Oops...I hate it when I have to say "oops!" The Edgecomb Town Election on May 18 will take place from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. (not 8:00 p.m. as previously stated). So etch that into your memory channels along with the location for the Town Meeting on May 19, which is where? Right! The Edgecomb Town Hall!
Need any Giant Yards, anyone? The 4th annual PTC Giant Yard Sale will be held at the Edgecomb Eddy School on Saturday, May 5, from 8:00 a.m. to noon, come rain or come shine! More than 40 tables will be offering a wide variety of yard-sale goods as well as home-made craft items. You can pick up breakfast foods from the PTC, while nearby you'll find the Edgecomb Brownie Troop bake sale and food concession! For more information about this event, please call Judy Reid in the school office at 882-5515.
For graduating high school seniors or college freshmen majoring in the biological or earth sciences: The Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences is offering the Maureen D. Keller Undergraduate Scholarship, worth $1,000. You must be a Maine resident with a minimum GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, or B average or above. This award may be used toward any aspect of your education in the U.S. or abroad. Application forms are at www.bigelow.org/keller_scholarship_2007.html. The deadline for applications is May 14; the award made in June to one Maine student for the 2007-2008 academic year.
The Garden Club of Wiscasset's Grand Plant and Bake Sale is coming up, Saturday, May 12, from 9:00 a.m. to noon at the Wiscasset municipal building. You will find it an abundant source of great, hardy Maine-grown perennials, herbs, and house plants! If you have plants or cuttings you are willing to donate, drop them off at Sandy Sarmanian's, any time up to the 12th! Or call her at 882-7276 to have them picked up. This event is the Garden Club's big fundraiser for their scholarship fund. WGC scholarships go to students majoring in the Earth Sciences, Botany, Horticulture, Landscape Architecture, other associated careers.
Fluid Imaging Technologies, Inc. has moved its corporate headquarters from Cross Point Road to a new office building in Yarmouth off Route 1, although the original site on Cross Point Road will continue as a research and development center. While this is good news for an Edgecomb-originated business, it points out some critical issues for the Town. FIT President Christian Sieracki feels that his potential clientele will take FIT more seriously now that it is out of the woods. A Portland Press Herald Friday Business section article (4/27) by Matt Wickenheiser reports on the relative strength of the non-profit laboratory sector. "They've also stressed the need to increase technology transfer activity, bringing the ideas from those labs into the commercial marketplace." More to the point, "[a]nother failing of the Edgecomb headquarters was that broadband Internet service is unavailable there."
Since the Sturm und Drang over Patriots’ Day, over 23 truckloads of wood chips have been sold by BRRDD after grinding. Their new tub grinder is earning its hire, handling even very large pieces of downed trees!
On a smaller scale, Bruce and I want to thank Connor Graham for clearing our grounds of storm debris! Young Connor is raising funds for a Chewonki-sponsored trip to Russia this summer. If you have odd jobs, be it yard work or computer glitsch-fixing, give him a ring at 882-8108!
Picking up sticks at 234 River Road, 633-2978, jocam@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.