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GNG Optimist Club:Sweets for the Sweet! The Gray-New Gloucester Optimist Club would like to invite you and your children to the Gray Public Library on February 5 for a special story time and yummy Valentine's craft project. The Optimists will be there providing cookies for the children to decorate, one for themselves and one to brighten up someone else's day. As in years past, the "extra" decorated cookies will be delivered to residents at Gray Manor and Appletree Village. Please join us at the library's story time at 10:00 a.m., cookie decorating to follow.

Sleigh Rally! Skyline Farm's annual sleigh rally, driving demonstration and competition is scheduled for Saturday, February 12th from 12 - 3:30. Past year's rallies have seen horses and drivers from as far away as Vermont coming to play in the snow at Skyline Farm. But the event isn't just for the drivers; it's open to everyone. With the Museum open and refreshments available it's a fun opportunity for all of us to get out of the house on a winter's day. Come and get a taste of what winter driving used to be like! Horse drawn vehicle rides will also be available.

For more info, please email sleighrally@skylinefarm.org or call Mary Gray at 207-829-9908.

Four Chaplains Service: It is once again time to celebrate the gift of their lives the four chaplains gave to save troops on the U.S. troop ship Dorchester.

The family of The Gray American Legion Post #86; Legion, Auxiliary and Sons of the American Legion, cordially invite you to attend the Four Chaplains Service at our Post home. The time and place for the story to be told is February 6, 1:00 pm upstairs at 15 Lewiston Rd., Gray. It is not a lengthy story but a very moving one and our Auxiliary will kindly serve refreshments following the service. For more information please call Terry Prince-Tarsetti, 657-4235. Thank you.

Valentine Party! The New Gloucester Bible Church would like to invite your child to a Valentine Party! on Saturday, February 12, from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. at the New Gloucester Bible Church Fellowship Hall for ages 5 - 12. We will have a Valentine Bible Story, Songs, Fun and Games, Prizes, and Yummy Snacks! Bring a friend! It's Free! No pre-registration required. Just come! and join the fun! For more information please call Pastor Dan at 926-3140.
218 Lewiston Road, New Gloucester.

Sand for Seniors: Attention senior citizens! Are you tired of having to watch your footing as you walk from your house to your car this winter? The Gray-New Gloucester High School Octagon Club is offering a free service that provides having a student sand your driveway/walkway, you can call Chelsea Goldstein-Walsh at 657-3428. Leave a message if no one is available and someone will get back to you shortly. The service is free.
Beans and Ham: Saturday Jaunuary 29, from 4:45- 6 p.m. Beans, ham, coleslaw, potato salad, Italian bread, pies and beverages at Highland Lake Congegational Church 1303 Bridgton Road. Adults $6 Children under 12 are $2.

Attention all parents of children entering Kindergarten in September 2005
It is time to start Kindergarten pre-registration process. All parents of children that will be 5, on or before October 15th , 2005 please call the school in the town they live in and register their child for Kindergarten. This will allow the formal process of registering your child to begin. If you live in Gray please call Connie Holland at Russell School 657-4929. If you live in New Gloucester please call Cindy Leavitt 926-4322. We look forward to meeting you this spring.

New Gloucester Little League Registration on Feburary 1 from 6-8pm at the Memorial School Gym. For more information call Linda 926-5298.

Public Supper: February 5th 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. American Legion, 15 Lewiston Rd, Gray. Beans, Chop Suey, Cole Slaw, Hot Dogs, Brown & Italian Breads, Pies. Adults $5.00, Children U/12yrs $2.50; U/5 yrs free.

The Southern Maine Volkssport Association invites you to attend its monthly meeting to be held at 7 p.m. on February 9th, the second Wednesday of the month, at Walker Memorial Library, 800 Main St., Westbrook, Maine. Join us for an evening of food, fun and friendship. Come and find out what SMVA is all about. The meeting is open to all, and everyone is welcome. For any of our Year Round of Seasonal Events, please contact Denise Macaronas, at (207) 774-3415 or e-mail to dlmaca@juno.com.

The Lincoln Club of Portland, Maine: The Lincoln Club presents the 119th Annual Lincoln Day Dinner with speaker Kerck Kelsey, Author of "Israel Washburn: Maine's Little Known Giant of The Civil War,' on Saturday, February 5, 2005 at the Italian Heritage Club, 40 Westland Avenue, Portland. Menu choice: Beef or Fish. Social Hour: 6 p.m. Dinner Served: 7 p.m.

Card of Thanks

The Town of Gray office staff would like to thank all who participated In the Adopt a Family program, the businesses, people who donated money, food and gifts to make this program a success. Without these wonderful people 49 families would not have had a great Christmas. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, the people of Gray always come through.
They say it takes a village to raise a child, but we say it takes the people of Gray to make a child's Christmas wish come true. We love you all for being Santa's Elves.

The Town Office Staff

Area Student Participates in Hartwick's January Term Off-Campus Program

Oneonta, NY-Hartwick College sophomore Alyson V. Visser, of Gray, ME. daughter of Randolph and Janis Visser, is participating in the January Term Off Campus Program at Hartwick College in the Bahamas.

Hartwick students on the Bahamas trip will spend three weeks in residence at the Gerace Research Center on San Salvador Island, where they will explore the biology of the marine and terrestrial flora and fauna of the island. They will hike through the rugged scrub-forest communities in the island's interior, snorkel to several offshore reefs and sea grass and mangrove habitats, analyze plant communities, sample rocky intertidal communities, swim to an offshore island inhabited by iguanas, and descend into a water cave.

At Hartwick, Visser has participated in Ski Club.

Hartwick, an innovative, private, liberal arts and sciences college of 1,450 students, has emphasized the value of intercultural experience in its curriculum for over 30 years. As part of its Liberal Arts Practice approach to education, Hartwick is one of a small number of colleges that encourages its first-year students to study abroad during a between semesters January Term. Hartwick's study abroad program is ranked 18th in the nation among liberal arts colleges for percentage of students who study abroad.