A Healthy Ellsworth,Maine/I can't believe this!

More mis-use of the tobacco settlement money, I see....

Let's email Helena and ask if we can bring our ashtrays!

BARF ALERT

Since the Tobacco Settlement Money is funding this affair, plus "GRANTS," it's only fair that we are allowed to SMOKE!

The smokers are paying INTO the Tobacco Settlement Money. We should have a say on how it's spent! Period!

More mis-use of the tobacco settlement money, I see....

I guess. I used to live there 25 years ago. Not much money to be found from Ellsworth going east through Hancock County into Washington County. Splash a bit of money around there--watch it evaporate into the coastal fog.

The tobacco settlement is a pork fund.

Ellsworth already has one of the partnership projects under way, a community garden in back of Woodlawn, the Black House, on Surry Road. Twenty plots are available for people who need a place to dig, plant and weed, with seeds and tools provided.

Does a free mule come with a plot?

Here you go. This is what they look like:

Most states have spent the money and are now complaining they need more money to spend on the services they promised but never did.

Services? Pet Programs, you mean.

And Partnership for a Tobacco Free Maine say they want smoke free everything. So, if Maine went smoke free, where would they get their money for their pet progams, and to GROW A GARDEN! grrrrrrrrrrrrrowl!

"sign up in advance with Helena Peterson, the Coastal Hancock Healthy Communities "

This is from last year.

Projects seeks participants to build healthier Ellsworth
Ellsworth, June 11, 2001 – Bike paths, safe drinking water, smoking cessation, healthy eating, affordable housing, access to dental care, teen driving – what do you think the issues are in building a healthy community? Coastal Hancock Healthy Communities is looking for participants to share in creating a vision of a healthy Ellsworth. During the summer, volunteers will meet to begin the process of assessing the community for resources and needs.
Helena Peterson has been hired to direct the project. Peterson is an RN with more than twenty years of experience in healthcare management, strategic planning, and program development in the area. She was also instrumental in the community visioning process on Mt. Desert Island that led to the formation of the MDI Community Health Plan. A graduate of the University of Maine, she is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality. She lives on a small farm in Ellsworth with her husband Robert Mealey, and daughter Clare Gannon.
The Healthy Communities concept is based on the successful World Health Organization model that defines health broadly to include physical, social, economic and environmental factors. This community-driven approach includes the linking of existing resources, to create a less fragmented approach to health.
One of the partnership’s tasks will be to develop a coalition in Ellsworth. Peterson recently acted as facilitator at the May 8 visioning forum for the Ellsworth Comprehensive Plan, where 75 people attended to express their vision for Ellsworth’s future. Helena states, "It was exciting to hear so many ideas that represent a healthier Ellsworth. There is a lot of energy in the town, and a desire to coordinate resources. I believe the key to a successful coalition will be getting people to talk to each other and work together – exactly what we were doing at the forum." Helena will be spending time in the community listening to people, and is available to speak to groups about the Healthy Communities project.
Partners in this venture are Downeast Health Services, the Town of Bucksport, Maine Coast Memorial Hospital, and the Hancock Co. Planning Commission. Bucksport already has a thriving Healthy Community Coalition. This group will be assisting in the development of coalitions in Ellsworth and the Schoodic Region. The Coastal Hancock partnership is also working with service sites in the Blue Hill and MDI regions to coordinate county-wide activities through "Healthy Hancock."
Funded by a $314,600 grant from the Bureau of Health’s Partnership for a Tobacco-Free Maine, the project serves the towns of Bucksport, Orland, Ellsworth, Franklin, Hancock, Sorrento, Sullivan, Gouldsboro, Winter Harbor, Steuben, and northern Hancock County. The partnership will focus on tobacco prevention, nutrition, and physical activity, as well as seeking to develop and support Healthy Community Coalitions in towns and regions of the service area.
Interested residents can contact Peterson at 667-5304, ext. 232 to learn more about Coastal Hancock Healthy Communities, or check the county website at www.healthyhancock.org.

Oh, Good Grief.

KS Flyover! How were you able to save this?

Thank you SO much for posting this information. I wasn't aware of it.

I emailed Helena: Dear Helena,

Since your using the Tobacco Settlement money to fund your project, and since the Maine smokers are paying into the settlement, I think we should be able to come to have a say in how that money is spent.

So far, I haven't heard word back. I guess she thinks we should all bow down to her and think she is doing something GREAT! NOT!

LOL bump

Little U.S. Tobacco Settlement Money to Prevention

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Just a fraction of some $21.3 billion that tobacco companies have paid so far as part of a national settlement is going to programs aimed at preventing smoking, a study released on Saturday says. Forty states have allocated nearly 32 percent, or $6.7 billion, of that money for health services during fiscal years 2000-2002. But only $1.06 billion -- or 5 percent -- is earmarked for tobacco prevention programs, according to the study by the National Conference of State Legislatures. That figure is one-fifth of the amount the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( news - web sites ) urged states to spend on prevention programs, according to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, which criticized the states.``The states' failure to act is inexcusable in light of the growing evidence that comprehensive tobacco prevention programs are working to reduce smoking, save money and save lives in the few states that have implemented them,'' said Matthew Myers, president of the campaign.

In 1998, 46 states agreed to a master settlement with cigarette makers worth $206 billion.

Twenty states have placed $5.6 billion, or 26.1 percent, in trust funds or endowments to provide new programs with an independent revenue stream while 16 states have put $950 million, or 4.5 percent, toward long-term care, according to the study.

``Right now, it is clearly obvious that states are committed to improving the quality and access of the health care programs that they offer,'' said Lee Dixon, director of the NCSL's health policy tracing service.

A recent General Accounting Office ( news - web sites ) report warned that spending priorities set up during years of projected budget surpluses by the 46 states party to the settlement could change amid a national economic slowdown.

One of the partnership’s tasks will be to develop a coalition in Ellsworth. Peterson recently acted as facilitator at the May 8 visioning forum for the Ellsworth Comprehensive Plan, where 75 people attended to express their vision for Ellsworth’s future.

In saner times, 75 people having visions would be locked up for their own good and the good of the community.

All this Comprhensive Plan sh!t is merely part of the UN's Agenda 21, central planning masquerading as "community input".

As a "facilitator", it is Peterson's role to see that the proper "consensus" is reached.

They will come to their preconcieved notions about what is best for Ellsworth and the 75 useful idiots will feel, well, useful.

Old Frank Zappa song: It can't happen here.

Ellsworth, "The Hub of Downeast Maine" as they always liked to bill themselves, has changed dramatically in 25 years. High Street looks like Rt.28 in Hyannis.

Building on the coast proceeds apace. Million dollar summer homes going up down every dirt road, so the folks can stay in the same place every August.

Hey, Nantucket is full and the Vineyard is so yesterday. There's only so much New England coast left and Maine has most of it.

Yuppie scum come to a place because it's not like where they are, then proceed to agitate, bitch, whine and even run for town office until the new place looks and feels just like the place they were trying to get away from.

I have a hard time picturing the local working crowd at Pepper's Pub on Water St. going along with the "smoke free" gag.

I have a hard time picturing the local working crowd at Pepper's Pub on Water St. going along with the "smoke free" gag.

I have a hard time picturing the local working crowd going along with the "smoke free" gag anywhere, in any state.

Hmm...the 2000 census was 6,456 souls, of whom about 1400 are under 18...lessee...217,000 into that is about $40 apiece. I wonder if Glock would consider a volume discount?

Ellsworth, "The Hub of Downeast Maine" as they always liked to bill themselves, has changed dramatically in 25 years. High Street looks like Rt.28 in Hyannis.

That's hard to believe. In my time, the tony area was Blue Hills, parts of Mt. Desert Island, and a strip in Sorrento. There was a bar near the junction of Route 1 and the Trenton Road which we used to call "Ringside" because of the Friday night action.

There are some very nice places in Maine, but it would have been hard to imagine a yuppified Ellsworth.

I lived in Gouldsboro for several years.

There was a bar near the junction of Route 1 and the Trenton Road which we used to call "Ringside" because of the Friday night action.

There's still a bar there and it still makes the police report on a regular basis.

Blue Hill is tonier than ever, Mt. Desert Island is being built up on every inch that isn't in the National Park. Sorrento is still a nice little place, but you can see it coming all through Gouldsboro, Winter Harbor, etc.

They all need a place to shop and that's Ellsworth.

Yep! Another brown shirt marching in time with jackboots!

Another little Hitler on the loose in Maine. Just what we need.