LEWISTON – The Ladies of St. Ann Sodality of Holy Family Parish will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, in the church hall. They will hold election of officers, and 10 senior members reaching 70 will be honored with life membership certification.

Tickets for the Sodalist of the Year banquet to be held at the Ramada Inn on Sunday, May 18, will be on sale. Tickets may be obtained from any of the officers.

Speaker will be Eric Lynes, account executive of the American Red Cross-Blood Services. He will talk on issues relating to the blood program, donating blood, patient needs and the future of blood supply as well as supplying blood for troops in Iraq.

Refreshments will be served by Flo Marquis assisted by Jackie Veilleux.

Lodge degree

AUBURN – Ashlar Lodge 105, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, will hold the annual Past Master’s Night on Monday, April 14, at the Auburn Masonic Temple, 1021 Turner St. The past masters will work a Master Mason Degree. There will be a 6:30 p.m. supper and the work will begin at 7:30. For more information contact Steve Peterson at 777-1728.

DAR luncheon

BOWDOIN – Regent Jayne Bickford announces that the Burnt Meadow Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, will host a luncheon meeting beginning at noon Saturday, April 19, at the home of Mrs. George Byras, Litchfield Road.

Honored guests will be the DAR Good Citizens and recipients of the National Defense Medals from Oak Hill and Lisbon high schools and their parents. Marion Spear, chairwoman, DAR Good Citizen Committee, and Joanne Coombs, chairwoman, National Defense Committee, will be in charge of the program. The speaker will be Ed Nunery, guidance counselor at Lisbon High School.

Holy Week

OXFORD – The Oxford Congregational Church will hold a service at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 17, with the Mechanic Falls Congregational Church. A sunrise service will be held at 7 a.m. Sunday, April 20, in Mechanic Falls with breakfast at 8. The Oxford Easter service will be at 10 a.m. that day only. There will be a children’s program.

Seeks families

LEWISTON – The Pacific Intercultural Exchange Program is seeking host families for high school exchange students for the school year. The students, ages 15 to 17, come from many countries. For more information, call J. Taylor at 782-4321.

Attend demo

BETHEL – Gould Academy recently hosted Maine educational technology directors, administrators and librarians, including Ashley Hayes, Lisa Cooper and Randy Swift of SAD 52 in Turner, for a daylong tour and demonstration of the school’s Linux-based academic network.

“Linux is a free operating system that is quickly gaining in popularity among school districts as the matters of software licensing costs, network manageability and security grow in importance,” said Derek Dresser, Gould’s technology director. The Linux system has been the operating system of the Gould Academy network for nearly two years.

Dresser discussed Linux, then built a Linux terminal server from scratch. Participants were then taken on a tour of Gould’s network facilities and labs and later were able to use the Linux software.