Sunday, June 25, 2023 8:30 am Kids Run 9:00 am 5k Walk/Run
Why should you participate? 🦞 Proceeds donated to help area non-profits serve those who are battling cancer 🦞 Racecourse is on a quiet, scenic, ocean-view road far from traffic 🦞 A Professional Chip Timing service will be timing our race this year 🦞 Unique lobster 5k t-shirts for sale 🦞 Mostly flat out and back course 🦞 Water Station at the turnaround point 🦞 Handmade lobster-themed awards 🦞 Photo booth with lobster-themed props 🦞 Fun race atmosphere 🦞 An AMAZING finish line view 🦞 FREE cupcakes and post-race treats 🦞 Lucky number 🦞 And MORE – We will share soon!!
Sign up today! $30 Online registration closes June 18. $35 Day of registration.
Can’t join us in person? Register as a virtual participant! Join folks from Colorado, Florida, New York, Indiana, Ohio, and Maine. Walk or run when and where it is convenient for you!
for a wide variety of tasks and projects… all designed to prepare our hall for our big community celebration coming soon! Inside tasks will include sweeping, dusting, wiping, rearranging, and setting up chairs… outside tasks will include raking and pruning… maybe some painting if the weather’s right!
Bring your favorite tools and labor-saving devices. Come any time after 2:00 pm… or before if you can see what needs doing and don’t mind working alone! Better yet, bring a friend! Many hands make work light.
For more information call Walter at 207 343-1842 or Mary at 207 564-0820.
In Other News
We were busy at our April Meeting! Get your calendars out and mark these dates:
May 12, 2023, is our Spring Cleaning Day!
May 19, 2023, is our big Community Celebration – Potluck Supper starts at 5:30 pm, and the Program kicks off at 7:00 pm.
May 20, 2023, Services for Roger Ricker at the Mainstream Cemetery at 1 pm, followed by a celebration of his life at the Harmony Community Center.
June 1, 2023, Is the Piscataquis Pomona Meeting at Wayside Grange at 7 pm.
June 9, 2023, is our Valley Grange Meeting—Potluck Supper starts at 6 pm, and the meeting and elections are at 7:00 pm. Note this is a date change from our usual third Friday!
July 29, 2023, we will participate in the River Festival in Guilford.
August 15, 2023, Valley Grange Fun and Fund Raiser Picnic at the Boomsma’s, 5 pm until the marshmallows are roasted! (This replaces the former Piscataquis Pomona Picnic.)
August 24-27, 2023, Piscataquis Valley Fair
We need your input and suggestions! As part of our Community Celebration, we will recognize individuals and organizations supporting Valley Grange and their communities! We’ve started a pretty good list, but we welcome suggestions! We also need members and guests to “fill the chairs” during our Community Celebration on May 19, 2023. Please RSVP if you can help us by filling a role during this meeting—there are some easy ones! We also need your help with the potluck—please plan to make larger dishes than usual!
The CWA Committee raised some funds with a cake raffle and recommended donations to the House in the Woods and Home for Little Wanderers. “All in favor!”
We will kick off a “Meat or Heat” Raffle with the Guilford River Festival. Details to follow!
Only a handful of states recognize an upcoming state holiday that many others around the country know little about. Patriot’s Day is on Monday, April 17, and is celebrated officially only in Maine, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and North Dakota. The latter two recently adopted the holiday in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
With origins stemming from Fast Day, a holiday tied to a time when Maine was still a Massachusetts territory before achieving statehood in 1820, Patriot’s Day (spelled Patriots’ Day outside of Maine) was officially adopted long after statehood in 1907 and originally celebrated on April 19. It was moved to the third Monday of April in 1969.
The holiday commemorates the battles of colonists against British soldiers in Lexington, Concord and Menotomy in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775, which officially began hostilities in the American Revolutionary War. In fact, it was the day referenced in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn,” in which he describes the first shot fired at Concord’s North Bridge as the “shot heard round the world.” Today, the holiday is also marked by the Boston Marathon, which has been held on Patriot’s Day nearly every year since 1897. Click here for more historical information about what the day celebrates.
Reprinted with permission from an e-newsletter published by Senator Stacey Guerin, Maine District 4.
Special Guest for Sagadahoc Pomona Fifth Degree will be Gerry Simmons, Past Master of Minuteman Pomona and Past Steward of Massachusetts State Grange. Other special guests filling chairs include Rick Grotton, Sharon Morton, and Henry Morton.
Sagadahoc Pomona will hold its annual Fifth Degree at Enterprise Grange #48, 15 Alexander Reed Road, Richmond, on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. From Main Street in Richmond, take the street across from the library and fire department, and pass two houses and the ballfield.
A potluck supper at 6:00 with a meeting at 7:00.
Other Pomonas are welcome to take their candidates. Please be sure the candidates have their applications signed by their Subordinate Master or Secretary. Contact Ben Edgerly or Marilyn Stinson for more info.
Highland Lake Grange will have a roasted turkey drive-up, take-out-only dinner on Saturday, April 22, 2023, from 4:30 – 6:00. NOTE: Serving may start earlier if we have a long line of cars for safety.
There will be roasted turkey, green beans, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, bread, cranberry sauce, and cake. The cost is $10.00 per person. Please have the exact price for the meal(s) you want. You will drive up, pay and receive your meal: no substitutions or pre-orders. The Grange is located near the corner of Rt 302 and Hardy Road, Westbrook. FMI Joann Levesque 207 233 7119.
Due to an issue with the furnace at State Grange Headquarters, the Degree Day scheduled for April 23, 2023, will be held at Manchester Grange located at 953 Western Ave, (Route 202), Manchester, ME 04351 starting at 1:00 pm. Please contact Maynard Chapman or Sherry Harriman for more information!
It’s time for farms to sign up for Open Farm Day; the deadline is May 1. The event is on July 23, 2023. There will be a webinar on April 5, 2023, at 5 pm for farms who want to learn more.More information and resources,including how to signup for the webinar and Open Farm Day 2023.
April 15, 2023, 11:30 – 1:00 (or until the food runs out)
Enjoy lunch to go from Kennebec Valley Grange! The menu includes smothered beef, mashed potatoes, peas & carrots, homemade biscuit, and peach cobbler. The cost is $10 per lunch.
Kennebec Valley Grange is located at 560 Main Street in Madison, Maine.
For more information, email Diane Pinkham or call 207 314-5135.
