Saint Anselm College, in Manchester, New Hampshire, has released the dean’s list of high academic achievers for the second semester of the 2021-2022 school year.
Julia Bard, of Sidney, class of 2025, English.
Christopher King, of Sidney, class of 2024, natural sciences.
Garrett Grant, of Windsor, class of 2022, economics.
Christine Quirion, of Winslow, class of 2022, business.
The Central Maine Football Senior Camp for ages 10-13 was directed by Lawrence H.S. head football coach John Hersom, with the help of Lawrence players, on July 25-27, at the Fairfield PAL field. (photo by Cameron Dyer, Central Maine Photography staff
David M. Carew, author of the new murder mystery/love story Lucy’s in the Neighborhood — set in contemporary Waterville — has launched the “Read a Story, Feed a Child” effort to benefit Winslow Community Cupboard food pantry.
Dave Carew
“For every copy of Lucy’s in the Neighborhood purchased online throughout August, I will make a donation to Winslow Community Cupboard food pantry,” said Carew. “And for every order specifically placed from Monday, August 22, through Wednesday, August 24, I will donate 100 percent of my author royalties to the food pantry.” He noted that the food pantry now serves more than 200 families from Winslow, Waterville (30 percent of clientele), Clinton, and Benton.
Hailed as “a stellar story … engaging, entertaining, and intelligent”, by Roy E. Perry, Book Reviewer (retired) for The Tennessean, Lucy’s in the Neighborhood, set in Waterville, is available online from Maine Authors Publishing.
David M. Carew, of Waterville, is the author of the novels Voice from the Gutter and Everything Means Nothing to Me: A Novel of Underground Nashville, which The Tennessean hailed as “haunting, beautiful, powerful.” He worked for more than 20 years as a publicist in Nashville before returning to Maine in 2016.
For more information, please visit Maine Authors Publishing online or call (207) 594-0091.
Winslow Summer Track team members Carter Calvo, left, and Landon Letourneau recently competing in the 13-14 year old 100m hurdles division.(photos by Cameron Dyer/ Central Maine Photography staff)
Winslow Summer Track team member Trevor Robinson competing in the 11-12 year old high jump competition at a recent meet last month. (photos by Cameron Dyer/ Central Maine Photography staff)
Winslow Summer Track team member Oliver Brown competing in the high jump competition at a recent meet last month. (photos by Cameron Dyer/ Central Maine Photography staff)
WINSLOW, ME — One of Maine’s all-time most popular, beloved, and downright yummy summer events—Winslow’s annual Blueberry Festival—is coming this year on Saturday, August 13, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., to Winslow Congregational Church, 12 Lithgow Street, Winslow. Admission to the festival grounds is free.
Nearly 750 mouth-watering blueberry pies and “all things blueberry” baked goods will be available for sale. Blueberry pies ($12 each) may be picked up at the church anytime from 3 to 7 p.m., the previous evening (Friday, August 12) or the day of the festival (Saturday the 13) from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Kicking off the 51st Annual Blueberry Festival on Saturday will be a delicious Blueberry Pancake Breakfast, from 7 to 10 a.m. Cost of the breakfast will be $7 per person and $5 for children age 12 and under, payable at the door.
In addition to the “all things blueberry” pies and other culinary delights, festival patrons will enjoy a Lobster Shore-Dinner Raffle; live classical, pop, folk, and blues music; local crafts vendors; a yard sale; a popcorn vendor; a silent auction; basket raffles; an agricultural exhibit featuring goats; and a firetruck and police car.
The night before the Blueberry Festival, there will be a Friday-evening (August 12) Chicken Bar-B-Q Supper To-Go (with “all the fixins’”) at Winslow Congregational Church. The Chicken Bar-B-Q Supper will run from 3 to 7 p.m. Blueberry pies, blueberry baked goods, and a yard sale also will be available during the Friday-evening supper, plus you’ll enjoy live music. Cost of the Chicken Bar-B-Q supper is $12 per person, payable at the event. The supper will be served by Winslow Community Cupboard food pantry volunteers and all proceeds will benefit the food pantry.
A beloved community favorite since 1972, the Blueberry Festival raises funds to empower the local humanitarian/Christian-service work of Winslow Congregational Church. Celebrating its 193rd birthday this year, the historic church is housed in a building dating from 1796, which has been home to a worshipping congregation since 1828.
Everyone seeking a wonderful opportunity to gather and enjoy a treasure trove of “all things blueberry” is cordially invited to attend this year’s Blueberry Festival. Mark your calendar now!
For more information about the 51st annual Blueberry Festival, please visit: https://winslowucc.org/blueberry-festival/.
Winslow Garden Club’s July meeting at Fort Halifax Park, in Winslow, had a special guest, Town Manager Erica Lacroix, left. (Photo by Howard Mette)
The July meeting also had in attendance an active Winslow Garden Club member from the other side of the river, in Waterville, Scott McAdoo, the board president of the Kennebec Messalonskee Trails. The meeting had two new volunteers who recently moved to China from Florida, Mary and Don Kealey, who met garden club’s 80-year-old volunteer Dick Williams and club co-chairmen Sue and Rick Dutil, in Hawaii, in 2014. This photo includes Dan Spafford, the first Winslow resident to join the club, and Mira Mette, whose husband, Howard, is taking the photo. Winslow High School biology teacher Joan Pierce was in attendance, but not in photo.
Winslow Garden Club Co-Chairman Sue Dutil. (Photo by Rick Dutil)
Winslow Garden Club Co-Chairman Sue Dutil is celebrating Christmas in July. This is a photo of Winslow’s 2021 Christmas kissing balls. The Winslow Garden Club is accepting donations for the 2022 Christmas winter kissing balls. If you’re interested in donating a kissing ball to the town of Winslow please email Sue at susandutil@yahoo.com or call Sunset Flowerland and Greenhouse (207) 453-2357 to apply a credit toward a kissing ball as your Christmas gift to the town of Winslow.
Huard’s Sport Karate team member Mikayla Achorn, 12, captured first place in point fighting at the recent Friendship Karate Tournament. The event took place on Saturday, June 18, at the Gorham Sports Complex. (photo by Mark Huard)
Treva Campbell, of Winslow, has been recognized for achieving academic distinction at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Campbell, majoring in psychology, was named to the dean’s list at UMass Lowell for the spring 2021 semester.
Saint Anselm College student Christine Quirion, of Winslow, a business major in the class of 2022, at the college, in Manchester, New Hampshire, has been accepted into the Sigma Beta Delta International Honor Society for Business, Management and Administration for the 2021-2022 academic year.
To be eligible for induction a business student must rank in the top 20% of their junior or senior class and must be invited by their chapter’s faculty officers.
2022 Winslow Black Majors baseball team: front row, from left to right, Sam Clark, Cooper Routhier-Starkey, Owen Laqualia, Freddie Ouellette, Scott LeClair and Jacoby Bragdon. Back row, Coach Clark, Ben Schmidt, Reese O’Brien, Frank Farnham, Brandon Roderick, Jack Flaherty, Coach Starkey, Coach Bragdon. (photo by Missy Brown/
Central Maine Photography)