New business names manager

Brandon Mace will be branch manager of product support when Anderson Equipment Co. relocates to the Gorham Industrial Park from the company’s present facility in Cumberland.

“We are all very excited to move and hope that we can assist in bringing added business and exposure to the town of Gorham,” Mace said last week.

Anderson Equipment is moving to the former Plan-It Recyling site at 18 Gorham Industrial Parkway. The company recently received Gorham Planning Board approval to construct an addition to the present building.

The company sells and services construction and mining equipment. “We will be closing our facility in Cumberland upon completion of the new location,” Mace said.

Brewer celebrates with Octoberfest

Sebago Brewing Co., 48 Sanford Drive in Gorham, is holding an Octoberfest on Saturday, Sept. 22, from noon-4 p.m., to celebrate the release of its new single-batch series beer, Octoberfest. Under the festival tent at the brewery, there will be plenty of beer, German foods, live music and more.

Tickets are $40 in advance or $45 at the door. There is also a $25 designated-driver ticket for those who would like to come but will not be drinking.

Missionary to give talk about abuse ?of women

An American Baptist missionary will present a program at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at South Gorham Baptist Church on County Road about abused women.

A traditional potluck supper will be served. The Rev. Lauran Bethell, an international Baptist missionary, will speak in the church’s program Potluck With a Purpose.

For more than two decades, Bethell has worked on behalf of exploited and abused women. As the first director of the New Life Center in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, she pioneered projects to prevent child prostitution and trafficking of women and children and to rehabilitate individuals rescued from these injustices.

Bethell has testified before committees in both the U.S. House of Representatives (2003) and the U.S. Senate (2000) committees as they drafted and revised U.S. anti-trafficking legislation.

She is currently based in The Netherlands and travels extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas teaching, training, and consulting.

Potluck with a Purpose is part of a continuing series at the South Gorham church. Everyone is welcome to attend and take food to share as local people continue to learn about modern day slavery and human trafficking and ways to make a difference.

Meet the candidates

Citizens will have the opportunity to meet area Legislative candidates 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 27, in the Burleigh Loveitt Council Chambers in Gorham Municipal Center, 75 South St.

Candidates attending are Jim Boyle, Gorham Democrat, and Ruth Summers, a Scarborough Republican, running for Senate District 6; Gorham residents Jane Knapp, Republican incumbent, and Andrew McLean, Democrat, seeking the Maine House District 129 seat; Scarborough residents Jean Marie Caterina, Democrat, and Heather Sirocki, Republican, for Maine House District 128; and running for Maine House District 127, Scarborough residents Paul Aranson, Democrat, and Amy Volk, Republican.

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information or to RSVP, call Jennie Pirkl, Maine People’s Alliance, at 671-2490 or email jennie@mainepeoplesalliance.org

U.S. taxpayer debt

The Bureau of Public Debt reported on Sept. 12 that the U.S. public debt was $16,046,337,277,273.30.

Po-Go Realty in Gorham hosted its second annual yard sale on Saturday, Sept. 15, raising funds for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. Volunteers pictured are, from left, Julie Chandler, Jane Mason holding her granddaughter, Olivia Mason; Leigh Fulda and Kate Mason. Fulda is from Durham and the others are Gorham residents.    
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