The Board Members of the Bucksport Bay Healthy Communities Coalition

Board Officers

President- Sara Hayman

Vice President- Jeanette Tardif 

Treasurer- Geof Bellows

Secretary- Valorie Shaffner

Board Members

Jim Boothby
Andrew Braley
Mary Jane Bush
Elizabeth Huggins
Valerie Sulya
Eric Woodbury
Jessica Richards
James Morrison

Board Members Emeriti

Mary Jane Bush

Jeannie Grindle

Betty Gray

Dawn- Elaine Danforth

Coalition's President, Sara Hayman, MSW, M.Div.

Sara Hayman, a Maine native and Bucksport resident is honored to serve as President on the BBHCC Board. Building on 25 years of networking and collaboration with others, she is glad BBHCC remains committed to bringing people and organizations together to help strengthen public health and wellness initiatives in our communities.  From envisioning the creation of a new Tech Literacy Program for elders living in Bucksport housing complexes, to helping facilitate new partnerships that will strengthen early childhood development, listening to and caring for our senior citizens, BBHCC responds to changing community needs.

Sara has her Master's in Social Work from the University of Chicago and her Master's of Divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago. For nine years now, she has served as a minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ellsworth. Before this, she worked at Eastern Maine HomeCare as a part-time chaplain and social worker.