Sent 11/14/2025 Last year, with your help, we donated $5000 to Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness to support their Mobile Food Pantry! OUR VALUES ABOUT US Wabanaki traditions, language, and culture guide our approach and describe the ways we live in harmony with each other and the land we collectively share. Services are available to community members living on and off-reservation across the state of Maine. OUR HISTORY The formation of the Tribal Public Health Unit in 2008 was a direct result of the four federally recognized Tribes in Maine coming together in partnership with the Maine CDC. This became The Wabanaki Public Health District, established in statute in June 2011, to provide public health services including nutrition education, environmental health programs, youth engagement, infectious disease, and cultural and language resources to Wabanaki community members. In 2020, Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness was formed as a merger between Wabanaki Health and Wellness and Wabanaki Public Health to better support the overall healing and wellness of the Tribal communities. That same year, Wabanaki Healing & Recovery services were added that centers culture, ceremony, language, and traditions at the heart of the recovery journey. Physical locations for Healing & Recovery services began opening in November 2021. The Wabanaki Mobile Food Pantry truck provides fresh, nutritious, and traditional foods to the five tribal communities monthly. The goal of the Mobile Food Pantry is to increase access to healthy, traditional, and nutritious foods. The mobile unit works with local farms and farmers, bakeries, and traditional food distributors to procure fresh, nutritious, locally grown organic foods. There are no cost or eligibility requirements for community members. Click here to learn more. MULTIPLY OUR IMPACT The Newcastle Ecumenical Food Pantry provides a weekly pantry market open to anyone in need of food, a weekend meal and snack program for children at three elementary schools and Newcastle Head Start program, diapers, and a Thanksgiving Basket Program providing 350 families in 9 different Lincoln County towns a full Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings. They are open every Tuesday from 9am–11am for market-style shopping at the Second Congregational Church in Newcastle. ELECTION RESULTS ARE IN! Congratulations to our 2026 Co-op For Community Day Partners! Blessings in a Backpack of Jefferson, Caring for Kids, Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust, CHiP, Inc. (Community Housing Improvement Project), The Ecumenical Food Pantry, Healthy Kids, The Jefferson Food Pantry, Skidompha Library, Stepping Stone Housing, Veggies to Table, Waldoboro Food Pantry THANKSGIVING IS ALMOST HERE! Questions about turkeys? Wondering how much food to make for your gathering? Our Holiday Guide answers those questions, and more! You can read it here, click on the image below to view or download a pdf, or pick up a hard copy in the store. If you still have questions, email outreach@risingtide.coop. Teaching the value and joy of growing, preparing, and eating healthy local foods. Want to expand your palette, but don’t know where to start? Hate buying a whole jar of a spice you’re not even sure you’ll like? Try Skidompha’s new Spice of Life Collection! Starting the first Tuesday of each month, patrons will be able to take home a sample of the highlighted spice, two recipes on how to use it, and a suggested reading/history guide. All spices are donated by our kind sponsors at Rising Tide Co-op. You can also read and download a pdf here or pick up a hard copy in the store.Sign up for The Rising Times newsletter and get this great information straight in your email!
November 14, 2025
INCLUSIVITY • BALANCE • CULTURAL CENTEREDNESS
Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness (WPHW) serves four federally recognized tribes located in five communities: the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, the Mi’kmaq Nation, the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township, the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point, and the Penobscot Nation.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to provide community-driven, culturally centered public health and social services to all Wabanaki communities and people while honoring Wabanaki cultural knowledge, cultivating innovation, and fostering collaboration.
Our organization was established in 1996 as the Wabanaki Mental Health Association, to respond to unmet mental health needs in the Native community and provide mental health case management, medication assisted treatment, and peer run recovery services. The organization became Wabanaki Health Wellness in 2007.
THE MOBILE FOOD PANTRY
Every month, we donate .5% of our Wednesday sales to an organization nominated and voted on by our member-owners. That organization is also invited to come into Rising Tide and present information and takeaways for the public to be educated and aware of this organization’s efforts within our community.
NOVEMBER’S PARTNER:
STRENGTHEN NATIVE FOODWAYS
We have some exciting giving opportunities happening at the store this November. For each Field Day product sold, Rising Tide will donate 50¢ to Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness, and National Co+op Grocers will donate 5¢ to NĀTIFS. We’ll be sharing more about NĀTIFS next week. All Field Day products are also on sale all month!
Consider multiplying our impact by donating Field Day products directly to our local community in need. Look for the donation cart by registers!
Many thanks to those who voted! We appreciate your commitment to the cooperative model.
Rising Tide is pleased to welcome Jane Bjerklie-Barry, Elizabeth Jane Dunn (Betsy), Leifa Gordon, and Patricia Matrai (Paty) to the Board of Directors! Congratulations to Deb Singer on her re-election.
FROM OUR FRIENDS AT SKIDOMPHA LIBRARY
DRIVERS WANTED
Lincoln County FISH is an all-volunteer organization that provides free rides to Lincoln County residents. We are seeking new drivers to meet the ever-growing demand for transportation assistance. Many residents depend on FISH for rides to medical appointments, personal business, shopping, and other errands. Volunteer drivers use their own cars. They pick rides that fit their schedules and drive as often or as infrequently as they wish. Drivers enjoy one-on-one interaction with riders and the flexibility that driving for FISH affords. For more information, please visit the Fish website (lincolncountyfish.com) or contact FISH by email at lincolncountyfish@gmail.com or by phone at 207-350-9808, and a friendly volunteer will reach out to you.
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