Scott Miller and Cindy Campbell of the Q106.5 Morning Show took time to chat with the Director of Pine Tree Camp Dawn Willard-Robinson about the 46th Annual Dysart’s Snowmobile Ride-In. This will be Dawn’s second year as a Celebrity Egg Rider in the Q106.5 Celebrity Egg Ride!
Listen to the full interview here.
Help support Dawn’s goal of raising $5700 – enough money to send three children to Pine Tree Camp here!
Pine Tree Camper Bradley and his mother Amy have supported the Dysart’s Snowmobile Ride-In for several years. This year, Amy won’t be riding, but Bradley will be!
Amy told Scott Miller and Cindy Campbell of the Q106.5 Morning Show just how excited Bradley is to be a Celebrity Egg Rider for the very first time. Bradley hopes to raise $1,900 – the cost for one person to attend Pine Tree Camp. Help Bradley reach his goal here.
On Tuesday morning, Emily Tadlock, reporter for WABI-TV, talked with Scott Miller and Cindy Campbell of the Q106.5 morning show about how she is supporting Pine Tree Camp. She will be joining us as a celebrity egg rider in this year’s Dysart’s Snowmobile Ride-In.
Emily has visited Pine Tree Camp several times for her news stories, interviewed multiple campers, and found a passion to support camp!
Q106.5 welcomed Andrew Jackson into their studio to chat with him about the events he is helping to organize for the 2019 annual Dysart’s Snowmobile Ride-In.
Andrew is a volunteer for the Hungry Hollow 76ers Snowmobile Club in Levant, where the community breakfast to benefit Pine Tree Camp is held and the Q106.5 Celebrity Egg Ride departs. He is also on the Board of Directors for the Penobscot Snowmobile Club, who is hosting an Antique Sled Show.
Scott Miller and Cindy Campbell of the Q106.5 Morning Show spoke with Andrew on January 9. Listen to the full interview below!
Byron Ogden of the Penobscot Snowmobile Club joined Scott and Cindy on the Q106.5 Morning Show to share their support of Pine Tree Camp.
This year, the Penobscot Snowmobile Club will host an Antique Sled Show at their location in Hermon during the 2019 annual Dysart’s Snowmobile Ride-In.
They will also be partnering with the Levant Hungry Hollow 76ers Snowmobile Club on a silent auction, with all proceeds benefitting Pine Tree Camp.
Listen to the full interview below.
Congratulations to Sam Kilbourn of South Freeport! Sam was the winner of the December 21 Christmas Sweeps drawing at Pine Tree Society.
Pine Tree Society Sweepstakes raise money to help Pine Tree Society transform lives. For information about the sweepstakes, call us at 207-443-3341.
On December 18, it was announced that Pine Tree Society would be one of six non-profits in New Hampshire and Maine to be awarded a grant of $15,000 from the Roger R. and Theresa S. Thompson Endowment Fund.
The Forecaster spoke with Pine Tree Society’s President & CEO Noel Sullivan to share how the funds will be used and why it is so important to the organization.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire (December 13, 2018) – The Roger R. and Theresa S. Thompson Endowment Fund announces the awarding of $117,000 in grants to six non-profit organizations in New Hampshire and Maine.
Among the beneficiaries, the Trustees of the Trust, Charles Doleac, Kenneth Barrett and Holly Ayes Malloy have approved a grant to the Pine Tree Society of Scarborough ME to transform the educational experience of children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing by providing funds for program research and development to launch pilot Teacher of the Deaf services in southern Maine.
The Thompson Fund has awarded grants to the Pine Tree Society since 2000, to support the creation and sustainability of such initiatives as the Pine Tree Camp accessible playground, mental health care capabilities and an autism transition program.
The Thompsons established the endowment fund to benefit specific local charitable organizations in order to perpetuate the memories of Roger R. and Theresa S. Thompson who deemed these organizations’ work to be “in the best interest of the local community.”
In making the announcement, Managing Trustee Charles Doleac commented, “The Roger R. and Theresa S. Thompson Endowment Fund trustees are pleased to recognize the work of the six beneficiaries of this year’s grants. Theresa and Roger Thompson believed that their best legacy, as individuals and together, was to assist organizations whose work they admired and that fit their definition of what was good for the community in any given year. We are also very pleased to see the increase in collaboration among the beneficiaries. While joint initiatives are often independent of the specific grant bequests in a given year, the synergy that is resulting in the name of the Thompsons is inspiring. The Thompson Endowment Fund is a great model for people who might be thinking about setting up their own charitable entities.”
President Noel Sullivan commented, “Last year, thanks to the generous support of Roger R. and Theresa Thompson Endowment Fund, Pine Tree Society launched a pilot program designed to support employment for individuals who are Deaf. Through our research and work to launch that pilot, we have discovered that the very foundation of employment for people who are Deaf lies in the individual’s education from Kindergarten to the senior year of high school. Children who are Deaf or hard-of-hearing have a dramatically different educational experience than their hearing counterparts. Learning how best to implement a program to provide Teacher of the Deaf services in southern Maine allows the Pine Tree Society to move this initiative to the next level.”
The distributions are not guaranteed and the non-profits named in the Trust must apply each year to be considered for the beneficiary awards that are paid from the income of the Roger R. and Theresa S. Thompson estate trust fund. To learn more about Thompson Fund beneficiaries and prior grant-funded initiatives, please visit ThompsonFund.org and follow the Thompson Fund on Facebook.
