Is anyone missing a small disposable camera in a leather pouch? It was found at the Town Hall a few weeks ago, and reposes in the Town Office Lost and Found Department.
On Thursday, August 5, 6:30 p.m. at the Town Hall, the Edgecomb Selectmen, Planning Board and Budget Committee will meet with attorney Paul Gibbons to discuss aspects of the TIF District which has been proposed for the Sheepscot River Inn and associated properties.
The following Thursday, August 12, same location, at 7:00 p.m., will be the second public information meeting on this subject.
The Dedication of the Zak Preserve, 202 acres which encompass Wildcat Creek, is planned for Thursday, August 19. Call the Boothbay Region Land Trust, 633-4919 or www.bbrlt.org for details. The Zak Preserve straddles the Edgecomb/Boothbay boundary. It contains both open fields and a tidal wetland fed by a freshwater stream. Endowment funds for its future maintenance are being sought.
The Friends of Fort Edgecomb will hold their monthly meeting at 6:00 p.m., Saturday, August 7, during their third encampment at the Fort this weekend. They plan to honor Edgecomb Fire Chief Barry Johnston at that time, for his and the Fire Department's assistance and support of FOFE safety efforts during their historic re-enactments. You can meet up with the FOFE again during Old Bristol Days the next weekend! [NOTE: Late breaking - honoring of Barry Johnston will not be at the Saturday meeting, but instead on the following Sunday, Aug. 8, at 11:00 A.M.]
Break a leg, Samantha Beam! She is appearing as one of The Lovely Boylan Sisters in the Lincoln County Community Theater's production of "Annie," running this weekend, Thursday-Saturday at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday the 8th at 2:00 p.m. Call 563-3424 for reservations.
Gayle Fraas and Duncan Slade have been deeply involved, creating a Capital Campaign Wall of Honor Quilt for the dedication of St. Andrew's Hospital's completed expansion and renovations on Wednesday, August 11, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Genealogy Corner: Cheryl Crummett of North Whitefield has called me asking if anyone in Edgecomb can trace the Crummett family any earlier than her ancestor Nathaniel who married Phoebe Gove in 1792. Nathaniel subsequently moved from Boothbay to Somerville. If you know more about this family (and the Goves were a long-standing Edgecomb presence), please tell me, and I will get in touch with Cheryl.
Have you just moved in to a romantic old farm house in rural Maine? State Rep. Ken Honey of Boothbay warns, check out its outbuildings, basement, et al. for household hazardous wastes. The Maine Board of Pesticides Control is offering free disposal of banned, unusable pesticides: DDT, lead arsenate, 2,4,5-T, chlordane and even more recent similar products which EPA is in process of phasing out. Call MBPC at 287-2731 before August 20 for information and to register for pesticide collection; once registered you will be notified by mail 2-3 weeks in advance about location of your nearest collection depot, date, time, and transporting safety guidelines. MBPC is an agency within the Maine Dept. of Agriculture.
Bruce and I saw the Skidompha Library's Summer Film Series' last offering, an amazing Australian film, "Rabbit-Proof Fence." Genuinely heart-wrenching, and bewildering, how "civilized" people can make such blandly brutal assumptions about other populations under their control. The story involves the wrenching away from their aboriginal families of all children deemed "half-breed," owing to the muddled 1930s theories of eugenics, behavior modification, and selective breeding. Brrr. An important but unsettling piece. Important because unsettling.
I was proud to represent Edgecomb at the Youth Promise Youth Center Open House at the former Reny's warehouse in Damariscotta on Sunday. The studs and framing are up for the several rooms on the blueprint, with wish lists and volunteer sign-ups posted prominently all about. The kids themselves have been guiding the design, and will have most to do with its realization. A small youthful combo was playing gentle rock/jazz in one corner. (In the works is an actual small dais for performances of this kind.) A generous space in back is scheduled to become an indoors skateboard park, while a big front room is planned for just hanging at will. This will truly be a location of their own. Pop in some time when you are in the neighborhood, or call Director Kathy Leen, 563-6123 or teencenter@youthpromise.org to find out how you can help.
Packing up for Moosehead Lake, a few days of escape from 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.