Meetings

The Regional School Unit 5 budget review will be held Wednesday, April 10, at the Pownal school cafeteria. A light meal is at 5:30 p.m., followed by public comment at 6:30.

Pownal selectmen will meet Mondays, April 15 and 29, at 7 p.m., at Mallett Hall.

The Solid Waste Committee meets Monday, April 8, at 6 p.m., Mallett Hall.

The Planning Board meets Wednesday, April 17, at 7 p.m. The board will also hold ordinance review workshops Tuesdays, April 9 and 23, at 8 a.m., at Mallett Hall.

Heaven’s Blend

concert Saturday

The band Heaven’s Blend will Saturday, April 13, at 6:30 p.m., at the North Pownal United Methodist Church, 851 Hallowell Road, Pownal. The concert will be presented in a coffeehouse format with light refreshments. Admission is free and there will be a free will offering. Proceeds benefit the church. For more information, contact the Rev. Raymond St. Pierre, 837-0682, or Deb Larrabee, lay person, 240-1637.

Breakfast, Bible study at First Parish Church

The Men’s Breakfast at the First Parish Congregational Church of Pownal, 422 Hallowell Road, is held the first Saturday of each month at 7:30 a.m. at the church. It is open to any men who want to come. They do not have to be affiliated with the church. The Rev. John Wentworth leads the discussions.

Church Bible Study meets on Tuesdays at 7 p.m

Photo contest

under way

Royal River Conservation 2013 photo contest has a May 15 deadline. For more information, see www.rrct.org/photocontest.html. Judges love shots of people snow shoeing, fishing or paddling.

Tuesdays

for food pantry

The North Pownal United Methodist Church food Pantry on Lawrence Road is open every Tuesday from 10:30 a.m.-noon. All are welcome.

Recycling reminders

The Pownal Solid Waste Reduction and Recycling Committee reminds residents that acceptable items to recycle at curbside include: items clean cardboard and paperboard, newspapers, magazines, mail and catalogs, paper bags, phone books, hardcover books, milk and juice cartons, drink boxes and aseptic containers, and shredded paper (put in clear bags); plastic milk jugs, empty water bottles, detergent bottles, all rigid containers marked No.1 through 7 (except Styrofoam), plastic grocery and large shopping bags marked No. 2 and 4; and empty glass bottles and jars of any color.

Pownal’s single-sort recyclables go to ecomaine in Portland where they are sorted and processed both by machine and by hand. It is important not to include certain items in curbside recycling, including garden hoses, rope, ribbon, wire, newspaper bags or long and narrow items. These items get wrapped around the automated recycling equipment. Other items are excluded for reasons of safety to ecomaine employees, for sanitation purposes, for lack of markets for certain materials, and for inability of equipment to handle them.

For more details, go to www.ecomaine.org/recycling, or call 773-1738. Pownal perennially has one of the highest recycling rates among Cumberland County communities.

12 Steps

Durham 12 Step meetings are Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m., at the First Parish Congregational Church, 422 Hallowell Road. For more information call Linda G. at 207-650-4536.

Church services

North Pownal Methodist Church worship is Sunday at 9 a.m. Sunday School 10:30-11:30. For more information, call 837-0682 or email chaplainraymond@gmail.com.

The First Parish Congregational Church, Route 9, holds worship service on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Sunday School for all ages is 11 a.m.-noon. Bible Study meets at the church on Tuesday at 7 a.m. For more information, call 688-4846 or email jwent16@hotmail.com.