Thyroid cancer talk

SOUTH PORTLAND – The Cancer Community Center will welcome Dr. Robert Bing-You a specialist from the Maine Centers for Endocrinology and Diabetes in Scarborough, and Lisa Southwick, a thyroid cancer survivor, for an evening of discussion focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer, as well as strategies and resources for thyroid cancer patients, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, at 778 Main St.

Call the Cancer Community Center to register at 774-2200 or toll free at 1-877-774-2200. For more information, visit www.cancercommunitycenter.org.

Flu shots set in Westbrook

WESTBROOK – The Muscular Dystrophy Association will offer flu shots to people who have any of more than 40 neuromuscular diseases the association covers in its research and services programs.

The association has provided flu shots nationwide for decades. In Maine, it has two clinics: Maine Medical Center Clinic and Eastern Maine Medical Center Clinic. It can provide reimbursement for a flu shot to those who are registered with the association.

Contact the Maine MDA office for more details at 1-800-339-3749. In addition, those attending the clinic at Eastern Maine Medical Center may obtain a flu shot during their regularly scheduled appointment.

For more information about how to obtain a flu shot for someone with a neuromuscular disease, call the MDA office in Westbrook or visit www.mda.org.

Women’s conclave

BANGOR – The Bangor Ramada Inn will be the site of “Women Connecting 2006: Field, Forest and Self,” a conference to celebrate 10 years of the Maine Women’s Agricultural Network, the Women and the Woods program and women’s networks, on Dec. 8, 9 and 10.

The conference will focus on expanding the success of women in agriculture by building marketing and business skills and teaching about risk management, woodland management, food science and safety and accessing money and land.

For a conference brochure and registration form, call 353-5550 or visit http://www.umaine.edu/umext/wagn/anniversaryconf.htm.

Freeport school open house

FREEPORT – The Maine Classical Christian School, beginning its seventh school year, will host a family night open house from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, at the First Baptist Church of Freeport and at Maine Classical Christian School, 183 Main St. The school offers full-time grades kindergarten to 10 instruction and supplemental instruction for students in grades 11 and 12.

The Lower School will perform in the First Baptist Church sanctuary from 6:30 to 7:15 followed by refreshments and lower school displays in the classrooms next door and upper school displays in the church vestry. For more information, contact Doug Carr, headmaster, at 865-6820.

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