Picnic Time

The Annual Food Sale sponsored by The Women’s Fellowship of The First Congregational Church will be held on Saturday, June 29, at the Gray Shop n’ Save, Gray Plaza on Route 100, from 8 a.m. until the food is gone (usually around noontime). There are always lots of cookies, fudge, pies, cakes, brownies, whoopee pies and sometimes beans and biscuits, available to purchase for your summer picnics.

Proceeds will go toward Pilgrim Lodge scholarships for our young campers among other projects of the Women’s Fellowship. For more information, call 657-4279.

Holiday Schedule

The Gray Town Office, Public Library and Transfer Station will be closed for Memorial Day on Monday, May 27.

Need Books

The Gray Public Library on 5 Hancock St. is having a Blowout Book Sale. Everything must go. Saturday, June 1, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Everything $1 a bag. Bring Your Own Bag, (standard reusable grocery or paper bags only). For more information, call 657-4110.

I’m a Going Fishin’

Maine’s free fishing weekend is June 1-2. On these days, any person (except those whose license has been suspended or revoked) may fish without a license. All other laws and regulations apply on these days.

Plants and Something Fishy

On Saturday, May 25 through Monday, May 27, the Maine Wildlife Park, located on Route 26 in Gray, will present Friends of The Maine Wildlife Park Annual Plant Sale. The Friends volunteer group helps out the wildlife park in so many ways. Learn more about their ongoing projects and enjoy great bargains on spring plants with annual and perennial flowers, vegetables and floral baskets grown in their own greenhouse.

The Dry Mills Fish Hatchery Display Building dedication and park-wide open house takes place Saturday, June 1. Help the Park celebrate the finished construction of a new round pond and fish pool; and the opening of a new associated educational building with display tanks at the Dry Mills Hatchery. A dedication will be at 11:30 a.m. and there will be a variety of other ‘fishy’ displays and demonstrations from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free admission to the entire wildlife park takes place this day only.

For more information, call the Maine Wildlife Park at 657-4977; or visit www.mainewildlifepark.com.

Memorial Day Parade

Gray’s annual Memorial Day Parade will be held on Monday, May 27, at 11:30 a.m. Procession will begin at the Russell School and continue to the monument at the center of town where the 15th Alabama Regiment will hold a salute. The parade will then continue to the Henry Pennell Municipal Complex. There, a ceremony will be held in honor of our veterans. The parade will then proceed to the American Legion Hall, Gray Post No. 86, where refreshments will be served to the marchers.

GNG Lions Awarded

At the Maine Lions convention held in Auburn May 3 and 4, the Gray New Gloucester Lions were presented with First Place Project Recycle Awards for eyeglasses collected (2,043) and cell phones collected (300). It is a remarkable achievement considering this is a statewide program where competition includes much larger Lions clubs in much larger population centers.

The GNG Lions are proud to accept these awards on behalf of all those in the greater Gray/New Gloucester community who support and contribute to the recycling program and whose efforts have resulted in statewide recognition.

The Lions wish to thank Gray Shop and Save, Gray Family Vision, Hannaford in Gray, Gray Transfer Station, Gray and New Gloucester Congregational Churches and the New Gloucester Town Office for graciously providing space for Lions collection boxes. Thanks also to the many folks who take the time to fill those boxes with glasses, phones and hearing aids.

Rec Programs

Co-ed adult softball take place Sunday afternoons starting June 6, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Pickup ball format, $2 per person / per game.

A kindergarten camp for the youngest children at Russell School June 3-6 will be held at Newbegin from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. Childcare is provided by the Kids Club staff. Each child will have an opportunity to play in the gym and recreation room, participate in great craft activities, play with bubbles, take a nature walk and in general have lots of fun. Parents are asked to pack a healthy lunch with snacks and a non-carbonated drink. The fee is $40 per day.

Gray Recreation Summer Camp provides an enjoyable experience in a safe, caring environment where creativity and curiosity is encouraged and the emphasis is on having fun and forming new friendships with other children benefiting emotionally, physically and socially. From ice cream walks, obstacle courses, dance contests and minute to-win-it competitions, water balloon fights, chalk art, shaving cream Wiffle-ball games, visits from the zoo, field trips to the beach, Funtown and more.

Wilkes Beach at Crystal Lake will be officially open for the season on Saturday, May 25. This beach is for Gray residents only so you must present proof of residency to the beach attendants.

For more information, go to www.grayrec.com or call at 657-2323 ext. 117.

Public Forum

A Sustain Maine Public Forum will be held on Monday, June 3, at 7 p.m. at the Henry Pennell Municipal Complex, 24 Main St.

The purpose of the meeting is to provide information, solicit public input and answer questions regarding the Sustain Southern Maine Gray Village Area Growth Study. For more information, contact Gray’s Economic Development Director Elizabeth Humphrey at 657-3112.

Remembering

Josh Libby

The Josh Libby Memorial Kickball Tournament, to help raise funds for Summer Day Camp Scholarships, will be on Saturday, June 8, at Newbegin Community Center’s multi-purpose field No. 1 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Team rosters and tournament rules are available for pick-up at the Rec Department. Rosters and payment must be turned in by May 26. Team rosters are limited to 15 players (must be 15 years of age or older). Fee includes a BBQ lunch. For more information, go to www.grayrec.com or call at 657-2323