WATERVILLE — Donations for Sacred Heart Soup Kitchen continued to roll in on Friday, prompting director Dick Willette to announce that it will be able to stay open for well over another year.
Amy Calder
Staff Writer
Amy Calder covers Waterville, including city government, for the Morning Sentinel and writes a column, “Reporting Aside,” which appears Sundays in the Sentinel and Kennebec Journal. She has worked at the newspaper since 1988, including a stint as bureau chief for the Somerset County Bureau in Skowhegan, and has covered a variety of beats. A Skowhegan native, she holds a bachelors in English from University of Hartford and completed post-graduate work at the School of Education at University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has received numerous of awards from the Maine Press Association and New England Associated Press News Executives Association and is author of the book, "Comfort is an Old Barn," a collection of curated columns published by Islandport Press. Calder lives in Waterville with her husband, Philip Norvish, a retired Sentinel reporter and editor.
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WATERVILLE — Donations for Sacred Heart Soup Kitchen continued to roll in on Friday, prompting director Dick Willette to announce that it will be able to stay open for well over another year.
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“I just want to thank people ever-so-much for taking the pressure off me,” director Dick Willette said Wednesday. “I can run the soup kitchen at least to the end of the year with donations that have come in.”
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