Jay Donahue, a student at Auburn Middle School, works March 27 on a section of a mural at the Maine MILL at the Bates Mill Complex in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Rachel Helm of Portland and Kasey Ivan look at the silent auction items March 29 during the Healing Hearts Gala at the Hilton Garden Inn Auburn Riverwatch at 14 Great Falls Plaza in Auburn. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Sarah and John Strong of Auburn walk the labyrinth March 28 at Trinity Church and Commons at 247 Bates St. in Lewiston. The path, often used for meditation, was painted on the floor of the Trinity Episcopal Church after it was repurposed as performing arts, meeting and classroom space. The design is modeled after the labyrinth at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres in France. Klara Tammany, senior warden of Trinity Church, says staff members are deciding what times work best to have the community resource open, but scheduled times are to be posted at www.trinitylewiston.org and on the Trinity Church Facebook page. At left, Jane Costlow of Auburn sits after walking the labyrinth. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Alyssa Holmes, 11, tosses snow March 24 onto her mother, Andrea Holmes, while shoveling the family’s driveway in Leeds. Andrea Holmes is a nurse in Portland and worked the night shift March 22. When she arrived home at 10 a.m. on March 23, she was greeted with a driveway full of snow. “I thought winter was over so I canceled the plow driver and, of course, the snowblower is not working,” Andrea Holmes says. Her older daughter, Bailey Holmes, 13, is at right. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Osiris Morgan of Bowdoinham samples maple syrup March 23 during Maine Maple Sunday Weekend at Maple Rush Sugar House at 123 Webster Corner Road in Sabattus. Despite a snowstorm, visitors still visited the sugar shack. “It’s been an odd season,” owner Jordan Davis says of the maple sap running at the beginning of February, low sugar content, no snow and then a winter storm on Maine Maple Sunday Weekend. “It’s been brutal. It’s not an eraser, but it might as well be,” Davis says of the storm that caused many people to stay home on what is traditionally the sugar house’s busiest weekend of the year. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Nancy Leeman, a floral designer at Blais Flowers & Garden Center at 539 Webster St. in Lewiston, adds baby’s breath March 26 to an arrangement for Easter weekend. The shop held its 32nd annual Easter egg hunt Saturday. The event included free photographs with the Easter Bunny, and crafts, coloring, sunflower planting and music. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

One of four tiny white statues of hands forming the “I Love You’ sign used by the deaf community sits on a pedestal March 25 in the Maine MILL in the Bates Mill Complex in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Matt Macchi and his grandson, Joey Gentile, watch the swollen Androscoggin River on March 29 at Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston. The National Weather Service has issued flood warnings in the area due to the recent heavy rain. Macchi of Boston says he is in the area to help his daughter with Joey after she gave birth recently to another child. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal