Veterans Meet

VFW Post 10643 will meet on Wednesday, Jan. 6, at Windham Veterans Center. Supper at 5 p.m., business meeting at 6 p.m.

Thanks for the Help

In Windham, we take care of our neighbors! Thanks this week for donations to Windham Neighbors Helping Neighbors from the following: Windham High School Faculty, Mechanics Savings Bank, George and Wendy Ricker, Thomas and Doreen Gibson, Jennie Butler and Jinja Rosendahl. WNHN is a nonprofit, all-volunteer group dedicated helping Windham people who urgently need fuel. All donations to WNHN are tax deductible. Mail to Windham Neighbors Helping Neighbors, c/o Norma Rogers, Treas., PO Box 1956, Windham, ME 04062.

Bean Supper

An “all you can eat” baked bean supper will be held Saturday, Jan. 5, from 4:30-6 p.m. at the White Rock Community Club, Wilson Road, off Route 237. The menu includes beans, hot dogs, macaroni and cheese, salads, biscuits and homemade desserts. $7 for adults, $3 for kids.

Food Pantry and Clothes Closet

If you are not a client of Windham’s Food Pantry and Clothes Closet, call Madeline Roberts, 892-1931 and she’ll explain the details. These two services may be of help to you or someone you know – especially this winter.

Senior Center events

Lakes Region Senior Center, 40 Acorn Street, Gorham, is open to the public for lunch on Monday, Jan. 7. Donation is $4 and the menu features an Italian lunch with spumoni ice cream to celebrate birthdays. Seniors sign up this day for a special “doing nails” day on Jan. 14. On Jan. 23, at 11:30 a.m. In Home Senior Services will present services they have available for seniors. Bring your bag lunch and the beverage and dessert will be provided. Open to the public.

Assistance

On Tuesday, Jan. 15, the Southern Maine Agency on Aging (SMAA) will offer a Medicare seminar and counseling for the Lakes Region at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church at 919 Roosevelt Trail, Windham. A “Welcome to Medicare” seminar is scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon. In addition to the Medicare seminar, there will be one-on-one counseling with volunteer Medicare advocates available from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The seminar and counseling are intended to help you sort through your Medicare options, answer questions – and to help you enroll.

In addition to Medicare assistance, counseling on tax and rent rebate, food stamps, and fuel assistance can be arranged. Call the Southern Maine Agency on Aging to register for an upcoming seminar or to make a one-on-one appointment with a Medicare Advocate at 396-6500 or 1-800-427-7411. Walk-ins can usually be accommodated. Further opportunities for these services will occur monthly on the first and third Tuesdays at the same times and location. Visit the website at www.smaaa.org to learn more about the many other services that are available.

History’s Mysteries

Do you have something odd and old which can be connected to Windham’s history? Old button collections, tools or even recipe books? Photographs of your Civil War ancestor? On Saturday, Jan. 19, Windham Historical Society will meet from 9 a.m. to noon at the library for its annual “History’s mysteries” program during which attendees will try to stump the experts as they guess what an item is or find out more about some historic object a guest presents. These informal winter meetings are always fun – as long as the weather doesn’t keep us off the roads. Refreshments follow the “guessing” segment, and a brief business meeting will be held to get updates on the Village Green, status of grant applications and other news of interest to all. There is no fee, but donations are always welcome.

Thrift Shop

The Thrift Shop at the North Windham UCC is open from 1-3 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday or 10 until noon Saturdays. The Thrift Shop is in the lower level of the church.