Upon her arrival at the Bangor Civic Center, Sen. Susan Collins high-fives Bangor Cub Scout Pack 10 Wolf Scouts Colin Iken (center), 7, Dan Adam (far left), 7, and other members of the local Scout color guard before she was honored with this year’s Katahdin Area Council Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Citizen Award. At far right is Cianbro CEO and former Distinguished Citizen Award recipient Peter Vigue. Buy Photo
BANGOR, Maine — Though perhaps best known for the work she does in the nation’s capital, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins was honored Thursday for contributions closer to home.
During a ceremony at the Bangor Civic Center, the Caribou native received the 2008 Distinguished Citizens Award from the Boy Scouts of America’s Katahdin Area Council as an audience of about 400 people looked on.
Collins and her family members are no strangers to Scouting, according to event organizers. Her parents, Pat and Don Collins of Caribou, were involved in Scouting and the senator is a former Girl Scout.
“Susan Collins and her family are the epitome of Scouting values: the commitment to family, community and the nation,” Steve Frost, the council’s volunteer president, said before Thursday’s event. “Senator Collins is one of those people who lives those values every day.
“As Susan continues her outstanding work in the United States Senate, it’s clear that she gained her values from her parents,” Frost said.
Peter Vigue, chairman of the Pittsfield-based Cianbro Cos. and recipient of the council’s 2002 Distinguished Citizen Award, agreed.
“Senator Collins embodies the values of Scouting as she meets her responsibilities to God and country,” he said before Thursday’s ceremony began.
“Leadership, courage and integrity are all qualities that the Boy Scouts hold in high regard, and which can be found in great measure within Susan Collins,” he said.
The Katahdin Area Council provides values-based programming to more than 9,000 Scouts and leaders in its service area, which comprises Penobscot, Waldo, Hancock, Piscataquis, Aroostook and Washington counties in northern and eastern Maine.
The annual award banquet is the Katahdin Area Council’s biggest fundraiser. The money it raises funds Scout programs, including leadership development training and summer camps such as Camp Roosevelt in Eddington.
Honorees are selected each year by a yearlong process in which a steering committee generates a short list of candidates and eventually votes the list down to one person who has shown outstanding service in his or her community.
As a recipient of the award, Collins joins an elite group that includes the likes of Husson College baseball coach John Winkin, Gov. John Baldacci, and the late businessman and philanthropist G. Peirce Webber, to name a few.
On 11/21/08 at 9:47 AM,
Mainelyme wrote:
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hOW SWEET.
SHE USED FEDERAL MONEY TO GET THIS AWARD, OF COURSE.
WHY DO THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA DISCRIMINATE AGAINST HOMOSEXUALS WHEN SO MANY OF THEM ARE GAY THEMSELVES?
DITTO: U.S. SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN(WOMEN)?
On 11/21/08 at 9:50 AM,
Mainelyme wrote:
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DITTO: U.S. SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN(WOMEN), ARE TOO?
On 11/21/08 at 12:06 PM,
Mainelyme wrote:
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Happy memories, darling?
On 11/21/08 at 12:55 PM,
Mainelyme wrote:
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HOW THWEET IT ITH!
You're the only one who camps, dearie.
And you were in the Navy?
They had even lower standards than we all thought.
"Join the Navy and ride the Knaves!"
On 11/21/08 at 1:07 PM,
greentoad wrote:
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Wow. Was any of that necessary?
You both went above and beyond in proudly displaying your ignorance. Thanks.
On 11/21/08 at 1:13 PM,
kboot73 wrote:
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i think susan collins is a SITH LORD, she been using the dark side of the force to stay in office as long as she had!
On 11/21/08 at 1:13 PM,
SteveyDee wrote:
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Your welcome toad breath.
Mainelyme, your getting the Army mixed up with the navy.
The Army will take anyone just as long as they are not in a wheel chair.
The navy had high standards at the time, I had to pass a urine test and thats all LOL!!!!!!!!
On 11/21/08 at 1:18 PM,
Mainelyme wrote:
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Ferry?
ooohhh!
I knew we had a large organization but, I didn't know we had a navel fleet?
On 11/21/08 at 1:19 PM,
Mainelyme wrote:
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Urine test?
Were you standing up or sitting down?
On 11/21/08 at 1:33 PM,
Mainelyme wrote:
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I was recently telling a guy that I signed up for the Marine Corps when I was seventeen and the recruiter asked me if I like girls.
I said, "Yeah I like girls."
He said, "Congratualtions, you're a MarIne."
The guy replied; "If you had said you like boys would they have put you in the Navy?"
On 11/21/08 at 1:35 PM,
Mainelyme wrote:
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No, because there were an awful lot of 'em on Parris Island!
On 11/21/08 at 7:42 PM,
kboot73 wrote:
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mainelyme, we did everybody go?
On 11/21/08 at 7:42 PM,
kboot73 wrote:
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typo, where did..
On 11/21/08 at 7:52 PM,
Mainelyme wrote:
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kboot73:
Hopefully to Parris Island!
On 11/21/08 at 10:01 PM,
Katofbangor wrote:
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Mainelyme(Perley) have you noticed that the recent commenters seem to be all cut from the same cloth? And that maybe they all need Prozac, Lexapro or more? This forum has become completely ridculous and I have found myself feeding into it with my own ridiiculous comments.....I find myself reading more of the Portland Press Herald than the BDN because the comment editor DOES screen the posters and you do not see the stupidity in that blog as you see here. BDN needs to start paying attention to the calling out of posters and the stupid nonsense that appears in the BDN posting. People posting as being someome else, people posting bogus facts about their lives, etc. It is like reading a comic strip. But it really is not funny.
On 11/21/08 at 10:53 PM,
Mainelyme wrote:
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Katofbangor:
It is difficult to be serious about a subject when somebody else is only looking at the comment enough to then issue an inane no punch punchline.
I love the Bangor area and the people in it but, I also love my friends and neighbors here in New York.
So, what can a person do?
I try to alternate between Bangor and New York but, it is time consuming.
Bangor Daily News/New York Times/New York Post/New York Daily News/amNew York.
I'm really going to have to start limiting my interests also, as there really are just too many things to do.
But, still and all.................
Perley J. Thibodeau
Mainelyme
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