Gardeners to meet
The Buxton Garden Club will meet at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 13, in Buxton Town Hall on Portland Road.
Winterwood Farm will present a program about compost followed by a plant auction.
For more information, call Sharon Newell at 929-8283.
New Teachers at Bonny Eagle High School
Indoor flea market
An indoor flea market will be held 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Bar Mills Parish House on Main Street (Route 4A), Bar Mills. It’s located next door to the SAD 6 administrative building.
Kathy Miles, an organizer, said the flea market would have “lots of items you can’t live without.” For more information, call 929-6052.
BFD demo at Aubuchon
Members of the Buxton Fire Department will dewmonstrate fire safety on Saturday, Oct. 8, at Aubuchon Hardware at the intersection of routes 202 and 4A.
Capt. Jason Beam of the Buxton Fire Department said the event was in connection with Fire prevention Month. From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., firefighters will have a smokehouse, a mock-up of a house filled with artificial smoke. Beam said that exercise would be geared towards children.
Firefighters will show at 11 a.m. how they use the jaws-of-life to extricate people from cars at accident scenes. It will also serve as a training exercise for firefighters, as they cut up a car.
With winter approaching and with more people likely to be burning wood in stoves, the Buxton Fire Department hopes “to increase people’s awareness” of fire safety, Beam said.
Pheasants take wing in Buxton
The Windham-Gorham Rod and Gun Club released 240 pheasants on Sunday at three undisclosed farms in Buxton.
The club raised 1,900 pheasants, which are being released as game birds at 18 sites in Cumberland and York counties. John Bernard of the Rod and Gun Club said the bird-hunting season began on Oct. 1 and continues through Dec. 31.
The pheasants are five months old and the cocks weigh about 4 pounds and hens two pounds. Club members Marty Pomeroy of North Windham and Bob Weiss of Saco along with Bernard of Portland released the pheasants at the three farms in Buxton. Bernard said the pheasants would feed on insects, grasses, nuts and berries.
Bernard said the pheasants would co-exist with wild turkeys. “Pheasants are members of the peacock family,” Bernard said.
Ring-necked pheasants were first imported to the United States from China in 1881.
Congratulations Phyllis
Phyllis Harmon of Bonny Eagle Road turned 83 on Sunday, Oct. 2.
She celebrated with lunch at The Inlet in Standish.
Bonny Eagle gives to hurricane relief efforts
Bonny Eagle High School students collected $2,550 from students and staff at the high school and the superintendent’s office in a drive to raise money to help hurricane victims.
Money was collected over two weeks and $1,275 will be sent to both the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army.
Twenty-one students helped with the collecting and counting of money during the fundraiser. Students went door-to-door during homebase and collected donations from students. Donations ranged from loose change to a $50 bill given by one student.
One homebase teacher matched her students’ contributions. Other teachers and staff members made generous contributions as well.
In the spring, the high school is going to launch another ambitious project. The school plans to adopt a high school in the Gulf Coast region. The school does not have all of the details as of yet. Bonny Eagle would like to see all of the schools in the district get involved and perhaps adopt schools of their own or collectively adopt another school.
A School Department statement said it is important for students to reach out and help others and to provide an avenue for that outreach. For information and updates about the adopt a high school contact Dawna Cyr, BEHS social studies teacher at D_cyr@sad6.k12.me.us.
(new teachers) – Bonny Eagle High School welcomes new teachers this year: (front row, left to right) Lisa White is a special education teacher; Jennifer Jacobe, long term sub for biology; Deb Burrell, long term sub for guidance; Bethany Harrington, business education; Kristen Wolfe, math; (backrow left to right) Jodi Breau is Librarian; Oscar Mejia, Spanish; Marc Sawyer, physical education; Paul Coughlin, alternate Ed; Chad Greene, social studies; and Sue Morse is in industrial arts. 
A pheasant wings its way into the wild on Sunday in Buxton as John Bernard, on the left, and Marty Pomeroy, obscured, of the Windham-Gorham Rod and Gun Club release the birds from a crate.
Its up, up and away for 240 pheasants on Sunday in Buxton. John Bernard raises his hands as the birds take off.
PHOTO: Bonny Eagle students who helped to collect funds for hurricane relief are, left to right in the front row, Dustin Reynolds, Theresa Howard, Kayla Becker, Amber Morin, Jeff Conant, Jack Scannell, and Teacher Advisor Dawna Cyr. In the back row are Louis Tucci, Dana Perry, Joelle Crockett, Matt Cabral, Leon Parsons, Rebecca Simmons and Lindsay Bradeen. Anthony Fortunato, Andre Gadbois, Otis Oakes, and Robbie Mann are absent from the photo.
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