A large and vocal turnout on Saturday for the Edgecomb annual Town Meeting. Thanks a million, Bob Zak, for your great service to the Town! And welcome to our new Selectman, Frank Perkins. Thank you also, Bob Crink, for chairing the Planning Board through years of hammering out sensible zoning and land use ordinances to guide the whole Town's future, a hard job well done! And another welcome to new Planning Board member Bruce Cameron.
Thanks were also given to Stuart Smith for the Edgecomb website, www.Edgecomb.org. You can find texts of the several ordinances there, but give Stu time to get the new one up, and the changes made in the others we discussed!
And thanks were given to the Edgecomb Historical Society, for the History of Edgecomb Schools display, mounted on the Edgecomb Eddy School wall leading to the auditorium and cafeteria: Four panels of photographs and other mementos, with some explanatory text, all in sepia reproduction. They look super! If you haven't had an opportunity to admire them, come to the school and do so!
Citizens were met at the door by young Savanna Poole, Dirk and Ann Poole's daughter, raising funds for her Little League team which is sponsored by Tidewater Telecom. Their first game was May 4; the next game will be against a team sponsored by McDonalds. Savanna is a fielder, right or left as needed.
June Finnegan has brought me up to date on the May 13 Jump Rope for the Heart, an event to benefit the American Heart Association. Over 30 kids, all jumping rope for an hour, generated $1,370, and were rewarded with an impressive green satin banner. If they could collect just $140 more, they would receive a $100 gift certificate to use to buy more small gym equipment, like, say, a few more jumpropes! Let's see... if 14 of us each gave $10, payable to the AHA, and sent to June at the school... My check is in the mail, June..
The Friends of Fort Edgecomb will meet Wednesday, June 2, in the lobby of the Sheepscot Inn, for a final review of plans for The Battle of Fort Edgecomb, which will occur the weekend of June 12 and 13.
Saturday, June 5, Hike the Schmid Preserve to celebrate National Trails Day! A guided tour is planned, and limited refreshments, but bring your own brown bags! Good walking shoes a must, but the trails are not difficult. You can go around the Haggett Loop, and/or the colorful Red, Blue, and Purple Trails, newly re-blazed.
Serious Omission Department: When I praised Krista Oberuch last week as a WHS Student of the Month, I should have also lauded Kate Riser, daughter of Chris Riser and Julianne Sexton on Route 27. Krista is in the 11th grade, Kate in the 10th grade. Well done, both!
If any Edgecomb family wants to host a foreign exchange high school student, call the ASSE program's local representative, Joyce McKenney at 737-4666 or 1-800-677-2773, or the website, www.asse.com. These students are ages15-18, well screened and speak English.
We Camerons will shortly be entertaining our Florida friends Phil and Nora Catalano and Stan and Jodi Cullen, up for a week of northern salt air, scent of white pine, and lobster!
Let the Summer festivities begin! I am all ready for them at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.