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March Cooking Class with Nikaline Iacono
When's the last time you added some fun new cocktails to your menu? Join us on Saturday, March 12th at 6:00 pm, for a shaken cocktails class with Chef Nikaline Iacono. Nikaline will give us the inside scoop on why some drinks are shaken (and not stirred), the proper...
February Cooking Class with Christine Burns Rudalevige
Are you in the market for some amazing and locally sourced new dishes to add to your dinner menu? Well, look no further. On Saturday, February 12th at 6:00 pm, join us virtually for a lively and educational evening with Chef Christine Burns Rudalevige....
January Cooking Class with Sam Hayward
On Saturday, January 15th at 6 pm, join us for a virtual evening with award-winning chef Sam Hayward who will be sharing some of his culinary genius with us. Sam will be teaching us to cook a “risotto” of Maine grains and winter seafood. Sounds delicious, right? There...
Giving Voice: One Patient, One Person at Brunswick Clinic
The Oasis Free Clinics Board of Directors enacted six-year term limits for board members in 2015. At the time, six years seemed so far away to me. Yet here I am, the time has flown and only weeks remain. As I term off the Oasis Board and look back, I feel an...
Giving Voice: The Soul of Oasis Free Clinics
The Giving Voice column was started as a way for Oasis Free Clinics, Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program, The Gathering Place and Tedford Housing to share the stories of our work. While our dedicated supporters knew about our programs, we realized that there...
Giving Voice: A Bowdoin’s Student Perspective
This summer, Bowdoin College student, Isa Quintana, worked with Oasis. Click here to read about her experience in the August Giving Voice.
Bowdoin Students: Where are They Now?
Over the past five years, we have had many Bowdoin College students in the clinic. Some have volunteered weekly for most of their college experience while others haveserved as summer fellows, working on special projects during 10 weeks each summer. No matter how long...
Looking Back: News Stories about Opening New Clinic
In May 2016, we welcomed our patients and the community to a ribbon cutting ceremony, officially opening the doors to our new medical and dental clinic. Click here for the Bangor Daily News article Click here to listen to the Maine Public story
Article Shares Dental Staffing Challenges
Oasis Free Clinics is trying to get its dental clinic back up to speed, but staffing challenges and reduction in volunteers is making that difficult. Click here to read the full article in The Forecaster.
Giving Voice: Five Years of Integrated Medical and Dental Care
In 2016, we renovated space at 66 Baribeau Drive in the Mid Coast Professional Building, bringing together both of our medical and dental services under one roof for the first time in our 25-year history. Our medical clinic had been located on the top floor of 66...
May Cooking Class With Isabella Mastroianni
On Saturday, May 1st at 6 pm, join us for a night of cooking and fun with Chef Isabella Mastroianni. Isabella will be teaching us to cook chestnut gnocchi with gorgonzola cream, crispy pancetta, and toasted walnuts, as well as revealing some of her kitchen secrets!...
April Cooking Class with Christine Burns Rudalevige
On April 24th at 6pm, Chef Christine Burns Rudalevige will lead us in an evening of culinary fun as we prepare spring seafood stew. Kick off your spring menu with this delicious dish! She will be sharing her cooking tips and tricks as well as answering all your...
February Class with Ali Waks Adams Coming Soon!
Our February virtual class is shaping up to be a fun evening of delicious cooking! On February 10th at 6pm, Chef Ali Waks Adams will lead us in an evening of culinary fun as we prepare Pan Roasted Chicken with Preserved Lemons and Olives with a Winter Vegetable...
Giving Voice: On grief and loss
I have been thinking about loss and grief a lot lately. Too much, if I’m being honest, but in my defense, the circumstances of our world and community lend themselves to these kinds of thoughts. When I add in my own personal and professional experiences to the mix of...
Giving Voice: New dentist is making big difference at Oasis
When we temporarily closed the dental clinic in March, we understood the profound impact it would have on our patients’ oral health. Most of our patients have moderate to severe dental issues, requiring several visits to address the multiple issues that have impacted...
Virtual Cooking Classes & Fundraiser
Some of Maine’s best chefs are raising money for our free medical, dental and prescription services, and we hope you will join them! It is going to be a long winter, and we thought this would be a fun way to bring people together through the joy of cooking while...
Giving Voice: 25 years of changing lives and strengthening community
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Oasis Free Clinics becoming a non-profit free medical clinic in our community. We scheduled a gala to honor those who have served our patients for September. Our board of directors had recently revised our mission, vision and...
Giving Voice: Chance Encounters Change Lives
Those of us who have experienced cancer know firsthand the havoc it can cause in life. This is where I found myself in 2007, not too long after being diagnosed with stage three non-Hodgkin lymphoma. For the next few years, my doctors’ appointments and treatments...
Giving Voice: How I Found This Oasis
Growing up in the Midwest, I belonged to a family and close-knit community who eschewed health insurance. This was largely for religious reasons. The church we belonged to believed that any “thought for the morrow” was...
Oasis Free Clinics’ Response to Covid-19
We have had the opportunity to reflect on our administrative and clinical operations during this situation and have discovered there are different ways in which we can both operate our non-profit and deliver care. This includes telework and...
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