ARUNDEL

Historical Society to hold Heritage Day Saturday

The Arundel Historical Society will hold its second annual Heritage Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the North Chapel Common Project at the corner of Route 111 and the Limerick Road.

WEST PARIS

Finnish society meeting to present ‘Finns on the Titanic’

The first fall meeting of the Finnish American Heritage Society will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Finnish American Heritage Center, 8 Maple St. There will be a brief business meeting and coffee social.

The program topic “Finns on the Titanic” will be presented by Tamara Cohen. For more details, call Barbara Payne at 743-5677.

CAMDEN

Nature Center perennial garden series continues

Merryspring Nature Center will host the next installment of gardener Wendy Andresen’s “Tending the Perennial Garden” series at noon Tuesday at 30 Conway Road.

Andresen will present management methods for the early fall garden. Guests are encouraged to bring an envelope to collect seeds from the Merryspring perennial gardens.

Admission to the Tuesday Talks is free to Merryspring members and children, with a nominal $5 fee for nonmembers. For more details, call 236-2239 or email info@merryspring.org.

BRUNSWICK

Appalachian Mountain Club chapter hosting hiking talk

The Maine Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club will offer the talk “Triple Crown: How One Mainer Made It” Wednesday evening at Curtis Memorial Library at 23 Pleasant St.

Tom Jamrog, of Lincolnville, will share his experiences of hiking some of America’s national scenic trails. Topics covered will include how to physically train for a thru-hike and a look at tools, equipment and resources to get started.

The meeting will begin with a group potluck meal at 6 p.m. followed by the talk at 7 p.m.

The meeting is free and open to the public. For more details, go to www.amcmaine.org or email Lisa Pengel at education@amcmaine.org.

KITTERY

Talk to give inside look at workings of observatory

Scot Henley, executive director of the nonprofit Mount Washington Observatory, will give a talk at 7 p.m. Wednesday offering an inside peek into the workings of the observatory.

This lecture is free and open to the public. It will be held at The Star Theatre in the Kittery Community Center, 120 Rogers Road. For more details, call 439-3800 or visit www.kitterycommunitycenter.org.

YARMOUTH

Sixth annual Art Festival entry deadline set Friday

The deadline for entering works in the sixth annual Yarmouth Art Festival is 6 p.m. Friday. The festival will be held Oct. 22-25 at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, 396 Gilman Road. Created in 2009 as a venue for artists statewide, the festival welcomes online submissions of paintings, sculpture, photography, etching and digital media from any artist ages 18 and older who maintains a residence in Maine.

The fee is $15 per person for the first piece, $10 for the second and $5 for each additional submission. To access an entry form and the rules, visit www.yarmouthartfestival.com.

For more details, call Joe Michaud at 781-3805 or email michaud.joe@gmail.com.

PORTLAND

Theater’s ‘Play Me A Story’ event to have nine sessions

Portland Stage and the Theatre for Kids program is offering nine Saturday sessions of its “Play Me A Story” event for children beginning Sept. 20

Each session begins with fun activities, then children’s books performed by professional actors. Children are then taken to a workshop run by performing artists.

The cost is $15 for one child with an adult and $8 per additional child or adult per session.

For more details or to register, call 774-1043 Ext. 117, email theaterforkids@portlandstage.org or go to www.portlandstage.org/education/play-me-a-story/.

MacCracken to speak on new book at library’s author series

Author Dr. Joan MacCracken will speak about her new book “The Winter House: A Season of Sharing” from noon to 1 p.m. Friday as part of the Portland Public Library’s Local Author Series, meeting in Room 5 at the library, 5 Monument Square.

The talk is free. For more details, go to info@portland.lib.me.us.

African Gala celebrating food culture set Saturday

An African Gala, celebrating African food and culture, will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Sacred Heart/St. Dominic Church.

The colorful event will feature traditional dishes from Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan and many other countries.

Burundi dancers and drummers and Les Voix des Anges, a choir comprised of nearly 30 people, will perform.

Proceeds will benefit the Sacred Heart/St. Dominic Capital Campaign. Advance tickets are $8 for adults and $4 for children or $10 at the door. For more details, call Dave Guthro at 321-7810 or email dave.guthro@portlanddiocese.org.

AARP Smart Driver course scheduled for Friday

The new AARP Smart Driver course, for drivers age 50 and older, will be from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday at the AARP state office at 1685 Congress St.

Class size is limited and registrations are accepted on first come, first served basis by Monday. To register, phone John Hammon, volunteer instructor, at 655-4943.

Cost is $15 for AARP members and $20 for all others.

Wayside Food Program to hold three-day food drive

Wayside Food Programs will hold a three-day food drive from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday at Whole Foods Market, 2 Somerset St.

Wayside Food Programs collects and distributes food to 47 agencies, including soup kitchens, food pantries and other social service providers in Cumberland County. It also runs free community meals at sites in Portland and Westbrook, and three of its own mobile food pantries.

For more information about donating or volunteering, call 775-4939.

Fort Allen bicentennial celebration this weekend

The Friends of the Eastern Promenade and the City of Portland will present the 2014 Bicentennial Celebration of Fort Allen on Friday and Saturday.

On Friday from 7 to 8:30 p.m., a panel of historians will head a discussion on the War of 1812 in Maine and its effects in Portland at the Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St.

On Saturday, a moment-of-silence memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. at the 1812 cemetery on the Eastern Promenade. A brief parade processional to Fort Allen will follow with speakers and ceremonies from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Children’s activities will be provided in collaboration with the Munjoy Hill Neighborhood Organization. A variety of Portland food trucks will be on site.

SOUTH PORTLAND

Garden club to host talk on putting gardens to bed

Osewantha Garden Club of South Portland will meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the South Portland Community Center on Nelson Road.

The business meeting will be followed by a program given by Cindy Carroll from O’Donal’s Nurseries in Gorham on “Putting Your Garden to Bed for the Winter.”

Feel free to bring any questions you might have on gardening.

BATH

Garden Club talk to focus on gardening as you age

The Bath Garden Club will hold its monthly meeting at noon Tuesday at Grace Episcopal Church, 1100 Washington St.

Following a light lunch, there will be a business meeting and a program titled “Gardening Gracefully as You Age” presented by Leilani Carson of the Maine AgrAbility Program.

Maine AgrAbility is a free statewide resource working to help farmers and farm workers with injuries, chronic health conditions and disabilities continue to farm.

Carson will discuss arthritis and agriculture. For more details, call Pat Shaw at 666-3078 or email pmshaw@comcast.net.

WESTBROOK

Free Child’s Safety Day scheduled for Saturday

Westbrook Public Safety, Saco & Biddeford Savings and Hannaford have partnered to host a free Child’s Safety Day event from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

The event will be held rain or shine in the parking lot between Hannaford and Saco & Biddeford Savings, 2 Hannaford Drive. The event will include a view of a smokehouse, fire trucks, ambulances and police cruisers, a vehicle extrication demonstration, car fire with live firefighting demonstrations and mock crime scenes

Free hot dogs, popcorn, water and soda will be available all day.

Ernie’s Cycle Shop and the Bicycle Coalition of Maine will sponsor a bicycle rodeo and provide bike safety checks.

The Michael T. Goulet Traumatic Brain Injury and Epilepsy Foundation will give away free bike helmets to the first 100 kids.

The Maine Freemasons will offer free child identification kits through their MECHIP Program.

NEW GLOUCESTER

American Revolution topic of historical society talk

“Maine and the American Revolution” will be the topic of a presentation to the New Gloucester Historical Society at 7 p.m. Thursday at the New Gloucester Meetinghouse on Intervale Road, Route 231.

Retired U.S. Department of Justice historian Steven B. Rogers will be the speaker.

The free event is part of New Gloucester’s effort to build a veterans’ monument on Route 100. Refreshments will be served. For more details, call Leonard L. Brooks at 926-3188.

GORHAM

Potluck dinner to benefit human trafficking prevention

Potluck with a Purpose, a nonprofit organization that exists to bring awareness to human trafficking issues, will hold a benefit potluck supper at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the South Gorham Baptist Church, 53 County Road. Guest speaker Bob Atherton, founder and developer of Amirah safehouse for women survivors in Boston, will discuss his work to provide restorative services for survivors.

Attendees are encouraged to bring a meal to share. A free will offering will be taken with all proceeds to benefit human trafficking prevention.

For more details, call Gloria Moore at 929-6483 or email grammamoore@yahoo.com.

KENNEBUNKPORT

Museum’s Pumpkin Patch Trolley offers family events

The Seashore Trolley Museum’s 16th annual Pumpkin Patch Trolley will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, Sept. 20, 21, 27 and 28 at the museum at 195 Log Cabin Road.

The event, featuring a variety of family activities, competitions and contests, is intended to celebrate fall with streetcar rides to the pumpkin field, pumpkin decorating and games for children. Adults can enter recipe competition.

Rules and entry forms for contests can be found at trolleymuseum.org or at facebook.com/pumpkinpatchtrolley.

STATEWIDE

Annual children’s cancer walk to be held around state

The 28th Annual Maine Children’s Cancer Program Walk will be held Saturday morning at seven locations throughout southern Maine.

Registrations begin at 8 a.m. at each site, with the walk getting underway at 9 a.m. at the following locations: Maine Medical Center Scarborough Campus, Festival Plaza/Riverwalk at Auburn, Capitol Park/Kennebec Rail Trail at Augusta, Brunswick Recreation Center, South School at Rockland, Hosmer Field Athletic Complex at Rumford and the Alfond Youth Center at Waterville.

Money that is raised through the walk will help finance equipment, psychosocial services and research to help find a cure for childhood cancer. All contributions stay in the state of Maine.

There is no registration fee to participate, but to receive a walk T-shirt, participants must raise $25 or more.

Also, at the Scarborough walk location, MCCP will be partnering with Delete Blood Cancer to register willing participants as bone marrow donors.

For more details, call Tara Studley at 662-6274.

WELLS

Candidate forum to focus on key issues affecting education

A legislative candidate forum, focusing on education in kindergarten through grade 12, is being held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at York County Community College on College Drive. Co-sponsored by the Maine School Boards Association and Maine School Superintendents Association, the event brings together candidates who are running for the Maine House and Senate in York County.

The forum is one of nine such sessions planned across the state in September.

Maine School Management Association, the umbrella organization for MSBA and MSSA, is coordinating the forums and has prepared position papers reflecting the two organizations’ stand on key issues affecting public schools.

For more details, call Reg Bennett at 646-8331, Ext. 3110.

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