BRYANT POND — Registration materials for the 2017 Becoming an Outdoors Woman Introductory Skills Weekend are now available. The workshop is scheduled for Friday through Sunday, Sept. 22 to 24, at the UMaine 4-H Camp & Learning Center. The workshop is designed to provide an opportunity for women who are 18 or older to gain […]
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CPR, first aid class offered
OXFORD — There will be a Heartsaver CPR and First Aid class at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, at the Oxford Advent Christian Church, 1130 Main St. Students will learn basic first aid; adult, child and infant CPR; and how to properly use a defibrillator. On completion of the one-day class, students will receive a […]
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Lewiston Adult Education offering new, free classes for fall
LEWISTON — Registration has opened for fall classes, including new and free programs, at Lewiston Adult Education. The brochure has more than 30 new offerings, including Spanish, Basic Arabic and Introduction to Digital Photography. A number of classes are free with registration. Budgeting Basics is set to cover money-tracking and goal-setting. Doug Dumont of Lewiston […]
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Healthy Community Coalition offers healthy food shopping tour tips
WILTON — Healthy Community Coalition is offering a free “Cooking Matters at the Store” shopping tour event at the Wilton Blueberry Festival on Friday, Aug. 4. Two sessions will be offered. The first session begins at 10 a.m. and the second at 11 a.m. “Cooking Matters at the Store” shopping tours offer consumers tips and […]
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Pinpoint of Life Camp to host workshop
HARTFORD — The duo of Laura Lee Perkins and Ken Green will lead a workshop on “Using Nature to Transform and Heal” on Sunday, Aug. 6, at the Pinpoint of Life Camp at the Hartford Town Hall, 1190 Main St. A devotional service will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon with Perkins, CM, medium […]
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Farmington Police Department's Citizens Police Academy to begin Sept. 27
FARMINGTON — The Farmington Police Department has announced that it will run a Fall Citizens Police Academy beginning on Wednesday, Sept. 27. The 10-week academy was held earlier in the year and received a positive review. A poll among the participants rated the academy a 4.9 out of a possible 5. Some of the classes […]
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Russian culture events announced at Mexico Public Library
MEXICO — The Mexico Public Library will host lecturer, award-winning artist and historian Marina Forbes, who will offer two presentations on Russian culture in August. The first, “Imperial Russian Faberge Eggs” on Thursday, Aug. 3, will feature a photo tour of the Faberge collection at the Faberge Museum in the Shuvalov Palace in St. Petersburg, […]
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Become CNA with Adult Education-St. Mary’s partnership
LEWISTON — People interested in becoming a Certified Nursing Assistant have two options beginning next month. Auburn Adult and Community Education’s Earn While You Learn program and Lewiston Adult Education’s Ready to Work program will partner with St. Mary’s Health System for CNA training in August. CNA students will complete 180 hours of classroom instruction […]
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Workshop on astral projection offered
SABATTUS — A workshop on astral projection will be presented from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, July 23, at the Spiritualist Church of Eternal Life, 352 Crowley Road. The workshop will be given by Louisa Roof, certified medium and licentiate minister, National Spiritualist Association of Churches. She has been a spiritualist since joining the Victorian Spiritualists’ […]
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UMaine Extension pickling workshop PARIS — Preserving the harvest will be the focus of a University of Maine Cooperative Extension workshop that will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m.Wednesday, July 26, at the UMaine Extension office, 9 Olson Road. Taught by Extension food preservation community education assistant Kate McCarty, the hands-on workshop will teach basics of canning […]