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CALENDAR OF EVENTS We provide these listings for various non-profit and community services. We are not responsible for misinformation or changes that are not provided to us in a timely manner.
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January 1, 2008: 20th Annual Lobster Dip for Maine Special Olympics
New Years Day at Noon - On the Beach, by Brunswick Hotel, Old Orchard Beach. Looking for volunteer dippers. You will be taking a dip in the Atlantic Ocean. Dippers are asked to raise $100 for Maine Special Olympics. Costumes encouraged. Chicken Dippers also wanted, simply raise $100 and dip your feet in a warm pool. All dippers will be treated to a complimentary post-dip New Years Day bash at the Brunswick. This event includes food and lobster stew, several live bands, and TV viewing of the big game.
Anyone interested in taking the Dip, contact Jeanne Innes at the Chamber, 282-1567.
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March 9, 2008: Mary's Walk
10th Annual Mary's Walk & Kerrymen Pub Road Race 12 Noon at Thornton Academy, 438 Main Street, Saco.
Registration: On Line Registration at www.maryswalk.org or FMI, Call 207 772-2533; 1-866-627-2411 Event Day Registration: 10:00-11:30 a.m. at Thornton Academy. USATF certified 5K run: $20/pp. or 2.5 mile walk: $15/pp.
All proceeds benefit Maine Cancer Foundation.
March 15-16, 2008: Maine Maple Weekend Harris Farm - 280 Buzzell Road, Dayton - Tel- 499-2678
Open for Maple Weekend - both Saturday & Sunday. All you can eat pancake breakfast 8am-2pm on both days. Sap house, dairy barn, and farm store open.
Other Days: Maple syrup available year round. Farm store open every day 9am-6pm, offering glass-bottled milk, naturally raised beef and veal, and maple products. Sap house open to visitors by chance. Restroom facilities. Handicapped accessible.
Directions: From Saco, Rte 5W to Rte 35, left onto 35. Go 1 mile to Buzzell Road. From Kennebunk, Rte 35N, 4.5 miles past Rte 111 intersection. Buzzell Rd on right.
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22, 2008: The Kennebunks Tour de Cure
Location: Start/Finish Line at: The Middle School of the
Kennebunks, 60 Thompson Rd., Kennebunk. 25K, 50K and 100 K Route Options. Opportunities for racers and volunteers. Early Bird registration discount. For more information: www.diabetes.org/tour
June 3, 2008: Annual Golf Tournament
hosted by Biddeford Saco Chamber Dutch Elm Golf Course Hole-In-One Sponsor: Jolly John Auto Center. Event sponsors: Contact the Chamber at 282-1567 for information on prices and to register your team. This Tournament is extremely popular, well-attended, provides high visibility for business recognition.
June 13 & 14, 2008: Relay For Life The American Cancer Society invites people interested in joining the fight against cancer to join its Relay For Life of York County. The American Cancer Society's York County Unit will hold the fifth annual Relay For Life event on June 13 and 14, 2008.
The
American Cancer Society Relay For Life is an overnight community
celebration where individuals and teams camp out, barbecue,
dance, and take turns walking around a track relay-style to
raise funds to fight cancer. At nightfall, participants will
light hundreds of luminarias (candle lanterns) in a heartwarming
ceremony to honor cancer survivors, as well as friends and
family members lost to the disease. The American Cancer Society
Relay For Life represents hope that those lost to cancer will
never be forgotten, that those who face cancer will be
supported, and that one day cancer will be eliminated.
To learn about Relay For Life is www.greaterportlandrelayforlife.org
(Neighboring Relay). For
more information about the American Cancer Society, call
1-800-ACS-2345, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, or
visit www.cancer.org.
The
American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based
voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as
a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and
diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education,
advocacy, and service. ................................................................. June 28, 2008:
Saco Sidewalk Art Festival The Arts Festival is an annual cultural extravaganza occurring in June along the quaint and beautiful Main Street in Saco. A combination of visual arts, performing arts, crafts people and sculptors. Mediums include paintings in oil, acrylics, watercolors, pen and ink, prints, etchings, photography, paper casting and innovative sculptures. There are wonderful displays from members of the Southern Maine Craftsmen. The show attracts many quality artists. The Saco
Sidewalk Arts Festival Committee invites you to participate in
the 38th Annual Arts Festival located in the heart of beautiful
downtown Saco Sidewalk Arts Festival is a non-profit organization sponsored and now managed by Saco Spirit. It is established that a part of the proceeds from the Saco Sidewalk Art Festival be used to promote the Artist-in-Residence programs in schools within our community.
The Saco Sidewalk Art Festival is dedicated to promoting art and culture in our community. Saco Spirit receives all funds, after the Artist In Residence donation, to invest in the community by way of holiday decorations, flags, banners and a myriad of other community beautification projects. For more information or an application to display art works: Contact Saco Spirit. Tel: 207 286-3546 http://www.sacospirit.com/downloads/38thANNUALSACOSIDEWALKARTSFESTIVAL[1].doc ................................................................. June
26-29, 2008:
La Kermesse Franco-Americaine Festival ................................................................. July 11 -13, 2008: 11th ANNUAL GREEK HERITAGE FESTIVAL
Authentic homemade Greek food and pastries (made from the parishioners traditional recipes). Live Greek band (The Hellenic & Near East Musical Society Ensemble) Friday & Saturday from 5-9 pm. Greek dance ensemble (V.E.V.A.) on Saturday at 4 & 7 pm. Narrated church tours and Greek culture lectures and videos (at posted times); bookstore, religious items, Greek grocery store, souvenirs, Greek coffee house, Loukoumathes (Greek fried dough balls), Baklava ice cream sundaes, and much, much more. Free admission, ample on site free parking and handicap accessibility. Free satellite parking and shuttle from Shaw's Saco Valley Shopping Center parking lot (Friday & Saturday from 4 - 10 pm). Held rain or shine, under the big tents and in the parish hall. Last summer 10,000 - 15,000 people enjoyed food; fun; music & festivities on the beautiful grounds of the recently constructed Byzantine style St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church. The Festival starts at 11:00 A.M. each day and runs until 10:00 P.M. on Friday & Saturday. Closes at 4:00 P.M. on Sunday. Directions: For more information, contact Stephanie Koutroulis at 284-5651. .................................................................
Starting July 19 - Running 5 Consecutive Weeks: Music On Main / Biddeford Biddeford Savings Bank and Pit Boss Barbecue, along with Heart of Biddeford, will bring "Music on Main Street", a series of free lunchtime concerts in the park adjacent to the bank at 254 Main Street, Biddeford. You can either bring a brown bag lunch and simply enjoy the music in the warm sunshine - or for a mere $5 donation, you can enjoy a delicious Pit Boss BBQ lunch and help your favorite charity. All shows start at 11:30 a.m. For more information, call 286-1993 or email markrobinson@maine.rr.com . ................................................................. July 27, 2008:
ANNUAL OPEN FARM DAY Open Farm Day
will feature our
Annual Lunch on the Land. Hayrides will run continuously to the back meadow where a buffet picnic lunch featuring farm fresh foods, such as our own hamburgers, corn and milk, as well as homemade salads and desserts, will be offered. All proceeds will benefit Goodwin's Mills United Methodist Church. The dairy barn will be opened for viewing, and guided hayride tours of the farm will be available. Proceeds to benefit Goodwins Mills United Methodist Church
July 25, 2008: Maine Shriner's - Lobster
Classic All-Star Football Game Pre-Game Events at 6:30 p.m., Game at 7:30 p.m. Kora Temple sponsors the Annual Maine Shrine Lobster Classic All-Star high school football game at 7:30 p.m. on Friday night at Waterhouse Field in Biddeford. Every year eighty-eight student athletes and eighteen coaches volunteer their time and talents in support of helping to improve the lives of physically-challenged children. This game will be played for the benefit of Shriner's Hospitals for Children. To date, over one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars has been raised to help provide free orthopedic and burn injury care for Maine children. Currently, the Shrine is treating nearly sixteen hundred Maine residents at its Springfield and Boston, Massachusetts facilities. If you know of a child who needs the highest level of medical treatment, please contact any Shriner, or call (in Maine) 1-800-782-KORA (5672) ................................................................. .................................................................
August : SACO BAY RACE WEEKEND
- 2008 Location: Gov. John Fairfield School, 75 Beach Street, Saco. Bring your family and friends to join in the festivities. Race day series consists of 12 closed course bicycle races for kids, juniors, men, women, masters, and professional cyclists. The Saco Criterium bike races wind through one mile of Saco roads on a technically challenging course. The races are timed plus five laps with races for kids to skilled racers from all over New England. To register for racing: www.bikereg.com . Spectators and racers will be treated to discount coupons from various Saco Main Street businesses. Bring your kids along for the kids' race, sponsored by the American Lung Association of Maine. Enjoy smoothies made on Bike Blenders from the Community Bicycle Center. Sanctioned by the U.S. Cycling Federation, the Saco Bay Criterion is organized by the Saco Bay Race Committee of the Southern Maine Cycling Club. Proceeds from the races go back to our community. Races are held rain or shine. For more information: www.gorhambike.com or contact race director, Peter Raymond: praymond@mcallistermachine.com or 207-967-0848. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED ON RACE DAY 8/25. Needed: Road Marshals and Registrars. Need a few folks to help with a snack booth, bicycle smoothie blenders and the CBC booth. Road marshals are needed for either the 6:30am-11:00am time slot or 10:30am-3:30pm time slot. Your responsibilities will be to monitor bike, pedestrian, and vehicle traffic at a turn on the closed race course. Registrars help sign in the race participants. To volunteer contact Andy Greif, Community Bicycle Center, 284 Hill Street, Biddeford. 282-9700 or 229-8199. ( www.communitybike.net )
August 28 - 30, 2008: Downeast Maine Shark Tournament Visit website for details: www.mainesharktournament.com A non-profit tournament, with all net proceeds going to United Way of York County. Shark
fishing Friday, August 29th and Saturday, August 30th, 2008. Captain’s
Dinner is Thursday, August 28th from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Captain’s
Dinner will be held at Saco Bay Tackle, on Route 1 in Saco,
Maine.
Weigh-in
station for sharks will be at the Camp Ellis Pier, at the mouth of the Saco River, in Saco, Maine. .................................................................
September: Pick Your Own Pumpkins Schedule September 24th / October 1st, 8th, 15th, 2006 Harris Farm - Buzzell Road, Dayton - Tel- 499-2678
September 27, 2008: Chalk on the Walk (Biddeford Main Street) The Annual Chalk on the Walk event promises to be a fun filled day and will include a chalk mural for children, individual and sponsored squares, craft fair, food from local vendors and a live band. Pre-registration is recommended, and everyone is invited to participate in this family event downtown Biddeford. For more information, call Rachael at 450-6233 or go to www.heartofbiddeford.org . Go to Chalk on the Walk page for more information or to register online. (Rain Date: October 1, 2008).
September 24, 2008: Business Expo hosted by Biddeford-Saco Chamber
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ANNUAL PUMPKIN FEST Something Spook-Tacular is happening in Downtown Saco... Have you ever seen hundreds of Jack'O Lanterns all grinning at once? Come to the Pumpkin Fest and that is exactly what you'll see! That's because Main Street Saco will be the site of the Annual Pumpkin Festival. Hundreds of carved pumpkins will be on display for everyone to view and enjoy. There will also be all kinds of activities for kids "of all ages"! Everyone is welcome and, of course, don't forget to bring your owned carved pumpkin to add to the pumpkin patch!! You may take your pumpkins home with you at the end of the evening. This festival is opening to everyone, not just citizens of Saco. SO COME ONE COME ALL AND BE PART OF THE EXCITEMENT!!! FMI, PLEASE CONTACT SACO SPIRIT FOR BUSINESS AT 286-3546 or Beth at 283-1100 brogers@travelwisemaine.com Visit the www.sacopumpkinfest.com for additional details.
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