LePage to speak at NMCC/LEAD breakfast
PRESQUE ISLE — The residential construction lab at Northern Maine Community College will be the backdrop for an address by Maine Gov. Paul LePage this Friday as he joins in a breakfast event to mark milestone anniversaries for two Aroostook County organizations dedicated to advancing the region’s economy.
Leaders Encouraging Aroostook Development and NMCC, celebrating their 25th and 50th anniversaries respectively, will host LePage at the breakfast event attended by members of LEAD and friends of the college on Friday, Oct. 7 at 7 a.m. in the residential construction lab in the Mailman Trades Building at NMCC.
Officials with the two organizations had invited LePage to be part of a joint event to mark the respective anniversaries and the ongoing efforts of the college shortly after his election last fall.
NMCC was established five decades ago when then Maine Gov. John H. Reed signed a bill into law that created the higher education institution. A quarter-century later, a prominent group of Aroostook County business leaders turned to then Northern Maine Vocational Technical Institute to ask the school to serve as the base of operations for a brand new organization they incorporated called LEADers Encouraging Aroostook Development.
Friday’s event is planned to celebrate the ongoing collaboration between the two groups and the efforts both have undertaken and continue to move forward with when it comes to economic and workforce development in northern Maine.
