Until Sept. 25: The Nathanial Hawthorne House in Raymond will host elegant Victorian teas every Sunday from 2:30-4:30 p.m. except Aug. 14. The program will feature Victorian fashion and customs combined with a short program on the life and times of author Nathanial Hawthorne. Tea service will include scones, savories and sweets of the period. Participants will travel back in time to enjoy the food and dress of the Victorian era. The Hawthorne Community Association is currently working to refurbish the author’s boyhood home that will be 200 years old in 2012. The house is located at the corner of Hawthorne and Raymond Cape roads, just off highway 302 in Raymond. Call 655-9136 for reservations.

Saturday, Aug. 6: Unity of Greater Portland, 54 River Road in Windham will hold a giant yard sale in southern Maine from 8 to 2 p.m. The annual event will offer thousands of items for sale at yard sale prices. Furniture. Household goods. Clothing. Games. Tools. Books. Electronics, and more. There will also be a refreshment stand and a bake sale offering home made goodies.

Aug. 6: An old-fashioned pig and turkey roast and baked bean supper will be served at 5 p.m. at Back to the Past at Scribner’s Mill, a celebration of an old-time sawmill and homestead on Scriber’s Mill Road in Harrison. The cost is $8 for adults, $5 for children 12 and under, and includes strawberry shortcake for dessert. FMI, 583-6455.

Aug. 6: August Yard Sale, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 476 Sand Pond Rd, Limington. Flea market items and new items. Gallons of paint are $2, new shoes and jeans are $2, tops $1. Used and new items. Yarn 3/$1. Hundreds of 25 cent items. Lots of new things! Benefits Bonny Eagle scholarships. FMI, 692-2989.

Aug 12-14: Schoolhouse Arts Center’s Summer Shakespeare Workshop students will present Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” on Friday, Aug. 12, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 13, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Aug. 14, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for students and seniors, and $5 for children under 5. Schoolhouse Arts Center is located at 16 Richville Road (Route 114) in Standish, just north of the intersection of Route 114 and Route 35. Call 642-3743 for reservations or buy tickets on-line at www.schoolhousearts.org.

Tuesday, Aug. 16: Feeding the Poor – Bridgton’s Town Farm. Presentation by Margaret Reimer at the Bridgton Historical Society Museum on Gibbs Avenue. 7 p.m. $5 for non-members. Members free.

Aug. 16: The Southern Maine Agency on Aging will offer a Medicare seminar and counseling for the Lakes Region at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church at 919 Roosevelt Trail, Windham 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. Register at 396-6500.

Thursday, Aug. 18: Saint Joseph’s College will offer a lifeguard training review course from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the Harold Alfond Recreation Center on the Standish campus. Participants must have successfully completed an American Red Cross Lifeguard Training course within the last four years and must have successfully completed a CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer course within the past two years. Proof of prior training is required at the start of the class. Participants must also be able to do: 300-yard swim with 100 yards of front crawl, 100 yards of breast stroke, and 100 yards of either front crawl or breast stroke; 20-yard back-and-forth swim with surface dive to retrieve a 10-pound object from a depth of 7-10 feet, under 1 minute and 40 seconds. The cost for the review course is $75. Please contact 893-6615 or e-mail rdaigle@sjcme.edu for more information or to register.

Sunday, Aug. 21: Saint Joseph’s College will offer a course in CPR for professional rescuers and health care providers at the Harold Alfond Center on the Standish campus from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Participants will learn to care for adults, children and infants who are unconscious and not responsive. After completing all requirements of the course, participants will receive an American Red Cross CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer certification valid for two years. The cost is $65 (or $55 for recertification). Call 893-6615 or contact rdaigle@sjcme.edu to register or for more information.

Tuesday, Sept. 6: The Southern Maine Agency on Aging will offer a Medicare seminar and counseling for the Lakes Region at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church at 919 Roosevelt Trail, Windham 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. Register at 396-6500.

Tuesday, Sept. 20: The Southern Maine Agency on Aging will offer a Medicare seminar and counseling for the Lakes Region at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church at 919 Roosevelt Trail, Windham 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. Register at 396-6500.

To list an event in this calendar, please email info to jbalentine@keepmecurrent.com.