Senior citizen meal
The Central Aroostook High School cafeteria will be a meal site for area senior citizens on Tuesdays, beginning Feb. 27. Senior citizens will be served at 12 noon each Tuesday that school is in session. The cost of the meal will be $3.25, payable at the meal site.
Please call Sylvia at 429-8464 by the Monday before each Tuesday to sign up.
Spring Adult Education
The Spring Semester of SAD 42 Adult Education classes will begin on Monday, Feb. 26, and will run through Thursday, April 12. All classes begin at 6 p.m.
Classes will be held at Central Aroostook High School and include: Windows XP – Mondays and Thursdays with Instructor Kathy Craig; Intro to Microsoft Excel 2003 – Tuesdays with Instructor Stephen Dame; Quilting – Mondays and Thursdays with Instructor Patsy Glidden; Primitive Stitchery – Tuesdays with Instructor Wendy Grass; Crafts and More – Thursdays with Instructor Susan Watson; Woodworking – Thursdays with Instructor Beaver Bell; and Gardening – Tuesdays with Instructors Bonnie and Jim Kinney.
A new class for senior citizens is surfing the Internet. It will be offered on two nights only: Monday, April 23, and Thursday, April 26, with Instructor Kathy Craig.
A registration fee of $15 will be charged for each class and pre-registration is required. Senior citizens 60 years of age and older will be admitted free of charge.
For more information and/or to register, please call Kathy at the Superintendent’s Office at 425-3771. Some classes are limited in space.
Rotary Club
The Mars Hill Rotary Club met on Tuesday morning at 6:30 a.m. at the Aroostook Health Center in Mars Hill. The club held a business meeting, discussing upcoming events such as the Little Miss Mars Hill and Miss Greater Mars Hill pageants.
Steve Miller was welcomed as a new Rotary member. He is the Superintendent of the Mars Hill and Blaine Water Company.
Birthday calendars
The Mars Hill Rotary Club’s Birthday Calendars have arrived and many have been distributed. If you ordered your calendar from a Rotarian, that Rotarian has your calendar and is to get them to you shortly.
If you didn’t order a calendar from a Rotarian, but would like to purchase one, they are available for $5 each at the Mars Hill Town Office, the Blaine Town Office or at the Mars Hill branch of Katahdin Trust.
Please look over the calendars carefully when you get yours to see if all the information on your family is correct. If there are corrections, additions or deletions to be done, please contact Tomi Henderson in the evenings at 429-9126 or via e-mail at tomihen@yahoo.com.
Winterfest
The Winterfest Committee is meeting on Thursday, Feb. 8, at 6:30 p.m. at the Blaine Town Office. They will be finalizing the planned activities for this year’s Winterfest to be held on March 9 and 10.
There will be a Beans and Franks Dinner and a Talent Show on Friday night at CAHS. The Talent Show this year will have three age categories.
Breakfast, a Cribbage Tournament, PeeWee Basketball games, an FFA Baked Potato Bar, children’s coin search, horse-drawn sleigh and snowmobile rides, and BEANO are planned for Saturday at CAHS. Events at Big Rock on Saturday evening will include the Kardboard Klassic, Chicken Stew, Big Air Contest, Torchlight Parade and Fireworks followed by an Adult Dance.
A full list of the events and times will be published in the paper next week. Posters and flyers will also list the events.
Tomi Henderson is the correspondent for Mars Hill, Blaine and Bridgewater. She can be reached at 429-9126 or e-mail tomihen@yahoo.com.
