelley-Grenier, Waterville Elks Banquet Center
Elias A. Joseph Award: Martha Wentworth Allen Insurance & Financial
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It wouldn’t be Mother’s Day without a stop at the florist.
According to Fox Business, about 154 million flowers are sold during the week of Mother’s Day. So it’s safe to say it was a busy day for stores like Estabrook’s Maine Garden Center and Nursery.
Plenty of families stopped by to pick out flowers on Sunday, looking to choose the perfect bouquet for their moms.
“I think Mother’s Day is tradition, you know, and so it’s great to see families here. We have a lot of new families that have come today for the first time with their young children and their mother. Watching the young kids and seeing how excited they are—their eyes light up at all the beautiful flowers,” Tom Estabrook, president of Estabrook’s, said.
Estabrook says Mother’s Day tends to be a great kickoff to the spring season.
The Maine Baseball Team was swept by UMass Lowell in the weekend series, losing on Sunday 5-4.
UMaine scored 3 runs in the 5th inning and 1 in the 6th inning to lead 4-1, but the Riverhawks scored 2 runs in the 7th and then pushed across the tying and winning runs in the 9th inning for the win.
Thomas Stabley started for Maine and went 6.1 innings on the mound. He allowed 5 hits and 3 runs, striking out and walking 1. Owen Wheeler pitched 1.2 hitless innings striking out 2. Sebastian Holt pitched the 9th and took the loss, allowing 2 hits and 2 runs, the big hit a 2-run homer to Nicholas Solozano, his 2nd of the day.
Hunter St. Denis homered for Maine, a solo shot, his 9th of the season, in the 6th inning.
Albert De La Rosa was 2-4. JuJu Stevens , Shane Andrus, Quinn Murphy and Chris Bear each singled.
UMass Lowell is 19-27 while Maine is now 17-30.
The Black Bears will host Merrimack on Tuesday, May 12th in a non-conference game at 2 p.m. The game will be broadcast on 92.9 The Ticket with the pregame starting at 1:30 p.m. Maine then closes out the regular season at home with a 3-game America East conference matchup with Albany Thursday- Saturday.
Check out photos from the game
Maine-UMass Lowell Baseball May 10
The Maine Black Bears hosted the UMass Lowell Riverhawks on Sunday, May 10th
Gallery Credit: Chris Popper
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