Briefly

Mediator training

AUGUSTA — The Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division is recruiting new volunteer consumer complaint mediators for its spring class beginning Monday, April 2.

Volunteers will mediate consumer complaints over the phone or by mail, in the Attorney General’s Augusta office. The Attorney General thoroughly trains its mediators in consumer law and mediation techniques.

Mediators are asked to volunteer approximately six hours a week on a schedule convenient to them. During the past year the Consumer Mediation Service recovered more than $580,000 for Maine consumers.

If interested in volunteering, go to www.maine.gov/ag/, or contact Assistant Attorney General James A. McKenna at 626-8842 or jim.mckenna@maine.gov.

UMA open house

AUGUSTA — The University of Maine at Augusta will hold an open house for prospective students and their families from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, in the Michael Klahr Center.

Prospective students will take a campus tour, hear from current students, sit in on a class, attend an Academic Program and Student Life Fair and meet with admissions and financial aid counselors over dinner.

To register, go to http://www.uma.edu/openhouseregistration.html. For more information, contact Michael Cooley at 621-3075 or michael.cooley@maine.edu.

Farm days

CASCO — Casco Old Fashioned Farm Days will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 14, at Watkins Flat, Route 302, sponsored by the Horse and Mule Club of Maine.

There will be wagon rides and other events. The Raymond-Casco Historical Building will be open during the event.

Media Women

THOMASTON — Maine Media Women will meet at 9:15 a.m. Saturday, April 4, at the American Legion Hall,. Speaker will be Luise van Keuren, artist and writer of fiction and drama for children.

Van Keuren will discuss 19th-century American samplers, the needlework through which girls learned sewing skills while they also learned life lessons from the sayings stitched into their work.

The public is welcome. Suggested donation is $3 for members, $5 for nonmembers. See www.mainemediawomen.org or contact Carol Jaeger, sbart@tidewater.net or 529-5304, for details.

Daffodil Days results

TOPSHAM — The 2012 American Cancer Society Daffodil Days campaign raised more than $100,000.

Dollars raised through Daffodil Days enable the society to offer free programs and services that help people fight cancer, including transportation assistance, lodging and online educational classes.

To learn more about the society, call 1-800-227-2345 or visit cancer.org.

Challenge results

BRIDGTON — The 17th annual Moonlight Charity Challenge at Shawnee Peak raised more than $23,000 for Camp Sunshine in Casco.

The March 11 event included a slope-side barbecue. Funds were raised through the sale of raffle tickets.

The event has raised more than $250,000 for Camp Sunshine since 2002 when the camp was named as a beneficiary. Funds have helped the camp support and expand its winter and spring programming.