Future home

    A BILLBOARD-SIZED SIGN designates to passersby on U.S. Route 1 the future home of Aroostook “House of Comfort,” a six-bed, state-of-the-art hospice and palliative care facility to be built near the Presque Isle-Caribou line.

Staff photo/Mark Putnam

   The five-acre parcel was donated for the project by Robert K. Irving, president of Cavendish Farms Operations, Inc., on behalf of the Irving Family of New Brunswick. Among those attending a July 23 dedication ceremony were, from left, Scott Smith, local Cavendish Farms manager; Wayne MacDonald, Irving Group vice president of corporate relations; Rick Duncan, president of Aroostook Hospice Foundation; and Doug Hunter, Foundation treasurer. Michael MacPherson, obstructed by the sign, is Foundation vice chairman.