Communities That Care

Posted on March 17, 2011

Leap into Spring with STAR!

Five Town Communities That Care opens doors to a fresh season of its award-winning STAR after-school program on March 28 (registrations due by March 23rd). This will be the 22st cycle of STAR, which has engaged over half of all the area’s public middle school students since its inception in the spring of 2004. Thanks to robust funding and donorship, the STAR program is offered at no charge to participants and transportation between local public middle schools and program locations is provided.

STAR’s spring offerings include: Aldermere Farm Hands II, Animal Antics, Cooking II, Creative Writing, Digital Photography, Hip Hop, Martial Arts, Pottery, and You + Wild: Adventure Survival Skills. The program, featuring an exciting team of area instructors and support staff, takes place locally at sites such as Aldermere Farms, Camden Hills Regional High School, the Camden Rockport Animal Rescue League, Merryspring Nature Center, the Penobscot Bay YMCA, and the Mid-coast Martial Arts studio at the Midcoast Recreation Center.

Participants join skills-training classes on either Mondays and Wednesdays OR Tuesdays and Thursdays and then come together for group activities on Fun Fridays. Spring 2011 Fun Fridays will include trips to the Freyenhagen Family Maple Farm, The Penobscot Bay YMCA , Merryspring Nature Center and the Teen Center.

Registration packets have been mailed to parents of all grade 5-8 students enrolled in public schools in Appleton, Camden, Hope, Lincolnville, and Rockport. Registration packets are also available for middle school students from the Five Towns who attend private schools or who are home schooled by calling the Five Town Communities That Care offices at 236-9800 or emailing star@fivetownctc.org.

The STAR program is made possible by a generous grant from Maine’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Group and local donations. For more information about STAR and to download a STAR registration packet, visit http://www.fivetownctc.org/programs/star, call 207-236-9800, or email info@fivetownctc.org.

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