Leach featured in calendar
Pauline A. Leach of Gray Road, formerly of Westbrook, is featured in the 2006 Gracefully Yours “Goes Red” calendar, which helps raise money for the American Heart Association.
Leach, 60, and her personal story appear for July in the calendar. She works as a mental health technician and daily combines prayer, meditation and physical fitness.
In its third year, the calendar works with the American Heart Association to make women aware that heart disease is the number one killer of women and to encourage women to take care of their heart health. The calendars may be purchased in Gorham at Maximum Exposure, Gorham Community Pharmacy on Route 25 and at the service counter at Hannaford; Main St. CafA?© in Westbrook; Salon 86, 86 Middle St., Portland; and Radley’s Market, Old Orchard Beach. The calendars can also be ordered from www.GracefullyYours.org
Gorham Historical Society to meet
The Gorham Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 10, at the Gorham Savings Bank building on Gray Road.
Gorham historian Dave McCullough will speak about a 44-year old Indian and his bride, who were pioneers in Washington County. The public is welcome.
Devoe helps spearhead hurricane benefit
A group of area teens, organized under the banner “Rock4Relief,” is spearheading an effort to raise money for Red Cross hurricane relief. Led by Marcus Bagala, 15, of Gray, and Anna Devoe, 14, of Gorham, the group’s first event is “A Concert for Hurricane Relief” on Saturday, Oct. 15,at Catherine McAuley High School in Portland.
The effort is entirely youth led and organized. “We’re too young to go to the disaster zone and help out there, but we wanted to do something to help the people in the Gulf Coast area. And a lot of us are musicians, so New Orleans especially means a lot to us because of the musical tradition there. So a benefit concert seemed like a good idea,” Bagala said.
The Rock4Relief organizers include youth from Gray, Gorham, Cornish, Scarborough, New Gloucester, Portland, Westbrook, Hollis, Saco, and several other communities. The concert will include eight area bands: Modern Syndrome, Fifth Freedom, U-Turn, Trading January, Third Floor View, Aimless Drive, Haven’t Talked Since, and Bagala’s band, The Shams.
The concert organizers are also planning other fundraising activities to take place the day of the concert. The all-ages event begins at 4 p.m. on Oct. 15 at 631 Stevens Avenue.
For more information contact Marcus Bagala at 650-3961 or theshamsrock@yahoo.com.
Jipson buys Augusta home
Tracy Jipson, a veteran of the war in Iraq, has bought a home in Augusta and is attending classes at the University of Maine in Augusta.
Jipson’s mom, Phyllis Savage of Gorham, said her daughter bought a two-bedroom house with a garage in a nice neighborhood. ‘She’s got a great area,” her mom said.
Lynn Savage, Jipson’s step-father, said she is playing soccer and studying business. Jipson is still a member of the Headquarters Support Company with the 133rd Engineer Battalion. She now drills in Gardiner.
The unit returned to Maine last spring following a year’s deployment at Camp Marez near Mosul, Iraq.
Taylors leave for Michigan
Tom and Laurel Taylor of Newton Drive left at midnight on Friday, Sept. 30, for Grand Rapids, Mich.
After living in Gorham for four years, the couple is returning to their native state to be near family. They came to Gorham while attending school and working. They sold their home and rented a moving truck. Their cat, Calvin, went with them. “He’s riding in the moving truck with us,” Laurel Taylor said.
“We loved Gorham. It’s been great,” she added as they packed.
They said they would miss Gorham and enjoyed the location. Tom Taylor said Gorham is a country setting but easy to get to the city. “We had great neighbors,” he said.
They said Grand Rapids has a population of 700,000 and it has a drive-in church, which they plan to visit.
Taxpayer debt
The Bureau of Public debt reported on Thursday, Sept. 29, that the U.S. public debt was $7,914,012,303,376.60.
Tom and Laurel Taylor have relocated from Gorham to Grand Rapids, Mich.
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