Wednesday

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SPECIAL INVITATION to SENIOR CITIZENS

I received the following E-note from Paula Harris and Gerda Mortelette, the new Memorial Park Elementary School Student Council Advisors, and am happy to relay it to blog-readers!

"On behalf of the students and our MPS Student Council,
we would like to extend an invitation to attend our
Annual Senior Citizens Breakfast
on Wednesday October 15th at 9:30 AM
in the Memorial Park Elementary School cafeteria.

Please contact The MPS office at 841-3700
by noon on Friday October 10th
if you are able to attend.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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It's Recyclables Day!
34.3 degrees and clear

Sunshine will greet commuters on their way to work and school Wednesday but a cold front will begin to move our way. As a result we ought to see a sharp increase in cloudiness as the day wears on. While it should be mainly dry, a shower or two cannot be ruled out late in the afternoon. Winds on Wednesday will shift into the southeasterly direction. This will transport warmer temperatures our way. Highs Wednesday should crack the 60s.
A period of showers is likely Wednesday night, ending by Thursday morning. While the majority of Thursday should remain cloudy, we could see some sunshine break through the clouds Thursday afternoon, with rapid clearing perhaps toward sunset. Temperatures will be cooler under the clouds, with highs in the low 60s expected.

More and more doorways and front yards are brightened
with Hallowe'en decorations, but ......

.......... just about ALL of Pat's Babbott Avenue South garden was in her wheelbarrow, yesterday afternoon .........

............. and the front porch at the St. Bernard's Church rectory was mournfully empty.

The "killing frost" that did in flowerbeds on Monday night served to bring out the autumn crimson of winged euonymus bushes.

(This is why they're called "winged.")

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After a long series of rainy days, the sky was wonderfully blue, yesterday, and the view north along Mason Road from Cole Hill was as pretty as any.

An ancient maple at the southern end of Newberry Road.

While Nature decorates the countryside, Dan Maine and his crew are adding a new look to the old "Wheeler Block" on East Main Street.

All three buildings were built in the 1830s, but were only two stories high until after the Civil War. The building on the left was the first bank building and was used as such until a new bank - the present Woodman and Getman Law Offices - was built in 1869. After that it was the Brown & Jones Tinners and Stove Store and, much more recently, the office of The Waterville Times.

The building in the center was a drygoods company known as "Webb's Cheap Cash House," and the "Wheeler Block" had started out as two buildings that were combined into one store around 1870.

Detail of the elegant new moulding that now accentuates the nearly-continuous, horizontal "belt course" on the three structures.

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FOR THE RECORD

There were NO baseball games last night.

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