The Bucksport Bay Area Chamber of Commerce
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Evangelical Baptist Church invites you to attend a special presentation by the Bob Jones University Music Ministry Team. The 6 member team will present a program of familiar hymns and gospel songs, Program begins at 6:00pm
Tuesday March 9th
16 Central Street, Bucksport
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Tom Gallant of the Small Business Development Center will be in Bucksport to talk about how small businesses can survive in the current economic environment. Join Tom for a very informative evening.

Where: Bucksport Town Office, Main Street
Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm
When: Tuesday, March 16th
for more information call 469-7368
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Bucksport Bay Area Chamber of Commerce Annual Awards Dinner

Friday, March 26, 2010
7:00 PM
[social hour w/cash bar 6:30]

Guest Speaker: Dr. Erik Steele
"Health Care Truths and Myths"

Alamoosook Lakeside Inn Orland, ME
Per Person: $30.00

SPACE IS LIMITED
payment is expected at time of reservation

SAVE THE DATE MARCH 26th will be the Chamber's Annual Awards Dinner. 6:30pm - 8:30pm. This is a fun event and a great networking and marketing opportunity. Take advantage of this great opportunity by becoming a sponsor. ALL sponsorship levels are greatly appreciated. Suggested levels;
$100 Silver Sponsor - 1 complimentary ticket
$250 Bronze Sponsor - 2 complimentary tickets
$500 Gold Sponsor - 4 complimentary tickets
$1,000 Platinum Sponsor - 8 complimentary tickets

All sponsors names will be printed in the program. In addtion, Gold and Platinum sponsorship will include a write up about your company and your company's logo on the Chamber's website for one year.

We are very pleased to annouce this year's guest speaker will be Dr. Erik Steele.

Dr. Steele is interim CEO of Blue Hill Hospital. He also serves as Chief Medical Officer for Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems, and continues to see patients in the emergency departments of area hospitals and works as a primary care doctor at the EMMC Center for Family Practice.

Some of you may also be familiar with Dr. Steele as a journalist. He writes a regular health column for the Bangor Daily News and hosts Healthy Living on WABI TV-5.

(file photo Ellsworth American) For more information or to be a sponsor Call 469-6818 or email BBACC

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DOWN EAST WRITERS READ LIVE
ON WERU'S "WRITERS FORUM"

EAST ORLAND: On Thursday, March 11 at 10 a.m., Susan Hand Shetterley, Cynthia Thayer, and Jacqueline Michaud will read from their own work on "Writers Forum," a monthly feature on community radio station WERU, hosted by Joan Clemons.

Susan Hand Shetterley has lived in rural Maine for almost forty years, and has held a wildbird rehabilitation license for fifteen. She now works with land trusts to save wildlife habitat. Her most recent book, Settled in the Wild, has just been published by Algonquin Press.

Shetterley grew up in New York City and Connecticut. When she was fifteen, she moved to Mallorca with her family for two years. She graduated from Skidmore College, and has received two Master's degrees--in Education from Harvard University, and in Fine Arts from Goddard College. She has taught writing courses at the University of Maine and in various workshops. In 1993, she received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, followed by individual Artist Fellowship Grants from the Maine Arts Commission--in 1994 and 2001. She has also been a resident at the Yaddo Arts Colony, and  a Writer-in-Residence at the University of Maine-Orono.

Cynthia Thayer was brought up in Nova Scotia, did her undergraduate and graduate work in English literature in Massachusetts. In 1976 she moved to Maine.  Thayer has published three novels: Strong for Potatoes (St. Martin's Press--1998) a Barnes and Noble "Discover" book; A Certain Slant of Light (St. Martin's--2000); and A Brief Lunacy (Algonquin Books--2005). All three were named "BookSense" books. Thayer has taught fiction workshops in both Maine and Nova Scotia. Currently, she is working on an historical novel based on the emigration from Scotland to Nova Scotia. Thayer and her husband own and operate an organic farm in Gouldsboro.

Jacqueline Michaud's poems have appeared in literary reviews and anthologies, most recently in Per Contra, the international on-line journal. A member of the American Literary Translators Association, her translations of Francophone poets have appeared in Calquezine, Ezra Translation, and CELAAN: Reviews of the Center for the Studies of North Africa. Michaud's debut collection, The Waking Hours: Poems & Translations, was published in 2007. Of her second collection, White Clouds, published this winter, the poet Daniel Hoffman has written,, "Her lines give us the pleasures of their accuracies of perception and of speech and will thrive on being re-reread." Michaud, who received her BA in French literature from Skidmore College, now divides her time between homes in Stonington, Maine and Kensington, Maryland.

"Writers Forum" airs monthly every second Thursday at 10 a.m. on Community Radio WERU, 89.9 FM, streaming live and  podcasting at weru.org. The program features Maine authors, and summer visitors to Maine, both published and unpublished, reading their own compositions. 

Writers interested in reading on the program should contact the station at writersforum@weru.org. WERU is a community radio station, "a voice of many voices" serving Midcoast and Down East Maine.
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In early March, Bangor Savings Bank Foundation will give a total of $100,000 to 68 local non-profit organizations. We're looking to you, our community, to assist us by deciding how to best distribute these funds. We want to hear from as many Maine residents as possible. Please invite your friends, colleagues and neighbors to participate as well. Together you know what your communities need. Together you can help us matter more.

Click HERE for more information

Cast your votes now! VOTING ENDS MARCH 2, 2010

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November 11th of the  unveiling of phase 2 of the 3 phase Veterans Memorial Project located at Peary's Landing. Richard Bowden is the speaker. Phase 3 of the Memorial is due to be completed by Memorial Day 2010.

Black granite pavers for those who died in action, a total of 103 going back to the Civil War. Many of these fallen no longer have family members in this area. You can honor them with the purchase of a paver in their memory. More info contact Richard Bowden 469-3295

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Introducing the BookStacks Winterrific Gift Card.
Make a purchase of $25 and get a Special $10 Gift Card to BookStacks this winter. Cards expire the first day of Spring, March 20, 2010
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Saturday April 3rd the first Bucksport Art Walk organized by J M Bishop Photography!
Over 10 area artists will be featured in several local businesses. You won't want to miss this event 3:00-7:00pm. click here for the flyer.
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The 4,300-acre Great Pond Mountain Wildlands in East Orland is open to visitors year-round for hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, x-c skiing and snowmobiling on designated trails. For more information, click here.

GPMCT March Events

Vernal Equinox Hike
Saturday, March 20, 10 am

Celebrate the first day of spring and join Naturalist and Executive Director Cheri Domina for a walk to search for spring signs! Route will depend on weather and snow cover; meet at the Craig Brook Nat'l Fish Hatchery parking lot at 10 am and be prepared for a two mile hike, snowshoe or ski. Craig Brook NFH is located on Hatchery Rd. in East Orland. Rain/snow date will be the next day. For more info., call Cheri at 469-2008 or e-mail cheri@greatpondtrust.org.

Wildlands Family Walk
Saturday, March 27, 10 am

Join GPMCT Board member and preschool teacher Nikki Fox and her two young daughters for a leisurely stroll in the Wildlands. Meet at the Wildlands South Gate (Rte. 1 just south of Rte. 176) at 10 am for an easy kid-and-stroller-friendly walk as we enjoy the beginning of spring and search for birds, squirrels, and signs of deer. Weather permitting. For more information, call Nikki at 667-6703.

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