Christian program

PARIS – Christian Women United will meet for lunch at 11:30 a.m. at the First Congregational Church, East Main Street. The speaker will be Debbie Andrews of Norway, who will also provide the music. If anyone has not been contacted, but would like a reservation, they may call Pearl Anderson at 743-5724.

Flea market

LOVELL – A flea market and bake sale will be held 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 13, at the United Church of Christ. The sale will include crafts, antiques, furniture and Girl Scout cookies. Lunch will be available. For more information or table rental, people can call Claire Walker at 925-2171 or Linda Libby at 925-3661.

Girl Scout cookies

OXFORD HILLS – Over 21,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies have arrived in the Oxford Hills area. Favorites such as shortbread, thin mints, caramel delights and low-fat lemon pastry crmes are available. There is also a new flavor this year, the pinata, an oatmeal cookie topped with strawberry jam. People interested in ordering cookies can call Kathy Keene at 743-2616 or Diana Phillips at 743-7014 for help finding their closest Girl Scouts.

Contest for girls

OXFORD HILLS – Girls ages 9 through 18 are invited to participate in the “Turn Beauty Inside Out, Maine” poster contest. It’s sponsored by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Gender Project with the support of the Maine Women’s Fund to creatively challenge many of the current media messages that tell girls they need to be prettier, thinner and sexier to be beautiful or even to be okay. Deadline for submission of a poster is March 26. Prizes will be awarded in three age categories: 9 to 11 years old, 12 to 14 and 15 to 18. First prize will be $75. Second prize will be $25 in each category. Posters should illustrate new and visible stories about who the girls are, and what it means to be female and beautiful in the world today. For more information, people an visit the Web at www.umaine.edu/umext/genderproject.