Choirs highlight Christmas program

The School Street United Methodist Church, 29 School St., is sponsoring an “Evening of Christmas Music” at 7 p.m. on Friday.

The program will feature four choirs and a praise team. Participants include a choir, junior choirs, hand bell choir and a junior hand bell choir. The program benefits the church’s Angel Tree project.

Admission is free, but donations will be appreciated.

Swing into holidays concert

Maine’s all-female big band, The Edith Jones Project, will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday in the Gorham Performing Arts Center at Gorham High School, 41 Morrill Ave.

The concert is entitled “Swinging into the Holidays.”

“This is our big, annual event full of great jazz, swinging holiday tunes and an audience sing-a-long. Come celebrate with us,” said Rebecca Wing.

Tickets are $15; seniors, $10; children under 14 free.

White Rock Christmas concert

White Rock Baptist Church on Sebago Lake Road in Gorham will host the Hyssongs for a Christmas concert at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 23.

The Hyssongs, of Rockport, have become nationally known in the Southern Gospel field with their distinct family harmonies.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

Houghton’s buck

In a single round from a muzzleloader, Lonnie Houghton dropped a 7-point buck Friday afternoon off Boundary Road in Standish.

Houghton tagged it at Jordan’s Store in Sebago. The bucked weighed 135 pounds on the store’s scale. Judging the appearance and growth of the buck, Game Warden Jason Luce said it appeared to have lost some weight in recent weeks.

It marked Houghton’s first deer tagged for a black-powder season.

Postmen photo draws response

Several readers responded to a request to identify the three postal workers pictured in Gorham Remembered, on Page 2 of last week’s American Journal. They collectively identified the trio as Bud Stiles, on the left, Mac Smith and Bruiser Smith seated.

Those who responded were Martha Harris, Paul Neal, Dave Aikins, Phil Boothby and Dean Evans. A retired Gorham High School teacher and coach besides once a part time postal employee in Gorham, Evans worked with all three of the men in the 1962 photo.

The post office in Gorham was then located in the Masonic building at the corner of State and School streets in Gorham Village.

U.S. taxpayer debt

The Bureau of Public Debt reported on Dec. 6 that the U.S. public debt was $8,653,798,995,165.17.

Cutline (EJP group photo) Cutline (Buck 1)