RICHMOND

Celebrating thousands of pounds lost

The Richmond Area Health Center will host a celebration of its second annual community weight loss program at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.

The more than 450 patients enrolled in the program have lost a combined 3,000 pounds in the past 12 months for a two-year total of 7,500 pounds shed overall.

Attendees of the celebration will include Dr. Sheila Pinette, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control, Rep. Seth Barry and Sen. Seth Goodall. The event is open to the public.

For more details, call Tom Bartol at 737-4359 or email thomas.bartol@healthreach.org.

LYMAN

Equine therapy for veterans

Carlisle Academy Integrative Equine Therapy & Sports will offer therapeutic horsemanship services to post-911 veterans through funding provided by the Wounded Warrior Project, in partnership with its accrediting body, PATH – Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship – International.

As a PATH Intl. Premier Accredited Center, the academy has been selected to receive funding for veterans who have incurred service-connected injuries to body, mind or spirit, on or after Sept. 11, 2001.

Those veterans are eligible for up to 10 free sessions, within a year, in either hippotherapy or adaptive riding and carriage driving.

Carlisle is a comprehensive riding school that offers hippotherapy and adaptive programs, Para-Equestrian sports, and traditional equestrian training opportunities for educators, practitioners and riders. PATH Intl. is a leader in offering Equine Assisted Activities & Therapies to military veterans.

Qualifying veterans, who wish to participate in the program, should call 985-0374 or go to www.carlisleacademymaine.com.

 

STANDISH

Diamond to discuss his book

Sen. Bill Diamond will speak about his book, “The Evil and the Innocent,” and his role as a lawmaker at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Viola George Auditorium in Harold Alfond Hall at Saint Joseph’s College, 278 White’s Bridge Road.

Diamond’s book is about child sexual abuse. Diamond has researched, written, co-sponsored and sponsored more than 50 proposed laws and amendments pertaining to sex offenders, many of which are on the books today. He will also discuss the Maine Sex Offender Registry.

The talk is free and open to the public.

 

ELLSWORTH

Session to teach diabetes prevention

The Maine Coast Memorial Hospital Diabetes Education Team will be offering a Prediabetes Education session from 10 a.m. to noon in the Medical Office Building Classroom (Door C) at 50 Union St.

This is a program for anyone who has fasting blood sugars between 100 and 125 or who has a family history of diabetes and wants to prevent diabetes from developing. This is a lively, interactive program that will provide simple steps to lower your blood sugars and keep them in non-diabetic ranges.

Cost is $15 and pre-registration is recommended by calling 664-5475.

 

CAMDEN

Reading group to meet

 

The Camden Philosophical Society Reading Group will discuss “The Word of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” by Walter Benjamin, at 4 p.m. at the Camden Public Library, 55 Main St.

All are welcome.

 

‘Sudden Fiction’ workshop offered

A free, six-week “Sudden Fiction” writing workshop will be offered from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Camden Public Library.

Writing Coach Lee Heffner will head the consecutive sessions.To register, call the library at 236-3440.

 

PopTech director to talk about ‘Resilience’

PopTech Executive director Andrew Zolli will discuss his new book “Resilience” at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Camden Public Library, as part of the library’s “Red White and Green October” series.

BETHEL

Historical Society launches campaign

Bethel Historical Society has launched its Annual Fund Campaign to raise donations to support its work of collecting, preserving and interpreting the history of western Maine and the White Mountain region.

The annual campaign represents more than 30 percent of the society’s yearly income, allowing the small staff and volunteers to maintain daily operations and to offer programs and exhibits that interpret the Bethel region’s history.

The society’s Board of Trustees has offered a matching donation challenge of up to $5,000.

Donations, which are tax deductible, may be made payable to the Bethel Historical Society and mailed to P.O. Box 12, Bethel 04217.

For more details, call 824-2908 , (800) 824-2910 or email info@bethelhistorical.org.