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Kids' Bicycle Decorating for Memorial Day Parade

Kids, grab your bikes, helmets, and your parents and head over to the Russell School parking lot at 10:00 a.m. on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31 for some free-wheeling fun! The Gray - New Gloucester Optimist & Octagon Clubs will be there providing supplies to decorate your bike in a Patriotic red, white, and blue theme (or you may bring your own), and participants can then ride along in the Memorial Day parade (parade begins at 11:00 a.m.) For the safety of all, helmets and parents are required. Please also remember to bring along a water bottle. For more information, contact Sheila Myhaver at 428-4111 or email smyhaver@maine.rr.com.

Yard Sale To Benefit GNG Football
The Patriots Grandstand club is sponsoring a yard sale on June16 at the high school to help raise money for the upcoming football season. We are looking for people to donate items for us to sell that day. Anyone wishing to donate yard sale goods can contact Tammy McGrath at 926-4440 or Jenny Sherwood at 657-2717.

Home Bakery Co-Op Needs Members
"We've got to find more bakers," is a sentiment echoing throughout the co-op's weekly Thursday meetings. Already the co-op is being offered jobs around the Lakes Region. Attendees at the first co-op meeting all agreed that great baking is hard work, fresh ingredients costly, no one person should do all the baking, and that bakers would earn a good wage for their efforts.

Now that the co-op has received the first order from Café DeCarlo the bakers are busy divvying up the tasks.

So you home bakers out there. Think you can measure up? Come join us, help out, have some fun and learn something new about baking. For more information on the Home Bakery Co-Op call Kim McCubrey 647-5028.
Secret Gardens of Portland: PROP's Senior Volunteer Programs, Saturday, June 26, 2004. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. The Secret Gardens of Portland, a self-guided tour of ten (10) of the best private gardens in Portland, Maine, will be held Saturday, June 26, 2004 from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

A fundraiser for PROP's Foster Grandparent and Family Friends Programs, tickets to tour gardens are $10 in advance and $12 the day of the event and are available at Borders Bookstore in South Portland; Skillin's Greenhouses in Falmouth, Brunswick and Cumberland; Big Sky Bread Company at the Portland Public Market and Woodford's Corner stores in Portland and O'Donals' Nursery in Gorham.

This self-guided tour will be held rain or shine. For more information on the tour or tickets call PROP Senior Volunteer Programs at (207) 773-0202 or visit www.propeople.org.

Public supper: June 5th from 5:00 to 6:00 pm at the American Legion, 15 Lewiston Rd, Gray. Beans, chop suey, cole slaw, hot dogs, brown and Italian breads, pies. Adults are $5.50, children under 12 are $2.50, and children under 5 are free.

Spurwink Institute hosts Cindy's walk: Spurwink Institute has organized a fundraising event to be held on June 5 at Pineland Farms in New Gloucester. The event will include a 10K road race, a 5K trail walk and a 1K kids fun run in honor and memory of Cindy Carroll, a Gray community leader who passed away last August. The event will help raise money for a cause Carroll cared passionately about - improved professional training for educators who work with students with special needs. Carroll worked at the Institute as a Program Coordinator at the time of her death, and had worked for nearly two decades in Gray-New Gloucester High School.
Registration will begin at 8 am in the Commons at Pineland Farms. The 1K kids fun race will begin at 9 am, followed by the 10K road race and the 5K trail walk will begin at 9:30 am.

Congressman Tom Allen will be present and U.S. Senator Susan Collins is sending a flag that will be given to the team of walkers who raise the most money. Numerous local and greater Portland merchants have made cash and in-kind donations to support Cindy's Walk. At the completion of the events, a reception will be held which will include presentations to men and women placing first and second in their age groups, men and women placing in the top three overall, and prizes to participants who raise certain levels of contributions. There will also be raffles of numerous donated items. After the reception, The Spurwink Institute plans to dedicate its state-of-the-art technology classroom in Carroll's name.

Parents' night for fall athletics: Fall parents' night for High School athletes of Gray-New Gloucester will be Monday, June 14th at 6:30 pm in the east gym. All athletes, including current eighth graders, who wish to participate in fall athletics must attend.

Women's Conection: You and a friend are invitited to Women's Conection Monday, June 7 at 6:30PM. It will be at Cole Farms Restaurant in Gray. Kim Bolshaw from Skillin's Greenhouse will talk to us about our gardens, and Peg King will tell us about choices to remove doubt and fear. Kelly Ufkin will favor us with a violin solo. Come on out for an informative and enjoyable evening. Price $10.50. Call 926-3662 for reservations.

Come sing! The Royal River Chorus, based in Yarmouth, invites women of all ages to experience the joy of singing in unaccompanied 4-part harmony - barbershop style. The award-winning chorus, led by Master Director Christine Ferguson, welcomes women, especially in low voice parts, to join them as they prepare for an International Contest in New Orleans, LA in October, 2005. Rehearsals are each Thursday, 7-10 pm, at Harrison Middle School, McCartney St. Yarmouth. For information and directions visit www.royalriver.org or call Leigh at 846-4331.