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March 2015 Oxford Hills Observer Page 13
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Fill the Plate Breakfast to Benefit Meals On Wheels
SeniorsPlus, the designated Agency
on Aging for Western Maine, will hold a
breakfast to benefit its Meals On Wheels
nutrition program. The
Fill the Plate
Breakfast
will be
held
on
Friday, March 20 from 7 am to 9 am at
the Hilton Garden Inn in Auburn. The
breakfast will also honor local physician
Dr. Alan Verrill with the Ikaria Award for
singular and outstanding contributions
toward improving the lives of
older adults. Tickets are $20
per person ($25 at the door)
and are available at www.
seniorsplus.org or
by calling 207 795-
4010. Sponsorship
opportunities are
also available on the
Web site.
The Fill the
Plate Breakfast
is presented in
conjunction with
March For Meals, a
national campaign of
the Meals On Wheels
Association of America.
Last year, SeniorsPlus
delivered 98,600 meals to
more than 1,200 homebound
older adults and adults with
disabilities in Androscoggin, Franklin
and Oxford counties through its Meals On
Wheels program. Almost 600 volunteers
donate more than 28,000 hours to the
program annually. Each meal provides one
third of the recommended daily allowance
of nutrition, a safety check, and a visit to
these vulnerable adults. The majority of the
consumers of Meals On Wheels are lower
income, on fixed income, or MaineCare.
“We struggle to keep up with the demand
for Meals On Wheels and continually have
a waiting list for the program,” said Betsy
Sawyer-Manter, Executive Director of
SeniorsPlus. “We seek funding through
this event to keep the waiting lists to a
minimum and to help fund the program.”
The overall program goal of SeniorsPlus
is to assist older adults and adults with
disabilities in our tri-county area to remain
at home safely for as long as possible. The
overwhelming majority of older adults
(greater than 95% in an AARP survey)
wish to remain at home until they die.
“Meals On Wheels can often determine a
person’s ability to remain at home,” added
Ms. Sawyer-Manter.
Dr. Verrill is an internist affiliated with
Central Maine Healthcare who is a frequent
contributor to education programming at
SeniorsPlus that engages more than 1,000
Scholarship Opportunities Available
Each spring, the Holocaust
and Human Rights
Center of Maine (HHRC)
recognizes exemplary individuals
through an annual
program of awards and
scholarships.
The opportunities include
the request for nominations
for the Gerda Haas
Award for Excellence in
Human Rights Education
and Leadership. In addition,
the HHRC is soliciting
scholarship applications
from high school seniors
for the Lawrence Alan Spiegel
Remembrance Scholarship
and k-12th grade
students for the Mathilda
Schlossberger Outstanding
Student of the Year Awards.
The HHRC also offers an
annual award for Holocaust
and human rights educators
with the Holocaust
Educator Professional Development
Grant.
All applications can be
found online at hhrcmaine.
org/awards-scholarships
and submitted via email to
infohhrc@maine.edu or sent
to the Michael Klahr Center
at 46 University Drive,
Augusta, Maine 04330 before
April 1.
The Gerda Haas Award
for Excellence in Human
Rights Education and Leadership
was created in honor
of the HHRC’s founding
mother, Gerda Haas. Gerda
inspired many with her
passion for human rights
education. A Holocaust
survivor originally from
Germany, Gerda worked
for many years as the librarian
at Bates College.
The Holocaust and Human
Rights Center welcomes
the opportunity to
recognize and honor an
individual who, like Gerda
Haas, has demonstrated
excellence and initiative
in human rights education
and leadership. The center
welcomes nominations
from the public, center staff
and board members. The
recipient will be recognized
on May 31, 2015 at the Holocaust
and Human Rights
Center of Maine’s Annual
Meeting.
The Lawrence Alan Spiegel
Remembrance Scholarship
is a $1000 scholarship
that is awarded annually to
a graduating high school
senior who resides in
Maine, and who has been
accepted at any accredited
Title IV-eligible college or
technical school. To apply,
students are asked to submit
an original essay that
addresses the following
question: Why is it important
that the remembrance,
history, and lessons of the
Holocaust be passed to a
new generation?
Three levels of the
Mathilda Schlossberger
Outstanding Student of the
Year Award are available
each year. The award is given
to one student applicant
in each of the following
grades K-4, 5-8 and 9-12.
The Schlossberger Award
recognizes students who
have produced an exceptional
piece of original writing,
fiction or non-fiction,
or an unusually expressive
work of visual art, media,
or performance relating to
a human rights issue.
For teachers, the Holocaust
Educator Professional
Development Grant
is a professional development
grant funded through
the generosity of Dr. Julius
Ciembroniewicz. The grant
provides financial support
to an outstanding Maine
teacher – at any grade level,
public or private – who is
people annually.
“Alan Verrill donates his time regularly
to the education program at SeniorsPlus
– often presenting classes as part of our
Healthy Aging Series,” said Ms. Sawyer-
Manter. “He is a joy to work with and has
a huge fan base.”
Ikaria is a Greek island in the Aegean
Sea. It is considered one of the world's five
“Blue Zones” – places where an estimated
one in three members of the population
regularly lives an active life into their 90s.
The mission of SeniorsPlus is “to
enrich the lives of seniors and adults
with disabilities.” SeniorsPlus believes in
supporting the independence, dignity, and
quality of life of those it serves. Established
in 1972, SeniorsPlus covers Androscoggin,
Franklin, and Oxford counties and serves
more than 10,000 individuals annually.
The agency focuses on older adults,
adults with disabilities, and families and
offers a network of support, including
information and assistance, short-term
care management, Medicare counseling,
caregiver support and respite, health and
wellness education, Options Counseling,
and Meals On Wheels and congregate
dining. •
committed to Holocaust
and human rights education.
Awarded annually, the
$500 grant must be used to
acquire knowledge or develop
skills that enhance
the recipient’s effectiveness
as a teacher.
The applications for all
HHRC scholarships and
awards are available at hhrcmaine.org.
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