Come, all ye Good Voters of Fair Edgecomb Town! Edgecomb Elections are tomorrow, Friday, May 21, polls open from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m., at the Town Hall. All candidates are unopposed: Frank Perkins for selectman, Steve Ward for school board, Erin Cooperrider and Bruce Cameron for two seats on the planning board, all 3-year terms; Claudia Coffin for town clerk/treasurer, Lee Smith for tax collector, Russell Griffin for road commissioner, all 1-year terms.
The next day, collect all ye at our Annual Town Meeting on Saturday, May 22, 10:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m., in the auditorium of the Edgecomb Eddy School. We have many important issues to be determined. Your Town needs your voices, your decisions!
The Edgecomb Historical Society is holding its breath, hoping that our display of Historic Edgecomb Schools will be ready for viewing in time for the Town Meeting. If not, it will certainly be installed by June 15 for the Edgecomb Eddy School graduation.
In the meantime, the EHS will meet Thursday, May 27, at 2:00 p.m., in our new HQ in the Edgecomb Eddy School Library, our last meeting before September 23 (4th Thursday of the month), to allow for vacations, house guests, and all the other activities that distract us during the summer. Be thinking of Edgecomb-oriented history quests you would like to pursue! The Bicentennial of Fort Edgecomb in 2008, for instance. The Rosicrucian Spring. A history of the quarry which provided the granite for the old Wiscasset Jail! Several mica and feldspar mines. Ice, salt, bricks, sawmills, grain mills, and the other typical 18th-19th century rural industries that have left their traces in our town. Bring your ideas with you. Incidently, dues are $5.00. Such a deal!
Calling all Edgecomb Democrats: Patty Veilleux, Edgecomb's town committee chair, invites you all to gather once a month from now to November, to get out the vote! Call her at 882.7599 for dates and details.
Youth in Edgecomb: Ten-year old Isabelle Veilleux placed 2d in vaulting in a recent state-wide YMCA-sponsored gymnastic competition, and scored an all-round 5th place in the meet. This week she will be going to the New England regionals at Waterville. Isabelle is a charter member of the Damariscotta Y team, coached by Janice Cormier-Hay.
Petra and Niall Janney are finishing the winter swimming season with state records in backstroke and butterfly, and the individual medleys (Petra 200 meters, Niall 400). They are also competitors in the U.S. national meets, Eastern Zone, coming up in Washington D.C.
Niall, an 8th grader is one of three Center for Teaching and Learning finalists in the 2004 River of Words Poetry Contest, for his poem "Blue Hill Bay." This annual international competition for school children, with publication in an anthology, brought in over ten thousand entries from around the world. The program stresses nature writing. Niall will be moving on to Exeter Academy this coming fall, which in addition to its academic distinction, has an important swimming program.
Krista Oberuch was one of Wiscasset High School's Students of the Month for March/April.
And the Young at Heart: Dirk Poole was off on the weekend white-water rafting with his brother, brother- and sister-in-law at the Dead River Forks, just in time for the dam release.
Anent last week's column, my spouse points out that Gauguin's mysterious tablet of horn was from Easter Island, not Tibet, and its text has never been translated!
I stand corrected at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.