Amy Paradysz
Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance
Freelance writer, editor, and photographer
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1 day ago |
pressherald.com | Amy Paradysz
Former first lady Barbara Bush believed that so many of our nation’s struggles, including poverty, disease and crime, could be solved through developing a more literate America. That’s why, as first lady, she founded the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy in 1986. A three-day celebration of what would have been her 100th birthday, eight years after her death, included the Foundation’s Maine Celebration of Literacy June 10 at Vinegar Hill Music Theatre in Arundel.
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1 week ago |
pressherald.com | Amy Paradysz
With one in seven Mainers experiencing food insecurity, the need for common-sense solutions like those posed by Farms for Food Equity has never been greater. “It’s an especially challenging time right now,” said board member Mike Wiley, a well-known chef.
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2 weeks ago |
pressherald.com | Amy Paradysz
This year’s Portland Stage Spring Gala was a bit like an open house, giving guests a chance to focus the theater lights, swap out scenery, perform a quick costume change and direct a scene. “Tonight is building constituencies as much as it about raising money,” said board president Todd Nicholson. “It’s really about making people aware of what we do, how it affects the community and why it’s important.
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3 weeks ago |
pressherald.com | Amy Paradysz
Every aspect of Partners for World Health’s Blue Wrap Runway Fashion two-night event, May 15 and 16 at The Good Theater at Stevens Square in Portland was mission-focused: The fashion was inspired by 20 of the 34 countries where Partners for World Health has shipped supplies or gone on medical missions. And the garments were designed by volunteers from upcycled medical materials, including the ubiquitous blue wrap used to wrap sterilized surgical instruments.
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1 month ago |
pressherald.com | Amy Paradysz
EqualityMaine, a nonprofit dedicated to creating a fair and just society for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Mainers, celebrated its 40th anniversary April 26 at Brick South on Thompson’s Point. Picking a high point of the four-hour gala isn’t easy because there were many.
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Made in Maine: All the Tampax distributed in North America. https://t.co/q1h48J1bvC
At the American Copy Editors Society national conference in Providence! @copyeditors
Stache Pag photo gallery. I laughed SO HARD. http://t.co/pR3HNNBjEw