BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 9, 2024
An official who helped bring clean drinking water to a Passamaquoddy Tribe reservation will be among the honorees at an event hosted later this week by the Wabanaki Alliance. Rena Newell, the former chief of the Passamaquoddy Tribe’s reservation at Sipayik — aka Pleasant Point — and the former Passamaquoddy Tribal Representative to the Legislature sponsored the legislation that two years ago gave the Passaquamoddy at Sipayik more power to regulate its local drinking water and resolve quality issues. Two other honorees will be Beth Ahearn, who worked with the Alliance while lobbying on environmental issues for Maine Conservation Voters, and Carol Wishcamper, a founding supporter of the Alliance who sat on the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission.