The Good Samaritan Agency is pleased to announce a $500 grant from Realty of Maine to support their Teen Parent Education program (TPE).  The program is individualized, alternative education program in which pregnant and parenting teenagers can earn their high school diploma.  Students take traditional high school courses, as well as, classes that emphasize parenting skills and other practical life skills that help them to become more self-sufficient.  Students come to the program from throughout the Bangor area.  Curriculum oversight is provided by the Bangor Adult Education Program.  The program depends on tuition from sending schools and the Bangor School Departments, as well as funding through United Way grants.  In the last 3 years, 87% of the TPE graduates have gone on to further education, either to a 4-year college, technical school or have become employed.

Unplug from the 21st century and return to a simpler time at Maine’s oldest living history farm in Livermore.  Spend 24 hours as part of a farm family in the year 1870.  Experience an overnight introduction to the activities of sustainable rural living in both historical and contemporary times.  The program takes place April 25-26, 2014.  The deadline to register is April 11th.   Space is limited.

Imagine waking up and it is five years since the end of the Civil War.  You are on the farm and the chores are waiting. The woodstove needs to be lit, water needs to be brought in, the oxen need tending, and eggs need to be collected. All around you, there is a bustle of activity as your 19th-century family begins the day with you.