Breast cancer walk

TOPSHAM – Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walks, taking place on Sunday, Oct. 16, will raise funds to support ongoing breast cancer research, early detection outreach and awareness programs.

Money raised at Making Strides events helps fund research. In Maine, the society is funding Tatyana Golovkina, Ph.D, staff scientist at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, with a $720,000, four-year research grant. To receive a registration packet or to become involved with a Making Strides event, call Donna Muto at the American Cancer Society at 207-373-3703, or 800-464-3102, press 3.

Planting workshop

UNITY – A flower bulb planting and garlic growing workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Thursday, Oct. 20, at the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association’s Common Ground Education Center. Suggested donation is $5.

Kip Penney of Fedco Bulbs will teach how to prepare beds, plant and mulch. Chris Cavendish of Fishbowl Farm will speak on growing garlic. For more information, call MOFGA at 568-4142 or visit the Web site at www.mofga.org.

4-H volunteers

PARIS – The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is seeking adult volunteers to work with 4-H program youth ages 5 to 19. “We need people who have an interest in spending time with young people and who want to learn with them,” said Lois Pike, 4-H youth development volunteer. Any adults interested in helping should call Susan Jennings, Extension educator at the Oxford County Cooperative Extension office, at 743-6329 or 1-800-287-1482.

Scout recruitment

PORTLAND – More than 175 new Cub Scouts joined local troops and packs as part of Abnaki District’s Race into Scouting Fall Recruitment Drive. Throughout the month open houses and sign-up nights were held, giving boys in Androscoggin and Oxford counties the opportunity to become involved with Scouting. Cub Scouting is for boys either 7 years old or in first grade through fifth grade. For more information on how to get involved with Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting and Venturing, contact Abnaki District Executive Matt Mower at 797-5252, ext. 33, or mmower@bsamail.org.

Preservation group

AUBURN – The next quarterly meeting of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 28, at the Woman’s Literary Union, 19 Elm St. The commission meets quarterly to nominate buildings, sites and districts to the National Register of Historic Places.

For more information, contact the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, 55 Capitol St., 65 State House Station, Augusta, 04333, telephone 287-2132.

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