AFCI At our board meeting last week were Meryl Kelly, our new AmeriCorps Vista worker, and administrators from our member towns. We’re so grateful for their energetic, creative participation! A primary topic was the “Our Towns” project funded by an AARP Community Challenge Grant. Perhaps you’ve seen photos on our flyers in the community. It’s […]

AFCI AFCI often gets requests for services that we are not equipped to fulfill, and It’s heartbreaking to have to tell people that it’s beyond our capacity to meet their need. But we’ve received several inquiries recently that, happily, we are able to address. Our Home Safety Assessment Program – free! – has helped many […]

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the primary driver of the “greenhouse effect,” that condition in which CO2 forms a nice blanket around the biosphere, keeping it warm enough for life to have evolved as it has. For a million years or so, atmospheric CO2 levels were relatively stable, fluctuating between 200 and 300 parts […]

In these endless days of winter white, I hunger for something beyond monotonous gray or cerulean blue sky against bare branches, a brook so frozen over I hardly know it’s there, pines with drooping needles. Winter storms, raging winds, and the amount of ice has made snowshoeing difficult, even before the heavy snow hit. When […]

AFCI Call the AFCI Service number (207-824-4444) for an N2N ride or household help. From our Handy Neighbor Program (in conjunction with NorthStar’s Telstar students), you may request a simple household chore (primarily outdoors). We regret that we are unable to take care of snow removal. AFCI member Charlie Raymond can deliver sand for your […]

AFCI The Age-Friendly Community Initiative is able to provide services thanks to a collaboration with other groups in town. The NorthStar Program (University of Maine/Bryant Pond 4-H Camp and Learning Center) works with Telstar students. As partners with AFCI in our Handy Neighbor Program, these students do simple household chores, primarily outdoors. We regret that […]

AFCI The AFCI mission is “to explore ways to make the community more supportive of healthy aging and to enable people to stay in their homes and communities as they age.” We wish we had the resources to fill more needs, but we do have some important services (request information below). Perhaps you are a […]

The morning my dad died I awakened from a dream that told me that my father had just become a beaver. A phone call confirmed his death minutes before. That previous spring I had fallen in love with beavers and had been struck by their incredibly industrious behavior. They were always working, and reminded me […]

AFCI The Age-Friendly Community Initiative always welcomes your involvement and your ideas. If we had more volunteers, we could help more people in our community. Want to help? To volunteer or for more information on our programs and services, please visit our website: www.agefriendlybethel.org or contact us by email: [email protected]. To request (1) a Neighbor […]

To reach the worldwide goal of keeping global warming under 1.5 °C, it’s clear we need to increasingly substitute low carbon energy for fossil fuels. This means ramping up production of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, power lines, electric vehicles for public and private transport, heat pumps, etc. These technologies require many minerals including some […]