A look at our communities through photos.
Leigh Stein, 4, left, and Daicey Spears, 5, both of North Yarmouth, plant tomato seedlings into a raised bed outside Freeport Grill, 175 Lower Main St., last Friday morning, as their friends look on. The children are part of the Freeport Grill Children’s Garden Club, which will help provide Freeport Grill with fresh vegetables this summer. 
Autumn O’Neil, 4, of North Yarmouth, gets ready to paint ornaments that would go on the railings and inside Freeport Grill. Autumn was there last Friday with her mother, Stephanie, and brother Joey and other area children who are part of the Freeport Grill Children’s Garden. Youngsters from the area are helping to grown vegetables that Freeport Grill will use in its restaurant. It’s part of the Farm to Table Kids project that O’Neil runs from her organic farm in North Yarmouth. 
Frank Smith of Wayne walks his miniature schnauzer, Chloe, past Freeport High School last Friday. Smith had been shopping in Freeport, and decided the dog needed a walk. 
Students in the Jobs for Maine Graduates program at Freeport High School have voted to award the annual Jumpstart Our Youth grant worth $1,000 to ReTreeUS, a Durham-based project planting educational orchards in schools, offering healthy, local produce and gardening mentorship to communities in Maine. Shown here are Moriah Salter, ReTreeUS co-founder, and Jay Harper, JMG specialist at the school, at the recent award ceremony. Salter and ReTreeUS co-founder Richard Hodges planted apple and peach trees in the Peace Garden at Freeport High last year and visited Harper and his students. Hodges and Salter said they plan to use the award for a large orchard at Edward Little High School in Auburn, where teachers hope to collaborate with other area schools for an agriculture program. Updates on that will be posted as the planting season progresses on www.retreeus.org.
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