Town office notes
Pownal selectmen meet Monday, March 18, at 7 p.m. in the DeWitt Room, Mallett Hall.
The Planning Board’s ongoing review of the Zoning Ordinance draft will be on Tuesday, March 19, from 8-9:30 a.m., at Mallett Hall in the Old Selectmen’s Office. The Planning Board also will meet Wednesday, March 20, at 7 p.m., at Mallett Hall.
All Planning Board meetings, onsite inspections and workshops are open to the public.
The Conservation Committee is meeting Monday, March 25, at 7 p.m., at Mallett Hall
Lenten Bible Study? at Methodist church
Every Tuesday through March 26, at 6:30 p.m., the people of the North Pownal Methodist Church will study Adam Hamilton’s “24 Hours That Changed the World.” The special program will include worship, sermons, and small-group studies that feature videos, Bible study and discussion. The study, published by Abingdon Press, was developed by Adam Hamilton, pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kan., and is intended for anyone who is interested in the Christian faith.
North Pownal United Methodist Church is located at 851 Lawrence Road.
For more information, call 837-0682 or email chaplainraymond@gmail.com.
Royal River Conservation Trust
The organization has launched its 2013 photo contest, with a May 15 deadline.
Work on the next newsletter is under way, with articles emphasizing landscape history in a land conservation context, new federal tax incentives for donations of conservation easements, spring paddling maps and guides of the Royal River, and profiles of local conservation leaders. For information on both, see www.rrct.org.
12-step meetings
Durham 12-step meetings are now Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m., at a new location – the First Parish Congregational Church 422 Hallowell Road, Pownal. For more information, call Linda G. at 650-4536.
Food pantry open Tuesdays
The North Pownal United Methodist Church food Pantry on Lawrence Road is open every Tuesday from 10:30 a.m.-noon. All are welcome.
Notes from the churches
The First Parish Congregational Church Bible Study meets on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. For the next 12 weeks, the Rev. John Wentworth will teach a series entitled, “The Search for Spiritual Discipline.” The study is based in part on a book by Richard Foster, “Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth.” Wentworth will examine the broad areas of internal discipline, outward discipline, and corporate discipline while speaking on a specific discipline each week.
The First Parish Congregational worship service is Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Sunday School for all ages 11-noon. Bible Study meets at the church on Tuesday at 7 a.m. For more information, contact the Rev. John Wentworth, 688-4846. jwent16@hotmail.com.
North Pownal Methodist Church worship service is Sunday, at 9 a.m. Sunday School 10:30-11:30. For more information, contact the pastor at 798-4810; cell, 837-0682; email chaplainraymond@gmail.com.
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