Events

As Damariscotta Lake Watershed Manager for MidCoast Conservancy, Patricia is responsible for water quality monitoring, education and outreach, and other programmatic priorities in and around Damariscotta Lake.

Patricia hails from Michigan, where she fell in love with aquatic ecology. While in graduate school, she became interested in community engagement and science communication. She is grateful that her work encompasses her passion for working with the community and aquatic systems. She joined Midcoast Conservancy after completing her Masters of Science in Fisheries at Purdue University, first as a Maine Conservation Corps volunteer and now as its Watershed Coordinator.

There's so much more to Justin than being President Bill's brother-in-law... this will be an exciting whole person bio!

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 

4th annual smoked pork bbq to benefit Karl's Kids, a program of the Rotary Club of Damariscotta-Newcastle

He will talk mostly on his archaeology work on the history of the 18th century shipbuilders on the Barstow-Bryant sites on Bill and Polly Vaughan's property in Newcastle! 

Our first meeting at new venue, the CLC Y (a corporate member of our club) features the executive director of the Y.  

Last meeting of 2022, Special Social Gathering.  Gift Exchange: $10 max. limit, re-gifting ok/gift certificate, etc.  Let's depart 2022 with a smile and good will for all.

Riley Stevenson is a climate activist from Waldoboro. She has worked on local and statewide climate initiatives in the spheres of advocacy, activism, and policy change. She is most interested in the social and economic impacts of the climate crisis on Maine's communities, and on solving problems related to disconnect between those creating policy surrounding this issue and those being impacted by it. She graduated from Lincoln Academy in 2021, took a gap year which brought her as far away as central Chile and as close to home as Portland, and is now studying Environmental Studies and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. 

Our featured speaker will be John Luft, a Branch Manager and Regional Sales Manager with ReVision Energy, a leading solar installer operating in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts (revisionenergy.com). John works out of ReVision's "Liberty" (now Montville) branch. He started with the company, previously called Energyworks, in 2004 doing solar thermal installations. Since then, he has managed hundreds of residential and commercial solar projects. John has a B.S. from Unity College. This will be a great opportunity to learn about renewable energy opportunities and trends, including community solar farm development, in New England.  

KWE's Educator in Residence program: 
The Educator in Residence (EIR) program works with partner schools to embed one of KWE's Educators into a Maine school community from Thanksgiving through Patriots’ Day. The program is at no cost to the school.

The EIR program is possible because of generous donors including the Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund.

The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association is a broad-based community that educates about and advocates for organic agriculture, illuminating its inter­dependence with a healthy environment, local food production, and thriving communities.