CLC's free public science series
Expanding Your Understanding
FORCES OF FLIGHT OCTOBER 30
(last Thursday of the month, Jan-Oct)
6:30-7:30pm Venture Way, Bangor
Please pre-register by replying to this email or calling
990.2900 x3
Pilot Mike Lessard, FAA Certified Flight Instructor and FAA FAASTeam Lead Representative, will demonstrate a working wing model to visualize air flow over the wing of a plane and the characteristics of a stall.
Following the demonstration youth and adults will have a chance to take part in an interactive discussion and powerpoint on basic aerodynamics and forces, facilitated by Mike.
Younger children will have the opportunity to take part in a flight-related activity with Robin Kennedy, CLC Education Director.
Everyone involved will end the evening by joining together to complete a plane-building challenge!
Spring Fest Saturday, May 10th at Field's Pond Audubon Center
Come to the nature center for an all ages, all day, free event celebrating International Migratory Bird Day.
7 - 8:30am Birding By Ear Walk with Bruce Barker
7 - 8:30am Bird Walk with Medea Steinman
9 - 10:00am Yoga with John Yasenchak (bring mat if you have one)
9 - 10:00am Children's Walk (parents can enjoy yoga or Birding by Ear)
9 - 11:00am Birding By Ear Walk with Steve Coleman (open to the visually impaired community & anyone interested in learning bird songs)
10 - 1:00pm NATIVE & ORGANIC PLANT SALE BY REBEL HILL FARM
10 - 4:00pm Children's Activity Area
10:30 - 11:30am Walk and Talk with Merle Hetley: Native Plants
10:30 - 11:30pm Children's Nature Exploration with Ruth Perry (parents enjoy plants walk)
11:30 - Noon Lunch Break: sandwiches, chips, cookies & juice will be for sale
Noon - 1:00pm Live Turtles with Jean Adamson
1:30 - 2:30pm Pollinators Presentation with Pat Synder: Bees, Butterflies, and Hummingbirds
3:00 - 4:00pm Music Together with Surya Mitchell (children with their parents)
4:00 - 5:00pm Hands-on Photography Workshop with Joni Dunn
4:00 - 5:00pm Children's Walk (parents can enjoy photography with Joni Dunn)
5:00 - 6:30pm Evening Bird Walk with Judy Kellogg Markowsky
Children's Activities:
9 - 10:00am Children's Walk
10 - 4:00pm Children's Activity Area
10:30 - 11:30pm Children's Nature Exploration with Ruth Perry
Noon - 1:00pm Live Turtles with Jean Adamson
1:30 - 2:30am Pollinators Presentation with Pat Synder: Bees, Butterflies, and Hummingbirds
3 - 4:00pm Music Together with Surya Mitchell (children with their parents)
4:00 - 5:00pm Children's Walk
Directions to Fields Pond in Holden: At Exit 5 from I-395, go right on Parkway South for 0.3 mile. Go right on Dirigo Drive 0.5 mile. Go right on Green Point Road 0.8 mile. Go left on Wiswell Road 1.5 miles. At Fields Pond Road, go right 1 mile. Audubon Center is on left #216.
To contact Fields Pond email htwining@maineaudubon.org or call 989-2591.
This field trip is being organized by Guilford Christian Academy a Non-Approved Private School for homeschoolers.
We will be meeting at Leonard's Mills on June 24th from 9-1 for a Children's Day for Homeschoolers. Children are invited to participate in period-appropriate activities to learn what life was like in the 1790's before electricity
We will have activities and demonstrations that include:
blacksmithing, cooking in the log cabin, weaving, spinning, sawmill may be running, knitting, tug-of-war, races, ball-in-cup, board games. The trails should be in good condition if groups want to take hikes on their own.
The cost is $1 per adult and $2 per child (2-12).
So, if you are interested, please send the following information to guilfordchristianacademy at wildblue.net.
Send your name and how many adults and children you will be bringing.
Please make checks out to Guilford Christian Academy.
Upon contact from you with information about who will attend you will receive and email with mailing information.
Please feel free to pass on this information to anyone/group you feel would have an interest.
The money will need to be received by June 18th in order to have time to get money to the bank and a money order made up.
If someone is interested and does not have email they may call Trisha at 564-7308. This is a business number as well so if no one answers please leave a message, we will get back to you as soon as we get it.
You may visit www.leonardsmills.com for more information on Childrens Day.
Thank you and I hope for a great turn out. If it is successful we will probably do it annually.
Home Education Week and Homeschool Day at the Capitol
Join in the Celebration!
Maine homeschoolers have worked hard over the years to raise public awareness, gain respect and credibility, build relationships within the legislature and strengthen homeschool freedoms. This year, beginning on June 10th through June 16th, we will celebrate our 20th Annual Home Education Week in Maine. (See the Governor’s proclamation below.) To mark the occasion, we have scheduled a Homeschool Day at the Capitol on Tuesday, June 12th. Many events have been planned including tours of the State House, musical presentations, displays, and much more! Here is the agenda for the day:
9:00 am – 1:00 pm – Displays and music in the State House Hall of Flags.
9:00 am – 1:00 pm – Pick up packets in the Hall of Flags to bring to your legislator.
9:00 am and 11:00 am – Tours of the State House. Call the HOME Office (207-763-2880) to sign up.
All Day – Visit your local legislators and thank them for their service and continued support.
All Day – Visit the Maine State Museum or other museums in Maine. To schedule programs and tours, contact the Maine State Museum at 207-287-2301.
Remember to find ways to celebrate and be visible within your own communities, as well. The following is just a sampling of activities that could be planned especially for Home Education Week within individual support groups and families:
Wear a homeschool sticker or button wherever you go during the week of June 10th through June 16th.
Have a potluck meal of thanksgiving with other homeschooling families.
Bake a celebration cake!
Plan a local field trip with a few families or your support group.
Arrange for a homeschooling display at your local library.
Visit a nursing home.
Find ways to volunteer in your community.
Plan a fundraiser to raise money for your support group or for HOME.
Buy a copy of Homeschool Heroes and read it to your family! Copies are available a the HOME Office
However you choose to celebrate during Home Education Week, please take time to give thanks and glory to God for the very precious freedoms we have to teach our children at home. Without continued prayer, vigilance and a strong homeschool presence within each Maine community, our blessings of freedom could be easily taken away. Take pride in what you do, and enjoy your well-deserved week of recognition!
Well here we are in 2007, and it's time for our annual Sportsman's Show.
Over the years we have developed a type of show that everyone can enjoy, not just the Guys. This years show will feature items form the past as well as the present. We offer a diverse selection of items relating to everything that deals with the outdoors.
From clothing, to Guns, both old and new, from Dogs, to simple items that you can use. If you hunt, Fish, Trek, canoe, bow hunt, or just need some homemade soap to wash the days events off your bod, you will find it here
As a special treat to the public we will have a ongoing Tomahawk Throwing booth set up on the stage. At this booth you and your Kids can try there hand at throwing the Hawk. Instruction will be given by our expert thrower, ME, Gomer. If you have never tried this, you should, it is a lot of fun!!!!!!!! I have been doing it for15 years and still enjoy it.
Also on the stage there will be a REAL Teepee set up for you to check out, and even go inside, to see how the early Natives Lived. All of this for the price of admission!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We offer a snack bar with great food, burgers, Dogs, Chile, coffee, etc. If you get there early you can even get Breakfast.
Over the years we have had a lot of positive comments from the ladies about our show. They told us that it was nice to see a show that had something for them to. Like I said in the beginning this is not your typical cookie cutter sportsmans show, and we take great pride in that fact.
So if you want to have a great time, shopping or just looking at a diverse array of items, please check out our show. You will not be disappointed.
Admission............. Adults $5, under 18 Free, this meens that a family can get in for $10, try and beat that price anyware!!!!!!!
Military and there Families get in free.
We are located in the Augusta Armory on Western Ave, in Augusta Maine.
Take exit 109A off I-95 and you are there!!!!!!!!!!!
Sat.- Sunday Feb 24-25 9AM-5PM Sat. 9AM-#pm Sunday.
Come check out The Ancient Ones Show, it is like NO OTHER!!!!!!!!!
would like to invite you to join us on Home School Winter Day
Friday, March 9, 2007 • 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. {No pre-registration is
required.}
Join us for a winter day designed just for Home School families. Come
see— and take part in the ways in which 1830's New Englanders
lived during the coldest season of the year. Please dress warmly.
Please register at the Museum Education Building on March 9th. Admission
cost is $7.00 per person, free for members and children under 3.
Additional hands-on educational activities are priced seperately at $5-6
per person.
For more information please visit us online at www.osv.org
. We look forward to your visit!
Kathleen Kime Education Coordinator Old Sturbridge Village 1 Old
Sturbridge Village Road Sturbridge, MA 01566 kkime@osv.org
508-347-0335
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You Know You're From Maine When...
You've had arguments over the comparative quality of Fried Dough.
You call four inches of snow "a dusting."
You don't understand why there aren't fried clam shacks elsewhere in the county.
You know what an Irving is and the location of 15 of them.
You knew all the flavors at Perry's Nut House.
Your car is covered in yellow-green dust in May.
You can drive the Augusta traffic circle without slowing down.
You've hung out at a gravel pit.
You think a mosquito could be a species of bird.
You once skipped school and went to Bar Harbor, Old Orchard Beach or Reid State Park.
Even your school cafeteria made good chowder.
You've almost fallen asleep driving between Houlton and Presque Isle.
You know how to pronounce Calais.
You've made a meal out of a Jordan's red dye hot-dog, a bag of Humpty Dumpty potato chips and a can of soda.
You've gone to a Grange bean supper.
In high school, you (or a friend) packed Deering Ice Cream cones.
At least once in your life, a seagull pooped on your head.
At least once in your life you've said, "It smells like the mill in here."
There's a fruit and vegetable stand within 10 minutes of your house.
You crave Italian sandwiches at least weekly.
Your house converts to a B&B every July and August for people from away that you happen to know.
All year long you're tracking sand in the house-from the beach in the summer and the roads and sidewalks in the winter.
You have to have the sand cleaned out of your brake system every spring.
You do the majority of your shopping out of Uncle Henry's.
You've ditched the car on the side of the road somewhere because you thought you saw some good fiddleheads!
You know a lobster pot is a trap, not a kettle.
You know not to plant tender crops until the last full moon in May.
You go to the dump and bring back more than you brought.
You've watched "Murder she Wrote" and snickered at the stupid fake accents.
You know how to find the rope swing at the quarry.
You take the New Hampshire toll personally.
You always wave when you see a Maine license plate in another state.
When you're supposed to dress up, you wear flannel with a tie.
There's too much "stuff" in your 2 "cah" garage to get either of your cars into it.
You know what a frappe is.
L.L. Bean's not just a store, it's a way of life.
"The City" means exclusively Portland.
"Salt damage" is a viable insurance claim.
All of the traffic lights blink yellow at 10 o'clock at night.
It's not a storm - it's a Nor'eastah.
"Open 24/7" might as well be Greek.
More stores have "Bienvenue" flags than "Welcome" flags.
You eat ice cream with flavors like 'Moose Tracks" and "Maine Black Bear".
You know that a chocolate doughnut is not a white doughnut with chocolate frosting.
You wouldn't eat beans in tomato sauce or Manhattan clam chowder if you were starving!
As a child, you played outside in a snow storm without hat, mittens, scarf and with your jacket open because it was just a little cool.
The area around your back door is referred to as "the dooryard".
You eat potato chips with flavors such as "clam dip", "ketchup" and "dill pickle".
You call the basement "downcellah."
There is only one shopping plaza in town.
You use "wicked" as a multipurpose part of speech
Your pickup has more mud on it then the ground around it for a 15 foot radius.
More than 1/2 the meat in your freezer is moose.
You enjoy a hot chocolate more than a margarita.
If your "luxury vehicle" is a twelve-year-old rustbucket on wheels.
If your dog eats better than you do, and more often too.
If you never say what you paid for an item but how much you "give" for it.
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Maine.
