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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Day May 2019 – May 2020
Free to the Community!
The meeting is held in the Counseling Conference Rm., 2nd Floor.
All visitors must ring the outside bell and sign in at the Main Desk.
Due to Covid-19, these meetings have been cancelled.
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.
DOORS OPEN AT 6:00 pm for light refreshments.
Risky Business is for adults only. Participants tour a staged teenage bedroom with indicators and warning signs of teenage risky behaviors, receive training on current drug and alcohol trends, and learn techniques for communicating with teens. Leave knowing what to look for and how to intervene. the intent is to increase awareness, promote early detection and intervention of teenage risky behaviors.
Family vacations and memories often come flooding back to our minds this time of year. But vacations were not always a yearly thing. Join Bethel resident and historian David Jones at the Goodall Memorial Library at 6 pm for Holidays Past: A Brief History of Touring and Vacationing in New England.
Using illustrative maps courtesy of The Osher Map Library, Jones will talk about how development, transportation innovations, and urbanization contributed to the concept of family vacations. Looking at the rise in tourism and vacationing in the 19th and 20th centuries, Jones will talk about why people went on vacation, where they went and how they got there.
Light refreshments will be served.
Due to Covid 19, this event is cancelled. Please stay tuned for updates!
A Chocolate Tasting Spectacular to benefit the Sanford Backpack Program! Your ticket will get YOU a decadent bite-sized treat from over a dozen Chocolatiers while you enjoy live music, a cash bar, raffles, silent and live auctions, fun games and more! Your ticket will fill almost five backpacks with food so that Sanford children have access to food over the weekend when they can’t rely on free and reduced school meals.
Tickets go on sale Dec. 1st! www.eventbrite.com
Where: Goodall Memorial Library
When: Wed., April 1st, 2020
Time: 6:00 to 7:30 PM
Sanford Food Pantry is open every Monday from 10 AM until Noon except Holidays.