Wegeners’s meeting

HALLOWELL – The spring meeting of the Maine Chapter of the Wegener’s Granulomatosis Association will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 11, at the Granite Hills Estates. Speaker will be Dr. Tom Murray, who will discuss the long-term side effects of Wegener’s medications.

A light lunch will be available after the meeting at the estates for a nominal fee. A head count will be needed for the lunch. Those interested should call Dick Burns.

Correctional group plans conference

WATERVILLE – Dr. Steve Steurer, Correctional Education Association executive director, Lanham, Md., will be the keynote speaker at the 17th annual Maine Adult Correctional Education Conference on Thursday, May 12, at John Martin’s Manor.

The conference will bring together academic and vocational teachers from the state prisons and county jails, along with adult education directors, jail and prison staff, and representatives from Literacy Volunteers of America, Maine Council of Churches and Maine Departments of Education and Corrections.

Nine correctional education workshops will be presented throughout the day. For more information, those interested should call 474-6086 or e-mail at [email protected].

Tree ID walk

GORHAM – The University of Maine Cooperative Extension invites the public to join John Waters, USM arborist, as he leads a free tree identification walk around the University of Southern Maine Arboretum in Gorham, from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, May 20 (rain date is Friday, June 3). The group will gather in front of Corthell Hall on the University of Southern Maine Gorham Campus (at the rhino statue).

The Arboretum contains approximately 87 tree and shrub species. The tour is an organized outing of the Maine Tree Club. The club is designed to equip people, young and old, for identifying 50 trees of Maine over a two-year period. Call the Cooperative Extension in Cumberland County at 1-800-287-1471 before Monday, May 16, to register.

Bottle drive

SANFORD – The Pine Tree State Country Music Association has an ongoing bottle drive at the Airport Redemption Center, Route 109, to help with cost of volume two of the “Country Music Artists of Maine” book.

Volume one was completed and put in the permanent records of major libraries last May. It includes 84 Maine artists. A paperback edition is available for $19.95.

Those wishing can leave bottles at the Airport Redemption Center and tell them they are for the association.

Members will hold the sixth annual awards show on Sunday, May 22, at the Roost, West Buxton.The fourth annual Memorial Dick Curless Scholarship Show will be held on June 5 at Thompson Community Center in Union.

For more information, call Joan Cole, executive director, at 490-1232.