BRIDGTON — Lake Region-based Molly Ockett Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, held a holiday party in December at the Bridgton Community Center with the added purpose of installing the officers for the 2023-2025 term.

These new officers are Regent Nancy Coshow, Recording Secretary Sherry Edwards, Treasurer Susan Smith, Registrar Michelle Tucci, and Historian Meghan Griffin. The chapter welcomed new member Erin Berube at the December meeting, bringing the total for the year to six new members. In addition to Erin, the new members this year are Meghan Griffin, Linda Lauer, Stacey Maio, Sarah McKay, and Betty Winston.

The Chapter has been especially busy this year, with its members performing well over 1000 hours of Service to America in Bridgton and neighboring communities. The Chapter would like to thank True Value Hardware for supporting the Chapter in its service endeavors.

Notable activities include Chapter participation in both the Otisfield and Bridgton 4th of July celebrations, during which members handed out hundreds of American flags, fulfilling the Crooked River Elementary teachers’ wish list for books to facilitate the 5th grade American Revolution research project, placing copies of the U.S. Constitution in local Free Little Libraries, collecting and signing 300 cards for Holiday Cards 4 Our Military, collecting and delivering to Togus VA Medical Center personal care items for female veterans, donating 300 hand warmers for unhoused persons, and cleaning gravestones and cemeteries.

In addition to chapter activities, individual members spent countless hours volunteering at schools, veterans homes, local historical societies, and non-profits, and indexing American Revolutionary patriot names, to name only a few of members’ service activities. To learn more about today’s DAR visit www.dar.org or contact Molly Ockett Chapter at [email protected].