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Social Service Providers are Very Tired
No full textArticle describing the mounting pressures on nonprofit and volunteer organizations in Maine - such as the Maine Association of New Americans and ProsperityME - that strive to assist new immigrants and asylum seekers. Describes the rampant guilt and emotional burnout suffered by the people who staff these organizations as they are increasingly unable to help the people who flood their offices. Describes the impact the coronavirus pandemic and federal delays in processing the claims of asylum seekers have had on the number and severity of cases seen by these organizations, and how the complexity of the issues facing immigrants and asylum seekers can stymie attempts to help them. Discusses how laws preventing asylum seekers from working impacts Maine\u27s worker shortage. Details the limits of assistance offered by the state and calls for Maine to do more to ease the burden on social service organizations
New Voices: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: The Ideal Standard
No full textThe author discusses the DEI movement in the United States and how the ideal would be not to consider it as a separate topic but to integrate it seamlessly into all our actions. She gives some examples of organizations where DEI work was embedded in the culture, such as a Tanzanian hospital where she interned, and in a global health organization based in Haiti that included local people at all levels of the organization
Climate Activism\u27s Next Generation: At 19, Riley Stevenson Has Already Built Working Organizations
No full textProfile of Riley Stevenson, a 19-year old climate activist and community organizer who founded the Coastal Youth Climate Coalition in 2019 to connect Midcoast and Down East teens who are working to meet climate-related challenges. Stevenson has focused on reaching out to young people who make their living on the water and incorporating their voices into the discussion about protecting the environment
World Market Basket: Flores Uptown Offers Latin Style on Congress Street
No full textA description of Flores Uptown, a Portland restaurant serving Salvadoran and Central American cuisine and drinks. Restaurant manager Jenny Hernandez is featured
Make Way for Dumplings
No full textReview of 518 Noodle Bar in Kittery. Owners Bing Zhou, Xue Zheng, and Lyle Brown opened their restaurant two months before the pandemic arrived. They are currently offering only takeout. The menu focuses mostly on Chinese dishes, but includes a few fusion recipes
Room with a View: The Speed of Spring
No full textIn this micro essay, Conkling reflects on 4th- and 5th-grade math teacher Peter Richards and a class project he devised for his Atlanta students to measure the speed of spring. Students wrote to people all along Route 1, asking them for the date at which they saw the first blooming daffodil. They used the dates to calculate the rate of spring\u27s progress along the Eastern seabord and found, over years of data collections, that spring is speeding up
Corduroy Cameo
No full textVery short piece about action-sports film company Warren Miller Entertainment\u27s latest ski film, which features Amy and Phil Taisey who have been making bespoke skis in their Freeport studio for years. Their company is called Amalgam Skis
Moonglade
No full textBrief article describing the background and work of Julien E. Coyne. Coyne is a software developer, photographer, ceramicist, painter, and animator
Safiya Khalid Looks to the Future and Reflects on the Past
No full textArticle discusses Safiya Khalid, first Muslim, woman, and person of color elected to Lewiston City Council. Khalid was awarded a full scholarship at Northeastern University, where she plans to earn a Master\u27s of public administration and does not plan to run for a second City Council term
Peaks Island Star : December 2022, Vol. 42, Issue 12
Get PDFThe Peaks Island Star is the newsletter of the island\u27s service agencies and other community news.https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/peaks_pisn_2022/1011/thumbnail.jp