Kennebec Valley Community College spearheading efforts to give COVID-19 training to child care providers
The course will teach providers core skills on how to safely operate child care facilities as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
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FAIRFIELD Kennebec Valley Community College officials said Wednesday they’re launching a new online course for child care providers to help keep children and families safe as the coronavirus pandemic continues a year later.
The Childcare Provider Foundations course aims to teach safe practices and procedures, in collaboration with Kennebec Valley Community Action Program, Educare, Maine Department of Health & Human Services and Maine Roads to Quality. KVCC is spearheading the development of training that will provide knowledge of foundational practice necessary in response to COVID-19.
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FARMINGTON Allied Physical Therapy has hired Seth Harris as a physical therapist assistant.
Harris got his start with Allied a few years ago working as an aide. He also had an opportunity to work closely with therapy staff and patients during a clinical rotation while enrolled in the physical therapist assistant program at Kennebec Valley Community College.
Harris graduated from KVCC in 2018 and worked at Ascent Rangeley Lakes Rehab. He has more than 10 years of experience working with the public in various customer service and leadership roles. Harris lives in Farmington.
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Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of interviews with displace mill workers. Mark Swiedom is the writer Andrea Swiedom’s dad.
REGION “Those were the happiest years of my life, going to school was the happiest years of my life. So much so, I intend to go back!” Mark Swiedom said while sitting on the opposite end of a quilting table in his garage.
This is where we meet these days, my father and I, at opposite ends of a table, wearing masks in his heated garage in Hebron. Sometimes one of my parents’ curious llamas will peer through the window while we deprive ourselves of a hug for the sake of a future full of embraces.
FirstPark in Oakland pays off bond debt, looks to future
The 285-acre commerce and technology center s 24 member communities are looking to boost tax revenues and sell more lots.
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Entrance to FirstPark on Kennedy Memorial Drive in Oakland on Friday. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel
OAKLAND FirstPark has paid off its bond debt. Now, the commerce and technology center off Kennedy Memorial Drive in Oakland is working to deliver greater return on its member communities’ investments in the park by boosting tax revenues and selling more lots at the 285-acre campus.
Last week, the business park made its final bond payment to the Maine Municipal Bond Bank, wrapping up the 20-year loan the park and its 24 municipal members signed with the intention of gaining a source of tax revenue.
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A massive explosion at the Androscoggin Mill in April 2020 left the paper mill unable to produce pulp, which it requires to make paper.
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Workers who lost their jobs after the explosion at the paper mill in Jay last spring can enroll for free at two nearby community colleges to help them find new jobs.
Pixelle Specialty Solutions, the mill owner, and the Maine Community College System announced Friday that 177 displaced workers have until next July to access the free classes.
The chief workforce development officer for the community college system, Dan Belyea, said in a prepared statement that Pixelle’s $1 million education fund presents an amazing opportunity.