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Thank you for serving

PFC Michael Ross is leaving January 9th for Fort Dix, New Jersey for two months' training. Immediately following training, Michael will be serving in Iraq for 18 months. Please stop in to the American Legion in Gray on Sunday, January 8th between 12:00 and 3 p.m. to wish him well.

Father And Son Team Win 'Logger Of The Year' Award

A father and son team, Jon and Aaron Mason of Hebron, Maine, were jointly honored recently with the 'Logger of the Year Award' at the Certified Logging Professional Banquet in Brewer, Maine. The Certified Logging Professional program is designed to train and certify loggers in safe, efficient and environmentally sound logging practices.

Voted for by their peers, the Masons received the Logger of the Year Award in the Conventional Logger category. Jon Mason & Son, Inc. is a Master Logger Company. Aaron is a licensed Forester. Both are very proud of their professions and enjoy the many positive aspects of working together, outside and with trees.

Jon Mason has logged for 30 years. Stuart Hall and Dave Griswold nominated Jon and Aaron as Logger of the Year.

Alan Stevens and Frank Mathews of Sydney received the Mechanical Logger of the Year Award and Ed Haverlock, Sr. of Olamon was presented with the Logger of the Year Award in the Contractor/Supervisor category.

CMMC hires new doctor

Daniel R. Lalonde, M.D., a fellowship trained interventional pain management specialist, has been appointed to the Central Maine Medical Center Medical Staff. He is the first specialist of his type in the area. He has opened the Central Maine Pain and Headache Center, which is part of Central Maine Neurology.

He specializes in the evaluation and management of pain and headache disorders, including: chronic pain from failed back or neck surgery; reflex sympathetic dystrophy and sciatica; peripheral neuropathy; complex migraine and chronic headache; and facial pain.

A Lewiston native, Mr. Lalonde graduated from Bates College and earned his medical degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

After completing an internship with the Department of Medicine at Maine Medical Center in Portland, he served a residency in neurology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. During the final year of his residency he served as chief resident.

Prior to returning to the Lewiston-Auburn area, LaLonde completed a pain management fellowship with the Department of Anesthesiology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. He also served a cerebrovascular fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center's Division of Neurology.

He is practicing from the offices of Central Maine Neurology at 287 Main Street Plaza, Suite 404, in Lewiston. The practice can be contacted at 795-2927 or 1-800-308-0460.

Free Introduction to Yoga, Tai Chi, Traveling Dance and Bones for Life classes

Join us at Fiddlehead Center for the Arts and learn how to release your tired muscles and strained mind with soothing classes in Yoga, Tai Chi, and Bones for Life. These fun and restorative classes will offer participants an opportunity to charge their inner batteries.

Through the use of gentle Yoga (no prior experience necessary), the relaxed graceful movements of Tai Chi, and the restorative movements of Bones for Life, participants will walk away with tools, practices, and concrete plans for living busy lives with greater peace, focus, and balance.

These classes are being offered to teens and adults, in all shapes and sizes, for dancers and non-dancers, yogis and non-yogis, or for those with two left feet! Contact us today to register for a free trial class at 688-2244. Classes will be held: Yoga: January 10 and 17 from 6:30 p.m. to 7;30. Tai Chi will be held January 11 and 18 from 6-7 p.m. Bones for Life will be held January 17 from 12-1 p.m.

Pine Tree Post Card Club

The January meeting of the Pine Tree Post Card Club was not held at the usual first Monday of the month. Weather permitting, we expect to meet on Monday, Feb. 6. 2006 at Cole Farms, upstairs, over the counter area, from 6-7:30 p.m. All are welcome.

Girl Scout Cookies: Empowering Girls Through Courage, Confidence, and Character

For nearly 90 years the Girl Scout Cookie Sale Program has continued and this year is no exception. This year's Girl Scout Cookie Sale Program will begin January 6. You can expect Girl Scouts in your town to be contacting you to place your order to support their troops in your community. Girls will be selling two new cookies this year: Thanks-A-Lot and Cartwheels. Favorites such as Caramel deLites, Peanut Butter Patties, Peanut Butter Sandwich, Shortbread, Lemon Pastry Cremes and, of course, Thin Mints will also be available!

Proceeds of the annual cookie sale program will allow Girl Scouts of Kennebec Council to continue to offer quality programs to more than 10,000 girls in ten counties of southern, central and western Maine. For more information about the Girl Scout Cookie Sale Program, please contact Carol Smith at 772-1177 or via email at carols@gskc.org.

Nominations Now Being Accepted for the 2006 Governor's Service Awards

AUGUSTA, Maine - The Office of the Governor, the Maine Commission for Community Service and Maine Volunteer Connection are pleased to launch the 18th annual Governor's Service Awards, announcing that nominations will be accepted through February 15, 2006. Winners will be announced by the Governor at a special ceremony at the State Capitol on April 24, 2006.
Official nomination forms, category listings, submission criteria, and procedures are available at VolunteerMaine.org or by calling 207-287-8933. Nomination packages must be postmarked no later than February 15, 2006, and may be sent by standard mail to Governor's Service Awards, c/o Maine Volunteer Connection, PO Box 372, Augusta, ME 04332.

Bean Supper

Public baked bean supper at AMVET Hall, New Gloucester, Rt. 100, Upper Village. Saturday, January 21, 5-6 p.m. Adults $6, children, $2. Beans, chop suey, cole slaw, biscuits, hot dogs, pie. FMI call 926-4402