Daggett to receive

Carol Kaplan Award

Freeport Community Services annual meeting will recognize the 2016 Carol Kaplan Award winner, Debbie Daggett, volunteer coordinator for the past 10 years at Freeport Community Services. The event will be held Monday, Oct. 24, at 6:30 p.m., at the Freeport Community Center, 53 Depot St.

The award is named in memory of Carol Kaplan, who worked closely with Freeport Community Services for many years as the town’s general assistance administrator. Award recipients are selected for demonstrating a positive effect on the clients of FCS or the organization, and have contributed to the organization’s mission.

The guest speaker at the meeting is Margo Walsh, founder and CEO of Maine Works, a Portland-based temporary staffing agency that specializes in hiring ex-inmates recovering from addiction and giving them a second chance at success as they re-enter the workforce. Her topic, “Dignifying Transitional Employment for People in Crisis.” The company was founded in 2011. Walsh was recently named Maine’s small business person of the year and was recognized with other nominees in Washington, D.C., by the Small Business Administration.

The public is invited to the event. RSVP requested with Kim, 865-3985, ext. 202, or [email protected].

Club to learn about

conservation efforts

Katrina Van Dusen, executive director of the Freeport Conservation Trust, will be the guest speaker at the Freeport Woman’s Club, Friday, Oct. 21, at 1 p.m., at the Freeport Community Library.

The nonprofit Freeport Conservation Trust preserves 1,500 acres in town. Van Dusen will present a slide show and speak to the group about what the organization does, where Freeport’s conservation areas that are open to the public are located and how one can become involved with the organization. The public is invited. Refreshments will be served.

The Freeport Woman’s Club is a service organization that has been in existence for more than 90 years. It meets once a month for a business meeting and program. The club’s fundraising projects include a spring bazaar and a bake sale on Election Day. Money raised provides local scholarships, community improvements, donations to Freeport Community Services and support for women seeking career education. The monthly meetings include presentations on a variety of topics and are open to the public. New members are welcome. Contact Betty Duckworth, 847-0240 or [email protected].

The club is still looking for a candidate for its 2016-2017 Step Up Grant, a $1,000 gift for a woman over the age of 21 from Freeport or Pownal who is seeking occupational training and is experiencing financial need. Criteria for selection of the applicant are based upon financial need, clarity of goals, educational program and references.

For questions and further information, call Virginia Boyles at 865-3973.

Annual ski swap

coming Oct. 29

The Freeport Ski Boosters has scheduled its annual ski swap for Saturday, Oct. 29, from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., at the Freeport High School cafeteria, 30 Holbrook St.

The swap offers a chance to buy and sell Alpine and Nordic ski equipment. There also will be vendors on site. Donations and consignment drop-off is Friday, Oct. 28, from 4-7 p.m., and Saturday, Oct. 29, from 7:30-9 a.m. at the high school.

Lions collecting

old glasses, etc.

Members of the Freeport Lioness-Lions Club are collecting old eyeglasses, hearing aids and cell phones, Saturday, Oct. 22, from 8-11 a.m., at Shaw’s Supermarket in Freeport. Eyeglasses and hearing aids get recycled and given to those in need.

The group will also be collecting monetary donations for the Maine Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation. Cash donations are used by the foundation to educate people in early detection of eye and hearing diseases and other related services.

‘Science Guy’ Wallace

talks on anthropods

“Anthropods to be Exact,” a presentation by scientist Jon Wallace, will be held at the Freeport Community Library on Monday, Oct. 24, at 6:30 p.m.

Wallace, “the Science Guy,” returns to the library to share an up-close and personal look at bugs, aka anthropods, which include insects, arachnids, myriapods, and crustaceans. Wallace encourages participation and questions. Wallace, a high school science teacher in Connecticut for more than three decades, moved to Durham two years ago.

Flu shot

clinic Nov. 3

A flu vaccination clinic provided by CHANS Home Health Care will be held Thursday, Nov. 3, from 1-3 p.m., at the Town Council Chambers in the Town Hall. All are welcome. For a schedule of additional seasonal flu vaccination clinics in the area, see www.midcoasthealth.com/wellness/flu/schedule/.

Local novelist

talks on new book

Author Debra Spark, who lives in North Yarmouth, will give a book talk on her latest novel, “Unknown Caller,” Wednesday, Oct. 26, at 6:30 p.m., at the Freeport Community Library. Spark is the author of five books of fiction, including “The Pretty Girl,” “Good for the Jews” and “Coconuts for the Saint.” Other books include “Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing” and the anthology, “Twenty Under Thirty.”

Beginning with an aggravating phone call, a strange request, and the sudden disappearance of a mother and her daughter, “Unknown Caller” moves backward in time and across several continents to tell a funny, moving, and surprising story about families, misunderstandings, secrets and chances for redemption.

College honors

Kayley Johnson has been welcomed into the All Maine Women Honor Society at the University of Maine. Johnson, a 2013 graduate of Freeport High School, was one of 12 members inducted. She is a psychology major, minoring in exercise science. She participates in a variety of activities on campus, including Alternative Breaks and Phi Sigma Pi National Honors Fraternity.

Emily H. Sturtevant of Freeport has been selected for membership into Psi Chi, the international psychology honorary society, at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. Sturtevant is a member of the class of 2018. Sturtevant graduated from Freeport High School.

GOP meeting

next Wednesday

The next Freeport Republican Committee meeting is Wednesday, Oct. 19, at 6:45 p.m., at the Masonic Lodge, Mallett Drive, lower level. Those who attend are asked to bring donations of personal care items for men, women and children for the Freeport Food Pantry. For more information, email Jason Thyen, [email protected].

Pumpkins hayrides

every weekend

Wolfe’s Neck Farm, 184 Burnett Road, is offering Pumpkin Hayrides, weekends during October, from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. Visitors can enjoy an oceanfront haywagon ride to pick out a favorite pumpkin. They can also spend some time in the barn with the animals, stop into the farm stand, or enjoy a walk in the woods or along the shoreline. The cost is $5 per person (children 3 and under are free). Small pumpkins cost $3 each. For more information on programs, see www.wolfesneckfarm.org.

Program explores

Scot-Irish ancestors

A Freeport Historical Society presentation, “Lost Colonies and Fading Footsteps, an Archaeological Investigation of Ulster-Scots on the Maine Frontier,” is scheduled for Thursday, Oct 20, at 7 p.m., at the Freeport Community Library.

This presentation will feature ongoing archaeological work and research in the local area related to 18th-century Scot-Irish settlers – featuring such family names as Anderson, Armstrong, Mann, Means, Patten, Rogers, Dunning, Chase, Jamison, Campbell, Hewey (Huey), Phinney, Martin, Given, McKeen and others.

Pamela Crane, a historical archaeologist, and John Mann, a local descendant of the Thomas Means family, will describe ongoing efforts to uncover and preserve the stories and artifacts of the Scots-Irish ancestors who migrated from the North of Ireland to the Maine coast in large numbers starting in 1718.

Working with volunteers from the Maine Ulster Scots Project, Crane and Mann are searching for documents, artifacts, folkways and oral traditions about the lives of Scots-Irish settlers on the coast of Maine. The group was organized in 2005 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Means’ Massacre on Flying Point and is currently organizing an international symposium to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the first settlers to arrive in 1718 from the North of Ireland.

Company honor

The financial services firm Edward Jones recently was named the No. 1 large company on the “Best Places to Work in Maine” ranking, according to Caleb Stephens, an Edward Jones financial adviser in Freeport.

Mainebiz teamed up with the Best Companies Group of Harrisburg, Pa., to rank the state’s top 75 employers. Companies named Best Companies to Work in Maine for 2016 were divided into 21 large, 36 medium and 18 small-sized companies by the number of people they employ in Maine.

The ranking was based on an employer inventory of practices and an anonymous survey of employees, who were asked to agree or disagree with dozens of statements about the firm, teamwork and their individual experiences at the firm. For 11 consecutive years, Edward Jones has ranked among the top six Best Places to Work in Maine.

Election information

Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 8. The polls will be open from 7 a.m.-8 p.m. in the gymnasium at the Freeport High School, 30 Holbrook St. Anyone wishing to receive an absentee ballot can visit this link to apply online: www.maine.gov/cgi-bin/online/AbsenteeBallot/index.pl.

Voters can also request an absentee ballot by calling or stopping by the Town Clerk’s Office, 865-4743, ext.123. Ballots are now available. Sample ballots also are available for viewing at www.freeportmaine.com, the Town Clerk’s Office and the Freeport Community Library.

For more information, contact Town Clerk Christine Wolfe, 865-4743, ext. 123.

Unwanted drugs

can be dropped off

The Freeport Police Department has installed a secured permanent drug drop-off box in the lobby of the Public Safety Building. Residents can drop off expired, unwanted or outdated drugs during their normal business hours, Sunday through Saturday, from 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

The department also is participating in the National Drug Take Back Initiative, Saturday, Oct. 22, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., in the Public Safety Building. The following items can be brought in for disposal:

• Controlled, non-controlled and over the counter substances (medications may be disposed of in their original container, but it is recommend that the labels be removed or blacked out.

• Liquid products such as cough syrup, which should remain sealed in their original container if possible. Otherwise the item should be placed in a sealed zipped bag. The department will not accept intravenous solutions, injectibles and syringes. For more information, call 865-4800.

Last supper of

season at Grange

An all-you-can-eat bean supper will be held Saturday, Oct. 22, from 5-6 p.m., at Harraseeket Grange, 13 Elm St in Freeport. It’s the final public supper of the 2016 season. The menu includes three kinds of home-baked beans, hot dogs, biscuits, brown bread, potato salad, pasta salad, cole slaw, pies– all homemade – and beverages. The prices is $9, and $6 for children 12 and under. For more Information, call 865-3363.

Girl Scouts set

new-member event

Girl Scouts of Maine will host new member sign-up events for potential members and volunteers at various locations in the month of October and November as a part of a new recruitment initiative.

In Freeport, an event will be held Monday, Oct. 24, at 5 p.m., at the Town Hall. Girls from kindergarten through fifth grade and their parents are invited to learn why Girl Scouting is important to the development of girls, how it relates to the success of young women today, and the important role that adults play.

For more information, see www.girlscoutsofmaine.org.

Upcoming meetings

Active Living Committee, Thursday, Oct. 20, 7:30 a.m., Town Council Chambers.

Hunter Road Fields Advisory Committee, Thursday, Oct. 27, 7:30 a.m., Town Council Chambers.

Planning Board, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 6 p.m., Town Council Chambers.

A full schedule of meetings and agendas is available at www.Freeportmaine.com.

Debbie Daggett

Freeport Active Living Committee member Serena Kolb participated in the Public Safety Open House Oct. 12 by promoting bike safety. She’s wearing her bike gear and displaying her bicycle. She was joined by Samantha Herr, the new community advocacy coordinator for the Bicycle Coalition of Maine. For more information on the Active Living Committee, see www.freeportmaine.com.