126 businesses spread light with Finding Our Voices through July

Lean into all things yellow for Finding Our Voices’ fundraiser featuring 126 businesses in 26 towns. Sushi grade yellowfin tuna, saffron seafood paella, yellow rose gelato, banana caramel bonbons, golden milk lattes and pineapple spritz mocktails, plus yellow books, jewelry, clothing and table setting accessories are some of what the public can eat, drink and buy around the Midcoast and Blue Hill Peninsula in July to support women domestic abuse survivors. Businesses participating in the fourth annual Into the Light! Yellow Festival fundraiser for Finding Our Voices will donate all or part of July proceeds from a special yellow menu and retail items to the grassroots, statewide nonprofit. [](https://w2pcms.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TR-Casey-Everett-with-lemon-print-070326.jpg) Casey Everett with the hand-drawn lemon print tea towel that is the Into the Light! offering at Hearth and Harrow in Camden. Amy Houghton is offering a lemon-themed kerchief at SeaLoft in Blue Hill. (Patrisha McLean photo) The money that is raised will help keep local women domestic abuse survivors and their children safe with payments for shelter, transportation and legal fees through the Finding Our Voices Get Out/Stay Out Fund. Patrisha McLean, CEO and founder of Finding Our Voices, said the range of Into the Light! participants and yellow offerings “shows the extraordinary creativity and generosity of our local business owners.” The Pentagoet Inn in Castine has concocted a pineapple sponge cake with coconut meringue. At Lincolnville’s inn restaurant Aster & Rose, the Into the Light! offering is the Maine wild blueberry cake with lemon curd and ice cream. The Causeway at the Craignair Inn in Spruce Head in July is bringing back its legendary roasted cauliflower with curry aioli. Food co-ops in Damariscotta, Rockland, Camden and Blue Hill are all on board with healthy yellow delights, as are eight vendors at farmers markets. Hawaiian pizza with pineapple can be enjoyed at Camden House of Pizza, Owen’s General Store in Lincolnville and Alexia’s in Belfast; a sunflower pizza with yellow beets at Fin & Fern in Stonington; and a dessert variety with lemon curd and blueberries at Strong’s Public House in Sedgwick. Independent bookstores in Rockland, Rockport, Camden, Searsport, Bucksport, Castine, and Blue Hill are promoting books with yellow covers, yellow linen-covered journals, an enamel pin and Virginia Giuffre’s memoir. At THE Salon & Spa in Blue Hill, donations are being earmarked for Finding Our Voices from every July hair color and highlight. Advertisement Michael Good Gallery, Windsor Chairmakers and Camden Curated are hosting in-store raffles for, respectively, handcrafted signature hoop earrings and yellow milk-painted stool, and bountiful baskets of themed yellow collections. [](https://w2pcms.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TR-Matt-Shaw-at-Blue-Hill-Books-070326.jpg) Matt Shaw at Blue Hill Books with some of their Into the Light! offerings in the July Finding Our Voices Yellow Festival fundraiser. Independent booksellers in Rockland, Rockport, Camden, Searsport, Bucksport and Castine are also participating. (Patrisha McLean photo) “Not only is this the biggest fundraiser of the year for our grassroots nonprofit, but the wholehearted support of so many businesses signals to every domestic abuse survivor resident or visitor that they are not alone and that our communities care about them,” McLean said. Yellow is the color of Finding Our Voices, according to McLean, because the organization is “led by survivors who have managed to cross over to the bright side of safety and freedom, shining a light for our sisters who are still in the dark.” Full listings of participating businesses and their Into the Light! offerings are at [findingourvoices.net/into-the-light-2026](http://findingourvoices.net/into-the-light-2026). The lead sponsor for the Blue Hill Peninsula event is Camden National Bank, and First National Bank returns as the lead sponsor of the Midcoast event. Capping this year’s Into the Light! is a music festival fundraiser for Finding Our Voices on Aug. 1 from 5-9 p.m. at the Glendarragh lavender farm in Appleton. Siblings Jackie and Wyatt McLean will perform publicly together for the first time followed by The Sugar Snaps and The Right Track band. [](https://www.bowdoin.edu/?utm_source=TimesRecord&utm_medium=SupportingSponsorship) **The Times Record Sustaining Sponsor **We believe a community must be informed to thrive. [**bowdoin.edu**](https://www.bowdoin.edu/?utm_source=TimesRecord&utm_medium=SupportingSponsorship) Copy the Story Link Tagged: [finding our voices](https://www.pressherald.com/tag/finding-our-voices/), [Times Record](https://www.pressherald.com/tag/times-record/), [Times Record Community](https://www.pressherald.com/tag/times-record-community/)