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35 Union St. / PO Box 766, Brunswick, ME 04011 729-0757 www.peopleplusmaine.org March 2020 Volume 20, No. 3 People Plus supports an engaged, healthy, and independent life for older adults, while joining others to build community for all ages 18th annual Music in April … it’s almost here! a basket to donate (pet basket, Lego basket, Auction items accepted etc.)? We take big things and little things! Not sure if it would work for an auction? Just give until March 13 us a call at the Center. “We are truly in top gear with preparations!” The donations due date is Friday, March 13. So says event coordinator Jill Ellis as she, A new face on the organizing committee along with staff and a team of volunteers, get this year is Michelle Lester, who has taken ready for the 18th annual People Plus Music on the huge task of organizing the hundreds in April fundraising Gala. of auction items, along with tech guru Drew This year’s entertaining program will Dow. They are plenty busy with cataloging, take place on Thursday, April 9, from 5-9 organizing, and getting the technology down pm, at the St. John’s Community Center in so that auction checkout will be a breeze. Brunswick, the first year ever at the new facil- The Knights of Columbus are back pro- ity. Tickets are $50 each. viding bar service, and John Bottero from There is a lot to organize Thomaston Place Galleries will with an event that seats again direct the live auction. THIS GROUP OF EIGHT lucky folks enjoyed a home- well over 200 people, The food is bound to be made, traditional German meal prepared by Richard includes a couple amazing with Chris Gnauck of Richard‘s Restaurant at the home of Jim and dozen restaurants and Sue Howard in Topsham. The meal is a donation from Toole in charge again. Richard for the Music in April live auction. It was delicious eateries, has hundreds Toole is the head chef for and a great time was had by all! I wonder who will win it at of auction items to gather the event and solicits nearly this year‘s Music in April auction? It could be you! and catalog, and work out 25 local restaurants to donate the details for approximately 50 a dish that feeds 200. It’s a generous volunteers. donation and we are honored that our area eat- Taste the joy at the Scoop-a-Thon With the new venue, Robyn Allen, of eries always support us! Every year, everyone Event Design & Decor, is thrilled to have the raves about the delicious food and we expect and raise funds for our teens opportunity to flex her creative imagina- it to be just as good this year. Most everyone enjoys the great taste of gelato, obtaining the all-important sponsorships (a big tion. The theme for the 2020 program is “the The volunteers also will eat well, with setup and when you combine that with serving a thank you!), and even collaborating with our roaring ’20s.” covered by Tony Sachs at the Big Top Deli, wonderful cause, it makes it doubly good! Bowdoin College student liaisons to cover the A big shout out goes to Ellis for sending out which always sends over a large sandwich The 2020 Gelato Fiasco Scoop-a-Thon, nighttime hours of the Scoop-a-Thon. several hundred letters seeking both silent and platter, while teen waitstaff feast on pizza which supports the Brunswick Area Teen This will be the 12th year of the event down live auction items. Auction items have already from Rusty Lantern Market. “No one ever Center, is just around the corner and all the on Maine Street in Brunswick, and the mission been arriving at People Plus, including theater goes home hungry from this event,” said planning is falling into place. The event is is as important as ever. There are literally thou- ticket vouchers, Duck Boat Tour, Red Sox Toole. And he should know, since this is his slated for Tuesday, April 28. sands of visits to the Teen Center on Union items, bowling party, sailing trip, pig roast, 13th Music in April on the books! Jordan and her crew have been hard at Street every year. It is a safe place for kids, jewelry, salon services and much more. Touching Base will be in the house for the work lining up Gelato scoopers, who end up in grades sixth through 12th, to meet their And it’s not too late to donate. Are you an sixth year in a row, providing music for the usually gaining some fame at these gatherings; friends, and make new ones, enjoy everything artist or crafter and have something you wish event, as well as BOKA, a Bowdoin College from a snack to a meal, and basically just hang to offer? Do you have a business and can a cappella group which is returning as well for BRUNSWICK AREA TEEN CENTER out. donate a product or service? Do you have a They also have access to mentoring, technol- group or business that wants to pull together continued on page 12 SCOOP-A-THON ogy, plenty of games, arts, and so much more. So save the date of April 28 — hey, that Thank You 2020 Music in April Sponsors to date: rhymes — and plan on stopping by Gelato Fiasco, at 74 Maine St., at least once during Fortissimo Gala Sponsor: Forte Sponsors: Ameriprise Financial Services, the day to raise funds for the cool place known Rousseau Management Atlantic Federal Credit Union, Avita of Brunswick & as the Brunswick Area Teen Center. See you Crescendo Healthcare Sponsor: Sunnybrook, Bath Savings Institution, Bill Dodge Auto Group, Brackett Funeral Home, CHANS Home Health there! Mid Coast-Parkview Health FMI: Contact Jordan by calling 721-0754 or & Hospice, Coastal Landing Retirement Community, Tuesday, April 28, 2020 emailing her at [email protected]. Crescendo Financial Sponsor: Edward Jones Investments, Goodwin Motor Group, Bangor Savings Bank Kennebec Savings Bank, Mechanics Savings, Mid Coast Senior Health Center, Norway Savings Bank, Primerica, Encore Event Sponsors: Priority Real Estate Group, RE/MAX Riverside, Riley Annual campaign runs through June Maine State Music Theatre, Insurance Agency, Rusty Lantern Market, Spectrum A big, big thank you to those a stock donation of $2,164, and Maine Event Design & Decor, Generations, The Highlands, The McLellan, Thornton of you who have contributed to 100 Edward Jones interest of $283. Oh Snap Maine Photoboth Oaks. Mezzo Sponsor: JHR Development. the annual funding campaigns 90 On the same date, the Teen Center 80 for the People Plus Center and Raised through Feb. 25 campaign total was $29,649, which Brunswick Area Teen Center. 70 includes donations received from Frank’s Field Trip - Registration ends March 5! And the good news is that it’s $43,313 60 the Back to School letters. Annual Fund Goal 50 still not too late to donate if you $50,000 The annual campaign runs until All aboard to the Maine Flower Show haven’t already done so. 40 the end of June. Donations can be Your donation of $25 or 30 Thu, March 26, 10:45 am. Join and tools. The show also features seminars, According to Office Manager more in “New Money” made at the Center, through the contributes to a 100% 20 us on Thursday, March 26, on workshops, and discussions. Betsy White, as of Feb. 25, the challenge match. 10 mail or right online at peopleplus- the Amtrak Downeaster as we Cost of the trip, including transportation and funding total for People Plus Each donation 87% maine.org. Thank you in advance journey to the annual Maine the show, is only $25. The first 20 people to amounts to $43,313. This includes matters! for your continued support. Flower Show in Portland. Our train leaves register and pay get to go. You must register membership donations of $2,698, Brunswick Station at 11:10 am, so let’s gather by March 5. Lunch is not included — bring track-side by 10:45 to check in. We should a snack to enjoy on the train, pick up a sand- arrive in Portland just before noon and the wich in the café car, or buy some treats at the FYI! “Memories of Brunswick: flower show is a short walk from the train stop show. The return train to Brunswick leaves at (wear your walkin’ shoes), weather permitting 3:40 pm, arriving in Brunswick about 4:25 pm. (a shuttle bus is also available). Our monthly field trips are made possible by 1930s, '40s and '50s” The Maine Flower Show at Thompson’s the support of Scott Lemieux of Brunswick’s Thu, Mar. 12, 1:30 pm. Like the rest of the state, People Plus is observing Maine’s 200th Point, which runs from March 26-29, attracts Ameriprise Financial office and the Rousseau birthday. Join Maine’s Bicentennial celebration with glimpses of Brunswick's own history nearly 20,000 people every year and is staffed family at Coastal Landing Retirement in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s through a slide show of memories. Member Alison Coffin has by 700 volunteers. This year’s theme is “A Community. compiled countless slides from the Pejepscot Historical Society, member Claude Bonang Cascade of Color” and plans call for 12 display and more to recall and reminisce about her parents' generation. Come and find out if you or gardens, plus the Children’s Garden, and more someone you know is in any of the pictures! than 120 exhibits of plants, garden supplies, Joining Alison will be Claude Bonang, a beloved People Plus member and retired Brunswick High School science teacher who will share his written poetry and prose about growing up in Brunswick during that time. Free and open to the public. Registration is Happy 200th Birthday to Maine! greatly appreciated. Check out local celebrations and events on page 8. Page 2 People Plus News March 2020 March 2020 People Plus News Page 3 Happy 200th Birthday! People Plus News Fundraising events here before we know it!! Maine By P.K. Allen Early Heroines By Sally Hartikka It was two hundred years ago Maine Bicentennial By Betty Bavor Brunswick folk in the early days The monthly newspaper of People Plus, On this very special date serving residents of the Brunswick- It’s been such a busy month at the interesting and different auction items It is official, Maine’s Bicentennial flag was unveiled and raised at four Had many chances to prove their pluck. Center with tons of people working on this year as well! Jim Howard of Priority From the The Ides of March in 1820 Wild animals and warring natives Topsham-Harpswell area. Editorial That Maine became a state launching locations across the state on July 30. Janet Mills, Maine’s 75th submissions and advertising queries their taxes as well as the staff busy on Real Estate is going to offer a summer Executive governor, the first woman, joined the Bicentennial commission for ceremonies Gave them the opportunity should be e-mailed to: fundraising event arrangements and smokehouse barbecue event at his With a rich and celebrated history for Maine’s 200th anniversary of statehood under bright sunny skies. 2020 To show their courage or trust to luck. [email protected] members getting fit and taking new house for up to 40 people. With live Director Her men and women showed their worth will have opportunities to engage and learn about history, facts, people, and One such settler was Mrs. Thomas, Questions, comments and written contri- classes that we’ve hardly had a chance music to boot. That will be a very fun From heroics in the Civil War the beauty of our unique beloved state at many celebrations all across Maine. Who in the year seventeen seventy-six, butions should be sent by the 15th of the to come up for air. item to auction off, as well as a winter Stacy V. Frizzle To her astronauts above the Earth This introduction was inspired by a picture I selected at our Write on Writer’s Was challenged by a pack of wolves We are so excited about the new event at his house that we are calling a meeting. The picture is five charming puffins sitting like a choir in their colony. month to: Her famous artists and craftsmen While bringing fish to Brunswick, location of Music in April (on April “Kentucky bourbon tasting club.” Eight and never use them or have a condo- I discovered Maine ocean islands provide the only nesting site in the United Her baby to her side affixed. The Editor, People Plus News Fill galleries with their art States for Atlantic puffins. These sea birds are said to look like a clown with 9th!!) just up the street at the St. John’s lucky winners will each get the oppor- minium somewhere and would like to Inspired by the beauty P. O. Box 766 donate a weekend get-away or you have wings, however, in this picture they are stately and colorful! Atlantic puffins The fish were heavy, and so was her child, Brunswick, ME 04011-0766 Community Center that we’ve been up tunity to sample rare types of bourbon That came right from her heart there half a dozen times already mea- whiskey that have each been paired with an interesting piece of ceramics that you are having one of their most productive seasons in many years and are setting Thus limiting a quick getaway. Office phone (207) 729-0757 To keep the beasts from getting too near, suring and planning and working on an appetizer. Howard is a collector of picked up on a trip to Asia years ago. We Her state flower is the pinecone a 2019 record, according to National Audubon Society scientist, Dr. Stephen She’d throw fish in their direction, are open to all and every suggestion! Her bird, the blacked capped chickadee Kess. An abundance of young haddock, hake and the layout. The auction space will be rare types of bourbon and thought this Thus keeping the wolves at bay. People Plus smaller, but I think it will feel more would be a fun way to raise money for And right on the heels of Music in You can see eagles, moose, and osprey herring, puffins' best diet, plus earlier seasonal egg laying may be factors. Dr. Kess did remark the Board of Trustees “intimate.” But the dining room space the organization while getting together a April is the Teen Center fundraiser at Or seals sunning by the sea Another homesteader also showed courage. The Gelato Fiasco set for April 28. We years fluctuate with warming ocean tempera- Granny Young in the summer of seventy five, David R. Forkey, Chair, Georgetown will be larger and people will have more small group of donors who would enjoy Wild blueberries, ships, and lobsters tures, food and predators. are thrilled to once again have a full day Poled her way over to Bomazeen Island Charles S. Evans, 1st Vice, Topsham room to move about. Robyn Allen from the same hobby Jim has cultivated. Along with stacked cords of wood Tour boats run to many Maine islands Maine Event Design and Decor will We’ve also had a lovely piece of at the flagship store on Maine Street. Are just a few of her native products To pick the berries so prominent there Richard J. Rizzo, 2nd Vice Chair, Yarmouth April through August with best sight- But nearly failed to return alive. Mitchell W. Brown, Secretary, Brunswick again create an amazing space with jewelry come in from the Springer Last year we saw more than 1,000 That make living here so good ings in June and July. Naturalists are gorgeous table design, fabric swags Jewelry store valued at $600! So that people turn out to enjoy a fun time while Christine Munroe, Treasurer, Falmouth Factory outlets and antique shops on board boats providing details While in the middle of , and twinkling lights galore to create an just might make it into the live auction eating gelato and helping us raise money Write on Carol S. Aderman, Freeport Adorn her rockbound coast about these charming sea birds' A bear, smelling a delicious treat, for the teens and we are hoping for Carolyn Bulliner, Brunswick atmosphere from the “Roaring ‘20s!” as well and we have some tried and true Along with famous L.L. Bean colonies and lifestyle. The Project Writers Started swimming after her feeble craft, Thomas Farrell, Ex-officio, Brunswick And the kitchen at the venue is old favorites like Frank’s canoe ride, another record year if possible! Whose outdoor wares we boast Puffin Visitor Center in Rockland Wednesdays Overtook the boat with some powerful strokes, Catherine Jarratt, Brunswick amazing! The Knights of Columbus put his wife Jane Connors’ delicious and So please mark your calendars for with hands-on exhibits is the place at 1 pm And Granny, he tried to unseat. Tim Keene, Bowdoin a significant donation into that kitchen coveted home-baked pies, Margo and Music in April on April 9, don your Her winter storms leave foot deep snow to begin your adventure. I am She beat him about the head Rodie Lloyd, Freeport space and now we get to reap the bene- David Knight’s sailboat ride, a week suits and flapper dresses and join us for With frigid temps at night going to put this in my bucket list With her rather flimsy oar, Stephen F. Loebs, PhD, Topsham fits! Chris Toole, our dinner coordinator in a beach house on , a great time! (Tickets are on sale at the Making for snowy slopes and icy ponds for 2020 as a bicentennial event David Millar, Stunning him, she pushed him under, Yarmouth and chef from The Highlands, could not and much more. We’re so honored that front desk!) And then a couple weeks On which hearty Mainers delight to learn about a unique Maine Joseph Palma, Harpswell treasure. If you have not explored Drowning him ‘til he was dead, Annee Tara, Brunswick be happier about using that new kitchen people are willing year after year to later, come on down to the Gelato Fiasco And her summer days are so incredible Then towed the heavy creature ashore. space. There’s even running water and donate their time and possessions to fundraiser on April 28. They should puffins, make it a bicentennial Kim Watson, Topsham You can camp, fish, boat, or hike celebration priority to tour our Kelsie M. West-Ezzo, Topsham an ice maker! For the last couple of People Plus for us to use as a fundrais- both be very fun events that raise signif- Or visit the sites around Acadia years, despite the graciousness of the ing mechanism. icant funds for People Plus and our Teen islands to see our exclusive sea By riding on a bike bird colonies in 2020. Statehood People Plus Staff Brunswick Parks and Rec Department, And we are still looking for a few Center program, allowing us to continue By Sally Hartikka the kitchen set up was not ideal. So I more items, so if you have something to keep our class fees low, our member- So from her great mountain forests Breaking off ties from Massachusetts, Chamberlain and the twentieth Maine Stacy V. Frizzle To her sands along the sea think everyone is pleased about the new you think would bring in money for ship high and our doors open! Maine finally became a state, With no more ammunition at hand, Executive director She says to all who visit here See you down here at the Center that Able to be her own master Turned the tide at Little Round Top, [email protected] space and we will save a lot of money the organization that you would like to Welcome to Maine — “The Way Life Should Be” Jill Ellis not renting ovens. donate, we are certainly accepting dona- builds community! And captain of her fate. Using bayonets to make the enemy Program and event coordinator And we have some very cool and tions. Perhaps you have season tickets disband. [email protected] She joined the country in eighteen twenty, M is for March By Elizabeth B. Bates On March fifteenth to be exact, The bravery of the Mainers Elizabeth White As half of the Missouri Compromise … Earned the state much admiration. Office manager For the Roman god Mars who allowed their troops to murder. [email protected] From A free state; the other slavery backed. A monument placed at Gettysburg ‘Eat Right, Bite by Bite’ M is also for mom, the one who wipes our tears, and whom we love, forever! Offers well-earned commendation. Jennifer Felkay M is for mistakes we make during our days, and misery follows us Early in her statehood Marketing coordinator Anita’s will help food challenges before we learn to pray. She played an important role [email protected] M is for Maine, the most beautiful in the United States. The land In the conduct of the Civil War … Jordan Cardone Plate holidays are over they can make better your eating and listening to your level and the sea, and the neighbors who live next door ... everything that we feel, To save the Union became her goal. Teen Center coordinator Anita Nugent choices, but let’s face it, we always of fullness. Finally, making less of the that makes it to our hearts! [email protected] (207) 504-6439 have food challenges. This month is St. food choices that may not be packed with Lynne Smith Patrick’s Day to name just one possible nutrition. I have included two recipes this Membership/VTN coordinator eating challenge. What are we to do? I month that can make some healthy and [email protected] [email protected] Green is My Color Bridge Table Vision By Charlotte Hart suggest trying to include healthier choices interesting additions to your St. Patrick’s Sarah Deck at gatherings. Day! By Doris Weinberg In Brunswick, Maine, in the 1960s, I was invited to join a women’s bridge group. Two tables. What is a friend? Office coordinator/receptionist March is National Nutrition Month We played every other Wednesday evening. I was not a good bridge player. I did manage never [email protected] (NNM). This year the theme is “Eat Right, Another thought is to be mindful of As far back as I can remember, By W A Mogk one color has always been my choice. to trump my partner’s ace. I did enjoy the homemaker’s evening out. To be truthful, I liked Patrick Gabrion Bite by Bite.” I like this campaign because the occasional chatter more than playing bridge. Some of us were good players, but no one A friend may give you a very nice gift, And whether it was for a dress or painting People Plus News editor is seems positive and fits in with what I try was terribly serious, so those evenings were relaxing. A friend will follow you over a cliff. walls, [email protected] to encourage people to do with their eating Mashed Rutabaga Chatter was usually about delicious new recipes, great places to take children, lovely things A friend will help you drink one more, plan. Take it one step at a time to making I would always raise my voice. on sale at Senter’s Department Store on Maine Street, or maybe a bit of harmless gossip. An A friend will pick you up off the floor. Spectrum Generations Staff Ingredients: Directions: better food choices. Keep it fun and inter- I know it comes in many shades, especially friendly member of the group was Eileen Londsdale, a Navy wife, a caring person A friend will always throw you a rope, Andrea Handel esting. Already this year I have made a • 2 lbs rutabaga, peeled & cut into 1/2-inch 1. Place rutabaga, potato, 6 cups water But I love the color green. with an endearing sense of humor, often telling jokes on herself. Eileen also had a serious side. A friend will always offer you hope. Aging & Disability Resource Specialist cubes and bay leaves in a large saucepan over A friend helps you find the way, queso dip with winter squash as the main And when we built our first new house, She liked to tell us about a great project she was working on. She was working with a friend, [email protected] A friend will hang with you all day. ingredient and almond butter soup. Both • 1/2 lb baking potatoes, peeled & cut into high heat. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, I made sure that green reigned supreme. Eleanor Jaques, a librarian at Curtis Memorial Library. Eileen and Eleanor and a visionary were hits and fit in nicely with the NNM 1/2-inch cubes and simmer 18 minutes or until very group believed that Brunswick needed an organization that would provide a place for activities A friend strives to tell the truth, Teddi Reed tender. Drain; discard bay leaves. A friend tries not to be uncouth. theme. • 6 cups water Our bedroom color was a nice soft shade. and services for senior citizens. I seem to recall Eleanor telling us about a Bowdoin student Meals on Wheels/Nutrition coordinator A friend you can tell troubles too, [email protected] People often say that now that the • 2 bay leaves 2. Return mixture to pan. Add butter, It was called Celery Green. or recent alum who was an enthusiastic member of the group. • 2 Tb. unsalted butter and pepper. Mash well with a potato I loved it the first time we used it, That young man was Sigmund Knudson. Sig Knudson advocated including youngsters A friend will listen, then say, "Boo Hoo." • 1/4 t. ground white pepper masher; stir in onions. It had a nice restful sheen. in the vision. Of course, he became executive director of 55 Plus. I myself never met Sig A friend stands by, thru thick and thin, • 3 green onions, thinly sliced Knudson, but through the years I have witnessed his visions coming true. In 1976, the town A friend remains, should you lose or win. Check out past newspapers online at We moved on to have two more houses of Brunswick purchased the old St. Charles Church at 6 Noble St. to be the first Brunswick A friend will not leave or disappear, www.peopleplusmaine.org and I took that color with me. Community Center for Senior Citizens. In 2010 came the move to 35 Union St. 2004 saw the A friend is someone to have and keep near. The bedroom was always Celery Green beginning of the Teen Center. Roasted Cabbage and my family did agree. How special it is to remember Eileen Londsdale’s bridge table chatter as she told us about Ingredients 3. Remove outer leaves of cabbage; discard. Cut But green is also the first sign of spring her vision of a great community center! Wouldn’t she love People Plus! Margaret • 1 t. caraway seeds, crushed cabbage vertically into quarters; cut each quarter when the trees begin to bud. “Love your space again” By P.K. Allen • 1 t. grated orange rind in half to equal 8 wedges (leave core intact). The color will come out in a very short time, • 1/2 t. crushed red pepper Brush cabbage wedges evenly with oil. Heat a if you ignore the floods and mud. The Toothpick Man There was a time large skillet over medium. Coat pan with cooking By Nonie Moody • 1/4 t. ground turmeric in this Country spray. Add cabbage wedges to pan; cook 3 The toothpick may be small but there is history America for toothpicks with Strong calling itself • 2 Tb. unsalted butter, softened Green has even more connotations when we called minutes on each side or until browned.ΩArrange tucked into every small box you buy. Who can the “Toothpick Capital of the World.” After the • 1 (3-lb.) head green cabbage and all of them good but one. each other, "Red," cabbage wedges, cut sides up, on a baking sheet. tell when the first wood splinter was used as a war, there was much competition in Maine. Sales • 1 Tb. olive oil We know we must eat our veggies till the "Lady from Maine" Spread half of butter mixture evenly over cut The green ones not always fun. toothpick? Ancient times I'm sure. Charles plummeted in the 1980s because toothpicks could • Cooking spray sides of cabbage. stepped forward Foster, an American entrepreneur from Boston, be made much cheaper in Southeast Asia and with a "Conscience" • 2 Tb. chopped fresh dill How can we ignore spinach? 4. Bake at 350°F for 25 minutes. Remove pan from found himself in Brazil. His first encounter with a China. The toothpick can be made out of wood, it is said. Directions: oven; spread remaining half of butter mixture When it made Popeye so big and strong? toothpick was made of orange wood and may have plastic, bamboo, metal, bone and many other She made clear 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. over wedges. And beans and peas and asparagus come from Portugal. Here he saw a new market materials, and nylon floss cut into their market. 5. Bake at 350°F for 20 minutes or until tender. with any you can’t go wrong. a "Declaration" 2. Combine caraway, rind, pepper, tur- and dreamed of a machine that would make the The Foster Manufacturing Company's mill closed in this, "the Land meric, and butter in a small bowl. Sprinkle with dill. The one exception I mentioned before toothpick instead of the whittling method. He its doors in 2003. of the Free," describes one so envious she is green! paired up with Charles Freeman, a shoe pegging Suppliers are mostly from Asia today with the that said To let your feelings, show like that, mechanic, and together converted one of his top country being China. In my possession I have it is the right STORM POLICY I think is pretty mean! machines for toothpicks. They tested many kinds three boxes all made in China. Over the years I of any citizen *Fully Insured of wood and finally discovered white birch was have found toothpicks in grocery stores down the to disagree. *Bonded When Brunswick schools are closed due to weather, all People So green is still my favorite color, the perfect wood. Soon Foster set up his own wine aisle, the bake aisle and, recently, the paper *LLC Plus programs, classes, and activities are canceled for the day. I think it’s nature’s best. toothpick mill using an old starch mill in Strong, plate aisle. The toothpick is in a small box and if From IMPRESSIONS, It can be muted or bright and put you at ease, Maine, in 1887. you can't find them you may have to ask, like I did. From an Ordinary Person Check our website, www.peopleplusmaine.org, or local media It will never leave you depressed. The WWII-era was the most popular time in Source: Atlas Obscura by George Pendle of Famous People I’ve www.chicksdochores.com for closure information. 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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Marvelous March at People Plus!! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9:00 9:00 Scrabble 8:30 AARP Tax Help 8:45 Cribbage 8:30 Women's Breakfast 9:00 Hair Cuts with Margarita 1:00pm Lunch & Connections Grace 9:00 Mah-Jongg 9:00 Table Tennis 9:00 Mah-Jongg 9:00 Table Tennis 9:00 Mah-Jongg Acoustic Reformed 9:00 Fiber Arts Club 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge 9:00 Loosen Up 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge 9:00 Loosen Up Music Baptist 9:00 Loosen Up 10:30 Yoga with Ann 10:00 Winter Outing Club 10:00 Art with Connie Bailey 10:00 Tai Chi - Short Form Club Irish theme graces March menu Church 10:00 Zumba 12:30pm Sign Language Club 10:00 Meals on Wheels 10:00 Apple Club 10:30 Meals on Wheels 11:00 Table Tennis 12:30pm Aerobics Lite 10:00 Table Tennis 11:00 Yoga 11:15 Qigong Thu, March 19, 12 noon. It is March pickled beets and turnips. There also of Mary’s Affordable Hearing Aids is 12:00pm Bridge 2:00pm Chair Yoga 1:00pm Write on Writers 12:30pm AARP Tax Help 12:30pm Advanced Bridge and we’re rolling through the tail end will be salad and traditional Irish soda also available upstairs in the quiet and 6:00pm Belly Dancing 2:30pm Spanish Club 12:45pm Chair Yoga of winter. The hours of daylight are bread. For dessert, those in attendance privacy of the Teen Center from 11 am 6:30pm Folk Dance Brunswick getting longer and the chill in the air can look forward to pistachio pudding until noon. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 is not quite so brutal. The month also and cookies. Remember, the dining room opens 9:00 9:00 Scrabble 8:30 AARP Tax Help 8:45 Cribbage 8:00 Men's Breakfast 9:00 Hair Cuts with Margarita 1:00pm brings us St. Patrick’s Day. And with As always, don’t miss this one. Bring at 11:15 am. Come to the Center and Grace 9:00 Mah-Jongg 9:00 Table Tennis 9:00 Mah-Jongg 9:00 Table Tennis 9:00 Mah-Jongg Acoustic that in mind, the Center’s next Lunch along your friends and appetite for claim your favorite seat, chat with your Reformed 9:00 Fiber Arts Club 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge 9:00 Loosen Up 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge 9:00 Loosen Up Music & Connections will feature a bit of the good food and conversation. friends and maybe make new ones, and Baptist 9:00 Loosen Up 10:00 Art with Connie Bailey 10:00 Winter Outing Club 10:00 Donuts and Drivers 10:00 Tai Chi - Short Form Club Irish theme. These monthly Lunch & Connections pick up your 50/50 raffle ticket. Space Church 10:00 Zumba 10:30 Yoga with Ann 10:00 Meals on Wheels 10:00 Art with Connie Bailey 10:30 Meals on Wheels Chuck Annable and his team of meals are sponsored by our friends is limited to the first 68 people and you 11:00 Table Tennis 11:30 LUNCH OUT 10:00 Table Tennis 11:00 Yoga 11:00 World Affairs enthusiastic volunteers are already at Spectrum Generations, and are must pre-register. It is important that 12:00pm Bridge 12:30pm Aerobics Lite 1:00pm Write on Writers 12:30pm AARP Tax Help 11:15 Qigong making preparations for a fantastic intended to focus on nutrition, useful you pre-register to be included. It’s 1:30pm Balance & Falls 12:30pm Medicare 101 1:30pm FYI! Memories 12:30pm Advanced Bridge meal, which is scheduled for Thursday, information, variety, socialization and really easy; just call 729-0757 to reg- Clinic with Reform PT 2:00pm Chair Yoga of Brunswick 12:45pm Chair Yoga March 19. fun. A CHANS home health-care pro- ister anytime. 6:00pm Belly Dancing 3:00pm German Club 6:30pm Folk Dance Brunswick Heading the menu will be corned beef fessional is always in attendance at the Cost of this meal is still only $6 for 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 and cabbage. But the good food doesn’t lunch to complete and record blood members of People Plus and $8.50 for 9:00 Grace 9:00 Scrabble 8:30 AARP Tax Help 8:45 Cribbage 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge 9:00 Hair Cuts with Margarita 1:00pm stop there, as the delicious side dishes pressure checks of our members. A non-members. We start serving our Reformed 9:00 Mah-Jongg 9:00 Table Tennis 9:00 Mah-Jongg 10:00 Art with Connie Bailey 9:00 Mah-Jongg Acoustic will include potatoes, carrots, onions, free hearing check with Mary Marino buffet-styled luncheon at 12 noon. Baptist 9:00 Fiber Arts Club 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge 9:00 Loosen Up 11:00 Hearing Screenings 9:00 Loosen Up Music Church 9:00 Loosen Up 10:00 Art with Connie Bailey 10:00 Winter Outing Club 11:30 CHANS BP Check 10:30 Meals on Wheels Club To My Surprise 10:00 Zumba 10:30 Yoga with Ann 10:00 Meals on Wheels 12:00pm Lunch & Connections 12:30pm Advanced Bridge By Gladys Szabo $10 Hair Cuts Time running out to sign up for trip to Italy! Maine's 11:00 Table Tennis 12:30pm Sign Language Club 10:00 Table Tennis 1:30pm AARP Tax Help 12:45pm Chair Yoga A blind date. 200th 12:00pm Bridge 12:30pm Aerobics Lite 1:00pm Write on Writers 6:30pm Folk Dance Brunswick for Seniors A trip to Italy. It’s been on your bucket list Museum, an important Italian archaeologi- Birthday! 6:00pm Belly Dancing 2:00pm Chair Yoga We'll meet at 8. for a long time and now is a great opportunity cal museum, particularly for ancient Roman 6:30pm Civil War Book Club 3:00pm Books a la Carte Will meet you at the produce. Fridays, 9-12 pm. to take that adventure of a lifetime. But the remains. Its collection includes works from 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Then we'll introduce. Come for a haircut with deadline for signing up is fast approaching! Greek, Roman and Renaissance times. 9:00 9:00 Scrabble 8:30 AARP Tax Help 8:45 Cribbage 9:00 Table Tennis 9:00 Hair Cuts with Margarita 1:00pm Together we will shop for food THANK YOU Margarita Day. All pro- Come along with Collette and People Plus as Ten seats have been saved for People Plus. CHUCK AND Grace 9:00 Mah-Jongg 9:00 Table Tennis 9:00 Mah-Jongg 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge 9:00 Mah-Jongg Acoustic To feed our members in great moods. ceeds from the haircuts we explore all that Rome has to offer and the The trip is open to the public. Deposits are due Reformed 9:00 Fiber Arts Club 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge 9:00 Loosen Up 10:00 Art with Connie Bailey 9:00 Loosen Up Music GLADYS! Chuck Amalfi Coast, a popular holiday destination, on March 26, so don’t delay! For more infor- They come each month Annable our new go to the Center! No Baptist 9:00 Loosen Up 10:00 Art with Connie Bailey 10:00 Winter Outing Club 10:45 Frank's Field Trip: 10:00 Tai Chi - Short Form Club To share our lunch. kitchen lunch “Guy” appointment necessary, with sheer cliffs and a rugged shoreline dotted mation, contact Jill at People Plus at 729-0757. Church 10:00 Zumba 10:30 Yoga with Ann 10:00 Meals on Wheels Train to the Flower Show 10:30 Meals on Wheels Enjoying food and socializing. did a great job just show up with clean with small beaches and pastel-colored fishing 12:00pm Lunch and Learn: 12:30pm Aerobics Lite 10:00 Table Tennis 11:00 Yoga 11:00 World Affairs Very important in our lives working with all the hair and she will give villages. "Never too old to learn!" 2:00pm Chair Yoga 1:00pm Write on Writers 12:30pm AARP Tax Help 11:15 Qigong If all works well ladies and putting out you a cut! Open to the Along with experiencing the art, food, wine, 12:00pm Bridge 2:30pm French Club 6:30pm Brunswick Coin/Stamp 12:30pm Advanced Bridge How we met we'll never tell. an excellent feed of public! culture, and history of Italy on the Oct. 1-10, 6:00pm Belly Dancing 12:45pm Chair Yoga lasagna in February! 2020, journey, other highlights include visit- 6:30pm Folk Dance Brunswick ing the Colosseum, Pompeii, the mountaintop 29 30 31 monastery of Montecassino, Sorrento, Buffalo 9:00 9:00 Scrabble 8:30 AARP Tax Help Milk Mozzarella Factory, Paestum, a winery Grace 9:00 Mah-Jongg 9:00 Table Tennis People Plus Business Hours People Plus in the Media ‘Aging Well’ Lunch & Learn: visit, Naples and the National Archaeological Reformed 9:00 Fiber Arts Club 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge Monday-Thursday - 8:30 am to 4 pm People Plus Cooks! and News & Views Baptist 9:00 Loosen Up 10:00 Art with Connie Bailey TV shows can be viewed weekly on Cable “Going back to school Church 10:00 Zumba 10:30 Yoga with Ann Friday - 8:30 am to 1 pm Living Well with Diabetes 11:00 Table Tennis 12:30pm Aerobics Lite Channel 3 and 14 or onlne at http://vimeo. com/harpswelltv or peopleplusmaine.org at Senior College” Mondays, April 13-May 18, 2-4:30 pm. Living Well with Diabetes 12:00pm Bridge 2:00pm Chair Yoga 729-0757 will be offered at People Plus beginning Monday, April 13 and running 6:00pm Belly Dancing Mon, Mar. 23, 12 noon. It has been doc- served on staff at Bethesda and provided through Monday, May 18. Workshop participants will meet weekly umented that the benefits of continuing clinical services at the White House, U.S. from 2 to 4:30 pm. Living Well with Diabetes is designed for people to learn — no matter the topic — greatly Capitol, and U.S. Embassy in London. He with Type 2 diabetes to learn a variety of day-to-day self-management skills to actively manage Celebrate Maine’s Bicentennial! Programming Notes for March enhance one’s well-being, even as we get retired from the Navy in 1985 after 20 years their diabetes and increase their activity level. This free, evidence-based workshop helps older. A great educational opportunity here of service. empower adults to address and better manage their health issues by increasing self-efficacy, We're getting new floors in the Activity Room (Tuesday) and Teen Center (Wednesday, in Maine is Midcoast Senior College, whose Since relocating to Maine, he has contin- improving knowledge, developing positive behavior change, and improved self-management. March 15th, 2020 Thursday, Friday) the first week of March. Therefore we need to rearrange some activ- mission is to provide non-credit aca- ued to be active in medical matters, but Topics such as testing your blood sugar, communication, stress management, activity level, ities that week to accommodate the work: demic courses and other educational not in clinical practice. He inter- treating low blood sugar, and healthy eating are covered, plus so much more! This class is free Tuesday, March 3rd events for people 50 years and views and counsels pre-med and open to the public, but registration is highly preferred. No Art Class Thursday, March 5h older. Tony Belmont of Senior students at Bowdoin College, To register, visit healthylivingforme.org or call 1-800-620-6036. ASL Club will meet in the Cafe Bridge will meet in the Cafe College, which celebrates its attends Medical Grand Rounds Spanish Club will meet in the Cafe 20th anniversary this year, will at Maine Medical Center, American Sign Language Friday, March 6th talk about its programs and how and occasionally speaks to Wednesday, March 4th Mah-Jongg will meet in the Cafe you can continue learning no groups interested in his White Conversation Club – NEW Mah-Jongg will meet in the Cafe matter what your age is. House experiences. He has been 1st & 3rd Tuesday, 12:30 pm (Mar. 3 & 17). in learning how to communicate without Belmont, MD, is a retired inter- President of the local Hospice orga- Learn basic sign language communication, voice. ASL is a visual language. Late-deafened nist who lives in Wiscasset. He attended nization and was instrumental in merging including the manual alphabet, finger-spelling, adults, caretakers for a delayed speech child, Bowdoin College and received his MD that organization into CHANS at Midcoast numbers, vocabulary (colors, animals, foods, or if you just have ASL on your “bucket list,” from the University of Vermont, College of Health Services. etc.), deaf culture and familiar phrases that you are welcome to join the club. We will start Medicine. He has served on board nuclear Lunch and Learn is free and open to the will enhance your communication with deaf with very basic instruction and use the second submarines and was responsible for con- public. Bring your lunch, we provide drinks, and hard of hearing family, friends, co-work- half of the meeting for conversation. tingency medical planning in Europe. He chips and dessert. Registration is appreciated. ers, students, clients, and customers. No pre- The club will meet on the first and third vious sign language experience is necessary. Tuesdays of the month, 12:30-1:30 pm. For Handouts provided at no cost. members only, but anyone can try once for FREE TAX HELP! AARP aides will be at Join Martin Samelson, energetic ASL free. Registration is appreciated. People Plus Tuesday mornings and Thursday Acoustic Music Club college professor and job coach for the deaf, afternoons through April 15. Call to schedule Saturdays, 1 pm. We be “jammin” at People an appointment. Plus! If you play an instrument at an interme- Balance and Falls Clinic with diate or better level and want to jam with some Spectrum Generations new friends come join the fun at People Plus. Bring your own instrument, be able to share Reform Physical Therapy Medicare 101 Session a few songs and know basic chords. The club Mon, Mar. 9, 1:30 pm. Dr. Christina Levesque, PT, DPT, of Reform Physical Therapy, is Tue, Mar. 10, 12:30 pm. Choosing a Medicare will be playing mostly folk, blues, bluegrass back to teach us what balance means, how to prevent a fall and how to properly handle a drug and/or health plan can be difficult and and other acoustic music in a song circle fall if one occurs. Perfect tips for the winter season and all year long! Dr. Levesque will A Place Where You Belong confusing. In this Medicare 101 class you will format where everyone gets a turn to share a also discuss the many benefits of physical therapy, as well as how the process of starting be provided information regarding Medicare, song, with others joining in. physical therapy works. Free, open to the public. Registration appreciated! Looking for a community that recognizes you as a unique individual? Medicare drug coverage, Medicare Advantage Open to current People Plus members (but With a variety of living options as well as various wellness, cultural plans, Medicare supplements and tips on how anyone can try our clubs once for free)! and educational programs and activities offered, The Highlands is the you can save money and avoid penalties. It is 439 Lewiston Road, 374 US Route One, This fun music club is coordinated by home to live your best life—exactly as you want. recommended that you attend a Medicare 101 Brunswick resident Jim Ru, who plays a class at least six months before turning 65. Topsham Yarmouth variety of instruments and has played in small Call (207) 725-2650 to schedule a personalized tour. Held the second Tuesday of every month at People Plus, it is open to the public and free informal groups, open mikes and house jams. 207-725-4400 207-846-3300 ($15 suggested dona- Jim enjoys live acoustic music, especially tion is appreciated). when people just pull up a chair and share a Skilled, one-on-one therapy that’s effective! Registration is required. song or two. Call 729-0757. Reform-PT.com Call 729-0757 to register Locally owned and operated since 2006 30 Governors Way • Topsham, ME 04086 for classes & events. (207) 725-2650 • www.HighlandsRC.com Page 6 People Plus News March 2020 March 2020 People Plus News Page 7 Reed takes over as Nutrition Coordinator for Meals on Wheels “Meals on Wheels are healthy and are often better than many ready-to-go or frozen meals available in the grocery stores that are often high in sodium, fat Your Partner or sugar,” Reed continued. “We have many consumers who are truly alone and are in need of nutrients to promote health and a sense of well-being. Visits from our volunteers are an important in Health way to check in on consumers.” Reed, who resides in Brunswick and is 63, was born in England. She has Culinary Arts and Dietetic Technician degrees, and ran a culinary arts training Education program for the homeless and people who needed a new start through Preble Street in Portland. When asked about any interests or hobbies, Reed said, “I have a large cookbook collection that includes PEOPLE PLUS cookbooks on many subjects. I’m fas- MEMBER PAUL cinated by the way cooking techniques KARWOWSKI It gives us great pleasure to welcome and advice have changed throughout with his Cymbidium Teddi Reed, the new Nutrition history. I love my cookbooks that are Orchid, native Coordinator for the Spectrum beautiful and those that are just so bad to the foothills of March Calendar of Events Generations Midcoast Regional Center it almost hurts to look at them. I love the Himalayas. located at People Plus. As most of you to doodle. I try to do at least one small It has 12 spikes FOOD FOR HEALTH know, the primary duty involves the piece of art every evening.” and about 110 At What is Gut Health and How Can You Improve It? bi-weekly distribution of Meals on As far as looking forward to her new orchids and can Mid Coast Center for Community Wheels dinners to hundreds of house- job, Reed explained, “I love working in bloom from one with Timothy R. Howe, MD to three months. , we are as invested in holds in the Brunswick-Bath-Harpswell an environment that serves people in Health & Wellness FREE plant-based cooking and education series. area. need. Food safety is one of my biggest your good health as you are. We offer quality March 10 from 6:30-8 p.m. In discussing the importance of Meals priorities and I am glad to work with on Wheels, Reed said, “This program colleagues who value quality food and medical wellness tools focused on preventing HEALTH WITHIN REACH is vital to those who are unable to get safety. My goals include finding ways to and managing chronic disease, as well as out and purchase their own food and honor our volunteers and let them know Gone but not forgotten Understanding Substance Use Disorder prepare it at home. It is important that how much we appreciate them.” support for your general wellbeing. with Leah Bauer, MD people are given a healthy meal that Reed replaces Zyanya Holman. Memorial Donation in Memory of FREE ongoing series of talks, classes, they can really enjoy.” We provide information and resources on demonstrations, and healthy lifestyle options. George L. Moore March 11 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. a variety of topics such as medical exercise, Books A La Carte Leigh meets Diana while living with rela- June 30, 1933 — Feb. 9, 2020 lifestyle medicine, nutrition, weight loss, FAMILY & FRIENDS CPR The following are Books A La Carte rec- tives. He is a poor cockney, while she is the This Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and ommendations. The group's readers meet on pampered daughter of a wealthy business- mental health, and tobacco education. the third Tuesday of the month at 3 pm. man. John’s life is changed through chance Automated External Defibrillators (AED) class meetings with Diana from the 1920s to focuses on adult, child, and infant resuscitation. It is The Body by Bill Bryson World War II. Featured Program: Most people know Bryson as a writer of Silent Child by Sarah Denzil designed for community members who want to learn humorous travel books. He has also written Six-year-old Aiden is feared drowned after Skilled and Assisted Living in Midcoast Maine CPR but do not need a certification card. works about Shakespeare, walking the his coat is fished out of a river. The body is , and the English language. never found. Ten years later, Aiden suddenly March 16 from 5:30-8 p.m. His book about the human body is very infor- returns, having been taken, not drowned. Mindfulness Based mative and entertaining. Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner HEALTHY WEIGHT FOR A LIFETIME Diana by R.F. Delderfield Detective Tessa Leoni must ensure a family’s This 12-week mindful living program provides a Remember Delderfield? Years ago you may survival after they have disappeared from Stress Reduction have read and enjoyed God Is an Englishman their condo. Fearing a kidnapping, Tessa long-term solution for weight loss by addressing or To Serve Them All My Days. You might begins searching through the family’s dark try Diana, a family saga. 15-year-old John is an educational emotional, physical, and nutritional issues. secrets. MBSR 8-week Please send comments to [email protected] program designed to reduce symptoms Registration and fee required. of stress that impact physical health. Begins March 12 from 4-6 p.m. Mindfulness is an awareness that arises Continues on Thursdays through May 28. by intentionally paying attention MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION BRUNSWICK AREA to the present moment. This eight-week course consists of 2½-hour weekly group classes and a six-hour weekend retreat. Designed to help people better cope with stress Respite Care and life’s challenges. March 23 from 5-7:30 p.m. Fee and registration Take a look at our calendar of upcoming required. Required orientation is March 9 from 5-6 p.m. www.rmimaine.com events and see how we can partner OUR HEALTH: FILM & DISCUSSION SERIES together for better health. Community First: A Home for the Homeless Featuring films that shine a spotlight on important health topics for the Midcoast region, this FREE film series continues throughout the year. 142 Neptune Drive, Brunswick 142 Neptune Drive, Brunswick Registration required at www.explorefrontier.com For 30 years the “Club” has been a social program offering (207) 837-6560 (207) 725-5801 March 31 at 7 p.m. Frontier, 14 Maine Street, Brunswick “time off for caregivers and joyful hours for participants” in a warm, welcoming community environment. For a full listing of classes, screenings, and support groups, including cost and registration details, call (207) Full or half day sessions - filled with a variety of engaging, stimulating activities. 373-6585 or visit www.midcoasthealth.com/wellness. Come visit our convenient location in Brunswick.

WWW.MIDCOASTHEALTH.COM/WELLNESS Unless otherwise noted, all classes are held at the Call 7298571 for more Information or to schedule a visit. 24 Maurice Dr, Brunswick 142 Neptune Dr, Brunswick 29 Maurice Dr, Brunswick Mid Coast Center for Community Health & Wellness Brunswick Area Respite Care is a 501(c)3 Non Profit organization (207) 725-4379 (207) 725-9444 (207) 725-7495 329 MAINE STREET–SOUTH ENTRANCE, BRUNSWICK 329 Maine Street–SOUTH ENTRANCE, Brunswick Image credit CC0 License We take your loved ones comfort and health to heart. Page 8 People Plus News March 2020 March 2020 People Plus News Page 9 Time does fly … enjoy what Maine has to offer! Speaking Frankly Happy 200th to our great state “Oh Pine Tree State, features than most of us Your woods, fields and hills … can hope to visit if we had Frank Connors * Thursday, March 12, 1:30 pm. FYI! Will ever fill our hearts with thrills ...” * ANOTHER 200 years! (guest contributor) Several events “Memories of Brunswick: 1930s,’40s and MY Maine — OUR Maine — can You’ll see my list ’50s.” People Plus is celebrating Maine’s 200th she really be 200 years old? Birthed pushes canoe trips, moun- planned in birthday with Member Alison Coffin offering out of something called the Missouri tain hikes, historic places, and natural glimpses of the town’s history in the 1930s, Compromise of 1820, when our country sites, and is pretty short on shopping Brunswick 1940s and 1950s through a slide show of mem- was still trying to avoid a Civil War, or “civilized” visits. I think Maine’s ories. Joining her will be Claude Bonang, a it hardly seems possible. Then Jane like that. I included some restaurants “Dear Friend, People Plus member and retired Brunswick reminds me I’m pushing 75, and, when (a fellow has to eat), but it is not my The great day of electing officers to High School science teacher who will share I’m forced to do the math, I realize I’ve intention to play one diner over another, organize this recently admitted state his written poetry and prose about growing up been here for more than 35 percent of or to convince you where you might eat. If you actually count them, you’ll see will be on Monday next. All is bustle in Brunswick during that time. those days … and we all know I’m not I added a few cemeteries, just because old yet! But time does fly, and folks, I’m six or a half dozen short. When we they are too often overlooked as great now. All is good nature. Yet I cannot but * Saturday, March 14, 4-6 pm. Join friends now it’s time to party! actually publish this list, we’re thinking places to visit. Someone once told me lament, that with all their intelligence, and neighbors for a Bicentennial Bean Supper maybe a guidebook in May (just in such a stubbornness and independence I’ve spent most of MY years, crossing there are surely more DEAD people in at Thorne Hall on the Bowdoin College and re-crossing this great state, to play, time for summer). It will include some Maine than live, and after you’ve visited of opinion prevails, that a variety of campus. There will be music by Pejepscot to visit, to learn, to do jobs, and I’m additions, some changes, some new just a few graveyards, you’ll realize it’s candidates will be supported for their Station and a brief presentation at 5 pm by thinking this year, more than any before information. Right now you can go to a Maine custom to place cemeteries is legislators; their constitution, however, the Pejepscot History Center and Maine State or since, it’s time to take stock. You all our website and get started, and I hope some of the prettiest places in town. is so wisely framed, I must say with Music Theatre. The bean supper is being held may know of my passion for lists — “To you have as much fun using it as I had Some of the places can be seen and hope, ‘All nature's difference keeps all in conjunction with a guided tour through three Do” lists, “Finished” lists, “bucket” lists creating it! reviewed from your car window, others nature’s peace.’ Maine-themed exhibitions at the Bowdoin — so this is just an extension of that By the numbers, will require a day’s hike and a com- They will submit to a majority without a College Museum of Art; the tour begins at 3 state in all seasons creating images of — Bicentennial Parade, Saturday, May 16, logic that makes me want to produce Maine’s impressive. mitment of sweat to locate. Remember, murmur, support the laws, and maintain pm. The public is welcome. The price of the important artist homes and studios. at 10 am in Lewiston/Auburn. and share a “Favorite Places in Maine” Our Pine Tree State ALL these places are best enjoyed when a republican government, in its prime- bean supper is $7.50 for adults; $4.50 for chil- Shown through Aug. 16, 2020. — Sailing Ships Festival, June 21 to list. Stacy wants to call it a “master has 48 state parks, enjoyed with a friend. Some places are (not counting the val purity. This remark is applicable to dren; the tour is free of charge. Register by — June 27, 2020, all day. Exhibition: “At July 20, all day, along the coast. The plan” for Frank’s Field Trips into the on the list only because they are special king of them all) every part of Maine, I have visited.” March 5 at bowdo.in/beansupper. Vegetarian First Light: Two Centuries of Artists in Maine Bicentennial Sailing Ships NEXT century; I just want to make the to me, but they’re worth your attention, options will be available. Sponsored by the point that Maine is filled with special , and soon enough, the same places will Maine.” On the occasion of the 200th Festival begins in Boothbay Harbor and more than 50 The above description, obtained through town of Brunswick and Bowdoin College. anniversary of statehood, the exhibi- on June 26 and continues on July 2-4 places, and we ALL need to share them. be special to you! the Pejebscot History Center, was contained Last month I made it clear what I historic, or unique Besides, it is MY list! * Exhibits at Bowdoin College Museum of tion brings together some of the most in Rockland, July 8-10 in Bangor and in an April 1, 1820, letter written by Henry think of “experts,” and that years worth sites. There are 64 So enjoy, my good friends. Realize Art: outstanding artistic treasures created Brewer, July 10-12 in Bucksport, and lighthouses, nine Putnam of South Carolina, who was visiting of experiences may give me special that Maine is special and it will always — Rufus Porter’s “Curious World: Art in Maine over the last two centuries. July 12-14 in Castine, Searsport and covered bridges, 114 fire towers atop Brunswick and writing home to a friend. insights, but it does NOT make me a become MORE special after you’ve and Invention in America, 1815-1860.” Shown through Nov. 15, 2020. Belfast. The Parade of Sail will be July 114 notable peaks. Our state has 2,450 A special time in Maine, indeed, as it was just Maine “Expert!” The list below, I hope, visited one, or a dozen of these places. This exhibition celebrates the artist and * Maine in the Movies: At Eveningstar 16 in Portland, with vessels dockside miles of tidewater coastline, 5,000 beginning its presence as a state, an occasion is creative, inviting, interesting, fun. It’s Mountains to ocean, forests to field, inventor Rufus Porter (1792–1884), an Cinema, Brunswick and conducting sail-away excursions river and streams, 2,500 lakes, 350 we are now celebrating as the Pine Tree State not intended to be final, to be master- towns to cities (Jill reminds me we have imaginative polymath and entrepreneur Wednesday, March 11, 4 pm. through July 19. ful, and certainly NOT professional. I mountains over 1,000 feet, 14 peaks a desert), there is something here for us turns 200 years old. There is plenty planned curious about art, science, and commu- “The Strange Woman” — Time Capsule Sealing, Saturday, hope you study it, use it, contact me and over 4,000 feet, and one (Katahdin) at all. Go out and enjoy! throughout the remainder of the year to mark nication technologies. Shown through Saturday, March 14, 11 am. Oct. 10, TBA. The State of Maine tell me what I left OFF! The goal was/ 5,268 feet, is just a short 12-foot cairn this momentous event. Here’s some of what’s shy of a mile! Do you get where I’m *Chorus from “State of Maine Song” May 31, 2020. “Blow the Man Down” Bicentennial Time Capsule sealing is simply to create a BASE list of 200 by Roger Vincent Snow happening in Brunswick: places. going with this? Maine has more natural — The exhibition "Fast Fashion/Slow Art" * Aug. 15-16, 10 am to 5 pm. Great State of ceremony will take place at the Maine * Sunday, March 8, 2-3:30 pm. Unitarian features films, videos, installations, and Maine Air Show. Featuring the U.S. Navy State Library in Augusta during the fall Universalist Church, Brunswick. “Maine’s performances by an international group Blue Angels at Brunswick Executive Airport. of 2020. Mainers who share the state’s 200th: Music of Early Maine” is the of emerging and established contem- birthday of March 15 will be invited DaPonte String Quartet’s tribute to Maine’s porary artists and filmmakers. Shown * The Maine Bicentennial Commission is to participate as “capsule keepers” Bicentennial. Joined by guest artist Eric through Aug. 2, 2020. also sponsoring major events to celebrate to oversee the sealing of additional LaPerna, percussion for a program that Maine200: — May 14, 2020, all day. Exhibition: compartments in future landmark anni- highlights significant events along Maine’s — Statehood Day Ceremony, Sunday, “At First Light: Photographs of Maine versaries for the state. The public will pre-statehood timeline (from the 16th to the March 15, 1 pm. Augusta Armory, Artist Studios and Homes by Walter be invited to have input on the items early 19th centuries), with selected music to 179 Western Ave., Augusta. Public is Smalling.” Beginning in 2018, cel- we seal away for future generations to share some of the cultural influences. invited for an afternoon of speeches, ebrated architectural photographer discover. Abagadassett River ride … Bowdoinham … Phippsburg music, poems, birthday cake and much For more information, please go to www. Walter Smalling crisscrossed the PeoplePlusMarch:Layout 1 2/11/20 2:37 PM Page 1 Abbe Museum visit … Bar Harbor Porter Covered Bridge … Porter more. maine200.org/. Abbott’s Antlers … Abbott Village My Favorite 200 Maine Places Portland Museum of Art … Portland Acadia Nat’l. Park … Downtown … pick your favorite Liberty Ship Park … South Portland Portland Observatory … Portland Acres of Wildlife … Steep Falls Duck Tours, Maine … Portland Lincolnville Beach … Lincolnville Pownalborough Court House … Dresden Agamenticus, Mount … York Dysart’s Truck Stop … Herman Little Wilson Falls ...Elliotsville Prison Store … Thomaston Walk … Brunswick Eagle Island … Harpswell Lobster Bakes … 443 Gurnet Road “Quaggy Joe” Mountain … Presque Isle Armistice Bridge … Belfast Eartha … Yarmouth Lobster Shack, The … South Portland Quill Hill … Rangeley Asticou Azalea Gardens … Northeast Harbor Eastern Cemetery … Portland Loop Road … Acadia Park Quoddy Head Light (west) … Lubec Balance Rock … Lincolnville Elephant Mountain … Greenville Trail … Falmouth Rafting … The Forks Forever Balanced Bubble Boulder ... Acadia Park Fair, Fryeburg … Fryeburg Maiden’s Cliff … Camden Raye’s Mustard Mill … Eastport Barnes’ Leap … Topsham Fair, Topsham … Topsham Maine Aquarium … West Boothbay … Georgetown Bar to … Bar Harbor Farmers’ Markets … Brunswick Maine Maritime Museum ... Bath Renys Department Stores … Statewide Young! Barter’s Island Bridge … Trevett Farnsworth Art Museum … Rockland Maine Narrow-Gauge Railroad … Portland Ricker Hill Orchards … Turner Baxter Peak … Baxter State Park Fat Boy Drive-in … Brunswick Maine State Building … Poland Spring S.S. Katahdin … Greenville Bayside … Northport Ferry rides … Penobscot, Casco Bays (Capitol) … Augusta Sand Beach … Acadia Park Beehive, The … Acadia Park Fiddleheading … ANY special place Maine State Library … Augusta “Sands” of Merrymeeting ... Bowdoinham The Stonewall Comes to Maine exhibit Bigelow Mountain … Flagstaff Twnshp. Fish Ladder … Damariscotta Mills Maine State Museum … Augusta Sandy Stream Pond … Baxter Park showcases historical images and text Blaine House (Mansion) … Augusta … Stratton, Eustis Maine State Music Theatre … Brunswick Screw Auger Gorge … Grafton Boothbay Railway Museum … Boothbay Footbridge, The … Boothbay Harbor Main Street, Appalachian Trail … Monson SeaDogs Baseball … Portland highlighting the Stonewall Riots of 1969 Borestone Mountain … Elliotsville … Davis Island, Edgecomb Maine Wildlife Park … Gray Seguin Island Light … Georgetown and items featuring Maine’s LGBTQ+ Bowdoinham walks … Bowdoinham … Portland Margaret Chase Smith Library … Skowhegan Shaker Museum … Sabbathday Lake Bradbury Mountain … Pownal Shell Heaps (Middens) … Damariscotta history and response to the Stonewall … Prospect Marginal Way … Ogunquit BrewBus, The Maine … Portland … Phippsburg Mars Hill … Mars Hill Skiing … Winter in Maine Uprising. Buck’s Curse … Bucksport Fort Western … Augusta Marshall Point Light … Port Clyde Skowhegan Indian … Skowhegan Bunyon, Paul, Statue … Bangor Small Point Beach … Phippsburg Fort William Henry … Pemaquid Merrymeeting boat tour ... Bath Cabot Mill Antiques … Brunswick Fox Family Store … Mapleton Mohegan Island … Monhegan Smelt Fishing … Bowdoinham The Stonewall Uprising exhibit is on loan Cadillac Mountain … Acadia Park Fox Island … Phippsburg Moody’s Diner … Waldoboro Snowshoeing ...Your special place Canoeing … Anywhere in Maine Queen … Naples from Portland Public Library and is made Giant’s Staircase … Morse Mountain … Phippsburg Capt. Fish’s Cruises … Boothbay Harbor Gold panning … Byron Mosquito Mountain … The Forks South Solon Meetinghouse … Solon possible by a grant from the Equity Fund Casco Baylines Ferry … Portland Golden Road … Great North Woods Mount Battie Auto Road … Camden South Turner Mountain … Baxter Park of the Maine Community Foundation. (down) … Bowdoinham Grafton Notch Park … Grafton … Strawberry Fields … Bowdoinham The Stonewall Comes to M We do senior living differently. Cathance River (up) … Topsham Harbor Trail … Rockland … Lake Moxie Township Streaked Mountain … Buckfield, Hebron Maine exhibit is located on The Stonewall Cathance River, CREA trails … Topsham Harpswell Meetinghouse … Harpswell Nubble Light … Youk Swan Island … Richmond the second floor and The McLellan is the perfect downtown setting Celebration Park (250th) … Brunswick Height of Land … Oquossoc-Rangeley Ogunquit Playhouse … Ogunquit Swinging Bridge … Brunswick Comes to Maine and Chamberlain House … Brunswick Thompson’s Ice House … South Bristol features sixteen The McLellan for seniors who would like to live in a healthy Helen’s Restaurant … Machias Old Orchard Beach … Old Orchard Charles O. Howard Chimney Pond … Baxter State Park Indian Hill Trading Post … Greenville Old Point … Norridgwock Toboggan Championships … Camden sequentially numbered community, in boutique, stylish homes and Christina’s World … Cushing Togus National Cemetery … Togus panels, memorabilia in the exhibits are on loan Live better. “International” sign … Lynchville Old Port … Portland with choices for age-in-place services. Enjoy Coastal Maine Botanical Garden … Boothbay Jockey Cap … Fryeburg … Owls Head Tumbledown Mountain … Weld display case, and tabletop from the Jean Byers Confederate Stranger’s grave … Gray Vesper Hill Chapel … Rockport We invite you the walk-ability and the excitement you’d expect Katahdin … Baxter State Park Paris Hill Village … South Paris panels. Sampson Center for Conners Nubble … Acadia Park Kayak paddle … Any place with water Pemaquid Light … Bristol W.W.&F. Railroad … Alna to join us for living in close proximity to everything happening in Cooper Hill Spring … Paris Kenduskeag River Race … Kenduskeag Pemaquid “Digs” … Pemaquid Walker’s Point … Kennebunkport Diversity in Maine at Coos Canyon … Byron … Islesboro dinner & a tour. Brunswick, Maine. Stay independent. Stay healthy. Kennebec Outlets … Moosehead Lake “Penny” Bridge … Waterville USM. Cranberry Horn Cemetery … Cundy’s Harbor Kennebec Rail Trail … Augusta-Gardiner Penobscot Marine Museum … Searsport Whaleboat Island … South Harpswell We are different. We are The McLellan. Cribstone Bridge … Bailey-Orr’s Islands Knife Edge … Baxter State Park Penobscot Narrows Bridge … Prospect Windjammers … Camden/Rockport Daffodil delights … Saco L.L. Bean … Freeport Petroglyph Ledge … Emden Wire Bridge … New Portland 207-725-6200 | [email protected] Daggett Rock … Phillips Land’s End … Bailey Island Piazza Rock … Sandy River Plantation Woodsman’s Memorial … Cushing’s Landing Danny’s Hot Dogs … Brunswick Langlais Sculpture Preserve … Cushing Pine Grove Cemetery … Brunswick Woodward Point … Brunswick Themclellan.com | 26 Cumberland St. Brunswick, ME Deer Island Bridge … Sangerville-Little Deer LC Bates Museum … Hinckley Pleasant Mountain … Bridgeton … Moscow Doubletop Mountain … Baxter State Park Page 10 People Plus News March 2020 March 2020 People Plus News Page 11 Brunswick Area Teen Center Medical equipment March Madness! loan helps everyone! Do you have a temporary need of a little support? A wheelchair, crutches, a walker, We are beginning the month of March Teen shower and toileting devices? The People with a bang! Literally! It will be a busy Plus Center maintains a “lending inventory” noisy hectic beginning to the month as Center and it’s ready when you are. “It started almost the carpeting is pulled up in the Teen by accident,” explained Frank Connors, the Center space (as well as in the downstairs News retired Center staffer who in the past usually activity room) and replaced with vinyl Jordan Cardone hauled the surplus equipment up and down flooring. Work begins on Monday, March the stairs to a basement storage area. “We 2 and goes on throughout the week. All of People Plus will remain in high had members who’d used this equipment and We are trying to accomplish this with no longer needed it, they offered it to us, we the least disruption to the programs as action mode now until May with Music in April and The Gelato Fiasco Scoop- saw the need and the opportunity, and away possible as things are packed up, moved, it went!” Now, on a regular basis, members moved again and then put back. It’s a big a-Thon in April. Work has already been underway for these two events for needing equipment to keep them safe and job, but thanks to the town of Brunswick secure at home have a new source of access. and our area Lowe’s, we are finally some time now as auction items arrive, Gelato scoopers are scheduled, kids are “Everyone wins,” Connors said. “We ask getting our very heavily used carpeting people to bring it in clean and in working removed. recruited for waitstaff at Music In April, sponsorships obtained for both events, condition,” he added, “we take care of the While we have been cleaning, recycling, rest.” If you have a specific need, or equip- storing and organizing items in the Teen our Bowdoin College students lined up for collaboration on the nighttime hours ment to loan to the program, call or Center we’ve found all kinds of interest- come by the Center. You ing things hidden in and under areas we of the Scoop-a-Thon, a new venue chosen for Music In April and too many other do not need to rarely see. Just in one of my desk drawers be a member details to mention that go on to pull these MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE PLUS WINTER OUTING CLUB enjoyed a wintry walk last month at Popham Beach. This club meets every alone there were rubber snakes, plastic to borrow bugs, (toy) sheriff badges, tons of hair two events together each year! We hope Wednesday morning for hiking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and more. They also meet once a month at 8 am for a breakfast gathering equipment. followed by an outdoor adventure. In the spring the club morphs back into the ‘Easy Riders’ Biking Club. ties, heart stickers, miscellaneous small to see as many of you as possible at these jewelry items left behind over the years, events! too many various cords to count or figure I’m not sad to see February behind us. Volunteer Transportation Network out what they go to (we will eventually), Between school vacation week, holidays tools and so much more! and snow days, the month has not felt At the end of the first week of March we like a smooth one and we certainly did THANKS TO THE TOWN OF BRUNSWICK and our area Lowe’s, the Teen Center not see as much of the kids in February! Desperate for drivers! get to turn our clocks back! Yippee for program is preparing to replace its well worn carpeting. Shown are Teen Center Advisory later sunsets. We didn’t even get a Teen of the Month Committee member Fraser Ruwet with Andrew Townsend and Matt Bubar of Ruwet chosen! In the last year, People Plus has coordinated Contracting who showed up to give us a hand, thanks guys! At the end of the second week in Hunter (staff) did start playing volley- over 25,000 miles of FREE rides for home- March, on Friday, March 13 (yes, Friday bound residents of Brunswick, Topsham and ball with the kids down in the Hall which the 13th), we will be represented at St. Harpswell. But we can’t do it alone – we need Charles Church for the Lenten supper. is a nice change from dodgeball once in your help with the driving! We ask that you Curtis lecture to feature The area nonprofits chosen to be repre- a while and once they got the hang of it, become a driver today! It is a rewarding and sented at the Lenten suppers all divide the kids really seem to like it! They are selfless gift to help your neighbors in need. Boston bookstore owner the profits at the end of Lent, so each using beach balls left over from an activ- Thank you!! ity Gladys did at some point (thank you Kenneth Gloss, proprietor of the inter- Gloss, also a frequent guest appraiser on Friday you go and enjoy a fish dinner, Gladys!) and haven’t popped one yet ... nationally known Brattle Book Shop in PBS’ Antiques Roadshow, will talk in part you are helping all the organizations Well, may the luck of the Irish be with Join our team - Boston’s Downtown Crossing section, about the history of his bookshop, which and the food is yummy, with pizza for you in March and have a Happy St. will give a free and open talk on Monday, goes back to circa 1825. Following the talk non-fish eaters! We are grateful to once Volunteer to drive Paddy’s Day! March 16, at 6 pm at Curtis Memorial and question-and-answer session, he will again be chosen as a beneficiary of these Jordan and the gang! Library in Brunswick. He will discuss the give free verbal appraisals of all books that suppers, helping us to raise funds to TODAY! value of old and rare books. attendees have brought with them. serve our area youth. Thanks go to our generous sponsors: Rusty Lantern Market, Linda Cronkhite, Suzan Wilson & Daniel McLaughlin Family, Maine Masse, Wilson to perform at Women’s Giving Tree, Maine Community LOOK! IT’S SARAH DECK, also known as the office coordinator for People Plus, posing in Foundation, Spectrum Generations, and Concerts for a Cause Morocco like a guide on the Travel Channel! We missed Sarah while she was out for a week United Way of Mid Coast Maine, who help Back by popular demand, Heather Masse and Jed Wilson return to the UUCB Concerts for a and I guess she missed us too since she carried a People Plus newspaper with her.... keep the program growing! Cause series on Saturday, March 14, at 7:30 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Middle St., Brunswick. Keeping Masse, a Maine native, is well-known to audiences as a regular guest on Public Radio’s “A Prairie Home Companion,” both as a solo performer and as a member of the Billboard-charting Funeral Alternatives is a locally-owned and operated family business. folk trio, The Waylin’ Jennys. For this concert, she joins forces with jazz pianist Wilson. The you active. two met as jazz students at the Conservatory of Music and have been per- forming together for more than 10 years. Masse's background is steeped in the jazz tra- dition, which informs her distinct approach to singing folk, pop and bluegrass. Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door, $10 students/children and are available at the church office (729-8515), Books or online at https://masse.brownpapertickets. com/. Two-thirds of the proceeds will benefit At Mid Coast Medical Group–Orthopedics, our team of Tedford Housing and Oasis Free Clinics. board-certified, fellowship-trained physicians specialize in medical and surgical management of bones and joints. All Saints Parish Specialized Foot & Ankle Care St. Charles Borromeo Church We understand the impact that foot and ankle pain can have on your active lifestyle. We are dedicated to offering expert surgical foot and ankle care, close to home. LENTEN SUPPERS March 6...... proceeds benefit • Fractures, dislocations, • Sports injuries Mid Coast Hunger Prevention and sprains • Achilles tendonitis March 13...... proceeds benefit • Stress fractures • Chronic ankle instability Tasty Brunswick Area Teen Center • Ankle replacement and • Foot deformities Fish Dinner ... March 20...... proceeds benefit foot reconstruction Baked Haddock, Mashed Tedford Housing Call us at (207) 442-0350 to schedule an evaluation. Potatoes, Corn or Green March 27...... proceeds benefit To Serve You Better, we’ve moved to 46 Bath Rd Beans, Coleslaw, Rolls, The Gathering Place Beverage, Dessert April 3...... proceeds benefit Simple cremations still only $1,425 Habitat for Humanity, 7 Rivers Maine Orthopedics Pizza also available 430 BATH ROAD, SUITE 102, BRUNSWICK Adults $9.00, Youth $4.00 Served 5 to 6:30 p.m. WWW.MIDCOASTHEALTH.COM/MCMG Come all! Tickets available at door. 132 McKeen St., Brunswick 46 Bath Rd, Brunswick • 406-4028 • www.funeralalternatives.net March 2020 People Plus News Page 13 Page 12 People Plus News March 2020

“Music in April” continued from page 1 Central Maine Area Agency on Aging Southern Midcoast Aging and Disability Resource Center the festivities. Membership “We are really looking forward to the new venue 35 Union St, Suite 1, Brunswick, ME 04011 this year and we are super excited about it being just 2077290475 | www.spectrumgenerations.org around the corner from People Plus,” said Stacy Frizzle, Benefits Executive Director of People Plus. Over the years, this event has evolved into one of the March 2020 The following businesses offer discounts Brunswick area’s premier social events, complete with for People Plus members. the live music, a full dinner, and the live and silent auc- AUTO SERVICE/SALES tions. Last year’s gathering raised $60,000 for the People We Respect Your Abilities! Autometrics, 10% off labor Plus Center and Brunswick Area Teen Center, and this 21 Bath Road, Brunswick, 729-0842 year’s goal is $65,000. The money raised from Music in April and other events March is National Intellectual and Developmental Bill Dodge Auto Group, enable People Plus to serve the greater Brunswick com- Disabilities Month, and we’re taking the opportunity to 10% off parts and service 262 Bath Rd., Brunswick, 800-652-6118 munity by offering a variety of activities to support introduce you to our Case Management Team who 118 Pleasant St, Brunswick, 729-6653 engaged, healthy and independent lives for older adults, Returning to the Brunswick Golf Club for the third serve these members of our communities. Spectrum as well as hosting the Teen Center where young people 75 PEOPLE ENJOYED A DELICIOUS MEAL of lasagna, meat- www.billdodgeautogroup.com year in a row, Golf Fore a Cause will raise funds Generations has 9 case managers serving 7 counties; Lee’s Tire & Service, can meet safely to explore creative outlets, participate balls and red sauce, steamed broccoli, fresh Italian salad and in inter-generational activities, and develop into well- garlic bread along with Italian tiramisu for dessert at last month’s for Spectrum Generations’ programs and we’re here to help you and your family navigate the 10% off parts (excludes tires) many complexities of available resources. 35 Gurnet Road, Brunswick, 729-4131 rounded adults. Lunch and Connections! services so mark your calendar for People Plus also provides outreach and transportation 27 Monument Place, Topsham, 729-1676 Friday, June 26, 1:00 p.m. tee time! With effective and responsive coordination, Spectrum Tire Warehouse, 20% off labor services, and offers many volunteer opportunities. It is a Topsham Fair Mall, Topsham, 725-7020 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and 100 percent of all Generations’ case managers link consumers to www.tirewarehouse.net funds raised stay here in the Brunswick area community FMI: spectrumgenerations.org/golf or call resources, enhancing their quality of life and inclusiveness in their communities. Tucker Ford, 10% off invoice, parts & service and are tax deductible. Sarah Brown at 6201677 We are here to help: 262 Bath Road, Brunswick, 725-1228 “Every year, Music in April seems to get better and BEAUTY/HAIR SALON better,” said Frizzle. “And I truly believe that will be the  Follow the wishes and needs of each individual through a personcentered planning case again this coming April.” Reflections (Salon), 10% off, Mon and Fri process 12 Center St, Brunswick, 729-8028 If you want to register as an event sponsor or donate www.reflectionsbylucie.com items for the auctions, please call the People Plus Center  Enable people to explore a full range of options CANDY at 729-0757 and ask for Program and Events Coordinator Jill Ellis. To purchase tickets and reserve a seat for the  Develop formal and informal supports Wilbur’s of Maine, 10% off, anytime event, which is certain to be sold out, again call People 43 Maine St, Brunswick, 729-4462 Plus or stop by the front desk.  Advocate for the interests, preferences, and dreams of the individual MASSAGE/CHIROPRACTIC THERAPY Are you passionate about helping others and  Assist individuals and families in independently coordinating their own supports Augat Chiropractic, desire to make a difference in your community? and services if they so desire Free consultation and cursory exam This March, we encourage you to uncover your 9 Pleasant St, Brunswick, 725-7177 inner hero. If you want to help others increase  Be free from conflict of interest Hearts & Hands Reiki, 10% discount on first skills and knowledge to prevent injuries and appointment. Mon-Fri, 10-6.  Support the development and expression of selfdetermination and selfadvocacy 751-5339 or [email protected] disease, and foster wellbeing, Spectrum Massage on Maine, Generations has volunteer opportunities  Provide a wide range of available resources First visit $60, always $10 off for seniors Cancer Society always looking for help The Pejepscot Genealogical Society available for you. will gather in the Morrell Room of 56 Maine St, Brunswick, 504-6913 The American Cancer Society in Topsham is looking for volunteers for several programs and When we focus on monthly health topics, it gives us an opportunity to educate our Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick http://massageonmaine.com/ events. Upcoming Leader Trainings communities and advocate for needed services. If you have questions or would like Assistance is sought in the following programs: on Sunday, March 8 at 2 pm. Member more information about case management from Spectrum Generations, call us at DRY CLEANER Delia Wilson Lunsford will present — The “Road To Recovery” Program provides patients with free rides to treatment. 1.800.639.1553. J&J Cleaners, 10% off pickups: Wednesdays To serve as a volunteer driver, all you need is: A good driving record, current "One Name Genealogy Projects." This Living Well for Better Health (LWBH) (customers over 55) driver’s license, proof of automobile insurance, and access to a safe and reliable will include how to research all folks Horizon Clinic, MaineGeneral Health, Gardiner Maine Street, Brunswick, 729-0176 vehicle. FMI: Visit www.cancer.org/involved/volunteer/road-to-recovery.html in a geographical area with the same FLORIST March 12 and 13, 19 and 20 — Day-of-event volunteers. Whether it is helping with setup/cleanup, checking people surname as a way to find your family's Pauline’s Bloomers, 10% off, anytime (within in, or helping to distribute food/water to event participants, there are a variety of earliest roots. Using online resources normal delivery range) ways that you can get involved. One of events that we are looking for volunteers and others, she will recommend how to Living Well with HIV Cross Training 153 Park Row, Brunswick, 725-5952 for includes the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Brunswick, on Saturday, (Prerequisite – LWBH) The Census counts every generation www.paulinesbloomers.com keep track of individuals/names, how to Oct. 24, Town Mall, Brunswick. distinguish different families, and how Horizon Clinic, MaineGeneral Health, Gardiner HEARING AND OPTICAL Every 10 years, the United States counts everyone who lives in — Event planning committees. This involves planning, fundraising, or communi- to place name "orphans" into a family March 26 and 27 the country, from newborn babies to the oldest among us. It is Berrie’s Hearing and Optical Center, cations and marketing. We meet once a month for an hour on a weekday evening tree. Refreshments will be served. FMI: 10% off a complete set of eye-wear, up to at the American Cancer Society office in Topsham (1 Bowdoin, Mill Island, third important for everyone to complete the 2020 Census so that Contact PGS President Steve Gilchrist Living Well with Chronic Pain Cross Training $500 off costs of hearing aids floor). at [email protected]. communities like ours can be accurately funded and represented. 86 Maine St, Brunswick, 725-5111 FMI: Contact Henry McCorkle at 373-3713 or [email protected]. (Prerequisite – LWBH) www.berriesopticians.com Deering Pavilion, Portland Maine Optometry, Responding is important. $30 off complete pair of glasses April 8 and 9 The 2020 Census will influence community funding and congressional 82 Maine St, Brunswick, 729-8474 representation for the next decade. Information collected in the census will inform www.maineoptometry.com Living Well with Diabetes Cross Training the allocation of more than $675 billion in federal funds for states and communities LEGAL (Prerequisite – LWBH) each year. That includes money for things like: Attorney N. Seth Levy, Deering Pavilion, Portland Discounted legal services/documents includ- › First responders ing wills, living wills and estates April 10 14 Maine St, Brunswick, 319-4431 › Medicare Part B www.sethlevylaw.com Tai Chi for Health and Balance › Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program RECREATION / ENTERTAINMENT Cohen Community Center, Hallowell › Libraries and community centers Eveningstar Cinema, Discount bag of April 18 and 19 › Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) popcorn at evening shows › Senior Community Service Employment Program ($1 sml, $1. 50 medium) 149 Maine St, Brunswick, 729-5486 Upcoming Community Workshops Responding is easy. www.eveningstarcinema.com Beginning in midMarch 2020, you can respond to the census online, by phone, or Maine State Music Theatre, Living Well with Diabetes by mail. Choose the option that is most comfortable for you. Largeprint guides to Senior discount (60+) on matinee tickets People Plus 22 Elm Street, Brunswick, 725-8769 the questionnaire are available upon request. From May – July 2020, census takers www.msmt.org 35 Union Street, Brunswick will visit households that have not yet responded. A census taker can assist if you Mondays, 2:004:30 p.m. Thomas Point Beach, $1 weekday admission need help completing your form. 29 Meadow Road, Brunswick, 725-6009 April 13 – May 18, Free www.thomaspointbeach.com Senior Companion and Responding is safe. RESTAURANT Are you a Personal Care Services To learn more or to register email Your personal information is kept confidential by law. Your responses can only be Arby’s, 10% off, excluding combos/coupons local 1 to 24 hours [email protected] or call used to produce statistics. They cannot be shared with law enforcement agencies Topsham Fair Mall, Topsham, 729-8244 18006206036 or used against you by any government agency or court in any way. www.arbys.com business? Yarmouth,Yarmouth, Freeport,Freeport, Big Top Deli, 10% off, anytime 70 Maine St, Brunswick, 721-8900 Call 729-0757 Cumberland,Cumberland, FalmouthFalmouth Spectrum Generations is an Equal Opportunity Provider. Please let us know if you require special accommodations at least two weeks prior to the event. www.bigtopdeli.com to discuss 729-0991729-0991 Fairground Café, 10% off, anytime Topsham Fair Mall, Topsham, 729-5366 creating your Wild Oats Bakery & Cafe, 725-6287, partnership 10% off on Mondays PROUD TO PARTNER WITH PEOPLE PLUS 149 Maine St, Brunswick, 725-6287 with People NOW HIRING wildoatsbakery.com Plus. Brunswick to Portland $13-$15/hr *Benefits subject to change Free Yoga, Free Massage! Page 14 People Plus News March 2020 March 2020 People Plus News Page 15 Club Corner A wild idea inspired by members of People Plus One of the aspects I like about People want to attempt in the near future. By now, in Hallowell to southern Maine, and then Making music at People Plus Plus is that it’s a place of inspiration. To be you all are quite aware of my love for riding making my way — through maps provided surrounded every day by members who bicycles. There’s nothing I enjoy more than by Adventure Cycling — across New Simply have a good outlook on life, along with those being perched on a bike saddle cruising Hampshire, Vermont, and into New York. who attend activities to keep learning and down a country road or skirting along a Once in the Empire State, I really want Q&A with Jim Ru, the grow, is a benefit of my job I truly enjoy. forest trail. to hook up with the Erie Canalway Trail, put It makes me want to push my boundaries So, I’ve come up with this far-flung which is a 360-mile mostly unpaved path leader of the band and, because of that, I have an idea I want to proposal, which is still in the early stages of that runs the entire length of the state, from Patrick Gabrion share with you. development. My high school class of 1971 Albany to Buffalo. From there, I will enter Text/photos by Patrick Gabrion amazing musicians showing up, the Thompson Home Public Library in my and it's such a friendly group I’m currently reading “The Wright will be holding its 50-year reunion at some southern Ontario, Canada and, again utiliz- new group is strumming Brothers,” a book written by historian David point during the summer of 2021, and I have ing Adventure Cycling maps, ride along the hometown of Ithaca, Michigan. along nicely at People of people. Some people have So there you have it, my wild idea. Maybe A been showing up just to listen as McCullough and published by Simon & pretty much decided to attend this cele- northern shore of Lake Erie. Eventually, I Plus and more people are Schuster in 2015. It’s amazing what bicycle bration. While that in itself is not unusual, will take a hard right toward Sarnia, where I I’ve gone bonkers, but I’m looking forward participating each week. The well, which is great. Audience to it; seeing parts of the U.S. and Canada the participation is encouraged! shop owners Wilbur and Orville Wright I’ve got it in my head to get to this party will re-enter the United States at Port Huron, Acoustic Music Club gathers accomplished in the early 1900s when they in my hometown of Ithaca — from Maine Michigan. Then, it’s just a matter of negoti- best way possible and meeting the people most Saturdays at 1 pm at the Q. What has been your created their flying machine. With no scien- to Michigan — by way of riding a bike. A ating miles and miles of flat farmland to my who inhabit those areas. Thank you to the Center, playing mostly folk, biggest surprise about the group of participants? tific background, and basically putting aside sensible idea, right? final destination. members of People Plus for shining a light blues, and bluegrass songs, but down the path of endless discoveries. I’ll willing to try just about any- A. The musical instruments most of the experimentation done by others, It’s not the first time I’ve gone for a long While I already have six bikes of varying being brought to play have been these two men from Ohio are credited with bicycle ride. In 1982, I explored southeastern types, I have a new one on order — yes, I keep you posted on my progress as I prepare thing at their entertaining “jam” for my “Reunion Tour.” sessions. very fine. And when they all an invention of astounding proportions. England and the channel coast of France, told my wife — just for this particular trip. People bring their own get going together, it really is a But for me, one incredible element stands ending with my run-in with a truck. And It’s a Trek 920 adventure beast that comes instruments and everyone remarkable sound. Also, many out over all others. It is the fact that their in 2002, I traveled nearly 25 days from with front and rear racks for my needed The Harpswell Garden Club gets a chance to share a song, of the people showing up have early flights in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the western mountains of North Carolina panniers. My plan is to stay in motels or will meet Thursday, March 19, at 1 pm at with others joining in. The personal stories about their and at Huffman Prairie, just outside of to Texas, to support the Lance Armstrong bed-and-breakfast spots most nights, but it Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick. musical lives. These have been club is open to all People Plus Dayton, Ohio, were pretty much ignored Foundation. I guess this next adventure is will be a self-supported journey. After a brief business meeting, Aaron members and those from the very interesting and I can't wait and disbelieved. Almost everyone it seems some sort of 20-year itch that can only be Because all this is tied to a school reunion to hear more. Parker of Edgewood Nursery will community who are 18 years of was convinced that what the Wright brothers satisfied through pedal power, although and the fact that I’m returning to the place present, “Low Maintenance/Low Impact age and older. While you don’t Q. Do you have a favorite genre when it comes were attempting — and did — was just not technically it will be 19 years since my last where I grew up and was educated, there is Gardening.” FMI: have to be a member attainable. Man flying like a bird, that’s one. one more part to my plan. I will be estab- Call Becky at 207- during the first few to music? A. Personally, I favor crazy! As I stated earlier, I’m just beginning the lishing a GoFundMe page for the follow- 833-6159. Free and visits, it is a require- I have my own bizarre project, albeit not logistics for this five-state, one province ing purposes: 25 percent of all the money open to the public. ment going forward. acoustic, live music. I like the old hippie, even remotely as significant and historic trip. Right now, I envision cruising along people generously donate will go toward trip The club is coordi- in nature as their great achievement, that I the East Coast Greenway from my home expenses, while 75 percent will be given to nated by Brunswick beatnik, folk tunes, Honoring Loss. THE ACOUSTIC MUSIC CLUB meets on Saturdays at 1 pm at People Plus, playing mostly folk, blues, resident Jim Ru, and but really any type of Honoring Loss. and bluegrass songs. recently we had the music is great. I like music from all over New Website. opportunity to sit New Website.New/renewing members for February down and chat with the world and I hope the leader of the band. everyone feels they Same* indicates new Mission. membership Robert Biette Michael Martin * Susan Wood * Pamela Craig G.C. (Bill) Finneran * Q. What were your can join in. For me, • indicatesSame donation made withMission. Donald Bizer * Joanne McCartan Barbara Word Burton Taylor Vivienne Finneran * it's more about people reasons for approaching membership Priscilla Bizer * Margaret Miller Alice Yanok • Carol Taylor Barbara McHarg People Plus and creating such sitting around with their musical Celebrating CelebratingLife. Life. instruments sharing a song in Vivian Breton Marguerite Miller Ann Young • Don McHarg a wonderful opportunity for Bath Evelyn Bryant Caroline Murphy • Lisbon Elizabeth Pettigrew • musicians to get together? a group like this. Something We’ve launchedWe’ve our launched new website, our new website, amazing happens. We're all so Siri Beckman * Irene Bouchard • James Murphy • Cumberland Janet Stenberg Kathleen Stupinski * A. Brunswick is rich in musi- www.brackettfh.comJan Byrneswww.brackettfh.com * , better connecting, better connecting Charlotte Hart Orr’s Island cians, and I thought it would plugged into electronics and Kathy Carter Marcia Musto isolated online these days. I you Rickto the Byrnes youcommunity *to the community support we support believe weyou believe deserve. you deserve. Alan Hall * West Bath be fun to bring some of them Kathleen Cyr * Dottie Nadeau • Durham together for acoustic music think that adds to my amaze- Cheryl Young Jane Donelon Tom Nadeau • Katherine Hall * Richard Totten ment when people are actu- Please visit and share with us your thoughts about what’s new: Conrad Brooks * Dexter Kamilewicz * • jams. 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BRACKETT FUNERAL HOME 29 Federal Street, Brunswick, ME (207) 725-5511 www.BrackettFH.com Page 16 People Plus News March 2020 Café Gallery to feature works of Harpswell weaver Not to get too far ahead of ourselves, but a change of seasons is on the horizon and so is a change in the fabulous artwork and crafts that are always on display in the People Plus Café Gallery. For the upcoming months of March and April, we will be featuring the work of Jere Hoffert, a weaver who lives in Harpswell. So please take the opportunity to check out his wonderful creations. “I have been a weaver for more than 40 years. I took Save the date! a weaving class in Bath and before the first class was People Plus Senior over I knew I loved it,” Hoffert said. “While learning, I made many scarves, shawls, placemats, rugs and wall Health Expo hangings for friends and family. After a few months, I started getting requests from friends and family to Thursday, make items so they could give them as gifts.” Along with selling items to friends, family, and October 8, 2020 co-workers, Hoffert’s work is also now available at a co-op and at local craft shows. Brunswick Recreation Center, “I love working with a variety of fibers, such as Brunswick Landing cotton, acrylic, alpaca, mohair, raw silk, wool, and rayon, and use different techniques to make a piece more appealing,” he continued. “I hope you will enjoy sharing my handwoven items as much as I enjoy making Weekly them. My outlook on weaving and selling has always been to make an item that is functional, beautiful, and Winners affordable.” The collected works on display in the Café Gallery Senior Bridge are for sale, which is accomplished by contacting the January 20: Paul Betit, 3120 artist directly. A portion of the proceeds will go toward Barbara McHarg, 2980 People Plus. The show, which is open to the public, may January 24: Betsy Mace, 4620 be seen free of charge during normal business hours at Woody Townsend, 4340 the Center, located at 35 Union St. in Brunswick. January 27: Woody Townsend, 3890 And a big thank you to Robin Brooks of Topsham for Bob Cressey, 3860 her fabulous artwork that was on display in January and Steve Garde, 3400 February. JERE HOFFERT OF HARPSWELL shows off some of his work. January 31: Woody Townsend, 4600 Barbara McHarg, 3390 February 3: Bob Cressey, 3250 TENEBRAE: From Darkness to Light Jenny Ferguson, 3190 ORATORIO CHORALE invites you to welcome the Richard Totten, 2960 return of light with a candlelight concert and music February 10: John Rich, 5080 by Palestrina, Hildegard von Bingen, Pärt, Allegri, Barbara McHarg, 4890 and MacMillan. February 17: Barbara McHarg, 3770 Lorraine LaRoche, 3400 Directed by Emily Isaacson and featuring Amethyst February 14: Lorraine LaRoche, 3920 Chamber Ensemble. Jenny Ferguson, 3830 SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 3 PM St. Luke’s Cathedral, Portland Senior Intermediate Cribbage Lunch out! January 22: Lois Fournier SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 3 PM & John Bouchard, 710 March 10th at 11:30 a.m. St. John the Baptist Church, Brunswick Patricia Johnson Tickets in advance at brownpapertickets.com/ & Lorraine LaRoche, 699 profile/1143574 for $20 adults, $10 students January 29: Anne Bouchard, 702 or at the door for $25 adults, $12.50 students (chil- George Tetu, 696 dren under 12 free but tickets required for seating). February 5: Rick Fortin, 721 George Tetu, 704 FMI: www.oratoriochorale.org or 207-577-3931 Gaby Niffka, 698 February 12: George Tetu, 711 Safety Check-In program looking for participants! Rick Fortin, 701 235 Lewiston Road, Topsham Lois Fournier & Rollande Fortin, 691 Sign up for the car pool! Julie Swol, 687 Are you signed up yet?? The Good Morning program is a free daily safety check-in program available to adults in Brunswick, Harpswell, and Freeport. Once registered, participants call in every Come Home to Friends! morning to say they are OK. If a registered participant does not call in by 9:30 am, a volunteer will call the home. If there is no No More Shoveling! answer, the emergency plan will be enacted, which may include a wellness check by local police. Good Morning Program Volunteer Jack Giving peace of mind to participants and Rhode listens to messages at the Brunswick their families, the Good Morning program Police Department. is ideal for those who live alone or have recently returned from the hospital or reha- bilitation facility. For more information, call People Plus at 729-0757 or Brunswick Police non-emer- gency number at 725-6621. To download an application, visit www.peopleplusmaine. org/good-morning-program.

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