Gospel group at church

The First Baptist Church, 733 Main St., will host the Blackwood Brothers Quartet, Wednesday, June 18, at 7 p.m.

The well-known gospel band has sung with Johnny Cash,

Porter Wagoner, Tennessee Ernie Ford and many others.

They have also made guest appearances for the Billy Graham Crusades, Liberty Bowl and the Presidential Prayer Breakfast.

Receives M.D. degree

Todd Christopher Adams, a 1989 graduate of Westbrook

High School, graduated May 18 from Boston University School of Medicine, where he was a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He received the Eddie McCarthy Award, awarded annually to a graduating senior based on personal attributes and contribution to his or her class.

He will be doing his residency at John Hopkins University program in radiation oncology.

He is the son of Stella and Phillip Dalrymple of Portland, William Adams of Maryland and the twin brother of Andrew Adams of Maryland. In attendance at his graduation were his parents, grandfather, Jesse Haynes of Portland, foster sister Rene Johnson of Portland and Dian Cooper of Massachusetts.

LaChance-Barry engagement

Mr. and Mrs. Darrell LaChance of Westbrook have announced the engagement of their daughter, Allyson LaChance, to Matthew Barry, son of Tom and Joanne Barry of Kennebunk. Allyson is a graduate of the University of New England in Biddeford with a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy.

She is currently employed with Sunbridge Nursing Home in Massachusetts. Matthew is a graduate of Southern Maine Community College with an associate degree in computer technology. He is employed with RAKA Web Design Firm in Portsmouth, N.H.

Matthew proposed to Allyson on the beach of Oahu while vacationing in Hawaii. They plan to be married on June 20, 2009, in Exeter, N.H., where they currently reside.

Currans return

Phil and Nancy Curran, Duck Pond Road recently returned from Sinton, Texas, where they visited the family of their daughter and son-in-law, Martha and Ray Goyet. They attended the commencement exercises at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, from which their granddaughter, Jenna Goyet,

graduated with a degree in communications. Jenna is also the granddaughter of Raymond Goyet, Sr. and Muriel Goyet, late of Brown Street, Westbrook.

Her father, Navy Comdr. Ray Goyet Jr., recently left the Persian Gulf and is returning to the United States aboard USS Tarawa after eight months’ deployment there. The Goyets’ son, Mark Goyet, completed training at the U.S. Marine Training Center at San Diego, California on May 23 and is awaiting assignment.

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