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P.O. Box 2787
Bangor, ME 04401
United States of America
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Bangor Rotary Club announces Festival of Lights winners
Rotary Club of Bangor is pleased to announce the winners of their Festival of Lights holiday light show competition held throughout December. The club sponsored the activity in place of their usual holiday parade to allow the public the chance to enjoy the season while keeping safe from COVID-19.
 
In partnership with Greater Bangor Convention and Visitors Bureau, Downtown Bangor Partnership, and Links Web Design, Bangor Rotary invited businesses, non-profits, private homeowners, and municipal organizations to create amazing light displays at their own locations, and the public voted on their favorites. Of the more than 70 participants, the displays receiving the most votes are:
  • Best Commercial entry: General Electric (GE)
  • Best Residential entry: "As many lights and decorations as possible... National Lampoon Style", 227 Clyde Road, Bangor
  • Best Non Profit entry: Kid’s Peace
  • Best Municipal entry: Bangor International Airport
  • Best in Show (top overall vote recipient from all categories): Hathaway Holiday Lights
  • Club Pick (top vote recipient as voted on by Rotarians): Christmas at Kandy’s, East Summer Street, Bangor
Plaques will be awarded to all winners and a $500 cash prize will be presented to Hathaway Holiday Lights for being voted best overall display!
 
In addition to sponsoring the Festival of Lights competition, the club invested in new lighting and other decorations for the holiday tree located in West Market Square in downtown Bangor. Rotary Club of Bangor wishes to thank our sponsors who made the event possible: Darlings; Edward Jones, the office of John Byrne; Maine Savings Federal Credit Union; Visiting Angels Assisted Living Services; Northern Light Health; Versant Power; TD Bank; Bangor International Airport; Cyr Bus Line; Holly Taylor, Realtor–The Masiello Group; Links Web Design; Jan Currier, Realtor; Leadbetter’s Super Stops; Memory Maker Photography; Lee Chick; Greater Bangor Convention and Visitors Bureau; and the Snowman Group Printers. Proceeds from the event helped cover the cost of new decorations at West Market Square, and fund scholarships for both traditional and non-traditional students in our region.
 
Congratulations to all winners, and a sincere thank you to all participants who helped make the 2020 holiday season brighter for all!
Festival of Lights Maps
There are so many different ways to map the 60+ entries in this year's Festival of Light's Hits the Road! 
 
Here are just a few:
 
  • You can get a map to each location individually
 
  • You can map your own route based on category and location (click here for directions on how to use this great tool.)
    OR you can map your own route based on address. Download this PDF where the addresses are in order based on town. 
 
  • You can follow our pre populated Google maps (Google will only allow 10 location at a time so we broke it up for you)
    • Commercial entries (8 in Bangor, 1 in Hampden, 1 in Brewer -- 51 minute drive time)
    • Commercial entries (2 Orono -- 6 minute driving time)
    • Municipal entries (2 in Bangor & Orono -- 13 minute driving time)
    • Non-profit entries (9 in Bangor & 1 in Old Town - 36 minute driving time)
    • Residential part 1 (2 in Judson Heights, 7 in Little City - 20 minute driving time)
    • Residential part 2 (6 in the Tree streets - 5 minute driving time)
    • Residential part 3 (10 in the Fairmount area - 17 minute driving time)
    • Residential part 4 (10 in outer Bangor - 41 minute driving time)
    • Residential part 5 (4 in Brewer & 1 in Eddington - 14 minute driving time)
    • Residential part 6 (2 in Hampden & 1 in Orrington - 40 minute driving time)
    • Residential part 7 (1 in Orono & 1 in Veazie - 5 minute driving time)
  • You can go by town!
    • All in Orono (23 minute driving time)
    • All in Brewer & Eddington (15 minute driving time)
    • All in Hampden, Hermon & Orrington (30 minute driving time)
    • All Bangor Commercial, Municipal, and Non Profit part 1 (32 minute driving time)
    • All Bangor Commercial, Municipal, and Non Profit part 2 (11 minute driving time)
    • For all Bangor Residential please use the links above
What ever way you chose thank you for participating! Voting has now closed. The winners will be announced VERY soon. 
 
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29 Years of Providing Scholarships to Bangor Area Students!
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29 Years of Providing Scholarships to Bangor Area Students!
For 29 years the Rotary Club of Bangor has been granting scholarships to area students as they head off to college. In recent years, we have seen tremendous growth in support of our Annual Festival of Lights which in partnership with club contributions and grants has generated more than 15K to support our Scholarship program this year alone. Thank you to our 2020 Festival of Lights Sponsors for helping us to continue and expand this tradition of giving. In an effort to strengthen our local economy, provide opportunities for career growth, and to help local employers find the skills they need close to home we are going bigger than ever with our scholarships this year! For the first time, we will be supporting not only students attending traditional four year colleges, but also those that are planning on attending technical schools and non-traditional students (those returning to school after a time away, or adults attending for the first time)! 
 
(photo is of 2019 recipients, 2020 presentation was done via Zoom)
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2020 Festival of Lights: we’re taking the parade on the road!

Happy Holidays! In lieu of our usual Festival of Lights parade, Rotary Club of Bangor is pleased to offer this fun, festive, and safe alternative for 2020.

First, we would like to thank all those who registered to participate. Without them, this would not be possible! We appreciate the time, imagination, and effort each of our entrants put into creating their presentations. May the best light display win! We would also like to thank our partners in this effort: Greater Bangor Convention and Visitors Bureau, Downtown Bangor Partnership, and Links Web Design. Thank you for your support!

Voting has now closed. Winners will be announced SOON! 

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Speakers
Eric Hooglund
Apr 20, 2021
Focus on International Relations, Middle East

Eric James Hooglund is an American political scientist and an expert on contemporary Iran. Since 2010 he has been a Senior Research Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University in Sweden.

Hooglund was born in Waterville, Maine, and was educated at the University of Maine at Orono, from where he revived a BA in history in 1966. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Iran (1966–68) and subsequently undertook graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University under the pre-eminent scholar of Islamic law, Majid Khadduri, receiving a Ph.D in international relations and Middle Eastern Studies in 1975. During his doctoral field research in Iran in the early 1970s, he worked with Hamid Enayat, Nader Afshar Naderi, Javad Safinejad and Mostafa Azkia. His dissertation on the politics of land reform became his first published book, Land and Revolution in Rural Iran, 1960-1980, and it shows the influence of the ideas of James Scott, Eric Wolf, and Barrington Moore, Jr. on his approach to the study of peasant societies and rural resistance movements.

Hooglund has a long-standing commitment to the development of Middle Eastern studies as an academic discipline. For more than a decade he was a member of the editorial collective of Middle East Report published by MERIP, later was editor of the Middle East Journal and since 1995 has been editor of Middle East Critique. He also has worked for several Middle East-focused non-governmental organizations, including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the National Security Archive, and the Institute for Palestine Studies. His teaching experience includes Bates College and Bowdoin College in Maine, Ohio State University, the University of California, Berkeley, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, Shiraz University in Iran, and Middle East Technical University in Turkey.

Hooglund has published several books and over 100 articles during his professional career. In his work Hooglund examines diverse aspects of Iranian culture, government, history, international relations, literature, migration, political economy, sociology, and religion. Although trained as a political scientist his best-known work falls in the category of rural political economy and sociology

 

*biography from Wikipedia

Jack Keenan, VP, Portfolio Manager
Apr 27, 2021
Focus on International Investment
Kat Taylor
May 04, 2021
Innovation
Jerry Collins
May 11, 2021
Innovation
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