Church service

AUBURN — The Sixth Street Congregational Church, 109 Sixth St., will hold a service from 10 to 11 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 20. The Rev. Patricia Rowe-Jones will lead the service.

Service music will be played by a brass quintet, which includes Martin Jones, trumpet; Doug Fair, trumpet; Marge Landis, French horn; Bruce Theriault, trombone; and Doug Ertman, tuba. The musicians are members of the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra.

Collecting food

DIXFIELD — The Dixfield Town Office is collecting food donations for
the Dixfield Common Road Baptist Church food pantry. There has been an
increase of families in need this Christmas season.

Donations may be dropped off any time during regular business hours
at the Dixfield Town Office or the Log Cabin Craftworks on Main Street.

Fresh Air Fund

LEWISTON — Through The Fresh Air Fund’s Friendly Town program, local
families open their homes to inner-city children as volunteer hosts for
up to two weeks during the summer.

The Fresh Air Fund is an independent, not-for-profit agency that has
provided free summer vacations to more than 1.7 million New York City
children from low-income communities since 1877.
In 2009, close to 5,000 children visited volunteer host families in
suburbs and small town communities across 13 states from Virginia to
Maine and into Canada.

For more information on hosting a Fresh Air child next summer, contact
Marie Camillo-Reimensnyder at 926-3557 or The Fresh Air Fund at
1-800-367-0003. Also visit the fund’s Web site at www.freshair.org.

Grant awarded

ELLSWORTH — The Equity Fund of the Maine Community Foundation recently awarded $40,000 in grants to eight nonprofits supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) programs in Maine. Grantees included the Western Maine Community Action (Outright/Lewiston-Auburn) of Lewiston, to re-institute the statewide LGBTQ Youth Summit.

The next proposal deadline is Sept. 15, 2010. Application and guidelines can be found at www.mainecf.org.

For more information about the Equity Fund, contact Lelia DeAndrade at the Maine Community Foundation at 877-700-6800 or e-mail [email protected].