Chopin Club meeting
Norma Hall of Sebago hosted the Chopin Club meeting on Nov. 13.
Following a business meeting, Martha Day, program chairman, presented a program featuring the music of Mozart, which was performed by Junie Dugas, Marjorie Cutter, Kathy Mariano and Jan Usher along with Hall and Day.
Other members who attended the meeting were president Mary Levesque, Eva Hansen, Elba Parr, Ruth Stokes, Polly Hodgkins and guests Connie Middlesworth and Ed Hall.
For information about becoming a performing or associate member of the club, call 797-8448 or 854-2770.
Potluck Christmas party
The Prides Corner Garden Club will meet at noon on Wednesday, Dec. 21, at Prides Corner Church, 235 Pride St., for their annual potluck Christmas party with Santa Claus.
Guests and new members are invited. For more information, call 797-9152.
Hello, Santa
Raymond Neptune and Don Larouche, both of Westbrook, recently greeted Santa at the Maine Mall in South Portland.
They were among the throngs doing their holiday shopping.
Wood, Emery nominees to academies
Regina Wood and Alex Emery of Westbrook High School are among 55 Maine students nominated for appointments to the U.S. military academies by U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins.
Wood is a nominee for the U.S. Air Force Academy and Emery at the Naval Academy.
“We are honored to nominate such an impressive and deserving group of students to America’s service academies,” Snowe and Collins said. “These students have earned their nominations, and we are confident they will make us and their communities proud.”
Trinity Christmas pageant
Trinity Lutheran Church, 612 Main St. in Westbrook will be observing Christmas this year with a very different and old fashion pageant at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 18.
Brenda Orach, a church spokeswoman, said the pageant hopes to give meaning to the phrase “Jesus is the reason for the season.” Elsie Reese, a retired costume designer from Trinity, has used donated fabric given by the congregation to make an array of costumes.
The combined players and choir of more than 50 youngsters and adults will “delight the eye and the ear” with a story woven around the ancient biblical hopes and the birth stories of the Jesus nativity, Orach said.
Some of the set design and lighting will be a surprise. One little historical specialty is the coverlet for the infant – an intricate piece of needlework from the home of Danish immigrants who brought it here in their migration to a new land. Trinity is pleased to have costumes and set pieces that are all homemade.
The public is invited to share in the observance and also to join in a sandwich supper and carol sing-along immediately following the pageant.
Knights to dine, sing
The Knights of Columbus Council #2219, Westbrook, will be holding a potluck supper at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 12, at St. Anthony’s Parish Hall. After the supper, the Knights and their families will celebrate “Light Up for Christ” and will sing Christmas Carols.
The knights will have their business meeting at 7 p.m.
Magicians’ holiday show
Two Maine magicians will present the second annual “The Magical Wonders of Christmas” in three performances this weekend at Warren Memorial Library, 479 Main St.
Jeremie Remian and Dennis Labbe will perform twice on Saturday, Dec. 10, with shows from 1:30 to 3 p.m. and 6 to 7:30 p.m. Then, the magicians will perform from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 11.
The show features comedy, illusions and live animals. Tickets, available at the door, are $12 and $7 for children 12 and under. For tickets in advance, call 615-3457.
Westbrook hunters bag deer
Julie Morrill and Doug Calderbank each got a deer on a recent hunting trip with her dad, Bob Morrill, and Everett Brown at his camp in St. Albans.
Julie Morrill, a Westbrook Fire Department dispatcher, got a 185-pound, eight point buck. Calderbank, son of Westbrook resident Jo-Ann Calderbank, got a 110-pound doe. It was his first deer.
(trinity 1) – Jennifer Wildes with her service dog, Webster, are in the Trinity Church Christmas pageant along with with Abera Desta and his son, Fente Desta, on the right, and Samantha Bartlett. Wildes and Abera Desta are playing shepherds and the two children and Webster are playing the sheep.
(trinity 2) – Alice Morris, on the left, who plays Mary, and Elsie Reese, costume designer and director, are preparing for the upcoming Christmas pageant at Trinity Lutheran Church.
Doug Calderbank and Julie Morrill display their deer.
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