Lora B. Whelan, Director
93 Water Street    PO Box 122
Eastport, ME  04631-0122
207-853-2400
Web Site:  www.eastportforpride.org

May 2005 Community Calendar

1: Sunday

2:00 PM - The Magnificent Liars are coming to Eastport this weekend to perform a play that is not to be missed. "The Boys Next Door" is a wonderful, funny, poignant play featuring many local actors. Shead High Band Room. $10 at the door, discounts for students.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM - First Anniversary of The Commons, 51 Water Street. Celebration, Music, Awards, Puppets, Refreshments.
6:00 PM - closing - Live Music at Murphy's Village Restaurant, Rt. 189, Lubec.
7:00 PM - Northern Lights Film Society, Shead High School Band Room. Donation: $3.

2: Monday

9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $2.50. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.

3: Tuesday

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM - Labor of Love Food Pantry, New Beginnings Church of God basement, Washington St. door. Call Fern: 853-2373. Income limits for participants. Donations gratefully accepted!
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $2.50. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.
6:00 PM - Planning Board - Shead High School Band Room.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Clay Hand Building - Instructor: Kevin Thompson - In this course, participants will learn basic hand building techniques including pinch, coil, and slab methods. While focus will be mainly on hand building techniques, a potter's wheel will be available for those who want to give it a try. We may also experiment with some locally dug clay. - Cobscook Community Learning Center, Trescott - 733-2233 or julie@thecclc.org. 8-week course $25 for residents of Lubec; $28 for non-residents.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Beginning Belly Dancing for Women - Instructor: Rachel Bell - Get moving this spring with local dancer Rachel Bell in this beginning belly dancing class. Have fun as you learn the basic techniques of this ancient dance form. - Cobscook Community Learning Center, Trescott - 733-2233 or julie@thecclc.org. 8-week course $25 for residents of Lubec; $28 for non-residents.
7:00 PM - School Committee - Shead High School Band Room.

4: Wednesday

9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $2.50. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Introduction to the Celtic Whistle - Instructor: Kara McCrimmon - Participants will explore the basics of playing the Celtic whistle. No previous experience or ability to read music is necessary, though a love of music is helpful! Throughout the course participants will work on the basics of reading music and playing the whistle by learning familiar and traditional Celtic tunes. - Cobscook Community Learning Center, Trescott - 733-2233 or julie@thecclc.org. 8-week course $25 for residents of Lubec; $28 for non-residents.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Beginning Watercolor - Instructor: Jude Valentine - If you have always had an interest in painting in watercolor but have never picked up a brush, or if you have picked up a brush but didn’t know what to do next, this class is for you. Explore brush work and washes, color mixing, composition and glazing as the primary tools to produce a watercolor painting. You will be producing color sketches and paintings with confidence using the basic techniques of the medium. - Cobscook Community Learning Center, Trescott - 733-2233 or julie@thecclc.org. 8-week course $25 for residents of Lubec; $28 for non-residents.

5: Thursday

All Day - Paddlefest 2005, St. Andrews, New Brunswick. Details for a variety of land and sea events on web site. For PADDLEFEST 2005 tickets and info contact: Jamie Steel, tel (506) 529-4585 or email steeljm@nbnet.nb.ca
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $2.50. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.

6: Friday

All Day - Maine Preservation's Statewide Preservation Honor Awards Event.
All Day - Paddlefest 2005, St. Andrews, New Brunswick. Details for a variety of land and sea events on web site. For PADDLEFEST 2005 tickets and info contact: Jamie Steel, tel (506) 529-4585 or email steeljm@nbnet.nb.ca
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $2.50. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM - First Friday Art Walks - starting at The Commons, 51 Water Street - Wine & Cheese - Birch and Birds in Art.
8:00 PM - Rose Garden Coffee Shoppe, 9 Dana St. 853-9598, presents An Evening of Music by REBELL (Rachael and Sam)

7: Saturday

All Day - BIG statewide Land Trust conference.
All Day - Paddlefest 2005, St. Andrews, New Brunswick. Details for a variety of land and sea events on web site. For PADDLEFEST 2005 tickets and info contact: Jamie Steel, tel (506) 529-4585 or email steeljm@nbnet.nb.ca

8: Sunday: New Moon
Mother's Day

All Day - Paddlefest 2005, St. Andrews, New Brunswick. Details for a variety of land and sea events on web site. For PADDLEFEST 2005 tickets and info contact: Jamie Steel, tel (506) 529-4585 or email steeljm@nbnet.nb.ca
Various - Pathfinders - Hiking in the area - Call 733-4984 for details.
6:00 PM - closing - Live Music at Murphy's Village Restaurant, Rt. 189, Lubec.
7:00 PM - Northern Lights Film Society, Shead High School Band Room. Donation: $3.

9: Monday

9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $2.50. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.
6:00 PM - Harbor Committee - Shead High School Band Room.
7:00 PM - Eastport City Council - Shead High School Band Room.

10: Tuesday

11: Wednesday

9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $2.50. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.

12: Thursday

7:30 AM - 9:00 AM - Eggs & Issues - Machias Bay Area Chamber of Commerce - At the Bluebird Ranch Family Restaurant in Machias during the months of March - August. At Helen's Restaurant in Machias during the months of September - February. - Topic: "Washington County Broadband Technology Survey" Survey results presented by Judy East of Eastern Maine Development Corporation. Breakfast buffet - public is welcomed to attend.
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $2.50. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.
6:00 PM - Eastport for Pride General Meeting - Eastport for Pride office, 93 Water Street. Call 853-2400 for information. Bring your own beverage. Snacks provided. All those interested in downtown revitalization welcome!

13: Friday

9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $2.50. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.
7:00 PM - HEAR YE, HEAR YE: Calling all singers, dancers, actors, jugglers, clowns, puppeteers, stand up comics, musicians, poets, magicians, and other local talent. Come to the Eastport Arts Center, 36 Washington Street to auditions for the first annual Moose Island Follies, a cabaret-style variety show, a grand and wildly fun fundraising event for the Eastport Arts Center's Capital Fund Drive. Performances: July 2 & 3 at 7:30 PM each evening. (If you are interested in performing but can only commit to one of the two dates, that may be possible!) If you can perform a sample of your act at this time, that is preferred. However, if you have an idea that is not yet worked out, come and just talk with the organizers. For further information contact Jon Bragdon 853-2374, Lauren Simpson 454-3035, or Chris Grannis 726-5803. Or e-mail: jbragdon@stcroix.u106.k12.me.us
8:00 PM - Rose Garden Coffee Shoppe, 9 Dana St. 853-9598, presents An Evening of Music by Mark Philips.

14: Saturday

8:30 AM - 12:30 PM - POSTPONED FROM APRIL 28 - Eastport's Earth Day - Meet at Eastport for Pride office, 93 Water St. Volunteers of all ages encouraged to bring your rakes, shovels, weedwackers, brooms, clippers, wheelbarrows, gloves, etc. and participate in a general cleanup of the downtown Water Street area and waterfront.
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM - "Stone Wall Strategies" Workshop - Session 1: Old House Essentials - Sabbathday Shaker Village Library, Route 26, New Gloucester. Details at Maine Preservation or call 207-775-3652.
1:00 PM - HEAR YE, HEAR YE: Calling all singers, dancers, actors, jugglers, clowns, puppeteers, stand up comics, musicians, poets, magicians, and other local talent. Come to the Eastport Arts Center, 36 Washington Street to auditions for the first annual Moose Island Follies, a cabaret-style variety show, a grand and wildly fun fundraising event for the Eastport Arts Center's Capital Fund Drive. Performances: July 2 & 3 at 7:30 PM each evening. (If you are interested in performing but can only commit to one of the two dates, that may be possible!) If you can perform a sample of your act at this time, that is preferred. However, if you have an idea that is not yet worked out, come and just talk with the organizers. For further information contact Jon Bragdon 853-2374, Lauren Simpson 454-3035, or Chris Grannis 726-5803. Or e-mail: jbragdon@stcroix.u106.k12.me.us

15: Sunday

6:00 PM - closing - Live Music at Murphy's Village Restaurant, Rt. 189, Lubec.
7:00 PM - Northern Lights Film Society, Shead High School Band Room. Donation: $3.

16: Monday

9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $2.50. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.
5:30 PM - Eastport Port Authority - Madison Street Office.
6:00 PM - Eastport for Pride Board Meeting - Eastport for Pride office, 93 Water St.

17: Tuesday

18: Wednesday

9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $2.50. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.
1:00 PM - St. Croix Valley International Garden Club - Field trip to Barney Book Perennials, Columbia. Perennials and plant division advice by Janis Lesbines. Rain date, May 19. Contact: Joan Edwards 207-726-9664.
7:00 PM - Ralph A. Raye Post 558 VFW, Senior Center, 9 Boynton St.

19: Thursday

9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $2.50. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.
6:00 PM - Eastport Area Chamber of Commerce. Contact Motel East, 853-4644 for location and time.

20: Friday

9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $2.50. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Exhibit of Passamaquoddy Suite: A Collective Geography - 32 printmakers map the Passamaquoddy Bay region. A cross-border collaboration by: the Maine College of Art, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Tides Institute. 43 Water Street, Eastport. 853-4047 to confirm hours.
7:00 PM - Neighbors Helping Neighbors: benefit concert to be held at the University of Maine Machias Performing Arts Center. The purpose is to raise funds for this summer’s building repair projects. The concert will be put on by the Blue Hill Brass Quintet and will include an evening of pops, semi-classical and popular music and humor for all ages. The cost of tickets is adults $10 and children 12 and under $6. Contact any member of the Machias Rotary for tickets or call Wayne A. Peters at 255-3768.
8:00 PM - Rose Garden Coffee Shoppe, 9 Dana St. 853-9598, presents An Evening of Music by Alan Cook.

21: Saturday

6:30 AM - 11:30 AM - Schoodic Annual Warbler Count - meet at Eagles Nest Observation Stand, Route 1, Calais at 6:30 AM.
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Exhibit of Passamaquoddy Suite: A Collective Geography - 32 printmakers map the Passamaquoddy Bay region. A cross-border collaboration by: the Maine College of Art, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Tides Institute. 43 Water Street, Eastport. 853-4047 to confirm hours.

22: Sunday

Various - Pathfinders - Hiking in the area - Call 733-4984 for details.
Noon - 4:00 PM - Exhibit of Passamaquoddy Suite: A Collective Geography - 32 printmakers map the Passamaquoddy Bay region. A cross-border collaboration by: the Maine College of Art, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Tides Institute. 43 Water Street, Eastport. 853-4047 to confirm hours.
6:00 PM - closing - Live Music at Murphy's Village Restaurant, Rt. 189, Lubec.
7:00 PM - Northern Lights Film Society, Shead High School Band Room. Donation: $3.

23: Monday: Full Moon
Victoria Day (Canada)

24: Tuesday

25: Wednesday

26: Thursday

9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $2.50. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Exhibit of Passamaquoddy Suite: A Collective Geography - 32 printmakers map the Passamaquoddy Bay region. A cross-border collaboration by: the Maine College of Art, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Tides Institute. 43 Water Street, Eastport. 853-4047 to confirm hours.
Noon - 5:00 PM - Maine Arts Commission will offer a series of free workshops to artists of all kinds, arts administrators, cultural entrepeneurs, and interested community members. Workshops will be held at the Eastport Arts Center, 36 Washington Street. For more info, www.MaineArts.com, 207-287-2724.

27: Friday

28: Saturday

All Day - Elderhostel - Downeast (Maine) Birding Festival & Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada
ALL DAY - Annual Down East Spring Birding Festival - See schedule of events at web site. Register early online! Final registration at Whiting Community Center, Route 1, Whiting. www.downeastbirdfest.org
All Day - West Quoddy Head Light Keepers opens for the season.
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Exhibit of Passamaquoddy Suite: A Collective Geography - 32 printmakers map the Passamaquoddy Bay region. A cross-border collaboration by: the Maine College of Art, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Tides Institute. 43 Water Street, Eastport. 853-4047 to confirm hours.
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM - Choral Singing for Everyone: Learn the basics of music-reading, vocal technique, and following a conductor, and sing in harmony from sheet-music by the end of the day! Open to everyone, this workshop is especially designed to jump-start the skills of new members of the Schoodic Summer Chorus. It's a fun and non-intimidating way to explore singing with a group, and develop (or hone) your choral singing skills. The workshop is offered free to everyone who sings in the Schoodic Summer Chorus in 2005. If you're thinking about joining the Chorus, this is a perfect opportunity to get a taste of what it's like. And if you decide to join the Chorus, your workshop tuition will be applied toward your Chorus fee. Ages 11-adult. 6 hours Cost $47 Schoodic Arts, Hammond Hall, Main St., Winterport. Anna Dembaka
10:30 AM - Veterans and volunteers meet at Hillside Cemetery, High Street, to place flags on veterans' graves.

29: Sunday

30: Monday: Memorial Day

All Day - Elderhostel - Downeast (Maine) Birding Festival & Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada
ALL DAY - Annual Down East Spring Birding Festival - See schedule of events at web site. Register early online! Final registration at Whiting Community Center, Route 1, Whiting. www.downeastbirdfest.org
8:15 AM - Ceremonies at Round Pond Cemetery, Charlotte.
9:15 AM - Ceremonies at Perry Municipal Building, Route 1.
10:00 AM - Ceremonies at Pleasant Point - gather at top of hill, proceed to cemetery for ceremonies.
10:30 AM - Parade forms at Eastport Elementary School to march to Hillside Cemetery for 11:00 AM service. (In case of inclement weather the entire event will be at Shead High School.)
11:00 AM - Invocation
11:05 AM - Salute to Flag - National Anthem.
11:10 AM - Welcome - City Council President.
11:13 AM - American Legion Speaker.
11:16 AM - VFW Speaker.
11:20 AM - Sunrise Serenaders.
11:25 AM - Floral Tributes.
11:35 AM - Firing Squad, followed by "Taps".
11:40 AM - Featured Speaker.
11:45 AM - Parade Formation - march to Civil War Memorial, thence to Breakwater (or Fish Pier).
11:55 AM - Prayer for those lost at sea.
11:58 AM - Parade to Library.
12:05 PM - Notices and other community events.
12:07 PM - Benediction.
12:10 PM - Disband.
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM - Exhibit of Passamaquoddy Suite: A Collective Geography - 32 printmakers map the Passamaquoddy Bay region. A cross-border collaboration by: the Maine College of Art, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Tides Institute. 43 Water Street, Eastport. 853-4047 to confirm hours.
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Cooking Classes at Blueberry Point Chefs, Perry, Maine. Contact Chef Audrey Patterson for reservations. 207-853-4629. Class limit is nine cooks.

Lora B. Whelan, Director93 Water Street PO Box 122 Eastport, ME 04631-0122207-853-2400Web Site: www.eastportforpride.org