Buckfield craft, vendor fair is canceled

BUCKFIELD — A craft and vendor fair, scheduled from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30, outside the Town Hall, has been canceled.

Alzheimer’s Early Stage Programs

SCARBOROUGH – The Alzheimer’s Association, Maine Chapter, has announced the Early Stage Social Engagement Programs for the week of Aug. 25. Advance registration for all programs is required.

Outdoors Club, Indoors, Candlepin Bowling: classic bowling at a candlepin bowling center on Tuesday, Aug. 26; $10 a person.

Outdoors Club, Miniature Golf: lunch outdoors followed by miniature golf on Wednesday, Aug. 27; $4 a person for miniature golf.

The program is open to those living with early stage Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias and their care partners. The program encourages individuals to “get out, get active and get connected” by engaging in activities.

To register or for more information about early stage programming or other Alzheimer’s Association services, contact Bill Kirkpatrick, program director, at 772-0115 or [email protected].

Fort, mill walking tour in Brunswick

BRUNSWICK — Pejepscot Historical Society, in partnership with Cabot Mill Antiques/Fort Andross will present the Fort Andross/Cabot Mill History Walking Tour on Sunday, Aug. 31, with architectural historian Scott Hanson, 

The tour, to take place at 1 and 2:30 p.m., is part of Pejepscot Historical Society’s Summer 2014 History Walking Tour Series. Other tours in the series may be found at www.pejepscothistorical.org.

Hanson is an architectural historian with Sutherland Conservation & Consulting in Augusta. He has done extensive research on the mills of the Androscoggin River at Brunswick-Topsham and is co-author of “The Architecture of Cushing’s Island.”

To conclude the tour, weaver Michael Patterson will discuss the history of cotton and provide a weaving demonstration. Refreshments will be served.

The tour will meet at the main entrance of Fort Andross. Participants should preregister by calling Pejepscot Historical Society at 729-6606. Admission is $5 a person; free for PHS members.

Check Social Security on Women’s Equality Day

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Women’s Equality Day is Tuesday, Aug. 26, and Social Security officials remind remind women there are things they should know about Social Security. There are trends and differences in lifestyle and patterns of earnings that can affect benefits.

For example, some women may be caregivers for many people: spouses, children and parents. Taking time away from the workplace to care for a newborn child, ailing spouse or aging parent can have an impact on future Social Security benefits.

Also, despite significant strides through the years, women are more likely to earn less over a lifetime than men. In addition, women are less likely than men to be covered by private retirement plans, so they are more dependent on Social Security in their retirement years.

Women tend to live on average about five years longer than men. This means more years depending on Social Security and whatever other retirement income or savings they accumulate.

If a woman’s spouse earns significantly more than she does, it is  possible she will qualify for a larger benefit amount on the spouse’s record than on her own.

To learn more, visit the women’s page at www.socialsecurity.gov/women and read, print or listen to the publication, “What Every Woman Should Know.”

Those wishing may listen to Carolyn Colvin, acting commissioner of Social Security, on National Public Radio as she talks about women and money. Visit www.npr.org/2014/04/15/301782870/social-security-chief-women-live-longer-so-they-should-save-early.

For more information, visit www.socialsecurity.gov/women.