Posted on 02/15/2016 6:06:47 PM PST by Steven Scharf
Hard-working UMaine senior named McDonald's 'Crew Person of the Year'
By Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN Staff Feb. 15, 2016, at 5:47 p.m.
OLD TOWN, Maine - It's not easy to surprise Lee Jackson. The local McDonald's employee, who also is a University of Maine senior and Old Town school board member, arrived at work early Monday only to find several dignitaries and relatives waiting at the restaurant to take part in a ceremony in which he would be named a national Crew Person of the Year.
"You were early. That doesn't surprise me," U.S. Sen. Susan Collins told Jackson, as he stood along with the mayor, local lawmakers, his grandparents, company representatives and others who gathered for the award presentation held in the McDonald's on Stillwater Avenue.
"What a wonderful and well-deserved honor," Collins said. "Anyone who can balance three jobs, take care of constituents and go to school [deserves to be honored]. How wonderful for all of New England."
Jackson has worked at McDonald's for nearly three years and has been working as an intern for Collins, based in her Bangor office, for the last five months. He represented her and read her speech at Bangor's Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day in December 2015.
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Jackson graduated from Old Town High School in 2012, and the following year, when he was only 19, he ran for and won one of two open seats on the nine-member Regional School Unit 34 board.
He volunteers at the city's annual Riverfest and the Old Town Y, Camp Jordan, regional track and field events. He also is a UMaine mentor.
Since 2010, Jackson has been on the River Coalition-Healthy Maine Partnership's board of directors, and in January 2015, he was elected chairman of the Penobscot County Republican Committee.
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The kid is an over achiever. I have met him at a couple of events and he does not sit in the corner looking at his phone.
Please leave this thread about Lee and not Senator Collins. i.e if you are going to diss her, start your own thread.
“Hard-working” McDonald’s employee? Oh...he’s a Republican.
Sounds like a very admirable young man, thanks for posting this.
How can this be? I can’t count how many times I have read comments here that categorically stated that anyone working for McDonald’s was a loser and ignorant.
Hard working overachiever and a non democrat African American? Nothing to see here. Move along.
If this kid was a Democrat, he might be the next SCOTUS nominee.
Please, would you have posted this if he interned for Obama and expected us to ignore that fact? Well, Collins isn’t much better.
You did him a disservice if you didn’t tell him to get away from Collins and beg Paul LePage for the same opportunity. If he is working for Collins because he agrees with her, then he is just another young head full of mush. Just more dangerous because he is ambitious.
Undercover Boss would have given him a franchise. Not 500 Bucks and a plaque.
STFU
another flaming lib is heard from.
Right back at ya, you foul mouthed, abortion, everything homo, Susan Collins and Obama, loving slob.
Well I am a fouled mouthed slob at times but POS like you are what makes this site unbearable at times.
We agree on one thing.
Congrats Mr. Jackson! Well-deserved award for all that hard work. Refreshing to see this young man’s story. Thank you for posting.
Good. Just remember, I don’t hold grudges here on FR.
I probably just should have kept my mouth closed. Sorry to both of you.
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