Edgecomb's gorgeous new 2000-gallon Tanker Fire Truck has arrived! This Sunday, Nov. 21, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., it is going on show in the Edgecomb Eddy's School's turn-around. Come one, come all, to admire it! Beep its horn! Peer at your face in its chrome work! Refreshments and cider will be served. Remember, this vehicle was acquired through a prestigious FEMA grant for emergency equipment. It can travel far inland without having to frequently replenish the water it can carry. Chief Johnston gives special thanks to Roy and Karen Potter and Jack Sarmanian for their grantsmanship, and the volunteer group who worked this summer and fall on the new addition to the Fire House to house the new vehicle.
For more distant historical moments, join the Edgecomb Historical Society Thursday, Nov. 18, for its meeting at 2:00 p.m. in the School's conference room. This will be our last meeting of the Fall. We take Winter off, regroup come Spring. At this meeting, we will review our considerable progress toward locating the Rosicrucian Spring site, we have lots of research to report on Fort Edgecomb, aiming at its Bicentennial in 2008, and we are about to start an intensive inventory of Edgecomb's historic buildings and scenic places. We need your help!
Hey! Individual memberships only $5.00 (send dues to Ruth Bryant, our Treasurer) – Spend the Winter tromping through underbrush after buried foundations, or searching for genealogical connections or forgotten nuggets of our local history through the EHS files in our special room off the School Library as well as through neighbors' memories, courthouse records, other libraries, yes, even the Internet! Then you can fill us all in on your discoveries at our 4th Thursday in March meeting in 2005. Such a deal!
A Big Thank You from all of us occasional community supper food providers for the Big Thank You dinner given us by the Edgecomb Congregational Church! We all had a fine time, lapping up someone else's grand variety of lasagnas, salads, and build-it-yourself ice cream sundaes. Three cheers for Gail Boudin and her crew of regulars! And hip hip hooray for the rest of us!
We drew for the Raffle, a quilt created by the ladies who go to the monthly Chat and Check meetings (the next will be December 21, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the vestry). The winner was Elizabeth Dengar of Boothbay, who is Veula Reed's granddaughter. Congratulations, Liz!
My apologies to Molly Pitkin on Springhill Farm Road; I assigned her daughter Michaela to the wrong mother last week. Blush!
You're invited to an Art Bag Party, Friday, Dec. 3, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., at 232 Cross Point Road. Lunch will be provided. So what's an Art Bag? Hostess Margot Stiassni-Sieracki says, "It is a homemade fabric bag, about 12 x 15 inches, full of a nice selection of arts and crafts supplies to help fuel creative recreation and expression and to beat the winter blues." Who is it for? Kids, adults, and in-between. Margot's goal is to donate 25 bags suitable for ages 7 to 16 to the "Christmas Store" in Damariscotta being planned by local charity groups. Fun at the Art Bag Party will include sewing the fabric bags, compiling the donated art supplies, fabric, craft kits or whatever else comes in, and filling the bags with them. If you can't come, please donate some of the above mentioned supplies, or cash. Materials still needed (all supplies should be in very good condition): paint boxes and paint brushes, modeling clay, crayons, crayon sharpeners, erasers, washable school glue and washable markers, colorful felt and fabrics, remnants, scraps; decorative paper, pre-assembled craft kits for beading, model-making, and so forth. Call Margot at 882-7593 or domusic@gwi.net.
Application forms and informational materials for the Clyde Russell Scholarship Fund are available on the table outside the Town Office doors. This fund is administered by the Maine Education Association to advance cultural and educational opportunities for Maine people...in order to more fully develop their creative capacities in the arts, letters and sciences. Awards are made in five categories: 1) Graduating High School Seniors; 2) Graduating High School Seniors who will attend a Maine Community College; 3) Full or Part-Time College or Graduate Students, 4) Full or Part-time Maine Community College Students; 5) College Junior, Senior, or Graduate Students in a Teacher Preparation Program. All awards will be to cover or defray tuition, room, board, books and fees. The Fund's mailing address is PO Box 2457, Augusta ME 04338; its website is www.clyderussellscholarshipfund.org. The deadline for applying is February 1, 2005.
Go Forth and Multiply Section: The flock of turkeys who gather to munch seeds and corn in our garden, is up to 36, from 22 last winter/spring! Transfixed, staring out the window at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.