SPRINGVALE

‘World focus’ at the library

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KC Heyniger, the Apprenticeshop's waterfront programs director, poses with a model boat. The Rockland-based boatbuilding school will sponsor a talk on ship modeling and remote-control boating on Thursday. Photo courtesy Margaret Macleod

Springvale Public Library, 443 Main St., will offer several “world focus” activities this week.

“Stories From Around the World” will celebrate the World Bread Festival with a bread-tasting party, served potluck-style, from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday. Volunteers are needed to make and donate a variety of breads. Recipes are available at the children’s desk.

A free “Teen Craft & Quest Stamping Around the World” event will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday for grades 6 through 12. The library also will sponsor award-winning magician Mike Bent, who will bring his “Magical Stories From Around the World” show to the Little Theatre in the Nasson Community Center, at 21 Bradeen St., from 2 to 2:45 p.m. Monday.

For details, go to www.springvalelibrary.org or call 324-4624.

UNION

Bus tour of historic sites

The Union Historical Society will sponsor a second Come Spring Bus Tour departing at 1:30 p.m. Saturday from the Old Town House on Town House Road.

The bus tour follows the Georges River Scenic Byway, identifying many historic sites where Union’s early settlers built cabins and lived. Tickets are $10 and are available by calling 785-5444 and leaving a message.

CAMDEN

Author to speak at library

“Monhegan Windows” Author Matthew Kiell will speak at the library at 1 p.m. Thursday as one of several events this week,

The library’s annual book sale will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday; the 1933 classic movie “Little Women” will be shown in the outdoor amphitheater at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Attendees should bring blankets or chairs for seating.

For more details, call Ken Gross at 236-3440.

Saving seeds at Merryspring

Merryspring Nature Center, off Route 1, will present a talk on saving seeds by Neil Lash at noon on Tuesday.

Lash teaches horticulture and is the director and co-founder of the Heirloom Seed Project at Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro. Admission is free to Merryspring members and children and $5 for all others. For more details, call 236-2239 or go to www.merryspring.org.

NORTH PARSONSFIELD

Victorian tea at seminary

The seventh annual Victorian Tea at Parsonsfield Seminary on Route l60 will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Advance tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for children by calling Mary at 793-8825 or Jan at (603) 539-5233.

Entertainment will be provided by Northeast Senior Barbershop Champions Melodies & Memories and harpist Jane Wilcox Hively.

Proceeds will benefit The Friends of Par Sem Restoration Fund to care for the historic campus.

ROCKLAND

Model boats demonstration

Dave Blanchard will give a demonstration on “The World of Model Boats” at 6 p.m. Thursday at The Apprenticeshop, 643 Main St. Tickets are $5 at the door.

A tour of boat projects will be available after the program. For details, go to www.apprenticeshop.org or call 594-1800.

SANFORD

Cancer survivors tea party

The Cancer Care Center of York County, at 27 Industrial Ave., will host a garden tea at 9 a.m. on July 20 for cancer survivors, patients and their families. For details, go to www.cancercareyorkcounty.org or call 459-1606.

BIDDEFORD

Caregiver training class

Savvy Caregiver, a program for family caregivers of people with disorders causing dementia, will be offered by Southern Maine Agency on Aging at Southern Maine Medical Center from 9 to 11 a.m. Aug. 11, 18 and 25 and Sept. 1, 8 and 15.

Participants are asked to attend all classes. There is no charge, but registration is required. For more details, call Ann O’Sullivan at (800) 427-7411, ext. 541.

Training for pre-diabetics

SMMC Visiting Nurses will host a pre-diabetes class from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesday at Southern Maine Medical Center, classrooms A and C.

The session will discuss blood sugar numbers, what effects them and proper nutrition for managing those levels. Fee is $10. Registration is required by calling 985-1000.

WELLS

DEP commissioner to speak

The annual meeting of Save Our Shores Maine will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday at The Coastal House on Route 1. Pattie Aho, the acting commissioner of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, will speak. The public is invited.

YORK

Art program at the library

York Public Library will sponsor “Art and Life: What’s the Connection?” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the York Art Association, 394 York St.

A panel of artists will explore the ways in which imagination is rooted in life and how the individual artists’ lives and families affect their craft. For details, go to www.york.lib.me.us.

WEST ROCKPORT

Book sale at the library

The Friends of Rockport Public Library book sale will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday and from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday at the Midcoast Recreation Center on Route 90. For more details, call Paul at 236-8783 or the library at 236-3642.

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