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Gray Water District Board of Trustees meeting April 26, 7:00 PM at District office, 80 Shaker Rd, Gray.

USPS National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive To Be Held On Saturday, May 8, 2004

The National Association of Letter Carriers will be collecting non-perishable food for the needy on Saturday, May 8, 2004, from Postal Service customers statewide. Postal customers need simply to place their food donations near their mail receptacles on the morning of May 8th. All donated food that letter carriers collect in Maine will be used to replenish local food pantries throughout the state. Food donors are asked not to leave out anything in glass containers or any perishable food for Letter Carriers to collect.

The NALC Food Drive will take place on Saturday, May 8, 2004. Carriers will collect the food while making their normal delivery rounds.

The drive will be held in the communities where City Letter carriers collect mail. Rural carriers in most communities will be participating. Rural postal customers should check with their rural letter carrier or with their Postmaster to verify participation of rural carriers.

Postmasters in each community will be aware of food drive collections in their respective towns. NALC Letter Carrier Sally Baratta, and Rural Letter Carrier Ann Foye are the NALC food drive coordinators in the Portland area.
The NALC twelfth annual food drive to Stamp Out Hunger is the largest single one-day food drive in America. In Maine last year, over 341 thousand pounds of food were collected for communities statewide. This food drive has delivered more than 550 million pounds of donations to community food banks and pantries in the eleven years since it began. The food drive is sponsored in partnership with the USPS, the United Way, the AFL-CIO, Campbell's Soup, and America's Second Harvest to End Hunger.

Book/Bake sale
Spring Gray Public Library Book/Bake/Yard Sale coming will be April 24th, Sat. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Yard sale weather permitting. Something for everyone!

PROP Board Seeks Candidates
Low income people and their advocates who live in Cumberland, Falmouth, Gray, New Gloucester, North Yarmouth or Yarmouth are invited to seek nomination to the Board of Trustees of People's Regional Opportunity Program (PROP). The elected candidate will represent the interests and concerns of low-income people in these communities for a three year term beginning July 1, 2004.

Responsibilities of board members include attending monthly board and subcommittee meetings, establishing the goals of the agency, monitoring and evaluating the agency operations, and helping to ensure the financial health of the organization through participation in fund raising and public relations efforts.

Nominations will be accepted until May 7, 2004. Interested persons may call Mary Main at 874-1140 extension 358 for a candidate registration form.
PROP is the designated Community Action Agency for Cumberland County, providing family and community-centered programs to help people help themselves out of poverty.

New Gloucester Historical Society: Hold the Date!
On Saturday June 5, from 10 am to noon, the New Gloucester Historical Society will host a book-signing celebration to introduce Margaret True Racette's volume entitled "Do You Know New Gloucester." This event will take place at the New Gloucester Library, Intervale Rd. (Rt. 231), in the Lower Village.

The book, which is $5.00, is composed of Margaret Racette's columns of the same name published in "The New Gloucester News." Please note this occasion in your calendar and plan to come. Thank you.

Beans and ham: Saturday, April 24, beans, ham, coleslaw, potato salad, Italian bread, pies, and beverages. Highland Lake Congregational Church, 1303 Bridgton Road. Adults $6, Children $2. Serving from 4:45 to 6:00 pm.

April Sale: Sabbathday Lake Grange will hold an April Sale on Saturday, April 24 from 9 am to 2 pm at the Grange Hall on Route 26 in New Gloucester. Chicken pies will be sold; to reserve yours call 998-2586. Shop for attic treasures, used books and clothes, crafts and more. Light lunch will be available. To rent a table call 998-4731.

Gray Fire-Rescue Open House: The annual Gray EMS Open House will be held Sunday, May 16th from 10 am to 2 pm at the Gray Public Safety Building at 125 Shaker Road in Gray.

--Kids fingerprinting table
--Get your picture taken at the "When I grow up" display
--Have your blood pressure taken by the EMS personnel
--Maine State Police K9 demonstration
--Learn how important CPR is
--Local Search & Rescue Team demonstration/display
--Information table with bags & literature on life safety
--Refreshment table
--Water Rescue Team display
--Rescue ambulance tours
--Support 7 truck display/tour
--Learn about Thermal Imaging Cameras

Girl Scout information: Girl Scout information and sign-up night to be held at Dunn School Library on Tuesday, April 27th at 6:30 pm for girls ages 5-17 (grades K-12). Call Van Nguyen at 1-800-660-1072 for more information.

Road Rage: a Family's Perspective: On April 29th the Standish Public Safety Committee will be sponsoring a program on road rage at Gray/New Gloucester High School from 9:30 - 11:00 am. The speaker will be Joe Edmonds of the Jason Edmonds Foundation for Road Safety from London Ontario, Canada.

Since the death of his 23-year-old son, Jason, and two of Jason's friends in an auto collision described by police as road rage, Joe Edmonds has developed a program to prevent common roadway problems from escalating to a deadly situation. Anger management, common sense and above all, patience have prominent roles in such prevention. Through a powerful audio/visual presentation, Joe describes methods of accomplishing safer driving habits, and how to handle an aggressive driver's threatening behavior. This program called "Road Rage: a Family's Perspective" has been presented to thousands of people throughout Ontario at many private corporations, safety conferences, and schools. Reception to these talks has been unanimously positive, with many people not only moved to tears, but to introspection, which can lead to better driving habits.