The Chamber board and I met last week and went through the nominations for our Annual Recognition Dinner coming up on Thursday, May 8 and are very excited to announce this year’s recipients. Cuppy Johndro has won the Volunteer of the Year Award, which is very much deserved. Wendy Bosse has won the Spirit of Aroostook Award. Spenser Ouellette has won the Entrepreneur of Year Award. The CERT team has won the Service to the Area Award. Sleepers and Highway Tire will both win a Special Business Achievement Award and Kathy Mazzuchelli has been selected for the Lifetime Achievement Award.
We are very pleased with these selections and are really looking forward to presenting these awards to the recipients at our dinner. Tickets are on sale now and are $30 each and can be purchased by sending a check to us at 657 Main St, STE 1, Caribou, ME 04736. Since having a count in advance is what we need for the Caribou Inn & Convention Center, tickets sold at the door will be $35 to encourage pre-ordering.
We hope for a large turnout to celebrate these recipients with us and we have an excellent menu selected so we are sure you won’t be disappointed by the meal. We will have a silent auction, a 50/50 raffle and other surprises in store for those who attend.
The social hour starts at 5:30 and dinner begins at 6:30. Austin Bleess is scheduled to be our guest speaker if he and his wife having their first baby does not interfere with those plans!
This is the last week to sign up for the annual City-Wide Yard Sale taking place Saturday and Sunday, May 17-18. We will be open Wednesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with no closing for lunch break and will open for three hours from nine until noon on Saturday to accommodate as many people as possible. Signups have been brisk and that weekend will again be spectacular around here. Maps will be available May 8.
During our Saturday opening this past week, several generations of the Olaf Nylander descendants visited the museum. There were at least 15 family members of several generations from several parts of the country. They are proud of their heritage and of Olaf Nylander — as they should be. Mr. Nylander is known throughout the academic world for his life work and sadly has much more regard around the country and around the world than he does here locally.
I took a drive to Fort Fairfield after closing on Saturday and was amazed at the chunks of ice deposited by the Aroostook River around that place. The Russell Road was particularly amazing with huge chunks that ripped up the pavement in some places causing the road to go down to one lane. There were some fields that were literally covered with ice chunks. We were fortunate here in our area that it was not worse. Nature is an amazing force.
But thank goodness, spring has seemingly arrived here in Aroostook and it could not have come soon enough. On the other hand, I did hear from a couple of people that they got good skiing in last week at the Wildlife Reserve. So there you go.
Executive Director William Tasker may be reached in the CACC office at 498-6156 or email him at cacc@cariboumaine.net.
