Monday, April 3, at 5:30 p.m., the Edgecomb Planning Board will make a site visit over the area on Davis Island proposed for an Affordable Workforce Housing development. This will be on a 30-acre property owned by Roger Bintliff which is included in the Town's Tax Increment Financing District. The Board's regular meeting will follow, at the Town Hall, at 6:30 p.m.
A Community Spaghetti Supper to benefit young Ryan Peters' tuition for the People to People Student Ambassador Program will take place at the Wiscasset Community Center, Route 27, Wiscasset, on Friday, March 31 at 6:00 p.m. Attendance by donation only. This Edgecomb Eddy sixth grader will be one of seven student delegates from Maine at People to People's World Leadership Forum in Washington DC. Call about the Bottle Drive on his behalf, this benefit event or other ways to sponsor Ryan at Steve and Dorothy Peters at the above phone number or e-mail them at dspeters@prexar.com.
Let us salute the passing of Peg Jacobs, in Winthrop, March 14. She and her husband Bob were long time much loved residents of Edgecomb, and active in many of its affairs. A memorial service was held at the Edgecomb Congregational Church March 19, and she is buried in the North Edgecomb Cemetery. Donations in Peg's memory may be sent to the Edgecomb Congregational Church UCC, POB 112, in Edgecomb.
The Mid-Coast Friends Meeting and the Mid-Coast Unitarian Universalist Fellowship are sponsoring a Seeds of Peace fund-raising supper on Friday, April 7, to be held at the Second Congregational Church in Newcastle. The menu will be a full course Middle Eastern dinner with music and entertainment afterwards. Edgecomb Congo Sunday Scholars have volunteered to help as servers. The committee could use some volunteer cooks as well (simple recipes you can make at home are available on request). Speak to Bob Hardina, or volunteer online to adburt@gwi.net.
Seeds of Peace is a highly regarded program which brings young people from warring nations in the Middle East together for a summer camp experience to search for friendship and common ground.
Then, on Sunday afternoon from 2:00, April 9, members of the Rising Tide food co-op will gather at the Second Congregational Church in Newcastle for their Annual Meeting, to elect new Board members and discuss the store's plans for expansion. A pot-luck feast will follow, with music and conversation!
Rabid raccoons have been infecting dogs from Barter's Island to Waldoboro. Five dogs in the Boothbay region have had to be euthanized. Be sure your pets have their rabies shots, and always know where they are, even if they have them. Rabies is not a nice disease.
Congratulations, Chef Alan Dodge of Le Garage and Cross Point Road, who has just been chosen Maine's Chef of the Year!
The Edgecomb Historical Society had a marvelous time last week, learning about the John Brier Mystery, or "Was the Medium Right?", an unpublished article by Nick Dean, donated to the EHS by Zibette. Sue Carlson, President, showed a newly donated picture of our Edgecomb Congregational Church, painted some time in the 1970s by Beverly Norton Newton of Burnham.
In further EHS news, the group has available 21 ½ x 27-inch versions of the famous 1857 Map of Edgecomb which they are selling for $15.00. Call Sue Carlson, Ros Strong, Ruth Bryant or me if interested, or bring your wallets to the Town Meeting May 20 at the School, where the EHS will have a promotional table.
On hands and knees, pouring over my copy of the map What? No Merry Island Road? A two-road intersection with a spur which explains a detail of The Brier Mystery... Ah, there's the Salt Marsh schoolhouse -- at the home formerly of Charles Sherman in 1857, now 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.