Boardwalk Update – 24 August 2014
We still need volunteers for closing the Boardwalk and staffing the various shifts on Saturday and Sunday. If we don’t have docents at the cabin we don’t sell hats/t-shirts. Since opening we have been depositing between $150-$300 a week into our operations account at Nutting Hall, UM campus. The money from this account is what pays for supplies (soap, toilet paper, paper towels, trash bags, etc), lumber and supplies that Phil Locke needs, brochures, and hats, t-shirts. Please contact Al and Nancy Larson (nlarson51@gmail.com and oronoal41@gmail.com) if you can help. We really need you!
Our annual potluck and silent auction will be on Saturday, October 25th from 6-10pm at the Keith Anderson Community House in Orono – right next to the post office on Bennoch Road. Our musical guests will be the group Village to Village with Juan Condori (cello) and Ellie May Shufro (violin). I hope we can raise a significant amount of money at this event. Please start collecting auction items. Note that I will contact the following: Penobscot Theatre, Discovery Museum, Collins Center, UM Art Museum, and other places on the UM campus. If everyone reading this collects one auction item we’ll have a great silent auction. Please, if you approach a restaurant, business, etc let me know. I’ll keep a master list of places people have contacted so we don’t contact them more than once. If you want to know if someone has already contacted a particular business please just e-mail me – jim.bird@umit.maine.edu. We now have good relationships with a number of media outlets so I hope to have good TV and newspaper coverage prior to the event.
If all goes according to plan we hope to have 96 new sections in by opening next year. This depends on a number of things including weather but I believe we can do this.
The Bangor Art Society held their annual Paint Bangor Day art auction last weekend at Husson University. Thanks to Boardwalk volunteer Kay Carter, the Boardwalk will be the recipient of a percentage of the money raised. It was a great event.