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Ten Maine Girls Receive Awards for “Turn Beauty Inside Out” Posters

Contact: Christine Burgess, York County Cooperative Extension, 41 Shaw’s Ridge Road, Sanford, ME 04073, (207) 324-2814, 1-800-287-1535, FAX: (207)324-0817 SANFORD, Maine — The University of Maine Cooperative Extension announces awards to ten girls for their entries into the first annual Turn Beauty Inside Out Maine Poster Contest. Winners are: Category A, Ages 9-11 First Place: […]

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May Festival is Fundraiser for Local Agencies on Aging

Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine Center on Aging on the Orono campus and Eastern Agency on Aging in Bangor are partnering up for a gala swing dance fundraiser — “A Celebration of Generations” — on May 8. The third annual event features local musicians The Moon Puppies playing […]

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Native American Speaker Alexie Set for UMaine Appearance

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — He’s called controversial, irreverent, even angry, but writer and public speaker Sherman Alexie, a Spokane Indian from Wellpinit, Wash. most of all wants people to better understand the dilemmas facing Native Americans today. Alexie, an internationally known poet, author and screenwriter will deliver a frank and provocative […]

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State and Future of Pulp and Paper Industry on the Agenda at UMaine this Week

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — High-level speakers representing the pulp and paper industry and large consumers of its products will be at the University of Maine on Thursday April 15 and Friday April 16 for the UMaine Pulp and Paper Foundation’s annual open house.  UMaine chemical engineering and civil engineering students will […]

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Piscataquis County Households Targeted in Tourism Survey

Contact: Roger Merchant, Cooperative Extension, 1-800-287-1491 (in Maine)Todd Gabe, Dept. of Resource Economics and Policy, 207-581-3307Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO– Just over 1,000 households in Piscataquis County will receive a survey the week of April 12 on the subject of tourism development. With support from a $45,000 rural business opportunity grant from […]

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April 13 Event Features Concert and Symphonic Bands

Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine Symphonic Band and the University of Maine Concert Band will share the Hutchins Hall stage at the Maine Center for the Arts on April 13 to each present a short concert. The Concert Band will start the performances at 7:30 p.m.; the larger […]

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Student Art Exhibit Reflects Different Media, Different Views

Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Through materials as diverse as wood, paint, steel, paper, yarn and clay, the University of Maine’s new 2004 Annual Student Exhibition reflects students’ varied views of themselves and the world around them. The show opened April 9 at the Carnegie Hall galleries on the Orono campus and […]

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UMaine Symphonic Band on the Run for 2004 Maine School Tour

Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Nearly 60 musicians in the University of Maine Symphonic Band are on the road again April 14, as they begin their annual Maine public school tour. Their tour bus will make stops at public schools in Oxford Hills, Durham, Freeport, Brunswick, York and Bath. Musicians will work […]

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UMaine Phi Beta Kappa Ceremony April 15

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Alan Charles Kors of the University of Pennsylvania history faculty, who teaches European intellectual history and has served as editor-in-chief of the “Oxford Encyclopedia of Enlightenment,” will be the guest speaker at the 2004 University of Maine Phi Beta Kappa initiation.  The event is scheduled for Thursday,  […]

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Page Farm and Home Museum to Host Brown Bag Lunch on Women Farmers

Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3751 ORONO — The UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum on the Orono campus is hosting a brown bag lunch discussion at noon Tuesday, April 13, on the increasing number of women in agriculture in Maine. The public is invited to the free event. Vivianne Holmes of the Maine chapter […]

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