Lenten lunches

PARIS – Lenten lunches have been announced for noon Thursdays, Feb. 26 to April 2, at Deering Memorial United Methodist Church, Main and Church streets.

Speakers will be: Feb. 26, Linda Kimball; March 5, Don Mayberry; March 13, Leslie Foly; March 19, Brendan Harnett; March 26, Dawn-Victoria Mitchell; and April 2, Anne Stanley,

Suggested donation is $5 a lunch. There is parking behind the Paris Public Library.

Lincoln program

WOODSTOCK – Paul and Vicki Billings presented a program and gave a test on Abraham Lincoln at the Woodstock Historical Society meeting on Valentine’s Day.

They noted that Lincoln lost nearly every office for which he ran before the presidency. He was the 16th president and the first to be assassinated. He failed in business but proved a good lawyer, they said. Curator Larry Billings scored highest on the test and won a stuffed animal.

Olive Risko gave a research report, and the potluck supper included soups, from corn chowder to salmon, and a chocolate cake and cookies.

MS week events

FALMOUTH – MS Awareness Week takes place March 2 to 8, and the Maine Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is asking everyone to Move It to end MS.

To find out ways to be a part of MS Awareness Week, and encourage others to Move It too, visit nationalMSsociety.org or www.msmaine.org.

MS Day will be held Mt. Abram Ski Resort in Greenwood on Sunday, March 1, to kick off the week and $10 of each lift ticket will be donated to the Maine Chapter.

Those wishing may register for the 20th Anniversary Walk MS at msmaine.org, 800-526-8890 or [email protected].