Enjoy Spring walking at Beaver Park during the Month of March. Park
admission is free for walkers this month. This is a great opportunity to
explore the Park trails during a family outing. Guided walks will also
be held every Thursday from 7:15 to 8:15 a.m with Ranger Brooks. For
more information contact Verla Brooks, Lisbon Park Ranger at
353-9075 or vbrooks@lisbonme.org

You are invited to participate in this year’s One Book/One Community Celebration that is being launched this week by the Lewiston and Auburn public libraries in collaboration with a cadre of community partners.  This year’s title, written by award-winning author Barbara Kingsolver, is Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a first-hand recounting of how Kingsolver’s family was changed by one year of deliberately eating food produced solely on or around their family homestead in rural Virginia.  Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, the book takes an earnest and entertaining look at both this personal struggle to limit one’s diet to locally grown foods and at the system of food distribution that exists in the U.S. and around the world.

Over a dozen other activities related to this year’s OneBook/One Community program will take place locally through the end of April, including book discussions, a screening of the documentary “Food, Inc.,” workshops in organic gardening and cooking, a talk by MOFGA director Russell Libby, and a sustainable foods conference.  For a complete list of One Book-related programs, please see the One Book Brochure 2010 (PDF).

For more information call the Auburn Public Library at 333-6640, or the Lewiston Public Library at 513-3135.

Inhalant Abuse: Its Right Under your Nose and Methamphetamine: What you
Need to Know

1. May 5, 2010: Portland City Hall, State of Maine Room
2. May 10, 2010: Green Ladle, Lewiston Regional Vocational Center
3. May 20, 2010:  Holiday Inn Express, Saco

All trainings are Free, CEUs will be offered for both training.

*Additional trainings will be held Statewide throughout the Fall of 2010

Continental Breakfast and Lunch provided for those attending both trainings.

Registration is required. Space is limited.

Brochure and Registration Form will be available starting at the end of March.

Introducing Healthy Androscoggin’s newest publication!

Healthy Androscoggin seeks to promote healthy eating and buying local. We hope this Androscoggin County Farm Guide helps you accomplish both.

Click here to view the PDF versions:

farm-guide-cover-final-9-23-09 (PDF 976 KB)

farm-guide-text-final-9-23-09 (PDF 1606KB)

Copies will be available to the public from the Healthy Androscoggin office, as well as other locations in the community.  Stay tuned…

Regular Weekly Meetings are held on:

Thursdays from 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

FREE – No Registration Required

For more information or to find information on quitting please call

Healthy Androscoggin at 795-5990
or visit us on the web at: www.healthyandroscoggin.org

Sponsored in part by the Healthy Maine Partnerships, DHHS, Maine Center for Disease Control

and Prevention.