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Chicken Pie Sale

Sabbathday Lake Grange will have Chicken Pies for sale on Saturday, February 18th. To order, call Pam Dyer, 657-4612 by Thursday, February 16th. Price is $7 each or 2 for $12. Pick up between 10:00 am and noon on the 18th at the Grange Hall on the old Rte 26 in New Gloucester.

Public Baked Bean Supper

At AMVET Hall, Rt. 100, New Gloucester, Sat., Feb. 18, 5-6 p.m. Beans, chop Suey, Hot Dogs, Cole Slaw, Biscuits, Brown Bread, Pie. Adults, $6, Children $2. FMI call 926-4402.

Good News For All Maine Women

PROP's The Women's Project Offers No-cost Mammograms and Pap Tests. Maine women, age 40 and over may receive no-cost services if they have no insurance, if their insurance does not cover these tests or if they have a high deductible and meet certain income requirements. For enrollment information please contact The Women's Project at People's Regional Opportunity Program (PROP) - 1-800-698-4959, Extension 324.

The Mid Coast Women's Connection presents: How To Believe In Your Dreams and Make Them Come True
with Rhoda Mitchell at the Topsham Public Library. Tuesday, February 14th from 5 to 7 p.m. Admission is free. Rhoda Mitchell, M.Ed., is a Life Coach who helps individuals to be successful in their lives and work. She is also a popular speaker and teacher on topics related to success and empowerment.

Sleigh Rally!

Skyline Farm's annual sleigh rally, driving demonstration and competition is scheduled for Saturday, February 11th (raindate 12th) from 12 - 3. In addition to the Sleigh Rally, Skyline Farm is pleased to announce the opening of their newly constructed Carriage Museum and Visitors' Center featuring their first museum exhibit "Sleighing through Time." Admission is $5 per person and includes admission to the museum exhibit. The museum exhibit will also be open to the public February 11, 18, & 26 and March 5, 11, 19, and 26th for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more info, please email sleighrally@skylinefarm.org or call Mary Gray at 207-829-9908.

Pancake Breakfast

Poland Fire Rescue Benevolent Association Annual Pancake Breakfast, Sunday February 19th, 7 a.m.-11 a.m. Poland Community School RT.26 Poland, ME. $5 per person, children 6 and under free.

USM February Events

If you need special accommodations to participate fully in these programs, contact the number following each event. Persons who are hard of hearing or deaf can call USM's TTY number, 780-5646.

Wednesday, February 8
Interfaith Maine Pot Luck Dinner and discussion on "Sharing Our Interfaith Stories: The Conflict Between Faith and Modernity," 6 p.m., Woodbury Campus Center, Portland, free and open to the public, FMI contact Interfaith Chaplain Andrea Thompson McCall at 228-8284.

Wednesday, February 8
Lecture, "'Be a Good Wife and Mother and Do for Others' - Black Women, Motherhood, and Voluntary Activity in Bangor and Portland, Maine, 1900-1945," 7 p.m., 7th floor, Glickman Family Library, Portland, free and open to the public, 780-4289.

Wednesday, February 15
"Discovering Malaga Island: African American History in Maine," featuring a program on the plight of the African-American settlement off Maine's coast in the early 1900s, drumming by Michael Wingfield & USM students, and vendors representing the African Diaspora. 5-8 p.m., Luther Bonney Auditorium, Portland, free and open to the public, 780-4006.

Skating

Public skating at Hebron Academy's Robinson Arena will be on Sundays through March 12, from 2:30-4:30 p.m., except for February 19, when the hours will be from 12-2 p.m. Cost is $2 for adults, $1 for ages 12 and under.


The Down East Country Music Association

Presents A Country Sunday Show on Sunday, February 26th. 2006
from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. @ Charlies Entertainment Center on Main Street Norway. Maine Entertainment By Tennessee Bound "DECMA STARS" for your Listening and Dancing pleasures Dirigo Highway Band W/ Brian Gelina & Cliff Randall & Mandy Garnette, Dell Parker, Country Jim Palmer, Lolalee Dillingham, Shirley Jean & Tina Sue, James Harriman, Potourri (Connie Fletcher & Brenda Bond), Amie Bailey, Gary Leet & Elizabeths Country Drifters, Melissa French, Heather Hanscom, Don Thibodeau, Roped & Branded, Glen Weeks, Barry Wood, Cash Bar ---Food---Chinese Auction-----50/50 Drawing-----Pie Auction, 19" Color TV(DVD player), Excerise Bike
Avon Gift Basket, Admission---$5.00 for members & Seniors, $6.00 for Non-members, $2.00 for Children Under 12, For more info...call 743-2922 (Shirley/Dean) 793-8884 ( Jackie ) 674-2571 (Lolalee), Performers Are Subject to change without Notice

Card of Thanks

The Town of Gray would like to thank St. Gregory's Parish for their food donation to the Town of Gray food closet.


 



 



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