Upcoming meetings

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

The Solid Waste Committee meets Monday, April 22, 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.

The Conservation Commission meets Monday, April 22, at 7 p.m., at Mallett Hall.

Earth Day work

needs volunteers

The Pownal Conservation Commission is holding an Earth Day Volunteer Workday, Saturday, April 20, from 9 a.m.-noon, at the Goddard Road town property, Poland Range Road, a quarter-mile south of Route 9. Participants can help take back town lands from invasive bush honeysuckle, which will impact wildlife habitat, recreational use, and timber production if not contained. Bring gloves, water, shovels, and other tools if available. For more information, contact Ruth at 688-4919.

Art, music featured at last Keep Me Warm concert

The Keep Me Warm Concert and Art Series concludes for the season on Saturday, April 27, at historic Mallett Hall, 429 Hallowell Road, Pownal. The Art Gallery will open at 6:30 p.m. featuring paintings, etchings, prints and photographs by Jan Pieter van voorst van Beest and Andrea van voorst van Beest.

The concert will start at 7:30 and will open with Jamie Pearson, a native of north Yorkshire, England, now living in Pownal. Pearson is accomplished on many instruments with an extensive resume of songs from north of England, along with favorite ska and rock tunes. The second featured artist will be the band Meteora, featuring Kat Logan, Will Brown and Jim Loney. Performances will be highlighted by three-part harmonies from these folk, country and blues musicians and songwriters. Admission is $10 at the door.

This is the fourth and final concert of this series for the season. All proceeds have been used for fuel assistance through Freeport Community Services. Twelve families have been helped this past winter due to the success of this concert series. For more information, call Kathy at 688-4153 or Lois 688-2272.

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 15j13 deadline. For more information, see www.rrct.org/photocontest.html. Judges love shots of people snow shoeing, fishing or paddling.

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.