WILTON – The Wilton Senior Citizens will continue to meet at the Seniors’ Cabin at Kineowatha Park during the month of September.

The cabin will be open at 11 a.m. for a picnic on your own and the meetings will start at 12:30 p.m.

Members are reminded that the group will not meet on Sept. 3 or 17.

New members and guests are always welcome.

Emblem Club

FARMINGTON – The first meeting of Farmington Emblem Club No. 460 for the fall will be held Thursday, Sept. 4.

The club will hold a potluck dinner at 6 p.m. to honor this year’s Citizen of the Year with the meeting to follow.

Retired teachers

RANGELEY – The Franklin County Retired Teachers Association will meet at 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 8, at the Church of the Good Shepherd.

For luncheon reservations, phone Verne Byers at 778-3495, Ken Marks at 778-5002 or Marjorie Collins at 864-2224 by Thursday, Aug. 28.

June Plummer will be in charge of a silent auction.

Public supper

INDUSTRY – The Clearwater Ministry Outreach will sponsor a public supper from 5 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, at the Industry Town Hall.

The menu includes yellow-eye or Jacob’s cattle baked beans, cole slaw, casseroles, homemade breads and strawberry shortcake.

Adults, $5; children under 12, $2.50.

Church to offer bean dinner

NEW SHARON – The New Sharon Congregational Church will offer a takeout bean dinner from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6.

The dinner includes one quart of baked beans, one pint of cole slaw, six dinner rolls and a pie for $12.

To reserve a meal, phone 778-2517 and leave a message or call Mary Harris at 778-2366.

Hawk-identification clinic

WILTON – Maine Audubon will hold a hawk-identification clinic starting at 7 p.m. Sept. 8 or 11 and field trip from 9 a.m. to noon on Sept. 20 or 21. Dates depend on hawk-watching conditions. Led by longtime Wilton resident and birding expert J. Dwight, this combined clinic and field trip program will get participants off to a great start in mastering the skills to tell often-confusing hawks apart.

The evening clinic will begin with a video to prime participants for a discussion of how to key in on comparative outlines, shapes and sizes. The field trip will put those newly learned skills into practice at a local hawk-watching site.

Limited to 12 participants, the clinic and trip are $25 for Maine Audubon members and $35 for nonmembers. For details and reservations, phone 781-2330.

Story time

WILTON – Preschool Story Time at the Wilton Free Public Library will resume at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9. Children, ages 3 to 5, accompanied by an adult, will have the opportunity to listen to stories and participate in related activities. Story times will be held weekly throughout the school year when school is in session.

For the month of September, the children’s room will have the 2002 Traveling Cream of the Crop book collection on display. Each year publishing houses send thousands of review copies of new children’s and young adult books to the Maine Examination Collection c/o The Southern Maine Library District. The books are reviewed at district monthly book review meetings by local librarians. A Cream of the Crop collection of the best titles published in the previous year is put together for display at the Maine Library conferences in the spring. After the conferences, the collection travels to libraries throughout the state for one year.

Kindergarteners from the Cushing School will have a story time once a month at the library. Parents are asked to come into the library to obtain a library card for their child. Proof of residency is required at the time.

For more information, phone the library at 645-4831.

Reading circle

FARMINGTON – The Franklin County Children’s Task Force, as part of its’ Bullying/Teasing Prevention Program, will offer a parent reading circle to discuss relational aggression.

The parent Reading Circle will meet from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays for 12 weeks beginning Sept. 17 at the Franklin County Children’s Task Force. Relational aggression is defined as behavior that is intended to hurt someone by harming their relationship with others.

The reading circle will focus its’ discussions of relational aggression around recent books and a video, however, participants will also actively be involved in hands-on activities.

Parents are encouraged to bring their sons and daughters to make them part of the process of recognizing and addressing this unique form of bullying.

It is free and child care and refreshments are offered. Space is limited so phone the Franklin County Children’s Task Force at 778-6960 or 1-888-429-6960 to reserve a spot.

Test workshop

KINGFIELD – Cindy Kemble of the University of Maine at Farmington will make a presentation at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, at the SAD 58 Superintendent’s Office.

Kemble, assistant director of programs in charge of CLEP services at UMF, will speak to potential student testers and to all other school personnel who can encourage students to take these tests to advance their careers into college, or for those adults who would like to have career advancement.

The tests are given at UMF, and Kemble schedules the tests, which may be taken in composition and literature; foreign languages, French, German or Spanish; history and social sciences; science and mathematics; and business. All tests are administered on computer.

Phone Pilar Bates at the Adult Education office in Kingfield at 265-5511, ext. 28 to sign up for this informational meeting.

Basket beano

FARMINGTON – The Farmington Elks Lodge will sponsor a basket beano on Sunday, Sept. 21, at the Elks Lodge in West Farmington. The doors will open at 11 a.m. and beano will start at 1 p.m. All proceeds will benefit LEAP, Inc. and its non-Medicaid funded programs.

Seating is limited to 180 participants and reservations are suggested. Tickets will be $15 each. There will also be raffles, penny beano and refreshments available. The prizes are Longaberger Baskets filled with generous donations from local businesses and individuals.

For more information or to reserve a ticket phone Marjorie Taylor at 778-3443, ext. 101, or Pam Holt at 345-9752.

LEAP is a private nonprofit agency which provides community and residential support to people with developmental disabilities and mental retardation in western and central Maine and their families for 23 years.