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Volunteers Needed For Traffic Duties
During a major disaster or evacuation, citizens can help their neighbors and their local fire-rescue by volunteering for temporary traffic control duties at barricades or fire-rescue scenes. Floods, forest wildfires, hurricanes and other disasters keep the regular members and volunteers in a town's fire-rescue service very busy during these unusual situations so special volunteers are needed. But to be able to control traffic safely, these volunteers must be trained in advance.

The Gray Region Citizen Corps is gathering volunteers from Yarmouth to Casco who are willing to help out in some way during a major disaster in their region, such as the Ice Storm of 1998. They provide monthly educational seminars and the topic for Friday, March 12 will be on Traffic Control. The free seminar will be held at Stimson Hall next to the monument in the center of Gray, and will begin at 6:30pm. Past monthly seminar topics have included chainsaw safety and pet first aid. Future seminars are planned for bicycle safety, fire extinguishers, shelter operations and cooking without electricity. More information about the Citizen Corps program may be found at www.citizencorps.gov. Messages may be left with Gray Public Safety at 657-3931.

Baked Bean And Chop Suey Supper: Saturday, March 13, 5:00pm-6:30pm at the First Congregational Church of New Gloucester, 19 Gloucester Hill Road, New Gloucester, ME. Adults $6, 12 and under $2.50. By popular demand, we are now serving hot dogs. Also homemade biscuits, cole slaw, brown bread, and cream pies. For more information call 926-4498 or 926-3260.

AA Meetings: Mondays 10:30-noon, Thursdays, 8-9 p.m. Al-Anon meetings: Thursdays, 8-9 p.m. All are held at St. Gregory's Parish hall, North Raymond Road, Gray. All are welcome.

Wanted - football equipment from former Little Lad Players: If you have wanted to do something with your old football equipment, here's your chance. Trying to start a 5th and 6th grade Rec. Football program in Gray-New Gloucester and need equipment for the players. Please donate the gear so someone can put it to good use! For more information, or if you would like to help, please contact the Gray Rec Department at 657-2323 or Michael Ouellette at 782-6935.

Business Break: Thursday, March 18th is the Gray Business Association's first Business Break of the year. Mark your calendar and plan on joining us at the Conference Center at Pineland Farms starting at 6 p.m. for the social hour, followed by the presentation at 7 p.m.

Mary Conroy of Odyssey Design and Desktop Publishing will be discussing the best way to hit your target market. Every business needs to make the most of its advertising dollars, and this presentation will help you do that in a variety of ways.

Again, this is a free benefit of your GBA membership and a great source of information and a wonderful networking opportunity. Please come, join in for this event and take another step closer to a more successful business year. New mewmbers welcome.

Scholarship Program for Horticultural Studies: Any Cumberland County resident who is accepted into a post-high school educational program in agriculture or horticulture is invited to apply for scholarship assistance through the Horticultural Studies Program administered through the Cumberland County Master Gardeners' Board of Directors.

The application deadline is March 30, 2004. For application information, contact Amy Witt at 1-800-287-1471 or hortaide@umext.maine.edu.
The over 200 Cumberland County Master Gardeners are part of a national network of intensively trained volunteers in horticulture. After training, Master Gardeners serve by volunteering their time in community projects including "Planting a Row for the Hungry" to provide fresh food for the homeless, working with school children with environmental or horticultural pursuits, or planning and conducting educational workshops.

Let's Dance: The Gray Snowmobile Club is sponsoring a scholarship fundraiser dance on March 27th. The dance will be held at the American Legion Hall on Rt. 100 in Gray from 8pm - midnight. Tickets will be $20/couple and $15/single. Please come out and dance to the music of the band, Fortune! We will be having a silent auction with lots of donated items from area businesses and snowmobile dealers. Come on out and kick up your heels and have some fun!! For more info, call Kim Shelley 428-3244.

Geneaology meeting: The Greater Portland Chapter of the Maine Genealogical Society will hold its April Meeting at the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth, ME on Saturday, April 3, at 1:00 p.m. After the monthly business meeting, Howard Faulkner, Professor Emeritus, at USM will speak on "FUN and HUMOR in Genealogy" Howard has completed courses at William & Mary College and the National Genealogical Society in Virginia. He is a registered reader at the National Archives, DAR, the Library of Congress and has done research at over 50 libraries/archives in the Northeast. Howard is published genealogical writer and teaches the "FUNdamentals of Genealogy" at USM'sSenior College. The program will focus on the the lighter aspects of genealogical research to coincide with April Fools Day.

The public is welcome and special help is available for beginning family researchers. For more information please contact Lynne Holland at 767- 4490 or email lholland@maine.rr.com