Midcoast Leadership Academy kicks-off and challenges second class

Press Alert and Release - You, the Press, is invited to join us at Tanglewood in Lincolnville to meet the new class, talk with them, have lunch and see how challenging and exciting it is to be part of a Leadership program in Waldo and Knox Counties! Friday, October 19 from 8:30 to 3:15. Please join us any time -- 11 am would be a great time -- or any other time.

Lincolnville. Friday, October 19th -- Tanglewood 4-H Camp and Learning Center and The University of Maine Hutchinson Center join together to kick off and challenge the new class of the Midcoast Leadership Academy for 2007 and 2008.

The following twenty men and women were selected from a pool of 34 applicants by a community-based selection committee from across Waldo and Knox Counties:

Anne Beebe-Center, Rockland; Joseph Butler, Cushing; Staci Coomer, Rockport; Vicki Corrington, Camden; Katherine Hayes, Belmont; Jeffery Herman, Cushing; Candis Joyce, Swan’s Island; Don Kleiner, Union; Joseph Littleifled, Morrill;
Karla McPhail, Dixmont; Thomas Miller, Searsport; Saxon Moreau, Searsport; Cheryl Morin, Belfast; Leila Murphy, Rockland; Pamela Myrick, Troy; James O’Conner, Belfast; Amy Therrien, Tenants Harbor; Heidi Vanorse, Rockland; Andrea Walker, Searsmont; and Libby Wentworth, Northport.

The Midcoast Leadership Academy is designed to assist emerging leaders in sharpening their leadership skills, in learning more about our beautiful region, and in applying their newly acquired knowledge to improve our local communities.

Participants of the Midcoast Leadership Academy will attend seven monthly sessions designed to build their leadership skills. Topics covered during the sessions include Assessing and Building your Leadership Skills, Understanding the Maine and Midcoast Economies, The Change Process, Understanding the Role of Government, Group Problem Solving Skills, Regionalization Models that Work, and Creating and Sustaining New Opportunities. A major component of the Academy will be providing participants the opportunity to grapple with a “real life” problem in a group format. Mentors will be used to assist with this process and a public presentation of each possible resolution will occur in June, 2007. Jim Patterson is the visionary and founder of the program and Lori Roming, Unity, and Dan Bookham, Rockland are assisting as co-coordinating this year.

Directions to:
Tanglewood 4-H Camp and Learning Center
Lincolnville, Maine 04849
(207) 789-5868

From Belfast going South on US Route 1: travel approx. 12 miles, cross over Ducktrap River and go uphill; look for Tanglewood sign on right, and turn right onto Ducktrap Road. See # 4 below.

From Camden going North on US Route 1: travel approx. 5.5 miles to Lincolnville Beach, continue another mile north and turn left onto Ducktrap Road. (Tanglewood sign is on right just before Ducktrap road). See #4 below

From Lincolnville Center follow Rte. 173 toward Lincolnville Beach. About 1 mile before Lincolnville Beach and Route 1, you will come to the intersection of Ducktrap Road and Rte. 173. Turn left onto Ducktrap Road and take that a short distance to Tanglewood Road (you will see the Tanglewood headquarters ahead of you at this intersection.) Turn left on Tanglewood Road and continue as per #4 below.

On Ducktrap Road travel 8/10ths of a mile and turn right onto Tanglewood Road (camp sign here too). From this point you travel: 1 mile to “gate” area and 1.8 miles to Main Parking Lot (there is a barn and a shop building to the side of this parking lot). After parking, walk up the hill on the service road (perpendicular to the road you just drove down) until you come to a large brown building. This is the Dining Hall. The Tanglewood instructors will meet you here.

Contact: Nancy Boyington, University of Maine Hutchinson Center
338-8002 nancyb@maine.edu.