AFCI Free AFCI services: N2N rides, free Home Safety Assessments, and (when available), student help with household chores. 207-824-4444. For information, inquiries, and suggestions – email: [email protected], visit our FaceBook page or website www.agefriendlybethel.org. We love to hear from you, and you’re welcome to visit our monthly Board meetings. Community On Saturday, July 9, and […]
Citizen Columns
Used for Bethel Citizen content
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Age-Friendly Community Initiative
AFCI Can we help? Call our service number (824-4444) for our free services. For a short-term or long-term transportation challenge, the AFCI Neighbor to Neighbor (N2N) Rides Program provides volunteer drivers for many needs: shopping, doctor and other appointments, socialization, etc. For those worried about falling, a certified Occupational Therapist can conduct a Home Safety […]
advertisement
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Backyard Reflections/A reflection on time and trillium
A Reflection on Time and Trillium With May coming to a close in a few days, I am feeling nostalgia. This month is both elusive and dramatic – from bare trees to lime green, and now lilacs so heavily laden with blooms that some are bowed as if in prayer. Wood frogs and peepers bring […]
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Energy Matters/How cool is coal?
It’s interesting to try and imagine how our children will explain to their grandchildren what it was about burning coal that inspired such fierce allegiance even after we already had less expensive alternatives. Sure, it fueled the industrial revolution-we’ll give it that glory-but what, besides nostalgia for those coal-fired locomotive trains maybe, could it […]
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
AFCI
AFCI Tuesday, June 14, is Election Day! While you’re taking care of this most important patriotic responsibility, come find the AFCI exhibit. At the polling stations of all six of our member towns, AFCI friends will host an exhibit of a bench or table (with identifying poster) at the following times: Bethel: American Legion Hall, […]
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Vote for Jones
To the Editor: On June 14 we vote for our schools: the Budget and the Board. Our schools provide a sound knowledge base and useful skills and habits: good learning. All students need to know about and be prepared for all the opportunities open to high school graduates, to young adults: higher education, vocational training, […]
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Backyard Reflections: The Lilliputian world of mosses
Over the winter I re-read Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book “Gathering Moss,” trying to conjure up the southwestern face of trillium rock, which was, until recently, buried under two feet of snow. For three seasons of the year, this large nubbly granite boulder is covered by emerald, sage green mosses and lichens. For many years, I […]
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Energy Matters/You just might find you get what you need!
By far the most popular “Yes, but…” about wind and solar electricity is, “Yes, but what do you do when the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine? We need power when we need it, and we need it, well, all the time.” This used to end the discussion. But not anymore. Advances in […]
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
AFCI
AFCI The Our Towns Project, funded by an AARP grant: you’ve seen our pictures of the wonderful Congo Craftsmen making benches and picnic tables to be gifted to our six member towns. With lively colors and appropriate themes, they’ve all been beautifully decorated by Kate Webb (BAAM) and Freshman Academy students, and have lovely plaques […]
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
AFCI
What is the AFCI “Our Towns” project? Funded by a Community Challenge Grant from AARP, picnic tables and benches have been constructed by the Congo Craftsmen and painted by BAAM artists. They will be gifted to all six of our member towns on June 14, Election Day, and we hope you’ll plan to join us […]