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Maine Points: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
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Danny speaks with Katie Hey Marketing & Communications Director With Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.
At over 325 acres, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is New England’s largest botanical garden. Home to thousands of different types of plants and visited by hundreds of thousands of guests each year, the Gardens is an inclusive place of learning, beauty, and whimsy around every corner. The mission of the Gardens is to inspire meaningful connections among people, plants, and nature through horticulture, education, and research.
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is a 501(c)(3) organization. We generate around 50% of our revenue from tickets, retail, and culinary. The remaining 50% comes from donations, memberships, grants, and corporate sponsorships.
In the final segment of this week’s show hosted by Shawn Moody- there ends up being a roundtable discussion between Shawn, News Anchor Nate Hanscom, and producer Jeremy Mixer about music, concerts (why do bigger acts go to Bangor instead of Portland?) and plenty more!
Host Shawn Moody is joined by Kevin Fitzpatrick, who has been camping out on the roof of Patriot Subaru in Saco (across from Funtown/Splashtown USA) every year to meet a fundraising goal for STRIVE. Kevin has done this for nearly a decade and a half. Find out how things are going when it comes to reaching his goal, what his goal is, and… if he’s stuck on the roof…… how does he go to the bathroom?
The phones are open! More calls come in to talk about former Senator, Secretary of State, founder of “Walk a Mile in their Shoes” and friend of WGAN (and every other talk radio station in the state!) Bill Diamond
