Contact: Dee Potter (207) 834-3905 dpotter@umext.maine.edu, The Maine Grass Farmers Network at mgfn@prexar.com or visit www.umaine.edu/umext.mgfn The Maine Grass Farmers Network will hold its second annual Grazing Conference August 27 at the MOFGA’s Common Ground in Unity. The conference will feature Temple Grandin, associate professor of livestock behavior at Colorado State University and an internationally […]
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Contact: Karen Cole, 581-4704, Ginger Hwalek, 581-1246, George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — More than 150 young musicians from throughout Maine and New England have been perfecting their performance skills and learning new music as they spend a week “living, breathing and thinking music” at UMaine’s annual Maine Summer Youth Music Camp. July 15 ends a […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Old-time games, a home-made ice cream-making demonstration, blacksmithing, heritage garden tours and other activities from earlier times are just a few of the events scheduled July 31, as the University of Maine’s Page Farm and Home Museum hosts its annual community picnic lunch from 11 a.m. to […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100George Manlove. 581-3756 ORONO — The expression “a rare bird” has special meaning this summer at the UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum. Part of the museum’s summer exhibit includes three Nankin chickens, small ornamental birds thought to be extinct until a nesting pair was discovered in the mid-1900s on a small […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Faculty members, staff members and students from the University of Maine Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition will make a total of nine presentations at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, July 16-20. Topics will include food safety, product development and […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Twenty-two area children, ages 5-10 years, are learning about foreign countries and other cultures this week during “Passport to the World Camp” at the UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum. From July 11 through July 15, the children visit the museum on the Orono campus from 9 […]
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Contact: Tracey Nelson at (207) 581-3269 ORONO — University of Maine Cooperative Extension has added two new publications to its offerings: Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 (6th ed.) The Dietary Guidelines for Americans is published jointly every five years by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA). […]
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Contact: Kay Hyatt, (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — More than 50 aspiring writers are tapping their creativity and penning their thoughts at the annual Young Authors’ Camp taking place July 11-15 at the University of Maine. The students in grades 3-10 are from schools throughout the Greater Bangor area and from Wiscasset to Houlton. The […]
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Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Keynote addresses and dozens of workshops exploring strategies for connecting the varied components of reading and writing instruction will highlight the 2005 Seamless K-12 Literacy Conference and Reading Recovery Institute at the University of Maine. Taking place Aug. 1-3, the annual conference brings together the teachers, […]
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Contact: Lenard Kaye, (207) 581-3444George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Binge drinking typically may not be associated with older people, but the UMaine Center on Aging says alcohol abuse among elder Mainers, particularly Downeast, is a major problem that is about to be addressed. The Center has begun a two-year study, funded by a $30,000 […]
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