Fresh Air Fund seeking host families

NEW YORK CITY — The Fresh Air Fund is seeking local families to host children from New York City for a week or two in August.

Each summer, close to 4,000 children visit volunteer host families in rural, suburban and small-town communities along the East Coast. Fresh Air children are given the opportunity to experience a world outside of New York City full of meadows to run in, streams to fish in and lakes to swim in.

Applications should be submitted by July 1 to host a child in August.

The Fresh Air Fund, an independent nonprofit, has provided free summer experiences to more than 1.8 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877.

FMI: 207-926-3557, www.freshair.org.

Second Infantry Division reunion

FOX Lake, Ill. — The Second Indianhead Division Association is searching for anyone who served in the U.S. Army’s Second Infantry Division at any time.

The 95th annual reunion will be held Sept. 20 to 24 in Springfield, Mo. 

FMI: 224-225-1202, www.2ida.org, [email protected].

Androscoggin Republicans to meet

GREENE — The Androscoggin County Republican Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, June 20, at the Greene Municipal Office, 220 Main St.

The meeting is open to all registered Republicans.

The guest speaker for the event is James Barron, board member of Gun Owners of Maine.

FMI: 207-576-9096, 207-897-4824, [email protected].

‘From New Zealand to the Amazon’ in Wayne

WAYNE — Cary Memorial Library will host New Zealand trekker Whitney Thurlow at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 22, at 17 Old Winthrop Road.

Thurlow will share some of his outdoor adventures traveling the world. As a professional New Zealand trekker, he has guided helio-skiing in Norway, kite-surfed in Peru, organized wild walks in New Zealand and can make a tasty sushi roll when required.

Originally from Maine, Thurlow now lives in Wanaka, New Zealand. He has been a telemark skiing world champion, owner and guide for Wild Walks, and is now chief guide for Aspiring Guides. He can set off avalanche bombs as well as make a wooden surfboard.

The event is free and open to the public. The library is wheelchair-accessible.

FMI: 207-685-3612, www.cary-memorial.lib.me.us.