OES to celebrate

LISBON FALLS — Pioneer Chapter 11 Lisbon Falls, Order of the Eastern Star, will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 16, at the Ancient York Masonic Hall, Route 196. Members will celebrate Christmas, and refreshments will follow the meeting. All members of the order are invited.

Snowmobile course

POLAND — A snowmobile safety course, sponsored by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, will be held Saturday, Dec. 18, at Poland Spring Academy, Bailey Hill Road. It will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and costs $5.

Instructors will be Jonah Bloom and Perry Edwards. To register or for more information, contact Ben Nugent at 592-4108.

Poets to appear

WINTHROP —The Pondtown Poets will appear at the Charles M. Bailey Public Library at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 18. The group will discuss and perform selected readings from their latest book, “Pondtown Poetry II,” the second release from the Central Maine poets.

The Pondtown Poets have been together since January 2003. They are Judy Feinstein of Hallowell, Alice Gifford and Sally Joy of Augusta, Susan J. Parks of Winthrop and Gaylord Day Weston of Belgrade.

Admission is free and refreshments will be served. For more information, call Richard Fortin at 377-8673.

Raffle winners

LEWISTON — Steven Dostie, executive director, announces the winners of the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society’s “Cold Paws, Warm Heart.”

With more than $11,300 in tickets sales the winners were: Susanna Chatametikool of Lewiston, $600 in home heating oil; Garet and Marciana of Topsham, $300 in home heating oil; Lorraine St. Hilaire of Lewiston, $200 in home heating oil; and Amy Landry of Bryant Pond, $100 in home heating oil.

All proceeds from the raffle directly benefit the humane society, located at 55 Strawberry Ave.

Those interested in learning more about volunteering at the shelter or adopting an animal should call 783-2311 or visit www.gahumane.org. Those wishing may also join them on www.facebook/GAHumane.

Bridge results

LEWISTON — The Lewiston-Auburn Bridge Club winners at the Multi-Purpose Center on Dec. 7 were as follows:

First, Nancy Farmer and Marta Clements; second, Nancy Lindgren and Les Buzzell; third, Jan Arey and Linda Leotsakos; fourth, Luke Merry and Rosemarie Goodwin; first in B, Alberta Turner and Lue Bilodeau; second, Kathleen Burden and Mary Ann Trafton.

Winners at Schooner Estates in Auburn on Dec. 8 were: first, Les Buzzell and John Hackett; second, Tom Dahlberg and David Wallace; third, Anna Vitiello and Claire Lyons.

Games are played at 9 a.m. Monday and Tuesday and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. A partner is guaranteed. Call Rosemarie Goodwin at 754-1431 for information about all duplicate bridge games in the area.