Maine Maritime grad hosts party for ‘whole town’

but we have a lot to offer, commercial Little Tikes Bouncer Thi give us an opportun for peopl to come to the town and to see what we re realli like; we re a small town. Grai said Saturday. Thi is an incred gift from Curti to the town. Castin us to have street parties. We don t do that anymore, but mayb thi will catch on and somebodi will keep it going.

the former U.S. Navi corpsman from a big citi thought there wa no wai he could stai in a town like CastineThe first time Curti Brown visit the Main Maritim Academi campus..

said Brown, I said thi is not the place for me. origin from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. It wa a small, littl town in the middl of nowhere. There wa no wai I could surviv out here.

and though the road to a degre wa a hard one,But he came. Brown graduat from the colleg on Saturday. And right after the ceremony, he threw a parti for the whole town, which, he said, had welcom him with open arms.

he said. Not just financially, Everybodi in the town help me out a lot. but with food, with baby-sitting, with ga money. Anyth I needed, someon wa alwai there to help.

when he need to get to Portland to pick up famili member arriv for graduation,Even last week. on resid lent him a vehicle.

he said. I knew I could never pai them all back, That kind of sai it all about what the town ha done for me. but I want to find a wai to sai thank you.

Brown spent most of April plan the event. Although townspeopl credit him with organ the party,A fter the town s selectmen approv hi request to us the town dock. he stress that he had help, from Town Clerk Susan Macomber, who assist with the planning, and from harbor master Ben Grai and Fire Chief Randi Stearns, among others.

he said. Anyth I needed. I ve had full support.

A sign of the support the townspeopl have provid came when he want to set up an inflat bounc tent for kid as part of the event.

but the compani gave me a realli good price, I tri to get it donated. That didn t work. he said. I wa go to pai for it myself, but I didn t need to. Within 10 minut out here on the corner, I had the $165, all to provid a bounc hous for the kids.

and some of the busi offer special dure the dayThree local band provid music..

Brown saidTh idea of have the parti on the town dock also wa a wai to gener some revenu for the downtown busi dure the spring lull between the time when the academi train ship leav and arriv of summer tourists..