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[fieldbox="St. Brendan Harbor, lightseagreen, solid, 10, BookAntiqua"]St.Brendan Harbor is a small to medium sized town in mid-northern Maine along the coast. It is built partially on a cliff, wrapping southward and down a slope and bending towards the ocean.
Up on the cliff area is a Lighthouse which overlooks the harbor. Also on the cliff and spreading westward is dotted with small animal farms. These are mostly family farms. At the very northern end of the sloped part of town are a couple small farming stores and a mom and pop automobile shop.
On the slope leading down is where the more 'mainstream' shopping is with a couple small diners, a McDonalds, Baskin Robins, and Applebees. There's also a Save-A-Lot grocery store, a GoodWill, and a Target. Going west away from the seaside you get a very small hospital that pretty much a clinic with an ER, the fire station, and the police station.
As you get closer to the harbor you get some more touristy little souvenir shops and shops for fishing equipment. There is also the high school and tech college close to the harbor.
Fishing is a very important part of St. Brendan's and the harbor is also bustling with fisherman. There was some people that live on their boats and some houses on the harbor and on the beach stretching southward.
Is you go straight west, past the touristy part of town, you get to the poorer part of town with some smaller family homes, a little cinema, the shelter, and eventually on the very outskirts a trailer park.
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RP thread- Tides of Life (St. Brendan Harbor)
[fieldbox="St. Brendan Harbor, lightseagreen, solid, 10, BookAntiqua"]St.Brendan Harbor is a small to medium sized town in mid-northern Maine along the coast. It is built partially on a cliff, wrapping southward and down a slope and bending towards the ocean.
Up on the cliff area is a Lighthouse which overlooks the harbor. Also on the cliff and spreading westward is dotted with small animal farms. These are mostly family farms. At the very northern end of the sloped part of town are a couple small farming stores and a mom and pop automobile shop.
On the slope leading down is where the more 'mainstream' shopping is with a couple small diners, a McDonalds, Baskin Robins, and Applebees. There's also a Save-A-Lot grocery store, a GoodWill, and a Target. Going west away from the seaside you get a very small hospital that pretty much a clinic with an ER, the fire station, and the police station.
As you get closer to the harbor you get some more touristy little souvenir shops and shops for fishing equipment. There is also the high school and tech college close to the harbor.
Fishing is a very important part of St. Brendan's and the harbor is also bustling with fisherman. There was some people that live on their boats and some houses on the harbor and on the beach stretching southward.
Is you go straight west, past the touristy part of town, you get to the poorer part of town with some smaller family homes, a little cinema, the shelter, and eventually on the very outskirts a trailer park.
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Navigator Elementary School is located on the west side of town near the Junior High. It goes K-6.
It has shop classes for all grades at the school, though what you get to do depends on your age.
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The elementary school hosts mosts sports clubs and clubs for kids aged 4-11.
Sports Clubs:
Gymnastics
Soccer
Hockey(Ice and field. Both genders play on both.)
Swimming
Clubs:
4-H
Big Sister/Big Brother
After/Before School Club(Pretty much day care for kids who need to be dropped off early or picked up late. They play outside or do crafts....not really any structure, just a safe place to leave your kid if you can't pick them up or drop them off on time.)
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St. Brendan Junior High is for grades 7-9. It is located on the west side of town near the elementary school. While it is on a beautiful campus there is sometimes a shortage of teachers and not a lot of programs and sports due to a lack of funding. It has a normal looking program for junior high students, though it does offer more shop classes then most.
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Team Name: The Navigators
Colors: Gray, red, blue
Sports:
Ice Hockey(Boys)
Field Hockey(Girls)
Soccer(Boys and girls)
Clubs:
Swimming
4-H
Army JROTC(Only for 9th graders. They are taken across town to the high school for drills etc)
Venture Scouts(Again only for 14 year old or 13 year old who have completed the 8th grade))
Big Brother/Big Sister
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St. Brendan High School is for grades 10-12. It is located on the east side of town near the harbor. Like the other schools St. Brendan High has troubles with funding. While it does have a college prep program it is a high school mostly focused on the trades. It has two programs an apprenticeship/trade program, and a smaller college prep program.
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Students in this program must fufill basic education requirements along with their chosen program requirements to graduate.
The basic education needs include one semester of maths, one semester of writing/English, 3 semesters of 'personal growth(EX: home ec, personal finances, etc), and one semester with a science(Chemistry or Biology)
The programs you can go into are carpentry, electrician, construction, or mechanics. After graduation the school tries to get students set up at the vocational school or with apprenticeships. This doesn't always work however.
There are also some sections that are almost in bewteen college prep and apprenticeship. Those are the health program that works with CNA and EMR programs and the teaching assistant program. -
The college prep program is supposed to inspire students to get a higher education. It continues with high english, science, maths, etc classes. Graduation requirements are those of a normal high school, though students are expected to keep a higher GPA.
The college prep programs struggles to get teachers for the higher level classes and doesn't have as many students as the apprenticeship program. -
Mascot: Three Masted Sailing Vessel name Tubby. No one knows exactly what type of boat Tubby is or when/how he came into existence.
Sports(Often times boys and girls team will practice together since they sometime sonly have one coach):
Team Name: The Voyagers
Colors: Gray, bright green
Ice Hockey(Boys)
Field Hockey(Girls)
Basketball(Boys and girls)
Soccer(Boys and girls)
Cross Country(Boys and girls)
Clubs:
Army JROTC
Theater Club
Venture Scouts(Not hosted by school, but meet at the high school. Had a Boy Scout troop, but that recently disbanded due some things a couple of the older boys and adult leaders did.
Those that wanted to stay became Venture Scouts)
4-H
Gay/Straight Alliance
Big Brother/Big Sister
Student Council
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The Community college is called Three Harbors because it has students mostly from St. Brendan and the little villages/towns that are near St. Brendan, which includes two other smaller harbors. (They got really creative with the name). It is located on the east side of town across from the high school on the harbors side. From some windows you can see the ocean.
- These programs take anywhere from 6 month to two years and you come out with a certificate. The programs are for carpentry, auto mechanics, marine mechanics, plumbing, construction, and electricians.
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These programs generally take 2 years to complete(Some certificates take less and some programs a little more). You can get basic associates degrees here and also take cheap gen ed classes if you want to work on a bachelor's or, as some high school students, try some harder classes academically then the high school can offer. Some of the college prep students will go here for classes since the high school college prep program is struggling and doesn't challenge them enough,
You can also get certifications for child care and teaching assistant programs here. The community college and hospital work together to create the CNA, EMR, EMT, AEMT, and Paramedic programs.
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While most of the farms are family owned(With varying degrees of success), they will hire farm hands especially during tourist season.
This is a common summer job for high schoolers.
During non-tourist family kids of all ages work and do chores on the farm and the biggest of the farms, which is a mile north of the light house, is generally willing to hire part time farm hands all year-round.
Some farms also sell dairy products, wool, and meat to local stores, restuarants, and at the farmers markets.
Some farms will sell some vegetables and such from their gardens, though non-farmers do that too. -
Deck hands are always being hired by fishermen for part time employment. This is a common job for late high schoolers and people at the tech college. Families who own a boat will commonly have their children of all ages working on it.
There are also fishermen/women who own their own fish and will sell them at the fish/farmers market and too the grocery stores and restuarants in town. -
Tourist season is pretty big for St. Brendan Harbor.
There are many jobs on the farms, giving boat tours, and fishing tours. Working busses and taxis is also another job that hires a lot during tourist season to take people to the historical sites, lodges, the farms, stores, etc.
Toruist season sees a huge influx of people and thusly a lot more jobs. The little tourists shops also tend to hirer more people and the stores will stay open longer. -
There are of course ordinary jobs at the supermarket, gas station, custodial work, police officers, fire station, EMS, etc.
Places like the docks, mechanic shops, and maintence companies will hire skilled workers to help fix and create things. -
The Community college runs the daycare programs in town. During the year the daycare is held at the community college and during the summer it's held at the elementary school. It is staffed by students in the Teaching Assistant and Child Care programs to help them get work experience and provide cheerer childcare for the locals. There are some staff that are there longterm who help run all the programs and ensure that it is done properly. -
There are volunteer positions at the shelters(There is a homeless shelter and a women's shelter). Some farms take volunteers, the fire department and EMS take volunteers.
There are some various other volunteer oppertunities also like Big Brothers/BIg Sisters, leading clubs, etc.
RP thread- Tides of Life (St. Brendan Harbor)
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