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2007 Annual Meeting A Success

Former Senator George Mitchell Receives Lung Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Youth Activists Receive Award for Efforts to Ban Flavored Tobacco Products 

Houlton and Bowdoinham Moms Honored for Work to Regulate Outdoor Wood Boilers

The American Lung Association of Maine honored former US Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell with our Lifetime Achievement Award.  While in the United States Senate, Senator Mitchell led the successful 1990 reauthorization of the Clean Air Act, including new controls on acid rain toxins.  The American Lung Association of Maine presented Senator Mitchell was given our Lifetime Achievement Award for his leadership and dedication in improving air quality during our 2007 Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony held at Sable Oaks Marriott in South Portland on September 28th.

Senator Mitchell’s healthy air policy leadership spans decades and is responsible for saving lives and reducing disability throughout the nation.  We can literally breathe easier in Maine because of Senator Mitchell’s efforts.

Other 2007 awards and award recipients were:

• Youth Advocacy Award: Ignite Oxford County (TJ Williams, Abigail Bronish, Laura Murphy and Megan Arsenault, Mt. Valley High School, Mexico) for their successful efforts to pass Maine’s first-in-the-nation ban on flavored cigarettes and cigars
• Healthy Air Award: Representative Seth Berry (Bowdoinham) and ALAME advocacy volunteers, Lynn Graham (Houlton) and Beth Thomas (Bowdoinham) for their leadership in passing Maine’s new law regulating the emissions of outdoor wood boilers
• Distinguished Service Award: CD&M Communications (Bob Cott, President) for their award-winning media campaign addressing youth smoking, secondhand smoke exposure and adult smoking cessation
• Roselle Huddilston Award:  Dora Anne Mills, MD, MPH, Director, Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for her tireless efforts to prevent tobacco use among Maine kids and adults

We are very pleased to honor all of our awardees.  From the halls of the US Senate to the streets of small Maine towns, people are owning their air, standing up for what’s right, and protecting our air as a public trust.

Congratulations to all!