Collecting food

OTISFIELD – Otisfield Community School sixth-grader Jared Jacobs is collecting donations of non-perishable food items, household goods, paper products and health care items for less fortunate families. Donations can be dropped off at Otisfield School on Powhattan Road, the Otisfield Town Office, WOXO on Main Street in Norway or at Just Read It, 13 Water St., Norway, through Friday, Feb. 1. Donations will be distributed to local families by the Spurrs Corner Church food pantry. For more information, call Joanie at 539-9969.

Church service

PARIS – The Baptism of the Lord will be celebrated Sunday, Jan. 13, at Trinity Lutheran Church, 34 Buckfield Road, South Paris.

Sunday school and “Making the Old Story Our Story” will start at 9 a.m. with a worship service at 10:15 followed by coffee, refreshments and fellowship.

Camera club

PARIS – The Oxford Hills Camera Club meets from 6 to 8 p.m. every Tuesday during the school year in Room C105 at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School.

The club welcomes photographers from beginner to skilled professional to share techniques. The following is the schedule for the rest of January: Jan. 16, Web site demonstration; Jan. 22, photo production technique; Jan. 29, scanning technique. The Web site is www.Oxfordhillscameraclub.org. For more information, call President Jerry Grant at 539-4123, e-mail [email protected] or Secretary Maynard Loring at 739-2434, e-mail [email protected].

Citrus sale

OXFORD – The Oxford Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Fore Street will take orders for minneolas, honeybells, grapefruit and navels until Friday, Jan. 11, with a pickup date of Monday, Jan. 28. Call 345-3814, 743-6673 or 743-6403 to order.

Rabies clinic

CASCO – A rabies clinic will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Jan. 12, at the South Casco Fire Barn. There will be a $10 fee.

Kids’ bowling

NORWAY – The Norway Recreation Department will sponsor the next After School Bowling Program starting today for eight weeks from 3 to 4:30 p.m. The registration fee is $10, which must be paid at the time of registration.

There will be a weekly fee of $5 to be paid at Hobbs Lucky Lanes each week a child participates. The fee is a discount for shoe rental and two strings of bowling. The child can bring a snack or make purchases at the vending machines or snack bar.

A SAD 17 bus will pick the students up at the Guy E. Rowe Elementary School and transport them to Hobbs Lucky Lanes. Parents are to pick their children up at the bowling center by 4:30 p.m.

Registration forms are at the school and the town office. For more information, call Norway Recreation Director Deb Partridge at 743-6651 or e-mail [email protected].

Pet clinic

NORWAY – A vaccination clinic and “Home Again” micro-chipping will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, at the Norway Fire Station. Micro-chipping pets will aid in locating them should a disaster occur or if they are lost. It is being sponsored by Responsible Pet Care. For more information, call 743-8679.

Sunday services

NORWAY – Services at the First Universalist Church, 479 Main St., will begin at 11 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 13. The church is served by the Rev. Richard Beal. The service on Sunday is titled “Was Ghengis Kahn a UU?” and will explore a few of the oddities of Unitarian Universalist history.

The church choir rehearses at 9:30 a.m. Sundays and anyone who would like to sing with the choir is welcome. Child care is provided.