100 Years Ago: 1918

Kora Temple of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Lewiston is planning on one of the largest attended meetings in its history. at the annual State fair session, which will be held on Thursday evening this week. It is reported that a large class of candidates will be present, and many new and novel features are on the evening’s program. The banquet will be a “harvest supper,” and a vaudeville entertainment has been arranged for.

50 Years Ago: 1968

The first fall meetings for the circles of the Auburn United Methodist Woman’s Society of Christian Service will be held this week. Tonight at 7:30 the Esther Circle will meet with Mrs. Lewis E. Webber, Birch Road; the Ruth Circle, with Mrs. Thomas Johnson, West Auburn; and the Priscilla Circle with Mrs. Donald Fyfe, 36 Gillander Ave. On Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., Naomi Circle will meet with Mrs. Philip Dingley, at 100 Pride Road, Auburn.

25 Years Ago: 1993

The torch has been passed. Camp Tall Pines, located on Poland’s Lower Range Pond, is now owned by Maine Special Olympics, ensuring the continuation of the Camp Tall Pines Foundation’s 24-year tradition of providing people with mental retardation with the typical Maine summer camp experience. Included in that experience are land and water-based activities such as volleyball, horseshoes, basketball, shuffleboard, ping-pong, arts and crafts, swimming, paddle boating and canoeing. On Thursday representatives of Maine Special Olympics and the Friends of Camp Tall Pines, people who served on the now-defunct foundation’s board of directors toured the facility with people from three organizations that have pledged their support to an effort that will turn Camp Tall Pines into a year-round faculty. Maine Special Olympic’s director Mickey Boutilier and Phil Geelhoed, the new camp director, detailed the group’s far-reaching plans to William Audette, state commander of the Department of Maine American Legion, Larry Carr from the Maine State Building and Construction Trades Union, and Peggy Cota, president of the Jasper P. Keller Chapter of Telephone Pioneers of America.

The material in Looking Back is reproduced exactly as it originally appeared in the Sun Journal, except for any errors or corrections made at that time.