Lora B. Whelan, Director
93 Water Street PO Box 122
Eastport, ME 04631-0122
207-853-2400
Web Site: www.eastportforpride.org
October 2006 Community Calendar
Early to Mid-October, EVERY YEAR
Top 10 Foliage Destinations:
Washington County, Maine
Top 10 Foliage Destinations:
Washington County, Maine
1: 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.
2: Monday
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $3.00. 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: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Balkan Women's Choir - 18 Shackford Street. Call Dovie 853-2923 for more info.
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: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.6:00 PM - Planning Board - Shead High School Band Room.
5: Thursday
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.1:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Marketing and Promoting Your Website - Location: Machias Career Center, Machias Description: In this workshop, participants will learn what it takes to get traffic to a business website. The discussion includes how search engines work and how to get listed on them, how to find other sites that should link to your site, and how to use both website and non-website promotion tools to increase web business. Cost: $30.00 Pre-registration is required. To register for workshops online, please go to www.ceimaine.org/workshops/. Or, you may call or e-mail Marita Fairfield at 882-7552 x158 or mlf@ceimaine.org. Financial aid is available upon application for those who qualify. Individual consultation on Internet issues and E-commerce is also available through the Women's Business Center. To sign up for individual business counseling, contact Marita Fairfield, 882-7552. The Women's Business Center at CEI offers other services to new and existing women business owners and additional workshops are scheduled throughout the winter and spring. Additional information about the Women's Business Center is available at www.ceimaine.org/women.
6: Friday
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.7: Saturday: Full Moon
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM - International Folk Dance - Eastport Arts Center, 36 Washington Street. Accomplished local folk dancer Dovie Gaither teaches a variety of line and circle dances from all over the world. All ages are welcome. Admission is $3, $1 for children 12 and under when accompanied by an adult. Call Dovie 853-2923 for more info.8: Sunday
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: Columbus Day (observed)
Thanksgiving Day (Canada)
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $3.00. 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
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: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Balkan Women's Choir - 18 Shackford Street. Call Dovie 853-2923 for more info.
11: Wednesday
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.12: Thursday: Columbus Day
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: $3.00. 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. 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: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.14: Saturday
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM - International Folk Dance - Eastport Arts Center, 36 Washington Street. Accomplished local folk dancer Dovie Gaither teaches a variety of line and circle dances from all over the world. All ages are welcome. Admission is $3, $1 for children 12 and under when accompanied by an adult. Call Dovie 853-2923 for more info.7:00 PM - Contra Dance with Black Socks Band at the Eastport Arts Center, 36 Washington Street. Experience this lively form of American folk dancing to live music. Dances taught by the caller throughout the evening. All ages are welcome to attend this family-oriented entertainment. Seating provided for non-dancing music lovers. Second Saturday of every month through December. Call Ann Cornelison [853-2633] for more information.
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: $3.00. 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
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: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Balkan Women's Choir - 18 Shackford Street. Call Dovie 853-2923 for more info.
7:00 PM - American Legion, GAR Hall, Green St.
18: Wednesday
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.1:00 PM - St. Croix Valley International Garden Club - Contact: Joan Edwards 207-726-9664.
5:30 PM - 9:00 PM - Advanced Website Marketing - Location: Machias Career Center, Machias Description: Find out how to use online competitive intelligence techniques to boost your web presence compared to your competition, as well as how to determine if pay-per-click is right for you and how to use it. This course is a sequel to Marketing and Promoting Your Website and is intended only for business owners who already have a website. Cost: $25.00 Pre-registration is required. To register for workshops online, please go to www.ceimaine.org/workshops/. Or, you may call or e-mail Marita Fairfield at 882-7552 x158 or mlf@ceimaine.org. Financial aid is available upon application for those who qualify. Individual consultation on Internet issues and E-commerce is also available through the Women's Business Center. To sign up for individual business counseling, contact Marita Fairfield, 882-7552. The Women's Business Center at CEI offers other services to new and existing women business owners and additional workshops are scheduled throughout the winter and spring. Additional information about the Women's Business Center is available at www.ceimaine.org/women.
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: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.5:30 PM - Eastport Area Chamber of Commerce. Eastport for Pride office, 93 Water Street. All welcome.
20: Friday
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.21: Saturday
2:00 PM - 1:00 AM - Benefit Concert to Help Gabe Lowery Family - Twin Spruces Bar and Grill on Route 189 in West Lubec. Gabe is facing an extended stay at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston due to complications from cystic fibrosis. Funds raised at this event will help defray the multitude of costs and help his family remain with him in Boston during this challenging time. Gabe and his wife, Shyla, live in Lubec where Gabe is an employee of Lubec Consolidated School and Shyla works for the Regional Medical Center at Lubec. Gabe is a prolific musician who has performed across Maine, plays locally with the band r.e.bell, and offers music lessons at the Cobscook Community Learning Center. Gabe’s musician friends and others have pulled together to organize this benefit concert. Area bands, including r.e.bell, Home Brew, Angeline the Baker, Pieces of String, and many more, will perform throughout the event. Additionally, funds raised through an auction, 50/50 raffle, 15% of the food sales, and proceeds of sales of local music CD’s will benefit Gabe and his family. For more information contact: Rachel Bell, 733-7533 or Penny Laskey, 733-7571.3:00 PM - 5:00 PM - International Folk Dance - Eastport Arts Center, 36 Washington Street. Accomplished local folk dancer Dovie Gaither teaches a variety of line and circle dances from all over the world. All ages are welcome. Admission is $3, $1 for children 12 and under when accompanied by an adult. Call Dovie 853-2923 for more info.
22: Sunday: New Moon
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.
23: Monday
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.24: 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: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Balkan Women's Choir - 18 Shackford Street. Call Dovie 853-2923 for more info.
Twilight - A Natural Wonder: at twilight--about 30 minutes after sunset, scan the southwest horizon for Mercury and Jupiter to the right of the thin waxing crescent Moon, and the star, Antares to the left of the moon and slightly above. Quite an arrangement. (Binoculars helpful!)
25: Wednesday
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.5:30 PM - Book Group at Calais Bookshop, 405 Main St., Calais to discuss “The Piano Tuner” by Daniel Mason. “In 1886, a shy, middle-aged piano tuner receives an unusual commission from the British War Office to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.” The American author received his Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from Harvard. “The Piano Tuner” is his first novel. This is the thirteenth book group in an ongoing reading program available at Calais Bookshop. New participants welcome. Future selections include “The Inheritance of Loss” by Kiran Desai and “Age of Innocence” by Edith Wharton. Suggestions are welcome. For book group schedules and other program information, call 454-1110.
7:00 PM - St. Croix River Valley Arts Council presents King of Hearts at the Unobskey School in Calais. This unforgettable, unique comedy was so popular in the late 1960s that it is still one of the era’s most fondly remembered cult classics. Directed by Philip de Broca and starring Alan Bates as a WWI Scottish soldier, alone on a special military mission behind enemy lines in a little French town, where he gets caught yet between two other fronts, the insane and brutal world of fighting armies and the gentle, innocent world of the residents of the local insane-asylum. In English, French and German with subtitles. Presented by St. Croix River Valley Arts Council and hosted by the Unobskey School in Calais. Everybody is welcome! There is no admission charge. Donations suggested.
7:00 PM - Lesléa Newman will be the second writer to visit the University of Maine at Machias as part of A Celebration of Writers, the 2006-07 Libra Series that will present a yearlong celebration of writers and their creations. The author will present a reading from her work at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 25, at The Clipper Lounge in Sennett Hall. At 10:00 a.m., Thursday, October 26, Newman will be the host of an informal discussion, at Portside in Kimball Hall. Both events are free and open to the public. The annual Libra Series offers unique opportunities for the community to hear outside experts and engage in discussion with them.
26: Thursday
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.10:00 AM - Lesléa Newman will be the second writer to visit the University of Maine at Machias as part of A Celebration of Writers, the 2006-07 Libra Series that will present a yearlong celebration of writers and their creations. The author will present a reading from her work at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 25, at The Clipper Lounge in Sennett Hall. At 10:00 a.m., Thursday, October 26, Newman will be the host of an informal discussion, at Portside in Kimball Hall. Both events are free and open to the public. The annual Libra Series offers unique opportunities for the community to hear outside experts and engage in discussion with them.
27: Friday
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.5:00 - 7:00 PM [Atlantic Time] - Reception and Awards Presentation at Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, for the Photography Competition Exhibit – A Show and Sale of Photographs by both Amateurs and Professionals who entered the first ever Photography Competition held by the Centre. Judging by renowned Canadian photographers, Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant. Exhibit is on view through November 1st Please Join us! For more information contact: (506) 529-3747.
6:00 PM - Murder at the Haunted Mansion--Murder Mystery Dinner Theater – Calais Motor Inn. Dinner and entertainment! Sponsored by the St. Croix Valley Chamber of Commerce. Tickets are $40 each or $75 per couple. Call 454-2308 for more information.
7:00 PM - Steel Magnolias. By Robert Harling. Directed by Anna Baskerville. Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touching - and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters. A production of Stage East. Eastport Arts Center, 36 Washington Street.
28: Saturday
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM - International Folk Dance - Eastport Arts Center, 36 Washington Street. Accomplished local folk dancer Dovie Gaither teaches a variety of line and circle dances from all over the world. All ages are welcome. Admission is $3, $1 for children 12 and under when accompanied by an adult. Call Dovie 853-2923 for more info.7:00 PM - Steel Magnolias. By Robert Harling. Directed by Anna Baskerville. Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touching - and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters. A production of Stage East. Eastport Arts Center, 36 Washington Street.
7:00 PM - In the spirit of Halloween, the annual reading of eerie poems and stories will be held at the Unitarian Meetinghouse, 16 Shackford Street. Readers for the evening's eldritch entertainment include: Barbara "Beddoes" Barrett, Jonah "Mad Dog" Baskerville, Fred "Nevermore" Engel, David "Chainsaw" Orrell, Henry "The Butcher" Schuth, Jonathan "Icepick" Sisson and Linda "The Stalker" Sisson. Haunting organ music will be played by Jonah "Phantom of the Meetinghouse" Baskerville. Light refreshments will be served. There is no admission charge, but sorely needed donations to the building restoration fund will be gratefully accepted. Although the reading is presented for an adult audience, well-behaved children are welcome to attend if they have had their shots and do not bite. For further information, phone 853-2633.
29: Sunday: Daylight Saving Time Ends
7:00 PM - Steel Magnolias. By Robert Harling. Directed by Anna Baskerville. Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touching - and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters. A production of Stage East. Eastport Arts Center, 36 Washington Street.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.
30: Monday
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.31: Tuesday: Halloween
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - Eastport Area Senior Center, 9 Boynton St. Lunch at noon - Donation: $3.00. Everyone 60 and over welcome! Reservations: 853-2364.5:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Balkan Women's Choir - 18 Shackford Street. Call Dovie 853-2923 for more info.