05/15/2026
Hight Ford, Skowhegan, Annual Park Clean up Day, Today May 15th! Officially Open Invite! BYOR (Bring Your Own Rake)
Skowhegan, ME — Hight Ford will be closing their doors for normal sales, parts and service operations, and bringing their talents to Coburn Park for their annual volunteer clean up day.
Nearly 30 employees, along with volunteers from the Town of Skowhegan, Skowhegan Savings Bank, Main Street Skowhegan, and others will descend on the town's non-profit 12 acre park for a day of raking, tree limbing, chipping, fence building, sprinkler installing, and teamwork building.
Beginning in 2022, Sam Hight from Hight Ford and the Hight Family of Dealerships, initiated the Hight Ford annual volunteer clean up day to reinforce his family's commitment to the communities they serve.
Hight believes so much in volunteerism and giving back to the community that he offers a deal - for one day of unpaid volunteerism, his employees receive five "happy days." These are paid time off days that are granted only if the employee is taking them to add joy to their life (i.e. going to the dentist would not qualify).
Each year, Hight Ford asks the local community members to pick a location for the clean up day, but each year it is overwhelmingly voted on as Coburn Park.
Coburn Park, named after Governor Abner Coburn of Skowhegan who willed the land to the Town in 1885, has been overseen by a non-profit organization with a limited budget but a strong group of volunteers since its inception. It is a welcoming nature park inside the city-limits, and hosts prom photos, plays, musical performances, walkers, bikers, picnickers, and river watchers.
Join us today! Bring a rake, a shovel, or just a smile. And maybe a raincoat!
Thank you for your commitment to the communities you serve.
- Sam Hight
