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BUD JORDAN RETIREMENT
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| We wish Reginald “Bud”
Jordan the best on his retirement from the Town of Poland Highway
Department, where he’d worked for the past 40 years.
Bud has been extremely helpful and responsive to the folks on Tripp
Lake, making sure roads are sanded and then swept, gullies cleaned, signs
erected, boat landing repaired and Town Beach maintained.
We thank him for all his assistance. |
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MAPLE SUNDAY AT MEGQUIRE HILL FARM
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Another great Sunday for celebrating
maple sugar!
Megquire
Hill Farm, aka Kathy and Peter Bolduc’s farm, held an open house on
Maple Sunday, ?date?, Hundreds of folks, old and young, turned out to eat
pancakes, ice cream, and sugar on snow.
Balloons, spun maple sugar candy, tractor rides and farm animals
were all in evidence to entice the crowds.
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Babs Shapiro and tapped maple, end product in hand. |
Gae Hinkley and Kathy Bolduc Maple Sugar Sunday |
And, of course, demonstrations on
sugar making as well as bottles of maple syrup carried the day.
Thanks
to the Bolduc’s for opening their farm to the community and making it a
day to remember.
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THINK GREEN
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This year’s motto is THINK GREEN. Plant trees, shrubs and perennials to protect our lake and to
make the lake and the world a healthier, prettier place.
Linda Laskey, our new co-president,
has made it her calling to urge folks to think of the earth and how to
protect it. She’s contacted
Dana Littlefield of Shaker Hill Nurseries on Route 26 about helping us
out; he’ll give a 10% discount to members on all their
purchases. All you have to do
is show him your TLIA membership card.
(They’re new…we’ll have them at the annual meeting or, if you
need one sooner, contact the
Treasurer, Richard Barry, at 998-2580 and he’ll get it to you.)
Dana can help you pick out plants to grow in difficult
areas. In a column he wrote
for a neighboring newspaper, he suggests a few for sites that are shady
and have poor soil. They are: Northern Bayberry, Black Chokeberry,
Coralberry, Snowberry, St. Johnswort and Fragrant Sumac. (New Gloucester
News, 4/26/03). Visit the Nursery for more information or check these out
in the Library.
THINK
GREEN to help combat erosion, to build buffers and prevent NPS (non-point
source pollution) from entering the lake.
Wherever you purchase plantings, make sure they’re healthy stock
and can survive the Maine winters.
Androscoggin Soil and Water Conservation District can also supply
you with a list of hardy plants and shrubs (753-9400).
Build buffers which are relatively easy to maintain, which will are
long-lived, will slow down surface water flow and which are attractive to
wildlife and to people. |
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