• University of Maine Cooperative Extension offers tractor safety courses each spring in conjunction with Ingrahams’ Equipment. These classes are for youth and adults and provide both classroom and "on-tractor" time to participants. Youth ages 14-16 earn a federal certificate that allows them to operate farm machinery as part of employment.
   
• Rural Living Day is hosted each year by the Waldo County Executive Committee. Filled with workshops from tomatoes to "green funerals," this event is an annual fund raiser for the association who awards a scholarship to a Waldo County high school senior who is going on to higher education.
   
• Facilitation training designed to increase the working capacity, efficiency and effectiveness of groups has reached nearly 100 people who lead local groups. Strengthening Your Facilitation Skills, developed in Waldo County, is now a published curriculum and is a nationally recognized model for training citizen facilitators.

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