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Maine State Soap Box Derby Race 2024

Maine State Soap Box Derby Race 2024.

Since 1996, every June the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby Race runs in the town of Houlton ME. This blog post is about this past weekend’s June 22nd 2024 race and with a little Maine soap box derby rich history mixed in for good measure.

Drivers Ready? Checked Your Brakes? Win Pins In? Helmet Feel Right? 3, 2, 1….(Metal Release Sound)

The Houlton Maine / Aroostook County soap box derby race run in Houlton Maine was largest local in the entire nation for five years in a row.

And the Northern Maine race is one and only venue for the state race held each June. To determine a winner in stock, superstock and sometimes master soap box derby race divisions. At one time, Maine had five local races held in Bangor / Brewer, Camden, Houlton, Rumford, South Portland.

The top derby racers in each division class go on from Maine to represent the state out in the All America Soap Box Derby 3 lane track in Akron, Ohio.

The big world series of soap box derby racing tradition started back in 1934.

Maine Soap Box Derby Racers Do Well Competing In Akron Ohio All American Race!

With perfect sunshine summer weather, the 34 derby racers gathered to race on Derby Hill.

This year’s derby race fielded 24 stock and 10 super stock racers. This specially engineered soap box derby racing hill constructed in Community Park in Houlton Maine makes set up and tear down a breeze.

Houlton Maine’s Derby Hill In Community Park! The Thrill Of The Hill in Northern Maine Happens Each June!

The World Series Of Soap Box Derby Racing Happens In Akron Ohio. Since 1934, Kids Compete In Local Races To Go On To Akron’s Big Race.

Derby Hill has a garage storage building perched on top courtesy of the Houlton Rotary Club.

The aviation grade pavement put down on the two lane soap box derby race track has lights, guardrails and is over 900′ long.

One neat slick efficient hill to race on and no more setting up and tear down to make a public street your soap box derby course to compete.

A paved derby side run keeps the supply of soap box derby cars steady. Specially built derby trailers are loaded with empty cars on back. Their car drivers riding in the front tow vehicles pulling these loaded soap box derby trailers.

Helping Young Soap Box Derby Drivers, It Takes A Village, Your Family, Sponsors.

Watch this year’s Maine soap box derby race highlights Facebook video.

The stock derby car class winner this year was Aiden Cyr. Super stock derby car winner was Addyson Lynds. For more on the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby history, check out the images and information here. Visit the Northern Maine soap box derby website.

Stock Racer Aiden Cyr And Super Stock Racer Addyson Lynds Win Houlton Maine Soap Box Derby 2024 Race!

Always looking for new Maine soap box derby racers to catch the fever.

Derby race, car sponsors and family support to help new drivers learn the “Thrill of the Hill” in Houlton Maine. Those folks all come together to create the small Maine town friendly, fair soap box derby racing experience for our youth.

Ready To Race After Loosing A Wheel Pin Cotter Key. No One Hurt, Safety First.

Love to talk “derby” and figure why should a kid wait until they are sixteen to drive a car?

Neat racing event and your entire family is involved in soap box derby. Each child can compete along with their big or little brother and sister. Lots learned about gravity, science of engineering, safety and competing fair and square on Derby Hill in Community Park, Houlton Maine.

Since 1996, have been involved in the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby Racing program.

Have helped lots of derby racers, including two of my own kids make the trip west to compete in the All American big race in Akron Ohio.

Gather Round The Soap Box Derby Racing Exam Table. Like A Field Hospital For Repairs And Therapy.

Maine soap box derby racing in Houlton Maine. Reach out, here for questions about everything soap box derby. The Northern ME soap box derby committee puts on the big state of Maine race event each June.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730

June 26, 2024
Why Moving To Maine? What’s The Attraction?

Get calls from Maine real estate buyers who need to invest in property someplace else that where they now live.

Maine, The Way Life Should Be. One Big State, Lots Of Special Hidden Areas To Discover.

Some are looking for a vacation home location and Maine scores top of the list.

Moving to Maine.

Others just know they can not stay where they live now. Either to raise a family, run a business, to retire and enjoy the Golden Years as best they can.

Had a lady from Texas as a recent example who dreams of moving to Maine.

Getting Out Of The Maine Real Estate Office, Not Pinned To The Wall By A Desk. Lucky To Live In Maine Is How I Feel Every Day!

Her husband works for the phone company, she has MS and is from Maine.

Does not need a prepping on what it is like living in Maine.

The couple bought a house for around $150,000 years ago near Houston Texas that is now worth three times that figure.

“It’s too hot and burning up” is a remark I hear a lot these days and those exact words she shared with me on the phone today.

This lady says you know it is time to move when you come out of a big box store and your jeep is parked next to a Lamborghini on one side, a Maserati on the other.

There’s one of the signs. This couple in their early 60’s are looking to sell out and move away to get to Maine.

It’s not just the cost of living outside rural Maine that is nose bleed high pushing the pack up push back to relocate to “Vacationland”.

Maine is drop dead naturally gorgeous and a four season stunner.

The simple small town way of living in rural Maine is the hook, the carrot.

The communities, the people who live in small town Maine are the best. You wake up and wonder who plowed your driveway and have no idea. A casserole shows up with a hand written note “I know you are going through a tough time in your life and hope you like this covered dish at meal time.”.

Or “heard your mom had fallen and hope she is doing okay” is also on the same note.

In large over populated rush rush hurry scurry areas, kind gestures don’t happen like that. In small town rural Maine they do all the time.

Smaller group of people, friendly happens. More intimate, personal and friendly. Less crime, no traffic and lower cost of living kicks in living in rural Maine. High price of fuel oil or gas, no problem. Heat with renewable resource wood and warm as toast.

Live Music, A Maine Community Band Supplies It Weekly For Free. That’s Maine.

Next year’s heating supply of wood is all cut, stacked, stored away. Mainers are more organized and well prepared. The root cellar in the home basement has canned fruits and vegetables. The chest freezer gets pulled from over the winter months.

A garden is a source of joy and tasty food your planted on your knees and kept weeded, watered, tended.

Sometimes searching online comes up with very little Chamber of Commerce type information blurbs.

Hard To Stay Indoors For Long Living In Maine.

No chamber, low population and just not a lot to browse and consider in typical small rural Maine towns.

Or other times, lots of write up on many websites created that just miss the mark. What should happen is testimonials on why do you live in Maine? What makes you some kind of glad everyday you live in Maine? What is life like and what do you do for fun?

One website I stumbled upon tries to pick a region of Maine and showcase a “day in the life” there.

The hour by hour break down would not attract anyone to come to Maine let alone stay here. The same format write up but find a different local coffee shop, insert it.

Life Is A Maine Beach. Salt Water, Fresh Air, A Summer Breeze At A Maine Beach.

Highlight the mill the local Maine native works at and mention how during break they take a walk to enjoy the outdoor location. That’s it. No images, no narrative written by the local native… just how someone outside Maine would describe what life is like. About as exciting as watching paint dry. It is obvious who threw together the copy does not feel grateful they live in Maine.

We Have A Green Light On Derby Hill! Heat 109, Drivers Ready…? Check Your Brakes.

I hope the images, the video embeds and what is blogged about on Me In Maine is worthwhile and transparent.

Living here, raising a family in Maine and enjoying four seasons of so much natural beauty is part of what pulls at a person’s heartstrings.

But the community spirit, the local population that steps up to help out and shares the same lucky to live in Maine attitude.

So many people in this World want to run far away to hide out somewhere, anywhere. Moving to Maine. Itching to run away and doing your home work on just where?

Maine, are you looking for small town friendly and real, wholesome, healthy?

June 22nd, 2024 is the Maine State Soap Box Derby race date in my small town of Houlton Maine.

Houlton Maine, Everyone Is Excited About The Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024!

If you know of a boy or girl in Maine, anywhere around the state who wants to race in the soap box derby, please reach out.

Every young driver should not have to wait until they are sixteen to get behind the wheel of a car. Learn the “thrill of the hill” happens at Community Park in Aroostook County’s oldest town each June.

The winner goes on to represent the state at the big All American Soap Box Derby Race out west in Akron Ohio.

Need to send them a race application for the big state of Maine race on Derby Hill in Houlton Maine.

Also, the count down has started. Ready for the big total solar eclipse in Maine? Here to help with logistics if you are heading North to experience it in Northern Maine, Aroostook County!

April 8th, 2024. Circle it several times in red magic marker please and thank you.

Sorry, you snooze and lose. It will be a lotta years before the next one in Maine. There is no rain date for the total solar eclipse in Houlton Maine 2024, the last location in the USA to experience “Totality.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

March 12, 2024
Small Maine Towns, Big Local Community Involvement

Small Maine towns, big local community involvement.

When you live in a small Maine town, you volunteer. All the time. Year after year, you are expected to show up and put in the effort to make the local event you worked on last year even bigger the next. This working together and home grown productions makes folks know each other better. Working side by side on a local community project is reward on a lot of levels.

Making Music, Small Maine Towns Community Members Hummed Together To Pull Off Amazing Events!

Summer Outdoor In The Park Music Concerts. McGill’s Band, Houlton ME.

This blog post shows a couple examples of local community involvement.

Pick a season and the local natives are working behind the scenes to pull off the event. Working with the same members on some and totally new committee members on others. These local community projects are one super way to know the talents of those living in our home town. You get to know the people very well in the conversations had while performing local community service.

Here’s a video on the Rotary International Dessert Silent Auction.

Another video to play, listen and watch as the 27th annual Northern Maine Soap Box Derby kicked off another all down hill gravity racing event.

The 4th of July parade, demolition derby, the mud runs are big too when there is a local state agriculture fair like the one in Houlton Maine. Watch the video, check out the many local events that just happened.

Do you pay money to purchase tickets for an event where you live now?

Or do you spend a year planning the next one? Meetings right after an event so everything is fresh to tackle the next one? Get togethers around the year to brainstorm and plan for the local Maine small town event, those are fun and the community benefits. Learn about the many small communities in Maine I get to serve in my real estate job and through service projects. Many of the projects are outdoors any of the four seasons.

Welcome To Maine, A Place With Many Facets To Visit.

It is not one project and then not lift a finger to volunteer until next year’s rerun of the event.

Several projects and mix and match of the individual members and service clubs tapped to coordinate to pull them off to benefit the tourists and local community members alike.

All Ages Love Going Up To A Maine Camp. Pets Too!

Lucky to live in a small Maine town and enjoy traveling instate to visit other parts of the state.

Many of these vacation trips are used for the blog post substance to capture in image, video and then hunt and peck out a Maine blog post. Thank you for stopping by to check out the latest blog post on some local events in small town Maine that just happened where I live in Aroostook County.

Maine, The Way Life Should Be! Welcome To Vacationland! Common Sense Still Used In Our Daily Life. Not Outdated.

Working on the next Maine blog post and trying to give you fresh content and a worthwhile read to not waste your time.

More and more videos are the best show and tell option to relay what is it like where I live in a typical small Maine rural town.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

July 10, 2022