A Christmas candle omen
A pair of candle images appearing in the snow have created a Christmas mystery for Phil and Anita Dugas.
The images have been appearing about midday recently on the snow in the couple’s front yard. The couple doesn’t have Christmas candles displayed in windows inside their home. And after looking outside for clues last week, Phil Dugas, a Gorham town councilor, discounted the possibility that the candle images were reflections.
“It’s Christmas early at the Dugas household,” he said.
His wife also attributed the mystery to the season. “It’s Christmas time,” she said.
Anita Dugas took photos of the two candle images on Dec. 11, 14 and 15. The couple has seen the images, which have appeared on various days, from a doorway and through two separate windows inside their home.
Perhaps the images are ghosts from a Christmas past, present and future like the three spirits Charles Dickens wrote about in his “Christmas Carol” in 1843. But Anita Dugas calls them Phil’s “infamous” candles.
“They were in front of the kitchen window and have now moved to the living room window. Very strange,” Anita said after snapping photos at 11 a.m. on Thursday.
A third image of a candle flame appeared on Wednesday around the base of a post holding a bird feeder in the Dugas yard. “It’s some kind of omen. Someone is sending a message,” Phil Dugas said.
The Dugas property is the so-called fox farm where foxes were raised many years ago. Kenneth and Leona Southard, the parents of Anita Dugas, bought the property in 1945.
Seniors dine at St. Anne’s
About 125 senior citizens enjoyed a Christmas dinner at St. Anne’s Catholic Church on Wednesday.
Rev. Lawrence J. Conley, pastor at the church, was dressed in a Christmas sweater for the occasion. He praised the volunteer staff that cooked and served the dinner.
The seniors enjoyed a ham dinner with all the fixings, topped off with pies and ice cream. “It was a good meal,” Conley said.
Woman’s Club to meet
The Gorham Woman’s Club will meet on Thursday, Jan. 12 in the Fellowship Hall of the First Parish Congregational Church in Gorham.
The guest speaker is Mary Collins with a program entitled “Elderhostel Trip to Italy.” Light refreshments will be served at 12:30 p.m. followed by a meeting and the program at 1 p.m.
Membership is open to anyone wishing to become an active member and guests are always welcome. For more information, contact Alice Keddy at 839-4579.
Robinson eyes school seat
Gorham Town Councilor Matt Robinson said last week he’s considering a run next fall for the school committee.
Robinson announced at the December council meeting that he wouldn’t seek re-election to his council seat next year. Robinson, who called while out of town on business last week, was undecided on whether to seek a seat on the school committee or take a year off.
There’s a possibility that he could be a candidate for the council in 2007. Now in the last year of his second three-year term on the council, Robinson said not running for the council in 2006 would allow an opportunity for voters to elect new blood with new ideas.
“I’ve done six years. I’m tired,” Robinson said.
Dostie on dean’s list
Rachelle Dostie has been named to the dean’s list for the fall term at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, R.I.
Dostie is pursuing a bachelor of science degree in computer graphics and the new media from the university’s School of Technology.
A finishing touch
Brian Irving of Gorham High School and Andrew Thompson of Bonny Eagle High School decorated the gingerbread house for the recent Festival of Trees holiday celebration in Westbrook.
Irving and Thompson attend culinary arts class at Westbrook Regional Vocational Center.
Baxter Christmas schedule
Baxter Memorial Library, 71 South St., will be open its regular hours until 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 23.
It will be closed Saturday, Dec. 24, through Monday, Dec. 26, in observance of Christmas. The library will reopen at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 27.
U.S. taxpayer debt
The Bureau of Public Debt reported on Wednesday, Dec. 14, that the U.S. public debt was $8,131,985,936,612.53.
Unexplainable images of candles are appearing recently outside the home of Phil and Anita Dugas on Cressey Road.
Candle image appears in the snow at the Dugas residence.
“It’s some kind of omen,” Phil Dugas says about images of candles which have appeared on the snow in his front yard.
Rev. Lawrence J. Conley, pastor at St. Anne
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