CAMDEN – Three out of six new heavy-duty picnic tables are already getting much use at the Camden Public Landing, a good spot beside the harbor to have a meal, or just visit over a cup of coffee.
They were not purchased by the town, but constructed with care by teams of Camden Hills Regional High School students using planks from the waterfront wharf boardwalk that was demolished last December during an ocean storm.
Under the guidance of Hatchery Apprenticeship coordinator Danny Salomon, 23 students took on the project last spring, after more than 5,000 pounds of torn-up boardwalk was transported by Camden Public Works to the high school on Route 90 in Rockport.
That sea-worn pressurized wood was diverted from the landfill, said Salomon, and “aligns with the Hatchery Workshop’s commitment to, Radical Reuse, the sourcing materials from the region’s waste stream, as opposed to…
