Community News

Missionary to speak
Please Join Us In Welcoming Marilyn Laszlo
To the New Gloucester Bible Church , Rte 100 , New Gloucester, Maine, Saturday, June 3rd at 1 p.m. Marilyn will be speaking of her years spent in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, her trials and triumphs as a missionary in the field.

"On the island of Papua New Guinea there are over 700 languages - languages that are unwritten. Can you imagine never having seen your language written? Try to picture English as only a spoken language. How different our lives would be. It would mean, for one thing, that you would not have one single verse,of the Bible. That's the way it is with many of these language groups in Papua New Guinea. Actually, there are over 3,000 language groups in the world that have no written language. They have no alphabet - no books."

"That's the way it was in Hauna village - with the Sepik Iwam people. They have no idea that the words that come out of their mouths could be written down."

"I remember trying to get the word for tree. I was pointing to a tree and trying to get them to say the word for 'tree'. Finally they said, "Ana." So I wrote 'ana' (tree). My first word in the dictionary! Later, as I went around the village practicing the words I had collected, I pointed to a tree and said, "Ana." They shook their heads and laughed. Something was wrong. Later I discovered that 'ana' was the word for finger.

Births:

Zoe Josephine Coleman, born May 18, 2006, to Stacey Coleman and Jesse Coleman of Gray. Grandparents are Shawn and Nancy MacDonald of Gorham, and Shirley Dion and Robert Coleman of Vermont. Great grandparents are Ronnie and Bernice Coleman of Florida, Josephine Ciazzo of Gorham, Joan MacDonald of Norway, ME, and Polly and George Henderson of New Jersey. Congratulations!

Gray Birth

Natalie Faith Olsen was born on May 8 to Shannon Campbell and Ethan Olsen of Gray at The Birthplace at Mercy Hospital, Portland. Natalie's grandparents are Gary and Diane Olsen of Gorham and Kathy Baldacci, George Campbell of Portland. Welcome!

Original Poetry
Selected from Seventh Grade Gray-New Gloucester classes

My locker is yelling at me
By Isaiah Lambert

My locker is yelling at me
Make me squeaky clean
My locker is yelling at me
Do your math homework 5X3
My locker is yelling at me
My locker is like a nagging mom
My locker is yelling at me
Stop walking around and get to class

The Farm
By Jeremy Carter

The farm it's bad
It stinks
You feel like no one wants you
It is a living hell

Good Ol' Fish Stories
By: l<3V
Good Ol' fishin' times
On a bright beautiful calm sunny day
The lake so quiet and peaceful,
It helps me relax
Cause I'm stressful,
But as I go to my fishing spot,
I just pull up my seat,
Kick back and relax,
While I await my fish,
I just sit and think,
About all the good times while I fish
Then I start to reel and,
……BAM!
There's my fish
(By Kevin Saunders)

Skating
By Anonymous

Ohhh…God when is school gonna end.
I can't wait till the bell rings.
I'm gonna go across the street and skate so hard.
I hope someone shows up
I hate skating by myself.
The school bell rings
I'm out of here
Skate skate skate
That's all that's going on in my head
I go to the court yard and skate a little
But no one's there
I see a bench and decide to pull a krooxed grind of it
I ollie up to do the trick and I fall really hard
It hurt but I got back up and did it again
This time I landed it
It was hard as tryin' to wrestle a bull
But I landed it and had a great time
Even though no one showed up.

In the summer I go riding.
I start up my dirt bike
The sound is just beautiful.
I have a two stroke so it is loud
And it digs up the road
But I don't try.
So they get mad
Because
They don't like it when the road is dug up.
I don't mind because I'm just having fun.
I love to make names for my bikes
So for this one
I just might name it…
(Thor American God of Dirt)

Accolades

Local Residents Among 2006 Graduates of Salve Regina University
The following hometown residents were among the 569 graduates to be awarded degrees during Salve Regina University's 56th commencement held Sunday, May 21 on the oceanside lawn of McAuley Hall. In all, 569 degrees were awarded Sunday by President M. Therese Antone, including 449 bachelor's degrees, 105 master's degrees, seven certificates of advanced graduate studies and seven doctorates in humanities.

Raymond: Alyssa B. Higley, bachelor of science in accounting. Higley is a member of the national honor society for business, management and administration Sigma Beta Delta. Higley, the daughter of Jack and Karen Higley of Raymond, is a graduate of Westbrook High School.

Somma Graduates from St. Joe's

Danielle Somma of Gray recently graduated magna cum laude from the Math and Chemistry Departments at St. Joseph's College of Maine. She doubled in math and pre-Engineering. While at St. Joe's she worked part-time as a swimming instructor and lifeguard. Somma also played soccer and basketball for St. Joe's while maintaining a 3.18 Grade point Average. Her senior year she was named captain of her soccer team and received the Most Valuable Player award in the independent tournament for basketball. She will be continuing her education at Manhattan College in the fall where she will attain a civil engineering degree. Somma is a 2002 graduate of Gray-New Gloucester High School. She is the daughter of Joseph and Mary Somma of Gray.

Ramsdell graduates from St. Joe's
Darrin Ramsdell of New Gloucester graduated magna cum laude from Saint Joseph's College on May 13 with a B.S. in Biology. He also was awarded the Biology Department Award given to a senior for distinction in scientific research.

Spring semester Dean's List at Saint Joseph's College
The following students in The Monument's readership area were named to the Dean's List for the spring semester at Saint Joseph's College in Standish. The Dean's List includes students with a 3.5 to 4.0 grade point average.

Gray: Brenda Tame
Gray: Ashley Vadas
New Gloucester: Cheriann Plapis
New Gloucester: Darrin Ramsdell
North Yarmouth: Robert Eliason
Raymond: Alexandra Kanakis
Raymond: Tiara Sanborn
Raymond: Carla Santos