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We're half way to our goal!
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Can you help Main Street Skowhegan reach our $10,000 Decade of Development campaign goal before the end of the year? As we look toward our tenth anniversary as a nationally-designated Main Street community, it is hard to pick out which accomplishments to highlight! If you appreciate the work we do to build and improve our community, please consider making a tax-deductible donation.
An example of our impact: Skowhegan's Bernard Langlais legacy
When fundraising for the Skowhegan Indian Sculpture Restoration Project started losing steam, Main Street Skowhegan board member Margi Browne teamed up with Skowhegan Area Chamber of Commerce staff and other volunteers to jumpstart the effort with grant proposals, fundraising events, and an appeal to the people of Skowhegan at Town Meeting. This collaborative effort raised over $43,000 in a year and a half and put the sculpture on track for a full $65,000 restoration in July-August, 2014.
Davida Barter, representing the Skowhegan GFWC Women's Clubs, made the last donation to save the Skowhegan Indian. "Our once-deteriorating historic sculpture is fixed up and we have more of his sculptures popping up around town. It is exciting to see it all come together!"
More Langlais sculptures
At the same time that we were fundraising for the Skowhegan Indian, we requested and were gifted 25 additional Bernard Langlais sculptures from the late sculptor's estate in Cushing, Maine. We put five at the library, one in the Main Street office, three in the Skowhegan Municipal Building, and a few more in a temporary sculpture exhibit at the Renaissance Center on Water Street while additional locations around downtown are finalized. While more sculptures are being restored in Cushing, we are preparing educational and wayfinding materials for locals and visitors.
New Pocket Park
As soon as we were done raising funds for the Skowhegan Indian, we made plans to develop a mini park and viewing area in front of that sculpture. We finished fundraising for these improvements in September of 2014, at which time we built a cast stone walkway and set in replacement signage. We will be planting an educational garden in the spring of edible and medicinal plants that Abenaki people traditionally used.
  
Help us reach our goal! 
We have the capacity to do our work because of financial support from businesses and individuals like yourself. You may make a secure, tax-deductible donation online with a credit card via Paypal or mail a check to Main Street Skowhegan at PO Box 5, Skowhegan, ME 04976.
Reply to this email or call us about volunteering and getting involved!
Need more reasons to donate? See our work with Holiday Stroll and young entrepreneurs!
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Thanks to everyone who has already donated!
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Hight Family of Dealerships, Somerset Bar Association, Butler's Car Wash, Dr. Gust Stringos, Belmont Motel, Bill and Louise Townsend, Ann Dorney, David Axelman, Kathy LaPlante, North Country Rivers, Grassland Farm, Kel-Mat Cafe, Kyes Carpenter Insurance, Foe Meader, Carol Leonard, Al's Pizza, Paul Hollick, Gailian Magruder, Pleasant Street Daycare, Drs. Jack and Gail Gibson, Bruce and Elizabeth Haynes, Bob and Gloria Nicholson, Chris and Claire Perkins, Higgins & Bolduc Agency, Taconnet Federal Credit Union, Dr. Oto and Petra Prokop, Violet Ferland, Warren's Office Supplies/The Paper Klip, Strawberry Hill Farms, William and Margaret Reid, Hammond Lumber, Linda Haith, John Doucette, Bob and Mary Burr, Mark's Complete Auto Service, and 2 anonymous donors
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 Main Street SkowheganDugan Murphy, Executive Director
93B Water St / PO Box 5
Skowhegan, Maine 04976
207-612-2571
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