Scholarships

HARRISON – Lake Region Community Theatre is offering four scholarships to attend the Deertrees Theatre Festival student workshop.

Session 1, July 24 to 28 is for students age 14 to 18; Session 2, July 30 to Aug. 4 for students age 10 to 13 years; Session 3, Aug. 7 to 11, for students age 8 to 11 years.

All workshops are from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Deertrees Theatre. Applicants must apply to Lake Region Community Theatre. P.O. Box 221, Casco, ME 04015 before July 1. The application form is available at www.lrctme.org.

Writers’ conclave

BELFAST – A writers’ conference, “Write Away!” will be held Saturday, Aug. 5, at the First Baptist Church, sponsored by the Maine Fellowship of Christian Writers. It is open to everyone. Admission is $20.

The day will include a choice of workshops; small group discussions for those interested in fiction, nonfiction or poetry; a “Live Writers Society” when participants can read from their work; and professional critiques at a small additional fee.

Registration will open at 8:30 a.m., and the event will end at 5 p.m. Light refreshments and beverages will be provided, but conferees should take their own lunch.

For more information or a registration packet, e-mail Vicki Schad at jvschad@psouth.net, or Susan Davis at happyendings@ adelphia.net, or call Davis at 426-8851.

French course

ROCKLAND – Elisabeth Goodridge will teach summer French, a four-week language course offered by Penobscot School, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, June 27 through July 25. The fee is $120.

The course is framed as a refresher for those who are ongoing students of French and want to “keep in touch” with the language over the summer. The classes will include a review of basic grammar points, pronunciation and conversation.

To register, call 594-1084 or e-mail info@languagelearning. org. Learn more about the school at www.languagelearning.org.

Gem show

BETHEL – The 45th annual Western Maine Gem, Mineral and Jewelry Festival, sponsored by the Oxford County Mineral and Gem Association, will be held Saturday and Sunday, July 8 and 9, at Crescent Park School.

The show features a variety of dealers from Maine and across the United States. There will be guided field trips to local mines Saturday and Sunday, leaving at 11 a.m. for those who wish to try their hand at finding their own treasures. There will be hourly door prizes as well as a grand door prize at the end of the show.

For more information, contact Albert Holden by e-mail hgs@megalink.net or by calling 743-8729.

There will also be a mineral swap on Saturday, July 8, at 5:30 p.m. in the parking lot in front of the school.

Center to open

ROCKLAND – Audubon’s new Project Puffin Visitor Center will host a grand opening day on Saturday, July 1, featuring a ribbon-cutting ceremony with a human-size Captain Puffin and all-day activities that include a puffin-calling contest hosted by Maine radio personality Robert “Humble Farmer” Skoglund.

A joint project of the National Audubon Society and Maine Audubon, Project Puffin Visitor Center, located at 311 Main St., will offer visitors an easy-access storefront center to learn about Audubon’s Project Puffin and other seabird-conservation projects in Maine, and to find out where and how to see Maine birds and other wildlife.

Among the center’s educational exhibits is a big-screen Web broadcast of real-time images and sounds of puffins transmitted by a robotic on-island “puffin cam” that visitors can operate remotely from the center.

In advance of July 1, children and adults are invited to write a poem about puffins and send it to puffpete@clinic.net by Thursday, June 29. Selected poems will be read aloud and posted at the visitor center as part of grand opening festivities.

For more information about the day or the center, call 596-5566.

Hosts needed

ORONO – Families are needed to host an exchange student through Maine 4-H Youth Development. International students arrive in July. Month-long delegates depart in August and year-long high school students depart in June 2007.

Month-long delegates are matched with host siblings of same gender and similar age. Matching host siblings are not required for the high school delegates.

For more information and a hosting application, contact the local UMaine Cooperative Extension 4-H youth development educator or state 4-H international programs coordinator at 1-207-645-3248 or e-mail jcoffren@umext.maine.edu.

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