Browse the community calendar below for a listing of coalition member events. Use the ‘Categories’ drop down menu to select an area of interest and the ‘Agenda’ drop down menu to select how you wish to view the calendar. You may also post an event or provide a feed from your organization’s calendar by selecting from the green menus below at right (your submission will be reviewed for suitability).
The Sanford Strong Coalition has merged with the Allied Public Health group.
Contact: Mesha Quinn.
Ongoing Events:
Due to Covid 19, these events are cancelled. Please stay tuned for updates!
- Nasson Bike Center is looking for volunteers! The Nasson Bike Center is a resource for local youth looking for a bike, fix a bike, needing some community service time, or wanting to learn some mechanical and problem solving skills. We are looking for volunteers to mentor our kids as they rebuild bikes making them safe and reliable. We are open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons from 2 to 5:00 year round. There is no requirement that the volunteer participate a certain number of hours. It is helpful that they participate on a regular schedule. Read more.
- Wellness at Walmart: Daily @ 6:00 am – 8:00 am; Partners for Healthier Communities, Let’s Go!, Sanford YMCA, and Walmart have partnered to offer a space for the public to walk 7 days a week from 6:00 to 8:00 AM. All are welcome to join! Contact: Betsy Kelly.
- Sanford Community Adult Education has ongoing academic offerings that enable each adult to reach their academic and career goals thus improving stability and quality of life for the adult and the family.
Contact: Lisa Blanchette.
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For more than 30 years, the Center for Grieving Children has been an oasis of loving support for children, teens, young adults, and others experiencing loss and grief. The services of the Center are free, and made possible because of trained, dedicated volunteers, and community support.
Each week, trained volunteers give four hours of time to facilitate the groups. Supervised and supported by professional staff and mental health consultants, facilitators use art, music, movement, play, and discussion to help participants express feelings, share experiences and give and get support from each other.
Learn more about becoming a part of our healing community by attending one of our monthly one hour Volunteer Orientations. FMI and to register, contact Beth Quinlan at beth@cgcmaine.org or call 207-775-5216.
Table Top Gaming Social
Goodall Memorial Library is hosting a Table Top Gaming Social on January 20 from 10:00AM-3:30PM in the Community Room.
Table Top Games will be provided, but you’re welcome to bring your own to share with the group. All experience levels are encouraged to attend. Refreshments will be provided. Covered drinks and outside food are welcomed in the Community Room for this event.
Some of the games at the event will be: Forbidden Desert, Forbidden Island, Ticket to Ride, Zombie Dice, Munchkin, Tsuro of the Sea, Qwirkle, Quartex, Race to the North Pole, Fluxx (multiple versions), Get Bit!, Gingerdead House, Kingdomino, Pixel Glory, Eminent Domain and others. Come in from the cold and have some fun with us.
The Sanford Strong Coalition has officially merged
with the Allied Public Health group!
We will continue to meet monthly at Southern Maine Health Care, Sanford Campus in the conference room on the first floor, the last Monday of the month from 12-2.
You are welcome to bring your lunch or to purchase lunch in the hospital cafeteria!
Due to Covid-19, meetings have been cancelled. Please stay tuned as to when these meetings will resume!
Please contact Nichole Ivey or Mesha Quinn with any questions.
Chocolate Benefit Spectacular!
Fifth annual chocolate tasting event to benefit the
Sanford Backpack Program
When: February 3, 2018
Time: 6:00 to 9:30 PM
Where: Nasson Community Center; Springvale, ME
The Sanford Backpack Program, an initiative of Strategies for a Stronger Sanford, partners with the Sanford School District to prove children who are food insecure with backpacks filled with nutritionally dense food. We serve about 200 children (and their families) in grades K through 12 and send over 100,000 individual meals home with Sanford children.
To help sustain the program, we are currently planning our FIFTH annual Chocolate Benefit Spectacular, on Sat. Feb. 3, 2018. This fun community-wide event will include chocolatiers from local restaurants, bakeries, and community members who will provide samples of chocolate treats to over 250 attendees.
We are looking for event sponsors! The 2017 Chocolate Benefit was a huge success and raised almost $20,000 for our program. The Sanford Backpack Program needs your help to make this happen again!
FMI: visit this page, or contact Ayn Hanselmann at 207-206-2294 or backpacks@strongersanford.org.
Aromatherapy Make and Take Class
We all need some pampering, especially this time of year! Join us Monday, February 5th @ 6:30 PM for an Aromatherapy Make and Take Class at the Goodall Memorial Library. You will learn about the healing properties of essential oils, and make an aromatherapy bath soak and salt scrub, and a sugar exfoliating scrub. Oils include a wide variety to calm, heal, energize, de-stress, help with chronic pain, uplift mood, cleanse, inspire, purify, balance, and more. Revitalize your spirits along with your winter-ravaged skin!
Leading the class will be Cindy Simon, Healthy Lifestyle Coach and Community Educator.
A fee of $5.00 per participant is payable to Cindy on the evening of the program. To sign up for this program, or FMI, call or visit the Goodall Memorial Library.
Snow date: February 12th.
Young ladies in grades K-8 accompanied by an adult family member or friend are invited for a magical evening of dancing and fun.
Semi-formal attire is requested.
Call 324-4942 or register online HERE. Please bring registration confirmation to the dance.
The Drug Free Communities (DFC) initiative is a community-wide effort of youth, parents, business leaders, schools, police officers, faith communities, health care providers, and others to decrease alcohol, marijuana and prescription drug use among Greater Sanford’s youth and adults.
Contact: Nichole Ivey.
This is an “Open House” to showcase all the new materials that this grant has allowed us to purchase for the children’s room at the library. This grant has allowed us to buy more materials that help with early literacy as well as in continued literacy with older children. There is something for all interests and abilities.
We invite children up through 6th grade and their families and anyone who works with children to come see all the great new materials we have for children. Suggested reading lists of the new materials will be available.
Light refreshments will be served. The first 50 children who come will receive a free new book. Stop by to see all the new titles and maybe check out a few to take home.