Upcoming events
PRESQUE ISLE — Energy- and money-saving tips will be given out at a free Maine Public Service workshop on saving energy and money.
The “Save Energy, Save Dollars” workshop focuses on energy efficiency and offers such free take-home tools as fluorescent bulbs, Kill-A-Watt meter, refrigerator gauge, low-flow showerhead and pipe insulation. Co-sponsored by Northern Maine Community College, the workshop will take place at the Edmunds Conference Center, NMCC, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 29. Call Nancy Chandler for registration or more information at 760-2556.
AUGUSTA — An important expression of support for all Maine landowners will be made this Saturday with a major trash clean-up in 14 communities.
Sponsored by the state’s Landowner Relations Program (LOR), the Landowner Appreciation Clean-up Day will focus on helping landowners get rid of the trash that has been dumped on their property by unthinking and uncaring violators, according to Bob Duplessie, LOR director.
The clean-up will take place starting at 9 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 25, in 14 communities, with volunteer teams from ATV, snowmobile and sportsmen clubs, plus land trusts, doing the work, Duplessie said. About 15 organizations, some with several volunteer teams working in different locations in each community, will take part, he said. A small grant from the Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund is helping with some of the costs.
The communities involved are: Augusta, Winslow, Hampden, Limington, Standish, Sebago, Oxford, Waterford, Waterboro, Millinocket, Orono, Veazie, Old Town and Presque Isle.
For more information about the Landowner Appreciation Clean-up Day, contact Bob Duplessie, LOR director, at 557-9924 or by e-mailing: robert.duplessie@maine.gov. For more information about the Landowners Relations Program, go to: www.maine.gov/lor/.
Fort Kent — The Environmental Studies Program at the University of Maine at Fort Kent is hosting a lecture presentation on “Medicinal Plants” by Ms. Natalia Bragg-Taylor of Knot-II-Bragg Farm on Friday, Sept. 24, from 11 a.m. to noon in Nadeau Hall teleconference room.
Also on Saturday, Sept. 25, from 10 a.m. to noon, Bragg-Taylor will present a workshop and nature walk entitled, “Trees that Heal,” which will be held beginning in Cyr Hall, room 209. The presentation and the workshop are free.
FMI on the presentation or to sign up for the workshop, call Dr. Steve Selva at 834-7617.
PRESQUE ISLE — The University of Maine at Presque Isle, beginning Tuesday, Oct. 5, will offer a course as part of its American Management Association’s certificate program. The course registration deadline is seven days prior to each course’s starting date. The course "What Managers Do" will be held on Tuesdays from Oct. 5 to Nov. 9, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the Campus Center, Alumni Room. Kim Jones, marketing coordinator at Cary Medical Center, will lead the course. The registration deadline for this course is Sept. 28.
For more information or to register, contact Keith Madore at 768-9568 or keith.madore@umpi.edu.
PRESQUE ISLE — The University of Maine at Presque Isle’s Outdoor Adventure Program invites the public on an intermediate/advanced outdoor rock climbing excursion at Acadia National Park on Saturday, Oct. 2. Lead by certified PCIA rock climbing guide Lenny Cole, the OAPI trip will explore Acadia’s scenic cliffs.
Some rock climbing experience is required to attend this event. The registration deadline is Sept. 29 by 6 p.m. and the cost for non-UMPI students is $45.
FMI or to register, contact Kim McCrea at 768-9401.
