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This page is offered as a benefit to the members of the Sanford Springvale Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development. If you would like to post an Employment Opportunity, Rental Property, Items for Sale, an Open House, etc., please . We will add your item to this page. Read through the subjects which are linked to the actual announcements below. If you see something you'd like more information about, just click the subject line and it will scroll to the applicable announcement. The Sanford-Springvale Chamber of Commerce and its staff believe this information to be true and accurate. We are not responsible for typographical errors. Message
Subjects (alphabetically): Adult Valentine's Dance - Cupid's arrows will be flying in all directions, creating a wonderful spell over all who attend this Valentine's Dance at the Nasson Community Center. Bring your special person, or just come alone, and enjoy an evening of dancing and friendly conversation. The dance will be held on Saturday, February 13 in Springvale and will begin at 8:00 p.m. and conclude by 1100 p.m. Rachana Walsh is your d.j. Dress is casual. Cash bar will be available. There is a $10.00 admission fee. Don't miss this chance to experience the magic of this special Valentine's event. For more information, contact the Nasson Community Center, 457 Main Street, Springvale, at 324-6757. The Music of Country Music Legend Patsy Cline Comes to Maine - Renowned singer Donna Lee and her 5-piece accompanying band will present an evening of the music of Patsy Cline on Friday, February 19 at 7:00 p.m. at the Nasson Community Center, Springvale, ME. Country music legend Patsy Cline is as popular today as she was at the time of her tragic death in 1963. Songs such as "Crazy," "Sweet Dreams," and "I Fall to Pieces" still grace the airwaves and her recordings continue to outsell many of today's country artists. Tickets are priced at $15 per person. To purchase advanced tickets and for information, contact the Nasson Community Center, 457 Main Street, Springvale at 324-5657 or nasson@metrocast.net.. VISA and MasterCard are accepted. Smitty's Cinema is going to be hosting a free dinner buffet and movie for the troops being shipped to Afghanistan this spring. The unit is 1136 out of Sanford and we would like to send them off knowing that their community supports them. The event is going to take place on Tuesday, Febraury 23, 2010. We would like the soldiers and their immediate family members to be able to come and have dinner and a family movie for free. Smitty's is going to provide the theater, and the movie - what we need from you is a cash donation to provide a nice buffet for the guests. Smitty's will do the ordering, cooking and serving for the soldiers and their families, so you don't have to worry about any of that. The evning of the event we will have a list of all the donators displayed for everyone to see. Also, after, you will get a publicized thank you for your support. We would like to raise enough money to feed 150 guests, although if we do have extra money come in we will be giving it to the Family Readiness Group of the 1136. They help the families left behind with services and support that they might need while their soldier is away. These are organizations that are helping Smitty's put this event together. We are calling it: Operation Send Off. American Legion Post 19, Disabled American Veterans Chapter 19, Rolling Thunder of Maine Chapter 2, Maine Military Community Network, AMVETS Post 3, Marine Corp. League Detachment 1341, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9935 and Family Readiness Group of the 1136. We still need your help with a cash donation of any denomination to help us give them this great night out. Please send any donation to Smitty's Cinema, 1364 Main Street, Sasnford, ME 04073 by January 13, in care of Terri Trask. Your help with this will be greatly appreciated. Professional Office Space for Lease, 554 Main Street, Springvale, ME ~ Space now available for lease with other holistic practioners. Currently houses Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Massage, Reiki, Shiatsu, Counseling and Colon Hydrotherapy. Great referral network! Visible location on Main Street in Springvale, with ample parking, handicap accessible, very reasonable lease rates. For more information contact Celia at 490-4190 or email: celiat@metrocast.net. Prime Retail Space Available for Lease - Former Hancock Lumber Facility - 2500 square foot +/- retail space now available. High traffic area in Sanford, near major Rt 4 and Rte. 109. Last space available. Call for pricing. Contact John Caramihalis at 207-324-5574 ext. 42 or e-mail at johnc@patco.com. Springvale Public Library - Are you ready to "Pig" out on Books? Children ages 2-13 are invited to "Wolf" down some yummy reads during the month of February at the Springvale Public Library. Children can participate whenever the library is open in this free, non-competitive reading program for children ages 2-13. Everyone is welcome; children with reading disabilities are encouraged to join. Register in the children's room beginning February 1st. Read books and "capture" a stuffed pig or wolf donated by the Humane Society during prize week. Call 324-4624 for more information or visit www.springvalelibrary.org. Story Times at Springvale Public Library - Baby Rhyme Time. For children under 3 at 10:00 am on Thursdays, January 7, 2010 through March 25, 2010. Parents and caregivers are invited to come to a 20 minute program of rhymes, songs and books for babies under 3 years old. Be ready to be led as group through an active and appropriately brief program of fun, early literacy activities. Learn Mother Goose rhymes with your baby. This free program does not require registration, just drop-in. Read & Romp-This weekly story time takes place on Mondays at 10:00 am for children ages 3-6 and their caregivers in the Springvale Public Library community room. This free program features a variety of stories, finger plays, songs and activities. No registration is required. Program runs from January 4, 2010 through March 29, 2010 when the library is open. Springvale Public Library is located at 443 Main Street, Springvale, ME. For more information call 324-4624 or visit www.springvalelibrary.org. The Springvale Public Libary Board of Trustees is pleased to celebrate the library's presence as a vital "organ" of the community. I love Springvale decals will be given away on Saturday, February 13th to library visitors and will be available after Valentine's Day for a small donation. Springvale Public Library, "The Heart of the Village," is the place to find answers to your questions, great books, connect with the on-line resources you need, and meet your neighbors and have coffee. Please visit www.springvalelibrary.org for more information about this or any other Springvale Public Library event. Springvale Public Library Launches Future Access Program - The Trustees of the Springvale Public Library Association invite local businesses & organizations to join their effort to bring public interest services to the community through Future Access, a technology sponsorship program. Businesses may subscribe to support a public computer station for a four year cycle and receive recognition for their donations. To kick off the campaign Kennebunk Savings Bank has provided $2000 from their Community Investment Program and the Friends of the Library have contributed $1,000. Funds raised through the program will be used to purchase and maintain new flat screen computers for community use. For further information, please contact Library Director, Karen Eger at 324-4624. Springvale Public Library Offers New Service - Hold Everything! You can now place holds on items in the Springvale Public Library collection from your home computer. Next time you visit the library ask us for your registration barcode and we will instruct you on how to use the library catalog to place holds on items you wish to borrow. For more information call 324-4624 or visit www.springvalelibrary.org New Family Research Tool at Springvale Public Library - The Springvale Public Library is pleased to announce the library is certified as a FamilySearch Center. Anyone may now order microfilm from the Family History Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for use in our Genealogy Room. Materials may be borrowed for 30 days and the person requesting the film pays a small fee to have the film sent to the library where it is available to everyone for use during the loan period. The Family History Center maintains an extensive on-line catalog at www.familysearch.org that can be used to search for materials that are otherwise difficult to find and use. Please call Springvale Public Library at 324-4624 for more information or visit our Genealogy services on-line at www.springvalelibrary.org Did you wear Aviator Glasses and a Mullet, Big Shoulders, or Big Hair and graduate in Sanford-Springvale? ~ Springvale Public Library is looking for donations of Sanford High School yearbooks for the years 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1990. Our copies of these issues of the Distaff have been vandalized and we are hoping to replace them. If you have one of these, or any local yearbooks, we would be delighted to have them in our collection. Please call 324-4624 for more information. Louis B. Goodall Memorial Library - Located in the heart of Sanford at 952 Main Street. Open Monday-Thursday 10-8, Friday 10-5 and Saturday 10-4. They offer a wide variety of services including free Internet access, subscriptions to 8 newspapers and over 100 magazines. On display at all times are the newest Adult Fiction, Non-Fiction, Young Adult and Childrens' Books. They have a large collection of audio books, DVD's and videos for adults and children. There are weekly children's programming and special events throughout the year. Community room available for non-profit groups free of charge. Interlibrary Loan Service. Their helpful staff is always there to service any of your library needs. For more information, please call (207) 324-4714 or stop by and see what they have to offer. You may also contact the director at jmcdougal@lbgoodall.org. or visit our website at www.lbgoodall.org Goodall Library is now offering Free Passes - To the Portland Museum of Art, Strawberry Banke in Portsmouth, NH and Willowbrook Museum Village in Newfield. Stop in today, and start enjoying the benefits of becoming a member of the Library.. For more details, please inquire at the front desk of the library or visit our website at www.lbgoodall.org. Visit us, and discover all that we have to offer at 952 Main Street, Sanford, ME. Louis B. Goodall Memorial Library is currently exhibiting the art work of Susan E. Mesick. A Maine artist residing in Alfred, Maine with her husband, Michael, her work is representational and inspired by nature and color. Painting in the studio as well as En Plein Aire, clean color and dynamic shapes work together on the canvas to convey to the viewer a tranquil yet compelling story. Susan currently is affiliated with the Maine Women in the Arts, Pastel Painters of Maine, Sanford Springvale Art Association and the Kittery Art Association. Susan has exhibited her work and participated in Maine Women in the Arts Prelude Show, Trust in Art - Heartwood College, Kennebunk, ME, Pastel Painters of Maine - Cider Hill Gallery, Rockport, ME, Maine Women in the Arts Fall Show, Goodall Hospital Year Long Exhibit, 7 Artist Show at Kittery Art Association Gallery, Southern Maine Clay Guild Show, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Plein Aire, Boothbay, ME, Art in the Orchard, Springvale, ME, Maine Women Personal Best Show, Kennebunk, ME, Wolfe Neck Farm Plein Aire Event, Freeport, ME, ArtSouce 2009, Portsmouth, NH, Maine Open Juried Art Show, Waterville, ME, Maine Women Award Show, Kennebunk, ME, Oak Street Bistro, Alfred, ME, Sanford Springvale Art Gallery. The exhibit will be on display until the end of March 2010. The Rusty French Club ~ Open to everyone, the mission of the Rusty French Club is to polish, improve (or even acquire) a French language base. This goal is attempted in a non-threatening and comfortable setting that is more social than strictly academic. No dues are collected, and membership is open-ended. The sessions continue to be very successful as reflected in numbers attending and the enthusiasm in the air. Newcomers are most welcome! Goodall Library is located at 952 Main Street, Sanford, ME. For more information, contact Director Jacqueline McDougal at 324-4714 or jmcdougal@lbgoodall.org. Maine Infonet Download Library coming to Sanford/Springvale Library Members! - Starting March 9, 2009, members of the Springvale Public Library and Louis B. Goodall Library will be able to download free audio books from home! The Sanford/Springvale libraries have cooperatively subscribed to a statewide downloadable audio service called OverDrive. There will be 1,400 digital audio book titles that can be downloaded for use on a home computer or portable listening device. Members will need their library barcode number to take advantage of this program. Visit your library for more information and check out the websites! Louis B. Goodall Library, 324-4714, www.lbgoodall.org/catalog.php and Springvale Public Library, 324-4624, www.springvalelibrary.org. Goodall Library Connects Patrons to Portland ~The library in Sanford just got a lot bigger! On January 1, 2009, Goodall Library is collaborating with the Portland Public Library to issue PPL Library cards for any residents of Cumberland and York Counties and some towns in Oxford County. This program will allow patrons from Goodall Library and people throughout the area to take advantage of PPL's online catalog and online databases free of charge from the comfort of your home or by using the library's public access computers. This will expand the resources we already have available besides being another convenient service we can offer our patrons. Highlights of the new resources include: Genealogy information from HeritageQuest and Ancestry Plus - Learn-a-Language audiobooks from the Pimsleur Language series - Thousands of audiobooks you can download to your MP3 player - Auto Repair and Small Engine Repair manuals - Learn-a-Test programs - Business Research from Mergent/Moody's online and other references - Kids e-books from Tumblebooks Library & Maine News Index Online. In addition, you will also be able to peruse their online catalog and place books on hold, although, you will have to go to Portland to pick them up and return them. Access to these databases is free to anyone with a valid Portland Public Library card. Goodall Library will begin registering eligible residents for the free cards January 1, 2009 and most of the resources will be available within a week. Although a few of the databases can be accessed only from Portland Public Library, most are available through any Internet connection. Any resident of Cumberland and York Counties or of Brownfield, Denmark, Fryeburg, Hiram, Lovell and South Hiram in Oxford County, is eligible for a Portland Public Library card. To sign up for a card at Goodall Library, simply bring a Maine driver's license or two other forms of ID with name and current address. Young people ages 13-18 must show a photo schoool ID and children 5-12 must have a parent or guardian co-sign the form. For more details please contact Jackie McDougal or Jean Collins at 324-4714. Chill Out & Read! Goodall Library's Winter Reading Club 2010 - Goodall Library is offering a winter reading club. It will run from February 1-March 12. Children of all ages and abilities are welcome to join this free, fun & non-competitive reading program. Readers & listeners alike can enjoy books, magazines, newspapers & audio books. You can even count some homework assignments. Chill out with some fun reading this winter & earn prizes as well. Register in person beginning February 1. You will receive a Winter Book Bingo card to fill in as you read. When you get BINGO you will receive prizes. Activities will also be offered as well. There will be Hot Cocoa Mondays (beginning February 8), winter coloring sheets & more. For item read or listened to, we will put up a snowflake in the library. Help us cover the library with snowflakes this winter. Beat the winter blahs and come join the fun at the library this winter! Call, stop by, or check out our web site for more information. Goodall Library is located at 952 Main Street, Sanford, ME 04073, 207-324-4714 or visit www.lbgoodall.org. Hours: M-Th 10:00-8:00; Fri. 10:00-5:00; Sat. 10:00-4:00. Contact Deidre Walsh, Children's Room. Starting Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 10:30 am, we will be offering a weekly story time for babies called "Mother Goose Time." This is for babies from birth through 24 months and their parents or caregivers. Pre-registration is not required, but please try to be prompt so as not to distract the program in progress. This program is designed to promote early literacy in infants and a chance for the youngest library users to share time with their parents or caregivers at the library. During the 20-30 minute programs, babies and their adults will be exposed to books, language, songs, rhymes and movement activities. Parents and or caregivers are active participants. Slightly older siblings may attend with parents to learn rhymes and movement activities to share with their stuffed animals or dolls. A Winter Reading Club for children will begin in February. The theme is "Chill Out and Read!" Children of all ages and abilities are invited to join this free, fun and non-competitive reading program. Incentives and other activities will be offered. Please check with the library in January for startup date. We also will continue to offer the Toddler Story time every Wednesday at 11:00 am for ages 3-5. Stories and crafts related to the story theme are offered each week and special activities are planned throughout the course of the year. For more information, please contact Deidre Walsh at 324-4714. BONNEY Staffing is a locally-owned and operated, full-service, staffing company with your local office in Biddeford, Maine, that covers all of York County, including Sanford and Springvale. New job opportunities in the areas of general office and light industrial are posted daily. For a listing of typical job titles, visit our website at www.bonneystaffing.com ~ BONNEY'S Temporary, Temp-to-Hire, Direct Hire and Managed Service Programs are provided under one umbrella, collectively kown as BONNEY Staffing Center. Employers, be sure to visit Employer Services where you can learn more about the many exclusive benefits of working with BONNEY Staffing Center! Maine Information - A website created by Gary Korn was designed to help disseminate information about traveling to and living in Maine. Information was collected from over 60 Chambers of Commerce in Maine. The site lists many charitable organizations, from birding to the performing arts. Upcoming events are uploaded as they are announced. It is intended to be easy to use, and to help present information in an accessible manner. Visit the website at www.maine.info or email contact@maine.info Department of Labor (DOL) recently established a National Call Center to serve its customers. By calling 1-866-4-USA-DOL, Maine's employees can find answers to questions on a range of employment issues. This toll-free service offers live operator assistance and is a central access point for all DOL services and programs. It serves both English and Spanish speaking callers. The Call Center can assist workers and employers with questions about job loss, business closures, pay and leave, workplace injuries, safety and health, pension and health benefits, and reemployment rights for reservists. Additional DOL toll-free
numbers to call for questions regarding specific issues are listed
below: Department of Labor Responds to the Needs of the American Workforce ... Establishes an Easy to Understand, Web-Based System of Labor Law Advisors. Utilizing the vast power of the Internet to reach anyone at anytime, the US Department of Labor's elaws Advisors (Employment Laws Assistance for Workers and Small Businesses) are the simple solution to the often confusing and frustrating process of understanding Federal labor laws. These Web-based educational tools offer employers and employees access to information about Federal employment laws at any time, free of charge and address common labor issues such as: Family and Medical Leave St. Thomas Consolidated School - Requests your FREE support in our new funding alternative. We are participating in a fantastic empty printer cartridge-recycling program provided by the FundingFactoryTM www.fundingfactory.com tel. 1-888-883-8237. This program provides us with an opportunity to save empty laser and ink jet cartridges and exchange them for free technology and recreation products. These products include complete computer systems, scanners, digital cameras, modems, printers, software, playground and recreation equipment. By saving your empty laser and ink jet cartridges and pledging them to us, you can help provide our children with greater access to new computer technology and other equipment. To participate, simply register online at www.fundingfactory.com/adoptaschool.htm. Your company can be linked directly to our account by inserting our organization ID #20923. FundingFactory provides free collection kits and free return shipping through UPS. Once registered, all donated cartridges sent in will be credited to us. To receive complete details, please call Rita Daigle at 207-324-1944 or email: jrdaigle@metrocast.net. (project still ongoing as of 1/08) Adams Park Storage, LLC - Our facility is user-friendly with well-lit, ground level, 24/7 access. We have courteous, professional management that is available during our office hours: Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday 9:00 a.m. to Noon. Our unit sizes range from 5 x 5 to 10 x 30, are clean, dry and suitable for residential and commercial storage. We are offering 1/2 off the first full month's rent, monthly invoicing, a customer referral program, pay-in-advance programs, monthly automatic credit card payments, and PayPal payments from our website: http://www.adamsparkstorage.com. Deliveries are accepted for commercial customers during business hours. We are conveniently located in Adams Business Park (corner of Routes 99 & 109), 23 Smada Drive, Sanford. Call 207-490-1160 or email: store@adamsparkstorage.com for more information. Call to Protect. Don't throw
away your old cell phone! Donate it to a local shelter for battered
women. The phones will be reprogrammed for 9-1-1 calls only and
distributed to the shelters by Altrusa International, Inc. of
Sanford-Springvale. You Could Save A Life. Drop boxes are located at:
Creteau's Studio 930 Main St. Sanford, Rainbow Day Care, 54 Kennebunk Rd. Sanford, &
Pratt& Whitney Aircraft Club, No. Berwick. For more information
call Claire
Creteau 207-324-2712. (project still ongoing as of 1/08) Village Profiles Community Information - The Sanford·Springvale Chamber of Commerce and Economic Developement and its members have partnered with Village Profiles to provide online community information. There is a section of the Village Profiles website dedicated to Sanford·Springvale. Please click here; the site open a new browser window. This is Your Web Site; Please Use It (Rick
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