Post meeting

RUMFORD – American Legion Post 24 and Auxiliary will have a meeting on Sunday, Oct. 2, at the post home on Congress Street. A light lunch will be served at 5 p.m. with meetings to follow at 6. Auxiliary members are asked to bring items for the food pantry.

Fall flotilla

GILEAD – Canoeists and other interested people are invited to join the Mahoosuc Land Trust in its annual Fabulous Fall Foliage Flotilla on Saturday, Oct. 1. The trek will begin at 9:30 a.m. and last approximately four hours.

Canoes will be put in at the Androscoggin River Bridge on Bridge Street in Gilead. Participants should register by calling 824-3806 and must provide their own canoe, personal flotation device and lunch. A shuttle will be provided to return to vehicles after the trek.

Class luncheon

RUMFORD – Members of the class of 1952 from Stephens High School will meet on Monday, Oct. 3, for the monthly luncheon. Members will meet at 11:30 a.m. at the home of Darlene Jamison, 293 Backkingdom Road, for a potluck lunch. For directions, call Darlene at 364-3402 or Barbara at 364-3470.

Tobacco support

RUMFORD – Wednesday, Oct. 7, River Valley Healthy Communities will sponsor a Tobacco Support Group at Rumford Hospital. The group will meet from 6 to 7 p.m. across from room 351 on the third floor. The group meets the first and third Wednesday of each month and is open to anyone seeking support to stay off the habit or is trying to kick it. Sign-up is not needed. For more information, contact Stephanie at 364-7408.

GOP speaker

BRYANT POND – Nate Walton, a Bates College student and chairman of the Maine College Republicans, will be the featured speaker at the Tuesday, Oct. 11, meeting of the Oxford County Republican Committee at Franklin Grange.

The session will begin with a 5:30 p.m. social hour and a 6:30 p.m. dinner followed by a business meeting and the speaker.

Walton is expected to outline the strategies and significant roles the college Republicans will play in electing a Republican governor and legislature in 2006. All area Republicans are invited.

Outing held

RUMFORD – Members of the Stephens High School class of 1949 met Sept. 28 for a luncheon outing at the Howard Pond summer home of Harry and Fran Burns.

Present were Gloria Brown Donahue, Greta Bryant Weston, Helen Chuzas, Mary Lou Fraser Fiske, Marion Gill Wyman, Ruperta Kerr Nichols, Marguerite Niles Welch, Lorraine Perry Nadeau, Merle Phelps, Marian Seeley Morton, Clayton Davis and Alden Wyman.

The next meeting will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, at Teena’s.

Art program

WOODSTOCK – Murad Sayen will share his insights on art, photography and rural Maine at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, at the Whitman Memorial Library. The program is free and open to the public.

Sayen lived in Bryant Pond for almost 20 years, and he photographed the area extensively. He also built one-of-a-kind “art knives” in his shop on Cushman Hill Road. He went to Penn State University and graduated with a degree in the philosophy of ethics, but he has painted since the age of 6 and has written three books, two of them novels.

Sayen’s photography book, “Maine, the Home Place,” was published in 2003 by University Press of New England.