Mrs. Maine Corporate America Emcees TAMC Day Parade in Presque Isle

Mrs. Maine Corporate America Shawn Cunningham Emcees TAMC Day Parade, Celebrating The Aroostook Medical Center's 100th Anniversary of Providing Healthcare in Local Community

(June 2012)--Everyone loves a parade and this one was a hundred years in the making. The Aroostook Medical Center has been providing quality healthcare to county residents for a century now. And to celebrate the milestone, the healthcare site received an official proclamation designating June 10th TAMC Day at City Hall, then marched on to an official parade with more than fifty floats, concluding with a celebration barbeque with all the fix'ins at TAMC's hospital campus.

I was honored to be asked to see as emcee and co-host with my great friend and phenomenal community leader Theresa Fowler, the Executive Director of the Central Aroostook Area Chamber of Commerce. Did I also mention Theresa received the well deserved honor of being a past Maine Chamber Director of the Year. She does Northern Maine exceptionally proud!

We had a blast and only prayed for one thing. That the cloudy skies would give way to sunshine and warm temperatures throughout the day. After all alot of planning went into these events which also featured the annual Presque Isle Citywide Yard Sale. So having great weather is key. The sun fought a few battles, but some showers won their share as well. Still, wet weather aside, we forged through not letting anything dampen our spirits.

I loved seeing everyone come out to support the parade along Main Street and leading up Academy to the hospital. There were military floats, the Shriners, lot's of queens, clowns and of course TAMC employees who had themed floats depending on their department or decade saluting some historical fact of TAMC's continued contributions to the county community. Even The King himself, ELVIS was very much alive and not in the building...but in the streets!

Then I made my way to the hospital site for the barbeque and meet and greet with the community. Awesome day, awesome parade. Thank you TAMC for all that you do!

Happy 100 years!