Friday parade

WEST PARIS – A Veterans Day parade will take place Friday, Nov. 11, starting with line-up at 10:45 a.m. at Agnes L. Gray School parking lot. The line of march will go to the Memorial Monument, corner of Main and Maple Street, West Paris village, for a service, sponsored by Ring McKeen Post 151, American Legion and Auxiliary.

Veterans ceremony

PARIS – The Norway-Paris Veterans Day parade and ceremony will get under way at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 11, when marchers line up at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School.

Harley Stevens, World War II veteran, will serve as marshal. Color guards will include VFW Post 9787, Legion posts of Buckfield, Paris, Norway, Oxford and West Paris. The Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School band will join the parade.

A ceremony will be held at the memorial on Main Street, when Leslie Dean, national president of the Daughters of Union Veterans, will give the address.

Coffee and doughnuts will be served by Legion Auxiliary members at the post home after the service.

All veterans are invited to participate.

Rabies clinic

WEST PARIS – A rabies clinic will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 12, at the West Paris Grange, 298 at 4 Church St.

Worship leader

PARIS – Merry Shore will be the worship leader Sunday, Nov. 13, at the First Universalist Church, 36 Pine St., South Paris. The sermon topic at the 10 a.m. service will be “Revisiting Desiderata.” The music will be under the direction of Forest Perkins, church organist, and Renee Wales will direct the Sunday school. Child care is provided. The coffee hour will follow in Good Cheer Hall. Everyone is welcome.

Society speaker

HEBRON – The Hebron Historical Society will meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, at the Hebron Community Baptist Church, campus of the Hebron Academy. Douglas Cooper will speak on the Rev. John Tripp and his family.

Tripp ministered in southeastern Massachusetts before moving to Hebron in 1798. He was pastor of the Baptist Church here until his death in 1847.

Cooper will talk about his Tripp family ancestry and Tripp’s diaries, which he recently transcribed, now in possession of the Colby College Library Special Collections.

The public is invited. Refreshments will be served.

Mock Hee Haw’

WOODSTOCK – Franklin Grange will present a “Mock Hee Haw” show at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, featuring “Minnie Pearl.”

Newcomers will include Ginger Mae, Inez Palmer, Cack Bean along with old-timers Kenny Nowlin, the Grange Band, Bill and Beth Rice and Scoggin’ Cloggers. There will be refreshments on sale at intermission and a 50/50 drawing as well as door prizes.

Cost is $2.50 for children under age 12 and $5 for all over age 12.

Staff sought

PARIS – Staff members, including teachers, administrators, custodial/cafeteria staff and assistants, who were employed at Oxford Hills Junior/Middle School for 10 or more years, are being sought for inclusion in a special commemorative project at the middle school.

Anyone with information on names or number of years taught should contact Chuck Martin at 743-6976 (home) or 743-5946 (work). He may also be reached by e-mail at [email protected].