COOPERS MILLS

Seniors group will meet for lunch Wednesday

The Young at Heart Seniors Group will meet at noon Wednesday at the Whitefield Lions Club at 52 Main St.

Members are asked to bring a dish to share, in the form of a salad, casserole or dessert. Bonnie Hendsbee will provide entertainment for the event.

For more details, call Pat Moody or Debbie Gray at 549-5666 or 445-4950.

WELLS

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Library will host programs for kids, adults this week

Wells Public Library will host the following programs this week at 1434 Post Road.

Patrons are advised that, due to construction, the Children’s Room will be closed through May 4 and some programs relocated to other areas of the library.

There will be an Outdoor Teen Game Tournament at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday with youths welcome to participate in giant lawn games or create their own, with top scorers of the contests receiving a prize.

At 3 p.m. Friday, members of the Lego and Rubik’s Cube Club meet to build master creations with Legos or solve Rubik’s cubes, all provided by the library. All ages welcome.

For adults, there will be a Chainmail Jewelry workshop at 6 p.m. Tuesday to create chainmail bracelets with local jewelry maker Diane Vollor. This event is free but registration is required.

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The Conversational French Language Group will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday for an informal approach to practicing or relearning French.

And a Fiber Arts Group will meet at 10 a.m. Friday to work on group or individual needlework project. All ages and levels of ability are encouraged to join us for ideas, inspiration and conversation.

For more details, email Anne Mosey at amosey@wellstown.org or call the library at 646-8181.

GORHAM

Church will have concert of bluegrass music Sunday

West Gorham Union Church will host a concert by Erica Brown and the Bluegrass Connections band from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at 190 Ossipee Trail, Route 25.

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This event will benefit the church’s Lift Project to convert the fellowship hall into a handicapped accessible venue.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Advance tickets are available at Eventbrite.com.

SOUTH BERWICK

Historical society holding talk on slavery Thursday

The Old Berwick Historical Society will host a talk by Mount Holyoke College professor Christine DeLucia at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Berwick Academy’s Commons Dining Hall at 31 Academy St.

DeLucia’s talk will explore indigenous enslavement and unfreedom in Colonial New England and the Atlantic world.

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Admission is free and open to the public. Donations are appreciated.

More information is available at www.oldberwick.org.

SANFORD

Annual church clothing sale planned for Friday, Saturday

St. George Episcopal Church will host its annual 50 Cents Clothing Sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

Free blood pressure screening will be available both days. The church has a wide assortment of good clothing for sale for all members of the family.

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OTISFIELD

Lunch will include program on advance directives, living wills

East Otisfield Free Baptist Church will offer another installment of its Lunch with a Purpose program, meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 232 Rayville Road, off Route 121.

Robin Greene, LCSW, of Stephens Memorial Hospital; Martha McLain, attorney in Norway; and pastor and registered nurse Genise Stern will speak on advance directives and living wills.

Forms as well as a bag lunch and beverage will be provided. There will be a time for questions and answers.

For more details, call 461-1995 or email dobleverrill@gmail.com.

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KENNEBUNK

Museum will celebrate anniversary of armistice

The Brick Store Museum will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the armistice of World War I with its new exhibition, “From the Kennebunks to the Argonne Forest: The Great War That Changed America,” opening Saturday at 112 Main St. The exhibit will run through the end of the year. A museum members screening of the exhibition will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday.

In the exhibition, visitors will discover the many societal changes that America experienced before and after World War I, including race, immigration, women’s roles and growth of the military and federal government. Objects featured in the exhibition include military uniforms, propaganda posters, household items, and archival material relating to the war. Visitors will also find interactive elements. The galleries will also feature music of the era.

In addition to the indoor exhibition, the museum will be installing the “Museum Poppy Project” in its rear courtyard. Metal poppies will honor or memorialize loved ones. Visitors can sponsor a poppy for $25, which will be named and installed in the display until November. The poppy will then be returned to the visitor to use in his own garden.

For more information, visit www.brickstoremuseum.org or call 985-4802.


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