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Stephanie Bailey, Indian Township - President
steph@thecclc.org
Stephanie is a Passamaquoddy educator and activist. She produces a tribal newsletter titled Keq Ktotoli Oluhk? (What are We Doing?) to elevate dialogue about contemporary issues in Passamaquoddy life and to share storylines of their culture. She is mother to five children and lives with her family in Indian Township. |
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Gary Cook, Campobello Island, NB.
harbordrifter@yahoo.com
Gary is a 5th-generation fisherman from the Cobscook Bay region who plies his hand-line trade with deepest respect for whole system ecology. This husband and father of two is a powerful singer/songwriter and musician. He started writing his own songs in response to the collapse of the fisheries. |
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Diane MacFeat, Campobello - Treasurer/Secretary
dianem@thecclc.org
Diane came Downeast in 1973 to raise her family. Now widowed, Diane has watched her eight children leave the Cobscook Bay region in search of cultural activities and employment. She is dedicated to enhancing the opportunities available to area residents. |
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Jim Miner
jim@thecclc.org
Jim is active in many community organizations and retired in 2006 as Director of Physical Plant at University of Maine, Machias. In addition to his broad leadership within the CCLC, he has dedicated hundreds of hours to the design of CCLC buildings and offers insight and guidance on campus development initiatives. |
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Wayne Newell, Indian Township
wnewell@prexar.com
Wayne is a leader within the Passamaquoddy community. He serves as Director of Bilingual and Bicultural Program and Curricular Development for the Passamaquoddy schools. Active in politics, education and business, Wayne dedicates his life to inter-human understanding so that human beings of all cultures can work together cooperatively. |
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Sidney Hughes , Lubec
sid@thecclc.org
Sidney is a retired law enforcement officer of 30 years. He enjoys woodworking and blacksmithing and teaches both at the CCLC. Sid is a very patient, knowledgeable and well liked instructor as well as an invaluable volunteer. |
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Staff
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Alan Furth, Trescott - Executive
Director
alan@thecclc.org
Alan came to live in the Cobscook area
in 1978. An educator and singer / musician, he has been working
on building intentional learning communities throughout his twenty-six
years in education. He is the Director of the CCLC. |
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Penny Guisinger, Pembroke - Director of Development & Communications 
penny@thecclc.org |
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| Bonnie Lyons, Lubec - Custodian |
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Pat Mallar, Trescott - Financial Coordinator
pat@thecclc.org |
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Charley Martin-Berry, East Machias - Passages Director 
passages@thecclc.org
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Kara McCrimmon, Trescott - Director of Educational Programs (and all that stuff)
kara@thecclc.org
Kara’s journey to a CCLC staff member began
on a bus. In September 2003 Kara began her third semester with the Audubon Expedition
Institute, working towards her MS in Environmental Education.
AEI has a long history in Downeast Maine, and her group continued
with that tradition by participating in a workday on the CCLC land,
when it was still full of trees (and if she remembers correctly,
mosquitoes) and free of buildings and infrastructure. With an interest
in folk education, and looking for ways to bring her music into
her life as an environmental educator, Kara came back to Lubec to
finish her fourth semester – an internship – with the
CCLC. Kara fully intended to return to her West
Michigan homeland to live and work, but the call of the CCLC
kept coming back and in September 2004 she heeded the call and moved
to Trescott.
Currently Kara serves as the Curriculum
and Program Director for the CCLC, working with staff and community
members to develop courses and programs for the Learning Center.
She has also coordinated the Mowry
Beach Project, a partnership project between the CCLC, Quoddy
Regional Land Trust, and Lubec Consolidated School. When Kara’s
not taking pottery classes at the CCLC, she enjoys hiking the beautiful
trails of Cobscook Bay with her dog Flurry,
going to music
sessions and playing Irish whistle (among other instruments)
with the Black Socks String Band, and generally enjoying life along
Whiting Bay in Trescott.
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Michelle Moores, Trescott - Administrative Assistant / Host / Coordinator of Speaker/Video Series
michelle@thecclc.org |
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Wayne & Lorraine Rice, Pembroke - Groundskeeper & Office Assistant - Senior Community Sercive Employment Program |
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Kevin Thompson, Machiasport - Director of Office Systems 
kev@thecclc.org
Kevin came to Washington County in 1993 from California. He apprenticed
for a local potter for five years, then developed his own line of
functional and raku pottery. He has taught pottery in the after
school program for MSAD #77 and gives demonstrations and introductions
to ceramic arts for local schools. Currently, Kevin teaches pottery
courses, manages the computers & website, co-coordinates programming,
and serves as office administrator at the CCLC.
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* Employment made possible through the Senior Community Service Employment Program.
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