BRIDGTON -The 10th annual Moonlight Charity Challenge will take place at Shawnee Peak on Friday, Jan. 28. Each team of four skiers raises at least $300 in order to compete, and for each additional $100 they raise, one second is shaved off the team’s combined time. The funds raised benefit Camp Sunshine and the Shawnee Peak Adaptive Skiing Program.

People can also sponsor a skier or buy a raffle ticket for an all-expenses paid trip for two to Jackson Hole, Wyo.

To participate, put a team together. The $300 donation includes a lift ticket, dinner, welcome bag, event T-shirt and entry into several raffles.

For more information visit www.campsunshine.org or www.shawneepeak.com/challenge/

Global warning

FALMOUTH – Maine Audubon will host a presentation about global warming at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 31, at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center.

Mark Hays, global warming outreach coordinator for the Natural Resources Council of Maine, and Jeff Wells, former bird conservation director for National Audubon, will address questions about Maine’s changing climate and its effect on people, birds and the environment as well as the state’s plan for action to address global warming.

The program is free. For more information, call 781-2330 or visit www.maineaudubon.org.

Applicants sought

AUGUSTA – The Agricultural Committee of the Maine State Grange is accepting scholarship applications for its agricultural scholarship.

To be eligible, applicants must be a Maine resident pursuing a career in agriculture or an agriculture-related field.

Applications are available at www.mainestategrange.org or may be requested by calling Maine State Headquarters at 1-800-464-3421. All applications must be completed in full and postmarked by April 30. Winners will be notified in writing by June 1. The winner will be awarded $500 after the completion of the first semester at the post-secondary level.

Scholarship

BRIDGTON – Maine Media Women is offering a competitive scholarship opportunity to communications-oriented, college-bound women. Women graduating from high school and college students of all ages, who are Maine residents may pick up their applications at guidance and financial aid offices. Maine students attending out-of-state colleges can download applications from the Web, www.mainemediawomen.org. Copies are acceptable.

The $700 scholarship will be awarded at the May conference. Applications must be received by April 1. If they cannot be located, contact Scholarship Committee Chairwoman Jude Stone, 9 Sanborns Grove Rd., Bridgton, ME 04009, and include a business sized, self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Seeking artwork

AUGUSTA – The Maine Arts Commission has announced a competition for artwork to be acquired by purchase or commission for the University of Maine at Presque Isle’s Caroline D. Gentile Health and Physical Education Complex.

Approximately $36,000 is available for the purchase of artwork through Maine’s Percent for Art law, which reserves 1 percent of the construction funds for state-funded building projects to provide artwork for the public areas.

The fixed amount must cover all design, fabrication, transportation, documentation and installation expenses, including any building or site modification associated with the artwork. All professional artists may apply for consideration. The school’s selection committee will choose the work.

For a prospectus, contact Donna McNeil, contemporary arts and public art associate at [email protected], visit the Maine Arts Commission’s Web page at http://www.mainearts.com/opportunities/opp_all.shtml or send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Percent for Art Competition, Maine Arts Commission, 193 State St., 25 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333. Deadline is Feb. 1.

Haystack classes

DEER ISLE – Haystack Mountain School of Crafts catalog is available and includes full course listings and instructor bios, application procedures and information on Haystack’s scholarship programs. The information will also be available on the Web site at www.haystack-mtn.org.

Haystack is an international, nonprofit studio program in the arts offering summer workshops to craftmakers and visual artists of all skill levels. The campus is a series of shingled buildings overlooking Jericho Bay. Shorter workshops are offered in the fall for Maine and New England residents. Tours of the campus are available by reservation every Wednesday at 1 p.m. beginning June 8. To request a catalog or for more information, interested people can call 348-2306 or e-mail [email protected].