This week in pictures

JOEY JAM … The eighth grade class at Mount Desert Elementary School raised $568 at a dance last Friday night to help animals injured by the devastating wildfires in Australia. The money will be donated to Wildlife Care WA, a nonprofit organization that provides rehabilitation and food for injured and displaced animals including kangaroos. Because baby kangaroos are called joeys, the dance was dubbed a Joey Jam. The students had originally planned the dance as a fund raiser for their class trip to Montreal this spring but decided it should benefit the animals instead. They plan to raise money for the class trip later. PHOTO COURTESY OF MOUNT DESERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

OLD SCHOOL MOMENTOS … Volunteers including former and current students of the Islesford Boatworks community boatbuilding program gathered last week to make traditional wooden lobster buoys and coasters for sale this summer in the nonprofit’s store in the Blue Duck building on the Islesford waterfront, known as the Chandlery. The group enjoyed hot chocolate, and hot dogs and s’mores warmed on the Blue Duck’s woodstove. PHOTO COURTESY OF MELISSA AMUSO

OLD SCHOOL MOMENTOS … Volunteers including former and current students of the Islesford Boatworks community boatbuilding program gathered last week to make traditional wooden lobster buoys and coasters for sale this summer in the nonprofit’s store in the Blue Duck building on the Islesford waterfront, known as the Chandlery. The group enjoyed hot chocolate, and hot dogs and s’mores warmed on the Blue Duck’s woodstove. PHOTO COURTESY OF MELISSA AMUSO

OPEN WIDE … Galen Lowe attacks a forkful of apple pie at the Mount Desert Island Historical Society’s ninth annual bean supper fundraiser at MDI High School last Thursday evening. About 180 community members turned out for the supper and a talk by University of Maine history professor Liam Riordan on the 200th anniversary of Maine statehood. ISLANDER PHOTO BY DICK BROOM

ART STARTS EARLY…Artwork by students at Mount Desert Elementary School has been on display at the Northeast Harbor Library all this month. Art teacher Shannon Westphal had each grade focus on a particular theme or style. Amelia Johnston, 1st grade, was among those with an impression of water lilies. ISLANDER PHOTOS BY DICK BROOM

ART STARTS EARLY…Artwork by students at Mount Desert Elementary School has been on display at the Northeast Harbor Library all this month. Art teacher Shannon Westphal had each grade focus on a particular theme or style. Cassidy Dunbar, 3rd grade, depicted a spaceship in flight. ISLANDER PHOTOS BY DICK BROOM

ART STARTS EARLY…Artwork by students at Mount Desert Elementary School has been on display at the Northeast Harbor Library all this month. Art teacher Shannon Westphal had each grade focus on a particular theme or style. Cameron Graham, 6th grade, offered donuts. ISLANDER PHOTOS BY DICK BROOM

Paloma Caballo, left, and Jesse Snider were the winners in the amateur vegan chili category Saturday at Island Connections’ Fourth Annual Chowder & Chili Chowdown For Rides event at the Atlantic Oceanside in Bar Harbor. Winners received medals and custom wooden spoons or plaques. People’s Choice Award winners were the Bar Harbor Fire Department for chili and Peekytoe Provisions for chowder. PHOTO COURTESY OF DARRON COLLINS

SNOW AND SOUND … A field at the head of Somes Sound sits covered in snow. Temperatures dropped again Tuesday after a warm weekend. PHOTO COURTESY OF WINSTON SHAW