AUBURN – The Abused Women’s Advocacy Project fall conference, titled “Domestic Violence: A Coordinated Community Response,” is postponed until May 13, 2008. The conference had been scheduled for Tuesday. The agenda and workshops for the rescheduled conference will, as far as possible, be the same on the new date. Contact 795-6744 for more information.

Scout Jamboree

OXFORD – Maine Jamboree 2007 will be held Friday through Sunday, Oct. 19 to 21, at the Oxford County Fairgrounds. It will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Scouting. Saturday night there will be live music featuring “The Mystics” with fireworks and a laser light show. Tickets will be $8 at the door.

Learning Tree

AUGUSTA – Project Learning Tree, an award winning international environmental education program, is celebrating its 30th anniversary in Maine this month. Gov. John E. Baldacci has issued a proclamation declaring Thursday, Oct. 18, as “Project Learning Tree Day.”

On Thursday and Friday, Oct. 18 and 19, the Northern Forest Center’s mobile museum, “Ways of the Woods,” will be parked at the State House. School groups are being scheduled to tour and the public may also attend.

From 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, the public is welcome to join Maine Project Learning Tree as it celebrates its 30th anniversary at the Augusta Country Club, Route 202, Manchester. Keynote speaker will be Gina McCarthy, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. A donation of $25 is requested.

Maine Project Learning Tree’s annual conference will wrap up the celebration on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 19 and 20, at Tanglewood 4-H Camp in Lincolnville. Call 621-9872 for reservations or information and any of the events.

Fort open house

AUGUSTA – Old Fort Western, the 1754 National Landmark fort, store and house museum on the riverfront in downtown Augusta, will announce its new 19th Century Initiative on Saturday, Oct. 20.

The announcement will be made during the fort’s fall open house from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Oct. 20.

The initiative purpose is to expand the fort’s interpretive period from its current 1810 end date to 1920, the year the fort ceased to be a tenement house. The result will be better documentation of the hitherto overlooked 110 years and better access to more of the city’s history.

The open house will be followed by a traditional New England fall dinner served at 6 p.m. in the fort’s learning gallery at City Hall.

The open house is free. The cost of the dinner is $15 a person for Friends of Old Fort Western and $25 a person for nonmembers. Preregistration for the dinner is required. The registration and payment deadline is Monday, Oct. 15. For details, call 626-2385. Learn more about the fort’s history and programs at www.oldfortwestern.org.

Seeking princess

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Maine State Society of Washington, D.C., seeks candidates for Maine’s Cherry Blossom princess to represent the state and the society in the 61st annual National Cherry Blossom Festival from April 6 through 12, 2008.

Neither a beauty pageant nor talent competition, the festival is an opportunity for a young Maine woman to represent Maine and the society in the nation’s capital.

Candidates must be at least 19 and not have reached their 25th birthday at the time of the festival, be a Maine native or the daughter, granddaughter, sister or niece of a Maine native, or have other longtime, significant Maine connections, be at least a high school graduate and knowledgeable about Maine, have never been married, have no children and must be available for the entire festival week.

Information and princess applications may be obtained from the Maine State Society of Washington, D.C., 3434 Upside Court, Falls Church, Va. 22042-4019 (703-237-1031). Completed applications must be received by the society not later than Dec. 21.