LEWISTON – Chapter Martel, Association Canado Americaine, will meet at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, at the Frye School Home hall, 140 Ash St., rear entrance through Horton Street. Members and guests are invited. Games will be held after the meeting.

Winter walk

AUBURN – The 11th annual Winter Walk against Violence will be held from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, in the Auburn Mall. Pledges provide services for victims of domestic violence in Franklin, Oxford and Androscoggin counties. The walk covers about five miles, all inside the Auburn Mall. There will be a rest stop with snacks and drinks along the route.

All entrants will receive a free 2004 walk ice scraper. Collect $100 in pledges and get a free long-sleeved T-shirt and $150 for a fleece scarf. For a pledge form or to make a donation, contact Kelly or Carol at 743-5806 or 795-6744.

Fund-raiser

WALES – The Webster Masonic Temple Association will host a public bean and casserole supper from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, at the recently renovated Wales Grange Hall, Centre Road.

Members hope this will be the first of several suppers to raise money to extend the renovation and restoration work under way. The hall is now home to Wales Grange 40, Webster Lodge 164, AF and AM, Lakeside Chapter 60, OES, and the Wales Ridge Runners Snowmobile Club.

Extensive remodeling and restoration work, begun last April, awaits further funding for completion. The association has been a prime mover in the effort to preserve the 1896 building and members hope to raise needed funds through suppers and other community-based events.

Cost for the meal will be $5.50 for adults and $3.50 for children under 12.

Church slides

DURHAM – The Durham Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, at the Durham Elementary School. Christi Mitchell, architectural historian of the Maine Historic Preservation Committee, will show slides of the West Durham Methodist Church.

Newly released books by the Androscoggin Historical Society will be presented to the Durham group. “Androscoggin County, Maine: A pictorial Sesquicentennial History, 1854-2004” and “Ainobak: A Story of Indigenous People in Androscoggin County” are available for purchase at the Durham Town Office.

The public is invited, and refreshments will be served.