Gravestone group to hold program

MILO — The Maine Old Cemetery Association will hold its second 2012 program day on July 28 at the Milo Town Hall, 6 Pleasant St. Featured topics will be Milo Historical Society and the history of Milo’s Evergreen Cemetery. The Milo Historical Society is the hosting group.

From 8:30 a.m. there will be exhibits and displays; attendees are invited to display information about cemetery-related projects. In the afternoon there will be a tour of Milo’s Evergreen Cemetery. Registration is $3 at the door.

Lunch reservation deadline is July 19 and those wishing to order lunch, $7, should mail a check payable to MOCA, to Jane M. Macomber, 114 North Shore Road, Blanchard Twp., ME 04406-3829. They should include the names of those for whom they are ordering lunch.

Questions about the program day should be directed to Jane M. Macomber at janem@mainestream.us or 879-4125. Additional information is available at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~memoca/moca/htm.

Workshops on preserves, salsa

FALMOUTH — The University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Cumberland County will hold workshops on preserving dilly beans, blueberry jam and tomato salsa for July/August.

The workshops will be on hot water bath canning and freezing of the following foods: July 31, dilly beans; Aug. 2, low-sugar blueberry jam; Aug. 9 and 23, tomato salsa.

Workshops run from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the UMaine Cooperative Extension, 75 Clearwater Drive, Suite 104.

Cost is $10; scholarships are available.

For more information or to register online visit umaine.edu/food-health/food-preservation/hands-on-workshops, call 781-6099 or email lois.elwell@maine.edu.

Become a Fresh Air host

STATEWIDE — Hosts are still needed for the The Fresh Air Fund, which makes a memorable summer for New York City children.

Each summer, more than 4,000 inner-city children visit suburban, rural and small town communities across 13 states from Virginia to Maine and Canada.

“It’s really worth giving a child a new experience. Having the ability to walk out the door and have their feet in the grass is so refreshing,” said one Fresh Air host. “She just enjoyed being in the backyard with us. We kept it very basic and enjoyed laughing together on the porch.”

The Fresh Air Fund, an independent, not-for-profit agency, has provided free summer vacations to more than 1.7 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877. Fresh Air children are boys and girls, from six to 18 years old. Children on first-time visits are six to 12 years old and stay for one or two weeks. Children who are reinvited by host families may continue with The Fresh Air Fund through age 18 and can enjoy extended trips.

For more information, contact Jeanne McNeill at 844-0366 or The Fresh Air Fund at 800-367-0003. The website is www.freshair.org.