Fair share picnic

Maine People’s Alliance is sponsoring its Fair Share Picnic 4-6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, at Riverbank Park on Main Street in Westbrook.

Everyone is welcome to join the group for an afternoon of good food, local music and conversation. For more information, contact Jennie Pirkl at 671-2490 or jennie@mainepeoplesalliance.org

Seniors to hear McDonald

Storyteller and Maine author John McDonald will speak when Westbrook Senior Citizens meet at 12:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 17, in Westbrook Community Center, 426 Bridge St.

The seniors are planning a one-day trip in December to Indian Head in Lincoln, N.H. For more information, call 883-5046 or 854-2705.

Woman’s club ?to meet

The first meeting of the fall for Westbrook Woman’s Club will be on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St.

A catered lunch with corn chowder, sandwiches and dessert will be served at noon. The cost $7 per person with reservations required by calling Betty Young at 797-0659 by Thursday, Sept. 13. Guests are welcome.

A business meeting at 1 p.m. follows the lunch. The agenda includes a discussion of the club’s mission for the upcoming year. Also, Judith Reidman will present an update of Family Crisis Services.

Westbrook Police Officer David Finocchietti demonstrates a electrostatic dust lifting device to DaVinci Experience Crime Lab campers, from left, Olivia Wormell, Dorianne Ross, Sydney Fickett, Kiely Callahan, Anthony Vasquez, Jack and Miles Brown, Jared Fickett and Anthony LaPrino. DaVinci Experience expanded its local offerings this summer with weekly day camps held at the Westbrook Community Center and Gorham Middle School for 5-13 year olds.  Crime Lab campers learned to analyze fingerprints, fibers, and soil samples as well as make casts of footprints and experiment with chromatography. For more information, visit www.davinciexperience.com or call 541-9171.