SVN | The Urbanek Group Commercial Real Estate Advisors 100 Silver Street, Portland ME | 207.613.7400 www.theurbanekgroup.com All SVN® Offices Independently Owned And Operated FOR ALL YOU’VE EARNED AND CHERISH www.clarkinsurance.com (207) 774-6257 www.clarkinsurance.com WE KNOW MORE SO YOU CAN WORRY LESS q S E R V I N G S P E C I A L A C C O U N T S Throughout Southern Maine The Maine Chance Lodge & Retreat on Long Lake in Belgrade. Personalities 94 P o r t l a n d monthly magazine courtesy photos There was a time when Elizabeth Ar- den’s Maine Chance Spa brought the likes of Judy Garland and Ava Gardner to the Belgrade Lakes region. Well-heeled Man- hattanites regularly attended to indulge in expensive spa treatments and dabble in hula-hooping classes. During the Depres- sion, the spa employed hundreds, all here to pamper the rich and famous. T oday, through the efforts of the Travis Mills Foundation, the for- mer spa has undergone a $3 mil- lion renaissance to become The Maine Chance Lodge and Retreat. Here, combat- wounded veterans and their families come to relax and enjoy boating, paddle board- ing, equine therapy, fishing, and more. No one is excluded. “We make sure that if there are veterans with a disability, they can do everything right alongside their family.” Mills has come a long way from the bat- tlefield. He and Kelsey recently welcomed a son, Dax, whose name is a combination of Daniel and Alexander, the two medics who saved Mills’s life after the bomb exploded. Chloe, now six, is a big sister and the apple of her father’s eye. During Maine Chance Lodge’s inaugural summer of 2017, the re- treat hosted “56 military families.” For Mills and his family, it’s the start of some- thing new. Mills (continued from page 41)