Cutline: Mason Harry Gorham

Proud local family

Mason Harry Gorham was born on March 16 to Jennifer and Matthew Gorham of Somerset, N.J.

Cathy and Paul Moreau and Cathy and Harry Gorham, all of Westbrook are grandparents. Great grandparents living in Portland are Mr. and Mrs. James Brown and Rita Moreau, while Marjorie Libby and Genevieve Gorham are great grandparents in Westbrook. Joan Garwitz of Portland is a great-great grandmother.

Angela and Sarah Moreau of Westbrook are aunts, and Brian Gorham of Waltham, Mass., is an uncle.

Cutline: Student winners of Westbrook’s Woman’s Club’s art contest are, left to right, David Burns, 1st place; Diana Leroux, 2nd place; Leighann Gillis, honorable mention; and Shawn Coffill, 3rd place. Courtesy photo

Woman’s Club news

The Westbrook Woman’s Club had a busy afternoon at their meeting on March 15.

Education Committee Chairman Carolyn Leavitt welcomed the third-grade students of Congin School and their teacher, Rhonda Remick, at 1 p.m. Each student read a short, well-prepared item explaining how he or she use the Kind News monthly newspaper in their classroom.

The newspaper is published by The Humane Society of the United States, and it is sponsored by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, of which the Westbrook Woman’s Club is affiliated. The local club purchases the newspaper yearly for all third-grade students at Congin School.

While the students enjoyed refreshments before returning to school, club members held a business meeting. When the members rose for the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, the students quickly stood and joined them.

During the business meeting, Sally Manchester, president of the GFWC/Maine Federation of Women’s Clubs, spoke about her “President’s Special project,” which is “Go Red for Women.” The project’s goal is to raise awareness of the risk factors of heart disease in women and to provide information about steps women can take to protect themselves and their families.

Following the business meeting, Janet Crawford, director of art and gifted and talented programs at Westbrook High School, and art teachers Linda Stanley and Debbie Bickford along with several art students, parents and other guests arrived for the annual club sponsored art contest.

Local artists Jan and Andy Curran with Caren Michel judged 21 entries earlier in the day.

The winners were: first place, David Burns, Grade 12, wire contour drawing; second place, Diana Leroux, Grade 12, soft pastel; third place, Shawn Coffill, Grade 11, colored pencil; and honorable mention, Leighann Gillis, Grade 12, pastel. Each participant received a certificate, and the top three received ribbons and monetary awards.

Thirty-three students, parents and guests joined the Westbrook Woman’s Club members for refreshments following the presentations.

Cutline: The choir at Prides Corner Congregational Church in 1952. A member of the choir, Shirley Down of Marlu Street, submitted this photo and identified the other choir members. In the front row, left to right, are Down, Ruth Smith, Nancy Harper and Doris Gordon; second row, Arlene Braun, Estelle Burton, Lucille Domes, Rachel Tibbets and Grace Farwell; third row, Huse Tibbets, Stan James and Harold Sanborn. Rachel Tibbets directed the choir. Frank Farwell, who might have snapped the photo, is missing in the picture. Courtesy photo

Zieba on dean’s list

Dorene Zieba has been named to the dean’s list at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, R.I., for the winter term ending in February.

Zieba, who is pursuing a bachelor of science degree in culinary arts nutrition, is in the university’s College of Culinary Arts.

Male House Rock

Come join the state’s premiere boy choir, the Boy Singers of Maine, as they host the first “Male House Rock” at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 9, in the Westbrook High School auditorium.

Tickets will be available at the door ($8, $5 for children, students or seniors). Don’t miss this exciting new show-stopping event.

“Male House Rock” is an event sponsored by the desire to celebrate the age-old tradition of men, 8 to 80, singing together. Two of the Boy Singers’ ensembles, the four-part treble choir and the TTBB Lower Octave choir, will be on hand to host the Down Easter’s Male Barbershop Choir, the Bassix from Northeastern University and a new up and coming part-time professional a cappella group known as Audiologic.

“It’s a unique event,” said Patrick McCarthy, director of the Lower Octave Choir, “because there is nothing else like it yet in the state, and because it offers the listener a chance to see how the male voice matures throughout the scope of an evening. It also is a chance to hear some quality male singing from barbershop to doo-wop, and classical to contemporary and Motown.”

The Boy Singers of Maine is a Portland-based non-profit organization for the promotion, education and performance of young men singing together.

For more information about the Boy Singers of Maine or “Male House Rock,” call Claudia King at 781-3217 or visit their Web site, www.boyssingersofmaine.com.

Cutline (hockey #3) – Patty Brown of Olivia’s Restaurant in Westbrook joins Westbrook Mayor Bruce Chuluda on the right and coach Glen Amico at a pizza party hosted by the restaurant recently to honor the Westbrook High School boys hockey team. The team finished the season with 15 wins and won nine in a row.

Cutline (girls state) – Juanita Valeriani, on the right, and Delores Bailey, on the left, present a $400 check on behalf of the Ladies Auxiliary of American Legion Post 197 to Westbrook High School Guidance Department secretary Jenifer Parent. The money will send two high school girls to Girls State in Bangor in June. Staff photo by Robert Lowell

Four picked for Girls State

Three local organizations are sponsoring four Westbrook High School girls to attend Girls State at Husson College in Bangor in June.

Juanita Valeriani and Delores Bailey of the Ladies Auxiliary at American Legion Post 197 presented Westbrook High School last week with a $400 check to sponsor students Danielle Waldron and Rose Forrester. Katie Lyband and Katie Flannery are being sponsored by the Westbrook Woman’s Club and American Legion Post 62.

A hands-on citizenship program for high school juniors, the four students will learn about state and local government at Girls State. Girls from around Maine will convene and create a mythical state and elect officers.

Cutline (adrianna #1) -Jody Brown’s daughter, Adrianna, 7, second from the right in the back row, joins her first-grade classmates at Saccarappa School for a photo last week. Adrianna has cystic fibrosis, and her mom is organizing a team for a walk in May to raise funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Staff photo by Robert Lowell

Cutline (adrianna #2) – Jody Brown visits her daughter, Adrianna, who has cystic fibrosis, and first-grade teacher Wendy Gaulrapp on Friday at Saccarappa School to launch support for a walk in May to raise funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Staff photo by Robert Lowell

Mom forming Adrianna’s Angels

Jody Brown is organizing a team, Adrianna’s Angels, to raise funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Her 7-year-old daughter, Adrianna, was diagnosed with the life-threatening illness cystic fibrosis last June.

Brown went to Saccarappa School on Friday to speak with Adrianna’s first-grade classmates, welcoming them to join the team. A walk will be held at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 21, at Payson Park in Portland.

Adrianna’s condition requires physical therapy everyday, and she takes medication three times a day while she’s in school and uses an inhaler. Before and after school, she wears a special vest for 20 minutes that vibrates to break up mucous in her chest. She goes to a clinic once a month in Portland.

Adrianna was hospitalized for two weeks in August with pneumonia and doctors said she’d likely be hospitalized every year. “If she gets a cold, she’s in the hospital automatically,” Adrianna’s mom said.

When Adrianna gets older, she’ll need a lung transplant, and Adrianna is on the list at the Make-A-Wish Foundation. “There’s no cure,” Brown said about the illness.

Adrianna was delighted when a doctor went to Saccarappa School before it opened last fall, giving clearance for her to attend school. Adrianna said “yea” when she learned she didn’t have to be home schooled her mom said.

Adrianna has two sisters, Ayla, 13, who is a student at Wescott Junior High School, and Dakota, 18 months old.

Brown is putting up posters around town and donation cards will be available in area businesses. Those wishing to join Adrianna’s Angels or make contributions may call Brown at 591-5256. All the money goes to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

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