{"id":47224,"date":"2022-03-02T08:58:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T12:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mofga.org\/meet-mofga-volunteer-dwight-and-kay-gagnon-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-03-02T08:58:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T12:58:12","slug":"meet-mofga-volunteer-dwight-and-kay-gagnon-copy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mofga.org\/meet-mofga-volunteer-dwight-and-kay-gagnon-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet MOFGA Volunteers Dwight and Kay Gagnon Copy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"47224\" class=\"elementor elementor-47224\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-11be93e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"11be93e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-12a5d6f\" data-id=\"12a5d6f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-81ba530 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"81ba530\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mofga.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Volunteer_1-copy-e1649106738222.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-43941\" alt=\"Dwight and Kay Gagnon\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mofga.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Volunteer_1-copy-e1649106738222.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.mofga.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Volunteer_1-copy-e1649106738222-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Meet MOFGA Volunteers Dwight and Kay Gagnon<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Winter 2021-2022<br>\nBy Betsy Garrold\n<br><br>\n\n\u201cVolunteerism\u201d would have to be the watchword for Dwight and Kay Gagnon. These energetic retirees share their talents and enthusiasms with many organizations around their home town of Benton Falls, Maine. Their roots run deep in the Benton community: their daughter lives next door in an 1830s house lived in by Dwight\u2019s grandparents, then parents.\n<br><br>\nOn the MOFGA grounds Dwight has done many chores from digging post holes to painting picnic tables as part of a group of Wednesday Volunteers. This close-knit group was organized about five years ago by another volunteer, Randy Dondero. \u201cYou get to know the people, a network of friends working toward a common cause. There are many things people\ncan do with their spare time, I find this rewarding and meaningful,\u201d Dwight says.\n\nAs a Wednesday Volunteer, Kay likes helping with mailings, packaging, folding shirts, sorting and organizing.\n\nOne of their favorite volunteer gigs is the setup and breakdown of the Common Ground Country Fair. \u201cWe give the impression of being laid back but it is because of all the hard work that goes on before the fair,\u201d says Dwight. He has been coming to the Fair since 1976 when it was at the Windsor fairgrounds, and Kay attended her first Fair in 1998 at its permanent Unity\nlocation.\n<br><br>\nIn other volunteer roles outside of MOFGA, Kay helps to raise funds for the restoration of the steeple and bell tower of the Benton Falls Congregational Church. This particular bell is the last Revere bell cast at the foundry in Canton, Massachusetts. The reconstruction project went all the way down to the church\u2019s granite foundation. Leakage and rotten beams, as well as\nCOVID, have slowed work but the small congregation of 18 to 24 active members keeps plugging away. Kay also serves as the volunteer pianist for the church, a position she inherited from Dwight\u2019s mother, and sings in a hospice choir and participates in the Central Maine Garden Club.\n<br><br>\nDwight\u2019s volunteerism goes back to his college days when he participated in data collection that led to the passage of the Maine \u201cBottle Bill.\u201d These days he spends his time creating art, including the chickens that graced the 2017 Common Ground Country Fair poster. He uses a grid technique that he shared at several PechaKucha events. Both he and Kay agree that\nwinning the 2017 poster was life changing. The whole family gathered for the Common Ground Fair that year.\n<br><br>\nCaitlyn Barker, community engagement coordinator with MOFGA, says of the Gagnons: \"Dwight and Kay have become an integral part of our volunteer program. They\u2019re an amazing team who generously offer their time to our organization each week. They embody the community spirit that MOFGA is known for and help us to continue the important work we do.\"\n<br><br>\nKay wants people to know that volunteering at MOFGA is a great \u201ccouples\u2019 activity.\u201d And the two Gagnons are a good example of how true that is.\n\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet MOFGA Volunteers Dwight and Kay Gagnon Winter 2021-2022 By Betsy Garrold \u201cVolunteerism\u201d would have to be the watchword for Dwight and Kay Gagnon. These energetic retirees share their talents and enthusiasms with many organizations around their home town of Benton Falls, Maine. 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