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Friday, March 30, 2018
Volume 14 • Issue No. 13
Local Couple Wins Dream Wedding
Jacqueline Maude and Phillip Carter, the grand prize-winning couple, when they were 18.
By Timothy Gillis WELLS & OGUNQUIT Great things come to those who wait. That’s the lesson learned by a local couple, who were just announced winners of a $100,000 dream wedding. Since they were seventeen and shared an English class at Wells High School, Jacqueline Maude and Phillip Carter have always connected. The couple started dating then, and stayed together after graduation when she went to the University of New Hampshire and he joined the US Air Force. She started
teaching, and he got a job in the New Hampshire Air National Guard as an aircraft mechanic, completing four military tours. They stayed together, patiently, through all the distance and time. “We always planned on getting married, but we really wanted to build a future together before we did,” Maude said this week. They purchased a property last year, next to Brewed Awakenings, the family bakery which she took over, and had achieved the kind of future they wanted.
iPod Music Project Rocks On KENNEBUNK For the past four years, a teenage trio has been sharing their love of music with Kennebunk’s senior citizens. The project’s continued success, however, now requires that they teach younger students how it’s done. When Juli Ennis, Colby Ellis, and Jason Albaum were 8th grade classmates at the Middle School of the Kennebunks, they
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created “Project Playback,” a community service endeavor at the Kennebunk Center for Health and Rehabilitation. They gathered refurbished iPods and created playlists of golden oldies for the clients there. They even personalized the song selections based on interviews with family and staff members. Then, they brought the devices and headphones to the center to share the music and memories. They were confident the music would be well received and were not surprised at how
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the trio didn’t expect was the lasting impression the project
The couple got engaged this past Christmas Eve at the Lobster Trap Tree in Cape Porpoise. “He wanted to do it there,” Maude said. “It’s the perfect representation of our future together in Maine. It’s always been near and dear to me here, since I vacationed in a cottage on Atlantic Avenue with my grandparents.” They knew they wanted to marry each other, and here in southern Maine, but they had no idea their dream Maine wedding See WEDDING page 10... would have on them. “We split it half and half,” Albaum says. “Fifty percent is the therapeutic effect of the music, exciting them, bringing them back to their youth. The other half is the impact they have on us. It’s therapeutic for us as well. We’ve been able to make intergenerational connections through music.” They had come to help the senior citizens plug in and turn up, and were so moved by the experience that they kept coming back, week after week, year after year. Now, as they prepare for
Jason dancing with Lorraine, a resident at Kennebunk Center, while they listen to her music.
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Teachers’ Room Makeover Helps Lift Spirits ELIOT Faculty and staff at the Eliot Elementary School returned to work this past Monday to a bright and uplifting surprise. Members of PEEPs, or the Partnership of Eliot Elementary Parents, had spent the weekend renovating the teachers’ room—painting its walls with a sharp, mountain mural, cleaning furniture, and putting aesthetic touches on the redesign. Meredith Segit, Rebecca Henning, Megan Gamache, and Claudia Kaerner, all moms of EES students, worked on the mural, which was inspired by artwork by Kaerner, who had just painted her daughter’s room
with that same design. The mural was the jumping off point for the rest of the work. Ali Goodwin and Forrest Elliott of Haven & Homes came in to look at the mural and the space they had to work with, and then came back with a seemingly magical set of supplies for highlights and accents. “They brought in twinkle lights, mirrors, runners, a Relax sign, pillows, an oil diffuser… They took it to an entirely different level,” said Henning, who has known Goodwin since they were in kindergarten here together. Goodwin doesn’t have
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Claudia Kaerner, Meredith Segit, Megan Gamache, and Rebecca Henning, enjoying the new teachers’ lounge.
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