Project Graduation hosting fundraisers
Gorham’s Project Graduation Committee is hosting three upcoming fundraisers.
An all-day scrapbooking crop event will be held from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3, at St. Anne’s Church, 299 Main St. Cost is $30 and includes light breakfast and lunch. Vendors and consultants include Creative Memories, Home Hi Lights, Pampered Chef, Avon, Close to my Heart, Tastefully Simple, Stampin’Up!, Thirty One and Scentsy. For more information, contact Kim Ashby 637-2189 kimbera@hotmail.com
Then, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 5:30-8 p.m. Silpada Designs has scheduled an open house hosted by Cheryl Ahearn in the multi purpose room at Gorham Recreation Department, 75 South St. Ahearn is donating 100 percent of her profits to Gorham Project Graduation. To order online or pick up a catalog ahead of time, contact Ahearn at cahearn@maine.rr.com or 892-2407.
On Friday, Nov. 9, the Harvest Hoedown will be held at the Odd Fellows Hall at the corner of School Street and College Avenue (across from Thatchers). This is a 21-plus event. There will be music by Tricky Britches, a harvest buffet including appetizers and dessert, raffle prizes and a pie auction. Drinks are BYOB.
Social hour starts at 7 p.m. and Tricky Britches starts at 8. Tickets are $20 per person, and only 150 tickets available. Contact Maria Doyle 839-8941 or edoyle3@maine.rr.com for tickets.
Historians to meet
Penny Loura of Gorham will speak when Gorham Historical Society meets at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 12, at the Gorham Savings Bank Operations Center on Gray Road (Route 202).
Loura’s topic will medicine during the Civil War.
GHS theater presents ‘Miracle Worker’
The Gorham High School theater program will present several performances this month of the classic “The Miracle Worker,” by William Gibson.
It was adapted from Helen Keller’s autobiography, “The Story of My Life.”
The play first opened in the fall of 1959 on Broadway at the Playhouse Theater and was performed over 700 times before ending in the summer of 1961. Originally directed by Arthur Penn, the play featured the work of Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan and Patty Duke as Helen Keller.
“The Miracle Worker” takes place in a small town setting in Alabama during the 1880s. As an infant, Helen Keller is struck by a fever and as a result becomes blind and deaf. Helen soon grows into a defiant and extremely spoiled child. Distressed and in need of guidance on how to deal with their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Keller hire Annie Sullivan, a graduate from the renowned Perkins School For The Blind in Boston, Mass., to serve as Helen’s teacher. After several clashes with her, in addition to a two-week period in isolation together, Annie succeeds in reaching Helen, teaching her to “see.”
Performances are in the McCormack Performing Arts Center at Gorham High School on Nov. 9, 10, 16 and 17 at 7:30 p.m. One matinee performance will be on Nov. 11 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $6; $4, students/senior citizens; and will be sold at the door.
For more information, contact Eileen T. Avery, director, at 222-1136 or eileena@gorhamschools.org
Potluck ?with a purpose
South Gorham Baptist Church is hosting a potluck meal and a program about human trafficking at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9, at the church on County Road. The program will focus on a grassroots effort to prevent slavery and human trafficking in the Peruvian Amazon.
Doug Elder of the Christian rock band the Wrecking may be available to speak following its “Not for Sale” national tour to raise awareness of slavery.
Annie Sullivan, played by Molly Stewart, tries to awaken Chloe Gray as Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker,” with several performances this month at Gorham High School.
Carson Southyvongnorath, 4, peers out from the cab of Gorham’s huge forest firefighting truck during the open house Saturday at Gorham Public Safety. He attended the open house with Eric Winsor of Gorham Fire Department.
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