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 American Lighthouse Foundation, Inc.

P.O. Box 565

Rockland, Maine 04841

Phone: 207-594-4174

info@lighthousefoundation.org

The American Lighthouse

 Foundation is a  Non-Profit

 501(c)(3) Organization dedicated

  to the preservation of America's

 historic lighthouses.

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Extraordinary Volunteers:

The Heart & Soul of ALF’s Lighthouse Preservation Mission

By Bob Trapani, Jr.

preservation and education projects – and of course, overburdened with more than one person’s share of responsibilities.

Yet for all these challenges to our labor of love, we firmly resist the notion of ever ‘throwing in the towel.’ Instead, lighthouse preservation’s ‘keepers of the light’ push ever forward with an uncommon fervor and dedication for the mission at hand.

Extraordinary volunteers are the heart & soul of the American Lighthouse Foundation’s success. These individuals, people just like you, exemplify community dedication and generosity time and again, and show why volunteers are without question a ‘shining light’ in everything we do.

Thanks to such volunteer dedication, ALF has been able to invest over

$2 million dollars in lighthouse restoration over the last decade, and averages over 25,000 volunteer hours annually at ALF projects throughout New England.

As executive director of the American Lighthouse Foundation, it is an honor to serve alongside our many dedicated and talented ‘keepers.’

I believe I can speak on behalf of ALF’s volunteers when I say that what they do for lighthouse preservation is not about personal glory; rather their reward is found in the satisfaction that future generations will know that someone came before them and cared enough to save America’s lighthouses at a time when such action was needed most.

Of course our work is hardly done when it comes to this goal, but everyone should know that as volunteers for the American Lighthouse Foundation, your dedication and proud achievements matter big-time and are sincerely appreciated by our organization.

The future to come – people who you will never meet, are the true benefactors of your present day leadership, sacrifices and selfless acts of community service in the lighthouse preservation movement; for your volunteer efforts today are nothing short of a gift in the making for posterity.

Thank you and keep the lights shining!

Speaking of superb volunteers…

ALF Volunteers Honored during the 2008 Lighthouse Gala & Volunteer Awards Dinner

awards dinner, with each individual having their own unique story laced with proud examples of dedication and admirable accomplishments, which their chapter presidents happily conveyed to the audience.

The volunteers were presented with the organization’s “Len Hadley Volunteerism Award,” as well as a granite etching of their lighthouse project, with their name proudly gracing the memento.

Irma Streeter, an ALF volunteer award winner from Avery Point Lighthouse Society, eloquently summed up the feelings of many the honorees by noting, “Each of us gives of ourselves as we can and many times we find ourselves wishing we could do more, but our true rewards come from the successes of the lighthouse projects and the people we would have never met otherwise.”

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2008 “Len Hadley Volunteerism Awards”

Chris Allen – Friends of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse

Carolyn Carbone – New England Lighthouse Lovers

Bill Crocker – Sandy Neck Lighthouse Restoration Committee

Dave Crocker – Sandy Neck Lighthouse Restoration Committee

Eric Davis – Friends of Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse

Michelle Dirksen – Friends of Little River Lighthouse

Nancy Doucette – Friends of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse

Kathy Finnegan – Friends of Little River Lighthouse

Caryn Firebaugh – Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse

Bill Jenkins – Cape Cod Chapter

Debbie Jenkins – Cape Cod Chapter

Carlene Joiner – Friends of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse

Bob Kline – Friends of Pemaquid Point Lighthouse

Jackie Maurice – Friends of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse

Penny Miller – New England Lighthouse Lovers

Ted Panayotoff – Friends of Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse

Irma Streeter – Avery Point Lighthouse Society

James Walker – Sandy Neck Lighthouse Restoration Committee

Joanne Yeaton – Friends of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse

The American Lighthouse Foundation board of directors also presented the “Trapani Trio” – Nina, Katrina and Dominic Trapani, with ALF “Super Volunteer” awards on November 22, 2008, for their efforts in helping support the organization’s mission.

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