Seniors to hear bell ringers
The Westbrook High School bell ringers will entertain when Westbrook Senior Citizens meet at 1 p.m. on Monday, April 3, in Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St.
The seniors are planning a trip to Cape May, N.J., in April, which includes one day in Atlantic City. For more information, call 854-2292 or 854-2705.
Visitors enjoy Arizona
Jacqueline Richards and Rachel Nolette along with Joe and Charlene Nappi visited Arizona in February.
Richards said it was her first plane trip which she enjoyed ‘tremendously.” While in Arizona, they stayed with her oldest son, David Churchill. She said he has lived in Arizona for 11 years and loves it there. She said the weather was warm and beautiful but the area was lacking rain.
The group visited many attractions in Arizona including the Tucson Gem Show. Richards said the highlight was when they went to Pinnacle Peaks, a western-themed restaurant. “If you were wearing a necktie, they would cut it off,” she said.
They are planning on going back to Arizona next February.
High school art show
The three-day Westbrook High School Art Exhibition 2006 will take place next week in the lobby of the Westbrook Regional Vocational Center.
The exhibit will run from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28, and continue from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 29, and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 30.
“We will have a spectacular exhibit of drawing, painting, crafts, clay, mixed media and photography. As an additional incentive to view the great art that students have created during the year, the show will be open during parent conferences on March 28, and refreshments created by the culinary art students especially for the art show will be served at that time,” said Georgina Grenier, art director.
Shepard UMO bronze medalist
Joseph Shepard, a senior, was awarded a scholar-athlete award last month at the University of Maine in Orono.
A member of the men’s track and field team, Shepard received a bronze medal on Feb. 19. He earned the award for academic excellence for the fall and last spring’s semesters. He’s been on the track and field team for four years.
Shepard is majoring in mass communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He graduated from Westbrook High School in 2002.
Benoit on dean’s list
Matthew A. Benoit has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass.
Benoit is majoring in chemistry.
Crosby on dean’s list
Tyler B. Crosby has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Mount Ida College in Newton, Mass.
Crosby is majoring in sports management.
Prose in pulpit
Rev. Barbara Prose will speak at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 26, at the Universalist Church, 719 Main St.
News from Florida
Pete and Stella Blanchette recently send a card from their winter home in LaBelle, Fla.
He said that he hadn’t yet been to Fiddler’s Green, an Irish pub and eatery in Winter Park, Fla. Also, he said everything is under control in Port LaBelle – the locks are working, the sampans are going up and down the Caloosahatchee River, the Swamp Cabbage Festival is over and the natives are calm.
What could be better than that?
Blanchette said he’s reading “Lawrence of Arabia” and eating rice pudding.
Check for teen center
Panera Bread of Westbrook recently presented a $4,000 check to Mission Possible Teen Center. The money will be used to further the center’s mission of providing a safe support system fostering positive development and healthy decisions.
“We believe that the universal spirit of bread is sharing,” said Mitchell Roberts of Panera Bread. “Through programs like Operation Dough-Nation, we can ensure that every purchase at Panera Bread feeds back into the community through worthy organizations such as Mission Possible Teen Center.”
The Westbrook cafA?© originally collected $2,000 from customers through the in-store canisters. Then Panera Bread matched its customers’ donations dollar for dollar.
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