Book signing
NORWAY — Tom Harvey will sign copies of his book “Listen to Your Kids: Solutions for Distraught Teachers and Parents” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, at Books n Things.
Harvey taught English at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School for 20 years and was department chairman for a few years. He also owned and edited a weekly newspaper in northern Maine, the Fort Fairfield Review.
Toy run
AUGUSTA — The United Bikers of Maine will hold the annual toy run from Augusta to Windsor on Sunday, Sept. 11.
Participants will get organized at the Augusta Civic Center, with the ride beginning promptly at noon.
Organizers are expecting between 16,000 and 20,000 bikers to donate between 9,000 and 14,000 toys to be distributed to Maine children this holiday season.
FMI, go to www.ubm-usa.org.
9/11 service
NORTH WATERFORD — The 10th anniversary of 9/11 will be remembered by a 9/11 candlelight service of remembrance and hope. The event will take place at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11, at the North Waterford Congregational Church on Kezar Road across from Melby’s Market.
Historical Society
PARIS — The Paris Cape Historical Society will hold the monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, at the museum on 77 High St. Jeffrey and Mary H. Parsons will share their recent research about native South Paris people who went west, one as far as California during the gold rush days of the mid 1880s.
Jeff, a retired archeology professor of Ann Arbor University, has been a featured speaker for several years while on their summer visits to the old family Robinson Parsons farm at Paris. Mary, Jeff’s wife, has done considerable research on the Stowell and Blake families who went west in the 1800s.
Copies of Jeffrey’s latest book will be available. All are welcome and refreshments will follow the lecture.
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