Communities That Care

Posted on June 28, 2010

Midcoast Community Chorus Concert Yields $10K for FTCTC!

On Friday, June 25th, Midcoast Community Chorus (MCC) Executive and Artistic Director Mimi Bornstein presented Five Town Communities That Care Board Chair Dick Strong with a donation of $9500 from MCC.  The monies represent proceeds from MCC’s June 12 concert to benefit Five Town Communities That Care, entitled “It takes a Village.”

More than 800 seats in the Strom Auditorium were full on that night, and more than 100 community members made up the chorus.  Music was selected to fit the overall theme of the concert and the mission of the concert beneficiary.  During several of the pieces the audience was encouraged to sing along with the chorus—this resulted in nearly 1000 voices being raised in song and a very powerful atmosphere in the auditorium.

During intermission members of Lincolnville’s United Christian Church offered a delicious variety of baked goodies and bottled water.  Through their efforts they raised more than $500 additional dollars for Five Town Communities That Care.

Midcoast Community Chorus sings as a community for the community.  For more information, visit their website at www.mccsings.org; email info@mccsings.org; phone 207-975-0582; or write to Midcoast Community Chorus, PO Box 192, Rockport, ME 04856.

Five Town Communities That Care promotes healthy youth development and seeks to reduce adolescent problems such as substance abuse, suicide, violence, delinquency, school drop-out, and teen pregnancy.  For more information visit the Five Town CTC website at www.fivetownctc.org; email info@fivetownctc.org; call 207-236-9800; or write to Five Town CTC, PO Box 1135. Rockport, ME 04856.

Dick Strong, Five Town CTC Board Chair, accepts a check for $9500 from MCC Exectutive / Artistic Director Mimi Bornstein.

Posted on June 2, 2010

Reserve Tickets Still Available

On June 12, 2010 at 7PM the Midcoast Community Chorus will present a benefit concert entitled “It Takes A Village” to benefit Five Town Communities That Care.  We need your help in spreading the word that there are many side reserve tickets left. These are wonderful seats in the lower sections, on either side (center reserve is sold out).

We hope that many of our supporters will come to this wonderful concert at the Strom Auditorium, as it is an important fund-raiser for Five Town CTC.  These reserve tickets are only $22 and can be purchased with a credit card through the Midcoast Community Chorus box office; they can be reached at 975-0582 or info@mccsings.org.

To learn more about the Midcoast Community Chorus, visit: http://mccsings.org.

To learn more about Five Town Communities That Care, visit www.fivetownctc.org, call (207) 236-9800, or email info@fivetownctc.org.

Posted on June 1, 2010

Celebrating Community Collaborators in May

Five Town Communities That Care’s ongoing efforts to strengthen community collaboration and build community partnerships to prevent and reduce youth substance abuse has been greatly assisted by the participation of the following organizations:

Midcoast Martial Arts

Teen Center

Luce Transportation

Penobscot Bay YMCA

Please join us in thanking and celebrating these collaborative efforts.  We are grateful for your financial, in-kind, resource, personnel or any of many forms of support that allow us to offer our STAR, Guiding Good Choices or Mentoring programs.

Posted on June 1, 2010

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Posted on June 1, 2010

Hooked on Hookah?

A new study, “Water Pipe Smoking Among North American Youths,” published in the June print issue of Pediatrics, the peer-reviewed, scientific journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, describes the demographic characteristics of water pipe users. And what they found could blow supporters of this leisure activity out of the water.  Read more on the CADCA website at http://www.cadca.org/resources/detail/hooked-hookah-study-raises-questions-about-water-pipe-smoking