MSAD 1 Board Chair Lucy Richard appreciates her district has the ability to “grow our own” teachers thanks to the University of Maine in Presque Isle offering courses aligned with certification requirements. The district also runs an Educational Farm, which is 38 acres, and it employs up to 40 students. She appreciates the support schools received at the District Budget Meeting in May where the budget passed 59 to 1. As a nurse practitioner Richard has helped deliver a lot of babies and at graduation she thinks, “I could be shaking the hand of a future president.”