Math night at BEMS

The 17th annual School Administrative District 6 Title I Family Math Night was attended by 190 parents, students, and staff from across the district on Nov. 14, at Bonny Eagle Middle School.

The goal of math night was to demonstrate math games and activities that parents and students could learn at math night and continue to use together at home.

Students in Grades 3-5 worked with their parents on a variety of math activities including estimation, graphing, spatial reasoning, strategic thinking, addition, subtraction, ordering

numbers, problem solving and mental math.

Dorcas Society remembers Wiggin

The Dorcas Society held a special event Nov. 17 at the Saco River Grange in Buxton to commemorate the birth of children’s author Kate Douglas Wiggin 150 years ago. The group presented a showing of “Timothy’s Quest,” a silent movie written by Wiggin.

The film depicts two orphan children and their personal and triumphant odyssey throughout the countryside in finding a family to love them. “Timothy’s Quest” was filmed in 1922 in the towns surrounding Hollis and is a treasure with its own musical score. Danny Patt accompanied the film on the piano.

Author and researcher Rowena Edlin-White and her husband, Rob, of Nottingham, England, were both present at the showing. She wrote her doctoral thesis on Wiggin. And she presented a lecture on the history of Wiggin, who was born on Sept. 28, 1856.

Rabies clinic Dec. 2

A rabies clinic will be held 1-3 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2, at the Bar Mills Fire Station on Portland Road.

The cost is $8 (cash only) each for dogs and cats. All dogs must be on leashes and cats in carriers.

The clinic is sponsored by the towns of Buxton and Hollis along with the Hollis Animal Clinic in Hollis; Edgewood Animal Hospital, Gorham; and the Vacationland Dog Club.

Cutline (1706) – Alexis Jongerden of the Frank Jewett School and Nick Roberts and Noah Williams of Edna Libby School place their guesses on the graph of how many lollipops are in the jar. Cutline (1710) – Brad Jordan a student at the Frank Jewett School and Amber Randall from Edna Libby School are the winners of the jars of lollipops. Their estimates were the closest to the actual amount. Photo by Kathy Campbell of SAD 6