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Postponed - Yard Sale / Car Wash

Gray-New Gloucester Football has postponed their Yard Sale / Car Wash, originally scheduled for Saturday, July 23, 9-3. The event will be rescheduled to this fall, date to be determined.

Ink Cartridge/Cell Phone Recycling Fundraiser

Do you have used ink cartridges or cell phones that you're planning on throwing away? The Gray-New Gloucester Patriot Football Program has begun its Ink Cartridge (inkjet or laser) / Cell Phone Recycling Fundraiser and we would love to collect yours! Please see our web site at GNGFootball.org or call or email Tammy (831-4182 or GNGFootball@aol.com) for a list of eligible cartridges and cell phones, or to arrange pick-up.

Contours Express, located in Gray Plaza, and the New Gloucester News, located downstairs at the New Gloucester Library, have also kindly allowed us to place a drop-box at their facilities should you be in the area and wish to drop yours off. This is an easy, environmentally responsible way to help local kids by supporting a worthwhile program, so please call today!

Attention All Parents of Children Entering Kindergarten September 2005

We are asking all parents of children that will be 5 years old, on or before October 15th, 2005 to call James W. Russell Elementary School (657-4929) to register their child for the upcoming Kindergarten screening on August 11th. Please call Connie Monday-Friday (7:30-4:00). We look forward to meeting you.

Crystal Lake Association Annual Meeting

The Crystal Lake Association will hold its annual meeting on Wednesday, July 27th at St Gregory's Parish Hall. You are welcome to come at 6:30 p.m. to pay dues, enjoy some lemonade and cookies, browse through the displays or purchase a t-shirt. The business meeting will begin at 7 p.m. We will have a member of the Little Sebago Lake Association speak to us about the milfoil situation in their lake and how they are dealing with it. We will also hear from representatives from the Royal River Youth Conservation Corps on their progress with correcting erosion sites around Crystal Lake. We will also have our regular business meeting and election of officers. We hope you will all make an effort to attend.

Discounted Septic Tank Pumping for Crystal Lake Association Members
The Crystal Lake Association will, again this year, offer sept
ic tank pumping at considerable savings to our members. Pumping is recommended about every three years. The discount is based on having 10 tanks pumped. If we have 10 members sign up the price will be $185. Pumping will take place in August. If you are interested please call Cheryl Welch at 657-4054 or E-mail me at KL7@netzero.net .

G-NG Class of 1995 10th Year Reunion

Saturday, August 13th, 2005 at Pineland Farms, The Commons, 59 Pineland Dr. New Gloucester, ME from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Please e-mail your present address to:
gng1995 @yahoo.com or RSVP to Class Reunion c/o S. Blanchard P.O. Box 562 Gray, ME 04039. Cost; $15 single / $25 couple

Wanted Women Ages 40-64

Free mammograms and pap tests through the Maine Breast and Cervical Health Program. For more information, call 874-8942 or 1-800 350-5180.

Clutterer's Anonymous

Is your Clutter unmanageable? Are you having a hard time getting organized? Do you find it impossible to throw anything away? Do you have goals and visions that cannot be realized due to clutter around your house or in your thoughts? Check out Clutterer's Anonymous, Sundays at 7 p.m. at Unity Church, 54 River Rd. Windham, FMI 1-866-800-3881 or on the web at www.clutterersanonymous.net

Maine's Celebration of the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act

July 26, 2005. Capitol Park, Augusta Maine, 10 a.m. until 3 rain or shine.
Exhibitors from organizations and agencies around the state bringing displays and information to share with the public will be at the event, activities including a story and conversation circle, face painting for children, lunchtime speakers, prize drawings, demonstrations of abilities, and more will be available. The public and especially the communities of people with disabilities are invited to bring lunch, spend a day in the park, and participate.

Celebrations of this anniversary are occurring simultaneously nationwide. For more information, contact Steve Hoad by Email at mainefun40@hotmail.com or by telephone at 207.445.2141.

Quilt Show

28th Annual Quilt Show, July 29, 30, 31, Augusta Civic Center, Augusta, Maine. Events include: Workshops, Charity Quilt Auction, Antique Quilts Exhibit, Quilt Appraisals, Free Demonstrations, Door Prizes and more! FMI contact Solange Kellermann, 577-0648/774-4728 or visit www.mainequilts.org

Featured speakers at the festival will be Karen and Michael Iacobbo, authors of Vegetarian America, A History.

Those Damned Yankees

New Gloucester, Maine (May 2005) - Islandport Press is pleased to announce the release of Those Damned Yankees: The Not-So-Great History of Baseball's Evil Empire by Clarke Canfield. Countering the myth of New York Yankee infallibility, this new book relates the trials and tribulations of baseball's most hated team and serves as the definitive guide for those who hate them. The book was released June 8.

Those Damned Yankees is available for $ 15.95 at bookstores or directly from Islandport Press at 207-688-6290. For more information on this and other titles, please visit www.islandportpress.com.

Maine based Islandport Press in New Gloucester publishes quality books about the state of Maine and New England. Other recent titles include Nine Mile Bridge: Three Years in the Maine Woods by Helen Hamlin, The Cows Are Out! Two Decades on a Maine Dairy Farm by Trudy Chambers Price, A Moose and a Lobster Walk Into a Bar by John McDonald, Silas Crockett by Mary Ellen Chase, When I'm With You by Elizabeth Elder and Leslie Mansmann, and In Maine by John N. Cole.

Reminder

High School Athletes-Fall sports begin on August 15th-current physicals (within 2 years) must be on file at the school and medical release forms must be completed and signed before you will be able to participate in any sport. Any questions please contact the Athletic office at 657-3323.