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Museum wins second grant
The Saco Museum has received its second of two federal conservation grants this month.
A $6,000 award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, through its Preservation Grants for Smaller Institutions program, will fully fund the purchase and installation of new shelving for the museum’s glass and ceramics storage room.
This grant joins a Save America’s Treasures award of $51,940, given through the National Park Service on Dec. 9, that will support conservation treatment of a rare, 800-foot long painting from 1851 that depicts scenes from John Bunyan’s epic Pilgrim’s Progress.
“We are incredibly fortunate to receive these two important federal awards this month,” said Leslie Rounds, executive director of the Dyer Library and Saco Museum. “What a welcome holiday gift to the Dyer Library, the Saco Museum and our community,” she said in a prepared statement.
This new and expanded shelving will greatly increase the storage capacity of the Saco Museum, alleviate congestion in all the museum’s storage areas and allow the collection room to grow.
Center sends cookies to Iraq
The Catholic Charities Maine St. Louis Child Development Center in Biddeford adopted the 209th Aviation Battalion for Christmas.
The battalion, stationed in Iraq, is comprised of more than 600 soldiers who help keep Army helicopters flying.
Students, parents and staff at St. Louis kicked off their efforts with “Operation Cookie.” They made more than 145 pounds of cookies, which were frozen and shipped to Iraq.
The center also collected toys to send to an orphanage in Tikrit, Iraq. The orphanage, which serves children up to age 12 who lost parents in the war, is on the same base where the 209th Battalion is stationed.
UNE tops off new dorm
The University of New England celebrated a new era for the University recently and topped off its first new residence hall across Route 9 in Biddeford with a special beam created for the occasion.
The UNE expansion across Route 9 was approved by the Biddeford Planning Board in March 2009, and the residence hall is expected to be completed in time for UNE student occupancy in fall 2010. The university also plans to break ground on a new athletics field and an underground gateway to the Hills Beach side of campus in spring 2010.
This $26 million project investment, which is expected to employ 245 area construction workers over a 12-month period, is one of the largest construction projects currently under way in the state.
The topping-off beam is a tradition that marks having successfully reached the highest point in a structure. At the annual holiday luncheon held on UNE’s Biddeford Campus Dec. 18, more than 150 members of the UNE community and construction workers signed the topping-off beam, painted white for distinction.
The Saco Museum has received its second of two federal conservation grants this month.
A $6,000 award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, through its Preservation Grants for Smaller Institutions program, will fully fund the purchase and installation of new shelving for the museum’s glass and ceramics storage room.
This grant joins a Save America’s Treasures award of $51,940, given through the National Park Service on Dec. 9, that will support conservation treatment of a rare, 800-foot long painting from 1851 that depicts scenes from John Bunyan’s epic Pilgrim’s Progress.
“We are incredibly fortunate to receive these two important federal awards this month,” said Leslie Rounds, executive director of the Dyer Library and Saco Museum. “What a welcome holiday gift to the Dyer Library, the Saco Museum and our community,” she said in a prepared statement.
This new and expanded shelving will greatly increase the storage capacity of the Saco Museum, alleviate congestion in all the museum’s storage areas and allow the collection room to grow.
Center sends cookies to Iraq
The Catholic Charities Maine St. Louis Child Development Center in Biddeford adopted the 209th Aviation Battalion for Christmas.
The battalion, stationed in Iraq, is comprised of more than 600 soldiers who help keep Army helicopters flying.
Students, parents and staff at St. Louis kicked off their efforts with “Operation Cookie.” They made more than 145 pounds of cookies, which were frozen and shipped to Iraq.
The center also collected toys to send to an orphanage in Tikrit, Iraq. The orphanage, which serves children up to age 12 who lost parents in the war, is on the same base where the 209th Battalion is stationed.
UNE tops off new dorm
The University of New England celebrated a new era for the University recently and topped off its first new residence hall across Route 9 in Biddeford with a special beam created for the occasion.
The UNE expansion across Route 9 was approved by the Biddeford Planning Board in March 2009, and the residence hall is expected to be completed in time for UNE student occupancy in fall 2010. The university also plans to break ground on a new athletics field and an underground gateway to the Hills Beach side of campus in spring 2010.
This $26 million project investment, which is expected to employ 245 area construction workers over a 12-month period, is one of the largest construction projects currently under way in the state.
The topping-off beam is a tradition that marks having successfully reached the highest point in a structure. At the annual holiday luncheon held on UNE’s Biddeford Campus Dec. 18, more than 150 members of the UNE community and construction workers signed the topping-off beam, painted white for distinction.
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