WINDHAM – Riding To The Top, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing therapeutic horseback riding services to children and adults with physical, emotional and/or learning disabilities, will have a groundbreaking ceremony for the new year-round therapeutic riding facility at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15, at the RTT Farm.

The facility is part of a $1.4 million capital campaign to fund the expansion of therapeutic programming, create a year-round facility at the Windham farm and establish an operating endowment.

Teddy Bear Dance

SOUTH PARIS – The Swingin’ Bears Square Dance Club will have its annual Teddy Bear Dance from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, to support Right Start Christmas for Kids. All who attend contribute a teddy bear or stuffed toy that will go to children who might not otherwise get a Christmas present.

Last year Right Start Christmas for Kids served more than 750 children and expect more children on their list this year.

The dance will be at Oxford Hills Middle School, Pine Street. All new square dance beginners are invited to the class level dance. Plus level dancing and round dancing will also be offered with A1 and Intermission. Caller will be John Thompson; cuer, Scott Williams.

For more information call Sue Corning, South Paris, at 743-7176, or Eleanor Herrick, Auburn, at 782-4050.

Journalism award

WINDHAM – The Maine Library Association is collecting nominations for the 2005 Maine Library Journalism Award. The award, sponsored by the MLA Communications committee, will be awarded to the best media piece printed or broadcast in 2004 to meet the award’s criteria.

The winning entry is selected on the basis of originality, timeliness and relevance to Maine libraries. Nominations can be in print, audiovisual or electronic format, and can be second-party or self-nominated.

Nomination forms can be found at http://mainelibraries.org/awards/entry.htm, and should be mailed, with the nominated entry, to the person and address listed above no later than July 31, 2005. E-mail submission is also welcome, provided all the information from the nomination form and the nominated entry are included in the e-mail.

For more information, link to http://mainelibraries.org/awards/journal.htm or contact Sally Bannen.

Project grant

PORTLAND – Project Re-Seed, Maine, a program that provides volunteer assistants for science teachers in middle schools, can expand, thanks to a grant from the IEEE life member foundation. IEEE is the nation’s principal technical society for electronic and electrical engineers.

The Maine program is a spin-off from Project Re-Seed, founded at Northeastern University in Boston 12 years ago. The program has been active in southern Maine schools for the last eight years. With the help of the grant, it can expand the program in midcoast and southern Maine.

The program is seeking retired engineers or scientists, or those with free time during the school day. Classroom volunteers should have a science or engineering degree and considerable experience in the practice of that specialty. After a brief training, the project will match volunteers with a school or teacher in a convenient geographical area.

For more information, call Miriam Remar, volunteer coordinator, at 772-8007 or e-mail [email protected].