Baking a difference

By Elna Seabrooks
Staff Writer
    HODGDON — The Mill Pond School Civil Rights Team participated in Make a Difference Day and raised $285 to assist the Salvation Army’s fuel fund. Faculty Advisor Mary Harbison said she presented the team with a list of options and “students realized how the rising cost of fuel would affect families in the area and felt they could really make a difference by doing a fund-raiser.”
 Houlton Pioneer Times photograph/Elna Seabrooks
TEAMWORK — Anthony Mazzacco presents a check to Salvation Army Capt. Steven Pearl on behalf of the Mill Pond School Civil Rights Team. Next to Anthony are Summer Stoddard and Hannah Chapla. In the back row are: Faculty Advisor Mary Harbison, Haley Gardiner, Courtney Jurson and Sarah Bouchard. Another member of the Civil Rights Team, Emily Transue, was not present for the photo.
   Captain Steven Pearl accepted the check saying it will mean that the fund can “help a few more families with oil assistance this year. Certainly we’ve been lucky since the price has gone down considerably since last winter. But, who knows what’s going to happen in the coming months.” He added that as the weather has turned cold, the Salvation Army has received calls for help and this was “certainly another step toward helping individuals and families in need.”
    The team sold their baked goods over the last weekend in October at the Courtyard Café and Marden’s in Houlton as well as the Haunted Hayride in Linneus. The students have a couple of additional projects in the works to support the animal shelter. Harbison says, “Although the animal shelter isn’t a direct civil rights issue, animals provide so much comfort to people that in a very indirect way we felt that it would also benefit people.”