Cape reception to welcome visiting teacher
A reception will be held at the Local Buzz Cafe in Cape Elizabeth on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 5-8 p.m., to welcome Ana Rodri?guez to Cape Elizabeth.
Rodri?guez is an Uruguay Fulbright Exchange Teacher from Pan de Azu?car, Uruguay, who will be hosted by Susan Dana, Spanish teacher at Cape Elizabeth Middle School. Rodriguez will work with students and staff, visit all three Cape public schools to learn about U.S. education and share her Uruguayan culture, and participate in Maine cultural events.
At the reception, Rodriguez will demonstrate the making of mate, a typical Uruguayan tea, and discuss the cultural components of this beverage. Mate and other Uruguayan beverages will be available at the Local Buzz for the event.
Paint for Preservation seeks artists
The Cape Elizabeth Land Trust (CELT) has begun accepting artist submissions for Paint for Preservation 2013, the organization’s sixth annual juried Wet Paint Auction and one of Maine’s premiere art auction events. Artist entries will be juried by Jean Maginnis and Wes LaFountain, founders of Maine Center for Creativity.
The Wet Paint Auction will be held on Sunday, July 14. During the day of the event, selected artists will paint en plein air at designated public and private locations chosen to highlight Cape Elizabeth’s natural beauty. That evening, the newly painted artwork will be auctioned live at a tented cocktail reception at Ram Island Farm in Cape Elizabeth. Proceeds from the auction are shared with participating artists and benefit the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust’s Saving Cape’s Great Places initiative to preserve local conservation lands.
Interested artists are invited to submit two images of original paintings in any medium for juried consideration. Samples must be submitted as digital images on CD or electronically via email. The artist submission form and further instructions regarding submission requirements may be obtained at www.capelandtrust.org/paintforpreservation/2013/. The deadline for artists’ submissions is Wednesday, March 27.
CELT’s Wet Paint Auction is open to all mediums. Artists working in watercolors and pastels may provide a mat. No frames are permitted. The minimum size of the artwork is 10 inches by 10 inches; maximum is 48 inches by 48 inches.
For more information, visit www.capelandtrust.org or call 767-6054.
Daffodil Days fundraiser launched
The American Cancer Society has launched of its annual Daffodil Days fundraising campaign.
Daffodil Days offers a bouquet of products:
• For a $10 gift, donors receive a bouquet of 10 fresh daffodil blossoms.
• Three mini-daffodil bulbs in a soil filled pot are available for a $15 donation.
• A bouquet of 10 daffodils and a Boyd’s collectible stuffed bear for a $25 donation.
• Gift of Hope: Daffodils are delivered anonymously to a cancer patient undergoing treatment for a $25 donation and up.
• Bear Hugs for Hope: Special edition, collectible bear is delivered anonymously to a child impacted by cancer for a $25 donation.
Flower and product orders can be placed now through March 1 by calling the American Cancer Society at 1.800.227.2345 or making an online donation to a coordinator www.cancer.org/daffodils.
Delivery occurs the week before spring, beginning March 19.
According to the society, this longstanding program, which historically coincides with the coming of spring, is expected to raise $100,000 in Maine to support the fight against cancer.
Students named to ?dean’s list
Colby-Sawyer College has named the following students to the dean’s list for academic achievement during the 2012 fall semester: Nicolette Chelsea Shugars, a member of the class of 2015, and a nursing major from Scarborough; and Rebecca Jordan Strout, a member of the class of 2015, and a graphic design major from Cape Elizabeth.
The following students from your readership area have been named to the dean’s list at Husson University for the fall semester 2012: Victoria L. Fortin, Amy M. Jorgenson, Kylie R. Prosser, and Sonya M. Walker, all of Scarborough.
The following local residents were named to the fall 2012 dean’s list at Saint Michael’s College, a liberal arts, residential Catholic college located in Burlington, Vt.: Kristen Baum, daughter of Diane and Timothy Baum of Scarborough, a senior biology major, who graduated from Cheverus High School; Mary Brazell, daughter of Colleen and Robert Brazell of Cape Elizabeth, a December 2012 graduate and psychology major, who graduated from Cheverus High School; and Catherine Tierney, daughter of Kevin and Sarah Tierney of Cape Elizabeth, a first-year exploratory major, who graduated from Cape Elizabeth High School.
The following students were named to the dean’s list for the fall 2012 semester at Clarkson University: Thanh-Phong V. Ho, a freshman majoring in mechanical engineering from South Portland.
Despite the cold, work continues on the $47.3 million renovation to South Portland High School. On Monday, a worker, top, treads carefully on an exposed roof area.According to Superintendent Suzanne Godin, work on the project, slated to last through 2014, is 10 days behind schedule. However, she notes, workers from PC Construction started a month behind as the building committee scrambled to bridge a $4 million gap between the $39.26 million budgeted for construction and PC’s $43.24 million low bid. To date, she said, the project has tapped about $400,000 from a $2 million contingency fund, largely to tackle unexpectedly difficult work digging into ledge. If anything remains when the project is over, she said, it may be used to add in some of the late cuts, including equipment for the buidling’s auxiliary kitchen. To date, the walls have gone up on the new cafeteria and auditorium, while the next step will be the three-story addition connecting the new section to Beal Gym. However, the best thing about the project so far, according to Principal James Holland, is that, “there has been remarkably little disruption to the students.”
Despite the cold, work continues on the $47.3 million renovation to South Portland High School. On Monday a load of windows for a row of skylights arrives on a Genie Lift on what will be the roof of the new cafeteria.According to Superintendent Suzanne Godin, work on the project, slated to last through 2014, is 10 days behind schedule. However, she notes, workers from PC Construction started a month behind as the building committee scrambled to bridge a $4 million gap between the $39.26 million budgeted for construction and PC’s $43.24 million low bid. To date, she said, the project has tapped about $400,000 from a $2 million contingency fund, largely to tackle unexpectedly difficult work digging into ledge. If anything remains when the project is over, she said, it may be used to add in some of the late cuts, including equipment for the buidling’s auxiliary kitchen. To date, the walls have gone up on the new cafeteria and auditorium, while the next step will be the three-story addition connecting the new section to Beal Gym. However, the best thing about the project so far, according to Principal James Holland, is that, “there has been remarkably little disruption to the students.”
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