10 September 2020
Pre-Meeting Chatter: Lincolnville vaca for Ken this week…with a touch of road noise, new Ports of Italy restaurant is great!
Buckets on the Table: Backpack Program (drop off donations to Kim at the bank in Camden –next to Hannaford- or mail to PO Box)
Poem for the Day: Susan Dorr – An Ode to the Go To Guys, Next Week – Doloris
Speaker of the Day: Alden Robbins/Lumber Generation
Starting off with a couple of videos for the Mill. 5th generation of family still running the Mill (two brothers and sister). They are also building a power plant with renewable products and excess is sold back to the local power grid. Robbins Lumber is looking forward to the 6th! Cabin Masters video and tour shows the how of lumber production, appearance grade mill. They act as their own distributor in Maine. The mill sustainably mills 27K acres of land containing white pine wood. The family wholesales to Amish in Pennsylvania, to Tennessee and other states as well as Nova Scotia. There is an 80 year growth cycle for these trees so the family is managing a harvestable timber. They employ 125 staff. Saw dust waste is also reused as a fuel turning it into a revenue stream. Staying efficient is vital to the industry.
Committee Reports:
Community: Next Habitat Project is Sept 12th. Let Tim Dresser know if you are interested in hanging out with some builders! We can have as many volunteers from now on, Come Join Us!!
Masks are in! Available for pickup at Rockport Motors on Friday!
Corn Hole: Looking for more teams, Sat Sept 26th. 12 to 4 pm. No spectators. Interact will be present and selling bake goods!
Interact will be doing a roadside clean up in the future.
Face to Face/ Zoom Hybrid Meetings: American Legion Hall is the spot we are considering. No food and will socially space.
Next Week’s Speaker: open