Does anyone have a wheelchair no longer in use, that they'd like to donate? The new Edgecomb School would like to have one, just in case. Please call Principal Joanne Krawic, 882-5515.

And while we are on the subject of the Edgecomb School, congratulations, teaching gang, for the federal grant from "Let No Child Be Left Behind"!

We Camerons had a very fine Saturday at the second annual Great Maine Apple Day in Monmouth. Everything to do with the apples of Maine: arboriculture seminars, fruit wine and cider tastings and contests, "Identify this Apple" opportunities for those of us with old unnamed trees. Pie contests. We met George Stilphen, dean of apple experts in the state, whose book, The Apples of Maine, is a must-have for anyone interested in this fruit. I took a risk and entered my one little half-gallon of perry in the wine and cider competition: Perry is cider made from pears, and I have a mysterious heirloom pear tree whose fruit are good for little else–well, they make good pear butter. But very astringent and ultra-granular. Naturally I didn't win anything, but they will send an evaluation later on, and I'm eager to learn more!

Now, be warned. The next few columns are going to be iffy, because Bruce and I are waiting on tenterhooks (what is a tenterhook?) to hear that our brand-new baby granddaughter has arrived! Young Katy is officially due November 13. That gives me a window of 2 weeks before I go out to Bloomington, Indiana to greet her, and to visit with my 5-year-old grandson Ben! Not to mention to try to be of assistance to their mother and father. Bruce will join me there later, if not for Thanksgiving, then for Ben's birthday, December 3. In the interim, we'll try to figure out how Bruce can e-mail me your late-breaking news, so I can make columns out of it in Bloomington and zap them back to Lincoln County, Maine. If this arrangement doesn't work, cheer up! I'll be back before Christmas.

But if Bruce is going to zap me your late-breaking news, there has to be some late- breaking news to zap! Please continue to send me your items to 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. Bruce will gather them together and whiz them to me. I will create like mad and zing them to The Boothbay Register, The Lincoln County News, The Wiscasset Newspaper, and to www.Edgecomb.org.