Skating night
FALMOUTH – The Family Ice Center will celebrate its grand reopening from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at a Family Skating Night. The center will donate proceeds to the American Red Cross to help support relief efforts along the Gulf Coast.
Public skating fees are $5 a person for the night and children 5 and under skate free. Skate rentals are also available, and the skate shop will be open.
Skaters from the North Atlantic Figure Skating Club will perform in a free skating exhibition from 6:30 to 7 p.m. For more information about the center, visit www.familyice.org.
Pageant sign-up
AUBURN – Saturday Nov. 5, will be a sign-up day for potential contestants for the Miss Maine Scholarship Pageant in 2006 to be held at Fireside Inn. The contest is for single and never-married women who are high school graduates, age 17 to 24, United States citizens and residents and full-time student or full-time employee in the state.
Contestants will be asked to provide a short talent presentation and will participate in a mock interview. Mentors will be available to all contestants.
The pageant is the official state preliminary to Miss America. The Miss Maine Program is a not-for-profit volunteer-based program.
To find out more information, contact Laurie D. Cote, regional director, at 240-9258.
Receive awards
AUGUSTA – Three Maine artists have received the Maine Arts Commission Individual Fellowship Award. Lance Edmands of Kennebunk, Meredith Hall of Pownal and Andrea Sulzer of Brunswick will each receive a check for $13,000. Maine’s highest artistic honor is awarded annually after a juried process, which begins in June.
Filmmaker Edmands is being recognized for his film, “Vacationland.” Creative writer Hall is being recognized for a creative nonfiction piece called “Off the Map.” Visual artist Sulzer received the honor for a series of pencil, charcoal and ink drawings.
The fellowships are awarded every year on the basis of artistic excellence, to advance the career of the recipients and to promote public awareness of Maine artists. A reception will be held in their honor in October at the Bangor home of John Rohman, chairman of the Maine Arts Commission.
For more information, call 207/287-2724 voice or 877/887-3878 TTY/NexTalk.
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