By Scott Mitchell Johnson
Staff Writer
FIVE-YEAR-OLD Wilson Saucier of Presque Isle was all smiles when he met Santa Claus at the recent “Lunch with Santa” fund-raiser for the Caribou Children’s Discovery Museum. Held at the Presque Isle Elks Lodge 1954, the event featured such activities as a holiday reading center, face painting, making bookmarks and writing letters to Santa.
PRESQUE ISLE – Kids of all ages enjoyed fun, games and Lunch with Santa at a Dec. 19 fund-raiser for the Caribou Children’s Discovery Museum.
Held at the Presque Isle Elks Lodge 1954, the event featured activities such as a holiday reading center, face painting, making bookmarks and writing letters to Santa which were then hand delivered to him shortly after his arrival.
“Children at Christmastime love to meet Santa and tell him what they would like for Christmas, so we wanted to provide them an opportunity to be able to do that and to have lunch and make it a social event,” said Nancy Chandler, museum president. “We also wanted to provide activities to showcase some of the different things that we will have in the children’s museum, so parents can see what is coming when we build the facility.”
The Presque Isle High School Key Club, Haley Smith and other Girl Scouts from Troop 81 assisted in the project. Smith, a sophomore at PIHS, is working on her Gold Award and used the event as part of her project on ABCs of Reading for the Caribou Children’s Discovery Museum.
Lunch consisted of a hot dog, chips, drink, cookies and cake, and for an additional charge, children could have their pictures taken with Santa. Raffle tickets for a savings bond were also sold.
For more information about the children’s museum, log onto www.cariboudiscov-ery.org.
Staff photos/Scott Mitchell Johnson
DYLAN BURGESS-CAPPS, 8, of Fort Fairfield, who had his nose painted red like Rudolph’s, sat with Santa Claus for this photo op at the recent “Lunch with Santa” fund-raiser for the Caribou Children’s Discovery Museum. In addition to lunch, the event featured such activities as a holiday reading center, face painting, making bookmarks and writing letters to Santa.
DANIELLE HATHAWAY, right, a member of the Presque Isle High School Key Club, paints a holiday design on Racheal Rediker’s face at a recent fund-raiser for the Caribou Children’s Discovery Museum. Rediker, 8, of Levant, was in The County for Christmas visiting relatives.
CAMERON MOSHER, 10, of Blaine, enjoyed coloring a picture at the Dec. 19 Lunch with Santa fund-raiser for the Caribou Children’s Discovery Museum held in Presque Isle. Looking on are, from left: Breann McLaughlin and Kaitlyn Martin, members of the Presque Isle High School Key Club who helped with the event.
WRITING A LAST-MINUTE LETTER to Santa at the Dec. 19 fund-raiser for the Caribou Children’s Discovery Museum is Caleb Mosher, 9, of Blaine.
JORDAN HARRIS, left, a member of the Presque Isle High School Key Club, assists Sherralyn Robbins, 8, Kendall Robbins, 5, and Wilson Saucier, 5, all of Presque Isle, write letters to Santa at the Dec. 19 Lunch with Santa fund-raiser for the Caribou Children’s Discovery Museum.
