Parade registration
The annual Memorial Day parade will be held on Monday, May 29.
The parade will form up at 9:15 a.m. where New Gorham Road intersects with Main and Longfellow streets. Groups and individuals wishing to march in the parade should contact Robert Barton of Stephen W. Manchester Post 62 of the American Legion at 854-2961.
Friendship Sunday
On Sunday May 7, Trinity Lutheran church will be celebrating a special day to welcome friends and their families and the community to visit and share in the word during Sunday School from 9 to 10:15 a.m. and the worship service at 10:30 a.m.
The children will play an important part in the service by sharing in the readings, ushering, greeting and more. Brenda Orach, social ministry chairperson of Trinity Lutheran, said that the children are looking forward to showing their friends and neighbors where their house of worship is.
Trinity also welcomes visitors and extends the invitation to join them. The service is followed by a social time with coffee and refreshments. The church is located at 612 Main St. across from Subway.
For more information, please call 854-5653 and leave a message for a return call.
Woman’s Club installs officers
The Westbrook Woman’s Club installed officers for the next two-year term at their annual meeting on April 18 at the Captain’s Galley in Old Orchard Beach.
Outgoing club president Evelyn Meserve installed Elaine Spiller as president; Roberta Morrill, 1st vice president; Jean Anne Thomas, 2nd vice president; Mary Libby, recording secretary; Anita Blackstone, corresponding secretary; Elizabeth Young, treasurer; Jan Usher, auditor; and Ethelyn Chase, historian.
Members of the board of directors are Frances Fogg, Mary Gagnon, Marjorie Eames, Sally Labrecque, Evelyn Meserve and Ruth Joy.
Others attending the meeting were Mary Barton, Christine Bennett, Lee Bernard, Marion Broaddus, Glenna Carter, Nancy Curran, Doris Doggett, Lucy Goggin, Germaine Grant, Constance Kimball, Madelyn Landry, Louise Leighton, Barbara Libby, Beverly Libby, Charlotte Luce, Kathie McCarthy, Mary Peters, Lois Pratt, Carol Quint, Judith Reidman, Joyce Reynolds, Georgia Therio, Lucille Waite and Marcia Willock.
At the meeting, 38 members of the club, an affiliate of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, were served in a private dining room in which each table was decorated with a centerpiece of tulips and other spring flowers were arranged in silver buckets.
The club plans to participate in the Westbrook Together Days parade. They will also have a booth at Riverbank Park to sell throws that feature historic buildings in Westbrook. Also, the club will sell bird feeders.
Disability RMS aids Mission Possible
John Roberts of Disability RMS recently presented Mission Possible Teen Center with $500, sponsoring a band at the upcoming benefit/dinner dance on Friday, May 12.
Roberts presented the money to Mission Possible Executive Director Evelyn Blanchard and a member of the teen center’s board of directors, John Parvin of Hannaford.
For more information about Mission Possible Teen Center, call 854-2800.
McCaffrey’s birthday license
Michael J. McCaffrey was awarded a student pilot license to fly helicopters on his 16th birthday April 17.
Michael T. McCaffrey of Bridgton Road said his son “soloed” a Robinson R22 helicopter at the Lewiston/Auburn airport. He said his son has been flying helicopters since he was 14 years old.
“The day finally came when it was time for him to sit in the pilot’s seat and be totally alone at the controls of a $200,000 helicopter,” said the senior McCaffrey, who served as his son’s flight instructor.
McCaffrey and his wife Martha McCaffrey watched their son in his first solo flight. The senior McCaffrey said his wife was nervous but he knew his son was a good helicopter pilot.
The newly licensed pilot is a sophomore at Westbrook High School. He plans to join the Army as a warrant officer and fly the Apache Attack helicopter.
He hopes to obtain his private helicopter pilot’s license on his 17th birthday and his commercial helicopter license on his 18th birthday. “From there, he’s on his own,” his dad said. “I have gotten him to this point and it’s up to himself to go the rest of the way by himself.”
Class of ’94 reunion
The Westbrook High School class of 1994 is planning an informal get-together for Saturday, June 3, at Sebago Lake State Park to discuss a 15-year reunion.
“We didn’t have a five or 10-year reunion, so we’re shooting for a 15-year reunion in 2009,” said Julie Turner Holmansky, a member of the reunion committee.
For more information about the get-together and the reunion, log on to www.classreport.com
Classmates can enter their contact information at the free Web site.
Westbrook actors in Gypsy
Chrystal Thorne and Bob Pinkelman are playing roles in “Gypsy,” which opens on Friday, May 12, at Portland Players, 420 Cottage Road, South Portland.
Pinkelman plays the role of Weber and Thorne plays Cratchitt. The show will be presented at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays with Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m. through May 28.
Tickets are$19, $17 for seniors and children. On opening night, all tickets are $16 and on Sunday May 14, and all students through high school will be admitted for $6. A dollar from each ticket benefits the Joe Thomas Memorial Scholarship fund.
To reserve tickets, call the box office at 799-7337.
Cutline (0078)- John Roberts of Disability RMS, on the left, recently presents $500 to Mission Possible Teen Center. Evelyn Blanchard, executive director of Mission Possible Teen Center, and John Parvin, a member of the center
Cutline (ajkids) – Two students join their moms in the American Journal office on Thursday for the national “Take Your Kids to Work Day.” They are Jennie Barney, 12, with her mom, Dianne Barney, and Kiley Foulke, 8, with her mom, Melissa Foulke, on the right. Jennie Barney goers to Wescott Jr. High School and Kiley Foulke goes to Line Elementary School on the town line in Limerick and Newfield.
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