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Blair Marvin leads a workshop at the Kneading Conference. The Maine Grain Alliance was among 12 nonprofit organizations to receive grants from the Western Mountains Committee of the Maine Community Foundation.
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The Western Mountains Committee of the Maine Community Foundation has awarded $72,613 in grants to 12 nonprofit organizations.
Grant recipients include:
• Literacy Volunteers of Franklin and Somerset counties, to empower adults who are less literate to achieve progress on self-selected goals and improve foundational literacy with community education programming.
• Maine Grain Alliance, to support essential workers in grain-based businesses to survive and thrive through and beyond the disruptions of the 2020 worldwide pandemic.
Maine Grains founder to speak at leadership luncheon
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WATERVILLE Amber Lambke, founder and CEO of Maine Grains Inc. is to speak during a leadership luncheon Thursday, June 10, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Amici’s Cucina, 137 Main St.
The leadership luncheon is co-hosted by Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce and KV Connect.
Lambke will share her vision for the future of growth in the organic grains community, her notable entrepreneurial path and lifelong experiences that propelled her to her current position.
Maine Grains products are carried by specialty food stores and used by bakeries, breweries, and chefs throughout the Northeast.
Photo courtesy of Snow Pond Center for the Arts
Meanwhile, Maine’s capacity limits for indoor and outdoor gatherings will be lifted Monday, so events, including the new beer festival, can happen.
Scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 11, at the Snow Pond Center’s recently renovated Bowl in the Pines Ampitheater, the beer festival is expected to feature more than 25 brewers from Maine and Vermont, and musical acts, including The Mallett Brothers Band, Muddy Ruckus and Adam Ezra.
Johnson said the beer festival had been planned for last summer, but was canceled due to the pandemic.
“We moved it to September with a bit of a hope and a prayer,” she said. “The news about the reopening was nothing but thrilling. To come out of this in a celebratory way is definitely exciting.”
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