AMVETS offering free membership

AUBURN — AMVETS in Maine is offering free membership to all veterans from Nov. 8 to 14.

Veterans who have served in the National Guard or Reserves who have either volunteered or been drafted are welcome to join.

FMI: Jerry DeWitt, 207-783-4663, ext. 228, 207-576-0376, jdewitt@tcmhs.org.

QuickBooks Course at CMCC

AUBURN — The Corporate and Community Services Department at Central Maine Community College will offer Introduction to QuickBooks from 9:30 a.m. to noon Tuesdays, Oct. 20 through Nov. 17.

QuickBooks is one of the most popular small-business computer accounting packages. While this course will use QuickBooks Premier 2015, many of the skills and processes learned will be transferable to other version of QuickBooks.

Participants will learn how to set up an accounting system, manage functions for accounts payable and accounts receivable, create invoices, print checks and create financial statements. While there are no prerequisites, a basic understanding of Microsoft Windows is recommended.

Deadline for registration is Tuesday, Oct. 13.

Registration is open and ongoing, but space is limited. The cost of $99 includes a textbook that participants will keep as a resource. FMI: 207-755-5280, training@cmcc.edu, or www.cmcc.edu/ccs.

Youth Day Hunters Breakfast

BUCKFIELD — John D. Long Post 58, American Legion, is having a Youth Day Hunters Breakfast from 5 to 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 24.

It is open to the public and all hunters. Cost is a $5 donation or $1 off with the donation of nonperishable food items for the Thanksgiving baskets to be donated to the food banks.

SAT prep classes begin on Nov. 2

BRUNSWICK — Maine Prep’s SAT prep classes for midcoast area high school students will meet from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Monday and Thursday, Nov. 2 through Dec. 3, at Maine Prep, 22 Parkers Way.

The eight-session course, designed to teach students strategies to use in the math, writing and reading sections of the SAT, prepares students for the Dec. 5 SAT, the last chance for seniors to boost their SAT scores before college application deadlines.

FMI: 207-798-5690, maineprep@gmail.com, www.maineprep.com.

Volunteers sought for online aphasia group

ORONO — Participants are being sought for an online aphasia communication group as part of a research project being led by Judy Walker, associate professor of communication sciences and disorders at the University of Maine.

The project aims to determine if people with aphasia — a disruption in the ability to communicate typically caused by a stroke — can benefit from participation in an online communication group.

Participants will use their home computers and a secure video conferencing system to meet with others who have aphasia for 1½ hours a week for 12 weeks.

Those who participate will be asked to complete language tests and answer questions about their friendships and emotions. Testing will take place before the first group meeting, at the end of the 12 weeks, and three months later. Each testing session will take about 1½ to two hours.

To be in the study, you must have aphasia; normal or corrected hearing and vision; no history of alcohol or substance abuse; a computer, laptop and/or tablet; high-speed Internet access; and a companion to attend each online meeting. 

All participants will receive free language screenings.

FMI: Judy Walker, 207-581-2003, judy.perkins.walker@umit.maine.edu.