BDN reports on McCarty, Lindley award
The Bangor Daily News shared that University of Maine Cooperative Extension food systems professionals Kate McCarty, Cumberland County, and Viña Lindley, Waldo County, were recently honored at the National Extension Association for Family and Consumer Sciences 88th annual session held Sept. 12–15 in Raleigh, North Carolina. McCarty and Lindley received the first place Eastern Region NEAFCS Mary W. Wells Memorial Diversity Award. They were recognized for a home food preservation education program offered to incarcerated individuals at Maine State Prison with the goal of building personal sustainability through food safety and food preservation skills.