FREEPORT, Maine — As part of its 100th anniversary, L.L. Bean is preparing to make a $1 million gift to a nonprofit to support healthy lifestyles for Maine children.
Chris McCormick, CEO and president, will publicly announce the beneficiary of L.L. Bean’s gift on Tuesday. Olympic gold medalists Seth Wescott and Joan Benoit Samuelson will be participating in the event.
The Maine-based outdoors retailer is trying to reignite people’s passion for the outdoors.
The company is also donating up to $1 million to the National Park Foundation with a goal of increasing family outdoor recreation and getting children to visit national parks.
WONDERFUL LL Bean never spent more needed money, This is a great idea and we should all get behind it. Get your children AWAY from the computer and TV over the weekend, kick them out of doors. get them involved in sports, fishing, hunting, four-wheeling, and hiking.
The thing is if you do this they will also be better students during the week! Summer’s coming buy your child a baseball and a glove instead of that cell phone upgrade. Their lives will be better because of it.
Maine Youth Fish and Game Assn. would be a very good place for this. They are in the process of expanding their lodge at Pickerel Pond and could use some financial assistance. Surely a million dollars would be over the top, but they do the stuff L.L. Bean was founded upon, outdoor sports for kids under 16. I predict it will go to some out of state group or something associated with “team” sports.
Pickerel Pond and the lodge there will be gone if Chinbro gets the contract to build the East West highway across the stud-mill-road.