Bridgewater Historical News
First, the Bridgewater Historical Association would like to congratulate our pageant winners, Little Miss Bridgewater, Breann Bradbury, Junior Miss Bridgewater, Gwen Parsons, and Miss Bridgewater, Lauren Antworth. Congratulations also goes out to Whitney Klein, Miss Teen Mars Hill. The BHA was proud to once again be the home for the Bridgewater pageants. Everyone did a fine job.
We plan to have a busy season this year. During the month of June we will be having a yard sale on Saturdays. If you would like to donate items to the BHA for the sale, or rent a table, please contact: Gloria McCleary 425-6941 or Stephanie Willette 429-9309.
Table rentals are $10 per day. On the donations, please no clothing or electronics. Thank you.
Happy Losers Meet
By Shirley Sides
The Happy Losers held their weekly meeting May 19 at the Congregational Church vestry in Island Falls. Our leader opened our meeting with our pledge and roll call. We had 14 ladies weigh-in and 12 attended our meeting.
Mary Shaw was the loser of the week, and Lois Green was runner-up. Great job ladies. Our secretary and treasurer gave reports for the week. The Cherry Blossoms team is winning in our contest. We had no program for the week, but we had a discussion on the things we should be doing to lose weight. Meetings are always interesting and informative.
Please feel welcome to our group every Wed.8 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. weigh-ins and meeting starts at 9 a.m. Call 365-4884 for more info.
Oakfield Seniors gather
The Oakfield senior citizens met at the Oakfield snow mobile club for a special meeting on Medicare. There was no bussiness meeting just a great lunch. We had a speaker, Brenda Baker from R.S.V.P. on the changes in Medicare. She was a good speaker and we all enjoyed and learned a lot about all the changes.
We had three guests Brenda Baker, Rita Barker, and Hazel Beers. Attending were Linda Bartlett, Geneva Bell, Elevlyn and Merle Burpee, Bernice Campbell, Martha Chapados, Roger Ethier, Shirley Smith, Aubine Fox, Arlene Friel, Mildred Gagnon, Marie Gillotti, Sandra and Wendall Holmes, Ursula Levesque, Bob and Delores Locke, Charlotte and Don Marley, Pete Peters, Peggy and Larry Sanders and Wanetta Townsend We have a new member Janice
Roy.
Island Falls news
Mr. and Mrs. Martin PanKratz have arrived from their home in Manhattan, K.S., to spend the summer at their cottage on Pleasant Pond. They have been summer residents for over 20 years and look forward eagerly to their time here.
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Webb were in Manchester, N.H. on May 15 to attend the wedding of their great-niece Marel Lancaster to Jeffrey McDonald. Also attending the wedding were grandparents, Freela and Clayton Lancaster, from Dexter, and Greg and Darlene Kenny and family from Bangor. I heard from Clayton Varney recently, now living in Winterport, and both he and Priscilla are doing fine in their new environment and plan on a trip to camp soon.
I am not feeding the birds now that summer has arrived, but still get a few who come to see if there are seeds to be had. Do have the hummingbird feeder out now and so far, haven’t spotted a one. Maybe because the stray cat has been around and scared them off. Having a hard time keeping up with the dandelions growing all over my yard and right now the yard isn’t yellow with them. Have planted about all my flowers during this warm weather, despite the swarms of black flies that seem determined to chew me up.
