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Friday, August 14, 2015
Volume 11 • Issue No. 33
Mill Field Festival This Saturday in North Berwick NORTH BERWICK The annual Mill Field Festival is set for Saturday, August 15 at the Mill Field in the downtown area in North Berwick. The area from the bank up to Cumberland Farms will be blocked off to create a community atmosphere. Some of the activities and events going on throughout the day include: craft and food vendors, 5k Honduran Rooster, antique cars, firemen's bingo,
Mill Field Festival 2014. (Mill Field Festival Facebook page photo)
kids tent activity area, American Legion chicken barbeque, archery lessons, doll carriage and bike parade, afternoon and evening bands, Boy Scout rain gutter regatta and the movie “Big Hero 6� will be shown in the park at dusk. Concessions will be available during the movie and fireworks are scheduled to go off during the movie intermission. There will also be a large kids area with lots of bouncy things, cotton candy,
sno-comes and rock wall. A Community Tent Church Service will be held at 9 a.m. on Sunday, August 16 under the tent in the Mill Field. A Love Offering will benefit the local food pantry, North Berwick Christmas Project and the North Berwick Fuel Fund. For more information and details of each event, contact www.townofnorthberwick.org. All events and programming are subject to change.
Local Students Take Home Championship on Game Show SOUTH BERWICK – In the spring of 2015, Berwick Academy sent two rising seniors: Julia Schaepe of Newburyport, MA and Christian Zinck of South Berwick to WPXT-TV’s studio (The CW) in Portland Maine to compete in Season 5 of MEST UP. MEST UP is Maine’s weekly televised high school game show that encourages students to “Think STEM� and have fun with math
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and science. In this unique, oneof-a-kind game show, students from Maine high schools compete against each other, answering questions, solving puzzles, and completing an engineering challenge to showcase their academic skills and see which high school will have bragging rights for becoming MEST UP champions. In season 5, a dozen high schools competed fiercely against each other on The CW starting in April and concluding in July. Berwick Academy’s representatives first entered the competition in Episode 6 on May 19 where they pitted their math
and science knowledge against two students from Edward Little Highschool in Auburn. Berwick
picked up a definitive victory this round with a score of 230 versus 60. After their first win Berwick
Academy returned to the MEST UP stage in Episode 11 on June 24 where they faced students from Mount Ararat Highschool in Topsham. Berwick Academy continued their winning streak in the quarterfinals round and moved onto the semi-finals where Scarborough high school was a no-show and forfeited the game to Berwick Academy. Episode 13, the MEST UP Finals, aired on July 2. Berwick Academy (the Blue team) competed against Freeport Highschool (the Red Team) for a MEST UP trophy, bragging
Christian Zinck and Julia Schaepe, Berwick Academy students, show off the trophy they earned in the state’s MEST UP Game Show competition.
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Motorcycle Ride To Benefit Local Cancer Patients SEACOAST ‘New England Walkers for Knockers’– a group of individuals who raise money each year for breast cancer support – will host its 6th annual Ride for Help and Hope and Breastoberfest on Saturday, August 15. The Ride will begin at 11 .a.m at the American Legion Post 56 in York, wind through the back roads of scenic Maine and return where the festivities will continue. Drawing riders from all over New England, this year’s Ride will once again benefit My Breast Cancer Support – an independent NH non-profit orga-
nization that provides financial and emotional support to breast cancer patients and their families in the Greater Seacoast NH/ ME area. "‘New England Walkers for Knockers’ started in 2006 as a group of women and men of all ages who simply wanted to help someone they loved who had been touched by breast cancer," said Brenda Smith, founder of NE-W4K. "Although we have participated in many breast cancer events in the past with a focus on research, more recently we decided to help breast cancer patients right here in our own
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communities with the meaningful support that they need today. We are honored once again to partner with My Breast Cancer Support because they help local patients and their family members right now – when they need it the most.� Tickets for the Ride for Help and Hope are $30 and include 10 raffle tickets, breakfast (while supplies last), lunch and entry into Breastoberfest – the after Ride bash featuring live music by DropZone. Entry into Breastoberfest is also open to those who are not riding for a fee of $15. Survivors are invited to
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both events at no charge. For more information and to pre-register visit: www. ne-w4k.org. You can also register at the American Legion Post 56 in York, from 9-10:30 a.m. the morning of the event. Please See RIDE page 7...
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