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Special Loon Cruises with NLRA's EcoTours!
PASTA Community (Parenting a Second Time Around)
HEBRON – The Newfound Lake Region Association (NLRA) is once again partnering with the Loon Preservation Commit- tee (LPC) to offer special Loon
wildlife such as bald eagles, ot- ters, and osprey. These programs complement work by LPC and NLRA to support Newfound’s loons through monitoring and
PASTA is a support group curriculum from the Cornell University Cooperative Exten- sion that Jenn Kastick utilized in the Franklin School District when she was their school social worker. It is a 6-8 week series that she facilitated this spring. The group was so well received that the participants asked if we could keep it going, so they decided to have a once-a-month session from September to June to coin- cide with the school year.
The sessions are held at the middle school, the local Rotary Club donated funds for the food supplies for our dinners, the high school Family and Consumer Science teacher prepares the meals with her students (and delivered to them), and Project Promise staff have been provid- ing childcare as needed. It has been a beautiful blend of many coming together.
Kastick brought it to New- found this year as she has been
establishing the role of New- found's school social worker and has learned firsthand how many families in this district are also parenting a second time around. Seeing the need for these families to have access to information, re- sources, and, most importantly, one another to share their stories has been powerful. Some of them thought they were the only ones, and they have been able to be val- idated by one another and have a newfound sense of comfort know- ing that they are not alone.
When we think about the impact of unaddressed social determinants of health, such as untreated mental health, sub- stance use disorders, and incar- ceration, this has a ripple effect on several aspects of the commu- nity, including the children who are left without mothers and fa- thers to provide, protect, and care for them. This is where kinship caregivers (mostly grandmothers yet also grandfathers, great aunts,
NLRA offers Loon Cruises on Newfound Lake in partnership with the Loon Preservation Committee.
uncles, etc.) come in. They love their child's relatives and want to keep the family together as much as possible. So they step up. Sometimes informally, other times more formally by petition- ing the court for temporary or permanent guardianship.
PASTA has a guest speaker scheduled for September, so stay tuned!
These folks are truly the un- sung heroes in our community.
Cruises on Newfound Lake! These 2-hour cruises aboard the NLRA pontoon boat, Madelaine, feature a biologist from LPC to provide information on the be- havior and ecology of loons as passengers tour Newfound on the lookout for loons and other
placement of a nesting raft.
This year’s Loon Cruises will take place July 6, and August 10. You can learn more and book a tour at: NewfoundLake.org/Eco-
LOON CRUISES
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